How Fast Can a Human Run?
Among all the biped living organisms on this planet, we humans are always the special kind. Being called as the ‘habitual’ bipeds, we are still one of the slowest bipeds among the primates. Ruling out the...
Category: Biology
Why Do Muscles Twitch?
A muscle twitching – sometimes referred as muscle fasciculation or myoclonus – is a benign contraction of a muscle or a group of muscles due to abnormalities in the signal sent to the muscle from...
Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches?
It’s a common myth that pirates wore eye patches to cover their missing eye. Thanks to the movies, most of the pirate fanatics still believe that pirates mostly tend to lose their eyes along with...
Why Do We Have Eyebrows?
For the one millionth time, eyebrows are not vestigial! So what is the use of eyebrows? Why do we have a small patch of hair above our eyelids? The straight forward answer for this question...
