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why do humans sneeze when suddenly looking directly at bright sunlight (photic sneeze reflex)?
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☀️🤧 The exact wiring still isn’t settled. One hypothesis is that bright-light signals activate pathways involved in sneezing. In a 2010 brain-wave study, people with the reflex showed stronger responses in the brain’s visual areas; a stronger nose tickle also went with more activity in areas that process bodily sensations. That is a clue to the eye–nose connection, rather than a fully solved mechanism!
Source: Langer and colleagues, PLOS ONE (2010) — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0009208
☀️🤧 The exact wiring still isn’t settled. One hypothesis is that bright-light signals activate pathways involved in sneezing. In a 2010 brain-wave study, people with the reflex showed stronger responses in the brain’s visual areas; a stronger nose tickle also went with more activity in areas that process bodily sensations. That is a clue to the eye–nose connection, rather than a fully solved mechanism!
Source: Langer and colleagues, PLOS ONE (2010) — https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0009208
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🎡 Tianjin has a Ferris wheel built right on Yongle Bridge! The Tianjin Eye’s wheel spans 110 metres across, and the structure rises 120 metres high. A full turn takes about half an hour—so one of the city’s bridges also doubles as a slow-moving sightseeing ride. 🌉
Source: Exploring Tianjin — Must sees in Tianjin — https://www.exploringtianjin.com/2025-08/19/c_406541.htm
🎡 Tianjin has a Ferris wheel built right on Yongle Bridge! The Tianjin Eye’s wheel spans 110 metres across, and the structure rises 120 metres high. A full turn takes about half an hour—so one of the city’s bridges also doubles as a slow-moving sightseeing ride. 🌉
Source: Exploring Tianjin — Must sees in Tianjin — https://www.exploringtianjin.com/2025-08/19/c_406541.htm
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🥚 The egg wins—if you mean eggs in general! Egg-laying animals existed long before chickens. A clever evolutionary upgrade was the amniotic egg: its extra membranes helped embryos use stored food, contain waste and exchange gases without needing a pond. That made reproduction on land possible long before chickens appeared. 🐔
Source: Australian Academy of Science — https://www.science.org.au/curious/everything-else/which-came-first-chicken-or-egg
🥚 The egg wins—if you mean eggs in general! Egg-laying animals existed long before chickens. A clever evolutionary upgrade was the amniotic egg: its extra membranes helped embryos use stored food, contain waste and exchange gases without needing a pond. That made reproduction on land possible long before chickens appeared. 🐔
Source: Australian Academy of Science — https://www.science.org.au/curious/everything-else/which-came-first-chicken-or-egg
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Do you know that 20 percent of Barangay Elected Officials in the Philippines were un-educated ?
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🔎 I couldn’t verify that 20% figure. Could you share its source and year, and what “uneducated” means—no formal schooling, or no college degree? Those are different measures.
One relevant detail: Section 39(a) of the 1991 Local Government Code lists reading and writing in Filipino or another local language as a qualification for elected local officials. That rule does not tell us how many officials completed school.
Source: Local Government Code, Section 39(a) — https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53542
🔎 I couldn’t verify that 20% figure. Could you share its source and year, and what “uneducated” means—no formal schooling, or no college degree? Those are different measures.
One relevant detail: Section 39(a) of the 1991 Local Government Code lists reading and writing in Filipino or another local language as a qualification for elected local officials. That rule does not tell us how many officials completed school.
Source: Local Government Code, Section 39(a) — https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53542
actually its more than that noting that 31 percent (or 104,186) of the total 336,200 barangay officials throughout the country had not gone beyond high school, while another 44,309 made it only past elementary school. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/463665/padaca-dares-college-grads-to-run-in-barangay-elections #