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WHY DOES A SONG GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD?

You are brushing your teeth. Everything is peaceful. Then your brain decides to play seven seconds of a song. Again. And again. And again. Congratulations. You have an earworm. Scientists have a more formal name for it: involuntary musical imagery,

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WHY IS YAWNING CONTAGIOUS?

Try reading this article without yawning. That sentence may already have made you think about doing it. Someone across the classroom yawns. A few seconds later, another person yawns. Then someone else

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