Strange News: Shrinking Heads, Phantom Penises, and Eye Wiggling.
You’ve got to love the Mind Hacks blog.
They just keep on coming up with interesting, fascinating, and macabre articles.
Case in point – The science of shrinking human heads – is all about the Jivaro-Shuar, an indigenous people from the upper Amazon basin, and how they shrink human heads after killing their enemies in battle.
But wait, there’s more.
Mind Hacks has a weekly Spike Activity post that highlights links to all the interesting mind and brain news that they have come across during the week.
This week’s spike activity directed me to phantom erectile penises and eye wiggling to help people recover from trauma.
Check it out. It’s a great adventure and it sure beats being depressed by newspaper headlines screaming about economic downturn and political posturing…
