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Practice wiggling your ears without moving any other parts of your face.ĥ. You may not be able to move your ears without moving your scalp, but you should be able to learn to move them without moving your eyebrows. You may be able to wiggle your ears, but it won't be that impressive if you have to raise your eyebrows or look awfully surprised every time. ( Source)īut fear not, non-ear wiggling people! You can train yourself to do it. "Compared to animals, especially bats and cats, this nucleus is rather small in humans," he says. Unlike other facial muscles, ear muscles have their own accessory nucleus, a control area for muscle function, in the brainstem, says ter Meulen, a researcher at Erasmus MC, a university medical centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "The mechanism behind ear movements is sophisticated," says Bastiaan ter Meulen, who led the ear wiggling study, accepted for publication in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology. It turned out that in 2006, scientists determined exactly why most people couldn't wiggle their own ears: But only few other people in the world can wiggle their ears.
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Y'know, twitch your nose like the witch Samantha Stephens of Bewitched.Įlizabeth Montgomery, the actress that played Samantha, actually got sick and tired of being asked to twitch her nose by her fans that she refused to do it after the series was over. Scare and thrill people with your new talent!ĭidn't work for you? Try the methods in this Ask MetaFilter thread or this Yahoo! Answer.

Practice this in the mirror intil you get it just right 4. Once you are familiar with this and can do it quite well, try it with out using your hands. Keep practicing this in the mirror so you can detect the correct muscle movement to obtain one eyebrow up. Start by keeping one eyebrow down with one hand and holding one up with the other. Here's the trick, according to wikiHow:ġ. Spock: I'm talkin' to you), it turns out that you can learn to raise one eyebrow. (Source: David Givens / Center for Nonverbal Studies).įor all of you who want to do this (and yes, geeks who want to imitate Mr.

The ability to raising eyebrows may be an evolutionary trait: baboons, mandrills and cebus monkeys raise their eyebrows as a threat gesture. Some people call this the eyebrow cock, and it is known as the universal sign of O RLY. Spock: "Fascinating, Captain"), Sean Connery, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Stephen Colbert. Well, her and of course Leonard Nimoy (Mr. In fact, I know only one person in my life who can do this: my mother-in-law, who said that her ability just came to her during the pain of childbirth - and that this superpower was very useful in raising kids. I can raise both of my eyebrows in bewilderment on how some people can raise just one. Here is a list of things that are impossible to do with your body, and the few mutants who can do 'em: 10. But if you're like 99.9999% of people in the world, no matter how hard you try, you just can't quite manage to do it. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.There are things that you think you should be able to do with your body.

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Bowling Congress to meet a pro bowler, an engineer, and a robot named Earl, to find out why it's actually Almost Impossible. The dreaded 7-10 split is by many accounts the toughest shot in bowling.
