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Politics › Re: Suspected Militants Kill Nigerian Soldiers In Kogi by fergusen: 2:30am On Jan 20, 2013
Sad
Science/Technology › Re: PHOTO STORY: Check Out This Chinese Restaurant Run By Only Robots by fergusen: 2:25am On Jan 20, 2013
Wonderful
Politics › Re: Sheik Gumi Predicts Defeat In Mali Of Western Interventioners. by fergusen: 2:22am On Jan 20, 2013
undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: Questions? Comments? Complaints? Talk To The Moderators Here by fergusen:
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Nairaland General › Re: Is This A Scam From Airtel? by fergusen: 9:40pm On Jan 04, 2013
I experienced same last year.
Crime › Re: Police Arrests Man For Killing Four-month Old Son For Ritual by fergusen: 1:35am On Jan 04, 2013
[quote author=GARRI (x7)]Insanity

Illiteracy

Wickedness/cruelty

I wonder which of the above is responsible for such barbarism??[/quote]Illiteracy sad
Politics › Re: IBB Is A Closet Homosexual ? by fergusen: 1:10am On Jan 04, 2013
undecided lipsrsealed
Crime › Re: Police Arrests Man For Killing Four-month Old Son For Ritual by fergusen: 1:08am On Jan 04, 2013
Cruel
Nairaland General › Re: How Many Hours Do You Spend On Nairaland In A Day? by fergusen: 3:53pm On Dec 30, 2012
18 hours
Jokes Etc › Re: Atheist Petition Against Theists! (a Joke) by fergusen: 1:33pm On Dec 29, 2012
grin grin
Health › Re: Why Do People Yawn At The Same Time by fergusen: 1:55pm On Dec 28, 2012
Watch someone yawn, and try not to yawn yourself. It can be impossible to resist. Even reading about yawning can make you do it.
Now, a new study offers insight into why contagious yawning is such a powerful force.
Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of empathy and a form of social bonding. Kids don't develop this deeplyrooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism are half as likely to catch yawns. In the most severe cases, they never do.
Yawning might eventually help doctors diagnose developmental disorders. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the subtle ways that people communicate and connect.
"Emotional contagion seems to be a primal instinct that binds us together," said Molly Helt, a graduate student in clinical psychologyat the University of Connecticut, Storrs."Yawning may be part of that."
Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic son to clear his ears on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He neverdid.
"The fact that autistic kids don't do it might mean they're really missing out on that unconscious emotional linkage to those around them," she said.
"The big thing people try to figure out in infant development is how we become humans who understand that humans have minds that are different from ours," she added. "Autistic people never sort of seem to understand that."
Fetuses begin yawning in the womb as early as 11 weeks after conception, said Robert Provine, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
For reasons scientists still can't explain, spontaneous yawning continues throughout life. (Studies have shot down theories about yawning to bring in more oxygen.) In fact, all vertebrates yawn, including snakes and lizards.
Contagious yawning is a different story. Only humans, chimpanzees and possibly dogs have been shown to do it.
Like contagious laughter and contagious crying, scientists have theorized that contagious yawning is a shared experience that promotes social bonding. Specifically, Helt said, it could diffuse stress after a period of being on high alert and spread a feeling ofcalm through a group.
To find out when in life the behavior develops, Helt read a story to 120 healthy kids, ages one through six. The kids were grouped by age, so that all of the one-year-olds heard one reading, all the two-year-olds heard another, and so on. There were 20 kids in each age group.
During each 10-minute story, Helt intentionally yawned every 90 seconds. A camera recorded whether the kids were watching her and if so, whether they yawned, too. She and colleagues repeated theexperiment with 28 autistic kids, ages 6 to 15. Some of the children were further along the autistic spectrum than others.
Given four opportunities to catch a yawn, the researchers report today in the journal Child Development , none of the healthy one-year-olds did. Only one of the two-year-olds yawned back, and two of the three-year-olds caught a yawn.
There was a dramatic leap in the group of four-year-olds, where yawning spread to 9 out of 20 kids. That rate held steady for the older groups.
And it matches experiments in grown-ups, which find that between 40 and 60 percent of healthy adults yawn after seeing someone yawn, thinking about yawning or even reading the word "yawn."
In the second part of the study, Helt and colleagues found that contagious yawning happened half as often in kids with a mild versions of autism. Kids with the most severe diagnoses never caught yawns.
Besides offering potential for diagnosing andunderstanding autism, the new work gives overdue attention to a fundamental and unconscious behavior that the field of psychology has long ignored, Provine said. Hestudies a cluster of contagious behaviors, including emotional tears, and has written a book about laughter.
"Yawning is a really big deal," Provine said."We're dealing with something ancient, deep,and at the very root of our being. And psychologists have basically ignored it."
"It's a primal social bonding process," he added. "We're looking at the roots of empathy.
http://news.discovery.com/human/yawning-social-behavior.html
Politics › Re: Azazi’s Kinsmen Against His Burial In Yenagoa by fergusen: 2:29am On Dec 28, 2012
His family has the final say.
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen: 2:59pm On Dec 27, 2012
fergusen: who is talking about free mb huh
I said if U subscribe 4 d 10 mb which costs just #100 by 11:00 pm, by 12 midnight it will expire.
FRAUDULENT NETWORK!!!!! angry
love airtel wink
If U even subscribe by 11:55 pm by 12 midnight it will still expire.
I have tried it several times.
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen: 2:54pm On Dec 27, 2012
Dozieson: always get ur facts right. nobody begs u to use the network...
What facts huh
I was thinking of creating a thread abt etisalat's fraud when I stumbled on this thread.
Someone told me abt the fraud and so I investigated and discovered it was true.
Fraudulent network
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen: 5:18pm On Dec 26, 2012
Dozieson: lies. na only u notice dis? pls dont mislead pple cos am on same plan. it xpires after one week
It seems u work 4 d fraudulent network (etisalat) going by Ur previous posts

https://www.nairaland.com/1036966/etisalat-easy-3-new-tarrif

https://www.nairaland.com/1093970/etisalat-bonus-far-better

https://www.nairaland.com/1109515/etisalat-all-one-package
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen:
Dozieson: lies. na only u notice dis? pls dont mislead pple cos am on same plan. it xpires after one week
who is talking about free mb huh
I said if U subscribe 4 d 10 mb which costs just #100 by 11:00 pm, by 12 midnight it will expire.
FRAUDULENT NETWORK!!!!! angry
Family › Re: Thank You All.. by fergusen: 1:43am On Dec 26, 2012
dominique: @nna uwa
We're still waiting for verification from K2wise. The earlier he comes in to verify ikani's claims the better for him tho I think he's for real.
which kind verification U want again huh
Make una help d guy na.
Christianity Etc › Re: *~ Goshen360 Voted Religion Section Poster Of 2012*~ Congratulations! by fergusen: 11:57pm On Dec 25, 2012
GOSHEN
Politics › Re: The Truth About Fashola's Success by fergusen: 11:08pm On Dec 25, 2012
thelastPope: This is the kind of trash that you lot spread around! Doesnt more population translate into more money? Why does Lagos state have to much IGR and other states have meagers resources? because of the same population you are talkign about dumbo!

Population is an advantage, not a disadvantage and Lagos state is certainly enjoying the advantage by milking everyone from the common street traders to the billionaires. So dont tell us crap that hospitals and schools aint enough because of population. That is just nonsense! if these people all move out of Lagos state, how will you generate 30 billion naira IGR? From the Lagoon? if all the non-indegenes move out of Lagos state, Lagos will have less than the population of Ekiti state. The business and status of Lagos is a function of its population. Go back to school my friend! Funny dud!
grin grin
Politics › Re: Searching For Fashola's Achievements by fergusen:
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Politics › Re: The Truth About Fashola's Success by fergusen: 9:06pm On Dec 25, 2012
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen: 4:55pm On Dec 25, 2012
fergusen: dats true.
If u subscribe to d 10mb plan by let say 11:00 pm, by 12 midnight it will expire.
Very fraudulent network
Webmasters › Does The Internet Have An Off Switch? by fergusen(op): 4:41pm On Dec 22, 2012
Is it possible to prevent everybody from accessing the internet?
Christianity Etc › Re: Niv Exposed!!!! by fergusen: 10:18pm On Dec 19, 2012
frosbel: Sorry I cannot discuss further with you , see what fanaticism has done to your mind.

I pity your confusion.
you'd better pay heed to his advice.
Phones › Re: Etisalat Mb Fraud!! by fergusen:
coolkris: Etisalat 10mb runs down before a day is over.
dats true.
If u subscribe to d 10mb plan by let say 11:00 pm, by 12 midnight it will expire.
Very fraudulent network
Education › Re: Kogi State University, Anyigba 2012/2013, Admission Update by fergusen: 6:06am On Dec 17, 2012
Politics › Re: BREAKING NEWS: Governor Of Kaduna Yakowa , Former NSA Azazi Feared Dead In Crash by fergusen: 7:30pm On Dec 15, 2012
So Sad
The other day it was taraba, now kaduna. cry
Christianity Etc › Re: Divine Revelation: A Must Read For All by fergusen: 10:19am On Dec 15, 2012
striktlymi: Yep!
the truth is indeed bitter.
Christianity Etc › Re: Divine Revelation: A Must Read For All by fergusen: 10:06am On Dec 15, 2012
striktlymi: Good afternoon,

This is a very lovely story but I hope you took it for the fiction tha it is? I am not a "doubting Thomas" but it is very clear that she is just trying to preach her personal beleifs and really not what God asked her to preach.
You call these fiction huh
Christianity Etc › Re: Some Deeper Life Practices That Are Alien To Scripture by fergusen: 7:11am On Dec 15, 2012
frosbel: Tithe sowing and the placing of Christians under the curse of Malachi 3 .
huh undecided

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