When flipping through pages, how come when you lick your thumb, you can grasp pages better?
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because the moistness causes friction
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it could be that your body and muscle can work better with you hand eye coordination when parts of your brain aren't in full control.  example many marksman allow the body to aim the shot not the mind i hope this makes sense or it could be that I'm a little drunk.  drunks make wonderful philosophers
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Because when we are kids technically we have a clean state (meaning there isn't that much info in our brain). So if you teach something to a kid they pick it up faster and at multiple rates. And it is much easier for them to remember.
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It allows for better grip.  It has been hypothesized that this is because of evolution from our tree dwelling roots (if you grip something  there will be more surface area covering the branch without your fingers overlapping meaning more grip).
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for me it seems to be the thumbs
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google's page ranking system\n\nThere are two ways to bump up a page to the top pages when key words are typed in.  One is to pay for it and the other is determined by the number of people clicking on that site as the choice for their answer.
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When you eat, your stomach needs a significant supply of blood in order to begin digesting the food.  More blood to your stomach equal less blood to your pen is.  \n\nHope this helps!\n\n:)
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Two fingers on top and your thumb underneath.
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The skin on your fingers and toes are thiner and have more nerve endings than the rest of your body.
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I'm convinced because just click into things. It might just physiological/chemical.
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The following excerpt is from http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Everything_Else/Health/20020326233206.htm\n\n"Paper cuts are more painful because, due to all the stuff in paper, some of it is left behind, in the wound when you get cut. Then, the wound quickly closes in on itself, sealing the foreign matter inside. The foreign matter stimulates pain receptors in your finger, causing the stinging sensation.\n\nThere are also two additional components to this:\n\n1) Paper isn't quite as sharp on the edge as, say, a razor blade, (the comparison in the above web link). A dull blade will do more damage to the tissue on a microscopic level than a sharp one; the dull blade makes tiny rips and tears which hurt quite a lot and take longer to heal.\n\n2) It may have a large psychological component. We don't expect paper to hurt us, and we get angry and upset when it does. If we cut ourselves with a kitchen knife, we fully expect it to hurt a lot and take a long time to heal, and are more prepared to deal with the pain. Paper cuts come unexpectedly, when we are engaged in what we think is a low-risk activity, and we can get impatient with them when they heal slowly. They may not even be worse than a cut with a kitchen knife. And a serrated steak knife almost certainly will leave a worse cut."
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Remembering which fingers to use!
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i like having the lines in my @ss read. i think it is more accurate than a plain old palm reading! try a rump reading, you'll be suprised to see how accurate they are.
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The ridges increases your surface area of your fingers. It helps you to grip small items without crushing them. Geckos have a lot more ridges than we do, and they can vertically climb up windows!\n\nNotice how your left and right fingerprints are almost mirror images to each other? Cool!
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I am not sure what kind of reply you are expecting... but here is a very general one. \nIf you are talking about mother tongue, then I would say the connection is that the wider your spoken vocabulary is, the more you can undersatand in reading. Which means you don't have to stop every time you read an unknown word. On the other hand, reading is known to improve spoken language. For instance, I have learned in pedagogy classes that if a child reads only 20 minutes a day, he will most probably learn around new 6 words just by grasping meaning from the context, and even more words if he searches for the unknown words in the dictionary.  \nIf you are talking about a foreign language, it is quite obvious that the better proficiency you have in that foreign languge, the faster you can read. And all the above things I said go the same here too. Reading improves spoken language, by increasing the active vocabulary of a person.
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It's called saccations when your eyes jump. Saccations are short leaps across the words. This happens because your eyes can recognize words faster than your brain interprets them. I do the same thing (lose my place) sometimes, but it's normal. It has connections with speed reading. We studied this in one of my classes last semester.
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I love books; I buy then faster than I can read them.  Oddly enough, I love finding old books that are written in.  It helps me to feel some sort of connection to whoever read it in the past.