What does a tear look like at the microscopic level? It’s more interesting—and beautiful—than you might expect.
Whether you're happy to admit it or not, from time to time we all cry. But how? Why? And are all tears the same?
We can cry because we're happy. We can cry because we're sad. We can cry because we're cutting onions. We can cry just because we need to cry. They're all completely different emotions... but are they different tears? Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wanted to find out in her series The Topography of Tears. She put dried…
Andrew Feustel, an astronaut, got soap in his eye and started tearing up. In his words, "my right eye is stinging like crazy" which really sucks because in space, tears "don't fall off of your eye...they kind of stay there."
The tear gas grenades being used to quell protestors in Egypt are actually made right here in the USA. They're intended to cause "tearing of the eyes" and "irritation of respiratory tract and mucous membranes". What's inside the tear gas?
According to researchers at the Weizmann Institute, chemicals in a woman's tears decreases a man's sexual arousal. Interestingly, there's no smell—tears couldn't be distinguished from saline. But the chemicals still lowered testosterone levels in test subjects. [Physorg.com]
In Japan, even with their 500-foot mechs and supercomputer cellphones, some people are craving Apple's smartphone. One fanboy went so far as to transfigure his Sony Ericsson Walkman W52S slider to...is "resemble" being too generous?...an Apple iPhone. From it's horribly scuffed face to the hammered-on metallic edging,…