Bees That Live on Human Tears
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Bees That Live on Human Tears
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#3Is the author suggesting that bees have been inhabiting tear ducts for thousands of years, or have they just scanned across thousands of death-related cultural artifacts in order to find a few that involved bees?
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#4Is the author suggesting that bees have been inhabiting tear ducts for thousands of years, or have they just scanned across thousands of death-related cultural artifacts in order to find a few that involved bees?
This article seems to really be stretching to hopefully hop on the hype train of a recent newsworthy event without any citations that are actually similar.
Tears turning to bees is far different than bees entering an eye socket and feeding on tears.
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#5Is the author suggesting that bees have been inhabiting tear ducts for thousands of years, or have they just scanned across thousands of death-related cultural artifacts in order to find a few that involved bees?
This article seems to really be stretching to hopefully hop on the hype train of a recent newsworthy event without any citations that are actually similar. Tears turning to bees is far different than bees entering an eye socket and feeding on tears.
"Once I began looking for tears linked with bees, I found them everywhere"
I suspect this to be a case of confirmation bias. Besides, bee stings hurt, which I would suspect is why there are so many hits.
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#7If you want to be further creeped out, check out the photos in https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/2018-banziger.pdf
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#8It's interesting how 3 of the top articles are essentially stories I read on social media before.
This and "Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?" and "Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth" are all stories I read on reddit or watched on youtube before.
It seems like traditional media and social media are "merging".
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#9If you want to be further creeped out, check out the photos in https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/2018-banziger.pdf
I guess it's nearly impossible to find attractive girls with pretty eyes to model for this sort of thing.
The creep factor is mostly built into the penetrating gaze of the old man, with a threatening and unhappy disposition. Like he's going to rape your asshole with his elderly, sun-damaged penis, as soon as the viagra kicks in.
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#10This reminds me of when I was like 10-12 years old or so and woke up to a bee biting around my tear duct. I thought it stung me. I remember I was dreaming about taking off my shirt for some reason and then feeling some sort of pain, which woke me up. Couldn't open my eye until they gave me antihistamines or something at the hospital where they told me it wasn't a sting, but it was a bite.
The source was from holes we had in the walls where the cable came in from outside (My dad isn't an expert, so he just drilled a hole in the wall). They ate through the caulk and got into my room. Guessing they were attracted to all the cologne I was spraying, because I was entering that phase of life and just sort of overusing it.
All that being said, I think they were yellow jackets rather than bees, so feel free to throw my story in the story basket.