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Humans Have Started Growing Spikes In The Back Of Their Skulls Because We Use Smartphones So Much
2019-06-16
[NEWSWEEK] Oh, noze! We have spondyles growing out of the backs of our heads! We're devolving into triceratops!
Posted by:Fred

#15  ...hoping a small particle of food will drop out?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-06-16 17:06  

#14  Few people, particularly young people, actually talk on the phone. They just read and poke it.
Posted by: KBK   2019-06-16 16:25  

#13  I found this article and interestingly, it seems that the sagittal crest indicate strong jaw muscles, implying that talking a lot cause the crest, not the radiation.

Excerpt from the article (link above):

"A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others. The presence of this ridge of bone indicates that there are exceptionally strong jaw muscles."

Bottom line, "Shut up and put the phone away!"
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2019-06-16 16:07  

#12  Saggital Crests aren't all they're cracked up to be. My Aunt Edna had one before the Ice Chest People took her.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-06-16 15:04  

#11  Well, horsepuckey! I was hoping this was about growing horns out of the skull.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-06-16 12:04  

#10  Someone call the Ancient Alien dude Giorgio.. pointy heads were all the rage back in ancient Egypt.
Posted by: Warthog   2019-06-16 08:59  

#9  Did they correlate what political spectrum the subjects embraced?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-06-16 08:42  

#8  A new trend in chinese head binding predict do I
Posted by: Caesar Angeamp7120   2019-06-16 08:40  

#7  Dunno. Always thought a sagittal crest would be kind of cool.
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-06-16 08:10  

#6  Makes about as much sense as pants causing tailbone growth. File under, "if you want attention make up shit".

Skeletal System Diagrams
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-06-16 07:01  

#5  I thought it might have been the Spandex.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-06-16 04:46  

#4  Horsepoop. My Neanderthal cousins had one and they didn't have smart phones. Or maybe they did . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2019-06-16 03:00  

#3  David Shahar, a health scientist at the University of The Sunshine Coast, Australia, told BBC.com that in the last decade of his 20 year career he has noticed more patients have the protrusion

Could it be that he's just been treating a lot of aborigines lately ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-16 02:36  

#2  "Yes ! And one day they'll pop out of our heads, cracking them open !"
- Climate Change Scientist
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-16 02:33  

#1  I guessed The Bee - I was wrong. Word to my brother Herb!
Posted by: Raj   2019-06-16 00:41  

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