Jan 10 2006

Cute

I saw this on Good Morning America the other day.

Some puppies dropped by the “Watercooler” on Friday to prove a point — people think they’re cute. But an article in The New York Times on Tuesday said there were evolutionary reasons why people think puppies and pandas are cute and scaly alligators are not.

Scientists have identified several “cute cues” such as roundness, softness and clumsiness, which indicate youth and vulnerability. From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense to take care of cute things.

Humans have such a low cuteness factor, they can even think inanimate objects are cute, such as a large round rock stacked on top of a smaller one, according to the Times article.

Same as above but the actual website

I guess that explains the male love of the womans chest. Especially since there are two things to love.


Jan 10 2006

The world has gone blue

I love the way Gentry thinks it is the funniest thing in the world to play peek-a-boo. For an hour today we played it with a lava-lava (those Hawaiian skirt wrap things) that I had laying around. He laughed until he threw up and then he wanted to play some more.