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December 10, 2012 08:59 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bnZPE5Od2aU/i-am-itchy-you-are-itchy-we.html
I am itchy. You are itchy. We're all itchy together.
Some itches are caused by obvious physical triggers (OMG, there's a spider on your arm!). Others, though, have a more complicated source. Watching other people itch can make you feel itchy. In this piece at Scientific American blogs, Scicurious explains the neurobiology behind sympathetic itching. I got four paragraphs in before I had to scratch [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bnZPE5Od2aU/i-am-itchy-you-are-itchy-we.html
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