Dec 28, 2012 12:38 AM GMT
And now you (might?) know:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/12/why-do-we-blink-so-frequently/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/12/why-do-we-blink-so-frequently/
Why do we do it so darn often? In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of scientists from Japan offers up a surprising new answer—that briefly closing our eyes might actually help us to gather our thoughts and focus attention on the world around us.
