SYSK Selects: What Makes us Yawn?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What is it that makes us suddenly draw in a deep breath through a wide-open mouth? The beautiful thing about yawning is that researchers really don't know. Whether the answer is physical, mental or even contagious there is pretty much no chance you won't yawn during this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen what makes us
0:36.4	yawn.
0:37.4	It's actually a really good question about something everyone does and yet we don't really fully
0:42.7	understand.
0:44.0	After all of these eons of people yawning and all these centuries of science studying
0:49.0	things like people yawning, we still can't explain what yawning is.
0:54.8	So buckle in and enjoy this episode of Stuff You Should Know.
0:59.8	S.L.X.
1:03.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:07.2	Hey and welcome to The Five Cats.
1:14.2	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:16.4	You getting comfy?
1:17.4	Yeah.
1:18.4	Okay, well you put the two of us together and this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
1:22.4	Frank was squeaking.
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