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What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes with news about how the hair mites you carry can be used to determine your ancestry. "Right now, deep in your hair follicles and sweat glands, tiny mites are feeding on dead skin cells, mating, and laying eggs. The microscopic arthropods, known as Demodex folliculorum, live on virtually all mammals—especially their faces—and cause no harm under most circumstances. Now, a new study shows that people of different ancestry carry different subgroups of the bugs, and that the mites' distribution throughout the global population may even reflect how our species has migrated and evolved over the course of history."
Thanks to the mites, we might finally find out if we come from extraterrestrial origins.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
This mite have been true before motels and air travel, but now I'd be shocked to find any two "first world" people on the planet that don't have a face-mite-bacon-distance of 6 or less.
Even if you're a virgin (this IS slashdot), I'm sure you've slept somewhere where someone else slept who slept with someone or in a motel where someone who just flew in from the other side of the globe.
tl;dr: Your face gets around.
Has anyone looked into the differing subtypes of these mites and balding? Maybe a 'mite transplant' is the cure for baldness.
Ewwww. Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me!
I mean, is the control group the people who didn't "get around"? We inherit skin mites, sure. But it's more fun to earn them.
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If you happen to be reading this anon, you may want to have a look at Soylent news.
When we are born we are so clean that even our stomachs do not have bacteria. It is hypothesized that our first dose of this bacteria comes from normal child birth and then we are put in our mothers arms so kissing and cuddling further transfers the bacteria. Is this cuddling and kissing where we get the first face mites too or are we born with them?
In Australia, the face mites try to kill you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I've got ancestors from at least six countries; where do my mites come from?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
It had to be done. But doesn't Uber provide safer off-hour income?
Ever try ad block?
you have been.
Good luck with that, Reddit has been down for the last 2 hours.
Jesus, I knew somebody would come along and suggest Soylent News. No, it is not the answer.
The submissions there aren't much different than here, from what I've seen. We get Hugh Pickens here, and they get Hugh Pickens there. If you think Slashdot has a problem with too many political stories, well I think that things are much worse there.
It's also typical for news to hit Slashdot before it hits Soylent News, and Slashdot isn't known for reporting on issues in a timely manner!
The moderation over at Soylent News is pretty atrocious, too, from what I've witnessed. The community is quite small, and so a cabal of mods have managed to promote their whacked out ideas, while silencing anyone who questions them. Good comments get modded down, while junk ones get modded up. At least Slashdot's mod community is still big enough to bring some balance.
I think that Soylent News is a perfect example of what would happen to Slashdot if those on the fringes happened to take over. You get a lot of lunacy, a lot of bad modding, and a site that actually makes Slashdot look pleasant and intelligent.
"Right now, deep in your hair follicles and sweat glands, tiny mites are feeding on dead skin cells, mating, and laying eggs"
*Plugs fingers in ears*. La la la la la la la la la la la I can't hear you! ;)
Chrome blocks flash by default now anyways...
They mite be onto something.
Yeah? So what's the point of posting anonymously??
To state heretical truth.
It's not clear who the actual hosts are, but I'm guessing from the report that they are Americans, of diverse origin. If the people 'of African descent' (for instance) are actually Americans of African descent, with the long contact with the majority European population, can we be sure they are not partly European? The caption for the map says '... distributed around the world'. I know it is a first investigation, but they apparently haven't investigated across the world.
If the mites are getting you down visit aftermite.com
LOL.
starting with a conclusion and adding facts to fit the theory is nothing new. All science started as philosophy, usually with very strong religious undertones. At one time this was the only way as the tools to investigate nature did not exists.
Looking at a human world haplogroup map shows the largest genetic diversity in the Caucasus area, not Africa. http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf
Because a thought should be able to stand on its own two feet (if thoughts had feet, ... a single pair, ... eh, never mind), not ride the tailcoats of its parent (if ... all right, I'll just stop now!)
So you can mod your own comments up!
Reddit has a lot of noise ration info. Here not that much better nowadays, but still better than digg. As for the adverts have not seen them for years now.
What's living on my perineum?
Browing the web without ad blocking is like casual sex without a condom - you WILL get infected, and your zombie dick computer WILL cause problems for others.
Sheath up, motherfucker!
It's good to see that you're using your full legal name here, "CaTfiSh", and not some sort of a pseudonym. Otherwise we'd have to think that you're posting anonymously, like some sort of a coward.
"Guess what slashdot, I am sick of this website. "
Good. We can't get rid of too many ACs.
These mites don't have any anuses so when they die they explode spattering their shit over your face, happy christmas with that thought!
It sucks when you forget to hit "Post Anonymously."
Because it's a lie and they're not going anywhere.
It's called a pseudonym and it's a level of accountability where the post is attributed to that user name or to other places where they might also use that user name. This is not complicated. The two are not the same. One is a level of accountability and the other (like this post) is not. Not all ACs are as retarded as the above poster. Some of us have two braincells to rub together.
...you've just made me try to clean my face with battery acid.
I've got ancient face bugs, passed down from my father and from his father before him!
What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From
Ha, I knew those voices weren't just in my head!
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