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Bahfest 2014: Why Do Mammals Sleep?

submitted by noims

9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago

Sarah Hird, last year's winner of BAHFest West (the festival of bad ad hoc hypotheses) posits a brilliant explanation for why mammals sleep: they can't put up with themselves 24 hours a day.

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*promote for the lols

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 12:08pm PST - promote requested by eric3579.

ant

jokingly says...

*brain

What about ants?

Adding video to channels (Brain) - requested by ant.

Well the easiest way to answer that is to figure out how happy you are (if we assume that ants are perfectly spherical mammals).

ant

*brain

What about ants?

ant

I used to be as a callow ant, but less when I am an old fart adult ant. Also, I don't sleep a lot/hibernate. I'll sleep forever when I am dead.

Well the easiest way to answer that is to figure out how happy you are (if we assume that ants are perfectly spherical mammals).

I like to imagine that this was a final presentation for a scientific course. Everyone loved her wit and charm but she flunked out and still has to pay student loans on top of that. Now in an attempt to share her story, she realized stand up comedy at ah hoc speech events gives her more basic satisfaction.

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