Why Is Your BOTTOM in the MIDDLE?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. A human, running like a quadruped, is creepy. Artist Rui Martins created this animation about a year ago. 127 years ago Eadweard Muybridge shot these real images of a child with infantile paralysis walking on all fours. Walking upright looks less unnatural, our bodies are particularly well suited for it. It's one of the things the bulbous and prominent human bottom helps us do. But let's get to the bottom of a linguistic mystery. Why is the bottom called a bottom, when it's in the middle of the body? Your feet and legs are almost always at the same level or below your bottom. I mean, except for Navasana, the yoga boat pose, your bottom is anything but the actual bottom of your body. Unfortunately, there i...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. A human, running like a quadruped, is creepy. Artist Rui Martins created this animation about a year ago. 127 years ago Eadweard Muybridge shot these real images of a child with infantile paralysis walking on all fours. Walking upright looks less unnatural, our bodies are particularly well suited for it. It's one of the things the bulbous and prominent human bottom helps us do. But let's get to the bottom of a linguistic mystery. Why is the bottom called a bottom, when it's in the middle of the body? Your feet and legs are almost always at the same level or below your bottom. I mean, except for Navasana, the yoga boat pose, your bottom is anything but the actual bottom of your body. Unfortunately, there i...
