Dr. Coltan Scrivner

And that would have been, you know, if we live in a small scale society that might be adaptive to convey to other people that something is wrong.

Um, but it's, uh, it's maybe not as helpful in these huge, we live in such massive places now with so many people around like a beach, you know, as,

a beach full of people is an unusual place for a human to find themselves outside of the past couple hundred years.

Um, and so we didn't really, you know, if we were on the beach and there were only one or two people around and this person had a heart attack and people were, a few people were screaming, that might be helpful.

It might get the attention of someone who's further away who could bring someone to help.

Right.

Yeah.

Um, but you know, it's just an instinctive thing we do.

We scream to convey, um,

vulnerability and to convey that something is the matter and we need help.

But it oftentimes makes, when you have multiple people doing it, it makes it for a really scary experience.

Yeah.

So again, I live in this kind of weird little Victorian spooky town and it has it's a very artsy town.

There's a lot of art like public art throughout the town.

And one of the things that we had for a very long time was a Humpty Dumpty that sat on a rock wall.

And he had a very tragic ending, much like in the nursery rhyme.

He got chopped up a little bit, but he also kind of fell down.

And he was kind of a beloved feature of one of our parks.

And so this happened a couple years ago, and everybody was very sad that we lost Humpty Dumpty.

And in my town, I organized the annual Halloween parade.