Dr Karl

There's psychology there and time.

So if you look at the word news, which tells you about the world, three of those four letters in that word are new.

And so building a bridge, which is a wonderful thing, which will take years, doesn't make the news in the same way as the falling down of the bridge.

And that short...

a lot of activity in a short time is what attracts the human attention.

So with soccer or football, but that's its real name, you've got this universal, short, dramatic and highly energetic activity with goals that last for a second or so.

Whereas with the cycling, you're looking at it like a long-term strategy.

It's not as theatrically as obvious and they've built up what they're able to do

over a long period of time like the footballers, but also they deliver it over a long period of time.

And if you look at them doing it now and then you look at them in 10 minutes and an hour and the next day, it looks still the same.

So you don't get that sudden change, that sudden impact, that big leap in change that attracts the human attention.

We tend to respond better to things that change rapidly.

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I'm so good.

Um, there's a few reasons.

Some of them are anatomical.

So when you cry, you're producing tears from, mainly from the glands, the tear glands in the upper outer corner of each eye.

So you've got three sets of tear glands, but the one that gives you the bulk, the volume is in the upper outer corner of each eye.

And when you're doing that, the eye's water, the eyelids will close a little.

So straight away, you're looking like you're squinting.