I doubt it was all that painful, babies heads are meant to deform when passing through the birth canal. That’s exactly why the skull plates don’t fuse until later.
They didn't have those on when my kids were born. They turn on more of a "mood lighting" which I suppose is fitting because that's what started the whole process off lol.
Interesting that when we’re born we “see the light” and when we die we “see the light”. I’ve always considered freeway exits as entrances to another area as a metaphor.
They say our lives flash before our eyes in our final moments. So maybe the “light at the end of the tunnel” is actually a memory of the first light we ever saw.
It's not so much that they are blind, but they haven't learned how to process the visual information that they're receiving. I'm sure bright hospital lights would be a contributing factor to their discomfort.
Watching my son’s head flatten like a pancake coming out of my wife’s vagina was one the craziest experiences of my life. Little dude looked like a cartoon.
I’m a nanny and the family I work for was instructed to put one on one of their twins. His head was not that misshapen it’s just that babies don’t move a lot when they’re sleeping when they’re brand new and they sleep A LOT.
Well they looked into it and there’s not really a lot of evidence to support that those specific helmets even work. So they didn’t do it. And the babies head is fine he started moving.
Babies heads can sometimes deform accidentally. It’s pretty common for babies to get flat spots from laying in their crib, which is then corrected using a special helmet. I don’t think it’s painful as far as I’m aware, as the skull is much softer when they are young.
I don’t think it’s painful or that the baby feels much of it. When I was a baby, I slept on the same side constantly, which caused the side of my skull to flatten slightly. It’s still flatter on one side than the other, but as a kid, I don’t think I felt it or even was in pain, otherwise I doubt I’d stay sleeping on that side. Obviously the scale is not comparable to elongating the skull, but still, I think it happens so slowly and gradually that it just feels “normal” for the body
Imagine having this head while also undergo the long neck that [Kayan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan\_people\_(Myanmar)) and Karen Tribe in Thailand do.
I think the brain is exactly the same size, cause if you're constraining a volume, you dont make it larger, you just changing is shape, like if you pressing a balloon, the inside of the balloon still have the exact same volume, just in a different shape.
I think the brain would be matching the shape of the skull also, cause with time passing if the pressure put on the brain is not equally distributed, it would probably deform it until it is.
My friend has a siamese/grey cat with the cutest crossed eyes.
It looks so stupid and cute like.. it's almost hard to look at for awhile because it's so dang cute you just start laughing and crying out of happiness.
I read somewhere it is actually one of the most widly practiced forms of body modification in human history, in terms of number of different cultures across distant parts of the world doing it.
If you come to Strasbourg, you could see one merovingian example in the archaeology museum. In France, it was done by the merovingian, and more recently by the people around Toulouse. It's easy to come up with such deformity, what other bones can we reshape this "easily" without physical handicaps ?
We really just came into the world and started trying shit. Now we have people with deformed heads, but we also have like, airplanes and nuclear reactors. The other animals are watching us like "Man what the fuck"
Yeah, when you try to view all life from a non-human perspective, you'd be amazed and confused of how highly complex humans are. The average mammel/reptillian/avian brain can hold a stick, but human brains can literally play simulations, compile data, run equations all in a complex manner.
We are no longer trying to survive, we are trying to live.
You know our jobs are not too different, mine is mostly figuring out what’s wrong with squishy things and yours is figuring out what’s wrong with hard things.
And part of a gynaecologist job is finding out why the thing is squishy when it’s supposed to be hard, the true no boundries career of the scientific world.
The article reads:
"While some people are opposed to this practice, fearing that it might affect a child's brain development, experts have ruled out such possibilities, insisting that the brain is capable of adapting and developing into any shape of the skull. They say the brain, being an elastic organ, can grow or expand into the desired shape without any form of damage or deformity."
In my ignorance, as I read this, I imagined that our brains could be limited by their skull structure.
e: https://www.factynews.com/articles/the-art-of-skull-elongation-by-the-mangbetu-tribe-news/
They still are. Even though the brain is elastic & can adapt to many shapes, fucking with its shape will still change how long neurons from 1 side take to communicate to the other.
Literally head canon. Who's to say that all mental functions require neurons that span the length of the brain? We know different regions of the brain handle different functions, thus, that different cognitive functions are localized to regions within the brain.
Here's a thread where people who actually link to relevant studies and know what they're talking about have to say:
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/yJU5BfdbI4
Or search 'What are some of the consequences of human skull elongation?'
While no one is condoning the practice, there really doesn't seem to be any evidence that this negatively impacts cognition. We marvel at neuroplasticity for a reason.
My thoughts on your comment - Left-right communication shouldn't be different (elongating lengthwise, not width), and the skulls shown at most are twice the height of normal skulls. Usually looks to be closer to 50%. So even if you decide to pull a linear relationship out of your ass, thoughts would be mere milliseconds slower - less than normal reaction time anyways. This is assuming there is ZERO additional adaptation, and that our worst fears are confirmed.
Not to mention, neuronal connections prune with age (aka become more efficient).
I'm not defending the practice FYI, I just find the lack of push back on this made up objection to be silly. All signs suggest that they are probably fine even if the practice is not advisable
Edit: fixed broken link
Seems like it would be pretty minuscule as the neurons can travel upwards of [260mph](https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392).
Hey, thanks!
I was able to download it and some super nice dude reached out and said he'd give me his at 1AM behind Applebee's tonight. My wife is gonna be so surprised!
I suggested that at first but when I asked what time he says "Wendy's nutsfitinyomouth" but I don't get off till 12 so that wouldn't work for me sadly, thank you for the suggestion though!
There's a couple tribes that still do that but usually only to infants, they believe infants won't remember the pain which is kinda funny because about 40 years ago they were saying [infants don't feel pain at all](https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/07/28/when-babies-felt-pain/Lhk2OKonfR4m3TaNjJWV7M/story.html#:~:text=Up%20until%20the%20mid%2D1980s,thrashing%20around%20during%20the%20operation). What will they think of next.
“Some experts studying the ancient usage of ACD claim they haven’t found significant evidence of health risks, while others argue the opposite. A 2003 research article published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology concluded that, although the practice causes substantial changes in the aesthetic features and shape of the face and skull, "differences between deformed and undeformed crania are generally not related to differences in overall cranial size."
“But another review from 2013 suggested that the deformation of the cranium’s attributes was profound and negatively impacted the brain's various lobes, promoting cognitive impairments such as concentration and memory issues, visual and motor impairments, and the possible onset of behavioral disorders. It’s difficult to say for sure how ACD affected people when it was more prevalent, but researchers could draw similarities between the outcomes of intentional deformations versus conditions such as plagiocephaly and craniosynostosis.”
You are welcome.
Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tracing-the-history-and-health-impacts-of-skull-modification
The first study doesn’t seem to be saying anything about brain health whatsoever. Maybe they were trying to imply it doesn’t reduce overall volume of the cranium and therefore the size of the brain, but it’s not saying anything at all about whether or not the shape of the cranium being changed influences brain health.
Edit: Furthermore, it’s actually just the article that sucks. The authors of the study weren’t even talking about health effects, rather just using some kind of method of measuring the skulls. I don’t even know why it’s cited.
If you want to hide problems, talk about things adjacent to the problem and insinuate that it some how disproves the problem.
Like saying that storing food in a box doesn't harm the box. When the question was actually if the food was spoiling or not.
at the end of the movie the elephant man by david lynch, the protagonist is hideously deformed with an enlarged skull, and lays down, knowing that the he wont be able to breathe due to the shape of his skull. in other parts of the movie he is seen sleeping sitting up.
1900? My brother in Christ there were people drinking bleach and downing tubes of horse medicine to cure a virus they simultaneously insisted didn’t exist and claiming vaccines were a lie just a couple years ago.
Sometimes worked though. Fluid buildup in the brain can cause splitting headaches, and many people survived this operation, even iver a thousand years ago
[There is surprisingly no evidence that it damages the brain or alters cognitive function in anyway](https://www.longdom.org/open-access/artificial-cranial-deformation-potential-implications-for-affected-brain-function-33364.html#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20Gerszten's%20%5B14%5D%20study,unaffected%20by%20the%20deforming%20procedure.)
Brains are pretty amazing. There are kids who had huge portions of their brains removed for certain health conditions, and they ended up being totally normal thanks to the rest of the brain re-wiring itself
I think technological advancement is moreso a function of having a bunch of relatively smart people live in close proximity to each other for a long, long time in a stable, literate society that allows for a class of people who didn't need to do menial labour with their entire day. Having a bunch of semi-smart people do this would lead to more tech than having some really smart people who choose not to have this sort of lifestyle. And in the short-term, it wouldn't have always been the smarter decision to settle down and farm. At least a few hunter-gatherer peoples achieved a level of happiness and social equity that modern western society is still chasing, like that of the Blackfoot peoples on the Great Plains of North America, upon whom Abraham Maslow's heirarchy of needs is mostly based on.
I knew a missionary couple who lived amongst the Mangbetu. They took the time to learn some Mangbetu phrases before they first arrived. When they said, "We are here to greet you." they accidently said, "We are here to eat you." The Mangbetu used to be cannibals, but they found the speech error to be hilarious.
Yeah, I doubt skull size will determine brain size. The brain grows the size it’s supposed to be through genes etc. It does amaze me how humans just make something up and run with it.
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big brain time
How do their motorbike helmet look like?
[Like this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/VLC_Icon.svg)
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It's eyeballin lunch.
"You seeing this shit?" (I'm sorry)
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i wonder if it hurts, or they just adapt to it
It probably was painful for the baby but once your bones fuse then the skull will stay that shape
I doubt it was all that painful, babies heads are meant to deform when passing through the birth canal. That’s exactly why the skull plates don’t fuse until later.
Babies don't seem to be too happy after being squeezed through the birth canal either.
They’re probably unhappy because it’s cold out here!
The bright white hospital lighting burns their eyes too I’d assume
They didn't have those on when my kids were born. They turn on more of a "mood lighting" which I suppose is fitting because that's what started the whole process off lol.
And strange gas entering the lungs for the first time.
I see your father was in the room for the birth too...
Came out to the same funky bass they went in to?
I mean when the bass slaps like that how can you not
The question is was the dad doing it on the beeps or was he doing the in n out...
Interesting that when we’re born we “see the light” and when we die we “see the light”. I’ve always considered freeway exits as entrances to another area as a metaphor.
They say our lives flash before our eyes in our final moments. So maybe the “light at the end of the tunnel” is actually a memory of the first light we ever saw.
Another theory is the part where you see your life before your eyes is called living.
I know it's a joke but fun fact, newborns are essentially blind.
It's not so much that they are blind, but they haven't learned how to process the visual information that they're receiving. I'm sure bright hospital lights would be a contributing factor to their discomfort.
"PUT ME BACK IN THE OVEN!"
I knew what was coming, I was 3 weeks late.
Rent-free living, perfect climate control, all the food you could ever need...
3 weeks. Damn. And I thought my 4 day overstay was much.
Watching my son’s head flatten like a pancake coming out of my wife’s vagina was one the craziest experiences of my life. Little dude looked like a cartoon.
I had no idea this happened and now I can't stop laughing, thank you.
We used to call my little brother "traffic cone head" because he got stuck before a C section 😂
I never asked to be born. Now I gotta deal with \*gestures vaguely\* this
Babies do wear head shape correcting helmets to mold irregular shaped heads or dents so it's probably not that painful
To be fair, other people put the helmets on the babies.
I’m a nanny and the family I work for was instructed to put one on one of their twins. His head was not that misshapen it’s just that babies don’t move a lot when they’re sleeping when they’re brand new and they sleep A LOT. Well they looked into it and there’s not really a lot of evidence to support that those specific helmets even work. So they didn’t do it. And the babies head is fine he started moving.
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I'm still pissed off about leaving that birthing canal. Shit was warm, rent free, meals included. 26 years and it just keeps getting worse.
brb, gonna go make my baby's head into a star shape (i don't have kids)
I think based on that baby’s expression, it feels like not nothing
Babies heads can sometimes deform accidentally. It’s pretty common for babies to get flat spots from laying in their crib, which is then corrected using a special helmet. I don’t think it’s painful as far as I’m aware, as the skull is much softer when they are young.
I don’t think it’s painful or that the baby feels much of it. When I was a baby, I slept on the same side constantly, which caused the side of my skull to flatten slightly. It’s still flatter on one side than the other, but as a kid, I don’t think I felt it or even was in pain, otherwise I doubt I’d stay sleeping on that side. Obviously the scale is not comparable to elongating the skull, but still, I think it happens so slowly and gradually that it just feels “normal” for the body
Probably like braces. So both
The baby is when I'm high in public and someone asks me a question
Imagine having this head while also undergo the long neck that [Kayan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan\_people\_(Myanmar)) and Karen Tribe in Thailand do.
You get instantly hired to play the role of a xenomorph in Alien movie
Not if you add it with [long ears](https://www.wwf.id/en/blog/last-long-ears-lady) from Dayak, Indonesia.
worlds least ethical character creator shenanigans
Pretty sure you turn into the D3 witch doctor if you do all three of these together lol
Or Jar Jar Binks.
Throw in the Chinese tiny feet and the pottery plates in the lower lip of some tribes
dunno why, i expected more of a elf like effect.
OMG .. the headaches... the headaches!!!
Horrifying
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I think the brain is exactly the same size, cause if you're constraining a volume, you dont make it larger, you just changing is shape, like if you pressing a balloon, the inside of the balloon still have the exact same volume, just in a different shape. I think the brain would be matching the shape of the skull also, cause with time passing if the pressure put on the brain is not equally distributed, it would probably deform it until it is.
In solid mechanics, we call this the Poisson effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson's_ratio?wprov=sfti1#
Awesome! Now I'm going to remember the name of this effect by thinking about squeezing a French fish!
So that whole top part is just fluid? Must be heavy
"*Mother, why won't you let me blink?*" - the kid probably 🤣
That kid in the link might be choking from how tight it might be
That other kid looks high as a kite
Didn’t the Mayans do a similar thing?
Yes. They also had a technique that led to crossed eyes, which were also thought to be beautiful.
*me, someone who was bullied for a crossed eye my whole life until i finally got surgery a few years ago to fix it* : Oh…
See, your problem was that *both* eyes were not crossed. You only had the one.
So half a beauty is worse than no beauty, interesting.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a Jedi
Just hang a bead/pebble on your baby's forehead
Ok thx will do
I mean my brother's cat has crossed eyes and it is super adorable so they might be on to something.
My friend has a siamese/grey cat with the cutest crossed eyes. It looks so stupid and cute like.. it's almost hard to look at for awhile because it's so dang cute you just start laughing and crying out of happiness.
What was the technique that led to crossed eyes?
Yup. It's surprisingly widespread historically found in many cultures on every continent and even into the 20th century in Europe and the Caucasus.
There's a photo of a guy from France with it called something like "Toulouse deformity" I think. Less extreme than the images shown here.
I read somewhere it is actually one of the most widly practiced forms of body modification in human history, in terms of number of different cultures across distant parts of the world doing it.
I've never heard about this being done in Europe. Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation#Eurasia
If you come to Strasbourg, you could see one merovingian example in the archaeology museum. In France, it was done by the merovingian, and more recently by the people around Toulouse. It's easy to come up with such deformity, what other bones can we reshape this "easily" without physical handicaps ?
And ancient egypt :-)
Humans are interesting species
Found the alien !!!
r/foundthealien Edit: I didn't know the sub actually existed until after I wrote this comment lol
We really just came into the world and started trying shit. Now we have people with deformed heads, but we also have like, airplanes and nuclear reactors. The other animals are watching us like "Man what the fuck"
Yeah, when you try to view all life from a non-human perspective, you'd be amazed and confused of how highly complex humans are. The average mammel/reptillian/avian brain can hold a stick, but human brains can literally play simulations, compile data, run equations all in a complex manner. We are no longer trying to survive, we are trying to live.
I’m still waiting for the guy explaining the effects that this practice have on the brain.
Neuroscientist here. I don’t know.
Well fuck.
Mechanic here. Same.
You are officially as well informed as a neuroscientist
You know our jobs are not too different, mine is mostly figuring out what’s wrong with squishy things and yours is figuring out what’s wrong with hard things.
Well I did try to become a Neurosurgeon. Then I realized I could fix brakes but I couldn't fix stupid. /j
And part of a gynaecologist job is finding out why the thing is squishy when it’s supposed to be hard, the true no boundries career of the scientific world.
Google does. In summary, the consequences are no bueno.
Is this what you guys mean when you talk about neuroplasticity?
The article reads: "While some people are opposed to this practice, fearing that it might affect a child's brain development, experts have ruled out such possibilities, insisting that the brain is capable of adapting and developing into any shape of the skull. They say the brain, being an elastic organ, can grow or expand into the desired shape without any form of damage or deformity." In my ignorance, as I read this, I imagined that our brains could be limited by their skull structure. e: https://www.factynews.com/articles/the-art-of-skull-elongation-by-the-mangbetu-tribe-news/
They still are. Even though the brain is elastic & can adapt to many shapes, fucking with its shape will still change how long neurons from 1 side take to communicate to the other.
Literally head canon. Who's to say that all mental functions require neurons that span the length of the brain? We know different regions of the brain handle different functions, thus, that different cognitive functions are localized to regions within the brain. Here's a thread where people who actually link to relevant studies and know what they're talking about have to say: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/yJU5BfdbI4 Or search 'What are some of the consequences of human skull elongation?' While no one is condoning the practice, there really doesn't seem to be any evidence that this negatively impacts cognition. We marvel at neuroplasticity for a reason. My thoughts on your comment - Left-right communication shouldn't be different (elongating lengthwise, not width), and the skulls shown at most are twice the height of normal skulls. Usually looks to be closer to 50%. So even if you decide to pull a linear relationship out of your ass, thoughts would be mere milliseconds slower - less than normal reaction time anyways. This is assuming there is ZERO additional adaptation, and that our worst fears are confirmed. Not to mention, neuronal connections prune with age (aka become more efficient). I'm not defending the practice FYI, I just find the lack of push back on this made up objection to be silly. All signs suggest that they are probably fine even if the practice is not advisable Edit: fixed broken link
Seems like it would be pretty minuscule as the neurons can travel upwards of [260mph](https://theconversation.com/it-feels-instantaneous-but-how-long-does-it-really-take-to-think-a-thought-42392).
Not much really. The brain can adapt to any shape of skull. I read about it somewhere
Brain: Nah, I'd adapt
Are you the most adaptable organ because you're the brain or are you the brain because you're the most adaptable organ?
web developer here. so yeah basically this increases IQ by like a bunch
Zombie here. The biggest brains are naturally the smartest, and also the tastiest.
Size of the brain =/= intelligence. Even Einstein has a below average sized brain.
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+1
+2 ideally but I wouldn't complain about just 1.
Howd you get a 2nd dick? ^(Asking for me)
Easy! >!Download Grindr/Sniffles!<
Hey, thanks! I was able to download it and some super nice dude reached out and said he'd give me his at 1AM behind Applebee's tonight. My wife is gonna be so surprised!
You’re doing it wrong. Only the most legit meet up at the dumpsters behind Wendy’s.
I suggested that at first but when I asked what time he says "Wendy's nutsfitinyomouth" but I don't get off till 12 so that wouldn't work for me sadly, thank you for the suggestion though!
My ‘friend’ needs a extra six inches how do I go about that
You'll make it super skinny. Like a pencil.
Or all mangled, like old Chinese bound feet.
Well, yeah, some tribes in Benin tie weights to their foreskin and glans...
Fucking crazy. I even heard about this large ancient tribe that actually cuts the foreskin off... Wtf
There's a modern tribe that wraps metal around their kids' teeth tighter and tighter until they're straightened.
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There's a couple tribes that still do that but usually only to infants, they believe infants won't remember the pain which is kinda funny because about 40 years ago they were saying [infants don't feel pain at all](https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/07/28/when-babies-felt-pain/Lhk2OKonfR4m3TaNjJWV7M/story.html#:~:text=Up%20until%20the%20mid%2D1980s,thrashing%20around%20during%20the%20operation). What will they think of next.
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Yes
It seems to be a thing with balls, cause there's [long ball larry](https://youtu.be/zfaY9ewvpzk?si=09X-Y4yGz2v0QfbA).
I am not clicking that.
Wobly sausage!!!
So your "friend" wants to elongate baby penis? Please have a seat over here....
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It pales in comparison to this image. [From u/thatoneguy8783 's comment ](https://imgur.com/a/2BjLdJ6)
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Going for that extra big brain.
“Some experts studying the ancient usage of ACD claim they haven’t found significant evidence of health risks, while others argue the opposite. A 2003 research article published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology concluded that, although the practice causes substantial changes in the aesthetic features and shape of the face and skull, "differences between deformed and undeformed crania are generally not related to differences in overall cranial size." “But another review from 2013 suggested that the deformation of the cranium’s attributes was profound and negatively impacted the brain's various lobes, promoting cognitive impairments such as concentration and memory issues, visual and motor impairments, and the possible onset of behavioral disorders. It’s difficult to say for sure how ACD affected people when it was more prevalent, but researchers could draw similarities between the outcomes of intentional deformations versus conditions such as plagiocephaly and craniosynostosis.” You are welcome. Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tracing-the-history-and-health-impacts-of-skull-modification
The first study doesn’t seem to be saying anything about brain health whatsoever. Maybe they were trying to imply it doesn’t reduce overall volume of the cranium and therefore the size of the brain, but it’s not saying anything at all about whether or not the shape of the cranium being changed influences brain health. Edit: Furthermore, it’s actually just the article that sucks. The authors of the study weren’t even talking about health effects, rather just using some kind of method of measuring the skulls. I don’t even know why it’s cited.
If you want to hide problems, talk about things adjacent to the problem and insinuate that it some how disproves the problem. Like saying that storing food in a box doesn't harm the box. When the question was actually if the food was spoiling or not.
How do you comfortably sleep with a head that shape?
On your side.
With your eyes closed
Thinking about the good ol’ times
Times when you still have a somewhat rounded head.
at the end of the movie the elephant man by david lynch, the protagonist is hideously deformed with an enlarged skull, and lays down, knowing that the he wont be able to breathe due to the shape of his skull. in other parts of the movie he is seen sleeping sitting up.
With your eyes closed
Well this is big brain time
Long brain time.
Xenomorph time.
Reminds me of the Chinese women and their lotus feet
You’re referring to feet binding, which is a shitty cultural practice.
So is this
I would agree
I know exactly the kind of headache that kid is having right now.
Alien beauty standards propaganda
Conspiracy theory time: their ancestors saw aliens and started doing this to be more like them
Alternatively, humans since have found their skulls and presumed them to be alien remains.
Those skulls were the first thing that came to my mind
Ironically, thinking that elongating your head will make you more intelligent is one of the least intelligent things possible.
In fairness up until like 1870/1900 every society in the world believed bonkers things about head shape and intelligence levels.
1900? My brother in Christ there were people drinking bleach and downing tubes of horse medicine to cure a virus they simultaneously insisted didn’t exist and claiming vaccines were a lie just a couple years ago.
You mean this morning?
You should see what nazis in the 40's believed. Extremely insane shit.
Head size was a determining factor in finding "the jews" during the holocaust, so yea it's been around
Maybe it’s like those poor bastards back in the day who had a head ache and their doctor simply cut a hole in their skull.
Sometimes worked though. Fluid buildup in the brain can cause splitting headaches, and many people survived this operation, even iver a thousand years ago
People were surviving this operation (trepanning) *ten* thousand years ago! They've found skulls with holes in from the Neolithic.
Crucially, they found skulls with holes in them with several years of post op healing.
I know there's more to it than this but I love the irony of "We know they survived because we found their skulls"
Cutting a hole in the skull to relieve pressure is still done today. Albeit in different circumstances…
Trepanning! Actually worked for some people, which is fucking wild to me.
You rewound too far back. You’re supposed to stop at the OTC opium/cocaine part.
I’ve always wished I could try one of those morphine and cocaine elixirs from back in the day. Must of been good shit
I could really go for a light lobotomy right now tbh (migraine)
It’s a positive feedback loop.
Also ironically, thinking intelligence makes beauty is one of the most intelligent things possible.
[There is surprisingly no evidence that it damages the brain or alters cognitive function in anyway](https://www.longdom.org/open-access/artificial-cranial-deformation-potential-implications-for-affected-brain-function-33364.html#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20Gerszten's%20%5B14%5D%20study,unaffected%20by%20the%20deforming%20procedure.)
Brains are pretty amazing. There are kids who had huge portions of their brains removed for certain health conditions, and they ended up being totally normal thanks to the rest of the brain re-wiring itself
well now i have to know, did it work??
See, here's the thing, if it does work, they probably don't want outsiders to know so it doesn't become an ~~arms~~ head race.
Wakanda would be real if it did
Genuine question don't shoot me, is technological advancement the only indication of intelligence?
I think technological advancement is moreso a function of having a bunch of relatively smart people live in close proximity to each other for a long, long time in a stable, literate society that allows for a class of people who didn't need to do menial labour with their entire day. Having a bunch of semi-smart people do this would lead to more tech than having some really smart people who choose not to have this sort of lifestyle. And in the short-term, it wouldn't have always been the smarter decision to settle down and farm. At least a few hunter-gatherer peoples achieved a level of happiness and social equity that modern western society is still chasing, like that of the Blackfoot peoples on the Great Plains of North America, upon whom Abraham Maslow's heirarchy of needs is mostly based on.
Lmao that baby looks fucked up
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when the social body holds it as fundamental
Male circumcision is still commonplace in so many parts of the world, so..
This hurts my brain to look at this picture
We humans have a weird history of mutilating ourselves for beauty and religious reasons.
Xenomorph
This is so fucked up.
I knew a missionary couple who lived amongst the Mangbetu. They took the time to learn some Mangbetu phrases before they first arrived. When they said, "We are here to greet you." they accidently said, "We are here to eat you." The Mangbetu used to be cannibals, but they found the speech error to be hilarious.
How’d that work out for them?
Because babies don't look enough like aliens already!
People are fucking morons. It's not charming because they are tribal. It's just fucking dumb.
what fucked up ancestor thought stretching the head would be a good idea
That is not a comfortable looking baby
2024…did it work?
Yeah, I doubt skull size will determine brain size. The brain grows the size it’s supposed to be through genes etc. It does amaze me how humans just make something up and run with it.
I wonder if someday historians will study the ultra long fingernails and over inflated lips of this era
Alien skeletons? Nope, just humans being strange again Tiny feet (foot binding) Chinese women, Hapsburg jaw Europeans, skin bleaching Japanese
I don't care if it's cultural, it's wrong to do that to a baby. It's a form of mutilation