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the body's tiny curtain call, performed 15,000 times a day without applause
means To shut and reopen the eyes rapidly, usually involuntarily; figuratively, to flinch, hesitate, or back down in a tense moment.
from From Middle English 'blynken,' likely a variant of 'blenken,' meaning to shine or deceive — a tangle of senses around flashing light and momentary closing. It's a cousin of 'blank' and the older 'blenk,' and shares a family resemblance with German 'blinken' (to gleam, twinkle). The thread running through all of them is the brief flash: a glint of light, the quick flicker of an eyelid, the split-second wavering of nerve.
- speed
- A single blink lasts about one-tenth of a second
- hidden cost
- You spend roughly ten percent of waking life blind
- brain trick
- Your mind erases the darkness so you never notice
- social tell
- Blink rate spikes when you lie or feel stressed
- newborns
- Babies blink far less, just twice per minute
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