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The body's improvised jazz solo, performed solely to terrify the heart for half a second.
means To trip or lose your footing mid-step, or by extension to falter, blunder, or come upon something by accident.
from From Middle English stumblen, a word of Scandinavian roots — compare Old Norse and dialectal Norwegian words for staggering or tripping. It belongs to a family of 'st-' words for unsteady motion (stammer, stumble, stutter), where the tongue and the feet seem to share the same clumsiness.
- recovery speed
- The brain corrects a trip in under 100 milliseconds
- old root
- From Norse 'stumra,' kin to stammering and stumps
- phantom step
- Brains predict stairs that aren't there, causing falls
- toddler tally
- Learning to walk averages 17 falls per hour
- lucky breaks
- Penicillin and Velcro both came from stumbled accidents
for instance
stumbleupon — web discovery platform founded 2007, acquired by mix for $30m in 2015
stumble guys — mobile multiplayer game launched 2021, 40m+ downloads