Why do humans like picking their nose?  Is it something biological? Do primates do it too?(Serious answers pl)
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I didn't know anyone really liked doing it, it's just necessary sometimes.
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From what science has been able to tell us, what we humans often refer to as "love" is, in fact, comprised of a number of different elements.\n\nPheromones, one of the basic components of smell, are picked up by receptors in the nose and converted to electrical impulses which tell areas of the brain that "here is someone to whom I could be attracted." "The evidence has now become quite strong that humans produce and detect pheromones," agreed Edward W. Johnson of Idaho State University in Pocatello. However, we should note that other researchers say more study is needed to find out if they are as powerful in humans as they are in other species.\n\nHumans, particularly males, are visually oriented, and sights that please us cause what is known as "pupillary dilation" (your pupils dilate when you see something you like).\n\n\n\nThe parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system which mediates sexual arousal, induces such responses as pupillary dilation. When two people look at each other at the same moment, and both sets of pupils dilate, the result is what some people refer to as "love at first sight." We're reacting to the reaction of the other person, as well as to our own reaction to them.\n\nHumans, particularly females, react strongly to the sense of touch. The outer covering of skin is our body's largest "part." Skin makes up about 15% of the body's weight, and occupies some 21 square feet of surface area. Being touched by someone lowers blood pressure, releases endorphins (the brain's equivalent of opium), and causes many other strongly positive reactions. One report of touch deprived women revealed that only a tiny percent had ever had an orgasm.\n\nTaken together, all of these responses lead to sexual attraction, which affects our emotions, which many people translate as "love."\n\nYet, humans, besides being rather sophisticated members of the animal kingdom, are also rational and rationalizing beings. True, at times our emotions can completely eliminate rational thought, but most people can, with a bit of practice, overrule their emotions and make rational decisions.\n\nEveryone who has been married, or has been in a long-term relationship, has had moments when they were so angry at the other that they began to question whether they truly "loved" the other person anymore. Where were all those feelings they had when the relationship was young? What happened to that pit of the stomach, semi-dizzy, giddy euphoria?\n\nIt's at these points when we need to come to the realization that "feelings" are great, but the real test of love is when the pressure's on and everything seems to be going to hell in a hand basket. This is when we need to remember that love is a decision even more than it is a set of feelings. Sometimes we need to call upon our rational natures, overrule our feelings, and decide to love the other.\n\nIn a classic "which came first" question, most people would protest that "love should come first," then the mind will follow. What people mean by this is that feelings of being "in love" should come before we decide that we're in love with another person, a kind of "engage feelings before putting mind in gear." Unfortunately this approach doesn't have a very good track record. When we allow our feelings to dictate our reactions to other people, we wind up on an emotional roller coaster, falling in and out of "love" with alarming regularity.\n\n\n\nthis was an excerpt from paradigmassociates.org
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Yes. The obvious answer to the question is that you wouldn't like to be hanging around a person if he or she smells. Getting close to someone who smells is not fun.\n  Another deeper reason is that your nose is linked to your brain. Therefore a smell can be paired with a moment in time or a feeling you had when you smell it. Food is an easy example to show this. Lets say your grandma cooked the best apple pie. Every time you smell apple pie you would think of your grandma. So lets say I wear a certain Cologne. If you are around me enough every time you smell that you would think of me. Or a time that we spent together.\n    Another even more in dept attraction to smell is pheromones. Some scientists say that attraction at its most chemical state are pheromones our body produces. These pheromones are made to attract mates. People inhale your pheromones and attract you. So if you have a high pheromone count you could be a very attractive person even though you might not have the looks to go with it. The pheromone theory is just a theory.
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stop picking!  At least for now and definitely when anyone can see.  Apply pressure to the nose up high where there is bone not cartiledge.  STOP PICKING!
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maybe its genetic...or maybe he likes dark makeup on his nose!!!\njeez...
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Sounds like a title for a school science fair project.\n\nYour basic senses can overlap in your daily life, including when you eat.  Doesn't the food taste different when you have a stuff nose during a cold?  Haven't you ever seen someone hold their nose when eating something they didn't like?\n\nIf you think about it -- sight affects taste, too.  Would you eat a green steak or drink blue coffee?  Even if they were both of the highest quality?  Our senses overlap and cause crazy reactions to simple things sometimes...
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No its not bad for you.  It helps to clear out the stuff in your nose so that you can breath better.  Nose-picking may carry a number of medical risks, including causing nasal infections and nosebleeds. Most authorities recommend using a tissue.\n\nHowever, at least one well-known doctor sees nose-picking and mucophagy as beneficial [2]. He states that not only is the finger capable of reaching parts of the nose that a handkerchief or tissue is unable to, thus keeping the nose cleaner, but that eating the bacteria-rich dried mucus offers a boost to the immune system, and is analogous to immunization.\n\nA little humor now...\nPopular sayings and jokes reveal social attitudes about nose-picking, similar to toilet humor.\n\n"You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your nose." \n"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." \n"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends under the sofa." \n"What is the difference between boogers and broccoli? Kids won't eat broccoli. \n"How did you know I went to Harvard?" "I noticed your class ring when you picked your nose." \n"I know he picks his nose. I felt under his furniture." Van Lane Ferguson, We Bark at Midnight (1962) \n"If I had a million boogers, I'd still pick you." \n"Pickem Lickem Rollem Flickem." \n"I guarantee you that Moses was a picker. You wander through the desert for forty years with that dry air. You telling me you're not going to have occasion to clean house a little bit." Seinfeld, The Pick (1992) \n"Why is your nose like an instrument? You can pick it or you can blow it!" \n"How come I can pick my friends but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say 'that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes'?\n\nCheck out the web sites!  Wiki, wiki, wiki.  Happy nose picking!
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The reason humans smell is because of the skin perispiration and it has also got a biological reason\n\nPerispiration is a process where skin respirates fresh oxygen and perispirates toxins and sweat which would cause sweat smell\n\nBut every Human bieng has a unique smell Biologiaclly Which is Different in Males and Females this is to attract the opposite sexes
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Monkeys have opposable thumbs, meaning they can touch the top of their thumb against the top of their fingers, thus making holding things much easier.\n\nThey don't have retractable thumbs. That would mean that they could pull their thumbs back into their hands, like the comic character Wolverine does with his claws and like cats do with their claws.
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The humans are interesting to watch, especially if its feeding time or mating season.  I love to watch them stuff their faces full of food.  Odd creatures, yet fascinating.  If not them, see the primates first.  They seem to be the most active.
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kinda. im 15, but i probably started liking girls when i was twelve. id say thats about the average age that guys stop picking their nose and start to be cautious about their appearance, sometimes too much (trust me, i know).
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Ok, Anthropoids include New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. Some of the general characteristics are:\n-Larger brain.\n-Smaller olfactory/nasal regions (worse sense of smell because our noses don't stick out as, say, a dog's.).\n-Better manual dexterity (meaning they can manipulate things with their hands, like humans do, instead of batting things around with paws, like cats do).\n-Fully Binocular vision (both eyes focus on the target, instead of each eye doing its own thing).\n\nAs for impacts on humans... Hmmm... I'm just making this part up as I go along, but possible influences and negative effects could be given as (+ = positive impact, - = negative impact):\n+Larger brain lets us process more information, so we're smarter, so we can make use of our other skills and have more meaningful interactions; such as communicating while hunting, or creating new tools.\n-Smaller olfactory regions would mean worse sense of smell, so it would be harder to track things be scent, or smell predators.\n+Better manual dexterity lets us make and use tools, build shelter, and process food (like harvesting and preserving crops for winter).\n+/-Full Binocular vision limits us to tracking only one thing at a time, but it also lets us judge distances for things like jumping, and track movement so we can catch things.
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dirt and mucus in your nose. when the hairs in your nose catch the dirt...i don't know, makes sense to me :D
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pick my nose... hahaha....
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(m)\n\nSeventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. It's the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation. \n\nWhen you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose. If mucus in your nasal passages becomes too thick, air and odor molecules can't reach your olfactory receptor cells. Thus, your brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything you eat tastes much the same. You can feel the texture and temperature of the food, but no messengers can tell your brain, "This cool, milky substance is chocolate ice cream." The odor molecules remain trapped in your mouth. The pathway has been blocked off to those powerful perceivers of smell--the olfactory bulbs. \n\nOf all our senses, smell is our most primal. Animals need the sense of smell to survive. Although a blind rat might survive, a rat without its sense of smell can't mate or find food. For humans, the sense of smell communicates many of the pleasures in life--the aroma of a pot roast in the oven, fresh-cut hay, a rose garden. Smells can also signal danger, fear, or dread. \n\nAlthough our sense of smell is our most primal, it is also very complex. To identify the smell of a rose, the brain analyzes over 300 odor molecules. The average person can discriminate between 4,000 to 10,000 different odor molecules. Much is unknown about exactly how we detect and discriminate between various odors. But researchers have discovered that an odor can only be detected in liquid form. We breathe in airborne molecules that travel to and combine with receptors in nasal cells. The cilia, hairlike receptors that extend from cells inside the nose, are covered with a thin, clear mucus that dissolves odor molecules not already in vapor form. When the mucus becomes too thick, it can no longer dissolve the molecules. \n\nAnimals depend on odors secreted from their bodies to communicate. For humans, odors communicate a variety of messages, depending on the odor and the person receiving it. The aroma of a baking apple pie sends one message when someone is hungry and quite another when that person has just finished a six-course meal!
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Hey, get your finger outta there! Instead of picking them out, let's learn about those little blobs. Yeah, we're talking about boogers.\n\nTo understand what boogers are, you need to know about mucus (say: myoo-kus). Mucus is the sticky, slimy stuff that's made inside your nose. If you're like lot of kids, you have another name for nose mucus: snot. Your nose makes about a cupful (about 237 milliliters) of snot every day.\n\nMucus has a pretty important job - it protects the lungs. When you breathe in air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny things, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get irritated or infected, making it be tough to breathe. Luckily, snot helps trap this stuff, keeping it in the nose and out of the lungs.\n\nAfter this stuff gets stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds it and some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia (say: sih-lee-uh). These hairs help move the mucus and the trapped stuff toward the front of the nose or the back of the throat. When the mucus, dirt and other debris dry and clump together, you're left with a booger. Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. Everybody gets them, so they're not a big deal. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working the way it should!\n\nIf you have to get rid of boogers, your best bet is to blow 'em out of your nose and into a tissue. Picking your nose isn't a great idea because boogers contain lots of germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed.
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If you stick you finger into your nose you put germs inside your nose.  You body then makes more bugars to get the germs out.  If you only pick your nose RIGHT after you wansh your hands, it will take about one time for to notice less bugars!