Sentences with phrase «human contortionist»
With no rigid parts, an octopus can bend its arms into positions that would snap the bones of even the most flexible human contortionist.
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Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach with her toes touching her forehead.