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href="http://io9.com/heat-maps-reveal-where-you-feel-emotions-in-your-body-1491911738" data-id="">Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body</a></h1></header><div class="row post-content"><p data-textannotation-id="fa775625d8783fbe7223ee90fe023dfe" class="has-media media-640"><span class="lightBoxWrapper"><span class="img-border"><img data-original-src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19b1f76lyzrz0jpg/original.jpg" data-asset-url="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19b1f76lyzrz0jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg" data-chomp-id="19b1f76lyzrz0jpg" alt="Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19b1f76lyzrz0jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg" class="transform-ku-xlarge js_annotatable-image cursor-crosshair" height="481" width="640"></span><span class="image-annotation-footnote-wrapper" data-footnote-chomp-id="19b1f76lyzrz0jpg"><div class="annotation-inset-under image-annotation-inset-under hide js_image-annotation-1491930404 js_image-annotation-inset" data-annotation-id="1491930404"><div class="right js_hide-image-annotation cursor-pointer hide-text-annotation" id="annotation_1491930404"><span class="icon notranslate">8</span></div><div class="annotation-content"><p class="first-text">J Jonah Jameson here, and this proves that once and for all that Spider-Man is the shame of our city!</p><footer class="row proxima"><div class="media nine mobile-three columns"><div class="img mrs"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18qbgnltknbkejpg/avt-large.jpg" class="avatar-mini"></div><div class="bd text-light text-small strong pts"><span class="proxima">Roanhouse</span></div></div><div class="three mobile-one columns text-right pts"><a sl-processed="1" class="text-light text-small" href="/j-jonah-jameson-here-and-this-proves-that-once-and-for-1491930401">Expand</a></div></footer></div></div><span class="js_image-annotation-footnote text-annotation-footnote proxima" data-annotation-id="1491930404" data-annotation-x="70" data-annotation-y="59"><a sl-processed="1" href="/j-jonah-jameson-here-and-this-proves-that-once-and-for-1491930401" class="js_image-annotation-footnote-link">1</a><span class="arrow"></span></span><div class="annotation-inset-under image-annotation-inset-under hide js_image-annotation-1491932412 js_image-annotation-inset" data-annotation-id="1491932412"><div class="right js_hide-image-annotation cursor-pointer hide-text-annotation" id="annotation_1491932412"><span class="icon notranslate">8</span></div><div class="annotation-content"><p class="first-text">So that's why it's called feeling blue</p><footer class="row proxima"><div class="media nine mobile-three columns"><div class="img mrs"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18hdi1dbcwjurjpg/avt-large.jpg" class="avatar-mini"></div><div class="bd text-light text-small strong pts"><span class="proxima">zyberteq</span></div></div><div class="three mobile-one columns text-right pts"><a sl-processed="1" class="text-light text-small" 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class="first-text">For <a sl-processed="1" href="http://kotaku.com/heres-why-you-should-never-trust-spider-man-1491831938">shame</a><inset id="1491831938"></inset>.</p><footer class="row proxima"><div class="media nine mobile-three columns"><div class="img mrs"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17vclu6gtquq5jpg/avt-large.jpg" class="avatar-mini"></div><div class="bd text-light text-small strong pts"><span class="proxima">flyfunner5</span></div></div><div class="three mobile-one columns text-right pts"><a sl-processed="1" class="text-light text-small" href="/for-shame-1491961034">Expand</a></div></footer></div></div><span class="js_image-annotation-footnote text-annotation-footnote proxima" data-annotation-id="1491961044" data-annotation-x="69" data-annotation-y="59"><a sl-processed="1" href="/for-shame-1491961034" class="js_image-annotation-footnote-link">4</a><span class="arrow"></span></span><div class="annotation-inset-under image-annotation-inset-under hide 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data-textannotation-id="1ddcae698a4eda513a9422974ea9efee" class="first-text">Emotions are as much physical as they are mental, and it appears that people from a wide range of cultures feel their emotions in the same places on their bodies. This map shows where those places are — from the blush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.</p></div></div></div></article></div>
