The ear-pointing trend came to light in the most unlikely place -- AARP, The Magazine for readers who are over 50. "The trend goes back a few years," said Leslie Quander Wooldridge, a 28-year-old ...

“I don’t like the idea of a celebrity getting it done, and then all the fans want ear pointing as a result,” Von Cyborg, a body-modification specialist who’s given elf ears to some 500 ...

Ear, ear. IT’S enough to make the ears on a Christmas elf wiggle: ... The authors hypothesise that humans retain a vestigial ear-pointing reflex, although it is too weak to move the ear.