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Back to Episodes[Reruns] 251! Rituals
Published 1 year, 7 months ago
Description
Why do people love rituals so much?
This week, a rerun from the Nonsense Wellspring (archive)!
Again, Jess, Aaron, and Joey talk about medicine, Lunar New Year, habits, disease, leg washing, and flossing. They don’t talk about Jane's Addiction.
references
- twitterpated
- Yale School of Medicine: Phenylephrine, a Common Decongestant, Is Ineffective, Say FDA Advisors. It’s Not Alone
- Gregorian calendar
- Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies by Colin Renfrew
- National Geographic: "Why do humans embrace rituals? Disease and danger may be at the root of the behaviors."
- cephalocaudal
- Gonggong
- Not-so-late-breaking: OSU microbiologists propose updates to the Linnaean System
- Recapitulation theory