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Why do people love rituals so much? 

This week, 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