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Why are we afraid of rewiring our brains? And why do we all smell like sticks? [15]

This week, special guest Hannah, Joey, and Jess talk about the first seasons of Chuck, Victor of Aveyron, neuroplasticity, the local train through Brooklyn, Hwyl, and Septimus Piesse's contributions to perfumery. They don't talk about the many other ways Piesse changed the perfume industry.

references

• The World Health Organization's 2019 guidelines on screen-time.
• The highest-grossing media franchises, courtesy of Wikipedia.
• The feral child of Aveyron.
• Jonathan Haidt on morals, purity, and the political spectrum.
• Listen to this orchestral performance based off Septimus Piesse's Odophone: a literal musical scale of smells.
• "A bundle of sticks:" Aesop's Hwyl.