• [Reruns] 251! Rituals

  • Jan 13 2025
  • Length: 40 mins
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[Reruns] 251! Rituals

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  • 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
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