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EPISODE · Jun 24, 2024 · 47 MIN

Where do memes come from?

from The Scientific Worldview

This episode features: -Do celebrity suicides cause people to commit suicide? -Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard? -Why doesn't the United States use the metric system? -Are chimpanzees smarter than children? -How long can a person survive in the wilderness for? -Why did humans take over the planet? -Why do we copy celebrities? -How do marketers prey on our psychology? -Why do people care about the political beliefs of actors? -How do memes spread? -Why do common expressions often rhyme? -Why is there so much political outrage on social media? -Why do so many people want to immigrate to the United States? -Why do successful religions tend to encourage reproduction? -What is the function of conservative moral intuitions?

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