What does the world look like when you are color deficient? Why are more men color deficient than women? Can glasses really help color deficient people see? Why is it color "deficient" and not color "blind?" These are all of the questions we assume you have and will want to have answered... so that's what we spoke about! Hopefully we were right...RecommendationsAbraham: Electric VehiclesShane: The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium (https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/things-to-do/dining/toothsome-chocolate-emporium-and-savory-feast-kitchen)Links and References: https://dictionary.apa.org/color-blindnesshttps://enchroma.com/pages/types-of-color-blindness?gclid=CjwKCAjwr_CnBhA0EiwAci5sih3dqGpr69NVBQcV_zUso4KFsRb40azoPM2OZHqHaaIL-n_t4tClUhoCERwQAvD_BwE (SHANE, CHECK THIS ONE OUT!)https://youtu.be/r8OG0HNLz0w?si=M6APFImtZuiUABibJonauskaite D, Camenzind L, Parraga CA, Diouf CN, Mercapide Ducommun M, Müller L, Norberg M, Mohr C. 2021. Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness. PeerJ 9:e11180 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11180https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/do-color-blindness-correcting-glasses-work#:~:text=%22Colorblindness%20glasses%20are%20made%20with,Schwab%20says.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-we-do-what-we-do--3419521/support.

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You've seen the title of this episode, so now that we have your attention: sex addiction! What are the psychometric criteria by which sex becomes an addiction? Further, who does this impact? The answers to this are both not what you might think. Turns out, there is a lot of history of "puritan"-like stigmatization around the "appropriate" amount of sex and with whom. Links and References: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22690-sex-addiction-hypersexuality-and-compulsive-sexual-behaviorhttps://www.sexaddict.com/six-types-of-sex-addicts/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960064/https://sexualhealthalliance.com/nymphomedia-blog/a-brief-history-of-sex-addictionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-012-9136-3https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201510/who-is-the-real-father-sex-addictionhttps://azri.org/sex-addiction/what-are-the-different-types-of-sex-addictions/https://www.news-medical.net/health/Sexual-Dysfunction-History.aspxRecommendationsAbraham: Fallout (https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Season-1/dp/B0CN4HV16N)Shane: Dracula by Bram Stoker (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-we-do-what-we-do--3419521/support.

Sex Addiction

Humans haven't had shampoo for very long in our relative history. What about our ancestors, what did they do without shampoo? Animals don't seem to require shampoo. What is this weird practice and what would happen if we gave it up? This mini investigates Big Shampoo!Links and Referenceshttps://books.google.com/books/about/An_Uncommon_History_of_Common_Things.html?id=bcaXzXPP8ooChttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319848#takeawayBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-we-do-what-we-do--3419521/support.

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Humans have been engineering strategies to reduce the risks of life for as long as humans have been engineering everything. As it relates to addiction, harm reduction is a stragegy that emerged to help prevent the spread of disease and has been successfully applied to supporting people with chemical dependency. We explore the criticisms, concerns, and science behind harm reduction. RecommendationsAbraham: Cocaine Bear (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14209916/)Shane: Charles Bukowski - Hollywood (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38505.Hollywood)Bonus: National Harm Reduction Coalition (https://harmreduction.org/)Links: https://youtu.be/Llm5vVybJWw?si=MtwfI2gl_ZYq_mulhttps://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/harm-reductionhttps://www.hhs.gov/overdose-prevention/https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/harm-reductionhttps://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0306460396000421https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2001.10400463https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196064420313871https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-021-06904-4https://academic.oup.com/smr/article-abstract/10/1/3/6880246https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230886https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jcph.1937https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16203323/Walley AY, Xuan Z, Hackman HH, et al. Opioid overdose rates and implementation of overdose education and nasal naloxone distribution in Massachusetts: interrupted time series analysis. BMJ. 2013;346:f174. doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f174https://americanaddictioncenters.org/harm-reductionAspinall, E. J., Nambiar, D., Goldberg, D. J., Hickman, M., Weir, A., Van Velzen, E., . . . Hutchinson, S....

Harm Reduction

Welcome to our new episode format, the mini! Although this is our second one, we are still excited to be exploring this new way of doing episodes. This discusion explores how lotteries came to be and why we pursue them with such vigor.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-we-do-what-we-do--3419521/support.

Mini: Why We Lottery

The saga continues as we explore the historical policy blunder that was the "War on Drugs." What lead to the development of this idea? We review the distinction between what was stated and what actually happened, and, of course, who won the war? spoiler it was drugs. RecommendationsAbraham: Speechify App (https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via;=nguyen-linh-nam&gad;_source=1&gclid;=Cj0KCQjwiMmwBhDmARIsABeQ7xRZ-vEPaqs8c7IAr7jeYUXdDNtP0Wgtf92Chyk99jyGJIJ9V8rSv1QaAtWbEALw_wcB)Shane: Amber Brooke Farms (https://amberbrookefarms.com/blueberry-festival/?gad_source=1&gclid;=Cj0KCQjwiMmwBhDmARIsABeQ7xR6jxy-33SjkhqahM3-YTrIh3z-c_FCR06EM3mfz9EAH1FvdLQtTFQaAuB5EALw_wcB) Links and References: https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htmhttps://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/big-white-lie-cia-and-cocainecrack-epidemichttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.htmlhttps://enditforgood.com/content/50th-anniversary-of-war-on-drugs-it-never-worked-different-approach-needed/?gad_source=1&gclid;=CjwKCAjwnv-vBhBdEiwABCYQA7Yhc5ZPj339VVFmO9fUz9zl41doaebUygZeBcV8DjPpe1oUcuLykxoC6p8QAvD_BwEhttps://drugpolicy.org/drug-war-stats/?ms=5J1_24GoogleGrant&utm;_source=GoogleSEM&utm;_medium=cpc&utm;_campaign=SEM&sc;=&cid;=7011K000001tKzkQAE&gad;_source=1&gclid;=CjwKCAjwnv-vBhBdEiwABCYQA2Kns_vgVsD_DDHjq1R4xdIuy6j8gKrWRcCowl1mY0qFXrhlz2wCqxoCbyUQAvD_BwEhttps://cdn.penalreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PRI_war-on-drugs-briefing_March-2013.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302017/https://civilrights.org/blog/americas-war-on-drugs-50-years-later/https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-usBecome a...

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