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Fri. 04/22 - Some Like It Hot... But Why?


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Why did some cultures develop tastes for particularly spicy foods and others didn’t? Plus, the Museum of Endangered Sounds. And an upcoming documentary from Alex Winter about radicalization on social media.

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  • Links:

    How—and Why—Did Cultural Tastes for Spicy Food Develop? (Literary Hub)
  • Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices: Spices taste good because they are good for us (Oxford Academic) 
  •  Antimicrobial functions of spices: why some like it hot (Harvard, PDF)
  • Museum of Endangered Sounds 
  • Where the Sounds of Your Childhood Go to Rest (MEL)
  • Saving the Sounds of the Early 20th Century (Atlas Obscura)
  • 'The Youtube Effect' Teaser: Alex Winter's Documentary Examines Radicalization and Misinformation (Collider)
  • Rabbit Hole (NY Times)
  • Feels Good Man | Films | Battle to Take Pepe the Frog Back (PBS)
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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