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  • Weddings

    Weddings

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Music from Danosounds.

    Sources:

    Jia Tolentino’s essay, “I The Dread” in Trick Mirror.https://www.boredpanda.com/most-beautiful-and-interesting-traditional-wedding-dresses-around-the-world/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organichttps://www.insider.com/why-are-wedding-dresses-white-2017-4https://www.racked.com/2017/6/5/15726356/white-wedding-dress-history-ambivalencehttps://theweek.com/articles/528746/origins-marriagehttps://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/why-do-people-have-engagement-photo-shoots/572755/https://www.brides.com/story/the-gloomy-history-behind-honeymoonshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-37373425https://www.foodnetwork.ca/fun-with-food/blog/secret-history-of-wedding-cakes/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/06/the-thinking-man-s-guide-to-bachelor-parties.htmlhttps://www.redbookmag.com/love-sex/relationships/a49906/bachelor-bachelorette-party-tradition-history/http://worldbridemagazine.com/3546/modern-lessons-from-history-the-bridal-shower/https://www.hitched.com.au/wedding-planning/organising-and-planning/change-of-name-list_435.htmhttps://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-ideas/10-wedding-ceremony-rituals-and-the-history-behind-themhttps://www.marthastewartweddings.com/628170/friends-and-family-mad-elopementhttps://phys.org/news/2016-01-gay-couples-pressure-conform-relationship.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/booming/how-should-gay-couples-fend-off-pressure-to-marry.html
  • Colour

    Colour

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Music from Danosongs

    This gif from Wikicommons is what to cast to mind when the topic of a prism dispersing a beam of white light comes up.

    Sources:

    Kassia St Clair’s The Secret Lives of ColorPhillip Ball’s Bright Earthhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light#/media/File:Light_dispersion_conceptual_waves.gifhttps://xkcd.com/273/http://brainden.com/color-illusions.htmhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/29/what-vocabularies-tell-us-about-culture?CMP=fb_guhttps://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/are-black-and-white-colorshttps://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-education/color-iq-testhttps://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/how-pantone-became-a-pop-culture-icon/414043/http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-do-different-people-see-the-same-colours-107972https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/my-life-as-a-woman-with-colorblindness.htmlhttps://medium.com/@terossjr/indigos-indignity-16cd7ad1f54ahttps://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gems-of-colour-pigments-of-the-%E2%80%98colourmen%E2%80%99https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/20203637http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/medieval.htmlhttps://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/newtons-color-theory-ca-1665-31931https://medium.com/a-history-of-color/the-debate-over-indigo-671a0154525ahttps://jezebel.com/the-history-of-pink-for-girls-blue-for-boys-5790638https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0beqeccEEFIhttp://ebdjournal.com/blog/health/mythbusting-colour-therapyhttps://neilpatel.com/blog/gender-and-color/https://theconversation.com/can-pink-really-pacify-102696https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140827-how-the-colour-red-warps-the-mind

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  • Purebred dogs

    Purebred dogs

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Music via Danosongs.

    Sources:

    https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domestication-photos-genetically-modified-food-naturalhttps://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-farm-animals-looked-like-before-breeding-2016-2?r=US&IR=T#/#turkeys-1https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/http://theconversation.com/canine-and-able-how-dogs-made-us-human-7394https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/services/public/breed/standard.aspx?id=1003https://brightside.me/wonder-animals/how-dog-breeds-have-changed-over-the-last-100-years-172705/http://www.dogbreedhealth.com/basset-hound/https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1146&context=facpubshttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/different-dog-breeds-same-species/https://ticau.com/pages/history/history.pdfhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/pedigree-dogs-breeding-crufts-german-shepherd-best-in-breedhttps://www.rspca.org.au/campaigns/puppy-farmshttps://www.rspcavic.org/buying-a-puppy-from-a-pet-shophttps://www.mic.com/p/is-buying-a-dog-from-a-breeder-really-that-bad-the-answer-isnt-as-clear-cut-as-you-think-17296618https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/is-it-ok-to-get-a-dog-from-a-breeder-not-a-shelter.htmlAlso, the 2008 BBC documentary, Pedigree Dogs Exposed, and its 2012 followup, Pedigree Dogs Exposed: Three Years On.
  • Breakfast

    Breakfast

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Sources:

    https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=cop-facbookshttps://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicatedhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-do-we-eat-cereal-for-breakfast-and-other-questions-about-american-meals-answered-1565858/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/what-is-breakfast/589411/https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/cereal-masturbation.aspxhttps://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/when-it-comes-to-fiber-cereal-fiber-may-be-your-best-choice-201102251535https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-marketers-invented-the-modern-version-of-breakfast/487130/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puILfPriFxEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLvVc1sS20https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/opium-war-1839-1842https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36781368https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37936349https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-partyhttps://www.diffordsguide.com/en-au/encyclopedia/1155/bws/english-breakfast-teahttps://www.bustle.com/articles/110861-how-old-is-coffee-the-first-caffeinated-beverages-might-be-1200-years-old-so-heres-ahttps://toriavey.com/history-kitchen/coffee-caffeinated-history/https://www.medibank.com.au/livebetter/be-magazine/food/the-history-of-orange-juice/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/misunderstanding-orange-juice-as-a-health-drink/283579/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2016.1209752?scroll=top&needAccess=true
  • Mathematical Models

    Mathematical Models

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Royalty free music from Danosongs.

    Read more about the Seven Bridges of Königsberg:

    https://www.mathsisfun.com/activity/seven-bridges-konigsberg.html

    Links about weather modelling:

    http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/about/about_access.shtmlhttp://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/bulletins/nmoc_bulletin.shtml

    More about the sad story of the Mars Climate Orbiter:

    https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-report/

    What's wrong with opinion polls:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/20/mathematics-does-not-lie-why-polling-got-the-australian-election-wronghttps://reason.com/2016/01/14/why-polls-dont-work/https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trouble-with-pollinghttps://theconversation.com/heres-how-to-make-opinion-polls-more-representative-and-honest-117405

    And how we don't grieve in five stages:

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130219-are-there-five-stages-of-griefhttps://blog.sevenponds.com/professional-advice/why-doesnt-everyone-go-through-the-five-stages-of-grief-an-interview-with-dr-paul-coleman-part-two
  • Generations

    Generations

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Royalty free music from Danosongs.

    Source links:

    https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/ask-steve-generation-gap-video

    https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/9e6bzr/the_myth_of_the_antiwar_baby_boomers_polled/

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/23043288?seq=1

    http://www.localhistories.org/toilets.html

    http://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/201/articles/27MannheimGenerations.pdf

    https://search.proquest.com/openview/d6c050ba2ec2da1f83c71a6dcec449de/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47867

    https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-people-have-always-complained-about-young-adults

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewjosuweit/2017/10/22/5-industries-millennials-are-killing-and-why/#543eb4d344e4

    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/comment-boomers-and-gen-y-aren-t-so-different

    https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/dont-call-us-millennials-because-were-not-20171220-h07qqo.html

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/tuna-makers-look-to-hook-younger-consumers-1543766400

    https://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/

    https://tcf.org/content/commentary/a-new-silent-majority-low-income-and-minority-millennials/?agreed=1

  • BMI

    BMI

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Apologies: I mispronounced Nick Trefethen's name. And possibly other names too. There was also an audio glitch at 24mins that's fixed now.

    Royalty free music from Danosongs

    Sources/Related Links:

    https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/jan/16/body-mass-index--discovered-by-a-belgian-astronomer-https://etherwave.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/hump-day-history-adolphe-quetelet-statistics-and-social-physics/https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/australias-health-2018/contents/bmi-where-do-you-fithttps://slate.com/technology/2009/07/why-are-doctors-still-measuring-obesity-with-the-body-mass-index.htmlhttps://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-useful-is-the-body-mass-index-bmi-201603309339https://www.self.com/story/weight-bias-and-health-carehttps://www.glamour.com/story/weight-stigma-is-keeping-patients-from-getting-the-care-they-needhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170803092015.htmhttps://www.who.int/social_determinants/sdh_definition/en/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/health/obese-patients-health-care.htmlhttps://healthfeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-discuss-widely-shared-huffington-post-article-everything-you-know-obesity-wrong-michael-hobbes/https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105761372351532900https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/19/16742884/weight-loss-bariatric-surgery-pros-cons-storieshttps://medium.com/the-establishment/my-friends-would-rather-have-their-guts-cut-open-than-be-like-me-95a33a96d400http://suethsayings.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-dark-side-of-gastric-sleeve.htmlhttps://www.healthline.com/health/what-its-like-to-live-with-atypical-anorexia#3
  • Time

    Time

    · Everything is Arbitrary

    Correction: although there were heliocentric theories (i.e. the Earth revolves around the sun) in antiquity, this was an unsettled matter until the Copernican Revolution.

    Source Links:

    https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-telling-time-55408https://www.timeanddate.com/time/how-do-atomic-clocks-work.htmlhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Hamacher-Thesis.pdfhttps://plumvillage.org/mindfulness-practice/mindful-apps/http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p266811/pdf/Vietnam.pdfhttps://abelamculture.wordpress.com/https://www.academia.edu/24249577/_Yam_Cycles_and_Timeless_Time_in_Melanesia._Ethnology_38_211-225_1999https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/theres-nothing-inherently-special-about-nye--except-uber-surge-pricing-20171230-h0bkg9.htmlhttps://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/persian-calendar.htmlhttps://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-calendar/https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policyhttps://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/30/244995264/spains-been-in-the-wrong-time-zone-for-seven-decadeshttps://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/china-only-has-one-time-zone-and-thats-a-problem/281136/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/samoa/8984423/Samoa-skips-a-day-as-it-crosses-international-date-line.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/daylight-savings-time-arizona-florida-spring-forward-science/https://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/the-strangest-oxford-tradition-of-all-making-sure-the-clocks-go-back-with-the-time-ceremony-8908472.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/tired-of-daylight-saving-time-these-states-trying-to-end-clock-changes/

    And books:

    David Graeber - Bullshit JobsSeneca - On The Shortness of Life

    Music credits:

    Elevate from bensound.comTime Perception from purple-planet.comRoyalty Free Music by ANtarcticbreeze at soundcloud.comTime Rider by | e s c p | https://escp-music.bandcamp.com, promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com