Early Career Choices Influence Your Personality, Why We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and Psychedelic Effects from Placebos

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the Battle of Puebla, the real reason why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo; how placebos of psychedelics can have psychedelic effects; and how early career choices may influence your personality.

What You Think You Know About Cinco De Mayo Is Wrong by Reuben Westmaas

History.com Editors. (2010, March 3). Outnumbered Mexican army defeats French at Battle of Puebla. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cinco-de-mayo
Battle of Puebla | Mexican-French history [1862] | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Puebla

Placebos of psychedelics can have psychedelic effects by Grant Currin

The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: tripping on nothing? (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/mu-tpe033020.php
Olson, J. A., Suissa-Rocheleau, L., Lifshitz, M., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. L. (2020). Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors. Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05464-5

Early career choices appear to influence personality by Kelsey Donk

Study: Early career choices appear to influence personality. (2018). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-sec121018.php
Golle, J., Rose, N., Göllner, R., Spengler, M., Stoll, G., Hübner, N., Rieger, S., Trautwein, U., Lüdtke, O., Roberts, B. W., & Nagengast, B. (2018). School or Work? The Choice May Change Your Personality. Psychological Science, 30(1), 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618806298

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.2	I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.2	Today you learn about the real reason why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo,
0:11.7	how placebo's of psychedelics can have psychedelic effects, and how early career
0:16.8	choices may influence your personality.
0:19.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.4	Today is the 5th of May, also known as Cinco de Mayo.
0:25.0	Cody, do you know why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo?
0:28.0	I've heard it's Mexican Independence Day?
0:30.0	Nope, guess again.
0:32.0	Well, I believe it's some sort of major holiday in Mexico, right?
0:36.8	Wrong again. Seguonimoi actually isn't even as big of a deal in Mexico as it is in other countries.
0:43.0	Well, then, where are we celebrating?
0:46.0	Well, I'm glad you asked.
0:48.0	So Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla,
0:52.0	which happened in 1862. That's about 50 years after Mexican independence.
0:57.0	While the American Civil War was unfolding in the north, Mexico wasn't doing so well itself. It was having financial troubles and
1:05.8	ended up defaulting on its debts to European governments, including France, and French
1:11.2	Emperor Napoleon III responded.
1:14.0	No, not the Napoleon, this was his nephew.
1:17.0	Napoleon the third dispatched what was then the world's largest army to Mexico,
1:22.0	so they'd start to pay up.
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