Fri. 01/28 - Why the Metaverse Doesn't Have Legs
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cocky ride home for friday January 28th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:42.9 | Catalonia is set to pardon a thousand people who were condemned for witchcraft 400 years ago. |
| 0:50.3 | Plus, a mysterious object discovered in our galaxy has astronomers a bit stumped. |
| 0:56.7 | And why don't avatars in the metaverse have legs? |
| 1:00.7 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:06.2 | So yesterday, I talked briefly about vagrancy laws and how in certain places, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, you could be arrested for vagrancy for doing basically anything that people in power didn't like. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, a few hundred years before that, and still in some places, you would instead be charged with witchcraft, especially if you were a woman, |
| 1:29.9 | although not exclusively. And apparently, tis the season for finally pardoning everyone accused |
| 1:36.9 | of being a witch back in the day. Following similar initiatives proposed in Scotland, |
| 1:42.2 | Norway, and even by a group of middle schoolers in |
| 1:44.8 | Salem, Massachusetts, Catalonia has just passed a resolution to pardon up to a thousand people |
| 1:51.2 | who were condemned for witchcraft four centuries ago. The Guardian shared some interesting |
| 1:56.3 | historical context, quote, it's estimated that between 1580 and 1630, about 50,000 people were condemned |
| 2:03.5 | to death for witchcraft across Europe, of whom about 80% were women. While witch hunts raged |
| 2:10.3 | across northern Europe, in Spain, the Inquisition had its hands full, rooting out heresy among |
| 2:15.7 | Jews and Muslims who had been forcibly converted |
| 2:18.4 | to Christianity. The Inquisition was skeptical about allegations of witchcraft. Catalonia was the |
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