The Seven Deadlies: Sloth

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2012

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Sloth: When does mere laziness become moral failure? When does apathy descend into sloth? In this episode, Julie and Robert tackle one final deadly sin, traveling through both Dante's purgatory and the neural pathways of the human mind. Painting by Jacque

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0:00.0	Hi, Jennifer Lopez here with the new season of My Overcomfort Podcast.
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1:34.7	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:43.2	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
1:45.8	And my name is Julie Douglas. And we are back with our final
1:48.5	episode in our series of seven deadly sins. I think it's fitting that it's sloft.
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