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Tue. 12/27 - BEST OF: Gendered Food, The Brontë's Graveyard Water, & Mosquito Annihilation

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We kick off the final week of the year with a look back at some of the show’s best segments. So for today, from the archives, we’ve got how and why food itself became gendered––y’know, men eat red meat, women eat salads. Women watch their weight and men eat huge portions of the most ridiculous Mountain Dew-laced Dorito monstrosities they can come up with. Plus, what would happen if we just… killed all the mosquitos on the planet? And, from 2021, the little-known reason that all the Brontës died so tragically young. Links: Wed. 10/26/22 - Men Eat Red Meat, Women Eat Salads –– But Why? (Cool Stuff Ride Home) How steak became manly and salads became feminine (The Conversation) Yogurt Is for Women, Fried Chicken Is for Men (The Atlantic) The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy (An Injustice Mag) Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure by Samira Kawash  Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age (CUNY Academic Works) Social Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and the Metaphysics of Race (The Journal of Negro Education)  Mon. 08/08/22 - Do We REALLY Need Mosquitoes? (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Ecology: A world without mosquitoes (Nature, 2010) The 24 deadliest animals on Earth, ranked (CNET, 2019) Mosquitoes might be humanity’s greatest foe. Should we get rid of them? (Vox, 2019) Q&A: What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Disappeared? (NY Times, 2015) Should we kill every mosquito on Earth? (Live Science) Kill All the Mosquitoes?! (Smithsonian Mag, 2016) State of Florida Approves Oxitec Mosquito Technology for Continuation of Pilot Project in the Keys (Keys Mosquito Project) Tue. 05/18/21 - The Brontë Family (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water. (Literary Hub) Sanitary report on Haworth, home to the Brontës (British Library)  The Brontës are alive and unwell in Haworth (The Guardian) Was Patrick Brontë the Dr. Fauci of his Time? (Illumination) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's tuesday december 27th twenty twenty. I'm Jackson Bird today. We kick off the final week of the year with a look back at some of the show's best segments. Best is an entirely subjective and probably not accurate phrase here. More like segments that stood out to me and which I remember

0:56.5

generating a decent amount of discussion at the time. And also, while I hope to make this an

1:01.9

annual tradition for the last week of the year, since this is the first time I'm doing this,

1:06.5

instead of just looking back at this past year, I've gone deep in the archives and also pulled out

1:12.3

a couple of stories from 2020 and 2021. Now, since some of the better stories tend to veer a bit

1:19.9

longer, this week's episodes will likewise be a bit longer than usual. Think of it as

1:25.9

balancing out this shorter holiday week.

1:29.3

Now, I had a blast digging into the archives and remembering the sheer breadth of topics I've

1:35.2

covered these past three years. There was so much that I'd forgotten. I mean, six and a half

1:40.7

hundred episodes will do that to you. So whether some of these stories are a

1:45.2

refresher for you like they were for me or you're a newer listener hearing them for the first time,

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I hope you enjoy our 2022 best of week. So for today from the archives, we've got how and why

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food itself became gendered.

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You know, men eat red meat, women eat salads, women watch their weight,

2:06.8

and men eat huge portions of the most ridiculous mountain-due-laced Dorito monstrosities they can come up with.

2:13.8

Plus, what would happen if we just killed all the mosquitoes on the planet?

2:19.8

And from 2021, the little-known reason that all the Brontes died so tragically young.

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