Explore "culturalsymbols" with insightful episodes like "The Nutcracker", "Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky", "Hot Dog Eating Contests: A Distinctly American Tradition", "Listener Mail: Gravy, Sinkholes and Soviet Sci-Fi" and "Chinese Zodiac: Superstition, Economics & Destiny" from podcasts like ""Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Stuff You Should Know", "Consider This from NPR", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Stuff To Blow Your Mind"" and more!
The decorative holiday nutcracker has become a staple of holiday decor and it also constitutes a specialized tool, so in this Christmas themed invention episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the gadget’s European history, its analogs in other cultures and the general history of humans and other animals cracking nuts.
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Face it, when you spill salt your life goes totally off the rails, maybe even forever. Fortunately, we humans stumbled upon the one reliable way to counteract that bad luck by tossing some over our left shoulder.
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As we celebrate Chinese New Year and enter the year of the fire rooster, join Robert and Joe for an encore Stuff to Blow Your Mind exploration of the Chinese zodiac and some interesting studies related to its impact on birth rates, economics and individual destiny. As always, you can take astrology with a grain of salt, but the impact on human behavior and culture is undeniable.
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