Why Women Started Shaving, Universal Features of Music, and Split-Brain Studies
Learn about why music really is universal to humans; what studying \u201csplit-brain\u201d patients taught scientists about the brain; and when in human history society decided that women should shave their bodies.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how studying \u201csplit-brain\u201d patients taught scientists strange things about the brain: https://curiosity.com/topics/studying-split-brain-patients-taught-scientists-strange-things-about-the-brain-curiosity
Additional sources:
- Universal features of music around the world | ScienceDaily \u2014 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191122113300.htm
- Universality and diversity in human song | Science \u2014 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6468/eaax0868
- The world in a song | Science \u2014 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6468/944
- Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture | Journal of American Culture \u2014 https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/brundage13/files/2013/09/Caucasian-Female-Body-Hair-and-American-Culture.pdf
- The History of Female Hair Removal | Women\u2019s Museum of California \u2014 https://womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/the-history-of-female-hair-removal/
- Why women are growing out their body hair and what razor companies are doing about it | USA Today \u2014 https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/09/07/women-body-hair-why-more-women-shaving-less-beauty-trend/2195286001/
- A Nick In Time: How Shaving Evolved Over 100,000 Years Of History | Gizmodo \u2014 https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/a-nick-in-time-how-shaving-evolved-over-100000-years-of-history/
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