68: Phrenology & Lego

It's an infamous pseudoscience, but what haven't we learned from the rise and fall of Phrenology? And Lego are ubiquitous, which means there's a lot to learn and a lot of nuance for our love of these stackable bricks.

Things we Talk About: The Phrenology Pamphelet The Lego Cullen House Lego Seismometer CERN Lego Device The Brick Experiment Channel

Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:32) Phrenology (00:56:34) Lego (01:38:25) Outro

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We also learn about: Get the lego phrenology set now! just listing all the lego sets, academic racism, the head wasn’t always so important, the Cardiocentric Hypothesis, Minds Behind the Brain, ancient egyptians just tossed the brain, Aristotle thought the brain was a radiator to keep the heart from overheating, the brain doesn't Look like it does anything, Galen suggested the brain might be important actually, sperm for brains, Caroline enjoys tricking us by saying a person’s good ideas first, Cephelocentric Hypothesis, mapping the brain in the 1600s, NOT related to the frenulum, buzz feed phrenology quizzes, flexing your brain so hard it breaks your skull, Tom is proven to be not funny, our desire for personality tests and fortune telling, travelling phrenology salesmen, there shouldn’t be medical celebrities, phrenology was a passion of the elites, reading an actualy travelling phrenology sheet, “differently bumped”, edibnugrh fringe was a lot less fun when it was the phrenology capital, we checked and it’s actually mozambique have the best brains - just gotta take the L on this one, Marie Jean Pierre Flourens kicked ass and helped kill Phrenology with real science, it comes in like a fad and leaves like a fad, I only liked phrenology before it was cool, the scammers are making our racism look bad! we’re not harsh enough about phrenology, “repoliticizing” phrenology, when it’s built its just one thing but when its pieces it can be anything, shirtless lego jacob, 20,000 lego sets, Play Well - Le go, after enough fires lets just stop using wood, stud and tube design, the lego To Kill a Mockingbird set, mindstorm was ahead of its time, Caroline’s got their lego driver’s license from legoland, lego nerd culture, adults without kids spend more, “transbranding”, Ella had to read so much corporate jargon but it’s impossible to not talk about their business strategies , lego seismograph outside the eras tour, CERN lego, their story is better than ours dad, instructions for a lego skin cell printer, LEGO: expensive for toys - cheap for science equipment! David Aguilla’s prosthetic project, Tracey Williams’ Lego Lost at Sea project, plastic’s resilience is a positive and a negative, lego replay and reuse, this is a trust test of nuance and both things being true at the same time.

Sources: Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by Stanley Finger The University of Queensland: Understanding the Brain: A Brief hHistory Brain Beats Heart: A Cross-Cultural Reflection Merriam Webster: Phrenology The Antlantic: The Shape of Your Head and the Shape of Your Mind Britannica: Phrenology Smithsonian Insider: Study Finds Facial Structure of Men and Women Has Become More Similar Over Time 2005 Paper: The Reliability of Sex Determination of Skeletons From Forensic Context in the Balkans The Guardian: Archaeology’s Sexual Revolution 2018 Paper: An Empirical, 21st Century Evaluation of Phrenology Carnegie Mellon University: Phrenology 2021 Paper: Phrenology and the Average Person, 1840–1940 The University of Edinburgh: Phrenology and Edinburgh Gina Rippon: When Bigger Isn’t Always Better: How History Got The Female Brain Wrong Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality The Guardian: Django Unchained and the racist science of phrenology 2007 Paper: Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867): An Extraordinary Scientist of His Time --- Lego Twilight Cullen House Brick Architect: Number of Lego Bricks Brickset: Number of Lego Sets Brick Economy Most Valuable Brick Economy Most Expensive Wikipedia: Legoland Lego History Chapter by Lars Konzack Lego Mindstorms Wikipedia What is Transmedia? Article Lego and Transmedia Research Lego And “Transbranding” Blogpost Lego Seismometer Kit Lego Seismometer Youtube Clip Guardian Article: David Aguilar Lego Prostheses Hand Solo Youtube Channel Lego Table From CERN Article on Other Lego Scientific Tools! Cardiff University: Lego Bioprinter Lego 3D Printer Paper Lego Inventions Video (Pancake Flipper and Super 8 Projector) Lego T-Rex Sculpture Lego Every Day Stuff Ideas Lego Lost at Sea Twitter Lego Shark Tweet Tracey Williams Book: Adrift: Lego Lost at Sea Tokio Express Crash Context Article Tracey Williams: Lego at Sea Paper Statista Lego CO2 Emissions Lego: 99% Outside Emissions Lego Replay Initiative BBC: Lego from Recycled Plastic 2018 Wired: Lego from Recycled Plastic 2024

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Lydbog: 29. august 2024