44. The Catholic Church banning gym memberships and GameStop

In this episode, you'll find, among other things: D mansplaining about his gym membership, WEIRD by Joe Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, when and why the Catholic banned cousin marriages (up to the sixth cousin removed) and what that led to, GameStop/vaccines/Robinhood and non-rivalrous goods, and the why holding two contradictory thoughts in your head is like understanding that there's a positive and a negative pole and a battery, and finally, some thoughts about QAnon and The Daily-episode on the QAnon conspiracy theory. The episode was recorded on 210131 Read the original paper on WEIRD: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1601785 Listen to The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/podcasts/the-daily/qanon-conspiracy-theory-trump.html?