The other day, I read a fascinating piece on the relationship between politics, culture, and disease (thanks to the astonishingly smart Amanda Pustilnik for pointing me at it in the first place.) The basic idea was this: could cultural behaviors like xenophobia, washing practices, and a focus on physical attractiveness be tied to risks of disease?
Jungle surplus wetware
The other day, I read a fascinating piece on the relationship between politics, culture, and disease (thanks to the astonishingly smart Amanda Pustilnik for pointing me at it in the first place.) The basic idea was this: could cultural behaviors like xenophobia, washing practices, and a focus on physical attractiveness be tied to risks of disease?