Andrea Jones-Rooy

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1,079 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Sep

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know if any of you are planning on protesting during the solar eclipse coming up, but I think it could be a good moment to do it.

Yeah.

Yes, there you go.

There you go.

Well, the other piece of this that I guess I was just excited about is that and maybe you all are reading this in the news, too, is that most of the social science research I find on this and it's valuable and it's fine.

But most of the research that I'm seeing is, oh, total solar eclipse are a wonderful time for humanity to come together.

And The Washington Post had an article this week that said, you know,

Despite our differences, and it's a polarized country, and blah, blah, blah, we can all experience the same eclipse, and won't that bring harmony to our country?

And there's a study a couple of years ago that even evaluated tweets, and people who were in the path of totality in 2017 were more likely to tweet things related to awe and shared experiences and humanity.

And those just sort of seem like, I guess, I guess that's fine.

And I guess that's good.

And of course, I love that it's like an awesome event and people describe it as life changing.

And that's wonderful.

But but as far as social science goes, I find it more kind of descriptive and slightly obvious.

Maybe maybe I'm being jaded.

But but this to me, just the fact that they were able to leverage this into a natural experiment felt amazing.

Very exciting, and I wonder what else we could do, you know, take advantage of events, natural events that are largely, if not exclusively, orthogonal to human experiences and see what we can learn about humans and societies.

As you were describing it, Bob, I kept finding myself thinking about all those salt containers that I've seen over the years that say, this salt contains iodine, a necessary nutrient.

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