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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 PampheletThe Lego Cullen HouseLego SeismometerCERN Lego DeviceThe Brick Experiment ChannelTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:32) Phrenology(00:56:34) Lego(01:38:25) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!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 FingerThe University of Queensland: Understanding the Brain: A Brief hHistoryBrain Beats Heart: A Cross-Cultural ReflectionMerriam Webster: PhrenologyThe Antlantic: The Shape of Your Head and the Shape of Your MindBritannica: PhrenologySmithsonian Insider: Study Finds Facial Structure of Men and Women Has Become More Similar Over Time2005 Paper: The Reliability of Sex Determination of Skeletons From Forensic Context in the BalkansThe Guardian: Archaeology’s Sexual Revolution2018 Paper: An Empirical, 21st Century Evaluation of PhrenologyCarnegie Mellon University: Phrenology2021 Paper: Phrenology and the Average Person, 1840–1940The University of Edinburgh: Phrenology and EdinburghGina Rippon: When Bigger Isn’t Always Better: How History Got The Female Brain WrongAuguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual EqualityThe Guardian: Django Unchained and the racist science of phrenology2007 Paper: Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867): An Extraordinary Scientist of His Time---Lego Twilight Cullen HouseBrick Architect: Number of Lego BricksBrickset: Number of Lego SetsBrick Economy Most ValuableBrick Economy Most ExpensiveWikipedia: LegolandLego History Chapter by Lars KonzackLego Mindstorms WikipediaWhat is Transmedia? ArticleLego and Transmedia ResearchLego And “Transbranding” BlogpostLego Seismometer KitLego Seismometer Youtube ClipGuardian Article: David Aguilar Lego ProsthesesHand Solo Youtube ChannelLego Table From CERNArticle on Other Lego Scientific Tools!Cardiff University: Lego BioprinterLego 3D Printer PaperLego Inventions Video (Pancake Flipper and Super 8 Projector)Lego T-Rex SculptureLego Every Day Stuff IdeasLego Lost at Sea TwitterLego Shark TweetTracey Williams Book: Adrift: Lego Lost at SeaTokio Express Crash Context ArticleTracey Williams: Lego at Sea PaperStatista Lego CO2 EmissionsLego: 99% Outside EmissionsLego Replay InitiativeBBC: Lego from Recycled Plastic 2018Wired: Lego from Recycled Plastic 2024