Curiosity Daily Podcast: Juneteenth’s Origins, Change Your Routine to Be Happier, and Why Americans Don’t Say “Maths”
Learn about Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of the end of slavery in the US; how switching up your routine can make you happier; and the grammar behind why Americans don’t say “maths” and do say “LEGOs.
June 19, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of the end of slavery by Ashley Hamer
- Juneteenth World Wide Celebration (2020). Juneteenth.com. https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
- What Is Juneteenth? (2013, January 16). The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/
- Criss, D. (2019, June 19). Source: National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/juneteenth-state-holidays-trnd/index.html
New and diverse experiences are linked to greater happiness (so switch it up!) by Kelsey Donk
- New and diverse experiences linked to enhanced happiness, new study shows. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/nyu-nad051520.php
- Heller, A. S., Shi, T. C., Ezie, C. E. C., Reneau, T. R., Baez, L. M., Gibbons, C. J., & Hartley, C. A. (2020). Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal–striatal functional connectivity. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0636-4
Why did America take the s off of maths (and put it on LEGOs) by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Randy)
- Waldman, K. (2014, December 8). Why Do Brits Say Maths and Americans Say Math? Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/math-versus-maths-how-americans-and-brits-deploy-the-collective-noun.html
- Murphy, L. (2010). Math(s). Separated by a Common Language. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/03/maths.html
- Murphy, L. (2006) Count/mass nouns: potato, egg, tax, sport, Lego. Separated by a Common Language. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/07/countmass-nouns-potato-egg-tax-sport.html
- How to Make Product Names Plural. (2016, May 5). Quick and Dirty Tips. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-make-product-names-plural
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