Astrology: It's All Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt
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Astrology: It's All Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt
What to Expect:
Horoscopes are mostly harmless bits of fun. But how do they work? Why do we believe them? And why does the episode title imply harm? Learn more and another vocab term.
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Links and Resources:
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2. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/11/42552/
3. https://www.britannica.com/topic/astrology/Purposes-of-astrology
4. https://www.thehoroscope.co/birthday-analyser/January-18-1986-horoscope-and-zodiac-sign-meanings-13176.html
5. https://jungleworks.com/technology-and-the-2-2-billion-astrology-market-why-is-online-astrology-getting-so-popular/#:~:text=Blog%20Panther-,Technology%20%26%20the%20%242.2%20Billion%20Astrology%20Market%3A%20Why%20is,Online%20Astrology%20Getting%20so%20Popular%3F&text=A%20study%20revealed%20that%20the,in%20the%20United%20States%20alone!
6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886921007686
7. https://www.academia.edu/33516637/The_Negative_Effects_of_Excessive_Belief_in_Astrology
8. https://ijmaberjournal.org/index.php/ijmaber/article/view/111
9. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210205-why-astrology-is-so-popular-now
10. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1978.1.192639
11. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1997.81.3.1035
12. https://time.com/5867647/nasa-zodiac-star/
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