Why do people love rituals so much?

This week, a rerun from the Nonsense Wellspring (archive)!

Again, Jess, Aaron, and Joey talk about medicine, Lunar New Year, habits, disease, leg washing, and flossing. They don’t talk about Jane's Addiction. 

references 

• twitterpated 
• Yale School of Medicine: Phenylephrine, a Common Decongestant, Is Ineffective, Say FDA Advisors. It’s Not Alone 
• Gregorian calendar 
• Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies by Colin Renfrew 
• National Geographic: "Why do humans embrace rituals? Disease and danger may be at the root of the behaviors." 
• cephalocaudal 
• Gonggong 
• Not-so-late-breaking: OSU microbiologists propose updates to the Linnaean System 
• Recapitulation theory