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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: How Superstitions Can Reduce Anxiety
Description: Learn how superstitions can actually reduce anxiety, why rebooting can often fix computer problems, and why the first full dinosaur skeleton ever found is finally being studied 160 years later.
How Superstitions Can Actually Reduce Anxiety by Reuben Westmaas
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