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Listener Mail: Lousy Smarch Weather

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The Human Minstrel Cycle

I don't know if anybody has any direct evidence of that. But it seems like inherently a very plausible biological basis for that kind of organizing principle. There are some fairly universal human experiences that are going to be happening in cycles on the order of, you know, some group of days that subdivides the lunar months. And then, of course, we do know that in different cultures there would be rituals and and practices associated with minstrel cycles. So i think some things seem at least a prima face plausible.

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