Some Protective Flare for Your Suspenders
Happy Beginning of Halloween, Nature Nerds!
This week, we have a special Limerick by listener Bob Potts to share! Jen does a downer science news and Megan attempts to bring it back up with campfire stories and social science research from Polly Wiessner about the Ju/'hoansi people of the Dobe Region.
Organization to support: https://campfire.org/
Started as Camp Fire Girls in 1910,and founded by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife, Charlotte Vetter Gulick. They believed girls deserved the outdoor learning experiences that boys had and wanted to help “guide young people on their journey to self-discovery.”
Camp Fire is a national inclusive youth development organization that connects young people to themselves, others, and nature. They have 1300 program sites across 25 states and Washington DC.
Do you need daily stories to check out- Storycorps and Humans of New York!
References:
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/real-ghost-stories-for-campfires/
https://www.science.org/news/2014/09/ancient-campfires-led-rise-storytelling
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/39/14027
