In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.