• Donkey Cabbages

  • Nov 10 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
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Donkey Cabbages

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  • We take on Donkey Cabbages - one of the most bizarre and barmy tales we've heard in a while.

    Not only do we get witches, giants and magic clouds, we also discover a new concept - the minimal counterintuitive hypothesis. What makes a story stick? Some scientists think they've found the answer...

    We then briefly look at man-donkeys in storytelling, say hi to Shakespeare, and meet the long-forgotten German folkhero Fortunatus.

    Here's a link to the paper we discuss in the episode: Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives

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    Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko

    Other Music: Grieg's Holberg Suite, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston // Massenet's Toccata Jules Massenet, performed Jean Dube
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