Guest appearance on Byt Sovremennikom (Being a Contemporary), Radio Grad Petrov, with Darya Zavyalova.

On the phenomenon of omens and superstitions from a scientific perspective: why around a third of Russians treat omens as part of everyday life, their communicative function in culture, and why the brain is evolutionarily inclined to seek patterns. With references to Robert Sapolsky’s research and Skinner box experiments.

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