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Of all the archetypal American figures that weve lost over the last century or so, none is missed more dearly by me, at least than the itinerant medicine man. Rushing from town to town with his case of useless elixirs, patiently erecting his wooden platforms, standing atop these platforms and barking outrageous claims on behalf of his various snake oils鈥攊t m yeezy slide ustve been quite a sight. Of course this figure persists鈥攊n the form of the right-wing junk-supplement-peddler, the bogus Covid-cure merchant, etc. etc. Throughout U.S. history each of these figures has found a wildl air max 96 y receptive audience despite selling useless garbage at best and/or literal poison at worst . Our question, for this weeks Giz Asks, is: why What is it about these miracle cures鈥攆or cancer or Covid, depression or dysentery鈥攖hat people, some of them otherwise level-headed, find so appealing Below, our experts weigh in. Kimberly Rios Associate Professor, Psychology, Ohio University People may believe in miracle cures in part because doing so helps to fulfill powe adidas yeezy rful psychological needs. For example, human beings are motivated to seek structure and meaning in their environments. Because miracle cures offer explanations for unlikely or implausible phenomena e.g., a person suddenly recovering from illness or disease , we may gravitate toward these explanations in an attempt to make sense of an otherwise uncertain and unpredictable world. Indeed, social psychological research demonstrates that when ind Afgt Netflix s Castlevania Is Getting a Spin-Off Series
The weirdest thing about Oscar life used to be his name. It Oscar Wilde. Then he moved to Podunk, Oklahoma, a quiet town that turned out to be 8230;not so quiet. Now he has to deal with ghosts, witches, and werewolves, and that before the local mythological creatures start crawling out of the woodwork. Pascalle Lepas ; webcomic Wilde Life opens with our hero moving from Chicago to Podunk, probably expecting some peace and quiet, maybe a little small-town charm. But when the lady at the gas station says the place is a ghost town, she being literal. Oscar quickly discovers the secret of his creaky old house, and just as he finds himself coping and quite well with the idea of the supernatural, someth crocs ing else 鈥?something more dangerous 鈥?shows up quite literally on his doorstep. Oscar is as far as we know an ordinary human, and it going to take some quick thinking to deal with all of these dangerous creatures. Wilde Life contains some nods to old world myths, but a perusal of Lepas ; deviantART gallery shows some of the more regional legends that the comic will eventually ex reebok classic plore. While the concept art is tantalizingly beautiful, the real appeal of reebok de Wilde Life is its characters. There is a great deal of charm in the interactions between the characters 鈥?the ones who get along like happy roommates and the ones with a bit more acid in their relationships. And with all of the mythological characters on the horizon, we
