The Avocado Proust Podcast Avocado Proust Podcast

Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).

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Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Highlights from this week's group chat include:
Science's latest lab-grown ears Why humans evolution led to concealed ovulationsRe-thinking the 40 hour work weekIs love really blind like the tv show says it is?
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).
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This week's references


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Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Highlights from this week's group chat include:
Wood no longer only grows on treesIngenious young people solving a delicious burrito-based problemBrand new guidance on cervical healthThe monarchy and whether we should keep them or not
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).
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This week's references
Podcast on DNA ancestry testing: https://open.spotify.com/episode/37xf6uymVTCthS2DCJR2fO?si=sg7ehQGSQna_99QIcNInGw
Akala's superb book on race and class in modern day Britain:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/natives/akala/9781473661233


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Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Highlights from this week's group chat include:
A guest appearance by Louis Theroux...sort ofHow screen time actually makes you smarterThe foundations of telepathy according to science Boundaries - what they are and how to set them
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).
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This week's references
A study on the benefits of screen time: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/video-games-intelligence-children-study/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
A podcast on science's take on telepathy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bUgHo67577YOM4WaQ7ezM?si=f23913637ff04c33
Coffee's benefits on the microbiome: https://joinzoe.com/post/coffee-gut-health


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Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Highlights from this week's group chat include:
Making male pattern baldness sexy againThe official monetary value of grandkidsSpain's approach to equity over equalityDo opposites really attract?
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).
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This week's references
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220308-opposites-attract-why-the-adage-is-obsolete
https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/17/do-opposites-attract/ 
https://www.instagram.com/siblingsordating/
Equity vs Equality meme: https://interactioninstitute.org/illustrating-equality-vs-equity/


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Welcome to Avocado Proust! We're Jeeves and Lumes, two millennial pals trying to make sense of the week gone by. We love tech, pop culture, and science but really we'll talk about anything and everything.
Highlights from this week's group chat include:
Dairy shameJapan's winning cure for writer's blockHow your period data could land you in jailWhy pre-nups are the ultimate symbol of love and commitment
Join the conversation and share your thoughts, dilemmas, comments, and ideas at avocadoproust@gmail.com or find us on our socials: Jeeves on Twitter (@jivanvirdee) & Lumes on Instagram (@lumeelumes).
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This week's references
The pre-nup podcast
Jeeves' newsletter on how your period data might land you in jail
Article on the downside of dystopian comparisons to today's abortion debate
Blac Chyna's child support woes
Article on foetuses not being people by some Jewish interpretations


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