110: Horsepower & Makeup

What even is horsepower? Is it a silly unit of measurement, or actually an underrated marvel?? And how old is makeup? Why do we do it? And what historic looks can you steal for your next night out?

What are the flaws in scientific publishing, who's responsible, and how can we fix it?

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Images we talk about:

Papyrus Image
Fish Palette
Patch Portrait
Painting of Two Ladies

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:15) Horsepower
(00:48:26) Makeup
(01:39:07) Outro

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We also learn about: I’m taking horse pills to get their powers, we can answer questions without getting klaxonned, abbreviated for french reasons, the meter is 1 ten millionth the distance from the north to south pole, I’m going to be talking about power “oh god”, power is the movement of a mass over time, you’ll notice nowhere in that definition did I mention horses, James perfects the steam engine, you can’t just say “hey this engine will get us to the industrial revoltuion” you have to sell it in horses, come up with your own unit of power dweeb, a horse can produce 15 horsepower,  you’re about to have a lot more nickels, there was a metric and imperial horsepower, all the international names for hosepower, watt SI unit is on first base? the father son and the holy ghost of electronics (the amp, volt, and watt), we didn’t have a unified unit for power before horsepower, Thomas Edison measured lightbulb efficacy by horsepower, IT WASN’T AN IRONIC CHOICE IT WAS CAUSE AND EFFECT, this isn’t a podcast it’s a slumber party, Caroline and Ella’s metallic blue eyeliner/facepaint, webster’s definition is somehow too broad and too narrow, prehistoric pigemtns may have been body paint, Ella’s surprisingly informative ancient egyptian ASMR video, from kohl to green malachite, caroline hiding the sexy bits of the papyrus from us, this makes my tummy hurt, fish palettes, ancient greek prostitues were required to wear lipstick, modern man or ro-man, a woman buys lotions and perfumes with cheating in mind, Elizabeth I’s lead and vinegar makeup, painting on fake veins, plucking hairs to match the queen’s forhead, the optical illusion dot, Caroline’s favorite fad: beauty patches, it’s so wild how excluded darker complexions are in the market when this topic started in ancient egypt, perhaps makeup imitates the moment of an orgasm, im inventing new sexism: men are blurry, we finally just asked women why they wear makeup, wearing makeup because we have to vs we want to, for other or ourselves, the ro-manosphere.

Sources:
History of the SI Units
History of Imperial Units
The Fan-Tastic paper: The Origin of the Horsepower Unit
James' Encyclopedia Britannica Biography
Horserpower From a Horse Paper
Siemen's Address for the Watt Unit
Edison Papers Measuring Lightbulbs in Horsepower
NOAA Lightning Stats
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Merriam Webster
Makeup Definition
Blog: Bodypainting
Why Do We Do That? Makeup
Archeology Journal: Prehistoric Body Painting- 2000
Independant: 300000 year old body art
Smithsonian: Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave
2017 Paper: Painted in red: In search of alternative explanations for EuropeanPalaeolithic cave art
Britannica: Makeup
Blog: History of Makeup
Wiki: Beauty and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
NHM Utah: Makeup in Ancient Egypt
Blog: Ancient Egyptian make-up
Book: Ovid on Cosmetics
University of Kent: The Painful Art of Being a Roman Woman
Wiki: Cosmetics in Ancient Rome
The Guardian: Medieval Christian Misogyny Shapes How We Judge Women Today, Says Scholar
Royal Museums Greenwich: Elizabeth I: Fashion and Beauty
DMDA: You Must Get a Patch
Auction Listing: Portrait of two ladies. Patch marks to their faces
Wiki: Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies
Smithsonian: Make-up
Preston Park: The History of Victorian Makeup
YouGov: One in Six Women Wear Makeup at the Gym
YouGov: How Often - and why - American Women wear makeup
YouGov: One in Twenty British Men Now Wear Makeup
2022 Paper: The contrasting effects of body image and self-esteem in the makeup usage
Blog: Why Do We Chase The Post-O Glow?
2015 Paper: Facial coloration tracks changes in women's estradiol
2015 Paper: Cosmetics Alter Biologically-Based Factors of Beauty: Evidence from Facial Contrast
ABC News: Makeup Makes Women Seem More Competent, Study Says
2024 Paper: The Influence of Makeup on Individual Self-Identity: An Exploratory Study
2016 Paper: Does make-up make you feel smarter? The “lipstick effect” extended to academic achievement

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