Brain Junk

From poker to games played to pass the time, those 52 cards are so ubiquitous it's hard to figure just when we started using them. We go all the way back to ancient China for a possible origin of cards.images: Cloisters Deck from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and and example of cards from today from pixabayShow Notes:The strange coincidence of the Instagram guy & 52 card decksMetropolitan Museum of Art: The Cloisters Playing CardsAtlas Obscura: Playing cards around the world and through the agesJSTOR: an excerpt from The Game of Leaves: An Inquiry into the Origin of Chinese Playing CardsWikipedia: Chinese Playing CardsTranscript:[00:00:03] Speaker A: Hey there. Trace here. So Amy and I have a couple projects coming up over the next couple months. She's taking some classes. She's got to do homework. I've got some projects, a fiction podcast that I'm working on writing, and a novel that I'm working on editing. And we need a little more space, a little more time. So we're not stopping brain junk. Absolutely