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Presenting 'Throughline': The Nostalgia Bone

Presenting 'Throughline': The Nostalgia Bone

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The global pandemic has spawned a different type of epidemic, one
of an entirely different nature: a nostalgia outbreak. Longing for
'simpler times' and 'better days', many of us have been turning to
90s dance playlists, TV sitcoms, and sports highlights. We're
looking for comfort and safety in the permanence of the past, or at
least, what we think the past was. But, when it first appeared,
nostalgia itself wasn't considered a feeling; it was a deadly
disease. In this episode from our friends at NPR's Throughline
podcast, Laine Kaplan-Levenson traces the history of nostalgia from
its origins as an illness to the dominating emotion of our
time.

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