The science of schadenfreude! The Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom! Tonya Harding! Drug-induced fatal car accidents! All this plus exploding breast implants! In our 6th episode on the seven deadly sins, Caustic Soda looks at the green-eyed monster: Envy!
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I work at a second hand book seller. Today as I’m listening to the Envy podcast, one of the warehouse employees came into ask about a book that wouldn’t scan in properly…
Envy by Sandra Brown
http://www.amazon.com/Envy-Sandra-Brown/dp/0446527130
EERIE!
I’m surprised you guys didn’t discuss “Single White Female” in the pop culture section. That’s a classic envy-related plotline.
I’ve never seen it, but you’re totally right.
You guys make me mental sometimes. Instead of going on for 22 minutes about WHY anyone would ever want/synthesize oxytocin, if you’d just read the next paragraph in the wikipedia article you were reciting, you’d have gotten a doozy of an answer:
Oxytocin is best known for roles in female reproduction: 1) it is released in large amounts after distension of the cervix and uterus during labor, and 2) after stimulation of the nipples, facilitating birth and breastfeeding. Recent studies have begun to investigate oxytocin’s role in various behaviors, including orgasm, social recognition, pair bonding, anxiety, and maternal behaviors. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as the “love hormone.”
I swear I eventually pointed that out to Kevin. Toren must have cut it.
Joe, I cut no such thing. However, we’ll bring this up in FOLLOW-UPS 3 for sure!
I am thus placated. I do genuinely heart you; even more if you can get me some oxytocin to snort.
Why is this episode not on iTunes yet?
It should be. There was a weird glitch last week and I had to make some changes to the feed settings but my copy of iTunes got it right away.
Try right-clicking the Podcast title in iTunes and choosing “Update Podcast”. That should force it to check for new episodes.
Yeah, what’s with the whole “season 2″ thing, anyway? Did Saturnalia change everything, and now cats are co-operating with dogs, etc.? My world is upside-down, guys.
It just occurred to me that while you mentioned the “green-eyed monster Envy”, the origin of why green is associated with Envy never appeared.
http://marykassian.net/2007/04/30/green-with-envy/
Why is Envy Green?
Why do we turn “green” with envy? In antiquity, the Hebrew word for envy, qinah, referred to the burning color in the face produced by a deep emotion. The Greeks believed that jealousy was accompanied by an overproduction of bile, lending a yellowish-green pallor to the victim’s complexion. In the seventh century B.C., the poetess Sappho used the word “green” to describe the face of a stricken lover. After that, the word was used freely by other poets to denote jealousy or envy. The most famous such reference and the origin of the term “green-eyed monster” is Iago’s speech in Shakespeare’s Othello: “O! Beware my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”