{"id":1590,"date":"2013-01-07T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:41:58","slug":"camp-time-is-almost-here-2013-ouassa-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/camp-time-is-almost-here-2013-ouassa-intake\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp time is almost here, 2013 OUASSA Intake!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Happy New Year! January camp is almost upon us and the preparations are in full swing! In the meantime, some New Year\u2019s frivolity to ponder…
\nDid your New Year\u2019s celebrations involve dancing around a tree to ensure luck in love? stocking up on supplies so as to ensure a year without poverty? wearing brand new clothes for wealth? did you open your doors at midnight to let the old year out? Or did a tall dark haired man come first footing with coal to ensure you had a good year?
\nSuperstitions are rife around holiday times and often seem simple, harmless fun as we follow along in the ritual without really thinking about where they came from. But reading about the above and other New Year\u2019s traditions to ensure luck and prosperity for the New Year got me thinking \u2013 where did these superstitions come from in the first place?
\nThere was a time in human history where belief in magic and the occult was considered just good common sense. With the ideas of scientists such as Newton and Galileo offering alternative explanations to commonly observed phenomenon, our idea of what is common sense and rational began to change.
\nMany of us do hold strong to superstition though and I think this may be partly because we are unaware of or forget the saying drummed into many an aspiring Scientist \u201ccorrelation does not imply causation\u201d. For example, just because the last three times I killed a spider it rained doesn\u2019t mean that every time I kill a spider it\u2019s going to rain. The two things are correlated in my tiny experiment but there are way more factors to consider than just my spider killing and the rain falling. (For the record, I tend to have more of a catch and release policy towards spiders in real life\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 )
\nAs the countdown begins and our new OUASSA 2013 students and teachers get ready to come see us (in just two weeks !) stay safe and healthy but also remain curious and observant of the world around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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