Imagine this scenario1 and see if there is something off about it: You get a chance to meet the world champion in Russian roulette. He has traveled across the globe, putting a gun to his own head and skillfully not shooting himself. He’s faced hundreds of opponents from every country you can name, including the…
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One of the greatest fallacies that we’ve been fooled into thinking is that we’re so different from animals. Sure an animal can’t drive (or can it?), do long division, or understand the complex social interactions in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but we’re not as far from them as one might think. We still share…