Until the morning of July 5, 2011, I had considered myself a good and independent thinker. I tested well in school and earned honors from a challenging college. In the years after I became so captivated by the subject of thinking that during the months while I was writing my most recent book, Unthinking, [...]
This really happened. Just after New Years Day last year, a 29 year-old British man leaped before he looked. Had he looked at the ground six feet below where he was perched on a building foundation, he would have spotted a six-inch construction nail, its point facing him. But he jumped, and landed with such [...]
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