Multiplayer games can be a lot of fun, allowing you to work with or against other players to overcome challenges too big for one person. But they can also demonstrate surprising things about human cooperation. Sometimes, those things aren’t pretty. Player behavior in multiplayer games has (often unintentionally) helped advance our understanding of economics, psychology, …
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Do you know what’s in your attic? If you live in an older house that has had several previous owners, you might be in for a surprise. People can store precious, weird, or horrifying things in their attics and simply forget they’re there. Or perhaps they choose to forget, as they’d get in trouble if …
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In the dead of night, they rise from the dank sewers underneath the city. Nobody knows who they are, what they want, or where they go after emerging from the underground. That’s what’s going on in New York City, anyway. Passersby and security cameras have recently caught strange groups of men climbing out from the …
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When you get a new car, you can be forgiven for driving perhaps with a little more abandon than usual. After all, you should still exercise healthy caution not to put yourself and others in danger. And you definitely should maintain some common sense, unlike this Texas man. Jimmy McDaniel was recently arrested for reckless …
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You don’t have like the beach to do weird beach things! Do you think you’ll do any of these this summer at the beach? Hold a meditation session exclusively for imaginary dolphins. Build a tiny sand city and assign every crab that wanders through a political role. Wear snorkeling gear nowhere near the water. Draw …
Governments poison their citizens in many ways. You can see that in the food/pharma/lifestyle of America, right? Unit 731 carried out brutal human experimentation in occupied China. Victims were exposed to plague, anthrax, and other deadly diseases. During the Cold War, the U.S. military conducted secret radiation experiments on unsuspecting civilians and soldiers to study …
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Do you think you know all the facts on this list about the courts throughout history? Maybe you have something to add? Trial by combat was once a legal practice in parts of Europe. Two opponents fought physically, and the winner was believed to have divine support on their side. The phrase “court is now …
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What do you do if you feel disrespected? What do you think is on this list? Give them a thumbs up usually reserved for children attempting basic tasks. Slowly rotate your chair away from them during the conversation. Start acting dramatically disappointed instead of angry, like a betrayed school principal. Start speaking with fake royal …
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What do you think people do to dissociate? Do you ever find yourself dissociating? Learn niche hobbies briefly and intensely before abandoning them completely. Fold laundry incredibly slowly to avoid confronting thoughts. Rewatch the same comfort show so many times the dialogue becomes emotional wallpaper. Wander stores without buying anything, treating fluorescent lighting like therapy. …
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Do you think there are manipulative things restaurants do to get you in the door? Have you ever noticed anything? Serve food on wooden boards or roof tiles to appear trendy and artistic. Put candles on tables to create artificial intimacy between exhausted strangers. Train servers to remove empty plates quickly so tables feel ready …
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