The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces that Influence Everything Cognitive Science We've eaten bugs for centuries

We've eaten bugs for centuries

he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests capture unwary travelers and blind them to prevent escape

and firsthand accounts

to chocolate tamales for Cinco de Mayo

The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces that Influence Everything Cognitive Science We've eaten bugs for centuriesWhy does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is "The Hidden Half"those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creaturesbut we're idiots about how clever we really are. This entertaining and ingenious book reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. The resultfrom GDP figures to medicineis