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Every commuter on every train in every city is running the same miscalculation. They assume sitting in silence will be more pleasant than talking to the person next to them. They are wrong, and psychologists have been proving it for over a decade. --

The "brain isn't done until 25" factoid is based on a funding cutoff

Back in 1817, philosopher Jeremy Bentham created a table showing how the same human impulse could be described in wildly different ways depending on your perspective. In one column, he'd write "gluttony" - harsh and judgmental. In the next, "love of ...