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"Problems Too Disgusting to Solve"
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/recycled-water-problems-disgusting-solve
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"Problems Too Disgusting to Solve"
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/recycled-water-problems-disgusting-solve
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Feelings of disgust are often immune to rationality. And with good reason: evolutionarily, disgust is an incredibly adaptive, life-saving reaction.
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Sometimes disgust is purely physical. But, often—as in the case of G.M.O.s—it acquires a moral dimension.
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