The Great Unsolved Puzzles of the World

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i was in awe of the grit of this community. i'll help my kid with a mat homeward. And after two minutes, i want to give up. I'm think about all the afternoons that c i a operatives have spent working on this when they should be doing their emales ly. It's p it's appealing when you think you're on the right side of anything. But no, you've got to go bazyang if you're going to get out of that.

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Our guest in this episode is A.J. Jacobs, the the four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks A Thousand, It’s All Relative, and The Know It All.

His new book, The Puzzler, is a fun, weird, refreshingly scientific book all about the human brain's fascination with puzzles. Seriously, there’s all sorts of explorations in the book about neural pathways, behavioral routines, how we learn, what gets us into loops, and - this is true - a few attempts to solve the puzzle of our very existence.

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