TIL: dogs and rabbits

“In the early 1900s, intelligence tests included questions like “What do dogs and rabbits have in common?” The answer that the test givers wanted was that they were both mammals. But often the answer they got instead was, “You use dogs to hunt rabbits.”

--- Carl Zimmer. “She Has Her Mother's Laugh."

I wonder whether human tendency to tell (and believe) stories represents a correction mechanism for overconfidence mistakes with regard to describing things and natural phenomena. (also related: dominant narratives and narrative economics).

Welcome to the new worlld

The CRISPR technology is way more important for the future of humans than any of the current political developments. The paradox of the situation is that there's no humanity to worry about its emerging future, only individual humans who worry about their own near future impacted by the current politics, including the politics of in vivo gene modifications.

"First gene-edited babies reported in China" (Watch on YouTube)