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Hacking Habits
Destin Sandlin had a simple question: How hard would it be to unlearn to ride a bike? So, the host of Smarter Every Day, a popular educational series on YouTube, asked a welder he knew to do something kind of strange: to change Sandlin’s bike so that when he turned his handlebars right, the bike would go to the left, and vice versa. Sandlin was an engineer who understood the mechanics of bike riding and an avid rider who was well trained to handle a bike. How hard could it be?
Very hard, it turns out. “The challenge is much more complex than it might seem,” a summary by the Arbinger Institute noted. “Several intricate processes—balance, coordination, steering, pedaling, and more—come together in the action of riding a bicycle. ...
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