9All the tricks in the book: get past the ploys designed to simply bypass logic
One day in my high school biology class, our teacher passed between the rows of students to hand each of us a small strip of paper. “When I count to three, touch the paper to your tongue,” he instructed us. Immediately following the count of three, many of the students started moaning, “Ew. Yuck. That’s disgusting.” In contrast, I could not taste anything, even when I started gnawing on my strip. I assumed that some students had been given gross tasting paper while the rest of us had received plain paper, but I was wrong. The teacher explained that we had each received a strip of paper impregnated with a chemical called phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). For those ...
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