The Gist

Scared to Death?

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Can you be scared to death? Can your hair go white from fear? This sounds like a job for "Is That Bullshit?" with Maria Konnikova, our favorite BS detector. Konnikova writes for the New Yorker and is the author of The Confidence Game.

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