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Is there any more arbitrary experience than Groundhog Day? It’s a day when an entire town lets a rodent predict the future. Or the weather anyway. Several questions:
The answer to all of these questions is yes. Because humans are not always very smart.
Let’s start with animals who predict the future: before meteorologists we humans needed to know if it would rain and stuff and we relied on the animals’ superior senses (this link):
But it’s not just the weather, animals have senses about other things, too:
Read more on the blog
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Is there any more arbitrary experience than Groundhog Day? It’s a day when an entire town lets a rodent predict the future. Or the weather anyway. Several questions:
The answer to all of these questions is yes. Because humans are not always very smart.
Let’s start with animals who predict the future: before meteorologists we humans needed to know if it would rain and stuff and we relied on the animals’ superior senses (this link):
But it’s not just the weather, animals have senses about other things, too:
Read more on the blog