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Middle of the show. I'm going down and to the middle of the

show.

All the down and the middle of a gospel Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcasts.

Episode 323. Why do we drive on the right and not on the left?

Well, there is no reason to drive on the right,

except there's a very good reason to drive on the same side that everyone drives on,

whichever side that happens to be.

Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart podcast.

My name is David McGraney,

and the person you just heard is Harvard psychologist, Stephen Pinker,

and what you just heard him talking about, something psychologists refer to as common knowledge.

Before we get started, I should note my audio may sound a bit different at the moment because

I'm recording this from Ernest Hemingway's house in Idaho. Yes, Ernest Hemingway's house,

and yes, it's in Idaho. I received an invitation to be the writer in residence here

from the nice people at the community library, an institution here

in Ketcham, Idaho, who curates the home and does all sorts of nice book-related things,

I said yes to that invitation. And here I sit in Ernest Hemingway's house. And you can see

the house and all the other stuff they do there at c-o-m-l-ib.org.

That's comlib.org.

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