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Why Do People Keep Cheating At Marathons?

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Why Do People Keep Cheating At Marathons?
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When asked why he kept trying to climb Mt. Everest, the climber George Mallory famously replied, "Because it's there." When asked about his creative process, SimCity creator Will Wright said, "I don't know. I thought it would be cool." I've always been struck by the inscrutability of inspiration, by the notion that we can't always explain why we do the things we do. This week's episode of Only If You Get Caught gets into this psychic terrain by way of examining the question of why so many people

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