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We’re a storytelling species. That’s how we evolved and for the longest time that was how we made sense of the world. We told stories around fires about how the world fit together, about why summer turned to winter and why the stars moved across the sky.

Nowadays we have other tools to explain the world, but that doesn’t make stories any less powerful. In fact, I’d like to argue that it makes them more so. Statistics for example, might be more accurate, more informative and more…