“Americans have this image, ‘Oh cycling is just paradise, and it’s always been paradise in Europe,’” Pucher told me when I interviewed him for Overheard, the National Geographic podcast.

A history of deception. The average human tells up to two lies a day, according to a 1990s study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.There’s even evidence that primates can use ...

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