Reasons to be cheerful

by | Jul 9, 2007


Catching up with recent posts on John Robb’s Global Guerrillas blog, I find a small ray of sunshine for a bright summer’s day:

We’ve all heard the term “suicide bomber.” So what do you call a person, infected with a deadly biowarfare agent, that travels the public airways from city to city, purposely spreading the contagion until they eventually succumb to the disease themselves? My favorite: a suicide mule. Any additional suggestions?

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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