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History has known many famous teams. Be it Pierre and Marie Curie who changed physics almost 100 years ago, a bunch of daredevil friends who shared cigarettes in the trenches of the great wars of the last century (while maybe later going together to Norway to blow up Nazi bunkers), the A-Team who helped those in need of help while being chased by the military police, up to present day football teams like the FC Barcelona, gangs of corporate lawyer vultures and adventurers like Team Zissou from “The Life Aquatic”, which I will use as an example throughout this article.

Social intelligence is a concept with political connotations. A concept which may appear to redefine or downplay the importance of intelligence in the traditional sense. I do not agree with this kind of feelgood thinking about the hard realities of life. Having said that, intelligence is but one of the requirements for society to function [...]

Two weeks ago Italian police announced they are hunting a man who is suspected of hypnotising a supermarket cashier and making her to hand over money from cash register. Several newspapers reported this, and there’s also CCTV footage on BBC News website.
Now, how is this possible? Can you really hypnotize someone just like that, and [...]