human-meaning

In 1440s Milan, a duke commissioned a set of illustrated playing cards. The Visconti-Sforza deck wasn't meant for divination. It was meant for games—specifically, a game called tarocchi, probably similar to modern bridge. The cards had four suits (cups, coins, swords, batons) plus a fifth suit of

In 2018, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator generated an estimated $20 million in revenue. Approximately 2 million people take the MBTI annually. 89 of the Fortune 100 companies use it. It's deployed for hiring, team building, leadership development, and career counseling. It shapes marriages, friendships, and hiring decisions. There&

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes—the most rational detective in literary history. A man who solved crimes through pure logic, who dismissed sentiment, who famously said "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Conan Doyle also believed in fairies.

In 1977, magician and skeptic James Randi decided to test psychic powers scientifically. He offered $10,000 (later increased to $1 million) to anyone who could demonstrate supernatural abilities under controlled conditions. Over the following decades, over a thousand people applied. Psychics, mediums, dowsers, remote viewers, telepaths. None succeeded. Not