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"I Wore the Juice!" /June 28, 2016 by William Poundstone

Medium is running an excerpt from Head in the Cloud. "'I Wore the Juice' — The Dunning-Kruger Effect" is about incompetent criminal McArthur Wheeler, who robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight, using lemon juice to make himself invisible.

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