I know we all have a dark side, the part of us that’s fascinated by the things that should frighten us. For some of us it’s curiosity—that compulsion that makes us want to look when we see an accident on the side of the road and spot a group of people standing over a body. It’s the reason some of us wake up to read the news. We don’t rush to make sure a tsunami didn’t wipe out a South Pacific island. Reading that an earthquake didn’t kill two thousand people in Turkey wouldn’t trigger any dopamine receptors in our brains. When the news feels too normal, we stop paying attention. But bad news
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