Placebo Effect

If you could create a painless, inexpensive cure for a single ailment, what would you cure and why?

Common cold. Seriously. Here’s why:

  • No cure exists, and an instant cure for it would be really helpful.
  • While there are more dreadful diseases like cancer and AIDS which needs treating, well, most of the best minds are already on it, and many answering this question would respond with the same. So enough people already on it.
  • It sucks. Royally.

Conflicted

You’re in the middle of a terrible argument, and everyone turns to you to help resolve it. How do you respond? How do you react to conflict?

Just how most conversations are reasonably resolved, hearing all sides and finding common ground. Also my response will depend on how serious (or stupid) the whole premise is.