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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
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Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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