When a 2-ton truck barrels into a crowded market in Japan, no one expected it to be because a 25 year old man felt lonely. This week Natalia tells us the story of the 2008 Akihabara Massacre. We'll be discussing how isolation affects the human mind in dangerous ways. Natalia would also like to state for the record that she has never eaten a guinea pig and never will. 

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