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072 - How Did Humans Find Hawaii?

No Dumb Questions

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The Importance of Wayfinding

In our soft brains, that's straight up and a little bit to the right. But in order to do that, I might point east because of, depending on how fast my boat goes, depending on where the wind is. And then the swells or the ocean currents are going to push me at a certain speed in a certain direction. So if you and I decide to point east northeast and we start going in that direction, but instead of going north northeast, we end up going northeast. That matters when we're talking about these distances. It matters a lot.

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