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E23 Dr. Lynne Kelly: How To Supercharge Your Memory Like Indigenous Cultures

Aidan's Infinite Play

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The Origins of the Hopi

There's a story that dates back to the end of the Ice Age in Victoria Melbourne, which is my nearest big city. There are volcanoes in Queensland where the stories of what it was like this volcano and that they actually differentiate between different sorts of volcanoes. And Aboriginal people in Australia have been here 65,000 years. So scientists are now taking the stories. It's a guy called Twain Hamaker that's finding that they match exactly what happened as long as you date them back and move the stars accordingly. This is really robust stuff. That is incredible.

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