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072 - How Did Humans Find Hawaii?

No Dumb Questions

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How to Divorce Yourself From Narrative Lies

Look at where London is in terms of latitude compared with the United States. Tokyo is next to California in my head. Japan is like closer to Oregon, isn't it? That's weird. I think we lie to ourselves in terms of navigation. And so what these ancient seafarers had to figure out on the Pacific was how to divorce themselves from all of those narrative lies and tell themselves the absolute truth about where stuff is or they die.

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