14. Nothing Is Real

Welcome to Earth, a place where societies run on pure fantasy and we just make up shit as we go along 🌏 In this episode titled 'Nothing Is Real', we explore different aspects of our modern world that just don't seem to make...any sense? Royalty, time, gender norms, money - the list goes on! Dive in to explore the hogwash.

Show notes and references:

• 'Is Time an Illusion?' | Craig Callender: www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-an-illusion/
• Age of Majority: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority#cite_note-Iran-14
• 'Traditional Japanese Age System': www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Traditional%20Japanese%20Age%20System.html
• 'Are memories reliable? Expert explains how they change more than we realise.' | Robert Nash: theconversation.com/are-memories-reliable-expert-explains-how-they-change-more-than-we-realise-106461
• 'Emotion Makes Memory Unreliable': neurosciencenews.com/emotion-memory-8148/
• 'Does time go faster at the top of a building compared to the bottom?' | Science Questions with Surprising Answers: https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/06/24/does-time-go-faster-at-the-top-of-a-building-compared-to-the-bottom/
• ▶️ Is Money Real? | Life Noggin YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOCQD9vckQ
• NY Times - The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round | Richard Davies on Jacob Goldstein’s book “Money”: www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/books/review/money-the-true-story-of-a-made-up-thing-jacob-goldstein.html 
• Solar flares knocking out power:  www.newscientist.com/article/2150350-a-tech-destroying-solar-flare-could-hit-earth-within-100-years/

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