The Experience will return on November 16.

In this solo episode, Jeremy Vaeni introduces us to not only a hidden history of Hawaii but the history of how and why it was hidden in the first place, as told to him recently by 2 Hawaiian elders. Then, he transitions into an explanation of how the latest pet theory in physics–namely that our universe is a computer simulation–is an untrue metaphor for the truth underlying our collective amnesia.
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During it’s patrol of the Belfast Lough in Ireland on April 30, 1918, the HMS Coreopsis encountered a strange sight: a German U-Boat, surfaced in broad daylight, manned by a crew that seemed all too willing to surrender to the British sloop. Stranger still was the tale told by UB-85’s Kapitänleutnant, Günther Krech, when questioned by the Coreopsis’ crew as to why he and his ship were caught so easily, while their respective nations were still at war.

The tale told by Krech was a tall one, as if pulled from the pages of a Jules Verne yarn: the previous night, while surfaced to recharge the submarine’s batteries, the ship was attacked by a large creature, that latched itself onto the ship, causing it to list heavily to starboard:
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The levels of carbon dioxide found in the atmosphere in modern times have been found to be nearly ten times higher than any other time since the extinction of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. The event that came the closest to today’s CO2 levels, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), occurred 55.5 million years ago, where a spike in greenhouse gasses caused global temperatures to increase by 5–8 °C over what we’re experiencing today. While the existence and cause of the PETM is well established, the source of the massive amount of CO2 that caused the temperature spike has been a complete mystery to scientists.read more