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EPISODE 52 | The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)

Nelson Mandela died in the early 80s, or he didn't. The comedian Sinbad was in a genie movie in the 90s, or he wasn't. Brand names keep getting changed, or not. Either our memories are not as reliable as we think they are, or someone is going around changing the very fabric of reality. 

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SECTIONS

1. 01:35 - The Mandela Effect: everything changes
2. 05:57 - A Mandela Effect quiz (including one red herring)
3. 12:07 - Mix & Match - Maybe CERN is to blame
4. 13:52 - Shazam & Kazaam
5. 17:47 - Mandela & Biko, colour confusion, fossilized errors, sheeple
6. 21:06 - Absolutely Confabulous - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, hypnosis, alien butt stuff
7. 26:24 - The Art of Attention - how memory works
8. 30:07 - Memory markers - places, focus and narrative; the Memory Palace, fun socks
9. 32:50 - Collective memory, Bieber the Lizard, 9/11
10. 35:42 - Justice Is Blinded - eyewitness testimony is unreliable, Onion origins
11. 40:12 - If we can't trust memory, what can we do?

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• The Mandela Effect website
• Fiona Broome's website
• The Mandela Effect on Snopes
• What is the Mandela effect? on Medical News Today
• Mandela Effect article on Very Well Mind
• 45 Mandela Effect Examples That Will Blow Your Mind
• Time Manipulation - Mandela Effect Examples on Reddit (r/reality_shifting)
• How Memory Works - Harvard article
• Psychology Today article on memory
• How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
• Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories on National Geographic
• How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
• How Memory Functions - Intro to Psychology
• Confabulation paper on ClinMed
• Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong
• The Utter Unreliability Of Eyewitness Testimony
• Why Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable
• The Innocence Project

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