Unexplainable

What's the oldest story ever told?

Montag, 14. September 2026 · 27 min

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An astrophysicist uses the motion of the stars to argue that a single story has been told for 100,000 years. A cognitive anthropologist has questions.

Guests: Ray Norris (people.csiro.au/n/r/ray-norris), astrophysicist; Manvir Singh (manvir.org), cognitive anthropologist at the University of California, Davis

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