February 16, 2022

The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)

44 minutes

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

01:35 - The Mandela Effect: everything changes

05:57 - A Mandela Effect quiz (including one red herring)

12:07 - Mix & Match - Maybe CERN is to blame

13:52 - Shazam & Kazaam

17:47 - Mandela & Biko, colour confusion, fossilized errors, sheeple

21:06 - Absolutely Confabulous - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, hypnosis, alien butt stuff

26:24 - The Art of Attention - how memory works

30:07 - Memory markers - places, focus and narrative; the Memory Palace, fun socks

32:50 - Collective memory, Bieber the Lizard, 9/11

35:42 - Justice Is Blinded - eyewitness testimony is unreliable, Onion origins

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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