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Why Do We Tell Stories?

“I was here but I disappear”

Bill Gates on Knowledge

Reading the history of science helps one to understand science better because of the nature of the timeline helps you to understand why an idea matters. He doesn’t use the word story but what he is implying is that by encoding knowledge within a timeline it becomes easier to remember.

The Moken Survive the Tsunami

“Knowledge of the laboon, or “seventh wave”, had been passed down for thousands of years through generations of Moken living intimately with the ocean” The Guardian

Bob Simon report for 60 Minutes “The Sea Gypsies”

spear fisherman: (start at 3:38)

Moken pt 2