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The Pleiades, quite possibly the oldest story in the world.
or, if you prefer your content in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyjKND3dAE
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I once worked with a waiter who had twins, and they had this. They'd talk together in gibberish, yet act as if they perfectly understood what the other one was saying. I found it fascinating.
So I was rather pleased to discover there was a word for it.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia
"Cryptophasia is the phenomenon of a language developed by twins (identical or fraternal) that only the two children can understand."
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The theory that the earth at one or several points in it's history was completely frozen over and covered in ice.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
This is of interest to our intrepid prospector as it suggests glaciation may have shifted a great many precious gems and minerals from their original settings...
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Rupert Sheldrake observing that pets frequently exhibit the behaviours recognized in humans before they die.
I can't speak specifically to the situation, but I'm definitely not convinced that humans have the monopoly on spirituality or consciousness. And I know for a fact that pets - like humans - will often need "permission" to die - waiting until the owner or significant other is absent.
Link: https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/pets-often-know-they-are-about-to-die-wish-us-farewell
Previously: Deathbed Visitations,
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This does not seem to me in the slightest bit unreasonable, consider the instinctual behaviours of the "lower" animals - that a duck fears the shadow of the hawk even while still in the egg, that unconsciously many people still fear spiders, scorpions, snakes, and not all learning must be avoidance, there should be paths towards pleasure and memories (generational) of good things as well.
Which, worth noting - somewhat vindicates Lamarck and his theories on talent, evolution & memory.
Previously: Lamarckian Evolution, Epigenetic Triggers, Radiolab on inheritance