There are countless people who falsely remembered Nelson Mandela dying during his time in prison in the 1980s. Since then, a bizarre phenomenon known as The Mandela Effect has taken on a life of its own, causing people to recall all sorts of memories that never existed – leading to questions about the nature of memory, reality, and possible alternate universes.
Episode Source Material
- The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Computing and the Mandela Effect (kindle edition) by Rizwan Virk. Bayview Books, LLC.
- New Atlas: China plans to deflect near-Earth asteroid in 2030, by David Szondy.
- CNN: The ‘Mandela Effect’ describes the false memories many of us share. But why can’t scientists explain it?, by Jacopo Prisco.
- Axios: New details point to CIA role in Mandela’s arrest, by Russell Contreras.
- Skeptical Inquirer: The Mandela Effect: How false memories are created (Vol 46, No.4), by Massimo Polidoro.
- Forbes: The ‘Mandela Effect:’ A psychologist explains collective false memories, by Mark Travers.
- Eileen Colts – the quantum awakening and science of the Mandela effect (podcast) via Audible.
- National Library of Medicine: the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) Task: A simple cognitive paradigm to investigate false memories in the laboratory, by Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado and Jessica D. Payne.
- Cogblog: A cognitive psychology blog: The Mandela effect: Why do so many people have the same false memories.
- Forbes Health: What is the Mandela effect? Examples and causes, by Nicole McDermott. Medically reviewed by Judy Ho.
- Medical News Today: Examples and explanations of the Mandela effect, by Jamie Eske. Medically reviewed by Nicole Washington.
- Reddit: The sinbad genie movie – complete analysis.
- The Mandela Effect and new memory: Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism, by Aaron French via Philpapers.org.
- Medium: The Mandela effect and the large hadron collider: How modern physics could explain collective mis-memory” by Aaran Shakya.
- Brittanica: Large hadron collider by David G.C. Jones.
- Physics World: What have particle accelerators ever done for us?, by Carsten Welsch.
- CERN Accelerating Science: Facts and figures about the LHC.
- Vice: Is CERN causing collective mass delusion by creating portals to alternate dimensions? An investigation, by Jason Koebler.
- CERN Accelerating Science: Dark matter.
- Medium: The theory of self rendering reality and the Mandela effect [a science fiction-ey daydream] by Patrick Gichini.
- Seisen International School: Why scientists cannot rule out the possibility that we are living in a simulation, by Victoria M.
- Wired: Biohackers encoded malware in a strand of DNA, by Andy Greenberg.
- Vulture: 15 irrefutable reasons why we might be living in a simulation, by Matt Stieb.
- Buzzfeed: 65 examples of the Mandela effect that’ll make you question everything, by Christopher Hudspeth.