Philosophical
What if the best GPS ever built was the human mind?
Polynesian wayfinders crossed millions of square miles of open Pacific Ocean, finding tiny islands without any instruments. Not once or twice. For thousands of years. How?
The genius of Polynesian navigation lies not in the stars but in the mind of the navigator.— Wade Davis
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The thinker
Anthropologist & Ethnobotanist
Wade Davis is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, anthropologist, and author known for his work documenting indigenous cultures and their endangered knowledge systems.
Based on Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual — TED Talk, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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