Lulu Miller

This week, we are bringing back an episode full of intrepid humans trying to access places that are off-limits, trying to solve the unsolvable, know the unknowable, see the unseeable.

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What we did was we took a big green...

caterpillar and we did something that was not entirely nice she put them in a box filled it with a nasty odor and is the odor like an odor of a plant or it's it's actually a plant-based odor but it smells kind of like a nail polish remover in any case she gassed them with this nasty smell and then once they could smell the odor then we gave them a zap

Odor.

Zap.

Odor.

Zap.

Odor.

And then.

One month later.

The moth emerges.

And now we're the drum roll.

We're ready for the drum roll.

I think it's amazing that a caterpillar can have an experience, go into its chrysalis, five weeks pass,

emerge as a seemingly different organism and that it still can recall experiences that happened to it when it was a caterpillar.