There Are Things You Take for Granted—But They Hide Life’s Greatest Mysteries
Let Me Take You by the Hand and Drag You Into the Abyss 💀
There are things in this world we take for granted…
Things we think we understand…
I used to think I understood my place in the world.
But then, the deeper I looked, the more reality unraveled…
Take eels—no one has ever seen them mate.
Not in the wild.
Not in captivity.
Not once in human history.
How do they even reproduce?
Freud studied eels trying to find their reproductive organs (he failed).
What if eels reproduce in a way that defies what we think is possible?
What if they reproduce by transforming themselves, like a butterfly?
What if they reproduce by subdividing?
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