Considering we can’t even see what’s daily under our noses and above our heads, it’s no wonder we have such a hard time seeing things that are less obvious—things like the being that is, at this very moment, 12,600 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean consuming the wreck of the Titanic.
 
Interestingly, the being is not a singular species. It’s a consortium of microbes—20 different species of bacteria, two species of fungus, and at least one species of archaea— working together in concert to carry out an endeavor that would be impossible for any one of them alone. They’ve come together, each with their own part to play, to harvest the iron out of the ship, 12,600 feet under the sea.
~An excerpt from Sleep of Reason

THE REAL SCIENCE:
The RMS Titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years, and the ship that was once a picture of luxury was found in the process of being swallowed up by the ocean floor and ravaged by metal-eating bacteria.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/world/titanic-shipwreck-footage-decomposition-trnd/index.html

“I admit it’s a stretch. But you’ve just proved I might be on to something. We have a creature that doesn’t have a large enough methane source to be as big as it is. Maybe we’re not looking deep enough.”
~An excerpt from Sleep of Reason



THE REAL SCIENCE:
As well as helping to explain the origins of methane deep beneath Earth's surface, the study could also shed light on the presence of methane on other bodies in the solar system. For example, methane is known to exist on Mars and Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus.

https://www.newsweek.com/massive-pool-methane-hidden-deep-beneath-earths-surface-discovered-scientists-1455408

What do we know for sure, and what don’t we? If memory makes us who we are, and we don’t hold our memories—what does that make us?
~An excerpt from Sleep of Reason

THE REAL SCIENCE:
Have you wondered why you remember some things and forget others? Whether you are the sum of the memories you have created? Whether our collective memory as a society defines our humanity?

Scientists have just discovered that a protein in your brain behaves like a virus--infecting your cells with memories.

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/a-protein-in-your-brain-behaves-like-a-virus-infecting-your-cells-with-memories_partner/