Across the UK, across continental North America,

and around the world on the internet,

by webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes,

and this is the return of the unexplained.

Well, up here in the Northern Hemisphere,

we are getting ready for autumn.

It is the back end of the summer,

and another year sets to wrap itself up.

Well, you know, that's how things are.

People keep telling me that you have to seize every moment in life,

and sometimes I haven't, maybe you're the same.

And the years seem to pass so quickly, don't they?

Maybe the older you get, for quicker they go by,

a psychologist explained this to me on the radio recently.

He said, the reason we think as we get older

that the years go quicker is that sometimes,

a lot of the things we've done in a year,

we've done before in other years,

and we tend to almost erase those from our short-term memory,

or certainly put them on the back burner.

And so the reason things appear to go quickly,

is that just simply we skip through certain parts

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