Speaker 1: So with social distancing the new normal, what is there
Speaker 1: to do to keep busy? Each of us handles social
Speaker 1: distancing in our own way. Some in the fitness community
Speaker 1: are determined to not only stay in shape, but socialize.
Speaker 1: Some are doing virtual yoga classes. Others are turning to art.
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Speaker 1: there are those truly rare birds like Sir Isaac Newton.
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Speaker 1: We're all living in the ripple effects of history. A
Speaker 1: butterfly flaps its wings in China in the nineteenth century,
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Speaker 1: the father of modern science. Welcome to Flashback, a new
Speaker 1: podcast from AZZI, the creators of The Thread. I'm Sean
Speaker 1: Braswell and I'll be your visiting professor, taking you on
Speaker 1: a journey through history that will change the way you
Speaker 1: look at the past, and even at some of its
Speaker 1: most disastrous events. When the Great Plague hit England in
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty five, Isaac Newton wasn't a sir or a
Speaker 1: scientific legend, just a college student at the University of Cambridge.
Speaker 1: And when the university closed its doors and sent its
Speaker 1: students home for the seventeenth century version of social distancing,
Speaker 1: Newton returned to his family estate to spend his time
Speaker 1: working on a few of his own pet projects. The
Speaker 1: young scholar thrived at home, calling the year plus he
Speaker 1: spent away as his Year of Wonders, among other things.
Speaker 1: Newton used this time to work out calculus and his
Speaker 1: theory of gravity, aided by the apple tree right outside
Speaker 1: his window. Newton returned to Cambridge the following year with
Speaker 1: some groundbreaking theories under his belt, ideas that would make
Speaker 1: him a call age fellow, then a professor, and ultimately
Speaker 1: the founding father of a new scientific age. History is
Speaker 1: littered with stories like Newton's Year of Wonders, stories about
Speaker 1: unexpected turning points and hidden connections. You just have to
Speaker 1: know where to look. And that was the world we saw.
Speaker 1: It was the only world we saw. And occasionally do
Speaker 1: a little digging, I heard about Hitler's personal physician, fit
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Speaker 1: archives for you know, the better part of sixty seventy years,
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Speaker 1: season of Flashback, will connect the dots on some of
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Speaker 1: We'll learn about how some of the past greatest unintended
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