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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: Listener mail My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick,

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Speaker 1: and it's Monday, of the day of the week. We

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Speaker 1: read back some messages from the mail bags applied to

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Speaker 1: us by our loyal mail bot Carney. Here right at

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Speaker 1: the top of today's episode, I wanted to feature a

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Speaker 1: correction by our listener Dorry, and usually if a correction

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Speaker 1: comes in, we try to put that near the top. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Dorian's response was in reference to the Odometer episode where

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Speaker 1: I did, indeed do do a major geometrical screw up.

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Speaker 1: So Dorian pointed out that it's in the part of

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Speaker 1: the episode where I'm discussing the odometer described by Vitruvius,

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Speaker 1: and I, for some reason, I said that the formula

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Speaker 1: for the circumference of a circle is pie our squared.

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Speaker 1: That is not correct. That is actually for the area

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Speaker 1: of a circle. UH circumferences to pie r. Though as

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Speaker 1: a weird coincidence, since we were talking about a wheel

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Speaker 1: specifically with the radius of two of two ft, UH,

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Speaker 1: the different formulas gave the exact same answer. In this

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Speaker 1: one case, which is twelve point five six. So thank

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Speaker 1: you Dorian for pointing that out. Always appreciate people letting

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Speaker 1: us know if a mistake like that gets through. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I did. I did listen back. There was a

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Speaker 1: way to to snip that little reference out of the episode,

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Speaker 1: so so the episode should be corrected. Now. Alright, this

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Speaker 1: next one comes to us from Ben. Hey, guys, someone

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Speaker 1: else may have already mentioned this, but it occurred to

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Speaker 1: me that one factor in the accuracy of the Benitists

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Speaker 1: who measured distances by counting pacers would have been the

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Speaker 1: inclines in a route to be measured, as one's pace

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Speaker 1: length would naturally shorten when walking up or down a

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Speaker 1: steep incline. Perhaps they took this into account and counted

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Speaker 1: uphill or downhill paces separately. Anyways, a fascinating episode. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I did not think about that at all, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a very good point. Now. This is referencing the

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Speaker 1: the idea of Alexander the greats Bematists and other bimatists

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Speaker 1: from the ancient world, people who were said to measure

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Speaker 1: distances by pacing. Uh. There was some suggestion that because

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Speaker 1: or cities that are actually quite accurate, even as measured today.

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Speaker 1: There was some suggestion that maybe some of these people

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Speaker 1: we don't know about, and that's possible. It's possible they

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Speaker 1: just were able to keep an accurate kind of paces

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Speaker 1: this is one thing that would certainly affect pacing. That

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Speaker 1: that would be a problem even if they were to

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Speaker 1: say this is ridiculous. Of course, if they were to, uh,

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Speaker 1: do some twine to tie their ankles together and always

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Speaker 1: do maximum stride. Oh well, now that's a good point.

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Speaker 1: But I guess when you're going up or down a

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Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. If you want to regularize

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Speaker 1: to assault the caravan? It's like, oh, sorry, measurement dudes,

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Speaker 1: your best defense is just to fall over at this point.

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Speaker 1: to send in their favorite examples of paragraphs or favorite

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Speaker 1: from our listener Anna. Anna begins by selecting the book

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Speaker 1: but instead I will reproduce my favorite paragraph, uh and

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Speaker 1: the protagonist, Jane, and her her brooding forbidden love interest,

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Speaker 1: her employer Mr Rochester. Now onto the quote, which begins

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Speaker 1: Miss Eyre said he do you think me handsome? And

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Speaker 1: replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite,

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Speaker 1: was aware. No, sir, uh Anna goes on, This is

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Speaker 1: One of the things about Jane is that she speaks

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Speaker 1: we now call speaking truth to power. It's also an

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Speaker 1: She never knows where she sits with Mr Rochester? Is

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Speaker 1: And also it's just a really cool line. Here goes

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Speaker 1: it is an interesting topic. It's always something that's um.

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Speaker 1: Steel when we are discussing it, So that's that's cool,

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