Thomas Edison made huge news because they'd emerged that if anyone wanted to work for Edison's laboratory,

they had to pass a test, which consisted of scientific and political and geographic questions

that were devised by Edison. They were questions like, what's the percentage of magnetite and magnetite

or how many states border Kentucky? And he said, these college kids, they are stupid. They don't know

anything. A reporter, a wise-ass reporter, comes to Einstein who is visiting the United States at

this time and asks him, I guess what he calls an Edison test question, which is, what is the speed

of sound? And he trips up the great Einstein. Einstein's response is a very forthright, I don't know,

and then he explains, I'm not in the habit of memorizing such things. That's what I have books for.

Hello all, Eric Revenus with the most notorious podcast here. Each week I interview an author or

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podcast app, cheers, and have a safe tomorrow. So we're really pleased to have John Blackwell on

today. He's the senior publishing editor for the Wall Street Journal. He's also worked with

the Daily News and other places. The reason we're talking to him today is that he hosts this day

in 1921 on Twitter. So if you're on Twitter, he's at at 100 years ago news, at 100 years ago news.

What he's done is amazing. He's got a complete catalog the whole year of Daily News stories from

1921 and I did a podcast about this earlier in the year and I barely touched the surface. So John,

you are what's the best way to describe it. You're doing a thing on Twitter this year where you're

looking at the stories of the day for 1921, 100 years ago. Yeah, you could see it as sort of like

day-to-day coverage. Here's the news as it happened. Here's the political developments of the day,

the congressional votes, wars overseas, disasters, sports scores, sort of like you're reading it

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