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Hey everybody, I am here with scheduling note.

Today's episode would normally be a full-length core episode of the show, but due to a holiday,

we are switching up the order this week.

So there's going to be a short artifact episode today,

and then full-length episodes will air on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

And now onto the episode.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hi, my name is Joe McCormick and this is the artifact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind,

focusing on particular objects, ideas, and moments in time.

In the year 1620, the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon published a book called

Novum Organum, in which he described a program for investigating the world through empiricism

and organized inductive reasoning.

As an example of how to employ his new method, Bacon discusses it linked the physical

phenomenon of heat, cataloging examples of heat in nature, but also what he calls, quote,

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