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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Facsimile, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s easy to take document duplication for granted in our modern age, but our digital ease follows centuries of mechanical innovation and millennia of human specialization in the form of the scribe. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history and invention of the facsimile.

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me.

0:05.0

And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives.

0:08.0

That's where my new podcast, Rewives Comes In.

0:11.0

This isn't your typical rewatch podcast.

0:13.0

I'm bringing on unexpected thought leaders and celebrities to give their take on the chaos.

0:18.0

In my first episode, I dig into the scary island, Rooney Episode with Elizabeth Moss.

0:23.0

It's one of my favorite shows I've ever done, so don't miss it.

0:27.0

I'm Kevin to Rewives with Bethany Frankel on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast,

0:32.0

or wherever you get your favorite podcast.

0:38.0

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

0:48.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

0:51.0

And I'm Joe McCormick, and today's going to be one of our invention episodes.

0:56.0

The first of a series, in fact, we're going to be doing a couple of episodes on the history and invention of document duplication.

1:05.0

And I think this is a fantastic subject for our show, because one of our favorite things to do is look at something that is so mundane that you don't even notice it's there anymore,

1:16.0

and rediscover what's strange about it. And I think documents are a wonderful example of that,

1:21.0

because documents are kind of, it's the fish asking what is water situation.

1:26.0

We documents are such a fundamental part of our culture and our economic and legal lives that we don't even stop to think what life would be like without them.

1:37.0

Yeah, just for many of us in a given day, just think how many documents we create,

1:43.0

or we abandon, or delete.

1:47.0

We create them for matters that are serious, but also matters that are trivial, work-related, personal.

1:54.0

We'll just create a new document at the drop of a hat, but just even considering the basic idea of document duplication, which we're going to be covering,

2:02.0

just think about sending an email.

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