C3_01: Feedback

this program is not just about India it's about India and wine and war at sea and electricity and steam engines and love affairs and wallpaper and other stuff so this opening sequence is not what it seems however to avoid confusion throughout the program I'll keep you posted with regular feedback oh hi could you hold it for a second Thanks okay access the uplink now sorry about that well here we are intrepid reporter James Burke in one of the more remote parts of India ready to start the show a show that travels across the great web of knowledge through space and time to find the strangest connections between things and all that stuff you've heard before I suppose in a way you know the whole connections concept is a product of the technology because back before the technology you couldn't have seen life that way I mean the way everything is connected because back then it wasn't a hundred years ago for instance I'd have been really cut off here really intrepid fifty years ago a hundred miles to the nearest telegraph office 20 years ago fifty miles to the nearest phone today this laptop this cell phone and that satellite and bingo here goes my script update back to the office in London okay I'll send it now this is what life in the 21st century is going to be all about wherever you are Siberia Paris Manhattan all of us living on the great network that will connect everybody able to be and do anything free from the limitations of space and time with the world at your fingertips but only if we learn to live with one important little thing in cyberspace our other selves the electronic version of you that lives in the system and works for you night and day does anything you want sometimes even before you know you want it watch this run the agent program good morning James you have three appointments today and it's your mother's birthday so I've sent pink roses George's electronic agent says could the next Wednesday meeting be Friday I've confirmed you're free and we've changed both your Diaries your checking account is closed to red line so I've topped it up don't forget it's your anniversary next week I've checked out some things she likes okay your blood test came back you're fine I've completed the company upcoming tax returns if you want to review them top temperature today 95 your conference calls at 9:00 and have reminded everybody else's electronic agent that's it good a-and maybe for some people a bit scary because there's one thing that has to happen if the electronic agent really is supposed to be another you the agent has to know you intimately every detail of your every day every moment of your business life your spending habits and those of your nearest and dearest your personal friends doctors records spare time activities and every phone call you ever make and when you go anywhere see anybody buy anything break a law tell a lie catch a cold it knows and on the network it doesn't matter where you do that it knows and then it analyzes and records and updates your behavior profile and that's how it learns to be you and it does that thanks to the most fundamental element in all learning something that also kind of won the last world war and every war since feedback feedback is what stops this happening because it stops this happening German missiles going just too fast for people on the ground to hit until feedback the magic idea thought up by MIT and Bell Labs for tracking the missile and then using fancy math to predict from the radar data where the missile is likely to be a few seconds from now then you keep feeding those predictions to the guys trying to shoot the missile down so instead of shooting at where the thing is they shoot it where it's going to be by 1943 the predictors as they're called are able to do this the feedback trick improves the artillery's success rate to the point where Hitler stops trying and by 1944 thanks to feedback allied guns everywhere are hitting anything that moves and people are beginning to drink to the end of the war being in sight appropriate really when you think of where the idea of feedback came from in the first place it's all due to a guy who is a French wine maker and who happens to find out what goes on inside you when you do things I'm happy to say like this Cheers ah his name is Claude Bernard and he lives here in this house in one of the more beautiful bits of countryside in the world just outside why don't you enjoy that while I enjoy this this is the boat'll a country in the heart of France where some of the world's best wines come from and it's every bit as delightful as it looks ironic that it should have inspired Claude Bernard to do the awful things he did coming up after another minute or so of this enjoyable tourist stuff Oh right in the middle of the bush Lake Country this is that guy's vineyard and that over there's his house and this is the reason he's in this program because back in mid nineteenth century Claude Bernard who's a doctor as well as a winemaker notices something rather funny about well rabbit wee-wee he discovers that if you give a rabbit regular meals to eat its urine is cloudy and alkaline but if a rabbit's had no food for a while its urine goes clear and acid this earth-shattering observation gets Claude Verner all excited about stomachs and gastric juices and other such internal matters here in his farmhouse he decides to take a closer more scientific look and he find out about the way rabbits and humans automatically switch to living off their fat if they don't get any food that's why the urine changes further investigation also reveals that if you're short of sugar your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream and that there's a whole string of reactions like that going on in your body feedback reactions that keep all your body levels the way they're supposed to be like if you need water you get thirsty and drink if you're hot you sweat and cool down other people pick up on this stuff and sure enough find out about more feedback systems working to control the level of things like adrenaline sex hormones and other chemicals that kick in when you're attracted or scared or angry or cold and so on all part of the marvelous body feedback mechanism working to preserve what Claude labels the inner balance we today would call it homeostasis and it's from physiologists working on homeostasis that those wartime predictor people you saw get their ideas for those antiaircraft feedback fire control systems remember Oh while we here take a look at the kind of science Claude Banaras do in 1860 great big scales because they're still finding out what everything weighs giant glass containers for boiling and condensing and reducing kind of science has cookery almost and then you write it all up in pen and ink because this is before even typewriters but then in contrast look at this a kind of delicate precision instruments craftsman handcraft back then beautiful a this one's particularly relevant see Claude's discovery of how your insides work is great news for medicine but not such great news for rabbits or guinea pigs dogs frogs cats rats horses or any of the many experimental animals that young medical students now start to investigate the workings of in the interest of discovery or of just getting qualified vivisection it's called using instruments like this on animals like this as a result of which Claude's wife well leaves him and join some animal rights people one of who is trying to kill Claude with something that science at the time has not yet discovered thought waves the real movers and shakers in anti-vivisection at the time are the English because up to now they've treated animals worst of anybody and have now decided it's time to develop a soft spot for man's best friends so as early as 1822 there's a society for the protection of animals from vivisection and its leading light is a formidable lady called Cobb whose followers start to call themselves humane societies in spite of the fact that it was this kind of behavior the original humane societies were set up to handle saving what's described as the apparently drowned from various watery graves that kind of humane stuff really hits the headlines here at a place called Bamburgh in the northeast of England a place famous for its ancient castle and even more famous for its lousy winter weather rarely lazio then at 5:00 in the morning on September the 7th 1838 when a luxury steamer with 68 people on board heading for Scotland breaks up in a humongous storm out there of the far islands and everybody goes down except for nine people clinging to the rocks and fortunately for them spotted by the young daughter of the local lighthouse map the girl Grace Darling and her dad make two death-defying trips rescue all the survivors and trigger massive public support for more of the same as a result of which if you're ever clinging to the rocks with a bit of luck this will happen lifeboats is what grace darling starts and early on they look like this covered in cork to make them unsinkable with five pairs of oars eventually this design gets used all over the world so thanks to anti-missile feedback and Claude Bernard vivisection and humane societies here we are on the way to help somebody in distress from becoming an apparently drowned no it has to be said that back in 1854 when lifeboat associations really get going it isn't all volunteer altruism although there's a lot of that no rescuing people back then it tends to be something you do on the way to rescuing their cargo because what with industrial production going up in Europe and America and raw materials by the thousand tons crossing the ocean there's a lot more shipping out there so there's a lot more money out there but there's another reason for all those ships as I'm sure you've guessed and it's linked to a new seafaring habit of chucking bottles over the side now it's not often a bottle changes the course of history but this is no ordinary bottle as you can see meanwhile all that extra shipping out there which is out there thanks to a young American naval officer who knows more about what goes on at sea then you could shake a crab net at this guy is so hot at oceanography like how far winds and currents will take you at particular times of the year that one day when an American troop ship gets hit by a gigantic storm in the Atlantic our pal Matthew Morey marks a cross on the chart and that's exactly where the rescue ship finds the survivors floating in the water days later pretty good a more is able to do that x marks the spot stuff because by 1847 he spent years going through more than a million observations on wind and currents from piles of dusty old ships logbooks that the Department of the Navy have hung onto but never done anything about and that's why I'm here in posh academic surroundings with a bunch of people who owe their careers to the bottle if you get my drift and if you don't you've soon will tension on that thank you take seats the end result of all Maurice data collecting is basic training in every navigation class today basically what Mori comes up with is a kind of road map of the sea showing well the expressways this is one of his best examples the Gulf Stream you jump on this 50 mile wide current going across the Atlantic that way at a time of the year when Mori tells you the winds are also going that way and you will be across the Atlantic quicker than you can say path of minimum time sailing which is what Mori calls this trick using winds and currents instead of a straight line to go from any a to any B thus saving a lot of time and more important a lot of money so Mori produces a book called sailing directions and keeps it updated because every navigator gets a free copy of this book from the US government as long as they agree to fill in a form every day of a voyage with temperature pressure speed and direction of wind and currents and so on and at certain times throw over the side of bottle corked of course with a bit of paper inside saying date time and position see oh and pick up any other bottle they happen to see floating by as a result of all this not surprisingly Mori becomes an international weather biggie which is why he gets to organize the first international weather conference in Brussels in 1853 where he talks everybody into standard formats for weather charts the other thing Morrie is hot for is a weather reporting network that will use the latest wondered technology a new gizmo called The Telegraph which of course bumps Morey into Sam Morse well known by history for having invented the Morse code and almost entirely forgotten by history for something else but before we get to that why are we doing all this about Morrie here because this place was his idea it's where you become a career naval officer like mooring the United States Naval Academy okay enough of the fun now for Sam Moore's revelations of thwarted ambition and conspiracy fear and we're better for such revelations than the home of such revelations Capitol Hill the court is in session all rise the evidence would seem to indicate that mr. Matthew Morey and all those other weather experts are able to exchange data thanks to a trip mr. Samuel Morse takes back from Europe to America in 1832 and during which he quote invents unquote the Telegraph in fact any court in the land would agree that he's probably the sixth person to do so anyway back in New York let me see he reads up on electricity picks everybody's brains and has the two ideas that make his Telegraph the one that will end up famous rather than anybody else's Exhibit A the key you tap with and Exhibit B the code you tap the Morse code in 1844 here in the old US Supreme Court in Washington DC before astonished members of Congress Sam Morse powers up his contraption and blows everybody away with what must have seemed a little short of magic an instant message all the way from Baltimore 45 miles away he says and here it comes now and this happens and the rest as they say is history the history everybody knows now for the less known bit and get ready for some culture this is the Capitol building rotunda in Washington and the next bit of the story the reason Moss is on that ship back from Europe remember is because he's been over there painting this kind of stuff for which is already quite famous I mean he's president of the National Academy of Art and Design in New York for a start so you won't be surprised to know but in terms of what happens next he pretty much reckons he's got the picture thing is back in 1836 they haven't quite finished building the rotunda and of the decoration and stuff left to do the main job the rotunda art committee still have to commissioned is for a set of four giant paintings like this one our commission which Sam Moses pitched to the committee kind of takes for granted take a look at this gentleman and you'll see that important themes are my stock in trade this is called the gallery of the Louvre in Paris I mean I think big so a job like the rotunda for a man of my talents would be a piece of cake right wrong the problem is Morse is a political loony he believes that the Pope is infiltrating Catholics into Missouri in preparation for an armed uprising that there is a foul foreign conspiracy against these United States and that very soon there will be an American world empire well you can imagine the reaction of the rotunda art committee cartoon don't call us boss he's so ticked off he gives up painting from good still as you know he makes a fortune with the Telegraph can't win them all meanwhile why was he on that trip to Europe in the first place well as I said boning up on European art in preparation for this presentation and also spending some time with his big hero a fellow who had the kind of disease most of us would like to have the disease in question is a condition for which the only cure even today is trips to Italy and sam mortis hero is nuts about the place especially this place the tiny hill town of a lamina Romano just south of Rome where the food and the wine and the people and the architecture and the Sun and the olive groves will do to you what they do to this gent here Washington Alston who turns up in 1805 so that he can do what all romantic painters did go totally over-the-top about how well Italian Italy is now clearly this program hasn't suddenly turned into an art history class as usual there's more to all this than meets the eye first of all because Alston goes on to become America's leading romantic painter which is why Moore's worships him and why he's in this program and because apart from mooning around hugging trees and smelling the flowers and taking his sketches home and filling them with classical maidens and Greek temples and all that good stuff Austin gets mixed up with a rather dubious type I'm quite sure the puritanical Sam Morse never knew about the chap I have in mind turns up here to visit and accompanies Austin on his daily commune with nature while they discuss the meaning of life only however on those very rare days when the gentleman in question is in a fit state to discuss anything and the name of this candidate for the rehab clinic romantic poetry hotshot samuel taylor coleridge one of the greatest scribblers and drug addicts in English Lit and who spends time over in Havana Romano Italy visiting Austin on his way back to England from this delightful spot the holiday island of Malta where he's been up to some pretty strange shenanigans but before I dish the dirt a quick catch up on the story so far electronic agents on the Internet and wartime guns use feedback techniques discovered in the first place by Claude Bernard whose vivisection experiments kick off all those animal rights movements called humane societies that really start out as lifeboat crews rescuing people from all the shipwrecks happening because of all the extra ships out there who are using mooring data on wind and currents transmitted by the amazing new Telegraph invented by Sam Morse who's also a painter whose hero is Washington Alston who spends time in Italy with Coleridge who is as I said here in Malta and as you will see spending a lot of time writing back to London okay over the store what Coleridge is up to here it's traveling all over the island on picnics and jolly trips to the countryside and at the same time working for the contemporary British equivalent of the CIA and trying and failing miserably to get over his rather unfortunate habit which is to take humongous amount of opium four or five times a day and get totally off-the-wall so surprise surprise courage in mortar for his health by this time his marriage is also on the rocks and it's broke has rheumatism gout heart problems paranoia hypochondria and a giant guilt complex about various kind of sin and he's only 32 Oh Andy has written some great poetry most of it hallucinatory now as I said courage isn't just taking in the scenery here by day he's doing the double-oh-seven act deeply involved with for your eyes only stuff on hush-hush missions he won't to talk about for the fella running this place the British governor of motor a Navy tide called Alexander ball that's Coleridge by day by night he's burning the candle as rewrite man on governor balls secret reports back to London about all the spying and skullduggery going on here because motor in mid Mediterranean Sea is just where everybody wants to be Russia wants a Mediterranean outpost France wants to stop them Britain wants to stop France and America's having a war with Libya and needs a local base so the island is what you might call a classic hotbed of intrigue as they say and stuff here programs in this where'd you get the point about Coleridge moult is the last place for a Romantic poet to get a lot of musing and scribbling done so he doesn't and by 1806 he's getting seriously worried about his literary output with good reason because there isn't any so he heads for home via 11a Romano where he will stay with Alston leaving behind the good Governor Alexander ball whose attitude to drug-addict poets is typically Navy shape up or ship out Alexandr ball gets that governor's job in the first place because back in 1798 he's in Navy captain fighting the French and gets orders to join a new squadron in the military nian the job of the squadron is to keep tabs on Napoleon his fleet is rumored to be in the French port of too long here now British intelligence says his plan is to cross the Mediterranean and invade Egypt here but just in case his real plan is to go for Britain the Brits are covering their bets here as well as blockading the other big French naval port of Brest here as well as hanging around another possible bolt-hole for the French fleet in Cadiz here so the Brits are stretched pretty thin turns out Napoleon's real target is Egypt after all so he slips out of too long with 29 warships and arms and ammunition up the yin-yang everything they need to take over Egypt now this is a catastrophe in the making and all there is to stop Napoleon is Alexander Bal his boss and six measly little ships and then up comes a gale the Brits get driven way down here off Sardinia so there's nobody to prevent Napoleon making it all the way to Egypt and taking over as planned and this is where born gets that job in motor there they are in the teeth of a storm his boss's flagship has lost its mast and Baal is towing him the winds are up to force 10 the seas are humongous they're nearly on the rocks and the bus signals cut loose and leave me the aptly named Baal signals no way things are looking pretty disastrous and then at the last minute in the nick of time the storm abates and it all ends like Hollywood as you it would it just so happens the guy whose life Baal has just saved his Admiral Horatio Nelson the great British hero who promptly thanks Paul by making him governor of Malta down here you remember while Nelson himself nips off to mop up Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile from which he then sails off for some R&R and all the pass to the crew can eat to Italy here it's in Naples that Nelson comes across the hottest thing he's ever seen no not Vesuvius a lady called Emma Hamilton these two are about to make whoopee sorry history and this is where they will meet Naples a city that has welcomed sailors with open arms for centuries the place for food fun and frolic and Emma Hamilton's husband is giving her enough rope so she's spending most of her time partying with the locals the elderly Hamilton is hardly the ideal match for a dish like Emma so she's in the market for some pretty fishy stunts with the local gentry including one I can't possibly show you so try this spaghetti eating contest instead but Emma knows her ship will come in if she plays her cards right well it does and I bet you've guessed who's on it yes in 1798 the megastar Admiral Horatio Nelson arrives in Naples everybody faints in fashionable style especially Emma there are parties where Emma distributes buttons and ribbons with h-n on them she also entertains Nelson wearing no underwear and not surprisingly they become friends Nelson persuades his wife to stay back home with tales of how Italy is bad for your health and eventually he and Emma return here to England where she has his child and they hit the tabloids so to speak he leaves again 4c is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar and that's it one of history's greatest soap operas the grieving Emma lives on widow of the nation's role model not bad for a gal who got a starting what can only be described as shocking circumstances doors have been opening for Emma since she was a hooker aged 14 from which she graduates to be mistress of various Harris de Kratz she hits the big time around 1780 pouring drinks for the well-heeled suckers who are flocking into London's latest health and beauty salon with a difference where they charge you in more senses than one with electric shocks dr. James Graham claims his current treatment will generate a galvanizing effect on anybody who has a spark of life in them and wants to be a real live wire and if you think that sentence was dreadful you should read Graham's original sales pitch but we're Graham really scores is with his electrical magnetic Oh celestial bed where if you can't have children a few high-voltage sessions with a good doctor and from then on all your troubles will be little ones now this may all look like indictable offences to you but you've got to remember that back then this is hi-tech amazement I mean who knows this quack is a fully paid up member of the respectable professional classes a friend of Benjamin Franklin and various Dukes and duchesses and of course he studied at the best Medical School in Britain Edinburgh where he is taught by a fellow with a drinking problem the problem in question is being solved by grams prof dr. Joe Black here in bonny Scotland for the people who make this delicious stuff here's how they do that well more or less fire heats up the whiskey mash it makes steam you run the steam through a jacket of cold water which condenses the steam into drips of whiskey and that's still all there is to a still except of course for the secret magic ingredient of the whiskey mash okay Black's job for the distillers is to quantify how much fire you need to make how much steam to be condensed by how much water to give you how much whiskey in the inebriating course of these researchers black discovers that steam is so scalding hot because it has a massive amount of heat in it latent heat he calls it so he tells James Watt and that's why what comes up with a steam engine that works so well it kicks off the Industrial Revolution and the legend is he does it here in a place called Bowness near Edinburgh in this very cottage well ruin standing however in the grounds of something rather grander in 1764 Canal house is being rented by a yuppie coal mine owner called Roebuck who backs Watts steam engine research and then his coal mines flood out and he goes bankrupt before what can finish his work the two of them split amicably enough it's nobody's fault and there's not much point is that in crying over spilt milk appropriately enough spilt milk is the reason Roebuck makes his money in the first place see this is the old way to bleach cotton soaked in sour milk for six weeks a lot of time and a lot of real estate until Roebuck comes up with the better way cheaper and faster but the bleachers aren't keen with good reason because although robux new stuff will bleach in 24 hours and costs a lot less a sulfuric acid is not exactly user-friendly if you happen to spill it so thanks to the electrical grams linked with black who introduced what to Roebuck here we are about to see the bleach field disappear forever when somebody now invents a way to bleach cloth just like the way you do it in your washing machine today this somebody is called Talent and he takes a scientific approach first he makes chlorine gas and then mixes it with lime and water and comes up with a magic liquid that will put all these people out of work Tennant's bleaching liquid relocates the bleaching industry into factories and when he produces a powdered version of the stuff you can bleach clothes in the comfort of your own kitchen so the bleach fields go back to being more land and tenant goes on to become a paper millionaire ironic considering what his reaching powder does to paper here's an important bit of paper I'll get to in a second meanwhile where are we remember Coleridge in Malta where he worked for Captain Alexander Ball who saves Nelson's life so he can fall for the dubious Emma whose electrical starting life was with dr. Graham educated in Scotland by the whisky experimenter Joe black who's friends with a sulfuric roebuck who's bleaching techniques are improved by Tennant who gets rich by making things whiter than white not however this important bit of paper the American Declaration of Independence have you ever noticed how American documents from this period are all kind of mud colored and the English stuff from the same time is gray that's because they're made from rags and whatever color the rags are you get well tenants knew bleach makes paper white at last because it does the same to the rags no matter what the cloth no matter what the pattern on them and the need for good white paper is on the rise like everything else in the Industrial Revolution which is why around 1812 a new French patent makes such a big hit here in London take a lot of bleached pulp made from rags and spread it evenly on a wire mesh belt which is vibrating to shake all the water out then run the damp pulp between a series of heated rollers and what you get is cheap enough to stick on the walls and cover with fancy designs too and the printing is mechanized by now too because in 1840 a Yorkshire cotton printing firm comes up with a way for printing paper with rollers between them mechanized paper making and roller printing make life in the modern world just a little bit more fun for young homeowners because they make possible cheap wallpaper and this is where things take a left-hand term for the decorative the medieval add the socialist this is the medieval bit by the mid 19th century the Romantic movement has everybody nostalgic for the Middle Ages and what life was like before they built the factory down the street so real East feats turn their homes into kind of Victorian versions of the 15th century with Gaslight in to this radical chic world of historical inaccuracy comes a failed architect to his hot stuff at the new rustic simplicity name of William Morris who promptly invents what we now call decor the kind of country fresh design work people pay the earth for at some of the fancier fabric outlets as well as Arts and Crafts furnishings and textiles that are supposed to make your little suburban home look less rookery nook and more the Queen Elizabeth slept here now you'd expect a nice middle-class decorator like William Morris to have a favorite color right well he does it's red and here's where the left-hand turn I mentioned comes in because Morris is also revolutionary in 1883 morris and karl marx's sister and others get together and a year later morris found the socialist league with uplifting class warfare songs to match and over on the piano a couple of canoodling socialists nobodies who are more than just friends and who are about to become world famous now those two lovebirds I mentioned George Bernard Shaw and Annie Besant first meet when she gets herself embroiled in what becomes known as the great contraception trial now you've got to remember that back then you can get yourself a deep doo-doo just by putting the words family and planning together Annie however does a good deal more than that in Britain she publishes a new book recently arrived from America and called the fruits of philosophy now this little book is no big deal to humor me the stuff in here is so tame it would cure your insomnia but boy does it cook Annie's goose let me read you a little bit of the stuff the defend all right-thinking decent-minded folk back in 1877 gets Annie a fine and six months in jail and I hope you're ready for this another check which the old idea of conception has led some to recommend with considerable confidence consists in introducing previous to connection a very delicate piece of sponge moistened with water to be immediately afterwards withdrawn by means of a very narrow ribbon attached to it lurid stuff a well the fine and the sentence turn annie into a real revolutionary which counts for me playing the piano badly here in india madras to be specific after a couple of decades of fighting the establishment back in England for women's rights and it comes out here to India to fight another cause we Brits are running the place at the time and Annie reckons we shouldn't be so she takes on the crazy task of getting the British out of India did pretty well we're out aren't we by 1893 Annie's done courses in spiritualism hypnotism and psychic perception and moved on to various Swami's and gurus and the Indian National Congress of which by 1917 she will become president and get to know such movers and shakers as Gandhi and Nehru on the way to the political high life she also set up this place the International theosophy headquarters where courses in comparative religion are given so Annie has come a long way since tickling the ivories with Dominic socialists like George Bernard Shaw she's now very well known wherever liberals flourish even America where she and her gurus go over very big in 1893 at the great Columbia exposition in Chicago where they fire everybody's imagination and I don't just mean with the spices in the curry I mean occurring vegetarianism which by this time has also become the subject of some visionary thinking by another lady who knows a bit about religion in Michigan the lady here in Michigan is Ellen White a leading member of the 19th century seventh-day Adventist Church Ellen White has a series of visions most of them about the direction the church ought to be going but as you'll see from this little visionary home of hers she changes more than just life in the church see one of the things advert tests stand for is moderation in all things and that includes something close to any business heart - because the Adventist Church discourages its members from taking stimulants of any kind and from eating meat at one point some Adventists visit Dansville New York famous for its water cures cold baths that sort of stuff and hygiene and health fit very well with a new Adventist diet and this is where the Adventist Church begins to affect the rest of us inspired by Dansville they do this a 19th century version of what I am doing they set up the first real organized health and fitness center and it sets a whole new style of living as a result of which today every morning people like me work up a sweat with some kind of keep fit thing or other and speaking of sweat excuse me well we're almost at the end of our story in 1866 the Adventists open the Western health reform Institute and ten years later invite a young doctor they've sponsored through training to be the superintendent he changes the name to the sanitarium introduces room service and entertainment and turns this place into where the elite meet if you're into healthy living this place is playing your tune the new superintendent is quite a guy 18-hour days he can dictate letters at 125 words a minute for 48 hours he dresses only in white and can often be seen with his cockatoo on his shoulder he does away with some of the more violent water cures and open schools of Nursing physical education and home economics he works everybody to exhaustion on exercise machines known as muscle beaters and makes everybody sit all the time on posture chairs like this he starves his clients on a diet of water yogurt rice nuts fresh fruit and veggies and then he does something that only changes the entire world I can take the breakfast please so here we are with a new menu for living thanks to the ingredients that have made up this program electronic agents using feedback techniques developed for wartime gums because of Claude Ben are and all those experiments that kick off the anti-vivisection humane societies that really start out as lifeboat organizations set up to rescue people from ships using the wind and weather data from Maury based on telegraphy invented by Samuel Morse who learns painting from Alston who's a pal of Coleridge who works in Malta football who saves Nelson for Emma who's worked for the electrical Graham who's taught by Chris key scientists black who knows the sulfuric roebuck who bleaches paper that will be decorated by Morris who's a socialist with Annie Besant who is a vegetarian just like the seventh-day adventists which is why we end as I said with the David changed the world because here in 1895 the superintendent was trying to invent a healthier kind of bread and all he came up with was some mushy gunk so just for kicks he put it through rollers and baked it and what came out changed the daily routine of the inhabitants of Planet Earth today it's named after the superintendent to produce the original mush and that is why a program that began with electronic agent in India ends here in Battle Creek Michigan with this Kellogg's Corn Flakes good for my feedback you

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Length: 52min 12sec (3132 seconds)

Published: Tue May 15 2012