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AND THE BEAUFORT SCALE. MY NAME IS STEVE MACKO. I AM A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. I TEACH OCEANOGRAPHY. I ALSO TEACH GEOCHEMISTRY...
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| 00:03:28 |
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MECHANIC IS A TO A RACE CAR WHERE YOU TINKER WITH IT AND TRY TO FIX IT UP BUT SOMEBODY ELSE IS KIND OF BEHIND THE WHEEL. IT WAS GOOD THING FOR ME AS...
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| 00:12:16 |
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HE WAS, IF YOU COULD SEE IT AND YOU COULD TOUCH IT, BEAUFORT WAS INTERESTED IN IT. HE WAS INTERESTED IN
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| 00:12:20 |
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COUNTING IT AND WRITING IT DOWN. WHETHER EVERYTHING COULD BE COUNTED COUNTS, LOTS OF QUESTIONS QUESTIONED HIM. THE ONLY THING HE WAS MESH MEASURING...
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| 00:15:45 |
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CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY. HE WAS A HYDROGRAPHER. HE WAS ALSO THE GRANDSON OF REVEREND MAUREY, WHO WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON'S TEACHER. SO HERE IT IS IN OUR...
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| 00:16:31 |
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IN A WEIRD WAY. >> WELL THANK YOU. MY BOOK IS ABOUT EINSTEIN AND FREUD. AND HOW THEY REDEFINED OUR IDEAS OF
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| 00:16:40 |
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SCIENCE AND WHAT WE COULD SEE AND THINK ABOUT OVER THE COURSE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. BUT AS I TELL, USUALLY WHEN I TELL PEOPLE THAT I HAVE THIS BOOK ON...
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| 00:16:55 |
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ANSWER IS YES. AND THEY WERE LOVERS AND--[LAUGHTER]--AND IF THAT WERE TRUE AND IT WERE IN THIS BOOK, IT WOULD SELL A LOT BETTER. BUT ACTUALLY BECAUSE...
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| 00:29:48 |
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OWN COLLEAGUES, PHYSICAL CHEMISTS WHEN THEY ARE AROUND PHYSICISTS TALK ABOUT CHEMISTRY AND WHEN THEY ARE AROUND CHEMISTS THEY TALK ABOUT PHYSICS AND...
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| 00:31:08 |
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MONTEVIDEO, URAGUAY, 1806, LET'S SEE, NO HE MADE ONE OF TURKEY IN ABOUT 1812 THAT WAS IN USE UNTIL 1972. THAT'S HOW LONG--THEY DIDN'T SEE ANY REASON...
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| 00:33:17 |
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SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE DETERMINING MOMENT AND EVENTS WERE, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT THEY WERE INFLUENCED BY THESE INCIDENTS I DESCRIBED....
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| 00:33:30 |
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PRESENTED WITH THIS MAGNET BY HIS FATHER AND HE WOULD FIND IT INTERESTING AND HE WOULD STILL RECALL IT WHEN WRITING HIS OUGHT BUY GRAPHICALOGRAPHY GRAPHICAL...
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| 00:34:43 |
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13. HE DID WHAT HIS FATHER DID. MY FATHER TOLD ME LOTS OF
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| 00:34:46 |
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THINGS TO DO BUT WHAT HE DID WAS WATCH THE CLEVELAND BROWNS EVERY SUNDAY OF HIS LIFE AND I WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THE CLEVELAND BROWNS. SO FORGET WHAT YOU...
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| 00:35:29 |
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ELECTRO MAGNETISM. THERE'S--IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL THERE. AND IT'S JUST AMAZING WHEN YOU MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS. AND I THINK THAT HE WAS AWARE...
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| 00:36:05 |
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OF METEOROLOGY. IN 1960, HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST OF HIS DAY. NEVER REMEMBERED BEAUFORT IN HIS OWE BIT ARY ABOUT WHAT HE HAD DONE...
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| 00:36:52 |
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ANEMOMETERS THAT WERE PUTTING SPECIFIC WIND SPEEDS. YOU COULD MEASURE MILES PER HOUR BETTER. IT'S ONLY OVER THE COURSE OF THE CENTURIES, AS YOU SAY,...
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| 00:37:43 |
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AS A HURRICANE DEVELOPED AND THE KINDS OF EXPERIENCE THAT ACTUALLY CREATES THE PATH FOR THE BOOKS THAT YOU WROTE. HOW--I MEAN WHAT EXPERIENCES DID...
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| 00:38:34 |
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OF THE TELESCOPE? AND I SAID NO. NO WAY. I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENCE AND I I, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF SPENDING EIGHT YEARS AND BURIED IN ARCHIVAL...
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| 00:40:06 |
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NO EQUIPMENT AT ALL BY INVENTING EQUIPMENT AS HE WENT
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| 00:40:10 |
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ALONG. ALL OF THE BOOKS ABOUT SEA GOINGS, THE MANUALS, DESCRIBE HOW YOU CAN MAKE A YELLOW INK FOR A MAP OUT OF TOBACCO. STEEP SOME TOBACCO IN WATER....
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| 00:42:30 |
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WERE TALKING ABOUT TAKING APART
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| 00:42:32 |
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A MASTER SALE OR WHATEVER, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THESE CONCLUSIONS OF THEIRS SEEMED INEVITABLE TO THEM. YOU KNOW. THE THEORY OF UNCONSCIOUS OR THE...
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| 00:43:17 |
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GUYS
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| 00:43:18 |
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LIKE ME AND--YOU CAN SAY DUMB. >> DUMB GUYS LIKE US THAT CAN FIND STUFF OUT. YOU ARE SO ASTONISHED BY THE THINGS YOU RUN ACROSS. AND YOU KEEP STUFFING...
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| 00:43:46 |
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IDEA. >> I'VE GOT ONE SHORT QUESTION FOR YOU AND, THEN ONE FOR BOTH OF YOU. THEN WE WILL OPEN IT UP TO THE AUDIENCE. THE SHORT QUESTION IS, BEING AN...
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| 00:44:07 |
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BEAUFORT SCALE IS BEAUFORT DIDN'T WRITE IT. BEAUFORT, FIRST OF ALL, HE COPIED A SCALE THAT WAS WRITTEN BY A GUY NAMED DALRYMPLE ON TO HIS JOURNAL. ...
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| 00:44:26 |
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WRITING IN HIS JOURNAL THE LANTERNS SWAYING AND HE SAYS WAIT A MINUTE. OR MAYBE THE LANTERN'S DARK AND HE SAYS, AND THEN IT GOES ON. AND HE HAS AN IDEA...
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| 00:47:32 |
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AND ACTUALLY, HOW DOES EINSTEIN AND FREUD AND BEAUFORT REACT TO OTHER SCIENTISTS? THIS SERENDIPIDOUS EVENT OF HIM RECOMMENDING BEAUFORT TO GO ON THE...
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| 00:48:16 |
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WAS, WELL HE WAS PART OF THE SCIENTIST COMMUNITY THEN. HE WAS THE--HE WAS THE FACE OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. STILL IS TODAY. I MEAN SOMEBODY SAID...
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| 00:48:55 |
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SCIENTIST TO CALL HIM AND SAY I NEED ANOTHER SCIENTIST WHO CAN DO SOMETHING AND BEAUFORT WOULD KNOW WHO COULD CALL. WAS LIKE THE AUTO CLUB.
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| 00:49:03 |
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I CAN'T SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM BUT I KNOW WHO YOU CAN CALL. HE JUST LOVED BRINGING THOSE CONNECTIONS. BEAUFORT WAS A BIG PART OF SOMETHING CALLED THE SOCIETY...
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| 00:49:51 |
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UP WITH THESE GREAT IDEAS. HE WAS READING. I MEAN HE WAS ISOLATEED IN A CERTAIN SENSE BUT HE WAS READING CONSTANTLY AND HE AND HIS FRIENDS WOULD GET...
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| 00:50:49 |
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ARE MEASURED KNEW MERICLY. IN YOUR RESEARCH DID YOU COME ACROSS ANY THREADS CONNECTING SCALES LIKE THAT? >> I WILL QUICKLY ANSWER BOTH OF THOSE QUESTIONS....
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| 00:51:16 |
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OF FIVE. NOBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT. NANCY PELOSI, OH, IT'S A 5.2 LIKE THAT HAS MEANING. NOBODY KNOW WHAT IS IT MEANS. THERE'S A WONDERFUL THING CALLED...
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| 00:53:04 |
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KNOW, CELEBRATED FOR HAVING INTRODUCED
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| 00:53:07 |
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COCAINE INTO AS A LOCAL ANESTHETIC ESPECIALLY FOR EYE OPERATIONS
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| 00:53:12 |
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AND THINGS LIKE
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| 00:53:13 |
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THAT. SO, IT'S NOT THAT HE WAS
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| 00:53:15 |
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A NOBODY AND-- >> NO. NO. >> HE WORKED
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| 00:53:19 |
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WITH SHARKOE. THE QUESTION OF WHERE DID THESE IDEAS COME FROM, LIKE THE IDEA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND. FREUD HIMSELF GAVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO THE ANCIENT...
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| 00:53:37 |
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OF. AND THAT'S WHY HE NAMED THINGS LIKE
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| 00:53:40 |
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THE ELECTRIC COMPLEX AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. >> RIGHT. >> BUT I WAS THINKING OF THE--HIS WORK ON HYSTERIA WHERE HE WAS FIRST BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE FACT...
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| 00:54:02 |
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THE IMPRESSION THAT FREUD WAS AN UNKNOWN, THAT'S COMPLETELY
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| 00:54:06 |
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MISTAKEN. BECAUSE OF HIS STUDIES ON COCAINE AND BECAUSE OF INTRODUCING IT AS LOCAL AN AN ES THETIC, AS YOU SAID. HE ALSO CAME
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| 00:54:17 |
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UP WITH SEVERAL STAINING METHODS THAT SO THAT YOU COULD SEE CELLULAR STRUCTURE THAT WERE USED FOR A LONG TIME AND HIS BOOK ON EPHASIA WHICH PRE-DATES...
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| 00:55:33 |
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MADE TIME JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, WELL, WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE IT CLEAR HERE. >> BACK THERE? >> SPEAKING JUST AS A PLAIN PERSON, I AM NOT A
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| 00:55:44 |
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THEORETICAL PHYSICIST, COULD YOU TALK TO US A LITTLE, RICHARD, ABOUT THE IM LICATION THAT OUR DAILY LIVES ARE CHANGED BY BOTH--BY THE IDEAS OF BOTH...
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| 00:56:00 |
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UP AGAINST THE SAME PROBLEMS AND THEY CAME UP WITH
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| 00:56:02 |
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KIND OF THE SAME SOLUTIONS THAT THEY NEEDED TO RETHINK THE PROBLEM. BUT THEIR LEGACY TODAY, THROUGH THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THROUGH RELATIVITY, WE SEE--WE...
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| 00:56:17 |
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DIFFERENT WAY. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE OUTER UNIVERSE AND THE INNER UNIVERSE. THE LEGACY OF RELATIVITY, WE CAN SEE IT IN BLACK HOLES AND THE BIG BANG...
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