Stuff You Should Know

And then, of course, Ken Kesey. Yeah, there's Ken Kesey too. There was a Life magazine spread from 1946 called, I think, Bedlam 46. And all of these things like really shocked the conscience of society over and over and over again.

Well we read one of his last year. Did we? Yeah, The Hanging Man I think is what it was called. It was very scary, very creepy.

Travels with Charlie.

No, we got that as a gift, right?

It's pretty neat. It's just like footnotes and extrapolations and explanations. This guy went into the world of Catcher in the Rye and made footnotes of the whole thing.

It's actually thicker than The Catcher in the Rye.

And Tom Wolfe did that with his early work on what would become The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities.

The Right Stuff is really amazing too.

Then in 971 BCE, there was another one called, did you mention that one? The Tripitaka?

That was another Buddhist text. That was CE.

The Book of Persian Poetry is still a mystery.

And he was the first dude to really bring this to light, wasn't he?

And he wrote a book called white collar crime.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.

And just basically ignored the crimes of the upper class.

Like if a guy's going to steal $1,000 from a cash register with no gun or anything like that. Right. Like there are other factors. But let's just say a guy steals $1,000 from a cash register and he's poor. And a guy steals $1,000 from an investor and he's rich.

And he wrote a book called 'White Collar Crime'.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes and just basically ignored the crimes of the upper class.

And in fact, one of the first books on origami was called Folding 1000 Cranes.

I want to give a shout out to Harold the Smith H-A-R-A-L-D he wrote an intro to iron smelting that talks all about making bloom himself with pictures it's pretty cool it's worth checking out

There was there is a book that someone put out a German mathematician named Hans Freudenthal called Life and Death.

Libby included a quote from an astrophysicist that said, it's the most boring book I've ever read. Logarithm tables are cool compared to it.

And then right now neither I'm reading the right stuff, Tom Wolfe classic and it's that I think Tom Wolfe might be the greatest Reporter of all time.

But also pliny the elder mentioned it in his naturalist historia from 77 Ce

It's called the famous Flea Act and it teaches you everything. You need to know to do a Humbug flea circus.

I just want to read it just for funsies, you know Christmas is coming up

You're talking about the recipe for a melted cheese and Sarah Tyson Roarer's book Mrs. Roarer's New Cookbook.

Toynbee was kind of a popular historian. He wrote about civilizations and the history of civilizations and the history of politics and how it all kind of banded together and how the civilizations that rose and fell over time were all part of the same kind of current, that they were all related to one another and that they rose and fell in predictable ways.

And it's a good thing his name was Toynbee. Yeah. It really made it a lot easier to narrow down the first mystery, basically.

Toynbee's book experiences, it seems to be the centerpiece of the crux of the idea that the tile maker is, let's just say fixated on, the concept of the soul and the possibility that you could resurrect after death down to the molecular level.

And that's where the astronauts are being dispatched to, is Jupiter to figure out what's going on with some weird signal coming from that planet, right?

But Toynbee was talking about scientifically resurrecting people or whether it was possible. And the tile maker took that idea and ran with it and basically came to believe that science was meant to carry out the project of creating the afterlife that God promised.

Monesquieu, for example, wrote in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws. And he basically proposed the idea of a separation of powers.