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How to Invent Everything: Ryan North

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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The Bad Hypothesis, Fashion Is Never Practical

Pasteurization was invented in 1,117 CE and then reinvented in the 1800s by Louis Pasteur who puts his name all over it. Hot air balloons symbolize the human dream of flight - we finally achieve it with lighter than air flight with hot air balloons. The Mongol Fae first balloon wasn't silks you saw on the previous slide but a burlap sack lined with paper. There is things in art and music that also can be plagiarized if you want to call it that from the present and brought back to the past.

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