a really important role. Um you know, the founding fathers used newspapers and pamphlets to to spread their message and you know, a lot of that is was what we would now refer to as likedisinformation or misinformation. They spread a lot of lies. Um and they used it to kind of fight with each other and
help you and anytime you get any serious diagnosis and if it's heart disease or diabetes they give you a million pamphlets and they're all like from 1960 and they're turning them over and you know so this is the type of chemotherapyyou'll get here's what you can do to prevent the radiation or the the side effects and you on and on and on and
DARPA is very interested in all sorts of things that improve human performance. pamphlets which he then nailed to the doors of churches and led to the creation of the Protestant Church and the erosion of power of the Catholic Church.
Over 25 million books were printed in a 50-year period. Billions of political pamphlets , advertisements, short treatises, and so on. And we celebrate, today, 500 years later, the outcome of that information revolution.
And my father-- oh, I almost forgot one of the most interesting things. My father had pamphlets printed up. And the name was also on the thing.
It never occurred to him that he alienated 98% of the people who saw the bed. And so the pamphlets had Koontz Komfy Kot, and the K were bigger than anything else, so you read it as KKK. And Fluffy was there, and the girlfriend was there, and my father was there, and I was there.
And you could read all manner of printed news instead of being used books-- which are precursors of newspapers. There would be pamphlets , there would be handwritten newsletters that were called "Letters of News." These were gathered by the precursors of journalists. They were people who went around listening and talking and exchanging gossip and then they'd write it down and they would send these "Letters of News"
And there are others as well. I talk about pamphlets in the English Civil War, the circulation of poetry in the Tudor Court, the circulation of pamphlets in the run up to the American Revolution, the circulation of poems on tiny slips of paper in the run up to the French Revolution.
That's actually not the problem-solving algorithm at work. female audience member #4: Pamphlets ?
floor of that Labor Library, on the back at the archives, on the back shelf there's a copy of every UAW contract between the 1940s and today. And decades ago, those contracts were like little pamphlets , right? Now, they're bigger than phonebooks with rules and regulations and this's and that's; 16 pages on seniority alone. I mean, it would be impossible for anyone to manage under into those conditions. A lot of that stuff was stripped away as a condition of these companies getting government aid.
He realized that to create a sustainable, long-term, on-site business venture they needed the full range of human skills. And from then on every venture had pamphlets and marketing materials.
In fact, they were supporting the fascists. I learned it in 1939 from reading pamphlets and left wing literature, and others, which exposed the fact that the Texaco Oil Company, which was run by an outright Nazi, didn't even hide it, had contracts with the Republic to supply oil.
for him. So he responded. He followed up with a series of pamphlets that were written not in Latin, but in German because German was far more easily understandable. And also, they were written in a very deliberately simple German that didn't use local dialects or idioms.
So they could be understood throughout the German-speaking lands. And he produced a series of these pamphlets . And they, like the 95 theses, spread very quickly on their own.
And if you look at his sort of traffic stats, you get this. And this is the number of pamphlets that had been printed or reprinted in each year during the early years of the Reformation. So start down there and you can see in 1523, there's this massive traffic spike.
So start down there and you can see in 1523, there's this massive traffic spike. And the blue is the Latin pamphlets , and the red is the German pamphlets . And the darker bits are the number of new pamphlets by Luther.
And John Cairncross met these exiled Italians and was very moved by what they told him, which was he had to work in an organized, underground way in order to-- had to work from abroad and publish pamphlets and take part in other acts of espionage outside Italy. Now, we can debate the extent to which Italy under Mussolini can be compared to Britain under and Chamberlain and so on.
and Dragons," the other that does. The beautiful witch you will actually find in those original pamphlets that very few people have today, of course. This was a very small production.
And then really quickly, it kind of grew larger than that. Right. And my little pamphlets were not really useful. And it's the middle of the night, and there's tear gas and pepper spray flying.
And the chap on the top left is a pamphlet seller. And this is because Luther wrote a series of pamphlets that took on doctrine in the Catholic Church, in particular the doctrine of indulgences, which is the "get out of purgatory free" ticket.
And the blue is the Latin pamphlets , and the red is the German pamphlets . And the darker bits are the number of new pamphlets by Luther. And the lighter bits are the number of reprints of pamphlets .
And the darker bits are the number of new pamphlets by Luther. And the lighter bits are the number of reprints of pamphlets . So you can see in 1523, it's said to be 3/4-- a bit more-- of the pamphlets , call it 350 reprints, are going on there.
he could use this mechanism. So he followed up with a series of pamphlets , mostly written in German. And a very easy to understand German which avoided any sort of dialectic-- regional dialects.
And a very easy to understand German which avoided any sort of dialectic-- regional dialects. And he would simply take the text on one of these pamphlets that he would write and give it to a printer in his town. And they would print 1,000 copies.
Where you've got all the order world 353 prints of 1,000-- maybe 2,000-- copies of these pamphlets . What's happening here is that the blue pamphlets are Latin ones and the red ones are German ones. And the dark bits are the number of new pamphlets that Martin Luther is issuing each year.
What's happening here is that the blue pamphlets are Latin ones and the red ones are German ones. And the dark bits are the number of new pamphlets that Martin Luther is issuing each year. And the white ones are the number of reprints.
But he did write some in Latin because he was also addressing the theological audience to who he wrote in Latin. You can see that the retweets of existing pamphlets are sort of more important than the number of the actual pamphlets that he's putting out. And overall, there was something like 5 to 7 million pamphlets by Luther and others floating around Europe within the first 10 years of the Reformation.
So this is an example on the right of what a pamphlet would look like. And again, pamphlets were very often written in the form of letters, even if they weren't actually letters to real people. So this is a letter from a gentleman in Kent to a friend in London.
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology If you were Luther and you saw your pamphlets spreading like wildfire-- One description was that they were more seized than sold.
DARPA is very interested in all sorts of things that improve human performance. It was also used to print the Revolutionary pamphlets in the late 1700s of the founding fathers of this country.
and book collector later in his life. Unfortunately for Wise, in the 1930s, two younger British book dealers conducted an investigation of some of these pamphlets and discovered through a variety of techniques that many of them were fraudulent. That is, Wise had printed them up himself, along with some conspirators and was passing them off as originals. The techniques these collectors, these dealers, used to discover the fraud were of the deductive
animals a few came up to ask for buttons pamphlets and sometimes to pose for a
Printing presses produced vast numbers of horrible, hateful pamphlets that exacerbated the religious wars of Europe.
And during the day, we hand out pamphlets .
in the exhibition hall, there were pamphlets on Vedic Science and Vedic Science is a type
And a number of the ones that I kind of gravitated towards were refugees from Spain, people who fled from after the crushing of the anarchist revolution in 1937. And I picked up all kind of pamphlets and understanding. I learned a lot of things, which are just barely getting into the news now.
If you go back at the founding of our country, we had all kinds of pamphlets and many newspapers
It's not a great photo, but I brought some pamphlets that are over here, you guys can look at.
So what they do is they go to DC, and they slip like Truth about Monopoly pamphlets under people's dinner plates, especially the journalists.
What you were supposed to do is go to the coffeehouse and read all the stuff that they had, which would be news books and pamphlets There's the poetry that was passed around the Tudor court, the pamphlets around the time of the English Civil War, and in the run-up to the American War of Independence,
And this shows you have a great big spike in traffic in 1523, which is the height of the Reformation. Where you've got all the order world 353 prints of 1,000-- maybe 2,000-- copies of these pamphlets . What's happening here is that the blue pamphlets are Latin ones and the red ones are German ones.
You can see that the retweets of existing pamphlets are sort of more important than the number of the actual pamphlets that he's putting out. And overall, there was something like 5 to 7 million pamphlets by Luther and others floating around Europe within the first 10 years of the Reformation. And the result was the splitting of Western Christendom, and the emergence of Protestant churches and Protestant Christianity.
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology And more importantly, if you were one of the readers of one of Luther's pamphlets , pamphlets were quite accessible.
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology And if we look at what happened to-- So Erasmus is complaining around the time of Luther that there are all these pamphlets flying around.
This is Caine backstage, making games out of the pamphlets that they had.
And much like any other serious disease you have, or ailment, or clinical diagnosis, they give me a bunch of pamphlets from the 70s.
And when I was a history major at University of Colorado, they actually had, in the history department, these pamphlets that said what to tell your parents
And the lighter bits are the number of reprints of pamphlets . So you can see in 1523, it's said to be 3/4-- a bit more-- of the pamphlets , call it 350 reprints, are going on there. And let's assume they had 1,000 copies each.
That's 350,000 just in that year. And actually, over the whole of the first decade of the Reformation, there's about 5 to 7 million pamphlets whizzing around in Europe. And they're amazingly accessible unlike a book.
coming off. But that wasn't how you were supposed to do it. What you were supposed to do is go to the coffeehouse and read all the stuff that they had, which would be news books and pamphlets and handwritten newsletters and broadsides and all sorts of things like that, all the stuff that came out.