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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.62,0:00:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is a map of New York State
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.02,0:00:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was made in 1937\Nby the General Drafting Company.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.42,0:00:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an extremely famous map\Namong cartography nerds,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.77,0:00:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because down here at the bottom\Nof the Catskill Mountains
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.52,0:00:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a little town called Roscoe
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.60,0:00:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- actually, this will go easier\Nif I just put it up here -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.63,0:00:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Roscoe, and then,\Nright above Roscoe, is Rockland, New York,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.10,0:00:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then right above that\Nis the tiny town of Agloe, New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.06,0:00:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agloe, New York,\Nis very famous to cartographers,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.18,0:00:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's a paper town.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.08,0:00:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also known as a copyright trap.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.08,0:00:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because my map of New York\Nand your map of New York
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.47,0:00:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are going to look very similar,\Non account of the shape of New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.71,0:00:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often, map makers will insert\Nfake places onto their maps,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.36,0:00:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to protect their copyright,\Nbecause then,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.97,0:00:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if my fake place shows up on your map,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.60,0:01:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can be well and truly sure\Nthat you have robbed me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.85,0:01:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agloe is a scrabblization of the initials\Nof the two guys who made this map
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.11,0:01:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ernest G. Alpers and Otto Lindberg,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.01,0:01:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they released this map in 1937.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.48,0:01:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Decades later, Rand McNally releases a map
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.46,0:01:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Agloe, New York, on it,\Nat the same exact intersection
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.62,0:01:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two dirt roads\Nin the middle of nowhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.66,0:01:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you can imagine the delight\Nover at General Drafting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.13,0:01:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They immediately called\NRand McNally, and they say,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.13,0:01:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We've caught you!\NWe made Agloe, New York, up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.87,0:01:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a fake place. It's a paper town.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.04,0:01:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to sue your pants off!"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.23,0:01:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Rand McNally says,\N"No, no, no, no, Agloe is real."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.11,0:01:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because people kept going\Nto that intersection of two dirt roads
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.08,0:01:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.82,0:01:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of nowhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.10,0:01:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expecting there\Nto be a place called Agloe,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.64,0:01:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone built a place\Ncalled Agloe, New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.80,0:02:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It had a gas station, a general store,\Ntwo houses at its peak.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.97,0:02:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.20,0:02:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is of course a completely\Nirresistible metaphor to a novelist,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.60,0:02:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we would all like to believe\Nthat the stuff that we write down on paper
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.29,0:02:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can change the actual world\Nin which we're actually living -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.16,0:02:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is why my third book\Nis called "Paper Towns".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.60,0:02:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what interests me ultimately more\Nthan the medium in which this happened
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.49,0:02:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the phenomenon itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.26,0:02:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's easy enough to say that the world\Nshapes our maps of the world, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.28,0:02:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the overall shape of the world\Nis obviously going to affect our maps.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.11,0:02:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I find a lot\Nmore interesting is the way
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.34,0:02:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the manner in which we map\Nthe world changes the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.37,0:02:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the world would truly be\Na different place if North were down.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.68,0:02:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the world would be a truly\Ndifferent place if Alaska and Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.18,0:02:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weren't on opposite sides of the map.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.46,0:02:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the world would be a different place
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.41,0:03:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we projected Europe\Nto show it in its actual size.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.66,0:03:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is changed\Nby our maps of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.76,0:03:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way that we choose to, sort of,\Nour personal cartographic enterprise
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.72,0:03:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also shapes the map of our lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.33,0:03:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that in turn shapes our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.78,0:03:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that what we map\Nchanges the life we lead.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.67,0:03:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't mean that in some, like,\Nsecrecy Oprah's Angels network, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.54,0:03:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you-can-think-your-way-out\N-of-cancer sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.58,0:03:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do believe that while maps\Ndon't show you
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.60,0:03:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you will go in your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.12,0:03:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they show you where you might go.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.17,0:03:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You very rarely go to a place\Nthat isn't on your personal map.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.02,0:03:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was a really terrible\Nstudent when I was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.30,0:03:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My GPA was consistently in the low 2s,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.48,0:03:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think the reason\Nthat I was such a terrible student
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.27,0:03:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I felt like education\Nwas just a series of hurdles
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.18,0:03:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been erected before me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.18,0:03:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to jump over\Nin order to achieve adulthood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.87,0:04:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I didn't really want\Nto jump over these hurdles,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.37,0:04:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they seemed completely arbitrary,\Nso I often wouldn't,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.33,0:04:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then people would threaten me,\Nyou know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.47,0:04:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'd threaten me with\N"this going on my permanent record",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.47,0:04:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or "you'll never get a good job".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.36,0:04:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want a good job!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.30,0:04:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as I could tell\Nat eleven or twelve years old, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.11,0:04:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people with good jobs woke up\Nvery early in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.30,0:04:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.02,0:04:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the men who had good jobs,\None of the first things they did
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.21,0:04:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was tie a strangulation item\Nof clothing around their necks.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.30,0:04:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They literally put nooses on themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.49,0:04:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they went off to their jobs,\Nwhatever they were.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.40,0:04:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not a recipe for a happy life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.23,0:04:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people - in my, symbol-obsessed,\Ntwelve-year-old imagination,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.46,0:04:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these people who are strangling themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.67,0:04:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one of the first things\Nthey do each morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.32,0:04:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can't possibly be happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.25,0:04:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why would I want to jump over\Nall these hurdles
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.54,0:04:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have that be the end?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.80,0:04:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a terrible end!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.82,0:04:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, when I was in tenth grade,\NI went to this school,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.73,0:05:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indian Springs School,\Na small boarding school,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.76,0:05:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of Birmingham, Alabama,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.46,0:05:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all at once I became a learner.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.95,0:05:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I became a learner,\Nbecause I found myself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.20,0:05:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a community of learners.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.33,0:05:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself surrounded by people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.73,0:05:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who celebrated intellectualism\Nand engagement,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.73,0:05:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who thought that my ironic\Noh-so-cool disengagement
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.31,0:05:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't clever, or funny,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.38,0:05:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, like, it was a simple\Nand unspectacular response
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.76,0:05:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to very complicated\Nand compelling problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.76,0:05:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I started to learn,\Nbecause learning was cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.60,0:05:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that some infinite sets\Nare bigger than other infinite sets,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.89,0:05:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I learned that iambic pentameter is\Nand why it sounds so good to human ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.15,0:05:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that the Civil War\Nwas a nationalizing conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.62,0:05:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned some physics,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.01,0:05:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that correlation\Nshouldn't be confused with causation -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.14,0:05:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of these things, by the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.07,0:05:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enriched my life\Non a literally daily basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.08,0:05:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's true that I don't use\Nmost of them for my "job",
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.41,0:05:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's not what it's about for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.63,0:06:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about cartography.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.18,0:06:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the process of cartography?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.09,0:06:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's, you know, sailing upon some land,\Nand thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.72,0:06:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I think I'll draw that bit of land",
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.20,0:06:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then wondering,\N"Maybe there's some more land to draw".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.55,0:06:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's when learning\Nreally began for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.78,0:06:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true that I had teachers\Nthat didn't give up on me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.44,0:06:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was very fortunate\Nto have those teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.87,0:06:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I often gave them cause to think\Nthere was no reason to invest in me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.100,0:06:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a lot of the learning\Nthat I did in high school
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.55,0:06:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't about what happened\Ninside the classroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.78,0:06:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was about what happened\Noutside of the classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.29,0:06:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, I can tell you that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.05,0:06:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's a certain slant of light,\N[On] winter afternoons,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.84,0:06:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That oppresses, like the heft [weight]\NOf cathedral tunes",
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.71,0:06:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because I memorized\NEmily Dickinson in school,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.11,0:06:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was in high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.76,0:06:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because there was a girl,\Nwhen I was in high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.43,0:06:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her name was Amanda,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.85,0:06:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had a crush on her,\Nand she liked Emily Dickinson poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.29,0:06:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason I can tell you\Nwhat opportunity cost is,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.74,0:06:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because one day when I was playing\NSuper Mario Kart on my couch,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.50,0:06:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friend Emmet walked in, and he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.57,0:07:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How long have you been playing\NSuper Mario Kart?",
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.17,0:07:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "I don't know,\Nlike, six hours?", and he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.36,0:07:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You realize that if you'd worked\Nat Baskin-Robbins those six hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.63,0:07:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could have made thirty dollars,\Nso in some ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.24,0:07:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just paid thirty dollars\Nto play Super Mario Kart",
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.89,0:07:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was, like, "I'll take that deal."\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.46,0:07:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I learned what opportunity cost is,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.75,0:07:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and along the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.61,0:07:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the map of my life got better,\Nit got bigger, it contained more places.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.70,0:07:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were more things that might happen,\Nmore futures I might have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.04,0:07:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't a formal\Norganized learning process,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.47,0:07:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm happy to admit that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.40,0:07:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was spotty, it was inconsistent,\Nthere was a lot I didn't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.56,0:07:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might know, you know,\Nthat Cantor's idea
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.70,0:07:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some infinite sets are larger\Nthan other infinite sets,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.61,0:07:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I didn't really understand\Nthe calculus behind that idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.48,0:07:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might know the idea of opportunity cost,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.65,0:07:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I didn't know the law\Nof diminishing returns.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.96,0:07:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the great thing about imagining\Nlearning as cartography,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.76,0:08:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of imagining it\Nas arbitrary hurdles
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.87,0:08:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have to jump over
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.48,0:08:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you see a bit of coast line,\Nand that makes you want to see more.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.05,0:08:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so now I do know\Nat least some of the calculus
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.50,0:08:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that underlies all of that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.14,0:08:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I had one learning community\Nin high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.50,0:08:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I went to another for college,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.58,0:08:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I went to another,\Nwhen I started working
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.02,0:08:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a magazine called "Booklist",
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.56,0:08:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I was an assistant
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.80,0:08:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by astonishingly\Nwell-read people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.95,0:08:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I wrote a book,\Nand like all authors dream of doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.15,0:08:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promptly quit my job.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.75,0:08:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for the first time since high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.94,0:08:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself\Nwithout a learning community,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.94,0:08:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was miserable.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.52,0:08:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hated it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.23,0:08:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read many, many books\Nduring this two-year period.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.54,0:08:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read books about Stalin,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.58,0:08:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and books about how the Uzbek people\Ncame to identify as Muslims,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.88,0:08:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I read books about\Nhow to make atomic bombs,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.31,0:08:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it just felt like\NI was creating my own hurdles,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.95,0:08:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then jumping over them myself,\Ninstead of feeling the excitement
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.86,0:08:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being part of a community of learners,\Na community of people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.09,0:09:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are engaged together\Nin a cartographic enterprise
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.21,0:09:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of trying to better understand\Nand map the world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.99,0:09:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, in 2006, I met that guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.36,0:09:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His name is Ze Frank.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.95,0:09:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't actually meet him,\Njust on the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.95,0:09:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ze Frank was running, at the time,\Na show called "The Show with Ze Frank",
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.98,0:09:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was my way back\Ninto being a community learner again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.74,0:09:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's Ze talking about Las Vegas:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.01,0:09:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Ze Frank: Las Vegas was built\Nin the middle of a huge hot desert,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.52,0:09:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost everything here\Nwas brought from somewhere else -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.58,0:09:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sort of rocks,\Nthe trees, the waterfalls.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.74,0:09:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These fish are almost as out of place\Nas my pig that flew.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.82,0:09:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrasted to the scorching desert\Nthat surrounds this place,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.71,0:09:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so are these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.84,0:09:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things from all over the world\Nhave been rebuilt here,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.34,0:09:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from their histories,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.73,0:09:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the people\Nthat experience them differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.98,0:09:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, improvements were made.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.62,0:09:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the Sphinx got a nose job.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.21,0:09:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, what you see is what you get,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.94,0:09:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's no reason to feel\Nlike you're missing anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.75,0:09:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This New York means the same to me\Nas it does to everyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.72,0:10:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is out of context,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.24,0:10:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that means\Ncontext allows for everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.37,0:10:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Self Parking, Events Center, Shark Reef.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.28,0:10:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fabrication of place could be one\Nof the world's greatest achievements,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.91,0:10:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because no one belongs here,\Neveryone does.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.02,0:10:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I walked around this morning,\NI noticed most of the buildings
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.13,0:10:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were huge mirrors reflecting\Nthe sun back into the desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.85,0:10:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But unlike most mirrors,\Nwhich present you with an outside view
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.83,0:10:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of yourself embedded in a place,\Nthese mirrors come back empty.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.85,0:10:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Green:\NIt makes me nostalgic for the days
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.06,0:10:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you could see\Nthe pixels in online video. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.76,0:10:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ze isn't just a great public intellectual,\Nhe's also a brilliant community builder,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.68,0:10:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the community of people that built up
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.69,0:10:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around these videos was in many ways\Na community of learners,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.55,0:10:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we played Ze Frank at chess\Ncollaboratively, and we beat him.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.70,0:10:42.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We organized ourselves to take a young man\Non a road trip across the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.65,0:10:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We turned the Earth into a sandwich
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.22,0:10:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by having one person hold a piece of bread\Nat one point on the Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.76,0:10:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the exact opposite point\Nof the Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.06,0:10:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having another person\Nholding a piece of bread.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.42,0:10:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realize that these are silly ideas,\Nbut they are also 'learny' ideas,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.24,0:11:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was what was so exciting to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.21,0:11:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you go online, you can find\Ncommunities like this all over the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.79,0:11:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Follow the calculus tag on Tumblr,\Nand yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.18,0:11:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will see people complaining\Nabout calculus,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.50,0:11:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you'll also see people\Nre-blogging those complaints,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.16,0:11:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making the argument that calculus\Nis interesting and beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.16,0:11:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here's a way in to thinking about\Nthe problem that you find unsolvable.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.92,0:11:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can go to places like Reddit,\Nand find sub-Reddits,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.53,0:11:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like 'Ask a Historian', or 'Ask Science',
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.03,0:11:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can ask people\Nwho are in these fields
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.25,0:11:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a wide range of questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.82,0:11:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from very serious ones to very silly ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.100,0:11:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to me, the most interesting\Ncommunities of learners
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.47,0:11:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are growing up on the Internet\Nright now are on YouTube,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.57,0:11:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and admittedly I am biased.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.98,0:11:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think in a lot of ways,\Nthe YouTube page resembles a classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.57,0:11:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look for instance at "Minute Physics",
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.46,0:11:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a guy who's teaching\Nthe world about physics.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.89,0:11:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Let's cut to the chase.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.94,0:11:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As of July 4th, 2012, the Higgs Boson\Nis the last fundamental piece
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.22,0:11:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the standard model of particle physics\Nto be discovered experimentally.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.68,0:11:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you might ask,\Nwhy was the Higgs Boson
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.69,0:12:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,included in the standard model,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.20,0:12:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside well-known particles\Nlike electrons and photons and quarks,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.54,0:12:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it hadn't been discovered\Nback then in the 1970s?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.04,0:12:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good question.\NThere are two main reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.27,0:12:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, just like the electron\Nis an excitation in the electron field,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.52,0:12:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Higgs Boson is simply a particle\Nwhich is an excitation
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.31,0:12:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the everywhere-permeating Higgs field.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.43,0:12:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Higgs field in turn\Nplays an integral role
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.68,0:12:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our model for the weak nuclear force.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.82,0:12:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In particular, the Higgs field\Nhelps explain why it's so weak.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.85,0:12:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll talk more about this\Nin a later video,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.98,0:12:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even though weak nuclear theory\Nwas confirmed in the 1980s,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.95,0:12:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the equations, the Higgs field
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.56,0:12:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is so inextricably jumbled\Nwith the weak force,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.86,0:12:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that until now we've been unable\Nto confirm
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.98,0:12:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its actual and independent existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.88,0:12:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JG: Or here's a video that I made
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.51,0:12:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of my show "Crash Course",\Ntalking about World War I:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.79,0:12:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) The immediate cause was of course\Nthe assassination in Sarajevo
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.29,0:12:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand,\Non June 28, 1914,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.21,0:12:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist\Nnamed Gavrilo Princip.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.45,0:12:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quick aside: it's worth noting\Nthat the first big war
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.13,0:12:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the twentieth century\Nbegan with an act of terrorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.86,0:13:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Franz Ferdinand\Nwasn't particularly well-liked
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.19,0:13:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by his uncle, the emperor Franz Joseph
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.39,0:13:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- now that is a moustache! -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.88,0:13:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even so, the assassination led Austria\Nto issue an ultimatum to Serbia,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.47,0:13:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereupon Serbia accepted some,\Nbut not all, of Austria's demands,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.64,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading Austria to declare\Nwar against Serbia.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then Russia, due to its alliance\Nwith the Serbs, mobilized its army.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.44,0:13:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Germany, because it had an alliance\Nwith Austria,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.96,0:13:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told Russia to stop mobilizing,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.04,0:13:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which Russia failed to do,\Nso then Germany mobilized its own army,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.26,0:13:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,declared war on Russia,\Ncemented an alliance with the Ottomans,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.35,0:13:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then declared war on France,\Nbecause, you know - France!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.46,0:13:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.78,0:13:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not just physics\Nand world history
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.20,0:13:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people are choosing to learn\Nthrough YouTube.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.20,0:13:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a video about abstract mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.77,0:13:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) So you're me,\Nand you're in math class yet again,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.47,0:13:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they make you go,\Nlike, every single day.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.86,0:13:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're learning about, I don't know,\Nthe sums of infinite series.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.23,0:13:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a high school topic, right?\NWhich is odd, because
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.92,0:13:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a cool topic, but they\Nsomehow manage to ruin it anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.78,0:14:00.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I guess that's why they allow\Ninfinite series in the curriculum.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.100,0:14:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in a quite understandable need\Nfor distraction,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.54,0:14:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're doodling and thinking more about
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.43,0:14:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the plural of "series" should be\Nthan about the topic at hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.54,0:14:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Serieses," "seriese,"\N"seriesen," and "serii?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.73,0:14:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or is it that the singular\Nshould be changed?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.87,0:14:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One "serie," or "serus," or "serum?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.68,0:14:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like the singular\Nof "sheep" should be "shoop."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.26,0:14:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the whole concept of things like
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.14,0:14:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 and so on,\Napproaching one,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.50,0:14:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is useful if, say, you want\Nto draw a line of elephants
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.14,0:14:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each holding the tail of the next one:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.12,0:14:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,normal elephant, young elephant,\Nbaby elephant,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.31,0:14:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dog-sized elephant,\Npuppy-sized elephant...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.46,0:14:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the way down to Mr. Tusks and beyond.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.55,0:14:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is at least a tiny bit awesome,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.54,0:14:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can get an infinite number\Nof elephants in a line
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.48,0:14:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still have it fit across\Na single notebook page.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.03,0:14:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JG: And lastly, here's Destin,\Nfrom "Smarter Every Day",
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.70,0:14:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about the conservation\Nof angular momentum
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.11,0:14:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, since it's YouTube, cats:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.73,0:14:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Hey, it's me, Destin.\NWelcome back to "Smarter Every Day".
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.88,0:14:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you've probably observed that cats\Nalmost always land on their feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.28,0:14:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's question is why?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.81,0:14:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like most simple questions,\Nthere's a very complex answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.68,0:14:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, let me\Nreword this question:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.84,0:15:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does a cat go from feet up\Nto feet down in a falling reference frame
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.59,0:15:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without violating the conservation\Nof angular momentum?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.40,0:15:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JG: So, here's something\Nall of these videos have in common:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.63,0:15:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they all have more than\Nhalf a million views on YouTube.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.63,0:15:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those are people\Nwatching not in classrooms,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.13,0:15:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because they are part\Nof the communities of learning
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.14,0:15:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are being set up\Nby these channels.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.73,0:15:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said earlier that YouTube\Nis like a classroom to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.71,0:15:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in many ways it is,\Nbecause here is the instructor
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.40,0:15:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- it's like the old-fashioned classroom -\Nhere's the instructor,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.69,0:15:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then beneath the instructor\Nis the students,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.16,0:15:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're all having a conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.16,0:15:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that YouTube Comments
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.07,0:15:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a very bad reputation\Nin the world of the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.17,0:15:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in fact, if you go\Non comments for these channels,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.44,0:15:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you'll find is people\Nengaging the subject matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.44,0:15:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking difficult, complicated questions\Nthat are about the subject matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.02,0:15:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then other people\Nanswering those questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.49,0:15:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because the YouTube page is set up
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.23,0:16:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the place\Nin which I'm talking to you
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.17,0:16:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is on the exact same page
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.63,0:16:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as your comments,\Nyou are participating in a live
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.58,0:16:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and real and active way\Nin the conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.08,0:16:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because I'm in comments usually,\NI get to participate with you,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.02,0:16:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you find this\Nwhether it's world history,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.54,0:16:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or mathematics, or science,\Nor whatever it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.54,0:16:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You also see young people using the tools
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.01,0:16:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sort of genres of the Internet\Nin order to create places
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.10,0:16:30.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for intellectual engagement\Ninstead of the ironic detachment
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.100,0:16:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that maybe most of us associate\Nwith memes and other Internet conventions,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.37,0:16:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know "Got bored - Invented calculus",
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.37,0:16:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or here's Honey Boo Boo\Ncriticizing industrial capitalism
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.74,0:16:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Liberal capitalism is not at all\Nthe Good of humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.43,0:16:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle\Nof savage destructive nihilism"].
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.80,0:16:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In case you can't see what she says...\NYeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.72,0:16:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really believe that\Nthese spaces, these communities
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.88,0:16:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have become, for a new generation\Nof learners,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.17,0:17:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kind of communities,\Nthe kind of cartographic communities
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.58,0:17:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had when I was in high school,\Nand then again when I was in college.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.42,0:17:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as an adult,\Nre-finding these communities
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.64,0:17:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has re-introduced me\Nto a community of learners,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.64,0:17:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has encouraged me to continue\Nto be a learner even in my adulthood,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.06,0:17:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I no longer feel like learning\Nis something reserved for the young.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.42,0:17:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vi Hart and "Minute Physics" introduced me
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.16,0:17:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all kinds of things\Nthat I didn't know before.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.71,0:17:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that we all hearken back
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.54,0:17:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the days of the Parisian salon\Nin the Enlightenment,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.54,0:17:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to the Algonquin Round Table, and wish,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.82,0:17:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I wish I could have been\Na part of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.27,0:17:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could have laughed\Nat Dorothy Parker's jokes".
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.01,0:17:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm here to tell you\Nthat these places exist, they still exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.82,0:17:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They exist in corners of the Internet,\Nwhere old men fear to tread. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.09,0:17:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I truly, truly believe that when\Nwe invented Agloe, New York, in the 1960s,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.97,0:18:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we made Agloe real,\Nwe were just getting started.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.52,0:18:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.11,0:18:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)