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    "text": "We have a highly unusual mission for today's deep dive and we're just going to jump right into the deep end with this one."
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    "text": "Oh"
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    "text": "yeah, we really are"
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    "text": "because you know usually when we receive a source file to analyze for you it has a certain amount of weight to it."
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    "start": 13.54,
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    "text": "Right substance exactly!"
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    "start": 15.4,
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    "text": "You open the document datasets or historical narratives, maybe a controversial thesis."
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    "text": "Or like a really dense scientific breakdown"
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    "text": "of"
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    "start": 25.28,
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    "text": "text you expect to wade through paragraphs of information right?"
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    "start": 28.46,
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    "text": "You want to extract those core insights but today?"
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    "text": "well Today we are looking at a source file that essentially defies the definition Of a document entirely."
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    "start": 38.62,
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    "text": "it really"
  },
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    "start": 39.02,
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    "text": "It's almost startling when he first opened its"
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    "text": "campaigns absolutely zero standard body text."
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    "text": "There are no data points."
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    "text": "Mm-hmm there is No narrative, there isn't even a single complete sentence."
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  {
    "start": 49.34,
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    "text": "know it Is a radical departure from the norm for us?"
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    "start": 52.76,
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    "text": "The document we received consists of exactly nine words."
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    "text": "nine words"
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    "start": 57.38,
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    "text": "just nine."
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    "text": "It is A title a formatting cue and a repetition."
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    "start": 62.18,
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    "text": "it reads And I quote excerpts From the periodic table secrets and then that's followed by the phrase the periodic Table Secrets"
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    "text": "and"
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    "text": "That's it."
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    "text": "After that, the document is completely blank."
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    "text": "It's just this endless expanse of white space where the actual secrets were supposed to be."
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    "start": 79.4,
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    "text": "it Is so frustrating?"
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    "start": 80.68,
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    "text": "Its like its opening a massive heavy triple locked vault in some Swiss bank and you lean In To see The priceless artifact And You Just find A post-it note on the floor That says valuables!"
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    "start": 93.18,
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    "text": "That is perfect analogy"
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    "start": 94.6,
    "end": 94.8,
    "text": "Right?"
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    "start": 94.88,
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    "text": "I mean what are...and What Are YOU The listener is supposed to make of a source that boldly promises the secrets of the universe's fundamental building blocks, but then completely redacts the actual information."
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    "start": 105.7,
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    "text": "That creates massive puzzle!"
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  {
    "start": 107.04,
    "end": 109.78,
    "text": "It really does because the author didn't provide the text."
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    "start": 109.84,
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    "text": "so we have to deconstruct the nine words We do have and bring in our own knowledge at the periodic table To figure out what those withheld secrets actually are."
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    "start": 119.52,
    "end": 127.66,
    "text": "Yeah, we are going to decode the missing text by looking at the hard science and well...the hidden history that should have been on that page."
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    "start": 128.28,
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    "text": "And when a document is stripped down into just a title like this The remaining words carry an immense structural load."
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    "start": 135.16,
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    "text": "Do you really do?"
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    "start": 136.0,
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    "text": "They"
  },
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    "start": 136.18,
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    "text": "stop being simple labels right they become these highly concentrated concepts."
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    "start": 140.44,
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    "text": "So We Have To Start By Analyzing The Very First Word The Author Chose To Present Us With."
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    "start": 145.18,
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    "text": "Okay Let's unpack it."
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    "start": 146.28,
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    "text": "That word is excerpts."
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    "start": 148.22,
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    "text": "Right, excerpts from..."
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    "start": 149.48,
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    "text": "Yeah and the word excerpts establishes a very specific relationship between the text and the reader."
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    "start": 155.12,
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    "text": "it is essentially a guarantee of a larger unseen reality."
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    "start": 159.3,
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    "text": "Oh interesting how so?"
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    "start": 161.34,
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    "text": "Well when you read The Word Excerpt You are fundamentally accepting that A more comprehensive mother-text exists somewhere else in the world."
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    "start": 169.24,
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    "text": "It proves that what you are looking at is merely a fragment of a larger truth."
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    "start": 173.16,
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    "text": "Okay, that makes sense."
  },
  {
    "start": 174.0,
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    "text": "it's not the whole story"
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    "start": 175.02,
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    "text": "exactly but more importantly The concept of an excerpt implies a human intervention."
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    "start": 180.68,
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    "text": "okay wait What do you mean by Human Intervention?"
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    "start": 182.92,
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    "text": "I mean That information doesn't naturally fracture itself into perfectly readable highlights."
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    "text": "You know An excerpt means that an editor, a curator or maybe even a sensor has actively stepped in."
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    "start": 194.36,
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    "text": "Oh I see!"
  },
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    "start": 194.9,
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    "text": "They have evaluated the entire body of work and made a calculated decision to extract only specific portions for your consumption."
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    "start": 202.36,
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    "text": "Okay let me challenge the intentionality of that for a second though."
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    "start": 205.06,
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    "text": "Sure Because In an era where data is constantly being scraped And aggregated And automatically summarized by software Do we actually know there was human editor?"
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    "start": 216.86,
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    "text": "That's a fair point."
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    "start": 217.72,
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    "text": "Like,"
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  {
    "start": 217.98,
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    "text": "could this just be a metadata error?"
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    "start": 220.0,
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    "text": "A glitch where the system pulled the title tag but totally failed to grab the body text?"
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    "start": 225.7,
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    "text": "It is definitely possible"
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    "start": 226.82,
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    "text": "because if the text promises excerpts...plural But literally repeats it twice."
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    "start": 233.24,
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    "text": "Maybe that repetition isn't some profound message maybe its just technical failure."
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    "start": 237.16,
    "end": 244.22,
    "text": "It is entirely possible that this a digital artifact or formatting error, but you know even if we view it through the lens of systemic glitch."
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    "start": 244.62,
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    "text": "It perfectly mirrors modern crisis information consumption."
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    "start": 248.88,
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    "text": "Oh wow!"
  },
  {
    "start": 249.98,
    "end": 251.42,
    "text": "The way just consume fragments"
  },
  {
    "start": 251.7,
    "end": 252.22,
    "text": "Exactly."
  },
  {
    "start": 252.66,
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    "text": "We have built an entire culture around the consumption rather than whole."
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  {
    "start": 256.92,
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    "text": "I mean rely on headlines executive summaries bullet points algorithmic highlights all to inform our worldview."
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    "start": 265.78,
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    "text": "We are conditioned to accept the extraction as a substitute for the comprehensive"
  },
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    "start": 270.1,
    "end": 270.52,
    "text": "text."
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    "start": 270.9,
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    "text": "That is so true, we want the TLDR version of The Universe!"
  },
  {
    "start": 274.56,
    "end": 274.8,
    "text": "Right."
  },
  {
    "start": 274.98,
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    "text": "and when this system fails and delivers only the title it basically strips our modern media diet down into its most absurd reality...we're essentially consuming packaging and calling."
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    "start": 288.06,
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    "text": "That is such a vivid way to put it."
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    "start": 290.12,
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    "text": "This document just gave us the ultimate TLDR, It save as trouble of reading this book by confirming that the book exists."
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    "start": 296.92,
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    "text": "But let's look at what the book claims be about because this isn't an excerpt from a cookbook or celebrity memoir."
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    "start": 302.66,
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    "text": "The title they chose spotlight was The Periodic Table Secrets."
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    "start": 306.72,
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    "text": "Let's isolate first part of that The periodic table."
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    "start": 310.5,
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    "text": "By invoking the periodic table The author is making a massive loaded statement about the kind of information we're dealing"
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    "start": 317.82,
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    "text": "with."
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  {
    "start": 318.22,
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    "text": "They absolutely are!"
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    "text": "bedrock of the physical universe."
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    "text": "It's The Ultimate Inventory List!"
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    "start": 340.5,
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    "text": "Yeah, it is a catalog of every single elemental ingredient that makes up reality from the oxygen you are breathing right now to the silicon in the microchips of the device playing this audio...to the iron at the core of the earth?"
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    "text": "document creates this massive collision of concepts."
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    "text": "if the periodic table is the ultimate symbol of scientific transparency how can it have a secret?"
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    "start": 371.9,
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    "text": "That's like finding a true crime documentary called The Dark Past Of The Alphabet."
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    "start": 376.36,
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    "text": "I love that analogy!"
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    "start": 377.6,
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    "text": "Right...the alphabet is just a tool doesn't have an agenda and the Periodic Table Is Just Protons And Electrons..it Doesn't Hide Things In The Shadows."
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    "text": "And that cognitive dissonance is exactly why we need to dig into the mechanics of what The Periodic Table actually Is and how it was constructed."
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    "text": "because To understand What secrets could possibly be hidden in this blank document?"
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    "text": "We have to Understand Why we assume the table is so perfectly transparent In the first place."
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    "text": "right"
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    "text": "Because we just take you for granted."
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    "text": "we do but the transparency You were talking about wasn't handed down from the sky."
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    "text": "Let's look at the underlying logic the actual mechanism with a table."
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    "text": "Let's"
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    "text": "In eighteen sixty nine, Dmitry Mendelev-a Russian chemist didn't just make a list of known elements he discovered physical law."
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    "text": "Mendelev was obsessed with the properties at the sixty three elements known at that time and literally made a deck of cards."
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    "text": "Wait really like playing cards."
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    "text": "Basically yeah each card represented an element its atomic weight in it chemical property."
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    "text": "Wow!"
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "And eventually he realized that if you arrange elements in order increasing atomic weight their chemical properties repeat at regular predictable intervals."
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    "text": "That is the periodic part of The Periodic Table It's recurring cycle."
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    "text": "So it's not just a random grid?"
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    "text": "No!"
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    "text": "For example, the alkali metals like lithium-sodium and potassium all react violently with water And they appeared at predictable intervals."
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    "text": "in his sequence"
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    "text": "he arranged them into vertical columns based on these shared behaviors."
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    "text": "But the true genius of Mendeleev's table, that-the reason it is The Bedrock Of Modern Chemistry Is What He Did When The Pattern Broke."
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    "text": "What do you mean when a broke?"
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    "text": "Oh wow!"
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    "text": "He possessed the sheer audacity To claim That the elements missing from his grid must exist in nature."
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    "text": "They just hadn't been discovered yet."
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    "text": "I want to pause on that because it is crucial for our listener."
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    "start": 517.78,
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    "text": "Mendeleev essentially created a document with blank spaces, much like the source document we are analyzing"
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    "text": "That's great connection!"
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    "text": "Right"
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    "text": "they were highly specific predictions."
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    "text": "They were?"
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    "text": "He even named these theoretical elements using Sanskrit prefixes Like For The Gap Below Aluminum."
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    "text": "he called the missing element Eca-aluminum."
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    "text": "Okay, and he didn't just say it existed."
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    "text": "He mathematically calculated its atomic weight Its density It's melting point."
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    "text": "And how would react with oxygen?"
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    "text": "Just from the gap in the car?"
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    "text": "From the gap yeah, and years later a French chemist discovered The element gallium."
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    "text": "it fit into Mendeleev blank space perfectly."
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    "text": "It's atomic weight its density, and it's extremely low melting point."
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    "text": "It matched Mendeleev's predictions almost flawlessly."
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    "text": "That is incredible, so Mendelevs table was essentially a predictive engine?"
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    "start": 576.38,
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    "text": "Yes!"
  },
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    "start": 577.08,
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    "text": "it wasn't just the map of where we had been."
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    "text": "and that level of predictive power creates this aura of absolute unshakable truth around the table...it"
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    "text": "right if you can predict physical properties of rock hasn't even dug out to ground yet You have cracked the source code of reality."
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    "text": "Yeah, you"
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    "text": "Oh he did."
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    "text": "an atomic weight have anomalies"
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    "text": "your kind of anomalies."
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    "text": "well for example if you place argon And potassium strictly by their atomic weight they fall into the wrong columns For their chemical behaviors"
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