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England: The Broad Street Pump - Lies - Extra History

🕑 Added 2015-12-12 09:40:26 +0000 UTC

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Seattle went up too! Believe it or not the hills downtown are much, much milder slopes than the original ground the city was built on.

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While people were walking around in the buildings, no less!

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Yeah, and the coastal areas generally were cleaner so they had fewer infections going around. A sort of self-reinforcing prophecy.

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I went on the Seattle Underground Tour last month, and I loooved it! Being underneath the street and watching people's feet go over the skylights right above you is a really cool experience.

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It can never be more than 6!

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Carrie has way too much fun finding those thumbnail poses, I think. ;)

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Confirmation bias does make us believe that evidence supporting the things we want to be true is "more true" than evidence supporting things that would challenge our worldview. It's a basic human reaction, but definitely one to be aware of if we want to move ourselves past it!

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One of the things I enjoy about the non-war series, like this and the South Sea Bubble, is that it's actually easier to see parallels to our modern world than it is with the war series. Instead of people thinking "Oh, that's a good story, but that war is over now" (although hopefully they recognize that these wars still have implications today), you can really see that things like bubble investing in the South Sea series is something that still happens today.

Franek Korta

Rejecting Snow's evidence? People are doing it all the time. Example: What could go wrong with flushing poop down to river, which supplies us with drinkable water? Miasma gets diluted do safe level anyway. Besides sever system costs a lot of money. VS What could go wrong with raising CO2 level in atmosphere? It's volcanoes that are doing all this. Besides CO2 emission reduction costs a lot of money.

Adam "Lux-Vertas" Youdontneedtoknowmysurname

Dunno if someone said this but: on people rejecting Snow's evidence, there is something called Conformation Bias. Basically you come in with a bias and then you stick to it, this is why some people believe, even with MASSIVE evidence, things that make most people want to smack their heads at a brick wall!

FizzPlease

James, your face on the thumbnail totally slayed me. As always your enthusiasm for these is so fun.

Arturo Gutierrez

We should create some kind of number for the Walpole Degrees of Separation. Maybe even grade each Extra History episode with a WDS number.

Paul Lenoue

You think raising Chicago was weird, Seattle buried the first floor of most buildings in order to raise the streets.

Aldo de Leeuw

On why the Miasma theory was so well accepted, I think we forget how badly cities smelled those days. The smelliest parts of the city seemed also to be where the most sick people were. People who lived next to the coastal lines seemed so very healthy in comparison (like in the city of Bath). My grandma still considers the air from the sea the most beneficial to one's health...