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is for that for I did not expect uh someone to be on the potty um uh but that is the thing about home movies um sometimes that happens and I'm sure with video well I know with video it happens even more uh because the camera just would be going and uh at that age uh kids sometimes are proud to be on the potty um so um anyways hey I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show uh I was not sure if I could do a live show today because of a doctor's appointment that just popped up um because to that doctor's appointment I am very uncomfortable but it was very important to me excuse me what gives me great joy is doing this show live for you and you know reading your comments and interacting with you so in spite of feeling like crap I'm here and this is a temporary feeling like crap this is not going to be the future is going to be a world of not feeling like this so than things are looking up um I won't go into any more detail some of you can piece it together and have have pieced it together but uh let's see where was I going to go with all this um yesterday I showed some nursing films and uh I have not been able to look at the comments to like to see how traumatizing the last two films were uh in a world of aphasia and pain and its alleviation uh and so uh yeah I don't know how it went over um and then you know today I was going to show more stuff about health um but I decided not to uh decided to do a live show and uh I also have more news um so who took down um my uh public domain screening show on the 1 it was Warner Brothers uh claiming um Buster Keaton's cameraman which fell into public domain on January 1st uh and so the rules of YouTube are not based on the rules of the land it's based on whoever claims it and they love uh cow to to Big content like Warner Brothers or Discovery Warner as they are known now so uh I try to follow the rules and I get slapped for it uh very frustrating but um let's go ahead and I have a film set up on the scanner behind me let's go ahead and watch that this will put me in a good mood um and I have to change the title of this uh have to change a lot here one second oh my gosh everything so I was having problems with this machine on the first and uh uh uh I finally got it up and running I just basically left it on for two days straight and it's finally sorted itself out all right so this is called what's for breakfast if you know the song sing along enjoy the most important person in the whole wide world is you and you even know you the most important person in the whole wide world is you come on we'll show you let's find out more about the things you feel and do cuz you're the most important person in the world to [Music] you hey little bird time to wake up little fell Yahoo come on little bird it's morning time come on out and play oh goodness Cowboy it's hard enough to get up in the morning I don't have the strength to play right now here comes the sun Yahoo whatever beautiful sunrise so it is what a great day to get up and go Yahoo e don't talk to me about going anywhere in the morning I've got no energy at all I'm good for nothing till Doom time and lunch what you need is breakfast to get you started breakfast what food first thing in the morning that's when you need it rle cakes bacon milk that's breakfast for a cowboy Yahoo hey where are you going to find some peace and quiet ah hey what are you doing a fell could get hurt have some breadcrumbs bird no thanks but I thought birds love breadcrumbs don't talk to me about food in the morning what's that some cold chicken I got from the refrigerator I love chicken for breakfast and it's good for you too hey bro don't fly away until you eat something you might not make it want some tortillas andol you mean to tell me beans and cheese and rice are things you eat for breakfast sometimes and sometimes we have cereal or eggs hey bird where are you going ham cheese peanut but toast waffles grapefruit cereal milk eggs andon call me wait a minute why is everybody so eager to get me to eat something in the morning tell them cowboy cowboy these kids the really bananas over breakfast it's frightening smart little partners aren't they Yahoo they know how to get there get up and go in the morning but they all have different things surely that can't be right what you eat for breakfast doesn't really matter that you eat something is what [Music] counts okay there I just ate a worm now will you get off my back everybody sure bird we were just trying to be friendly wait a minute I feel radiant bursting with an abundance of energy I feel as if I'm growing you were right something to eat in the morning is fantastic hey I want all of you to try a worm oh worm I don't want to eat where are they all going why' they run away worms are for Birds little partner people food is for kids yooo you said it Cowboy what a beautiful morning [Music] Yahoo I like that cowboy alarm clock so this this very much covers the same territory as uh one doesn't Kathy eat breakfast um where she's exposed to all different types of options for eating um less about what is specifically considered breakfast food and more about just eat something uh so you have energy for the rest of the day uh what do we got what do we got um let's learn about obtaining facts enjoy what is a scientific fact something we can see touch is it any information that comes to us through our senses perhaps suppose we try to describe facts to someone else this mouse has two eyes Fact one tail fact its fur is smooth fact or is it maybe it feels smooth compared to this rock but compared to this glass surface the mouse may feel lumpy even slightly rough the word smooth is subjective it's not clearly defined perhaps we should restrict our definition of facts to those observations which people can describe to one another without confusion think about the facts obtained by a newborn baby his mother may look to him like this is such an impression a fact what about this image is our impression of a circle a fact watch does it still look like a circle the information provided by our eyes may be correct yet become distorted as our brain interprets it here's another example the two horizontal lines are they straight or are they curved we can arrive at a judgment with the help of a simple instrument a ruler many times in science we need instruments to help us arrive at facts with our naked senses it's hard to tell which of two similar objects is heavier we can get more precise facts with the balance assuming that we're skilled in using it a pair of tweezers keeps moisture from our hands off the weights a glass door Shields the balance from air currents the idea is to avoid distorting facts as we obtain them suppose we make a mistake in using the balance we can check ourselves by repeating our measurements or asking someone else to such principles of measurement are followed in obtaining key facts in science facts such as measurements of the speed of light these values given in kilom per second were obtained by different experimenters over a period of more than a 100 years using a variety of methods when facts are obtained using different instruments and different methods and are found to agree we have more confidence in them not only do instruments offer greater Precision in obtaining facts but they extend our senses giant telescopes help us obtain facts about stars and galaxies too far away to be seen by the naked eye at The Other Extreme facts about objects too small to be detected with our uned senses are brought To Us by various kinds of microscopes obtaining facts by such indirect means puts great demands on our knowledge and judgment for instance when viewing things under high magnification it's necessary to use intense light how does this concentrated energy affect biological specimens we'll demonstrate a couple drops of human blood exposed to the intense energy from the substage light the blood dries out in a matter of seconds this time we'll prepare another sample and cover it with the second and slide you take several minutes before the blood dries out long enough to observe red blood cells intact a biologist learns a variety of ways to avoid distorting facts sometimes Distortion is unavoidable here a tissue sample is being sliced into thin sections so that they can be viewed under a microscope each tissue section is stained with a d to make some parts more visible when we view such a specimen we must remember what preparation it has gone through to help us judge what it was like originally in such cases it becomes necessary to obtain information a step removed from the observed facts such information is properly termed interpretation rather than fact although it's not always easy to decide where facts end and interpretation begins consider this astronomer as he examines data from a distant star under a microscope these highly magnified rather fuzzy sets of lines are Spectra from two different light sources the dark band across the middle is a spectrum of a distant star obtained with the a of of a telescope the staright was directed to a spectrograph here the light was spread out to form a spectrum the Spectrum was recorded on a photographic plate the same plate we saw under the microscope once the spectrum of the star was photographed the spectrograph was aimed not through the telescope but at a small light source to one side here light was given off by The Vapor of a heated glowing element in this case iron light from the iron Vapor passed through the spectrograph forming a spectrum of iron on the same plate as was used for recording the spectrum of the star remember that the dark band is the spectrum of the star the sets of lines above and below are the spectrum of the vaporized iron both Spectra have been photographed on the same slide so they can be paired these two microscopic Spectra these sets of lines are what an astronomer sees when examining the slide viewing the facts he notices something for each line in the iron Spectrum there is a corresponding line in the Stellar Spectrum from this the astronomer infers that there is vaporized iron present in the distant star an interpretation it would be described as an interpretation by the astronomer himself in dealing with other astronomers in a newspaper or other mass media however the presence of iron in the star might be described as a fact this could be misleading to anyone who didn't know that what the astronomer had actually seen was simply two sets of lines on a glass slide this is why scientists must be critical of facts obtained from other people's research an astronomer's report states that a certain star produces as much energy in the form of x-rays as the sun does at all wavelengths is this fact or interpretation we can evaluate the information if the article contains references to the methods by which the data was obtained people make similar evaluations of reports in every area of science a biologist May write an article describing the growth of a virus for us to evaluate his report we must know how it was obtained in this case it was based upon information obtained with an electron microscope the many spheres seen under the microscope rather the two-dimensional representations of spheres supposedly show viruses in the process of being formed how much of this information might another scientist accept as fact how much as interpretation obtaining facts in science is a complex process it involves many skills skills in using the senses in using instruments in using our judgment to interpret the [Music] results it's a continuing process that helps us arrive at meaningful useful [Music] facts pretty great uh love me a science film from the um late 60s uh so quite coincidentally for some reason a stack of films uh were on the uh kitchen table here at the archive and so I was like oh what are these for I don't know so uh I went through them and the first one that we watched from that stack was uh what's for breakfast uh this is the second one so this is coincidentally related to what we just saw now um this came from Buffalo Public Schools and I know that Buffalo Public Schools would sometimes if the the title was clear clipped the beginning was clipped they would put on tack on something that uh kind of a homemade title that was on burlap with these beautiful 3D letters um so I don't know what this film is really titled uh it is a British uh information film and uh it is called opinions how formed at least that's what they call it uh we'll see um enjoy well got to start at the bottom again with something else oh stuff on you bit I know but it's something no one can be in two minds about it's accepted by everyone quite apart from its being the law everyone look I'll write to the exchange for you you still got a fortnite fortnite I never thought I'd live to see the day when I'd be glad to be back in rompers you see my old woman things for the house shoes for the kid she had the coupons all right we never had the money ah you lovely thing you it's nice having your back and quite too still it's hard luck on young Bank losing his job his job I was here for 3 years before the war ever started still he's been here ever since you left blamy there's gratitude for you I go and get my guts all tangled up in a flaming war and all you can say is i' like on young bait see what I mean there's always more than one point of view and your opinion is bound to be affected one way or another the people of this country are going to insist on this legislation the people of this country are not going to stand for one moment for anything of the kind going through nobody does anything so nothing gets done what little peton wants is more of everything and it ought to cost so much the people of this constituency must realize that what we want is plans more far-reaching plans more detailed and elaborate plans why you up and remember Balter sir I disapprove of everything you say but I will defend to the dead you're right to say it think of the power of speech today when one man's voice can reach the whole world think of the terrifying power the radio can have over the minds of men for evil or for good one voice that can reach the whole world Tuesday night discussion of postwar problems tonight we bring to the microphone three eminent men who will discuss among themselves hey don't do that you never know it might be interesting help you to make up your mind about a lot of things well that's a fine thing ready film commentators butting into your home and bsing your about and now by way of contrast we bring you a scene from this week's new play wouldn't I be learning something from this instead yes some plays can affect you a lot and so can the cinema every week nearly 30 million people go to the picture much of a picture I don't mind do you marvelous laughing and Mary cran it just look at that bathroom it's big as an house ain't it a few treat what they see critically with every one of them something sticks you mean everything we see in here is just a lot of propaganda well let's say your opinions are being influenced in One Direction or another you seem to think I just sit around like a sponge soaking up everybody's ideas I don't I've got ideas of my own of course you have I mean your mind acts like a Civ not a sponge M like a Civ me um yeah I I'll work on trying to get that to work in the meantime let's watch uh the short story called Norman and the killer enjoy [Music] [Music] for d so by this time the ticket seller was really fed up with a drunk and he says to him look buddy I have told you three times the train leaves at 9:02 and arrives at 9:03 and the drunk looks up at him and he says are you sure you haven't heard this before yes what more tell me you'll stop me if you've heard this before I'll stop you there's nothing worse than what than a drunk at your window that's it that's the end of the joke no I just made that one up it's a WR joke anyway no I was talking too much no you weren't yes I was I tend to do that talk too much no you don't I do listen you said on the phone that you wanted to talk about something and here I am doing all the talking um yes I uh I did want to talk about something now what is it I don't know it's just something I feel kind of things start out so simple and then become so complicated how do you mean it's all so predictable well that I can understand fill it up please you know I get up every morning in that same room I've been living in since I was a kid and I get dressed I eat I go to work Always by the same route on the way to work on the freeway there's a sign overhead that says San Francisco 487 mil I see it every day sometimes I think I'll just keep on driving but I don't I've been offered a job in New York four and a quarter I don't know what to do about it it's a good job hey all right all right Norman what what's the matter I think I know that man you know him from where it's nothing never mind why didn't you ask him if he knew you it's all right it's nothing never [Applause] mind It's a Wonderful opportunity and you know I've always wanted to be a designer now I have a chance I don't know I mean I'd hate to wake up one morning and think that I hadn't done something that might have made me really happy I can't imagine what it'd be like to go home again certainly wouldn't be the way it was when I was growing up it certainly wouldn't be the way it was when I was married I can promise you that oh my God Norman excuse me just sorry Norman operator yes operator I'd like to speak to the police you mean the sheriff yes of course the sheriff is this an emergency I no one moment please never catch me oh yeah you're dead no you're the one who's dead Al may help you hello hello what is it Norman tell me what it is have you made up your mind yet about what about that job in New York I don't know don't you think you're being just a bit Hasty dropping everything and running off I wouldn't be running off I'd finally be doing something for myself I think you're being damned irresponsible you sound like my husband well maybe he was right it's just a stupid job it's not a stupid job it's a good job and I'm going to take it well what about us what about us most of the time I don't know what you're thinking I don't know where you are you don't have conversations I talk I don't know what you do Norman you're asleep you won't even try a road marked San Francisco no less New York I'm sorry come on quit dragging it along mom says we shouldn't come down here come on Norman let's go home come on you little [Music] chicken you get [Music] me [Music] [Music] Norman St it St it St it St it ja St it St it stop it stop it [Music] [Applause] for excuse me hey what's the matter with you I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you it's there's something wrong with my car yeah it's kind of an emergency I'm closed I you could just take a look at it I'm only just down the road here I don't fix cars in the middle of the night no wait I'll make it worth your while I'm sure it won't take very much of your time it'll wait till morning now get away from my truck no don't I now I just want to talk to you hey okay I got 38 bucks and it's all yours now I don't want your money what do you want I got a wife and kids waiting for me not going to hurt you what do you want just drive where run back hey look my wife and kids are going to be waiting you just drive okay just don't get nervous okay turn them off what are you going to do turn off the lights look my I said turn them off now what's your name Cameron everybody around here knows me and where you from City of Grove I live right right down the road now before that you mean where was I born now in Chicago yeah me and my family came out here you know first my mom then my dad hey come on man what's this all about came from Chicago yeah that's right how old were 25 what year was it come on what year was it I I I I don't remember get out of the truck I just want to talk to them let's talk here okay okay okay open it come on you you're making a mistake just get inside keep your hands up down please now I want you to listen to me very carefully 16 years ago last March you murdered my brother what the hell are you talking about I never murdered anybody I want the truth from you look you got the wrong guy I never murdered anybody you're after somebody else now I never murdered anybody when I was in the army or by accident or anything you and two other boys you caught us you hit my brother with something sharp you pushed him in the water when they found him his face was all slashed your brother I saw you do it you and two other boys mister I never killed anybody in my life then you got to believe that I saw you I saw you I saw your face you saw somebody else it wasn't me no it was you I got a lot of cousins and a lot of guys look like me living here huh yeah here and in the city too I thought you said you came from Chicago we all came out you all came out that's right well when was this I don't know you're a liar I'm not liar you're a goddamn filthy liar call I am not going to call the police without your confession they wouldn't believe it nobody would believe it and I have given up too much to get here tonight to let you get off that easy now I want an answer out of you I don't know what the hell you're talking about one Saturday afternoon on the docks you and two other kids you hit my brother in the face you pushed him in the water you're wearing a plaid shirt it was 4:30 in the afternoon and my brother drowned you understand that my brother drowned but I didn't I didn't drown you probably went home and WR about it in the papers and forgot about it I didn't forget here read this read it now I want the truth then what you going to shoot me I just want the truth written down and signed your confession My Confession on paper signed with your name then what then you going to shoot me I told you I'm not going to hurt you you got any paper you did it you said you saw me yes I saw you then I must have did it you do you admit it yeah you want stop stay JY nobody's going to shoot you for God's sake I just want the truth my brother and I were very close too you know I took care of him I did things for him I stood up for him and then one day you came along and killed him just like that for no reason nothing has ever been right since people like me you see we get caught in the middle I don't want to be here I don't want to be doing this I've got my own life yeah here I am I'm over 30 I haven't done anything I haven't started anything even I'm wasting all my time on his troubles don't you see I have to ruin myself to make this right I'm not admitting anything what wait a minute you were just say a minute ago you son of a [ __ ] you did it you did it I did I did it oh I don't care what you do these I'm not going to ADM nothing you did it you killed him you did you killed my little brother why don't you admit it oh God [Music] here this you need to eat eat it it's good for you I said eat it Cameron if you don't eat that orange I'm going to kill you now you going to kill me over an orange eat eat pelix first I said to why did you do it no reason not even money nothing think there must be something inside a murderer's brain that pinches him and makes him do it and everything is ruined nothing can be right again balanced not for years not for lifetimes until Justice is one till that first crime is punished look I never You Want To Make Me Hurt You don't you that's it isn't you know I never wanted to hurt anybody never but you want to bring me down to your level don't you don't you like an animal a godamn filthy animal what do you want me to do what do you want me to write you said you let me go I never said that yes you did you said if I sign it you let me go I never said it I heard you why don't we go to the police they have a report you sit there and whine about yourself you we could go we we could go you tried to kill me just like you killed him no no no you got any paper you write it wrong no no no I'll write it right I mean I'll write it and you check it and I'll sign it you think I'm crazy no who would believe what you wrote with a gun pointed at your head nobody body would believe it that doesn't prove anything I can't prove anything you caught me trapped now just like you did then I might as well be out in the goddamn water drowning myself I'm drowning right here they they believe in not oh no they would not in jity if I said how I remembered it and who was with me and what their names were it wouldn't do any good well how about if if I got in touch with those guys and I know where they live look I I wasn't alone I mean I wasn't the only one you're lying no I'm not I'm telling you the truth it's in the newspapers every day how they kill people walk out never remember nothing ever happens nobody gets punished nothing gets put right Ellen walked out my brother walked out now you get out what I said get out of the car no you can go do you you mean leave here yeah go on go home your wife sure yeah [Music] okay [Music] Cameron [Music] up [Music] [Music] [Music] wow um yeah not the normal educational film but certainly this would have been shown uh in a uh English literature class American lit class high school maybe College definitely uh this is probably shown on PBS as well is made uh funded by AFI American Film um Institute which also funded one of my favorite films a racer head um but this made in 1981 and it's based on a uh Joyce Carol oats short story who is still alive Joyce Carol oats okay uh thanks for tuning in today uh I am going to uh reshow that British film um because I got it on a core now so it's not going to be so iffy um so if you interested in that you want to see how it ends CU we really don't know how it begins uh we don't know the title of it either but excuse me if you want to see it to the end uh stay with us watch watch it uh otherwise thanks for tuning in hit the thumbs up the like button uh you can subscribe that's a way to support us also go to ko-fi.com avgeeks uh you can support us with some coffee um which I might spend on ibuprofen because I'm uncomfortable um experiencing some discomfort uh we can also you can go to patreon.com avgeeks that's another way to support us also via the super thanks button so here is opinions how formed which is the title that was attached to this British film enjoy botom again with something else oh it's stuff on your baits I know but it's something no one can be in two minds about it's accepted by everyone quite apart from its being the law everyone look I'll write to the exchange for you you still got a fortnite fortnite I never thought I'd live to see the day when I'd be glad to be back in rompers you see my old woman things for the house shoes for the kid she had the coupons all right never had the money ah you lovely thing you it's nice having your back and quite right too still it's hard hard luck on young Banks losing his job his job I was here for 3 years before the war ever started Still's been here ever since you left blamy there's gratitude for you I go and get my guts all tangled up in a flaming war and all you can say is I'd like on young baits see what I mean there's always more than one point of view and your opinion is bound to be affected one way or another the people of this country are going to insist on this legislation the people of this country are not going to stand for one moment for anything of that kind going going through nobody does anything so nothing gets done what little puddleton wants is more of everything and it don't to cost so much the people of this constituency must realize that what we want is plans more far-reaching plans more detailed and elaborate plans why' you pack up and go around remember alter sir I disapprove of everything you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it think of the power of speech today when one man's voice can reach the whole world think of the terrifying power the radio can have over the minds of men for evil or for good one voice that can reach the whole world Tuesday night discussion of postwar problems tonight we bring to the microphone three eminent men who will discuss among themselves hey don't do that you never know it might be interesting help you to make up your mind about a lot of things well that's a fine thing ready film commentators butting into your home and bsing your about and now by way of contrast we bring you a scene from this week's new play wouldn't I be learning something from this instead yeah some plays can affect you a lot and so can the cinema every week nearly 30 million people go to the picture how much of a picture I don't mind do you marvelous laughing and marry cran it just look at that bathroom it's big as an house ain't it a few treat what they see critically with every one of them something sticks you mean everything we see in here is just a lot of propaganda well let's say your opinions are being influenced in One Direction or another you seem to think I just sit around like a sponge soaking up everybody's ideas I don't I've got ideas of my own of course you have I mean your mind acts like a Civ not a sponge mind like a Civ me no no I don't mean that either I mean that you sift out from what you read and hear and see on the stage or screen the ideas that you think best then you form your own so does everybody else makes you think doesn't it look right and I've got my own opinion about something or other what good does it do there's nothing I can do about individual opinion isn't much good by itself but take um well anything you have strong opinions about look take this what's it in Aid of I don't know it's a flag day I always give to Flag Day nspcc National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children there you are if you were the only person in England who thought people shouldn't be cruel to Children it' be a poor lookout for the children but what [Music] happens more and more individuals who saw children uncared for and Ill treated thought something ought to be done in the end a lot of them got together and formed a group The nspcc to get their opinions across it couldn't be done overnight it took a lot of organization a lot of trouble spreading the opinion of the group getting more members a lot of time forming committees spreading the organization and organizations cost money to run they had to launch appeals and get more and more money until in the end they got what they wanted done there's one example a group which has power to do what it wants built up from a lot of individuals who all have the one opinion the biggest group of organized opinion in the country is in the trade Union must it over the machine this damn here get busy myself something more to be done about it something's got to be done about the air conditioning plant in that bigger Workshop that's not just my opinion every man that works here thinks the same and it's up to the works committee to put our opinion before the management here here I move then that we approach the management with this request I'll second then yes I know I know there's nothing you can't do in a democracy it sounds all right it sounds wonderful but you know it doesn't mean a thing why not because it's all on paper it's all talk you've told me how people's opinions are formed then you say that all I have to do is get together a group of people with the same opinion as myself and spread it and then what happens talk talk and more talk I'm sick and tired of talk you say the Machinery is already there but has anybody ever been able to use it have you ever triy it well you ever try to get your union to do anything try to get something out of a local Authority try to make your opinion felt in a political party even join the political party will have you all I can say is other people have other people whose opinions may be no better than yours but stronger have seen to it that they got what they wanted well of force just an individual who believed that slavery be abolished and he got what he wanted done Florence Nightingale who was determined to better the conditions in military hospital and she got what she wanted done Elizabeth fry wanted prison reform and she got prison reform Lord sharpr wanted Factory reform and he got Factory reform yes but that's all past history now well it all affects the way you live today yes but has anything a bloke like me ever thought made any difference in our lifetime have been parliamentary elections in our lifetime haven't there and people that you and people like you elected have passed acts of parliament well legislation which is simply the result of public opinion being brought to bear on Parliament if the citizen isn't getting what he wants done he writes to his MP and if he still doesn't get what he wants he votes for someone else next time he gets the chance there's so much that needs to be done so many things you want freedom from poverty freedom from disease freedom from squalor and ignorance Freedom From War if you want these things you can spread your opinion to other people other people who are influenced As You Are by what they read in the papers by what they read in books by what they hear in conversation by what they hear in speeches on the radio by what they see on the screen when you've spread your opinion you can form groups and unions and political parties and demand what you want and damn will see to it that you make your opinion felt well it's all very interesting are you here to explain this stuff to everyone good Lord now I'm just a visitor like yourselves what do you mean you don't get paid for saying all that no no no I don't work here actually I'm a film commentator this is my day off well [Applause] goodbye I love it um I'm going to look at this up uh British information War film and that was bc32 is that right maybe British war film no I'm not seeing it let's see this is cating um information I'm sure sure results with uh yeah I'm not sure I'm going to have to do some more digging um um but uh that title oh well it says public opinion right there on the um public opinion H maybe that's the name of the film uh thanks for watching and uh we'll be back again live tomorrow that's the plan in case uh other stuff happens um but um otherwise have a great rest of your day and we will see see you soon bye