Knowledge Lost and Knowledge Regained | Episode 63 | Everything is Everything

We often assume that all knowledge is recorded, and every generation builds on the knowledge of past generations. This is not true. Much knowledge is lost -- and some is regained. Welcome to Episode 63 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah. In this episode, Amit and Ajay discuss precious knowledge of remarkable things that we lost over time -- some of which we are slowly regaining! If you like watching Everything is Everything, please like, subscribe, share, comment. :) TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 Packaging 00:13 Intro: The Witch Casts a Spell 13:08 Chapter 1: Silphium/Silpheon 20:00 Chapter 2: Dhaka Muslin 29:11 Chapter 3: Fogbank 36:43 Chapter 4: Artemisinin 49:07 Chapter 5: Reconstructing Germany and Japan After WW2 USEFUL RESOURCES: 1. Amit on Twitter:   / amitvarma   2. Ajay on Twitter:   / ajay_shah   3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: https://seenunseen.in/ (Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here:    / @theseenandtheunseen  ) 4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube:    / @xkdr   5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: https://amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3 6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: https://indiauncut.com/clear-writing/ 7. The India Uncut Newsletter -- Amit's newsletter at https://indiauncut.substack.com/ 8. The iPhone Thought Experiment -- Tim Urban: https://waitbutwhy.com/table/iphone-t... 9. Tim Urban on The Lex Fridman Podcast:    • Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Alien...   10. I, Pencil -- Leonard Read: https://fee.org/ebooks/i-pencil/ 11. Four Papers That Changed the World -- Episode 41 of Everything is Everything:    • Four Papers That Changed the World | Episo...   12. The Use of Knowledge in Society -- Friedrich Hayek: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essay... 13. The Royal Game -- Stefan Zweig: https://amzn.in/d/gFwWmYK 14. This Be The Verse -- Philip Larkin: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem... 15. This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2000 years -- or was it? -- Taras Grescoe: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pr... 16. The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make -- Zaria Gorvett: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... 17. Fogbank: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank 18. From bark to weed: The history of artemisinin -- Claude Faurant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... 19. Tu Yo-yo on the Nobel Prize website: https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhoch... 20. Seeing Like a State -- James C Scott: https://amzn.in/d/1k33fBq 21. Beware of Quacks. Alternative Medicine is Injurious to Health -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.com/beware-of-quac... 22. Bad Science -- Ben Goldacre: https://amzn.in/d/iIJxoIQ 23. Trick or Treatment? -- Simon Singh and Edzard Erst: https://amzn.in/d/aRiRnsA 24. Abby Philips Fights for Science and Medicine — Episode 310 of The Seen and the Unseen:    • Ep 310: Abby Philips Fights for Science an...   25. Postwar -- Tony Judt: https://amzn.in/d/bTKj7qL 26. On the Natural History of Destruction -- WG Sebald: https://amzn.in/d/fqCyZQQ 27. Orienting -- Pallavi Aiyar: https://amzn.in/d/b2Zbe0m 28. Pallavi Aiyar Has Seen the World -- Episode 351 of The Seen and the Unseen:    • Ep 351: Pallavi Aiyar Has Seen the World   29. Nightfall -- Isaac Asimov: https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/c... Produced by Amit Varma Shot by Vaishnav Vyas and Nomsita MS Haritashya:   / vaishnav.vyas   Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya:   / nomsitaharitashya   Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound:   / gaurav_chintamani   Chapter image by Simahina:   / i_am_simahina