The Terror: The Fall of Robespierre (Part 6)

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  This episode is brought to you by the Gates Foundation.

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  We have touched on the fall of the Roman Empire a few times on this show, haven't we?

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  But what our listeners may not know is that among the causes

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  that historians talk about, it's not just barbarian invasions.

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  There's also talk of a disease which people call Roman fever, which I believe we know now as malaria.

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  For thousands of years, humanity was defenseless against it.

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  But thankfully, we live in a time of incredible ingenuity.

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  And American scientists and partners around the world are fighting back with support from the Gates Foundation.

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  Yes, so they're creating a new generation of bed nets that kill up to 90% of mosquitoes.

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  That leads to a 50% drop in malaria, saving lives and protecting vulnerable communities.

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  The Gates Foundation, partners of human potential.

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  Search gatesfoundation.org slash mosquito to learn more.

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  This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind clawed.

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  Now, history's biggest leaps started as hard questions that people didn't want asked.

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  Yeah, there's a classic example of that at the end of the 15th century.

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  And the hard question in particular was, what is out there beyond the Atlantic Ocean to the West?

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  And as you will know, the man who found the answer to that question was the explorer Christopher Columbus.

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  And he realises, or rather everybody else realises,

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  that there is a vast continent out there, and it is, of course, the Americas.

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  So, you know, Anthropic knows the importance of questions,

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