Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 250 - The One Where We Learned About Books, Bleach, & Bidets

In This Week’s Show, episode 250, we’ll start in a flourishing age of patronage and reason, then end in a flushing of American populist rationalization.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while St. Timothy (the patron saint of stomach ailments) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

Eat more fiber...

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that the collective genome of all the bacteria living in your gut is at least 150 times larger than your own genome?

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Mural Agua Fresca by New Belgium collab with Cerveceria Primus, Mexico City

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/335648/

* BA Rating: 3.52/5

* Style:  Fruit and Field Beer

* ABV: 4%

* Aaron: 5

* Jenn: 5

* Steve: 6

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Big News!

We have an address to send us beer again! Beer donations can be sent attn: Big Gay Jim to the Bear Bottom Bar & Grill. Check out the show notes and/or https://BearBottom307.com for an address.

You should really just check out https://bearbottom307.com anyway.

Big thanks to Big Gay Jim and Hubby for letting us use their location for beer donations, which, we’re actually kind of in need of. The last of the donations have gone pretty quickly so if you were thinking of supporting the show and patreon.com/w4w sounds too much like sending us money, you can send us beer instead!

Dum Dum Followup again: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/08/14/flat-earthers-homemade-rocket-grounded-due-to-bad-craigslist-water-heater/

Headlines Hotshots

Patreon Publishing

No, it’s not actually about Patreon… thank the powers…

* https://anticastamperiaarmena.com

* http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190708-the-city-that-launched-the-publishing-industry

Since we're talking about education today - or lack thereof - I thought it might be interesting to dive into some of the earliest ways information of stored. I'm not going to go so far as cave paintings but instead will focus on the earliest printed books.

Germany is often considered the birthplace of publishing because of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the movable type printing press in the mid-15th century - not to be confused with Wordpress's homage-named movable block editor which is decidedly less revolutionary. But we're going to gloss over Johannes as well and move straight to Venetian bookbinders.

The modern Antica Stamperia Amena is dedicated to the preservation of artisan bookmaking. Paolo Olbi is a craftsman there.

Located in Dorsoduro neighborhood of Venice in an 18th-century building built for the Zenobio family the Antica is now owned and operated by the Armenian Mekhitarist (mecha-tourist) Fathers of Venice (an Armenian Catholic congregation).

“Since typographic art arrived in Venice in 1469, [the printing industry] underwent an extraordinarily large development because of the features of the lagoon city,” explained Federica Benedetti, a librarian at the Marciana National Library of Venice, one of Italy’s oldest surviving public libraries. “[Venice was] the main naval force in the Mediterranean Sea – it was in the centre of a thick net of commercial relations with the greatest European and non-European powers. Merchants and artisans [brought over] technological innovations and capital.”

Thanks to the cities dominance in trade Venice quickly became a hub of publishing and print trade.