Follow Jim Fitzgerald, the FBI agent who tracked down Ted Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber,” and brought him to justice | dHNzX0VJSDhFbGFsNVVj
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Excuse me.
00:06 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:09 Excuse me.
00:11 Was there a corrections page appended to the front?
00:15 Yeah.
00:16 And is it called corrections or errata?
00:19 Was it in English or Latin?
00:21 Leave it to the comparative linguistics grad student
00:24 to focus on what's relevant.
00:26 You know, the Unabomber had one thing right.
00:28 Did you all read paragraph 88?
00:31 Some scientific work has no conceivable relation
00:34 to the welfare of the human race.
00:36 Comparative linguistics, for example.
00:41 And you think your work is relevant to--
00:43 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:46 The FBI--
00:47 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:48 Oh, listen to the poli sci.
00:52 Time flies when you're having fun.
00:55 So what do we say about our per diem?
00:58 Front desk.
00:59 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
01:02 It's good stuff today.
01:09 Fill me in first thing tomorrow.
01:11 Excuse me.
01:12 You can get your per diem at the front desk.
01:14 No, no. It's not that.
01:15 I just-- my question was never answered.
01:18 Is it corrections or errata?
01:24 It's corrections.
01:26 Why?
01:28 Come look at the format.
01:30 It's weird.
01:31 To you, it's weird.
01:32 To me, these numbered paragraphs,
01:35 the numbered end notes, and the corrections page--
01:38 I mean, this is a dissertation.
01:39 This is standard formatting for a PhD.
01:42 I asked everyone about the formatting.
01:43 Well, that's the thing.
01:44 Modern dissertations look totally different now.
01:47 The word processor changed everything.
01:49 This is in the style of an older graduate thesis paper.
01:51 I noticed these kind of things.
01:53 And this style of end notes was only used before 1972-ish
01:57 when they changed to footnotes.
01:59 The corrections page?
01:59 It was called errata before 1967.
02:04 Meaning he learned the formatting between '67 and '72.
02:07 More than that.
02:08 Only PhD candidates use this style.
02:10 So if he's still using this format 20 years later--
02:13 He must have written a dissertation.
02:14 He must have written a dissertation between '67 and '72.
02:17 '72.
02:18 Very nice.
02:19 Comparative linguistics.
02:21 Not as useless as a Unabomber thinks.