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The Ridiculous Engineering of the Most Important Machine: Veritasium [video]

6 points by b-lee ago | 3 comments

sylware [-]

In (physical) high-tech engineering, like the blue led, it seems there is a pattern: extremely competent people are going against all their peers and the people in charge (usually the worst).

dataviz1000 |root |parent [-]

... That one time they put Galileo’s head on the block.

Veritasium is storytelling. The stories of the people behind these discoveries—the ones that follow a hero’s arc—are insanely compelling.

sylware |root |parent [-]

Well... there is a pattern...