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

5 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by b-lee

3 Comments

sylware

7 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

... 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

4 hours ago

Well... there is a pattern...