Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

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This is a page of resources and discussion for "Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight"

The talk

TED http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell.html

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About the speaker

Personal website http://www.gladwell.com/

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321656/

Interviews


Related resources

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce (TED2004) http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html


Terms and expressions

Carl Norden

ETH Zurich (Federal Polytech) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Z%C3%BCrich

Lenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin (Lenin stayed in Zurich in 1917 but was not a student of Polytech.)

Lafayette Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Street_(Manhattan)

Norden bombsight

Leuna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuna

Squadron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadron_(aviation)

F-15E Fighter Eagle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Strike_Eagle

Scud missile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud (Scud is surface-to-surface missile, not surface-to-air.)

drone


Corrections of the transcript

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It's a real pleasure to be here.
It's a true pleasure to be here.

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He was simple the instrument of God's will.
He was simply the instrument of God's will.

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on this absolutely essential piece of technology.
on this absolutely central piece of technology.

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And the Norden bombsight does work as well
And the Norden bombsight doesn't work as well

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those surface-to-air missiles
those [surface-to-surface] missiles

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the air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight
The air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight