Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
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The talk
TED http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell.html
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiZTvlWx2g
dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/ef1c08b4-d7ce-4e7d-9e6f-20b5a98e0f62
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
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan
Corrections of the transcript
2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 It's a real pleasure to be here. It's a true pleasure to be here. 137 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 He was simple the instrument of God's will. He was simply the instrument of God's will. 159 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 on this absolutely essential piece of technology. on this absolutely central piece of technology. 192 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 And the Norden bombsight does work as well And the Norden bombsight doesn't work as well 263 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 those surface-to-air missiles those [surface-to-surface] missiles 343 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 the air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight The air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight