How Nikola Tesla's Kindness Ruined His Life | Newsthink

How Nikola Tesla's Kindness Ruined His Life | Newsthink

How Nikola Tesla's Kindness Ruined His Life Why Tesla's tower of dreams collapsed. Visit https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ to start learning STEM for FREE and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://twitter.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Special thanks to the following for permission to use their material: 4:53 Alan Bellows of Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/teslas-tower-of-power/ 7:38 Archive of The Electrical Experimenter courtesy of The Tesla Collection http://teslacollection.com/tesla_articles/1917/electrical_experimenter/h_winfield_secor/u_s_blows_radio_tower The footage aired in the story constitute Fair Use for news reporting purposes. Other elements were purchased by Newsthink Ltd. Or fall under a creative commons license in which re-use is allowed. Image sources: 0:13 Nikola Tesla color photo pulsepowernow.com, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons 6:11 Background image of Marconi: Published on LIFE / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons 8:52 Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) 8:56 Richard Huppertz / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) 9:22 Spaceboyjosh, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 9:36 Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - -------------- --------- Keywords: spaceX, mossad, physics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution | Newsthink

The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution Claude Shannon is the father of Information Theory. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman’s biography called A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age https://a.co/d/5sSLUIL Chapters: 00:00 How Computers Understand 1s and 0s 0:35 Growing Up in Michigan 1:20 Boolean Logic: The Language of Computers 1:57 Building Circuits with Math 3:09 Working on the Differential Analyzer at MIT 4:15 The 1937 Master’s Thesis That Changed the World 5:15 Dabbling in Genetics 6:06 Building War Machines (SIGSALY) 7:25 Shannon Bell Labs 8:22 The Birth of Information Theory (1948 Paper) 9:07 Becoming a Celebrity Scientist 10:20 Building Theseus, an Electronic Mouse That Learned 11:01 Chess and Artificial Intelligence 11:28 Juggling, Stocks, and Curiosity 11:54 The Final Years: A Mind Lost to Alzheimer’s 13:39 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - ------------------------- ---------- Keywords: neuralink, scientific revolution, tech history, albert einstein, paypal mafia, physics, entrepreneurs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Greatest Mathematician Who Ever Lived | Newsthink

The Greatest Mathematician Who Ever Lived Carl Gauss was a child prodigy who reinvented mathematics. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Chapters 00:00 The Most Mathematical Child Who Ever Lived 0:43 Carl's Early Education and Genius Revealed 1:36 Self-Taught Scholar 2:53 The Revolutionary Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry 4:06 The Duke’s Patronage and Academic Success 5:04 Solving the Mystery of His Birthday 6:19 Revolutionary Impact of Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Arithmetical Investigations) 7:12 Gauss Predicts Planet Ceres 7:58 Gauss Falls in Love 9:08 The Duke's Dies and Gauss' New Path 11:04 Finding Love Again 11:54 Mapping the Kingdom of Hanover 13:23 The Earth's Magnetism 14:21 Carl Gauss’s Legacy 15:05 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Sources: University of Göttingen: By A.Savin - Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124836092Grace of Carl Gauss: Julian Herzog, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Göttingen Observatory (front view): Par Foto: Michael Paetzold, Lizenz: Creative Commons by-sa-4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121421415 Göttingen Observatory (rear view): Von Tine - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34289999 Lüneburg Heath (in order of appearance): 1) By Nikanos - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1245468 2) By Willow - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2604646 3) By Willow - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2582154 4) CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4492837 5) By Willow - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2579882Heliotrope: By Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58421933Victorian Civil Courtroom: Fayerollinson, CC BY-SA 3.0 ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Carl Gauss grave (winter): Longbow4u, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=599114 Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - -------------------------------- -------------- Keywords: bill gates, albert einstein, scientific revolution, billionaires, silicon valley, quantum physics, nvidia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Teen Who Stole $24 Million and Never Got Charged | Newsthink

The Teen Who Stole $24 Million and Never Got Charged How Ellis Pinsky pulled off the greatest SIM-swapping hack of all time. Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/newsthink to get a 14-day FREE trial and see how much of your data is being sold. Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including: John & Becki Johnston Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Irvington High School: By Beyond My Ken - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52099337 AT&T building: Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. ---- -------------- Keywords: scientists, silicon valley, tech history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Man Who Hacked the U.S. Government | Newsthink

The Man Who Hacked the U.S. Government Gary McKinnon faced 60 years behind bars for the greatest U.S. Military hack of all time. Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/newsthink to get a 14-day FREE trial and see how much of yours is being sold. Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including: John & Becki Johnston Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthin Highly recommend by the book Saving Gary McKinnon by Janis Sharp https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Janis-Sharp/dp/B01K90FWV2 1:36 Music by Clovis Schneider https://www.patreon.com/ClovisSchneider Select images/video supplied by Getty Images and Alamy. Sources: 0:59 The original uploader was Nick Cooper at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons 4:04 Marsham street background image of Home Office: Steve Cadman, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 6:36 Image of Karen Todner sourced from her X (formerly Twitter) profile 7:57 Alan Johnson image: catch21productions, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 8:36 Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 9:40 Interviewed aired on Daybreak on ITV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZRrru4LNc&t=93s 9:55 UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:00 David Gilmoure image: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sting image: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsTrudie Styler image: GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:07 Photo: Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons Attribute: Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC/MOD 10:31 Christian Guthier, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:33 UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 10:43 ukhomeoffice, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 12:48 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12:55 Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 12:58 Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 15:02 Full press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8272t57pg6Y Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - ------- ---- Keywords: albert einstein, tech history, space exploration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]