By 
Malcolm Gladwell
 | 
TED Stage Talk

The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.

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