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"TOWER TO THE PEOPLE" - Nikola Tesla Documentary

posted by CoolHand on Friday June 12 2015, @10:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the paying-homage-to-masters-of-science dept.

iWantToKeepAnon writes:

Matthew Inman over at The Oatmeal announced a documentary about Nikola Tesla called Tower to the People.

You may recall that Inman started a crowd funding campaign to save Tesla's Lab. Joseph Sikorski, who donated $33,000 back in 2012, directed the film. The movie is finished, but he's seeking funds to get it distributed and raise awareness about Nikola Tesla and their science center. If you want to support the film, please back the project or share this image.

For more background on Nikola Tesla, check out this entertaining and informative Ted talk.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CRCulver on Friday June 12 2015, @10:20PM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Friday June 12 2015, @10:20PM (#195548) Homepage
    Inman/The Oatmeal's fascination with Tesla coincided with a significant decline in his cartooning powers, where his jokes went from elaborate to half-hearted. Has his pitch for recognition of Tesla really been about appreciating the science and wanting to do some historical justice to Tesla, or has it been a cynical effort in click-baiting? In the couple of years before Inman got involved, Tesla had already become a craze in certain circles, and a savvy businessman could see that glorifying Tesla would be an easy way to win over an army of Redditors.
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 12 2015, @11:03PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 12 2015, @11:03PM (#195555) Journal
    Why would the motivation matter in this case?
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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CRCulver on Saturday June 13 2015, @12:31AM

      by CRCulver (4390) on Saturday June 13 2015, @12:31AM (#195577) Homepage
      Popular science initiatives carried out for profit reasons and not out of a sincere love and dedication to the science involved, tend to degenerate into vacuous infotainment things that don't leave the audience better informed. Sometimes they leave the audience worse off, because people are given the false confidence that they learned something, when in fact they continue to misunderstand the science and history involved. With a figure as prone to being exaggerated beyond his actual achievements as Tesla, that's a big risk.