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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

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210 points scapecast | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[29 Aug 25 04:00 UTC] No.45060024[source]▶
I think Edward Tufte was involved in the investigation on that disaster.

He has a legendary hatred of PowerPoint.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/product/the-cognitive-style-of-p...

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1. cromulent ◴[29 Aug 25 07:47 UTC] No.45061328[source]▶
This is mentioned in the article, and linked to.
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2. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[29 Aug 25 09:15 UTC] No.45061903[source]▶
Yes. You are correct.

I took his course, a number of years ago, and he mentioned it.