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Nov 9, 2026 8 min

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How Engineers Became Cool Brush up on your calculus, programming, and computer science skills for free at https://brilliant.org/newsthink/. The first 200 people to sign up get 20% off the 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 Ronil Patel, Chesky Neceski, Austin Grant, Darren Tyrell-Knights, Tom Eng, Tim Desir, Ryan Bresser, Justin Anderson, Neo Ge, Steven Bartlett, Will Lathrop Support Cindy on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Thumbnail source: Mark Zuckerberg JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Satya Nadella Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk: AP PHOTO/JAE C. HONG, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin Gwynne Shotwell: NASA Sources: 0:03 Ivan Bandura, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 0:05 Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 0:32 Photos Elon Musk: Tesla Bill Gates: Briansmale, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mark Zuckerberg: Anthony Quintano from Honolulu, HI, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Larry Ellison: Oracle Corporate Communications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Larry Page: Stansfield PL, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sergey Brin: Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 0:36 Jeff Bezos photo courtesy of Amazon 0:38 Change.org petition https://www.change.org/p/blue-origin-petition-to-not-allow-jeff-bezos-re-entry-to-earth 1:10 Ben Stanfield, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:17 Blake Patterson, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:20 Matthew Yohe at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:23 Erik Pitti, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:26 matt buchanan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:36 Anthony Quintano from Honolulu, HI, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 2:16 Statistics Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200219/t001b-eng.htm 2:37 Patrick Pichette photo from LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-pichette-665836105/?originalSubdomain=uk Pichette quote from an ABC News (Australia) interview cited here: https://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/googles_impossible_plan_to_fix_our_broken_world/ 3:50 World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/dont-fear-ai-it-will-lead-to-long-term-job-growth/ 4:11 Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/engineers-run-world 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: inventors, mossad, brilliant minds, elon musk, spy stories, space exploration, paypal mafia, tech leaders

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