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Further Reading: FAILURE

Odd Salon - Failure
“Man Proposes, God Disposes” by Edwin Henry Landseer, inspired by the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in the Arctic

Failure (overviews & introductions)

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Schadenfreude: Delighting in the Failure of Others

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Engineering Disaster: The Best and Worst Ideas in Industrial Design

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Military Blunders from Bomb Dropping Bats to Steam Cannons of Doom

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Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: The Hidden Power of Failure

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Infernal Devices: Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

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Died Trying: Dead Explorers & Expeditions Gone Horribly Wrong

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For each salon, we  invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Todd Barrett, Kelly Jensen, and Ryan Galiotto. Thank you!