Author Ben Thompson does a reading from his book “Badass: The Birth of a Legend” of Thor, The Viking god of thunder and awesome hair, who crushed the skulls of giants with a ridiculously huge hammer. He also does a reading from his first book, “Badass” of Nikolai Tesla – The greatest mad scientist of all time who spent his final days developing a massive atomic death ray.” Ben Thompson is a full-time corporate wage slave who spends his spare time writing about things he thinks are badass. In addition to being the author of “Badass” and “Badass: The Birth of a Legend,” he is also the owner of the website Badass of the Week.
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The New York earthquake was caused by an air powered oscillator producing mechanical vibrations on a steel post it was attached to. Not magnetic resonance as far as I know. He wasn’t crazy, he was aspergers. Autistic.
Small correction, Nikola Tesla was Serbian and was born in today’s Croatia. And the main difference between Serbs and Croats is that Serbs are Ortodox and Croats are Catholics. Tesla’s father was Ortodox priest ;-) Also the Tesla’s last wish was to be buried with most famos Serbian song “Tamo daleko”. It’s about home land Serbia. Today Teslas ashes are in Belgrade, Serbian capital. But on the end Tesla is too big to be claimed by any nation. Tesla is human kind finest!
Still called him Croatian >_<, oh well, the difference between Serbian and Croatian is kind of fuzzy I guess.
I wish I worked at google now. But Ben, your awesome. I’ve read both of your books and always read the updates to badass of the week every friday. I love your stuff and writing style. Keep it up!
I was absoloutely taken by the badassittude of the Libyan kid who hunts snipers during the revolution. Tareg i think his name is? Not just him but the badasses on the complete list.