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Ted Kaczynski was a math prodigy who became the notorious mail bomber. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Highly recommend Alston Chase's book: Harvard and the Unabomber (renamed: A Mind for Murder): https://a.co/d/5d7uwGR https://a.co/d/6G2B5kK Chapters: 0:00 Introduction to Ted Kaczynski 1:20 Influences at Harvard 2:35 The Harvard Experiments 4:03 Growing Resentment & The Manifesto 5:31 Abandoning Society & Making Bombs 6:36 The Attacks Begin 8:35 Attacks Become More Violent 9:26 Deadly Results 12:00 David Kaczynski’s Dilemma 13:08 Arrest in Montana 13:56 The Trial and Mental Illness Debate 16:08 Sentence and Death 16:50 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Kaczyński at UC Berkeley: George Bergman, GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons Image of young Ted Kaczyński and his parents courtesy of Jamie Gehring, author of Madman in the Woods: https://a.co/d/cMj8C19 1960s life: John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Press scrum: cloud2013 from Cape Elizabeth, USA, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons UC Berkeley campus: brainchildvn on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Unabomber bomb reproduction: Queerbubbles, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Prof. Buckley Buckley Crist image: https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/crist-buckley.html Cigar box: By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons John Hauser image: University of Colorado Boulder Cory Hall at UC Berkeley: Falcorian/Berkeley, CC by 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons David Kaczynski adult image: By LightStamp from Nashville - David Kaczynski_9723, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Supreme Court: By Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons