"PowerPoint presentations may be worse. **The investigation into the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, caused by a fuel tank problem, suggested that NASA engineers might have been hampered in addressing it sooner because it was presented on PowerPoint slides, forcing the information into hierarchical lists of bullet points, ill-suited to how most brains work**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[story-bias]], [[influence]], **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]