(Podcasts, 5 chapters, short story, at the link.) Jules Verne's "Master Zacharias" is a prideful watchmaker, proponent of scientism, whose clocks stop working all at the same time. He agrees to let the devil wed his daughter. The Gates foundation has been accused of putting sterilizing agents into polio vaccines in Africa. He is like J.D. Rockefeller II, whose attempts to dumb-down America with whole-word reading, ruined 4 of his own 5 sons, who came out of John Dewey's Lincoln School with dyslexia. He is like Freud's nephew, P.R. pioneer Edward Bernays, who boasted of his ability to engineer the...