#3 Richard Feynman (Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman)

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Birds and Frogs

Avidan Rudansky

4 episodes

6 days ago

Learn from history's greatest scientists. I read the biographies of scientists and tell you what I learned. The name draws inspiration from the brilliant mind of the mathematician Freeman Dyson who came up with the “Birds and Frogs” metaphor. In his world: Birds are thinkers who look at the big picture and survey the landscape from a great height. (Birds are theorists.) Frogs are thinkers who love playing around in the mud of specific problems, delighting in finding gems and then polishing them so that they become part of the superstructure that birds survey. (Frogs are experimentalists.)

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#3 Richard Feynman (Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman)

Birds and Frogs

1 hour 12 minutes

10 months ago

#3 Richard Feynman (Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman)

What I learned from reading Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care What Other People Think

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Episode Outline:

- Intro to Feynman

- Early Life and Father's Influence

- MIT and Princeton Years

- Los Alamos From Below

- Cornell and Teaching Style

- Brazil

- Caltech

- Lessons and Side Quests

- Critique of Science Education

- Nobel Prize and Scientific Contributions

- Scientific Integrity

- The Challenger Disaster

- The Value of Science

- Conclusion

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