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Via The Reference Frame, Luboš Motl: Cargo cult science: a video Richard Feynman comments colorfully on the Cargo Cult Science of Al Gore and James Hansen, far in advance (1974). As Luboš Motl relates it: Feynman was trying to explain what’s wrong with various careless, agenda-driven, biased, preconceived mental frameworks that try to pretend [...] ... Source: quomodocumque.wordpress.com --- 24 days ago
My dislike of Feynman’s memoirs prompted the longest and best series of comments this blog has ever seen — many of which were spirited endorsements of Feynman’s books. Here’s Austin: But it was (for me) a founding text for a kind of nerd intellectual ethos that got expounded in the stories - don’t be afraid [...] ... Source: scrapbook.anand.ws --- 38 days ago
I doubt that it was “progress” that most interested Richard. He was always searching for patterns, for connections, for a new way of looking at something, but I suspect his motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to find new ideas to explain. The act of discovery was not complete [...] ... Source: www.strangelyentangled.com --- 46 days ago
For those not in the know, Richard Feynman was one of the world’s great physicists and by all accounts quite a character. I came across this essay, describing his time spent working for the Thinking Machines Company (TMC) in the 1980s. What I found really interesting was how Feynman, a physicist, found himself working in computer [...] ... Source: slashdot.org --- 2 days ago
So in my continued attempts to learn a human language, rather than a computer language, I've continued with Spanish. What I do on my breaks at work, is read articles on es.wikipedia.org, and read BBC Mundo (the Spanish BBC website), and browse through WordReference (usually I keep a browser tab open on WordReference, because I frequently need to look up words in the first two things). I'm also re-reading "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman". Early on in the book, Richard Feynman makes the observation that technical and scientific documents in Portugese were easy to read, while he was learning that language, but everyday speech was almost impossible. I've observed the same thing about Spanish, too - I have little trouble understanding an article on something technical on the Spanish Wikipedia. In order of difficulty when reading, I've found it goes like this - Spanish Wikipedia technical subjects - apart from the odd sentence, I can almost completely understand. So many of the words are similar to English. BBC Mundo - much harder, although I can get the gist of many stories, and understand a few of the sentences without having to translate them to English first. Every day speech - I find extremely difficult. Many things just don't have a good literal translation. Fortunately, WordReference contains many figures of speech and phrases when you look up a word. I'm slowly getting to grips with all the grammatical glue of the language, but it' ... Source: www.epinions.com --- 29 days ago
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author smorg - Non-Fiction Paperback: Richard P. Feynman: The Meaning of It All Richard Feynman didn’t write this book. He spoke it. This is a transcription of his series of three rather informal lectures given in 1963 at the University of Washington, two... ...
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So, bear with me (as opposed to bare with me, an invitation not likely to be seen in these electronic pages at the beach) while I share stuff in the forthcoming days that you very probably have little interest in. A proposal last week has the potential to turn everything I've been working towards in the last while completely on its head, and not in a bad way, so I need to ponder stuff. A few consultations with the inner therapist who, it has to be said, is often very busy dealing with all the other wayward characters that make up this pebble, revealed little I didn't already know, the quack. Luckily there's no cash involved. Anyway. In my meditations, so to speak, I came across one Richard Phillips Feynman , an American Physicist. Having given up Science as a very bad, well, experiment really, way back in Grade 9 or something, he was not wholly familiar to me. However. How could I not be attracted by the title of one of his books: What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character , which is now on order, along with others. He says: "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to somet ... Source: blog.taragana.com --- 50 days ago
I am re-hashing my physics fundamentals with Dr. Feynman’s lectures. Did I mention how I love reading his books? I have great admiration for Dr. Richard Feynman, next only to Dr. Albert Einstein & Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose. I am seriously looking to delve into quantum electrodynamics. It... ... Source: clipmarks.com --- 45 days ago
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clipped by: Silkweaver clipper's remarks: An absolutely respectable club. The kind of madness we all need. Clip Source: www.livescience.com From mildly eccentric to downright wacky, these 10 hyper-intelligent characters didn't just march to a different beat, they each played their own tune altogether, all while changing how we look at the world. Clip Source: www.livescience.com Johann Konrad Dippel Wernher von Braun Robert Oppenheimer Freeman Dyson Richard Feynman Jack Parsons James Lovelock This modern environmental scientist and inventor of the world-as-superorganism Gaia Hypothesis Nikola Tesla Leonardo da Vinci Albert Einstein Tags: science , history ... Source: www.seedmagazine.com --- 42 days ago
The Whale Hunt 3,214 photographs presented in a unique mosaic timeline tell the story of an Inupiat whale hunt. (via Deep Sea News ) Ted Koppell & Co. on Why Obama's Faith Based Strategy Makes a Lot of Sense Despite left-wing outcry, Obama's preaching to the choir may prove a shrewd political move--not to mention sound policy. The Value Of Science In a 1955 lecture, uber physicist Richard Feynman elegantly explains why science must persevere. Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals A creative reuse of garbage bags reveals that politicians aren't the only ones full of hot air. Tales From the Front Lines in The Animal Research War Are extremist animal rights warriors fighting the good fight, or just good research? Got something for Seed 's Daily Zeitgeist? Email the Zeitgeister . Read the entire article ... Source: www.jroller.com --- 47 days ago
Duartes has composed one of the most important Software Engineering articles that I have seen in along while titled, "Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering" . So often the case when I turn down an engineering project it is not usually due to technical challenges that are not reachable but bad management and engineering practices with somewhat large percentage of those cases being management practices. The essay also underscores one of Bruce Eckel's points that adopting a scripting language in the engineering process of building a system base don an OOP computer language can increase productivity. The speed gains come from the fast prototype time so unit testing and other testing and of course faster build script development. ... Source: www.mediarights.org --- 23 days ago
FINAL DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund Where Great Films Meet Great Science Overview The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund will provide up to $140,000 in support of innovative and compelling filmmaking that explores scientific, mathematical, and technological themes and storylines, or a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician in fresh ways. We are seeking exceptional narrative work of all genres (except science fiction or fantasy) with scientifically accurate themes or characters. The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund does not offer funding to short films or documentaries. Past projects that have received funding for screenplay development through the TFI/Sloan Partnership include outstanding screenplays about Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamar, Richard Feynman, Edwin Hubble and Ramanujan, as well as many comedies. Funding The Tribeca Film Institute will award multiple annual grants ranging from $10,000 - $40,000 in 2008, totaling $140,000. Financial support is given with the goal of helping a film at any stage progress towards completion, and is available in three categories: 1. FINISHING FUNDS This category will award up to $40,000 in finishing funds towards post-production, to help the filmmaker complete specific post-production processes on the film. These processes can include sound editing, negative cutting, transfer to film, printmaking costs, and other items necessary to the film's post-productio ... Source: www.happyrobot.net --- 34 days ago
Batman was my father. Our relationship was never great. I was a disappointment. I think that's why he always had a ward in the house. I was never Robin. I tried on the suit once and it just felt so very wrong. Like dirty wrong. I never liked solving crimes. Detective work, on the whole, did not appeal to me. It was boring...almost as boring as the hand-to-hand combat training. Many people have approached me and thought that it was so cool that I was taught to fight by Batman but let me tell you, it was a drag. Think of something you hate to do. Physics problems in high school? That was bad. Well, imagine having Richard Feynman teach you physics. Still sucks, doesn't it? Yeah. It does. In a strange way, I think I could have pleased him a little if I had turned to a life of crime. That would have shown a little interest in his life, a madness to match his own. But -- I don't know -- it just seemed so lame. It was the early nineties, all the good supervillain concepts were taken, what was I going to call myself, Tetris? Grunge the Destroyer? The Iron Sheik? And for what, really? If I succeeded, I'd get a little gelt; if I fail, my own dad kicks my ass up and down the block. All around me, friends were getting rich in totally legal ways; they made it look easy; well, at least easier than outsmarting fucking Batman. The fact is, all I ever wanted to do was hang out and enjoy the privileges of wealth. We had a sweet l ... Source: www.amazon.com --- 32 days ago
In James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman, Genius , he described what happened when Feynman re-invented Freshman Physics at Caltech. Those two years that he taught have been captured in Feynman Lectures on Physics and in smaller books like Six Easy Pieces . Gleick writes (p. 363): "The course was a magisterial achievement: word was spreading through the scientific community even before it ended. But it was not for freshmen. As the months went on, the examination results left Feynman shocked and discouraged...As the course went on, attendance by the kids at the lectures started dropping alarmingly, but at the same time, more and more faculty and graduate students started attending, so the room stayed full, and Feynman may never have known he was losing his intended audience...Colleges and universities worldwide tried to adopt them as textbooks and then, inevitably, gave them up for more manageable and less radical alternatives." My point in describing this story is highlighting the difference between laying out the great thoughts of a discipline in brilliant clarity and power, and teaching. The Feyman Lectures on Physics are beautiful examples of describing real physics, that have rightfully remained best-sellers, when mere "textbooks" rarely remain in print for more than a few years. However, they were not great examples of teaching. Feynman didn't reach the freshmen in the audience, even Caltech freshmen, nor freshmen at oth ... Find more results for Richard Feynman on RSSMicro.com |
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(5 votes - 0 comments - 121 views) Nassim Haramein is a very entertaining Swiss physicist, a bit like Richard Feynman, who has turned a lot of established scientific thought on its ear. Well worth watching if you have an interest in quantum physics. ...