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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

February 12, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Finished this “classic” a few nights ago. Feynman is quite a story teller and if you haven’t read this and like zany, bongo playing Nobel winners, it’s for you. I wasn’t sure what to expect but he writes in short stories about his life and his opinions on a lot of subjects, he is brilliant … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Faits Divers, History, Politics, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, What I Read Tagged: atomic physics, Brazilian Samba, CALTEC, Cornell, Einstein, Feynman, Los Alamos, Nobel Prize, physics, Princeton, safecracking

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture

June 6, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I revere the written word, but I’m bookmarking the audio of Dylan’s Nobel lecture because hearing it adds so much more than reading it ever would due to his incredible voice, the inflections and the music. The print version of the lecture is found here.

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize

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