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"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
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I'm not saying it's ok... But it doesn't break my heart.
I guess it depends on how much pressure he applied.
His involvement in NASA and challenger investigations specifically are also legendary. Watch more Feynman. Totally worth the time investment.
I'm using these to teach an intermediate mechanics class, and my only regret is that there are no problems. The flip side is that sometimes Feynman skips over the derivations of certain things, and that makes good assignments ("Fill in the steps between [these assumptions] and [this result]"). Feynman's writing of course is stellar. The order is a bit unusual and not really designed for a "standard" university-level…
But then I read more about him and yeah, he is indeed the real deal.
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"I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren't worth anything, and all they're in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they're not going to give you a goddamn thing; I'm not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on."
Great advice! Not misogynistic at all!
The videos are particularly interesting in how they include a transcript which is auto-highlighted and one can click around the text to move in the video. That’s a great mode of interaction I wish were more common. I have only found it in Apple’s WWDC videos.
It’s missing a way to link directly to a timestamp, and when switching videos from the tabs the URL doesn’t change, but those are minor inconveniences considering the rest of the website.
Also kudos on choice of using the structure of the atom image as the “loading” graphic.
Thank you to the authors for putting this together.
Unlike the commercial audio CDs of the lectures the recordings here have the chat before and after the lecture which is fun. My favourite lecture is the standalone "The Principle of Least Action" at https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html Audio: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html#Ch19-audi...
> Later chapters do not depend on the material of this special lecture—which is intended to be for “entertainment”
We might say this is the most important chapter in the whole series.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I can't help imagining his wife nagging him about taking out the trash just when he was about to solve quantum gravity. I'm not saying it's ok... But it doesn't break my heart. I guess it depends on how much pressure he applied.
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You mean this part? "I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren't worth anything, and all they're in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they're not going to give you a goddamn thing; I'm not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on." Great advice! Not misogynistic at all!
I highly recommend reading it. It's not worse than calling someone who exploits drunk women as 'dickhead'.
Lastly the word 'bitch' used here is an important part of the particular story where he used it against particular women who scammed him during the confrontation later.
Read it as whole