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Ran into this seven lecture series by Feynman at Cornell from 1964. Excellent. Microsoft’s Project Tuva gives you a rich experience by featuring related notes and explanations in the sidebar while the video runs. If they would let you scroll the menu using the mouse it would be easier to use. That’s a Silverlight thing [...]

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In 1981, Richard Feynman gave an interview to Horizon. Be sure to check out the excerpt about doubt and uncertainty.

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Weirder than science fiction, but it’s real. Check out this animation that visualizes magnetic fields based on actual measurements. Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

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From Feynman’s The Value of Science: When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We [...]

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Richard Feynman gave this talk on the value of science over 50 years ago. It’s full of wisdom from a brilliant man. If we take everything into account — not only what the ancients knew, but all of what we know today that they didn’t know — then I think we must frankly admit that [...]

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