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Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman Explains How Rubber Bands Work

Richard Feynman has a gift for taking something that seems pretty simple and turning it into something beautifully complex. Watch as he explains how something as simple as rubber bands work.

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics

“The whole thing was basically an experiment,” Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, …

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Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife, Sixteen Months After Her Death

Richard Feynman was an amazing character mastering physics, thinking, life, and as we shall soon see, love. Richard and Arline Greenbaum were soul mates. They were a perfect symbiotic pair, each …

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Richard Feynman on The Key to Science

“If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong.” In this video from the 60s, Richard Feynman explains, very simply, the key to science with his timeless wisdom. It is the capacity to be wrong that …

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Why do trains stay on the track as they go around a curve?

In this video Richard Feynman explains why trains don’t need differential gears

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How Differential Gears Work

A simple explanation of how differential gears work and why they are necessary.

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Edward Tufte on Cognitive Load and Picasso

“The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.” — Edward Tufte *** NPR’s Science Friday talks with data scientist Edward Tufte on everything from Steve Jobs’ considerations of …

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Richard Feynman — Take the World From Another Point of View

In this clip from a documentary film shot in Yorkshire in 1973, physicist and philosopher Richard Feynman (1918-1988) talks with Fred Hoyle, an accomplished astronomer from the United Kingdom. Feynman …

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An Algorithm for Solving Problems

“He (Richard Feynman) 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 …

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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

The Feynman Technique is a method of learning that unleashes your potential and forces you to develop a deep understanding. Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist. His real superpower, …

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Richard Feynman on Why Questions

In this beautiful video, Richard Feynman on the nature of why questions and how they help us understand the world. Interviewer: If you get hold of two magnets, and you push them, you can feel this …

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Physicist Richard Feynman on Beauty of a Flower

Richard Feynman talking about the beauty of the natural world. I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a …

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Massively Distilled Wisdom

Richard Feynman famously asked: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement …

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Richard Feynman Teaches you the Scientific Method

The scientific method refers to a process of thought based on integrating previous knowledge, observing, measuring, and logical reasoning. In this short video taken from his lectures, Physicist …

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