Post ASj3EXV2bnMQeVDQlk by pjfasano@nova.community
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 (DIR) Post #ASj11WJzThwPKDi9dw by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-16T03:54:17Z
       
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       Watching his physics lectures on #YouTube, I really wish I could have met Richard Feynman. Theoretical physicist, recreational safe cracker, Nobel Prize winner, and bongo drums player. And an absolutely wonderful lecturer. It's so marvelous that his lectures have survived and are available on YouTube. Right now I'm watching the ones recorded at Cornell in 1964. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj1jwgYooNDpjS4Aq by ohthatsean@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T04:02:44Z
       
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       @lauren still looking for the James Randi video where Feynman perfectly hung a picture frame for Randi, but unfortunately it was a pre-2007 video on the internet
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj2ojBYXT5BMjnHGK by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-02-16T04:14:45Z
       
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       @lauren Me too. Agreed, agreed, and agreed. It appears he would be fun to hang out with but I sense you'd better have your brain running on all cylinders or it's going to be a short conversation. My best friend for decades, lost him in 2015, was like that.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj32HmpCi0WRZgtyS by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-16T04:17:17Z
       
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       @shuttersparks I've known just a few people like that during my life. Extremely challenging. Sometimes they are also flawed in some significant way, being merely human.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj3EXV2bnMQeVDQlk by pjfasano@nova.community
       2023-02-16T04:18:49Z
       
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       @lauren On the flip side, he was known to be a womanizing jerk a lot of the time, so it's a tossup...
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj3OHsfXB9B6gupSC by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-16T04:21:16Z
       
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       @pjfasano No, it's not a tossup. As I said, many great people are flawed, being merely human. There are womanizing jerks everywhere but few who are geniuses who have made such important contributions to science.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj44mYDtRSmOKcCum by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-02-16T04:28:55Z
       
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       @lauren Oh, and yes, as you might guess, I've known a number of people I call "scary smart". All of them had significant flaws or "mental conditions" except one. To be clear, my term "scary smart" isn't a bad thing. I love not being the smartest person in the room.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj49iay1nThZSFifw by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-16T04:29:49Z
       
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       @shuttersparks Any time I suspect that I might be the smartest person in the room, I'm terrified.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj55sAObEqU3HYPtg by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-02-16T04:40:20Z
       
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       @lauren Hah. I'm used to it. Doesn't bother me. But it's not fun or interesting. It's *much* more fun to hang out with someone who knows stuff you don't, who makes one of your eyebrows go up, Spock style, until you "get it".One of my favorites I've worked with is Dr. Norman Neidell. He's the "grand old man" of synthetic aperture seismic imaging. He's the best explainer I've ever met. He can stand at a whiteboard and take the most brain busting mathy problems, and give you a crystal clear understanding. Amazing. I love people like that.