Happy Feynmaneve!

Tomorrow would have been the 94th birthday of one of the most influential physicists in American history.

Tonight: We play the bongos.

Via Paul Halpern

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BunnyShank

I would have been so hot for teacher.
- millie fink
  
  Apparently, if you’re a beautiful female BunnyShank, he would have been hot for you too.
  
  http://restructure.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/sexist-feynman-called-a-woman-worse-than-a-whore/
  - BunnyShank
    
    oh yeah that guy. not so hot now. crap. the problems of having a crush on an archetype
Nash Rambler

I always imagine some Queens NY talent scout in the mid-1930′s telling a young Feynman that, although good, he’d never be a great bongo player, and he should stick with his day job. A disheartened Feynman slinks off sadly to slum it as a quantum physicist, forever dreaming of rolling tempos, never quite satisfied with merely unravelling the secrets of electrodynamics and superfluidity.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Elku/574294456 Jennifer Elku
  
  He took up the bongos decades after becoming a theorectical physicist.
  - Nash Rambler
    
    Yeah, I know, but that’s why I merely imagine it. In reality, he was devoted to higher math and science from a very early age, but why let the truth get in the way of a nice personal fantasy?
Bonnie Ash

Tuva or bust
- bklynchris
  
  Amen sister!
voiceinthedistance

A man who just couldn’t do blasé. Passion was his middle name.
http://twitter.com/SweetSoubrette Sweet Soubrette

Check out these fantastic songs about Feynman by members of the Bushwick Book Club, inspired by the totally amazing graphic novel biography by Jim Ottaviani: http://bushwickbookclub.bandcamp.com/album/bushwick-book-club-presents-feynman-by-jim-ottaviani
http://twitter.com/Kra1d Alex

Surely you’re joking Ms. Koerth-Baker!
Andrew Tubbiolo

I remember watching this on PBS back in the 80′s. The last decade when science and engineering meant “go” and not “stop” like it does now. We’ve let a lot go, and degraded an awful lot since then. I know it started in the 70′s but they way the Left ruined education and the way the Right never liked an educated populace and confuses propaganda for education we’ve really let ourselves go. Americans are not as educated or optimistic as we once were and our leadership class has degraded into a band of crooks.
- millie fink
  
  “they way the Left ruined education”
  
  WTF?
  
  Also, the leadership class has ALWAYS been a band of crooks. No matter how many good men (and occasionally, good women) have temporarily entered their ranks.
Roy Trumbull

Much of science is derivative of what is already known. And that’s good. But when someone like Feynman pulls a new idea out of the air, we gasp in amazement.
http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

94? He was so young during the Manhattan Project.
brickoftheday

LEGO Tribute:

http://brickoftheday.com/2012/05/94th-anniversary-of-richard-feynmans-birth/

:D
- bklynchris
  
  They should put an “O” ring in his hand.
  - brickoftheday
    
    Ha – not sure how to pull that off w/ bricks, but will consider for next year’s! :D
yri

Feynman’s misogyny pretty much ruined any fanboyism I might have had for the man.