The American physicist Richard Feynman is often quoted as saying: ‘You can recognise truth by its beauty and simplicity.’ The phrase appears in the work of the American science writer K C Cole – in ...

An expertly animated take on Feynman’s famous “Ode to a Flower,” created by London-based animator and designer Fraser Davidson. Watching Davidon’s short reminded me of another video that made use of ...

Richard Feynman was a man of many talents: accomplished author, lively lecturer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, halfway decent bongo player. Among his arsenal of skills was an unwavering tendency to ...

Physicist Richard Feynman has a reputation as a bongo-playing, hard-partying, flamboyant Nobel Prize laureate for his work on quantum electrodynamics theory, but this tends to obscure the fact that he ...

In contrast to Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, or Yale, the universities and other institutions of southern California have always offered a far more relaxed, informal culture. When you’re an easy drive ...

To many, Richard Feynman is an inspiration. Without a doubt, he was the same caliber of man, as well as scientist, as Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. He was a scientist, a teacher, a ...

Bongo player, womanizer and all-round practical joker are common depictions used by biographers to describe the great 20th century physicist, Richard Feynman. But in his new book, the theoretical ...

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What makes for genius in science? One day we may be able to link it to particularly advantageous patterns of neurons and axons in specific locations of the brain. But even if that day should come, I ...

“We can’t cure the common cold but we can sure as shit make an awesome pipe” — Peter Ha [High End Glass] Don’t let squeamishness dissuade you from watching this awesome tale of love after death. It ...

This week marks what would be the 100th birthday of legendary American physicist Richard P. Feynman. In a world in which many people think of the socially awkward Sheldon Cooper in the television show ...