Stephen Dubner: Feynman on Our Mind

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has long been fascinated by the great physicist Richard Feynman. As has Alan. Stephen has devoted a year to making a remarkable podcast series on Feynman, and Alan has played Feynman on the stage for a year. They compare notes on what they’ve come to learn about him.

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0:00.0	I'm Alan Alda and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating. I think a fine man probably about once a day at least on average, but when he's describing
0:20.8	how molecules move, they get in there and they jiggle around, they jiggle,
0:24.7	jiggle, then they turn a different state.
0:27.1	And I was thinking of that today when I was heating up some food for lunch, and I was thinking,
0:30.8	why is it that foods, one piece of food whatever it is can
0:34.4	taste totally different at one temperature and then you put a little heat on it
0:38.4	tastes totally different then if you put it in a pan versus an oven totally
0:42.0	different and I thought you you know, that's Fineman. I think about these
0:47.1	things because he has taught me to be curious about the ways in which the molecules
0:51.9	jiggle and then if you pull that out on a grand scale you start to think about
0:55.8	Our planet nature the universe it's exciting it's just exciting
1:01.6	That's Stephen Dubner.
1:03.8	He's talking about the physicist Richard Feinman.
1:07.3	Feinman was an extraordinary communicator.
1:10.6	Decades ago in his first book for the public called Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feinman.
1:16.0	He was able to present himself as a fellow human being, which made it easier for the public to think
1:21.0	about science as a normal human activity.
1:24.0	Above all, he was a model of curiosity.
1:28.0	His books make curiosity contagious.
1:31.0	Curiosity was one of his traits that guided me during the year I played
1:34.6	Feynman on the stage and it's one of the things Stephen Dubner celebrates in
1:39.2	the three-part series devoted to Fineman on Dublinner's podcast Freakonomics radio.
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