The Vanishing Mr. Feynman (Update)

In his final years, Richard Feynman's curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he took — and one he wasn’t able to. (Part three of a three-part series (freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/richard-feynman) originally published in 2024.)

• SOURCES:

• Alan Alda (alanalda.com), actor and screenwriter.

• Barbara Berg, friend of Richard Feynman.

• Helen Czerski (helenczerski.net/about-helen), physicist and oceanographer at University College London.

• Michelle Feynman (tedxcaltech.com/content/michelle-feynman.html), photographer and daughter of Richard Feynman.

• Cheryl Haley, friend of Richard Feynman.

• Debby Harlow, friend of Richard Feynman.

• Ralph Leighton (bookshop.org/search?keywords=Ralph+Leighton), biographer and film producer.

• Charles Mann (penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/60291/charles-c…), science journalist and author.

• John Preskill (theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/bio.html), professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.

• Lisa Randall (physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall), professor of theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University.

• Christopher Sykes (imdb.com/name/nm0843051/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm), documentary filmmaker.

• Stephen Wolfram (stephenwolfram.com), founder and C.E.O. of Wolfram Research; creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language.

• RESOURCES:

• I Love My Wife... (youtube.com/watch?v=pd9M-d0fD5I), directed by Ian Tierney (2020).

• Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (amzn.to/4bwHhVC), by Lawrence M. Krauss (2011).

• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: Selected Letters of Richard P. Feynman (amzn.to/3SGq3Ov), edited by Michelle Feynman (2005).

• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (amzn.to/3vZ1nI0), by Richard Feynman (1999).

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-…), by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (1995).

• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (amzn.to/3UtXMf0), by James Gleick (1992).

• The Quest for Tannu Tuva (youtube.com/watch?v=Qeauwu2uIwM), by Christopher Sykes (1988)

• “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” (bookshop.org/p/books/what-do-you-care-what-oth…)by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton (1988).

• The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-century Physics (amzn.to/48dJ933), by Robert Crease and Charles Mann (1986).

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (bookshop.org/p/books/surely-you-re-joking-mr-f…), by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton (1985).

• Fun to Imagine (imdb.com/title/tt1118155), BBC docuseries (1983).

• EXTRAS:

• “The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman (freakonomics.com/the-curious-brilliant-vanishi…),” series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).

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