on the cast · 1918–1988
Richard Feynman
Would rather explain than be right
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Brooklyn, loud, delighted by almost everything
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9.9k pages · lectures, letters, books
full episodes featuring Richard Feynman
30 episodes- play →Feynman × Parker: The Myth BusinessThe physicist who played bongos and the wit who played dead discuss the difference between who they were and who everyone needed them to be.LATE SHOWwith Dorothy Parker8 min
- play →Orwell × Feynman: The Price of CountertopsA physicist and a journalist parse silicosis, profit, and who knew what when.TITANSwith George Orwell7 min
- play →Feynman × Douglass: Work Before WonderA physicist who loved puzzles and a fugitive who loved books trace the hands that taught them discipline mattered more than genius.STUDY HALLwith Frederick Douglass12 min
- play →Parker × Feynman: The Lies We AllowA wit and a physicist compare the gossip they preferred to the truth.LATE SHOWwith Dorothy Parker7 min
- play →Curie × Feynman: Immunity's Long MemoryA note just arrived at the desk—vaccines may train what we thought untrainable, and dementia pays the price.TITANSwith Marie Curie7 min
- play →Feynman × Austen: The OverlookedA physicist who loved applause and a novelist who preferred anonymity debate who history forgot to remember.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen10 min
- play →Feynman × Tesla: Myths We Can't KillTwo legends walk into the stories people tell about them — and try to walk back out.TITANSwith Nikola Tesla10 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Unknowable LockWhen a graduate student weaponizes mathematical impossibility, two minds separated by a century find themselves thrillingly out of their depth.TITANSwith Ada Lovelace9 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: Clever vs. RightA Hampshire novelist and a Brooklyn physicist discover that being wrong is often the most educational position to occupy.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen8 min
- play →Feynman × da VinciTwo minds the world mythologized debate what got lost in translation.TITANSwith Leonardo da Vinci9 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Lies We PreferredTwo minds who let the world believe the wrong thing—because correcting it would have revealed something infinitely more mortifying.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen7 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: Famous for the Wrong ReasonTwo minds separated by a century discover they share an unusual burden: the world remembers them for things they never quite said.STUDY HALLwith Ada Lovelace8 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Lies We Let LiveA novelist who never married and a physicist who cracked safes both preferred the gossip to the truth.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen9 min
- play →Feynman × Tesla: Lightning ReduxA quantum physicist and a lightning obsessive find out the universe still keeps secrets in storm clouds.TITANSwith Nikola Tesla6 min
- play →Vinci × Feynman: The Mirror ProblemTwo polymaths compare notes on the brilliant minds they raced against—and lost.STUDY HALLwith Leonardo da Vinci9 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Unasked QuestionA novelist who calculated hearts and a physicist who loved mysteries meet to answer what no one bothered to ask.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen7 min
- play →Feynman × Parker: The Critic Under the SkinA physicist and a wit compare notes on the reviewers who wouldn't let go—and why they still matter.LATE SHOWwith Dorothy Parker7 min
- play →da Vinci × Feynman: What We Got WrongTwo minds who saw the world differently confess the blindness that took years to cure.STUDY HALLwith Leonardo da Vinci10 min
- play →Curie × Feynman: The Elimination QuestionTwo physicists who spent lifetimes with radiation ask whether any nation can truly promise to erase a cancer.TITANSwith Marie Curie6 min
- play →Einstein × Feynman: The Love They Couldn't GiveTwo physicists who bent spacetime but couldn't always bend toward the people who needed them most.TITANSwith Albert Einstein7 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Alphabet of LifeWhen experimenters rewrite biology's instruction set, a Victorian mathematician and a quantum physicist discover what it means to edit existence itself.TITANSwith Ada Lovelace7 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Genome DecodedA Victorian mathematician and a Brooklyn physicist marvel at the instruction manual for humanity—and mourn the man who cracked it open.TITANSwith Ada Lovelace7 min
- play →Curie × Feynman: The Phlegm ProblemTwo physicists who conquered invisible killers debate the end of tuberculosis testing as we knew it.TITANSwith Marie Curie5 min
- play →Lovelace × Feynman: The Useful FiniteVictorian calculation meets Brooklyn physics on whether throwing away infinity might sharpen the blade.TITANSwith Ada Lovelace6 min
- play →Einstein × Feynman: The Wasted YearsTwo physicists wonder if they should've worried less and played more—or was it the other way around?STUDY HALLwith Albert Einstein10 min
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- play →Feynman × Tesla: The Ones Who LeftTwo men who loved physics more than sleep talk about the people they loved more than physics—and lost anyway.STUDY HALLwith Nikola Tesla9 min
- play →Feynman × Einstein: One Sentence to Take BackTwo physicists excavate the lines they wish they could rewrite—and discover what regret teaches about getting closer to truth.STUDY HALLwith Albert Einstein9 min
- play →Feynman × Austen: Grudging RespectA physicist who loved to compete and a novelist who never stopped observing discuss the rivals who made them better.LATE SHOWwith Jane Austen8 min
- play →Orwell × Feynman: Rivals Worth HavingA novelist who hated cant and a physicist who loved doubt compare notes on the enemies who sharpened them.TITANSwith George Orwell10 min