My friend, my god-sister, Nadira Naipaul sends me a -- I won’t call it startling, but certainly thought-provoking -- video. It’s a pronouncement of perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes by a very ...

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Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose contemporaries thought that he had the finest brain in physics. He was born on May 11, 1918, in Manhattan and grew up in Far Rockaway, N.Y., a ...