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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman's 1985 memoir told to Ralph Leighton: safecracking at Los Alamos, drumming, painting and Brazil, the wobbling plate that led to a Nobel, cargo cult science, and the lessons in curiosity and honesty behind the stories.
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Prereqs: none. Next: Dirac; A Short History of Nearly Everything. Sources: Feynman & Leighton, *Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!* (1985); Feynman, 'Cargo Cult Science' (Caltech commencement, 1974); James Gleick, *Genius* (1992).Next: 1. Life in stories