#Feynman’s famous #video where he explains that nobody knows how to reduce electromagnetism to something simpler and therefore can’t explain how magnets repel each other.
on 02026-04-28#video by physics YouTuber Angela Collier about reading everything about #Feynman #history because she always had really bad experiences with his fan club. She’s a big fan of his approach to teaching and his willingness to teach people, and his Challenger Commission work, and his kindness to children, but doesn’t like how he treated women or how he was so contrarian. Except actually he supported gender equality for Jenijoy La Belle in her lawsuit and also helped his sister Joan to become a physicist and sought out intimate relationships with women he could have intelligent conversations with, so maybe the ill-treatment of women was exaggerated in Leighton’s books? But in the divorce from Mary Lou he was accused of physically attacking and choking her.
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