Soon, at Fermilab: Diagrams and Throat Singing and Mysterious Guests from Afar

[beamjockey]

I don't know how to explain this. It's multiple things, all tangled up into a ball. But clearly I need to tell you about it.

1. Feynman.

Let's start with Richard Feynman (1918-1988). Perhaps you know of him. Physicist, Caltech teacher, Nobel Prize winner, legendary storyteller. Bongo drums, safecracking, and so forth.

2. The Diagrams.As a

Comments

[seawasp]

Heh. Our family used Dodge Tradesman vans exclusively for many years. The family car I drove first was the 1976 Dodge Tradesman.

[msminlr]

Eating Our Hearts Out near Starkville, MS.

Morris and I have been Feynman fans for decades. And the other guys sound cool, also,

[wcg]

Oh man, I wish I could be there for the concert. I might be able to get out your way to at least see the van some time before it leaves.

[icecreamempress]

So cool. This may have an impact on my travel schedule! Thanks.

[bibliofile]

Hey, I belong to more of those fandoms than most people, I expect. (I haven't read the books about Feynman, myself.) That is a confluence of cool that I certainly didn't expect.

Also, good to know what Edward Tufte's up to currently. I am one of those people who attended one of his lecture-course-thingies on the visual display of information, probably a couple of decades ago now.

Hmmm....!

[beamjockey]

(I haven't read the books about Feynman, myself.)

They're good. And, as you probably know, widely beloved. They're not exactly written, though. They represent lots of transcription and editing by Mr. Leighton of tapes Feynman made-- just as his father before him, Robert Leighton, had a role in turning tape and film of the legendary Feynman Lectures into a set of physics textbooks.