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  • What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  • Further Adventures of a Curious Character
  • Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
  • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
  • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (67 ratings)

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Written by: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

Among the book's many tales we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
©1988 Gweneth Feynman and Ralph Leighton (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks
Professionals & Academics Education Physics
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"Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct.' (The New York Times Book Review)

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Teaches you about scientific thinking

I like it how it talks the gaps between managers at NASA and engineers and how a scientific investigation must be managed.

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Good collection of Feynman’s writings

I enjoyed the whole book but the first stories are the best one I particularly enjoyed the one that gives the name of the book if you want to know who Feynman really was read that story what do you care what other people think.
The narrator makes you think you are listening to the author great performance

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Brilliant thinker worth listening to.

I especially liked the chapter entitled “Getting Ahead”. His observation on the Negro race made sense. Also the last chapter where he talks about the meaning of life, science and democracy. Brilliant thinker.

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