Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "" video.

@timdrozinski1653 Thanks, Mr. Cultural Relativism! What would we do without you? Fwiw, Newton would have been well aware of Margaret Cavendish, Sophia Charlotte and other women natural philosophers of the era. He was asexual and completely uninterested in women as romantic partners, but I have no evidence he thought them intellectually inferior (correct me if I'm wrong!)
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His pedagogical skills are also vastly overrated. I have never heard of a university using the Feynman Lectures as a textbook and, IIRC, the students who took his classes failed at an extremely high rate.
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Hollywood, listen up: Angela has teed up a goldmine of a film—an adaptation of Surely You're Joking, leaning in all the way into the dramatic irony angle. Feyman spends the whole film going around doing incredibly cringey things thinking he's awesome while everyone around him is just so incredibly embarrassed on his behalf. Also: the thing about Bob and Ralph Leighton reminds me of when F1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr. was asked who his idol was, he answered Fernano Alonzo and not, you know, legendary racecar driver Carlos Sainz Sr.
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I'm sure it's at least partially a function of the era he worked during, but I also have never heard a single word negative about Maxwell—not that he was abusive towards his spouse or had inappropriate relations with a student or blood relative, not that he was a eugenicist or anti-suffrage, not even that he undermined a rival's career.
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@timdrozinski1653 Laying hands on—and cutting off the airflow of—another human being has never been culturally acceptable.
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I'd like to think that Feynman relayed that story with a winking sarcasm or that Leighton recorded it with dramatic irony, but nothing in what we know of either man suggests they possessed any degree of self-awareness.
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Definitely send her a link to the video along with a "😬" emoji...
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The smartest person in a room is generally not the person who speaks first, it's the one who doesn't speak until asked their opinion.
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By the 30m mark, I was determined to throw out every book I own that was written by Feynman. I'm glad to report that by video's end I have done so.
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PhD in Physics. You can find her dissertation online (it's a good, quick read). More relevantly, she spent a year combing through everything published that was even tangentially related to RPF. So let me ask: what are yours?
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Do you know what the annual budget is of CERN? It's peanuts, and I don't even mean that as a pun on "food insecure."
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@lost4468yt Friend, the me of five days ago held vile opinions that the me of today ardently disavows. And I would be absolutely mortified if I found out a coworker had compiled a list of quotations and anecdotes about me that were being treated as gospel scripture and a Blueprint for success.
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Sweden is legitimately one of those countries where the dialect in one region is indecipherable to people from other regions, right? There's a Minecraft SMP called Hermitcraft where two of the members were Swedes and would occasionally crack jokes about the other being incomprehensible.
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