"The Chief" tells his most infamous story: cracking the safes containing the secrets to the atomic bomb! Mixed in are drumming sessions, in original recordings made by Ralph Leighton. Hear it all on this incredible audio CD! Profits from the sale of this CD benefit cancer research.
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Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended MIT and was awarded his Ph.D. from Princeton University. During World War II, he participated in the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. After the war, he accepted a teaching position at Cornell University, and in 1950, he accepted a position at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He remained there until his death in 1988. Feynman is well-known for his work in quantumelectrodynamics (QED), which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He also contributed to the understanding of superfluidity in liquid helium and the underlying causes of the Challenger shuttle explosion. Feynman reached popular audiences through his semi-autobiographical books, and is respected for his humor, storytelling, and bongo playing. He is considered by many to be the greatest and most popular physicist in modern times.
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A Feynman Must Have,
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This review is from: Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling (Audio CD)
If you are a Feynman fan, this is for you. The drumming selections punctuated with classic stories is priceless. Everytime I listen to it I hear something I missed before. Always funny and always entertaining. It's a great way to introduce his humor and intellect to those who never knew him and to those of us who wish we did.
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Hypnotic music and evocative language,
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This review is from: Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling (Audio CD)
I've about worn out my copy (on tape) and need to find a new copy. I'm glad to find it's on CD even if I may have to search a while to find it. This is the tape I keep in the player in the car because it always sounds fresh. The drumming pieces make good traveling music if you really crank it up! After listening many times I think the drumming is surprisingly good with varied tempos and effects and it's obvious Richard and Ralph had fun doing it. Richard's storytelling is wonderful because the language is early 20th century, without any chance to edit or polish. To hear Richard's voice relating his own experiences is a treasure for those of us who never met him. The format of interspersing the narratives with the music is especially effective. And yes, the "Orange Juice" song is one of the best cuts, if you know that Feynman liked to make up his own words and languages.
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The one to have if you are to limit to one audio record,
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This review is from: Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling (Audio CD)
Quite different from "Feynman Volumes" (which only 1st volume has been released to this date--Ralph Leighton hopes he'll be able to release 3 or 4 more items, and so do we) in that it doesn't consist of a raw record of a story, but rather in many items mixed up. Other pieces are mostly drums, but most noticeable is a Feynman's imitation of Japanese! or his extemporized "Orange Juice" song, running "gimme gimme gimme orange juice". The story is what constitutes the middle part of "Safecracker meets safecracker" in "Surely You're joking Mr Feynman", from hacking in Los Alamos to, quite ironically, the safecrackers' meeting at the end of the story which is not included. May be Ralph will release the whole story as part of another volume. If you're not too sure what item start your collection with, I suggest you begin with Volume 1, encourage Ralph to produce more such items, and pursue with these.
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