One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific...Show More
One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific...Show More
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mostowiec recommended:Feb 27th, 2023
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epekilis recommended:Jun 1st, 2020
I can’t answer this question. I don’t know how you communicate something after the apocalypse. Who is the audience if humanity was wiped out? It does make me think of 99% Invisible Episode #114 Ten Thousand Years, about the challenges of communicating a nuclear waste warning forward to whoever wi...Show More
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hsfargis recommended:Apr 18th, 2020
Richard Feynman once asked “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” Radiolab asks multiple people this question. Historia...Show More