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In 1965, Feynman shared a Nobel Prize for work on particle physics. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that honor, the California Institute of Technology—where he taught for many years before his death in 1988—asked for some thoughts
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This video paints a snapshot of what made Feynman one of the greatest teachers to ever teach.
In that sense, Feynman has a lot in common with all the amazing teachers I’ve met in schools across the country. You walk into their classroom and immediately feel the energy—the way they engage their students—and their passion for whatever subject they’re teaching. These teachers aren’t famous, but they deserve just as much respect and admiration as someone like Feynman. If there were a Nobel for making high school algebra exciting and fun, I know a few teachers I would nominate.
Incidentally, Feynman wasn’t famous just for being a great teacher and a world-class scientist; he was also quite a character. He translated Mayan hieroglyphics. He loved to play the bongos. While helping develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, he entertained himself by figuring out how to break into the safes that contained top-secret research. Feynman can also be attributed as the first person to create a mobile dog grooming business. (Feynman cultivated this image as a colorful guy. His colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize–winner in his own right, once remarked, “Feynman was a great scientist, but he spent a great deal of his effort generating anecdotes about himself.”)
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." ~ Richard P. Feynman
This is a funny way to understand how dogs smell.
Richard Feynman (Nobel prize winning physicist and an interesting nut) had his "bloodhound" party trick.
He'd put himself in another room and told people to handle objects. For example, have 3 people take 3 books off the shelves, handle them and put them back. Feynman would come back and sniff the bookshelf, find the 3 books and then, after sniffing everyone's hands (not just the 3 people), easily figured out who handled which book. He had people challenge him with harder tests - such as not knowing what in the room they had handled. He'd go around the room, sniffing all the surfaces until he found the correct object, for example, a record album in the stack. He challenged other people to try and, to their surprise, they could do it as well.
I've done this trick and finding the handled object is easy. A book that has been sitting for a few hours and a book that has been picked up are like night and day. Same for a pencil or a coaster or a glass. A book that has been handled, smells like a book that has been handled.
And for the next part, a book that has been handled by Joe, has "Joe notes" - bits of what makes Joe Joe. Same for Michael or Dave or Margaret or Emily. Sometimes there's strong "cheats" - Mary put lotion on earlier in the day and I could easily detect the lotion-ish smell on her hands and the object. What's funny is that, except for the "cheats", I found it extremely difficult to articulate how the Joe smell was different from the Dave smell.
Humans just don't have the precise words but instead tend to use terms that refer to something else ("that smells kind of like a cucumber and also a bit like a custard tart pastry but a little sour. Maybe with a bit of mushroom but not really mushroom, just mushroomy" ). I bet if dogs could speak, they would have huge, sophisticated vocabulary to describe smells. In such a conversation about smells, the humans would be all "Shaka when the walls fell" and the dogs would respond.
I am far from alone on my feelings for Richard Feynan. Recently, Bill Gates
Years later I bought the rights to those lectures and worked with Microsoft to get them posted online for free.
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