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My favourite physicist…

Friday, June 8th, 2012

… who actually worked on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico during WW2:

MetaFilter: The FBI has a “Do Not Contact” List?

The Feynman Files. “For the first time, FBI records for Dr Richard Feynman have been released to the public. They document the Bureau’s apparent obsession in the 1950′s with outing him as a communist sympathizer, and include notations from several background checks as well as interviews with his colleagues, friends and acquaintances.”

Not the one in New Mexico…

Friday, June 8th, 2012

… this is a different Manhattan Project:

“This time-lapse production has been a wild and exhilarating ride, with a lot of physical work lugging my 120-130 pounds of gear around all of Manhattan.”

Link via Garret.