Who do you read/watch _everything_ by?
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David Mermin had a great line on Feynman: "I would drop everything to hear Feynman lecture on the Municipal Drainage System". For whom can this be applied mutatis mutandis?
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When I hear that line of Mermin's I instantly think of the great John McPhee. I've read essays of McPhee's which sounded terrible - "A Roomful of Hovings"(?!) - and been just spellbound.
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The question is partially motivated by this observation: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1083840425952067584 … (Also, Littlewood's observation that life is too short to listen to any composer except Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart (IIRC).)
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Update: the suggestions so far are amazing, thanks everyone who has contributed. More suggestions welcome!
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You ever see Hanson's summaries about piping for _Age of Em_? I'd love to see Feynman do a 'lectures on computation' for fluidics/piping...
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What a terrific suggestion! cc
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@voeliz do you see Michael here throwing shade at municipal drainage systems?
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There's one in every crowd, isn't there! Or, in this case, two
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