Literature Lightly Examined: "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard Feynman, PhD., is full of wit in this collection of taped and transcribed conversations between him and his friend Ralph Leighton. Each enthralling anecdote will make you want to read the next, and then the next, and before finishing the book, you will regard Feynman as truly a curious character. Although Surely you're joking is written from the point of view of a theoretical physicist, Feynman is essentially a human before all else, and his frank testimony produces an extremely unbiased analysis of the human condition. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" is an essential read for anyone, science enthusiast or not. The only grief you will feel while reading it is the realization that you have finished it.

Los Alamos From Below

New, from Universal Pictures:

What happens when a man who was judged “deficient” in a psychiatric evaluation has access to all the plans for the atomic bomb? What if he helped make that bomb?

What if he can open any lock and crack and safe? What if locks only encourage him?

Would it surprise you that this man was the only person to have both thwarted a German espionage agent and to have had a PhD and a Nobel Prize for his work in theoretical physics? That he was the only man to see the first atomic bomb test with his own eyes?

This summer, come to your neighborhood theater and experience the spectacle that is Micheal Cera as Dr. Richard Feynman in Los Alamos From Below: Adventures of a Curious Character. Learn more about this beloved, yet mysterious, American hero, including about his fraternity days at MIT, his drug use, and his romance with Brazil and samba music.

Opening August 6, 2010.