This week, Freakonomics Radio revisited the life and mind of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose curiosity extended far beyond the laboratory. The episode explores how Feynman's unconventional approach to problem-solving and his relentless questioning of authority shaped not just physics, but his views on everything from education to human nature itself.
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