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"What Do
YouC a re
W hat Other
People Think?"
Further Adventures of a
C urious C haracter
Richard P. Feynman
as told to Ralph Leighton
P re fa ce
A CURIOUS CHARACTER
11
The Making of a Scientist
11
"What Do You Care What
Other People Think?"
20
It's as Simple as One, Two,
Three ...
54
Getting Ahead
60
Hotel City
63
W ho the Hell Is Herman?
69
Feynman Sexist Pig!
72
I Just Shook His Hand, Can
You Believe It?
76
Letters, Photos, and Drawings
83
Part1
Contents
MR. FEY NMAN GOES TO
W ASHINGT O N:
INVESTIGATING THE
SPACE SHUTTLE
C HA L L ENGERD ISAST ER
113
Preliminaries
113
Committing Suicide
116
The Cold Facts
119
Check Six!
154
Gumshoes
159
Fantastic Figures
177
An Inflamed Appendix
189
The Tenth Recommendation
199
Meet the Press
206
Afterthou ghts
212
Appendix F: Personal
Observations on the
Reliability of the Shuttle
220
Part2
6
EP ILO GUE
Preface
The Value of Science
Index
C ontents
239
239
240
249
BEC A USEof the appearance of "Su re ly
You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" a few
things need to be explained here.

First, although the central charac- ter in this book is the same as before, the "adventures ofa curious character" here are different: some are light and some tragic, but most of the time Mr. Feynman issurelynot joking\u2014although it's often hard to tell.

Second, the stories in this book fit
together more loosely than those in
"Surely You're Joking . . . ," where they

were arranged chronologically to give a semblance of order. (That resulted in some readers getting the mistaken idea thatSY J is an autobiography.) My moti- vation is simple: ever since hearing my first Feynman stories, I have had the powerful desire to share them with oth- ers.

Finally, most of these stories were not told at drumming sessions, as before. I will elaborate on this in the brief outline that follows.

Part 1, "A Curious Character," be- gins by describing the influence of those who most shaped Feynman's per- sonality\u2014his father, Mel, and his first love, Arlene. The first story was adapted from "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out," a BBC program pro- duced by Christopher Sykes. The story of Arlene, from which the title of this book was taken, was painful for Feyn- man to recount. It was assembled over

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