Questions... and Christmas...

First off, to the one or two people who read this, I'd like to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah. I hope you've had a good year, and I wish you a wonderful year to come.

Now, on to other things...

So a while back, I posted a link to an editorial by Jack Cafferty in which he comment on what he (and I) see as one of Senator McCain's largest shortcomings... his lack of intellectual curiosity...

Today I'd like to post a bit about someone who fell at the opposite end of curiosity spectrum, Nobel prize wining Physicist and international ladies man, Richard Feynman. This came to me today because I ran across an old interview / show with Feynman where he espouses curiosity and looking at things from different perspectives. Since he's a Physicist, they venture into physics a bit, but the point of this is to ask questions, and to follow those questions as far as you can go until you hit this wall of "mystery and awe"... and then you keep bashing against that until you that moment of revelation, and you move the art just that slight step forward.

The interview / show is split into four parts:
Part 1 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI )
Part 2 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzB_IHGyjg )
Part 3 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNOghidK2TY )
Part 4 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ )
The show was produced by Yorkshire Television.

Curiosity... it may have killed the cat, but it's an amazing thing.