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Feynman: Magnets (and Why?) FUN TO IMAGINE 4/ higher quality version!
Christopher Sykes
A 1983 BBC interview in which Richard Feynman is asked how magnets work and explains why 'why' questions are hard to answer in everyday terms. He reflects on what counts as an explanation and the limits of analogy.
HN returns to it as a model of intellectual honesty and good explanation, often linking it in discussions of why-questions and science communication.
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