It starts out with one person wearing all black – even black sunglasses. But on the day of her mother’s big speech, Willa notices something odd about the crowd. This way, you’ll never forget anything at home. Until one day, her Idiot Genius mother (a walking encyclopedia) invents a purse that can fit things as big as a country into it. Willa Snap used to live an ordinary life. But as we get deeper into this review, you’ll start to understand. Those are the people who want to blow the world up… on purpose! Confused? I’m not surprised. They’re just one step smarter than Idiot Geniuses.
There are Idiot Geniuses which you know probably as a genius (lowercase). Times in 1956 and reported on his ex-wife’s testimony, including her allegations of physical abuse.Hi! This book was amazing! It’s a story about a girl and how she gets whisked away to a brand new world. Jamie Condliffe, who wrote that original Gizmodo piece and is now at the New York Times, told me this was an “unintentional editing error,” adding, “from what I recall the piece was simply intended to be a short pointer to the files so readers could take a look at them.” (Coverage from Live Science in 2012 does fully quote the reported allegations of Feynman’s physically abusive behavior, but it’s also just a short quoted section at the end of a story about the files, and again provides a jarring back-and-forth between “quirky guy” and “choked his wife.” There are also several references in the FBI files themselves to a longer version of the divorce story that ran in the L.A. I was surprised that the instance of choking was misquoted as “attacked,” a reframing that I think makes it more amorphous and easier to ignore. How had I missed that? I went back to look at some of the original reporting from when those FBI files were unlocked, and I was surprised to see that the Gizmodo piece McNeill cites, published in 2012, ran under the headline “Richard Feynman’s FBI Files Make Fascinating Reading.” It’s true that the files are interesting-being involved in top-secret government projects, Feynman went through extensive background checks, and much of his file is just letters of professional support noting how brilliant if quirky he is. Even as an already-complicated-Feynman-feeling-haver, I was floored to learn about his ex-wife’s accusations.
And then there’s the alleged physical abuse.
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