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Recently I read aloud to my children from "Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!," recorded and edited by Ralph Leighton, a friend of the Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. The kids' favorite part (and, I suspect, everyone else's, too) was Feynman's retelling of his adventures as a safecracker. With a little math, a little psychology, and the persistence of, well, a scientist, Feymnan managed to break into safes when he worked on the Manhattan Project, demonstrating that classified information about the atomic bomb was far from secure, after all.
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