FEYNMAN AND BELL's THEOREM, AND THE PRONUNCIATION OF “QUARK”

In his Letter to the Editor in the July 2016 issue of AJP,¹ Andrew Whitaker gives the wrong citation for the article that Richard Feynman wrote to me about in 1984. Whitaker's Ref. 13 should be to N. David Mermin, “Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody,” Am. J. Phys. 49, 940–943 (1981).

And in the November 2016 issue John Cramer, reviewing my new book of essays,² wonders why I chose to name the whole collection after the one on how to pronounce “quark.” The reason is that, unlike Cramer, I regard it as the most amusing of the columns I published in Physics Today between 1988 and 2014. De gustibus.