You have your film buffs, the podcast devotees, and the music fans. I spend at least 3 hours every Saturday scanning, selecting and downloading any of the education lectures, classes, research, interviews on iTunes I can find.
I’m interested in just about everything, in fact it would be pithier to say what I’m not particularly interested in (Opera).
Mainly though, I am hooked on any course that discusses quantum science, physics and astronomy.
My recent favourites:
Oxford University – Caging Schrödinger’s Cat – Quantum Nanotechnology (clear, good visuals)
Seattle Pacific University – The Case of Quantum Entanglement (clear presentation, good enthusiastic prof)
Michigan Technological University – Astronomy (concise, great (and funny) prof, good visuals)
Also be sure to subscribe to the SETI institute’s, “Are We Alone?” Podcasts. If you love all that is science fact, those programs will not disappoint.
These courses, and others, are so fascinating I can’t bring myself to delete them.
Last night I managed a better understanding of Dark Energy and Dark Matter. I learned that the cat can be both dead and alive, and I finally think I get the ‘why’.
Tonight I’m going to learn about the birth and death of stars; Ooh, and Fusion: The Real Solar Power, and waiting for me in the next few days: Cambridge University’s Science In Society series.
I had a dream about math last night, so maybe if I keep watching these I’ll finally be that smarty-pants person I’ve always longed to be.
*first posted on group site: www.hardcorenerdity.com
Filed under: Observation | Tagged: education, podcasts, Science
