Great article full of fan mail for MIT physics professor, Walter Lewin.

Quoted: Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures.

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Maybe the chimps are practicing with Brain Age.

Quoted: Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12993-chimps-outperfor m-humans-at-memory-task.htmlFor the first time, young chimps have outperformed humans...

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Very cool demo of using CD players as a gyroscopic platform in space.

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Really amazing! Accelerating to 155 mph in 8.2 sec is an average acceleration of 28 ft/sec^2 - or about 0.87G's (at 32 ft/sec^2). Rubber tires on pavement only have a coefficient of friction of about 1, so you can't really accelerate a wheeled land vehicle that much fast than this.

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This guy is very long winded - so his critique of global warming theories takes over an hour. But he's pretty entertaining, and he obviously done a lot of homework looking at the supporting evidence for different theories.

Robert Scoble takes a tour of the Museum at CERN. Both physics exhibits, and Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT machine on which he created the first version of the World Wide Web.

Interesting video times:
20:00: WWW and Tim Berners-Lee Story
30:00 Emacs mention
50:00 Conversion from IBM/Cray to Unix grid computing
"Linux is everywhere"

Ben Segal narrates much of this, who worked closely with Tim.

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This is beautiful!

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Quoted: IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community (near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented here as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material.

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