This is pretty cool. A UC Berkeley physics lecturer has started to post his lectures online, and people all over the world are listening. The guy teaches a course called Physics for Future Presidents which is a math-free, but apparently not dumbed-down approach to physics, that teaches critical thinking, among other things. In my other life, I would love to listen to this course, but in the meantime, I'll just spread the word...
An exerpt from today's paper about people around the world listening to this guy's course:
"Today," wrote an e-mail correspondent who identified himself as a Tibetan boy studying math, "all day I spent watching physics lectures, wonderful lectures and (it's a) wonderful idea to share these with the rest of the world."
"It's better than getting a prize," said Muller. "It's the kind of reward you don't expect."
A naval officer stationed in Bahrain said he listens to Muller's podcasts while working out.
There were messages from Colombia, Slovakia and Poland. And a businessman based in Bamako, Mali, in West Africa, wrote: "At the end of this month I will be in Timbuktu and I assure you I will have your lecture playing on my MP3 player as I plod away from the city by camel."
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