A little while ago someone forwarded me a link to this and I think it is totally amazing. Academic Earth offers full length lectures and, in some cases, courses on a variety of academic concepts. My favorite course, thus far, has been Dr. Mark Saltzman of Yale University's Introduction to Biomedical Engineering. Specifically, I'm digging his lectures on cardiovascular physiology:
Video 1: Dr. Saltzman's discussion of Ohm's Law is awfully hot.
Also, only slightly less hot, but with way hipper graphics and theme music, Dr. Brad Osgood of Stanford's lectures on the Fourier transform. Fourier transforms are pretty important, but the best part is him introducing his teaching assistants. I've watched that hilarity at least 3 times.
Video 2: How do you spell that?
Check them out!
Comments
That Saltzman dude looks like a total fucking dork.
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | March 24, 2009 9:58 PM
Don't hate on the cardiovascular physiology, dude. Not everyone can study, whatever the fuck you study.
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | March 24, 2009 9:59 PM
dude, wtf! i'm only one TA and my class is far larger than that.
wimps.
Posted by: leigh | March 24, 2009 10:15 PM
Agreed. That is a ton of TAs for such a tiny class. Someone should totally have a class on 'how to write authoritatively on a blackboard.' That is truly an important life skill.
Posted by: Hermitage | March 25, 2009 12:01 AM
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@ ComradeUnFiltered...
That Saltzman dude looks like a total fucking dork.
I think he is 'quite fetching'. In a manly way of course...
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Posted by: ...tom... | March 25, 2009 1:34 AM
OMG. OMG! I so love you right now for sharing this! Woo-hoo! I have something productive to add to my "Husband is Gone for 6 Months" To-Do List!
Posted by: JLK | March 25, 2009 1:45 PM
Apparently I'm Cmdr Data in disguise, because I missed the hilarity with the grad students....can someone explain the joke to me?
Posted by: Courtney | March 25, 2009 3:20 PM
Thankyou Dr Isis for sharing the fourier transform lecture with us. Very helpful as I have been concentrating on nothing by data analysis via fourier transforms for the last three days... I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that they are useful for bioengineering and physiology people too!
Courtney - I think the hilarity with the grad students is in the spelling or lack thereof of the names ;-)
Posted by: phase green | March 26, 2009 9:41 AM
YES! Everybody deserves at least a brief introduction to the awesomeness of biomedical engineering. But then I might be biased...
Posted by: Scienginerd | March 28, 2009 6:01 PM