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Project Tuva
Bill Gates has bought the rights to Richard Feynman's lectures, The Character of Physical Law, and has put them on the web with lots of annotations. Nicely done.
I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers, "That's the strange world we live in, that all the advances and understanding are used only to continue the nonsense which has existed for 2,000 years."Hat tip to Tierney Lab.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on July 15, 2009 at 03:38 PM in Data Source, Economics, Science | Permalink
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Of course it doesn't work in Chrome... fascinating enough that I'll switch to IE for this though.
Posted by: Eric at Jul 15, 2009 3:47:31 PM
Sadly, these are not THE Feynman lectures, which Feynman gave to CalTech undergrads. Still have to shell out for the books and/or CDs to hear those.
Posted by: Michael F. Martin at Jul 15, 2009 4:00:26 PM
Yea Eric, I was just going to comment (complain) about that myself! It's especially funny when I often spend 1/3 of my web design time getting things to work with that piece of junk called IE.
How rich, Chrome is the browser with a problem!
Posted by: Patrick at Jul 15, 2009 4:03:53 PM
It does work with Firefox but not Seamonkey.
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Jul 15, 2009 4:05:54 PM
So, these exact lectures have been on YouTube for free for a while, but Bill Gates wants to reencode with non-standard proprietary Microsoft playback technology, and get some free publicity and Richard Feynman genius cred points...
I'm disappointed you'd even link this tech politics junk.
Any reason you spelled Richard Feynman's name wrong twice?
Posted by: Massimo at Jul 15, 2009 4:19:50 PM
"non-standard proprietary Microsoft playback technology"
As opposed to the non-standard proprietary Adobe playback technology that youtube uses?
Posted by: q at Jul 15, 2009 4:26:04 PM
Flash isn't "standard" in an W3C/ISO style official standards body sense like HTML5 , but in a critical mass adoption sense like Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Word. Obviously, Microsoft is aggressively trying to change that with promotions like this one...
Posted by: Massimo at Jul 15, 2009 4:37:53 PM
Only short clips are on YouTube there are hours of material at Project Tuva.
Posted by: Jon at Jul 15, 2009 5:12:46 PM
That is just not true. YouTube doesn't just have short clips, they have the full ~60 minute long lectures organized into playlists of 6-7 video segments.
It looks like the Microsoft site has a few more of the lectures from the 1964 Messenger series, but YouTube has many more Feynman videos in total.
Posted by: Massimo at Jul 15, 2009 5:55:49 PM
Neither work in Safari
Posted by: k at Jul 15, 2009 6:02:33 PM
Anyway , i have already read the book years ago
Posted by: k at Jul 15, 2009 6:03:06 PM
oh microsoft - i tried clicking to http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html and got a "sorry, your browser is not compatible" message on Google Chrome.
Posted by: shawn at Jul 15, 2009 7:23:29 PM
Feynman's mannerisms remind me of Ed Norton. Am I alone?
Posted by: Harkins at Jul 15, 2009 8:49:09 PM
Now I know why the answer to question "what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?" is 42.
Posted by: samson alva at Jul 15, 2009 9:46:36 PM
chrome or no, is there no way to link to these videos or parts of them? doesn't seem to be.
i would like to 'share' some pieces of them in facebook.
if not, microsoft is not thinking the way the rest of the web is.
Posted by: babar at Jul 15, 2009 10:40:03 PM
"That's the strange world we live in, that all the advances and understanding are used only to continue the nonsense which has existed for 2,000 years."
I wonder what he thinks is so strange about a population of well-replicating ideas adapting to a changed environment wherein somewhat different characteristics facilitate their propagation.
Posted by: J. Goard at Jul 16, 2009 12:32:38 AM
wow..what a bunch of whiny bitches here. ohh my chrome does not work..ohh microsoft sucks..ohh non proprietary.. ohh you spelled wrong..
No limits for stupidity.
Posted by: Marc at Jul 16, 2009 7:10:07 AM
I agree with John Best on one small (off topic) point. Tyler begins the linked article:
"Thinking back on history, maybe you've wondered how it was that American colleges and universities could ever have contributed to racist discourse."
You'd be better off a Jew back then in an university than a capitalist in today's.
Posted by: Tom at Jul 16, 2009 8:46:00 AM
[I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers]
did Feynman really not know that Newton was an alchemist?
Posted by: dsquared at Jul 16, 2009 5:00:45 PM
"[I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers]
did Feynman really not know that Newton was an alchemist?"
Newton was an alchemist because chemistry didn't exist at the time. Keep in mind Mendeleev was born more than 100 years after Newton's death. It is more likely Newton was interested in the nature of chemical reactions as opposed to turning lead into gold, since some of his alchemical formulas have turned out to yield accurate results. Albeit in alchemical jargon. Newton did apparently write more about religion than science in his lifetime. Maybe Feynman didn't know that?
Posted by: swepi at Jul 18, 2009 2:24:58 AM
Browser snobs.
Posted by: Henri Hein at Jul 19, 2009 12:06:19 AM
Did you also like the Feynman bit about how social science is not science at all? Famous quote. Look it up, repent.
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