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Online Video Suddenly Gets Brainy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hard-to-compete-against-jackass-tv dept.

David Kesmodel writes "Several online-video efforts are under way that offer a more cerebral alternative to the typical fare seen on the Web, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ambitious Fora.tv, for example, intends to establish relations with all of the lecture series from the nation's scores of think tanks, civic groups, bookstores and the like, and then put tapes of their speeches and panel discussions online in an easily searchable fashion."

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  1. MIT Open CourseWare by The+Media+Mechanic · · Score: 5, Informative

    MIT's Open CourseWare has online videos of undergraduate and graduate course lectures of actual math, engineering, physics professors... Many of whom are top researchers in their fields. This is about as brainy as you can get!

    For example...

    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFal l1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

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  2. Re:Right ... by cyphercell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who is Sanjaya?

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