Free University Education? Huh? webcast.berkeley Courses Podcast Feeds - I'm getting an education that might potentially cost me $13,000USD/year for free!

Thank you University of California Berkeley!

What a fantastic, wonderful, amazing concept! UC Berkeley is making all lectures for quite a number of their courses available for free on the Internet as Podcasts!

I just began listening to the first of a number of courses that I've 'subscribed' to - Physics 10 - Physics for Future Presidents... The first lecture was about 90 minutes long, that's just 2 commutes for me :) Fasinating and of course very educational...

Just searched around, and found the website of the instructor and a link to the course website, http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html where all of the course materials also appear to be available for free, including the Textbook chapters,etc... Amazing! Just think once the $100 laptop project gets going, you could have millions of children in impoverished countries having access to this high quality education for free... Awesome!

Search through the list of courses, pick one that interests you and do it! Why not?  ¶ 9:35 PM 0 comments

  Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars - space - 14 November 2006 - New Scientist Space Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars - space - 14 November 2006 - New Scientist Space
Cool! Wicked article, talking about the possibility of terraforming Mars... Yeah baby... Crazy cool science!  ¶ 10:58 AM 0 comments

  Amazon.co.uk: Holy Bible: Books - Reviews Amazon.co.uk: Holy Bible: Books - This is hillarious! Thinking about picking up this book called 'The Bible', but not really sure? Read these reviews to help you decide!!!  ¶ 9:28 PM 0 comments

  TIME.com: God vs. Science -- Nov. 13, 2006 -- Page 1 TIME.com: God vs. Science -- Nov. 13, 2006 -- Page 1

Cover story from Time magazine, a very interesting read regarding the God vs. Science debate, featuring Richard Dawkins - I think you have to watch an Ad in order to read the whole article for free... I have a copy in email if you can't be bothered - I'll forward it over to you...  ¶ 2:29 PM 0 comments

  TIME.com: God vs. Science -- Nov. 13, 2006 -- Page 1 TIME.com: God vs. Science -- Nov. 13, 2006 -- Page 1

Cover story from Time magazine, a very interesting read regarding the God vs. Science debate, featuring Richard Dawkins - I think you have to watch an Ad in order to read the whole article for free... I have a copy in email if you can't be bothered - I'll forward it over to you...  ¶ 2:29 PM 0 comments

  Be Lambic or Green » What is Agnostic? Be Lambic or Green » What is Agnostic? - A good article about being Agnostic... a fun 2 minute read...  ¶ 9:55 AM 0 comments

  Latest Reading
I just finished reading More Than Human by Ramez Naam.

A few cool book that really champions many of the concepts of being transhuman...

Chapters on Gene Therapy, Neural Implants, Life Extension, some fascinating information on past and present research in these areas and insightful dialog regarding the ethics and morality of the implementation of these technologies...

Fascinating stuff!

Next up is The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama... I've seen the Dalai Lama interviewed on TV a few times and he seems like a very cool guy, I thought this book which really focuses on the intersection of science and spirituality would be a good fit with much of the thinking I've been doing lately... So far, so good! :^)  ¶ 8:55 AM 0 comments