More Video Lectures: IIT Open Course Ware

Going by my convention of posting, this may be considered as an annexe to the previous post. I have been thinking of writing about the open course ware given by the IITs as part of a program that had been conceived quite a few years ago, probably inspired by the MIT OCW. However i have [...]

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Video Lectures

Via DataWrangling, Here is one of my best finds since i took to blogging.
While browsing i came across this post that makes up a comprehensive list of publicly available video lectures on various topics on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Neuro-Science etc.
Peter Skomoroch almost writes my story at the start of the post i made a [...]

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The Path to Significant Rewards

Quoting Computer scientist, Microbiologist and the inventor of the idea of the Matrioshka Brains Robert Bradbury:

You have to learn to be ruthless in dividing between “possible”, “impossible” and “might be possible” (which would require significant breakthroughs in accepted science). There is much which is quite “possible” but currently would be considered “fantastic”. Pursuit of the [...]

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Richard Dawkins on the Anti-Dogmatism of Science

Yesterday while rummaging for a few talks given by Tyson Neil deGrasse on Google Video, i stumbled upon this video. Which i found to be most impressive. Almost electric!
The introduction to the video is the most apt:

Richard Dawkins describes an example of how the scientific method is always open to new evidence, regardless of the [...]

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