MP3 Lectures

September 2, 2004 8:24 AM

I'm looking for free lectures in mp3 format. Science, history, philosophy, etc. Lectures from college courses might be nice or something along the lines of the Long Now Seminars.
posted by gwint to Education (10 answers total)

Bargh. It seems the BBC have taken down their Reith Lectures mp3s (there is some Real Audio, though). How about some neuroscience instead?
posted by nthdegx at 8:47 AM on September 2, 2004

Or The Olympics: From Ancient Greece to Athens 2004 (lower-most on the right).
posted by nthdegx at 8:48 AM on September 2, 2004

Or if creationism is your bag... (I'm quite tempted by 'The Turtle God's Handiwork', 'The Serpent on a Pole' and 'Environment or Genetics', myself).
posted by nthdegx at 8:54 AM on September 2, 2004

Many here, but I'm not sure of the format as a log-in is required.
posted by nthdegx at 8:56 AM on September 2, 2004

Ah, and of course Jason Kottke's audio version of Cory Doctorow's Digital Rights Management talk.
posted by nthdegx at 9:03 AM on September 2, 2004

Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Physics 131A Autumn 2000

Physics with Large Extra Dimensions (lecture 2)
(D/L seems to be restricted but streaming seems Ok)
More at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, just poke around.

Here's another MIT neuroscience course

I would also like to listen to more things like you describe (I already have the CDs of various Feynman and Hawking lectures and etc.) and it seems like searching turns up many more than I would have thought, although I have no idea of the quality. Unfortunately there is an awful lot of religious and self-help crap out there, I wonder if anyone has ever thought of making a meta-site or listing for this kind of thing.
posted by milovoo at 9:58 AM on September 2, 2004

Its not lectures, but you might enjoy NPR's "Science Friday" downloads.
posted by Goofyy at 11:31 PM on September 2, 2004

Though those do not appear to be available in MP3. Too bad.
posted by thijsk at 7:55 AM on September 3, 2004

IT Conversations: law, policy, technology, security. . . usually interviews or roundtable conversations, not strictly lectures.
posted by crush-onastick at 10:06 AM on September 3, 2004

I also found a page on Barbelith that asks the same question and
has a few other sites, as well as some of the ones we have found.
posted by milovoo at 2:00 PM on September 5, 2004