Feynman' Lectures released today

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Socrates II — 7/16/2009 5:06:05 PM (archived)

You are going to need to download MS's SilverLight software to view
them, please note.

Details are here:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/

The only truly sad thing about this is that it took almost half a century
for Feynman's lectures to become widely available. I hope Gates will
do this for other important historical knowledge bases.

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Bill Gates to make Richard Feynman's physics lecturers free to all - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 4:41:23 PM
- Those are available in a slim paperback, from Penguin. - ER - 6/20/2009 2:30:40 AM
  - Fascinating guy. - Bowser - 6/20/2009 3:09:58 AM
    - They made the same complaints about Carl Sagan - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 1:17:52 PM
      - True. But they don't get there without a lot of self-promoting. - Bowser - 6/22/2009 3:52:48 PM
        
        Science needs both types - Socrates II - 6/22/2009 5:18:54 PM
        
        Absolutely! - Bowser - 6/22/2009 9:14:54 PM
- re: Bill Gates to make Richard Feynman's physics lecturers free to all - phil - 6/19/2009 9:57:42 PM
- The science of talking so people want to listen - Socrates II - 6/19/2009 4:55:35 PM
  - Why are modern scientists so dull? And why that question is nonsense - Socrates II - 7/1/2009 5:54:35 PM
    - AstroTwitter - Socrates II - 7/2/2009 7:26:59 PM
      - Feynman' Lectures released today - Socrates II - 7/16/2009 5:06:05 PM

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