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by on July 15, 2009 at 3:38 pm in Data Source, Economics, Science | Permalink

Bill Gates has bought the rights to Richard Feynman's lectures, The Character of Physical Law, and has put them on the web with lots of annotations.  Nicely done.

I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers, "That's the strange world we live in, that all the advances and understanding are used only to continue the nonsense which has existed for 2,000 years."

Hat tip to Tierney Lab.

Eric July 15, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Of course it doesn’t work in Chrome… fascinating enough that I’ll switch to IE for this though.

Patrick July 15, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Yea Eric, I was just going to comment (complain) about that myself! It’s especially funny when I often spend 1/3 of my web design time getting things to work with that piece of junk called IE.

How rich, Chrome is the browser with a problem!

Massimo July 15, 2009 at 4:19 pm

So, these exact lectures have been on YouTube for free for a while, but Bill Gates wants to reencode with non-standard proprietary Microsoft playback technology, and get some free publicity and Richard Feynman genius cred points…

I’m disappointed you’d even link this tech politics junk.

Any reason you spelled Richard Feynman’s name wrong twice?

Massimo July 15, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Flash isn’t “standard” in an W3C/ISO style official standards body sense like HTML5

Massimo July 15, 2009 at 5:55 pm

That is just not true. YouTube doesn’t just have short clips, they have the full ~60 minute long lectures organized into playlists of 6-7 video segments.

It looks like the Microsoft site has a few more of the lectures from the 1964 Messenger series, but YouTube has many more Feynman videos in total.

k July 15, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Anyway , i have already read the book years ago

Harkins July 15, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Feynman’s mannerisms remind me of Ed Norton. Am I alone?

babar July 15, 2009 at 10:40 pm

chrome or no, is there no way to link to these videos or parts of them? doesn’t seem to be.
i would like to ‘share’ some pieces of them in facebook.
if not, microsoft is not thinking the way the rest of the web is.

Marc July 16, 2009 at 7:10 am

wow..what a bunch of whiny bitches here. ohh my chrome does not work..ohh microsoft sucks..ohh non proprietary.. ohh you spelled wrong..
No limits for stupidity.

dsquared July 16, 2009 at 5:00 pm

[I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers]

did Feynman really not know that Newton was an alchemist?

Henri Hein July 19, 2009 at 12:06 am

Browser snobs.

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I find it interesting that here in Berkeley, right beside a world class university there are so many of these psychics and astrologers and what have you.

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[I liked Feynman's point about Newton's law of gravity being used by astrologers]

did Feynman really not know that Newton was an alchemist?

Website Strategy February 3, 2011 at 9:28 am

That’s an interesting idea. Hoping Bill Gates will put the rights to Richard Feynman’s lectures to good free use.

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