infundibulum

I ran across some really good webcasts of an astronomy course at Berkeley (go bears!):

Astro C10 / LS C70U Introduction to General Astronomy | Fall 2006
This prof, Alex Filippenko has a real gift for teaching; he’s received a boatload of awards and watching his lectures makes it clear why.

I’ve been through about maybe 7 of them in a few days. It’s an overview course, no complex math or anything, so you can pretty much just cruise along. (I’ve also been watching the chem1a course, which you definitely can’t cruise through).

Accessible as it is, he covers really interesting stuff, which I never happened to study in school. Did you know about the green flash at sunset? I didn’t.

The web rules.

update: dammit … they took it down. ☹

update: undammit! It was just archived:
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Astro C10 / LS C70U