A Productive Waste of Time

This one's for those with that insatiable thirst for knowledge. For the heroes who are sick of drowning in a sea of information and tidbits and want some thick, dense, and viscous, honest-to-god knowledge!

Academic Earth.

A user-friendly website that hosts video of 60 full academic courses and and a few one-off lectures from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton. That's over 1300 hrs of mind climbing. The subjects range from "Death" to "The American Novel Since 1945" to "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century".

Here's a lecture entitled "Somebody (Everybody?) Goofed: Origins of the Financial Mess" from Princeton's Alan S. Blinder.


Fora.TV and BigThink are also sites to look into if you've got some time on your hands.