10 top things to do with your iPod during a financial meltdown

10) Learn about stress in baboons.
Our primate cousins have a lot to teach us about handling stress according to this lecture (iTunes) by Stanford stress researcher Robert Sapolsky.
9) Take a meditation break.
Get the free audio for short, guided meditations from UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (iTunes) (website). (See Ready for a break? Try meditation)
8) Read [...]

Quantum physics made relatively simple

Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, one of the giants of 20th-century physics, was present at the birth of the atomic age. He worked on the Manhattan Project and.rubbed elbows with the likes of Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein.
In 1999, at age 93 Bethe gave this series of lectures about quantum physics to fellow [...]

Physics for future presidents

It’s always thrilling to watch/listen to a teacher who clearly loves his subject, and that’s what you get with UC Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller who teaches Physics for Future Presidents AKA Physics 10: Descriptive Introduction to Physics – website – iTunes – feed.  Muller says that he is serious about the title — this [...]

Five-star professors

Yesterday the New York Times ran a story about MIT physics Professor Walter Lewin who has become a video star at age 71 thanks to his popular online physics courses.
Another professor who deserves five-star status is UC Berkeley history professor Margaret Anderson, who just finished an outstanding series of podcast lectures on German history. As [...]