I just happened to see on Slashdot that UC Berkeley is now making full lectures available on YouTube starting with over 300 hours of lectures in various subjects. You can see the videos divided up by course by viewing Berkeley’s YouTube playlists. No psych or neuroscience in there although I did like the Physics For Future Presidents course. One can only hope this free service from Berkeley will blossom in future months. At least I think it’s a fantastic thing. After all, considering the degree to which pseudoscience and the paranormal outweigh real science and fact in search engine listings it can’t hurt to have one more avenue for solid information out there.

More than that though I think many adults are looking to expand their knowledge. Actually many kids are looking to go beyond the mediocre offerings of their schools too. Unfortunately in the past economic and geographic limitations have prevented those looking to increase their knowledge and skills in an academic arena from doing so. Berkeley’s offering up of these lectures online is helping to eradicate those barriers. In my mind it’s hard to see anything negative coming out of that.