YouTube for Geeks – ‘SciTalks’ launches, offers streaming science lectures

Users can also submit links to additional lectures to be listed on the site, search for upcoming science conferences, and even upload their own video content.

Bringing a new capability to the online video boom epitomized by YouTube and others, SciTalks is a focused, searchable repository of video recordings of science lectures from all over the world.

The site launches today with over 1,000 lectures online, and more are being added daily. Segments range from a series of hour-long lectures by the late Richard Feynman, to a short, hilarious Ali G interview with Noam Chomsky, and a fascinating talk on designing a semiconductor-based brain, by up-and-coming Stanford researcher Kwabena Boahen.

It’s much like YouTube in that users can create “favorites” and “playlists” but, instead of watching people get punched in the groin or dancing in front of a webcam, you can watch lectures like “Powering Nanodvices with Biometric Motors” by Professor Amir Khan given at the University of Cambridge or the one by Craig Barrett, President and CEO of Intel Corporation: at the University of California at Berkeley titled “Adding Value with Information Technology”.

Users can also submit links to additional lectures to be listed on the site, search for upcoming science conferences, and even upload their own video content — the site has subcategories for academic, business and personal science lectures. Linked sites for lectures in the humanities, government, and business are planned for launch sometime in the next 3 months.

“Science and scientists are going to be more fun and accessible because of SciTalks. Students will be able to hear the voices and passion of the actual discoverers of the subject they’re studying in class. Teachers can assign selections to their students…no matter how limited your school’s resources, if you have access to the Internet, you can now get a great science education. It’s like crack for science geeks,” says founder Lee Vodra.

I especially liked the talk given by British physicist David Deutsch at Oxford University called “The Fabric of Reality and parallel worlds,” in which he postulates that our universe is constantly expanding and spawning parallel worlds. It’s pretty interesting stuff.

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