From The Guardian, UK:

Walter Lewin is not your average Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. He teaches introductory physics with a difference: electric charge is demonstrated by beating a student with cat fur, he rides a fire-extinguisher propelled tricycle across the lecture hall to show how a rocket lifts off. ....

....Each lecture, complete with stunts (others have included making himself into a pendulum and firing golf balls at a stuffed monkey in a bulletproof vest) takes about 25 hours to prepare....

The lecture videos can be downloaded! Check them out at the MIT site.

... that makes them so incredibly cool?

A few days ago, a dolphin helped rescue two stranded whales in NZ. Check out the BBC report.

I think my favourite dolphin story is still this one. Trippy!

One morning, while driving past Kaikoura, NZ, some years ago, i had the good fortune of seeing a huge number of  dolphins out for a breakfast hunt. There must have been more than a hundred out there. It remains one of the coolest things i've ever seen.....

For a long time, I thought that Stevie Wonder was a pretty good musician........

.......silly silly me...... the Man is a Golden God!

First time i saw this video, I was completely stunned. I didnt even know he could play the drums. He does some things in this vid that I think would make many a musician cry, and he doesnt even look like he's breaking a sweat!

This video actually made me go out and get a hold of his music and have a proper listen. I am now convinced that Stevie Wonder is one of those rare musicians whose genius is unclassifiable, trancending instruments and genres. Maybe I'll check out his latest album sometime soon....