Watch a video of Richard Baraniuk (Rice University professor speaking at TED) discussing Connexions: an open-access education publishing system. The content available through Connexions includes short content modules such as:
and: Protein Folding, as well as full courses, such as: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I and Physics for K-12.
Related: Google technical talk webcasts (including a presentation by Richard Baraniuk at Google) - podcasts of Technical Talks at Google - science podcast posts - Berkeley and MIT courses online
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August 27th, 2006 at 10:26 am
People often say that but in synthetic organic chemistry, we generally think of the scientists creating new reactions and the engineers scaling them up.
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