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...know what the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth is?" Marian Diamond asks her students on the first day of anatomy class as she casually opens a flowery hatbox and lifts out a preserved human brain. "This mass only weighs 3 lb., and yet it has the capacity to conceive of a universe a billion light-years across. Isn't that phenomenal...
...Diamond is an esteemed neuroanatomist and one of the most admired professors at the University of California, Berkeley. It would be a privilege for anyone to sit in on her lectures. And, in fact, anyone can. Videos of her popular course are available free online, part of a growing movement by academic institutions worldwide to open their once exclusive halls to all who want to peek inside. Whether you'd like to learn algebra from a mathematician at MIT, watch how to make crawfish étouffée from an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America or study blues guitar...
Another new site, AcademicEarth.org lets users give lectures letter grades. (Diamond's brain-in-a-hatbox episode, posted there as well as on YouTube Edu, got an A average.) The much smaller, more closely edited site also assembles playlists of related lectures, like one titled "Wars Throughout History." Richard Ludlow, 23, came up with the idea for the site when he was struggling with an algebra course at Yale and discovered helpful Web lectures by the author of his textbook, MIT professor Gilbert Strang. Ludlow thinks every school should play more to its strengths and not be shy about letting...
...really drive the ball,” Walsh said.One of those hard-hit balls was snagged by O’Neill in the fifth, when the sophomore made a highlight-reel over-the-shoulder catch. He added a diving grab in the second game.Harvard returns to the diamond on Tuesday in its final game of the year against Northeastern.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...batter’s box, Troupe opted in this instance to grant the free pass. As expletives rained from the crowd and home bench, Big Green head coach Bob Whalen argued, to no avail.THE BALK MOVEAll year long Walsh has emphasized the little things, honing fundamentals on the diamond. One such focus has been pickoffs, of which the team has 10—including four by Suter—this season. In attempting these moves Harvard has also yielded eight balks, but Walsh welcomes the risk of granting an extra base.“I ask all the guys...