Educational MP3s

[wittgenst3in]

I like many people spend up to 2 hours a day commuting, and so love to listen to good music or radio. I recently purchased a MP3-CD player for my car, and I've been working my way through albums and spoken word stuff I obtained back in the heyday of Napster.

Few things are nicer on the way to work than listening to Feynman explain the motion of the planets, or hearing a lecture on history or philosophy.

Trouble is, I'm fresh out of lectures. Does anybody know some good sources for educational MP3s or lectures online? I'm looking for freely available or open source stuff, but please post anything.

I found the stories you can download here interesting, and they keep a backup archive too. (Site seems down at the moment)http://science.nasa.gov/.

 

[Jyera]

Check out Project gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.net/
http://www.gutenberg.net/audio/

Although they have mp3 format, the files are too big for downloading.

It'll save bandwidth and time to download their text, and then use a text to speech software to convert it into mp3.

There are free Text-to-speech software like SAYPAD.

 

[wittgenst3in]

Thanks very much Jyera.

 

[Jyera]

LOTR and Evil

Here's one site that is with lots of MP3

Recorded lectures by Peter Kreeft.
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio.htm
Mostly christian, social related topics.

I found the following item particularly interesting...

10 Uncommon Insights Into Evil from Lord of the Rings
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/04_insights-into-evil.htm

 

[wittgenst3in]

Re: LOTR and Evil

Here's one site that is with lots of MP3

Recorded lectures by Peter Kreeft.
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio.htm
Mostly christian, social related topics.

I found the following item particularly interesting...

10 Uncommon Insights Into Evil from Lord of the Rings
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/04_insights-into-evil.htm

Thanks but I'll pass.

 

[Donks]

I know you asked for mp3s, but this is more for general consumption. The "2004 SLAC Summer Institute: Nature's Greatest Puzzles" put all of their talks on realvideo format, for here.
The talks for SSI 2003 "Cosmic Connection To Particle Physics" are also online here.
Figured someone might find them interesting.

 

[wittgenst3in]

That is unbelievably awesome. Thanks Donks.

If anyone else is after videos too, try www.archive.org and goto the Prelinger archives. There's a bunch of old films, especially propoganda/ safety films like "A is for Atom". One of them actually equates your chances of survival of a nuclear attack to how clean your coffee table is, I kid you not.

 

[malbui]

May not be exactly what you're looking for but the BBC has started making mp3s of some programs available. The Melvyn Bragg series is good general listening for the non-specialist.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/