We can find Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lectures on physics at the intriguingly named Tuva site:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=4%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C
Dr. Feynman is an engaging lecturer; it is perhaps regrettable that all lectures are not so entertaining.
At one point Dr. Feynman says that “It is impossible, when picking one particular example of anything, to avoid picking one that is atypical in some sense.” Of course, this is true by definition. If we were to find an example that was typical in every sense, it would be atypical in that it was not atypical in some sense, and so it would be atypical in some sense. Oh, the joy of school boy pedantry!
The video is rendered with a Silverlight player, which is perhaps not available on all platforms. It also used 100% of my CPU’s clock cycles and caused the laptop to crash three times. I guess that Silverlight has a long way to go before it can threateningly compete with Flash. On the one hand, it’s a good thing that Flash has some more competition (not that I am accusing the Adobe engineers of laziness, mind). On the other hand, the internet will not be as rich a place as it might be if a lot of content is only available to Microsoft’s customers. I thought that that war had been won a long time ago.
Reversing Entropy 