U-Tube: Now Everyone Can Listen To Your Senile Lit Professor

by Dan Haley | April 2, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Academic Earth is making Ivy lectures available to anyone with an internet connection. A Hulu for nerds, AE aggregates lecture videos posted by schools like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and even Harvard Med school. This is devaluing your exclusive education, you say? Let’s be honest, you sleep through a lot of your classes anyway. And hey, information should be free, blah, blah, blah, democracy.

Here’s Yale Philosophy’s Shelly Kagan teaching “Life and Death”–actually it’s mostly just Death:

This is great news for everyone rejected by the Ivies this year. You can get that quality education after all! And according to Forbes, you’d be happier at NYU anyway (Editors note: this is quite possibly true). After the jump, more lectures!

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