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100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges Online. Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists.

But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General Let the world’s top scientists explain exactly how they do their job when you listen to these lectures. Science and Engineering From materials science to the study of thermodynamics, learn more about the science of engineering here. WTC Lecture – collapse of WTC Buildings: Steven E. Biology and Medicine Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environment Technology Science and Business.

Welcome to Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku. Supertanker med Eirik Newth- Supertanker 05 - med biolog Dag Olav Hessen. Topics in Scitable | Learn Science at Scitable. The World is Flat | MIT World. 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges Online. HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! The Joys of Microscope Photography. "QUANTUM SHOT" #503link "Wretched beasties moving about very nimbly" This is what Anton van Leeuwenhoek said about the creatures he saw in his 1670s microscope. The "Father of Microbiology" made over 400 different types of microscopes and discovered bacteria and spermatozoa, among other things.... among many, many other things.

All these "beasties" live in enchanting world and can sometimes look very cute (witness waterbears) - and photographers keep discovering new angles and frontiers of their microcosm. For a number of years Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition revealed to the world the intricate and highly-sophisticated wonders of the micro-world... With the exclusive permission of Olympus BioScapes, here are a few entries that particularly caught our attention: The "Fairy Fly" wasp (left) and some iridescent part of the aptly-named "Jewel Beetle": (images by Spike Walker and Charles Krebs) Lobster Eggs: (image by Tora Bardal) (images by Earl Nishiguchi and Solvin Zankl) ... Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.