WEPing my mind clean
by admin - February 13th, 2010.Filed under: Uncategorized.
At KAUST we just finished WEP (Winter Enrichment Period, or Why Even Participate) and today is the first day of the spring semester. WEP was a four week period meant to have us explore other fields of knowledge. I took a class on marine science because it was one of three classes I could get credit for. I had to write a technology review called “sediment traps: a bucket in the ocean” which is about sediment traps – buckets placed in the ocean to collect floating bits of sediment. They have some technology dealing with funnels, honeycomb baffling, and other things that escape me at the moment. It was painful to write and due the day after the superbowl – which aired at 2 am here. I spent a fair amount of time on AcademicEarth.org. They aggregate good lectures on various things. I found a good lecture on relativity with simple math (got square root?) as seen below:
Watch it on Academic Earth