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lispybanana on Jan 31, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen...

engineerguy’s reproduction of Michael Faraday’s 1848 Chemical History of a Candle [0]:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UCpOfRuMDR-wlv...

This was a set of lectures given by Faraday for the Royal Institution’s “Christmas lectures for young people”.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Cand...

ansible on Jan 31, 2023 [–]

The Royal Institution's channel has a bunch of good stuff on astrophysics, cosmology, physics, math and more:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheRoyalInstitution

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