Walter Lewin (A screenshot from one of his lectures) Image: Intersection Above all else, physics is absolute. We know the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; that what goes up always comes down; ...

Robyn Williams: Does putting fun into teaching physics work? Wally Lewin at MIT is convinced it does, hanging from pendulums and making big bangs. He now has 100 of his lectures on the internet...and ...

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has indefinitely removed online lectures by retired physics professor Walter Lewin after a student accused him of sexual harassment. Lewin’s were removed ...

The internet age has brought sexual harassment to the digital realm on a lot of platforms—social networks, dating websites—even online education. On the last point: Monday, MIT removed the popular ...

Renowned MIT physics professor and virtual education veteran Walter Lewin has added his popular course on electricity and magnetism to this spring’s edX class offerings, announced the online ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...

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