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Quick reading for the holiday week
• MIT professor gives great physics lectures online: I took Professor Lewin's class almost 20 years ago (!) and it's great to see him getting a worldwide audience. Neat that 26-100 is a celebrity classroom now.
• The Economist on SAS: "Every aspect of life on the large, leafy SAS campus in Cary, North Carolina, is designed to bring the best out of employees by treating them well."
• NYT on preserving digital movies: "ubiquity, it turns out, is not the same as permanence." So true. Article continues:
to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault.
