# Richard Faynman and Alan Watts...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 20, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744 "2010-02-20T06:32:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/1 "2010-02-20T06:32:27Z")

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Have many lectures available online. Any other great minds that this board can recommend in the feilds of science and or philosophy?

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/2 "2010-02-20T07:40:54Z")

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Check out the [MIT Open Courseware Project](http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/help/start/index.htm). Not all of the classes have online lectures, but there’s enough there to keep you busy for a good long while.

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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/3 "2010-02-20T07:52:55Z")

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A few years ago MIT offered “Honorary” degrees online for free but I missed out. Would you happen to know about any such thing coming around again?

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/4 "2010-02-20T08:19:17Z")

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That doesn’t sound right to me - as far as I know, MIT doesn’t award honorary degrees. I doubt they have any kind of credential based on the open courseware system, because there’s there’s no way to ensure that students are really learning the material. I’m not sure what else it might have been.

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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/5 "2010-02-20T08:27:12Z")

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It was kind of a “novelty” thing as I remember.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/6 "2010-02-20T08:54:14Z")

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[Free online video courses from leading universities](http://academicearth.org/)

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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/7 "2010-02-20T08:54:56Z")

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Enginerd,

Having read your link, I stand corrected. :smack: Thank you for the reply.

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/8 "2010-02-21T05:26:29Z")

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Note that the iconoclastic physicist spelled his name [Feynman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman).

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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-faynman-and-alan-watts/529744/9 "2010-02-21T07:21:45Z")

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> [@Xema](#):
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> Note that the iconoclastic physicist spelled his name [Feynman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman).

OP contains a tpyo, sorry. 😉