About Streaming Maniac

Streaming Maniac is a guide to intellectual video and audio lectures on the Web. You'll find fascinating talks on politics, history, science, philosophy and more, featuring some of the leading thinkers of our day. These lectures are streamed free-of-charge as a public service from universities, think tanks, and other organizations.

Right now, the Web world of intellectual streaming video is like a television with 6 million channels and no TV Guide. I created Streaming Maniac to make looking for interesting lectures less time-consuming and more rewarding.

The lauching pad on the right will take you directly to several major university and think tank lecture sites. In addition, when I find a particularly intriguing lecture, I'll tell you about it and provide a link to it from the Streaming Maniac homepage.

All you need to access this sumptuous intellectual feast is a computer with a video card and a free, easily downloadable media player such as Real Player, QuickTime or Windows Media Player. (Most new computers come with these already installed.)

If you discover a great lecture or lecture site that I haven't found yet, please let me know. If I like it, I'll add it to my list.

Thanks and enjoy!

CONTACT:
laurahagar@comcast.net
707-887-1668.

Updated 8/09

Best All-Around Lecture Sites
Fora.tv
TED Talks
(Technology, Education and Design)
University Lecture Sites
Berkeley webcast
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT World
Stanford Humanties Center
Harvard at home
Harvard, Ct for Study of World Religions
Harvard JFK School of Gov
Open Yale Courses
Yale Global Online
Yale Law School
Stanford (via iTunes)
UCLA webcast
UCTV
Princeton
Georgetown Webcast
Chicago Kent College of Law
Duke Law School
Research Channel
Think Tanks
Cato Institute
Carnegie Endowment
Heritage
Manhattan Institute
James Baker Institute of Public Policy
Foreign Policy Assoc
World Affairs Council
United States Institute for Peace
The Ethics Forum
American Enterprise Institute
Public Lecture Series
Cambridge Forum
Commonwealth Club
Public Radio Series
Fresh Air
This American Life
Forum w/ Michael Krasny
Pacifica
Organization and Government Sites
Human Genome Project
World Bank Videos