During an interview recently, Bill Gates revealed Project Tuva, a Microsoft Research project that was started to bring about rich content to support the physics lectures that Bill Gates worked to bring online, free for all.

These lectures, called “The Messenger Series” and presented by Dr. Richard Feynman, were presented to Cornell University students in the 1960s. They covered basic physics through to Quantum mechanics over a series of 7 lectures. Each lecture is approximately an hour long, and each lecture is filled with information presented in a quite often humorous fashion.

If you have the time, I encourage you to check out one or some of the lectures, completely free at the following URL: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva

I found them to be very rewarding, and it is not often you get to see a physics lecture by one of the people who worked on what could be considered one of the biggest physics projects of the 20th century, the Manhattan Project.

Silverlight is required to view the lectures and content, if you do not have it you will be able to download it from that site.