Streams of Thought: Periodic bits, bites and braggadocio not quite yoga related but still interesting, amusing and entertaining.

Today’s Stream: M.I.T.’s Physics Guy

I hated physics in high school. And I definitely hated my physics teacher, Mr. McCullough. (He was also my chemistry teacher too – and, you guessed it, I didn’t care much for chemistry).

But here’s a physics teacher I’m interested in learning from:

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace.

Some of his students were quoted in the NYT article:

A fan who said he was a physics teacher from Iraq gushed: “You are now my Scientific Father. In spite of the bad occupation and war against my lovely IRAQ, you made me love USA because you are there and MIT is there.”

Steve Boigon, 62, a florist from San Diego, wrote, “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes.”

I don’t know if I’ll have physics-colored eyes but I’m certainly going to give this guy’s lectures a try.