I’m an obsessively visual person. Draw me a picture and I’m ten times more likely to remember something than via any other form of learning. As a result, I’ve always loved video tutorials on things and have been loving the explosion of geek vidcasts, video how-tos, and the large numbers of keynote addresses and lectures that are finding their way online. This weekend, thanks to Lifehacker, I discovered Google TechTalks, a lecture series that Google does on their corporate campus and has made available via Google Video. While there are lots of presentation on Web technologies and other related subjects (e.g. the business of the Web), there are also some really cool science and art talks, such as one on the Archimedes Palimpsest, a collection of Archimedes’s work that was found hidden underneath a 13th century prayer book (monks repurposed the parchment by painting over it). Efforts to restore the original manuscript are yielding never before seen works by the great Greek philosopher and scientist.
