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Comment author: shminux 09 December 2014 09:53:48PM *  19 points [-]

Making the news today is MIT taking down all Walter Lewin videos (most now, some at the end of the term) as a result of their investigation into sexual harassment allegations. This seems like a gross and unprecedented overreaction (a rough equivalent of removing all Bill Cosby videos), so I would estimate that this decision will be partially or fully reversed within 1 year, with probability of 75%.

Comment author: solipsist 10 December 2014 01:51:05AM 6 points [-]

Noooooooooooooo!!!!

I don't care if Walter Lewin is actually Stalin in disguise, those videos are awesome.

Does, um, anybody know if someone is linking to a backup somewhere (cough)gwern(cough)?

Comment author: Sarunas 11 December 2014 12:17:32PM *  3 points [-]

You can watch them on Youtube, e.g on this channel. If you would like to have a backup copy on your own computer, you can download them using, e.g. this Firefox addon.

Comment author: shminux 10 December 2014 02:42:20AM 3 points [-]

oh, they are online various places elsewhere, since the license allows copying.