UC Berkeley goes gaga over Google Video

Who needs textbooks when you can watch Professor Marian Diamond break it down? She teaches Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy and during the fall of 2005 she had her courses taped. As a Cal grad, I can only applaud the effort to make these treasures so widely available. I'm sure we'll soon see similar publications by other universities. Here is how they describe what they are doing: Integrative Biology 131 - Lecture 01: Organization of the Body The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various fields within the department cooperate across disciplinary boundaries, sharing information and knowledge. Experience in laboratory and/or field, technological and independent study will bring about an understanding of scientific logic based on both experimental and historical patterns and processes. The faculty has special strengths in the disciplines of morphology, organismal physiology, animal behavior, biomechanics, ecology, systematic biology, paleobiology, population genetics, and evolution.