The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have decided to make all their
course materials available to the public. They formed a committee to decide how
to distribute it, either as a package, to sell it by course, or by other means.

One member had a brilliant suggestion: "Let's give it away."

http://www.ocw.mit.edu/index.html

You can read and download the entire program of almost every single course
available in their curriculum, all for free. You won't receive course credit
for reading or using it, but you can effectively obtain an education from one
the world's foremost science and technology universities for free.

Especially of note to USW are the courses on Earth, atmospheric, and planetary
sciences.

This is what the internet should be about, the corpus of human wisdom available
free to all - Met Office take note (although they are on the right track).

My thanks to Bob Dog of the newsgroup alt.atheism for bringing this to my
attention.

Martin (JPG)