The star of the lecture circuit at the time was Sir Humphry Davy, who plucked Faraday from obscurity to work as his laboratory assistant.
The field is evolving so fast that every time I do a lecture, every other month this year actually.
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For example, for Stanford University a device could eventually show you a 3D map of the campus with real-time traffic information, information about your lecture room and the class there, information about the subject there, such as biology in 3D, and so on.
Out went the fun and in came a return to the dry lecture-as-TV-show style of presentation - this time with added facial hair, comb-overs, tweed jackets, and flares.
The lecture at the David Hume Institute was his first detailed reflection on his time in office.
And it pointedly excludes Mr Netanyahu, too, who is taking time out from politics to dabble in business and enjoy the lucrative American lecture circuit.
Delivering the O'Connell Lecture in St Malachy's College, Mrs McAleese said it was a "time for courage rather than chaos, for focus rather than foment" in the Northern Ireland political situation.
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This week's question is one that many are simply afraid to ask for fear of having to sit through a lecture of an answer -- thankfully, Joel can skim through your responses as time allows.
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Since the audio is recorded at the same time as the notes are written, students can get a full playback of a lecture.
The keynote MacTaggart Lecture will be given by the director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, at what is a crucial time for the corporation.
And before he died, he took the time to work with a writer, Jeffrey Zaslow, to create a book, The Last Lecture, which has become a national bestseller and a personal favorite of mine.
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