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a one-way river of words flowing from notes that never quite reach notebooks.
means A spoken talk delivered to an audience to teach or inform them about a subject, or, less formally, a long scolding aimed at correcting someone's behavior.
from From the Latin 'lectura,' meaning 'a reading,' rooted in 'legere,' 'to read' — the same verb that gives us 'legible' and 'lecture's' bookish cousin 'lectern.' In medieval universities, a lecture was literally that: a master reading aloud from a precious, hand-copied manuscript while students scribbled, since printed books didn't yet exist to do the reading for them. The 'telling someone off' sense came later, the idea of being read a stern improving text.
- origin
- From Latin lectura, simply meaning a reading aloud.
- attention span
- Focus reportedly dips sharply after ten to fifteen minutes.
- medieval roots
- Began when one book served an entire room.
- the curve
- Listeners forget most spoken content within a day.
feynman lectures on physics — richard feynman's three-volume series published 1963-1965, foundational physics education at caltech
god delusion lectures — richard dawkins' series of lectures and debates on atheism starting 2006, published as book 2006