Anders recently tipped me off about this quite amazing site: The Diffusion des savoirs de l'École normale supérieure. Here one can find video lectures on virtually any topic from art history to chemistry by top researchers in the fields. The site is helpfully structured, and is an incredible source of information.
In particular, I recommend the linguistics pages. For instance, watch and listen to Richard Breheny on implicatures, Danny Fox on logical form, Bart Geurts on presuppositions, Irene Heim on features of pronouns, James Higginbotham on events, Paul Horwich on truth, Angelika Kratzer on situation semantics, Friederike Moltman on sortals, Philippe Schlenker on linguistics (an introduction).
The lectures are available for download along with handouts. So, one can in fact put together a private course series to watch on those summer nights when there's nothing else to do (....). At any rate, here is certainly a great opportunity for battling the mobile sounds of Christina Aguilera on the bus. How cool are you when you're watching linguistic lectures on your iPod?
This is truly a goldmine, and I thoroughly recommend that anyone with an interest in these things take a look at this. As we all know, listening to people explain things is often a much more effective way of learning than reading. So, there's just lots to be gained from this site.
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