I've watched several Teaching Company courses on physics that included quantum physics, but this course, dedicated to the subject, gave me a much clearer understanding of the basics that lay beneath the other things I've learned. Schumacher is generally good at explaining complicated things in non-technical ways, and his introduction to some of the terminology of quantum physics is easy to follow. There are a few instances when his love of the subject he is talking about doesn't quite translate into what I as a viewer was supposed to get out of it, but that wasn't a big problem. This is a 2009 Teaching Company course, so it is light on the special effects, which is mostly just as well. It even includes a lectern, which Schumacher insists on calling a podium - perhaps I need to email him about that while taking time to praise the course and his old-fashioned science fiction story that is available on Amazon. ( )