Twiiter co-founder (Biz Stone) talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Biz Stone, Co-founder, Twitter and chief executive, Jelly Industries
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Crowd-sourcing - pioneer talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Luis von Ahn, Founder and chief executive, reCAPTCHA and Duolingo
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Colin Wilson (1931 - 2013): The High and the Low (Part 1 Complete) -- A ...

source: ThinkingAllowedTV  2013年12月15日
This is the full broadcast portion of the 88-minute DVD interview.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2cwils...

In this moving and profound program, Colin Wilson shares his personal struggle in dealing with states of panic and depression. His attempt to cope with these difficult experiences has led him to explore states of extreme lucidity and self-control.

Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. His novels include The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone and Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Other major works include A Criminal History of Mankind, The Occult, Mysteries, Religion and the Rebel, The New Existentialism, New Pathways in Psychology and The Outsider--his first and most famous book.

A Thinking Allowed program, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove

Graham Harman. Speculative Realism. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月04日
http://www.egs.edu/ Graham Harman, American philosopher, talking about speculative realism, philosophy, natural sciences, fine art, correlational circle, object, plasma. In the lecture Graham Harman discusses the concepts of phenomenology, pre-socratics, quality, in relationship to Bruno Latour, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Heidegger, Whitehead, Deleuze, Meillassoux, focusing on surplus, materialism, idealism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Graham Harman.

Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a contemporary philosopher of metaphysics, who attempts to reverse the linguistic turn of Western philosophy. Harman is associated with Speculative Realism in philosophy, which was the name of a workshop that also included the philosophers Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux.

Central to Harman's philosophy is the idea that real objects are inexhaustible: "A police officer eating a banana reduces this fruit to a present-at-hand profile of its elusive depth, as do a monkey eating the same banana, a parasite infecting it, or a gust of wind blowing it from a tree. Banana-being is a genuine reality in the world, a reality never exhausted by any relation to it by humans or other entities." (Harman 2005: 74). Because of this inexhaustibility, claims Harman, there is a metaphysical problem regarding how two objects can ever interact. His solution to this problem is to introduce the notion of "vicarious causation", according to which objects can only ever interact on the inside of an "intention" (which is also an object).

His works include Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002), Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures (2010), Circus Philosophicus (2010), Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (2012) and Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013).

Sigrid Hackenberg. Reading Philosophy as Fiction. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Sigrid Hackenberg, philosopher and thinker, talking about the duplicity, philosophy, fiction, and language. In the lecture Sigrid Hackenberg discusses the concepts of knowledge, semiotic, symbolic, Hegel, in relationship to Susan Sontag, Freud, Agamben, Catherine Clément, Barthes, Foucault, focusing on captivation, poetics, and Julia Kristeva. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Sigrid Hackenberg.

Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, Ph.D., was born in Barcelona, Spain, to German and Spanish parents. An interdisciplinary artist and philosopher based in New York, she is an Assistant Professor of Media Philosophy at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. Her scholarly research interests lie within Continental philosophy and feminism. Recent essays have focused on such topics as the philosophy of language, the act of reading and writing, and 'ethics as first philosophy.' She is the author of a forthcoming study on the writings of G.W.F. Hegel and Emmanuel Levinas(Atropos Press). A book focusing on the topic of language and the feminine is currently in preparation. Hackenberg y Almansa's latest video and sound installation, focusing on the subject of the Spanish Civil War and created in collaboration with Dolores R. A. Hackenberg, was recently commissioned by the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.

Sigrid Hackenberg is the author for Total History, Anti-History and the Face that is Other, "The Figure of Total History, the Sacred and Terror" in Stephen David Ross (Editor). International Studies in Philosophy (2007), she edited journals Poligrafi - Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (JISR). She did video and sound installations such as The Torture Series: The Abu Ghraib Portraits (2006), THIS MEANS YOU / Nazism, Holocaust, Resistance 1933-1945 (2003), ICH HEIßE (my name is) ROSA LUXEMBURG (2001), and The Time and The Place (1999)

Do "Digital Natives" Exist?

source: PBS Idea Channel 2013年12月11日
Is there such a thing as a "DIGITAL NATIVE"? Some experts have suggested a clear divide between "digital native" (the Millennial tech experts) and "digital immigrant" (older generations introduced to technology later in life). The young NATIVES have had technology change the way they think and the way their brain works, while older folk are stuck playing catch-up. But is that fair? Can someone innately understand technology? Is it even a good idea to define people as natives vs immigrants? Watch the episode and find out!

The Future City (by Professor Steve Rayner)

source: oxford  2013年12月13日
Professor Steve Rayner gives the inaugural Oxford China lecture: on The Future City. How can the city of the future be designed to build for the social and environmental challenges of the future, in particular climate change? What risks are there of 'lock-in', as we urbanise rapidly as a species?

A discussion on the themes of the 2013 Oxford China Lecture. Featuring Professor Steve Rayner (University of Oxford), Michael Ng (Foster + Partners), Professor Tang Zilai (Tongji Universiy), Paul Gao (McKinsey Hong Kong), chaired by Liu Haining (CCTV)

Manthia Diawara. Identity and Différance in Black Literature. 2012

source: egsvideo  2013年12月12日
http://www.egs.edu Manthia Diawara, Malian writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, talking about identity politics and the philosophy of language within black literature. In this lecture, Manthia Diawara discusses African diaspora, the relationship between Africa and Europe, Deleuze's concept of the rhizome, the application of psychoanalysis to postcolonialism, feminist readings of Fanon and linguistics in post-structuralism and deconstruction in relationship to Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Maryse Condé, Homi K. Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak and June Jordan focusing on African nationalism, the brics, black literature, the rapid development of technology, Francophone Africa, identity politics, alienation, dependency complexes, difference, the voice of the Other and the culture wars in the United States. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Manthia Diawara.

Manthia Diawara, Ph.D., (born 1953 Bamako, West Africa) is a writer, cultural theorist, film director and professor of comparative literature of Malian origin. After studying in Bamako, he went on to pursue studies in literature in France but completing his doctorate in 1985 at Indiana University in the United States, where he currently resides. Having taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara the University of Pennsylvania, Manthia Diawara went on to become a professor of comparative literature and cinema at New York University where he also heads the Department of African Studies and the Institute of African American Affairs. He teaches summer intensive courses at the European Graduate School and is the founder of the publishing house "Black Renaissance".

Manthia Diawara has produced and directed several documentaries, among them "Sembène Ousmane: The Making of African Cinema" (1994, in collaboration with Kenyan writer Ngûgî wa Thiong'o), "Rouch in Reverse" (1995) and Bamako Sigi-Kan (2003), an intimate look at his hometown. He has also written extensively on film and literature of the Black Diaspora. Some of his writings include African Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992), Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (1993), In Search of Africa (1998), We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World (2004), Bamako-Paris-New York (2007) and African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (2010).

Sara Boettiger on Re-Thinking Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Models ...

source: BerkmanCenter  2013年12月10日
The world faces a growing population, resource constraints, climate change, and a global food system under stress. But new technology is limited in its ability to address the problems facing those in poverty. 780 million still lack access to clean water. 1/5 of humanity lives without electricity. 80% of sub-Saharan Africa is farmed with a hand-hoe.

Sara Boettiger -- Senior Advisor at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and Assistant Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley -- will discuss the need to re-think existing models of Intellectual Property Rights (e.g. patent pools, clearinghouses, humanitarian use licensing), re-invent our research agenda, and work to shift the international debate.

More info on this event here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/l...

Moving Illusions

source: Vsauce 2013年12月10日

Plato's cave analysis

source: zontulfilmsltd

what does Plato say in Book 7 of the Republic, details about the difference between True belief and True Knowledge in the Meno and the story of the slave boy in the Meno and Anamnesis

source: zontulfilmsltd
How to understand Plato. Animated analysis of Plato's cave in Book 7 of THE REPUBLIC with reference to the Meno (anamnesis and the discussion on the difference between true belief and true knowledge); the theory of forms. Other films in the series to be posted.

【大小創意】從典範轉移建立品牌自信 （修）

source: dxmonline  2013年12月01日
時間：2013/11/15 主辦：智榮基金會。主講人：姚仁祿（大小創意 創意長）
我們所熟知的世界變了，
過去二百年，
人類的價值觀，是什麼？
造成今日經濟的迷惘⋯政治的迷惘⋯
除此之外，
台灣近年主要問題是什麼？
知識份子不負責任，
讓台灣「媒體」提供國民：
－貧乏的「國際觀」⋯
－粗糙的「政經知識」⋯
－錯誤的「是非觀」⋯
－浮華的「價值觀」⋯

我們該怎麼辦？
從「典範轉移 」Paradigm Shift開始
是，「舊有思想」的破壞性革命⋯
是，「思考模型」的革命性轉變⋯
是，「價值觀」的革命性轉變⋯
是，需要「變革者」推動的思想革命⋯
（http://www.dxmonline.com)

Hacking Language Learning: Benny Lewis at TEDxWarsaw

source: TEDxTalks  2013年05月15日
"Some people just don't have the language learning gene." To prove that this statement is patently untrue is Benny Lewis's life mission. A monoglot till after leaving university, Benny now runs the World's most popular language learning blog and is learning Egyptian Arabic which will be language number twelve, or maybe thirteen. But who's counting?

Steven Pinker - How The Mind Works (10/15/97 at MIT)

source: TheEthanwashere  2012年8月4日
Dr. Pinker talked about his new book How the Mind Works. He examined two different approaches to studying the mind and offered examples from everyday life to illustrate his ideas. Following his prepared remarks, Dr. Pinker took questions from the audience.

Authors@Google: Steven Pinker

source: Talks at Google  2011年11月01日
The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, pogroms, gruesome punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned.

Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.

Why Are Bad Words Bad?

source: Vsauce

Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human na...

source: The RSA 2010年02月04日
For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old ones.
Note - This video contains strong language.

Sandwiches, Modernity, and Lyrics: A Thanksgiving Episode | Idea Channel...

source: PBS Idea Channel 2013年11月27日
In honor of Thanksgiving, we present two ideas to discuss with your loved ones around the dinner table. First up: sandwiches. They are the perfect food for today's fast-paced lifestyle. But was it the creation of this versatile food that ushered in the period of classical modernity?

Next up: music lyrics websites. We all love singing the wrong lyrics and then looking look up the actual lyrics on rap genius. But are these sites stealing from the recording industry by profiting off of artist's lyrics? Check out the episode and leave your thoughts in the comments below!

Slavoj Žižek. Lacanian Theology and Buddhism. 2012

source: egsvideo  2012年11月28日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about Lacanian theology in relation to Christianity and Buddhism. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the Kantian sublime in opera and film, the spectral texture of narrative, the mediation of desire, the Freudian unconscious, the fall in Christianity and Badiou's conception of the event of love in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Joan Copjec, Immanuel Kant, Richard Wagner, Alain Badiou, Gioacchino Rossini, Gilles Deleuze, G.K. Chesterton, Martin Luther, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato focusing on the Lacanian formulas of sexuation, Tristan and Isolde, object a, Christian prohibition, Catholic propaganda, enjoyment, infinite judgment, lamella, the undead, death drive, immortality, logic of envy, capitalism, anamnesis, objective appearance, truth. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.

Slavoj Žižek. The Irony of Buddhism. 2012

source: egsvideo  2012年11月26日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about the truth and irony of Buddhism. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses Badiou's conception of the Event and supernumerary element, the universality of truth, the paradox of inactivity, the temporality of analysis, American ideology, the problem of bodhisattva, politics of sacrifice and the gap between ethics and enlightenment in relationship to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ayn Rand, Jean Pierre Dupuy, Alain Badiou, Karl Marx, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan, George Orwell, Theodor Adorno and Adam Kotsko focusing on retroactivity, the symptomal point, freedom of choice, capitalism, Stalinism, the Dali Lama, suffering, reincarnation, nirvana and Mahayana. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.

Slavoj Žižek. Object a and The Function of Ideology. 2012

source: egsvideo  2012年11月05日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about the structure of belief and the mediation of desire. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses his polemic with Badiou on the notion of subtraction as a political and philosophical category, object a as cause of desire, the event, inconsistency in the symbolic order and the function of the master signifier in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière and Charles Darwin focusing on singular universality, the supernumerary element, Zapatistas, evolution, minimal difference, the point, ecology, nature, love, and generic sets. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.

Slavoj Žižek. On Melancholy. 2012

source: egsvideo 2012年11月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about melancholy as the loss of the object cause of desire. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the zero level of dialectics, the death of God, Christianity, the symbolic order and the Freudian distinction between mourning and melancholy in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Alenka Zupančič, Mladen Dolar, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, Daniel Dennett, Gilles Deleuze and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on lamella, suture, big Other, commodity fetishism, fantasy, object a, desire, death drive and the unconscious. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.

Slavoj Žižek. Ontological Incompleteness In Painting, Literature and Qua...

source: egsvideo 2012年11月12日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about ontological incompleteness in modernist painting, literature and quantum theory. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses void and multiplicity, pre-ontological reality, spectral materiality, theology, detective novels and political revolution in relationship to Jacques-Louis David, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Quentin Meillassoux, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, David Bohm, Vincent Van Gogh, Karen Barad, Peirre Bayard and Edvard Munch focusing on The Death of Marat, Jacobins, Robespierre, Lenin, science fiction, love, desire, not-all, Columbo, temporal paradox, retroactivity, wave particle duality and Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012.

Joel Primack: Dark Matter Reveals the Structure of the Universe

source: Big Think 2013年11月20日
We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold - moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters - and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.

Transcript - Dark matter is the vast majority of the mass of the entire universe. It's the mass that holds all galaxies together, and in fact, led to the formation of galaxies. And it also holds clusters together and it made the most important contribution to the organization of the structure of the universe.

We already know that the dark matter is cold. I invented this terminology back in 1983, calling the dark matter hot, warm or cold depending on how rapidly it's moving in the early stages of the Big Bang. Hot if it's moving at nearly the speed of light, cold if it's moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters, and warm is an intermediate case. We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold, but it could be a little bit warm. And that would make a great difference to what we call small scale structure, the amount of satellite galaxies and things like that. We don't yet know the real nature of the dark matter beyond that it's pretty cold.

Being pretty cold is enough to allow us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe, the organization of the galaxies and to some extent the satellites of the galaxies. But the small scale structure of the universe really depends in more detail of the nature of the dark matter. Also, the dark matter can possibly interact with itself and annihilate and two dark matter particles come together and then make a lot of other stuff. And this could have played an extremely important role in the early universe, and it could still be producing effects that are sensitive detectors in space and on the ground can find experimentally.

We haven't yet seen clear evidence for any of these things, although there are a number of experiments that are reporting tentative detections. So, it feels very much like we're on the verge of major breakthroughs in trying to understand the nature of the dark matter. If we finally do figure out the nature of the dark matter, we will then have a single unified picture of the origin and evolution of the entire universe. One that scientists all over the world have contributed to and that can become the basis for a shared origin story that could possibly solidify the bonds of humankind. We've never had a single picture, thoroughly supported by scientific evidence, and we're coming close to it now.

So I think we scientists are feeling very hopeful that we're about to cross this threshold and have a complete understanding of the origin and the evolution of the universe. And of course, we're also coming to a much better understanding of the evolution of life. So these last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century are a real turning point, I think, in our understanding of how we got here.

Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton

Basic Cornell Notes

source: Sophia Caramagno

Advanced Cornell Notes

source: Sophia Caramagno

how to create and use Cornell Notes (by S. Clowes)

source: SCEduVideos

How to... Cornell Notes

source: sofiatreeproductions

How to take Cornell notes

source: Jennifer DesRochers

What Does Earth Look Like?

source: Vsauce
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Dr. Julian Bayliss' rainforest story: http://youtu.be/mni8mSS4KDU
Cool video from CGPGrey: "How Many Countries Are There?"http://youtu.be/4AivEQmfPpk
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Peter Price. Sound and material. 2013

source: egsvideo 2013年11月09日
http://www.egs.edu/ Peter Price, critical media theorist and composer, talking about sound, material, vibrations, time, past, present, future, organic, temporal, object, identity, sorting. In the lecture Peter Price discusses energy, force, process oriented work, space, cosmic trigger, fidget, and situation. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Peter Price.

Peter Price, Ph.D., is a critical media theorist as well as a composer, electronic musician, and digital artist. Price is co-director of the fidget space, a platform for his collaborative work with choreographer and wife Megan Bridge. The project is based in Philadelphia as a research laboratory for new forms of art, performance and media. Peter Price completed his doctorate at The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland. Today Price teaches an intensive summer seminar there. As a philosopher, Peter Price's project is to reassess the nature of musical meaning in light of two epochal shifts in the twentieth century: firstly the technological events of electricity and digital computation, and secondly the openings to thought initiated by Heidegger and unfolding today in continental philosophy. Price examines the history of western music as an epiphenomenon of the unfolding of western metaphysics. For today that means music needs to be thought in the context of the event of technology as Gestell. Peter Price follows Adorno in diagnosing a serious crisis in musical forms of music making and hears this as linked to the ruptures and fault lines of technological modernity. Rejecting the dominant thinking of music through the filters of style and genre, Price asserts that locating musical meaning today means staying attentive to the entirety of sonic phenomena, from avant-garde experimentalism to DJ culture, from ring tone downloads to what remains of the classical music tradition, and from the disappearing musics of indigenous peoples to the persistent roar of capitalist globalization.

Peter Price has published two books of music philosophy with EGS' press, Atropos: Becoming Music: Between Boredom and Ecstasy with Tyler Burba in 2010, and Resonance: Philosophy for Sonic Art in 2011. Both books are finding an eclectic readership from DJs to experimental musicians and theorists.

Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre

source: TED-Ed 2013年11月07日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-yawn...
*Yaaawwwwwn* Did just reading the word make you feel like yawning yourself? Known as contagious yawning, the reasons behind this phenomenon have been attributed to both the physiological and psychological. It's been observed in children as young as four and even in dogs! Claudia Aguirre visits the many intriguing theories that might explain contagious yawning.
Lesson by Claudia Aguirre, animation by TED-Ed.

Vicki Phillips: The Technology Wave Hits Education

source: Big Think 2013年11月06日
We are seeing students and teachers using technology-enabled tools that make learning more real time, more powerful, and it gives them access to things they wouldn't have had access to before.

Transcript --
I think we're just beginning to realize the power of technology in education actually. And isn't it interesting that education's sort of the last profession that technology has transformed. And I think a lot of that is because we can't just plop down, you know, new tools into an old system and expect that to work.

So a lot of where we're seeing the Internet be the most powerful is in these blended school models where schools are starting to flip their classrooms and use the Internet and technology enabled tools. Whether that's videos of experts talking to students or whether it's students getting online and doing assignments in a collaborative way, answering a really powerful and critical question that their teachers might assign. Or whether it's back and forth feedback between kids and teachers.

And this blend of both face-to-face with teachers and technology seems to be a really powerful both motivator for kids but also, you know, the beginning numbers say it gets incredible impact, particularly for students who may have been before lagging behind. So those collaborative ways to bring kids into ownership of their own learning and to use those tools in ways that kids live and work today are very powerful.

But it's also proving to be really powerful for teachers so that teachers are also getting online and collaborating with each other and using a number of social networks. They're also coming together and co-designing tools that will help them be successful and sharing things that they've found that are really effective practice. And uploading, you know, videos and looking at their own practice and having others critique it and critiquing each other. So all of those things are just now beginning to take root and materialize in schools. And I think, you know, some places are further ahead. I think what's exciting is in three or four years we're gonna look back and be amazed at how much that has exploded and how much teachers have actually driven -- and students -- that conversation. But it's also true that there's big challenges, right.

Connectivity's is a big challenge. Actually having the tool -- the hardware tools, the platforms to work from remains a big challenge. And in education, you know, not a lot of innovators and entrepreneurs are willing to step in and develop those things because we had 50 different states with 50 different standards and different procurement systems and it just made it hard. And I think there are things happening now like the Common Core State Standards, like this demand on the part of both teachers and students for content delivered in more creative ways to them for both of their learning that you're starting to see that change because demand is starting to meet up with, you know, sort of those people who'd like to really tackle that in ways that we haven't experienced before.

What we see happening across the country that we think is actually more of the wave and more powerful is this blended learning environment in which kids and teachers together use technology enabled tools that make the learning more real time, more powerful, give them access to things they wouldn't have had access to before. And so we really believe that's the wave of the future. So I think we want to keep thinking about the fact that kids really need that opportunity to collaborate with their peers and they're still gonna need the facilitation and guidance of great teachers. And so how do you make all those things come together in a really magical and powerful way.

Directed/Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Dillon Fitton

LBCC - Study Skills (lectures 1-14)

# automatic playing for the 14 videos (click the up-left corner for the list)

source: LongBeachCityCollege   Last updated on 2015年6月25日
The Learning and Academic Resources Department encourages you to view these videos of workshops to gain tips and learn strategies on a variety of learning and study skills topics! You can go to the LAR Study Skills Video webpage and download workshop handouts and summary sheets. Also we invite you to visit the LAR website to find out about all of the courses and services we offer at LBCC.
http://www.lbcc.edu/LAR/index.cfm -LAR website
http://www.lbcc.edu/LAR/studyskills.cfm - LAR Study Skills Video webpage

LBCC - IMPROVING LISTENING SKILLS 48:47
LBCC - Memory Tricks 48:06
LBCC - More Memory Tricks 46:17
LBCC - How To Remember For Tests 44:34
LBCC - Taking Better Lecture Notes 44:27
LBCC- Great Ways To Study 37:06
LBCC - More Great Ways to Study 43:28
LBCC - Organizing Your Study Time - Part 1 46:20
LBCC - Organizing Your Study Time - Part 2 47:37
LBCC - Habits of Successful College Students 44:32
LBCC - Test Taking Skills 43:14
LBCC - More Test-Taking Skills #1 42:23
LBCC - Preparing For Tests 45:52
LBCC - How to Predict Test Questions 41:51

LBCC [study skills #1/14] - Habits of Successful College Students

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Gives and explains ten habits of successful college students and how to develop/strengthen those habits.
Workshop Handout for #1 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #2/14] - Organizing Your Study Time (Part 1)

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Helps students examine how they spend (and waste) time now, teaches methods for setting and reaching goals, helps them understand the crucial study differences between high school and college, and shows them how to start getting more organized as an LBCC student.
Workshop Handout for #2 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #3/14] - Organizing Your Study Time (Part 2)

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Shows students how to set up a successful, intelligent study schedule and focuses on why
students procrastinate and how to conquer that bad habit!
Workshop Handout for #3 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #4/14] - Improving Your Listening Skills

source: LongBeachCityCollege    2011年9月22日
Explains problems that get in the way of good listening and teaches techniques designed to improve listening/concentration skills in (and out of) the classroom.
Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #5/14] - Taking Better Lecture Notes

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Discusses several common note-taking mistakes and provides techniques for recording, organizing,
and reviewing important information given during a lecture.
Workshop Handout for #5 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #6/14] - How to Predict Test Questions

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Teaches several methods designed to help students create their own practice quizzes
in order to prepare more effectively for upcoming tests.
Workshop Handout for #6 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #7/14] - Preparing For Tests

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Shows students important study principles and discusses how to spend the last few days
before a test studying in the most intelligent ways.
Workshop Handout for #7 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #8/14] - Test Taking Skills

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Teaches some general test-taking strategies and focuses on true/false and essay questions.
Workshop Handout for #8 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #9/14] - More Test-Taking Skills

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Helps students learn how to budget their time on tests, read multiple-choice questions the RIGHT way, and deal with lack/loss of confidence during a test.
Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #10/14] - How To Remember For Tests

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Uses two memory exercises designed to teach students how to remember more
of what they read in textbooks and how to organize material to increase understanding and retention of information
Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #11/14] - Memory Tricks

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Shows several fun and unusual memory tricks designed to help students memorize school-related information, names, etc. A few simple but effective math tricks will also be presented!
Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #12/14] - More Memory Tricks

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Gives students several more ideas about how they can use creative memory tricks to help them
memorize items in groups, definitions, and exact locations on a map or diagram.
Workshop Handout for #12 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #13/14] - Great Ways To Study

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Teaches basic study techniques, focusing on several textbook reading and study methods.
Workshop Handout for #13 /// Video Summary Sheet

LBCC [study skills #14/14] - More Great Ways to Study

source: LongBeachCityCollege
Covers textbook study methods such as "reducing" and highlighting and discusses the best ways to use/review flash cards, etc.
Workshop Handout for #14 /// Video Summary Sheet

Cruel Bombs

source: Vsauce 2013年10月30日

Love is the Product of Lousy Neurons

source: Big Think 2013年10月22日
Why are humans so aberrant - that is to say - why do all human cultures have marriage-like institutions while 90 percent of mammalian species are promiscuous?

The neuroscientist David Linden points to our "jellyfish-like or coral-like" neurons, which are pretty crummy parts if you are trying to create "clever us."

These ancient, inefficient neurons "signal probabilistically, they are unreliable, they leak signals to their neighbors and they're slow," Linden says. And so, in order to be clever humans, we need an extraordinarily large number of neurons and a huge brain to store them all. And that, in turn, means that it takes humans, as opposed to orangutans, an extraordinary amount of time to develop.

This long post-natal maturation - the longest childhood of any animal - means that "single moms aren't very effective in keeping their children alive in hunter/gatherer societies," Linden says. And that is why love is so important for human survival.

Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton

Transcript -- So our brains are built out of neurons and those neurons are fundamentally similar to the very first evolved neurons in jellyfish-like or coral-like animals that first emerged about 600 million years ago. And it turns out that neurons are not that efficient at all. They signal probabilistically, they are unreliable, they leak signals to their neighbors and they're slow. So then the question becomes, well we're really clever, we humans. How do we build clever us out of such crummy parts?

And the answer is that, in order to build clever us, we need huge brains. We need an extraordinarily large number of neurons and to have massive interconnection between those neurons. So we have something on the order of 500 billion neurons in the human brain each neuron receiving about 10,000 connections from its neighbors. Now this turns out actually to be really crucial to our humanity because our adult human brain is 1,200 cubic centimeters in volume. That's about three-fold larger than an adult chimpanzee. A newborn human has a brain of volume 400 cubic cm. And it turns out, as women well know that that barely fits through the birth canal as it is. It turns out that death during childbirth is a uniquely human phenomenon. You don't see it in other animals. So you've got a newborn with a 400 cc brain and an adult with a 1,200cc brain. Well, it turns out that if you look at the development of the brain postnatally, there is furious brain development from birth to age five and then much slower brain development from age five to 20, and the brain isn't mature until about the age 20.

What does this mean? It means that humans have by far, the longest childhood of any animal. Now, what are the sequelae of that? Well, what it means is that an Orangutan mom can take care of her offspring without any paternal contribution at all, just fine. But it turns out, if you look at humans in hunter/gatherer societies, which is what we were up until the last blink in evolutionary time, single motherhood is not a very viable endeavor. So, single moms aren't very effective in keeping their children alive in hunter/gatherer societies.

So that's why we have cross-culturally, marriage or marriage-like institutions. There isn't a single culture that has ever been found that doesn't have something like marriage. The details of the rules can vary, be we all have it. Why do we have this when 90 percent of mammalian species are promiscuous, where both male and female have many sexual partners within a given reproductive cycle where paternity is not well-established and where the male does not contribute in any way in the rearing of offspring? Why are we so aberrant? It's because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us. By putting many of these lousy processors together, we can only get 400 cc's worth of these neurons through the birth canal, so we have to have very long post-natal maturation, a long childhood and consequently, that's what creates love. That's what creates our cross-cultural human mating system. It comes from the fact that neurons are lousy processors.

留十八分鐘給自己：蔣勳 (Chiang Hsun) at TEDxTaipei 2012

source: TEDxTaipei 2012年11月29日
蔣勳是詮釋文學與美學的發言者，1947年生於西安，福建長樂人。畢業於中國文化大學­史學系、藝術研究所。現任《聯合文學》社長。其文筆清麗流暢，兼具感性與理性之美，1­972年負笈法國巴黎大學藝術研究所，在人文思潮的起源地巴黎，孕育出其更從容率性的­生活態度。其作品涉略極廣，在藝術體系中灌注人文感性，用文字線條拉出豐富的視覺意象­，其將生活經驗及美學背景重組融會成令人驚豔的美。著有小說、散文、藝術論述等作品數­十種，並多次舉辦畫展，深獲各界好評。最愛的創作是寫詩。

Chiang Hsun is an influential contemporary poet and author. He was born in Xian in 1947 and grew up in Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of History and Graduate Institute of Art at Chinese Culture University. In 1972, he started his new phase of life as a student at the Institute of Art in the University of Paris.

During his stay in Paris, he immersed himself in art . He incorporated and emphasized the value of humanity in his work. Chiang has published numerous novels, poems, prose and art criticism. He enjoys composing poems the most among all. He has held several painting exhibitions which also received great remarks.

我願是滿山的杜鵑　只願一次無憾的春天 我願是繁星　捨給一個夏天的夜晚 我願是千萬調江河　流向唯一的海洋 我願是那月　為妳再一次圓滿 如果你是島嶼　我願是環抱你的海洋 如果你張起了船帆　我願是輕輕吹動的風浪 如果你遠行　我願是那路　準備了平坦　隨你去到遠方 當你走累了　我願是夜晚 是路旁的客棧　有安靜的枕席　供你睡眠 眠中有夢　我就是你枕上的淚痕 我願是手臂讓你依靠　雖然白髮蒼蒼 我仍願是你腳邊的爐火　與你共化回憶的老年 你是笑　我是應和你的歌聲 你是淚　我是陪伴你的星光 當你埋葬土中　我願是依伴你的青草 你成灰　我變成塵 如果 如果 如果你對此生還有眷戀 我就再許一願 與你結來世的因緣

Judith Butler. Benjamin and Kafka. 2011

source: egsvideo  2012年02月23日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about Walter Benjamin's notion of the gesture in Franz Kafka's parables. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses Benjamin's background, Kafka's elliptical literary style, the relationship between image and gesture, the possibility of completed action, theology and the Event of language in relationship to Jacques Derrida, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Weber and Karl Marx focusing on messianic time, commodity fetishism, Christianity, the antichrist, the structure of time and space, the Frankfurt School, Kabbalah, the trace, the enigmatic remainder and interruption. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler.

Judith Butler. Benjamin and The Philosophy of History. 2011

source: egsvideo  2012年02月11日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about Walter Benjamin's Theses On The Philosophy of History. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses historical materialism crossed with the messianic, crystallization as the imagistic form of the past, homogenous time, the loss of remembrance and the singularity of catastrophe in relationship to Franz Kafka, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Michel Foucault focusing on memory, progress, empty time, the relation of the past and present, happening versus action and dialectics. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler.

Avital Ronell. Walter Benjamin the sequel. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年10月13日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, talking about the Walter Benjamin, philosophy, doctorate, and failure. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of transparency, translation, melancholia, sequel, in relationship to sovereignty, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Socrates, Nietzsche, Lyotard, Marx, focusing on task, struggle, and mission. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Avital Ronell.

Judith Butler. One time traverses another, Benjamin's Theologico-Politic...

source: egsvideo  2013年09月12日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about the imminence, transience, messianic, and rhythm. In the lecture Judith Butler discusses the concepts of happiness, downfall, eternal, nature, in relationship to Walter Benjamin, worldliness, sacred, recurrence, loss, focusing on Kafka, and Theologico-Political Fragment. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Judith Butler.

Judith Butler, Ph.D., Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School EGS, attended Bennington College and then Yale University, where she received her B.A., and her Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. Her first training in philosophy took place at the synagogue in her hometown of Cleveland. She taught at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins universities before becoming Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2012 she will join Columbia University's English and Comparative Literature departments.

Judith Butler is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997), Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (Verso Press, 2004), Giving an Account of Oneself (Fordham University Press, 2005), Frames of War (Verso, 2009) and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011).

利用 Chrome + Google Dictionary 輔助英文閱讀

source: dwhsvideo

東西建築十講 (漢寶德)

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source: dxmonline      官網：（http://dxmonline.com/eastwest/）
漢寶德教授於天下文化人文空間的東西建築十講
漢寶德先生的建築史教學，以其豐富的學養，對人類的建築行為邏輯與人類文化的發展脈絡­，都能深入而淺白的剖析，因此對許多早期東海建築系的學生而言，受益匪淺。2012年­春天，在一次機緣下，漢寶德的學生姚仁祿、姚仁喜以及夏鑄九，力邀漢先生將幾十年建築­相關評論，整理成講座，以中、西對照的方式講述世界建築。

這十堂課是漢先生將建築史的精華，以前所未有東西併陳的方式，展現在大家眼前，內容架­構在以希臘、羅馬文化為起點的西方建築，與以中國黃河流域文化為起點的東方建築的對比­上。十堂課雖短，卻涵蓋了建築系的三門課，中國建築史、西洋建築史、現代建築史，以及­當代建築。

關於【東西建築十講】 4:17
【第一堂】東西建築分道揚鑣5-1 ：建築的起源 9:19
【第一堂】東西建築分道揚鑣5-2：東方建築與美學 7:31
【第一堂】東西建築分道揚鑣5-3：石文化的雕刻之美 13:15
【第一堂】東西建築分道揚鑣5-4：西方比例與構圖之美 7:05
【第一堂】東西建築分道揚鑣5-5：希臘柱式 5:24
【第二堂】壯麗的帝國建築5-1：東西帝國文化 17:59
【第二堂】壯麗的帝國建築5-2：古羅馬公共建築（公共浴場，競技場） 11:21
【第二堂】壯麗的帝國建築5-3：古羅馬公共建築（圓劇場，輸水橋） 11:57
【第二堂】壯麗的帝國建築5-4：西方建築 拱的發明 19:48
【第二堂】壯麗的帝國建築5-5：東方墓室的拱頂 15:23
【第三堂】宗教建築形式的開拓5-1：佛教東來 捨宅為寺 9:13
【第三堂】宗教建築形式的開拓5-2：東方屋頂曲線美學 12:26
【第三堂】宗教建築形式的開拓5-3：塔的發展 10:33
【第三堂】宗教建築形式的開拓5-4：西方早期的宗教建築 13:33
【第三堂】宗教建築形式的開拓5-5：拜占庭圓頂建築 13:30
【第四堂】 歐洲中古世紀與唐宋5-1：唐代木造建築的成熟 10:57
【第四堂】 歐洲中古世紀與唐宋5-2：富麗飄逸的唐代建築風格 11:19
【第四堂】 歐洲中古世紀與唐宋5-3：唐朝建築代表：南禪寺 佛光寺 21:03
【第四堂】 歐洲中古世紀與唐宋5-4：早期基督教堂 11:15
【第四堂】 歐洲中古世紀與唐宋5-5：仿羅馬建築 16:35
【第五堂】 近代來臨前的東西方世界5-1：制度化的宋朝建築 14:13
【第五堂】 近代來臨前的東西方世界5-2：清明上河圖中的宋朝建築 13:01
【第五堂】 近代來臨前的東西方世界5-3：遼、金、元建築的多元發展 9:03
【第五堂】 近代來臨前的東西方世界5-4：哥德建築登場 ‬ 19:56
【第五堂】 近代來臨前的東西方世界5-5：細看哥德建築 17:55
【第六堂】 近世文明的曙光5-1：文藝復興的起點 13:53
【第六堂】 近世文明的曙光5-2：回歸古典美學 13:15
【第六堂】 近世文明的曙光5-3：藝術家主導的建築 10:08
【第六堂】 近世文明的曙光5-4：米開朗基羅 9:41
【第六堂】 近世文明的曙光5-5 中國園林山水的想像 19:17
【第七堂】王權鞏固後的世界5-1 皇權至尊 紫禁城 14:51
【第七堂】王權鞏固後的世界5-2 江南民間風情 9:55
【第七堂】王權鞏固後的世界5-3 大眾美學 巴洛克 12:54
【第七堂】王權鞏固後的世界5-4 華麗巴洛克 22:01
【第七堂】王權鞏固後的世界5-5 中西建築交會 18:41
【第八堂】現代世界的來臨 5-1：學院派的現代建築 12:12
【第八堂】現代世界的來臨 5-2：水晶宮與巴黎鐵塔 11:48
【第八堂】現代世界的來臨 5-3：蘇利文、萊特與美國有機建築 17:17
【第八堂】現代世界的來臨 5-4：包浩斯與現代建築 12:01
【第八堂】現代世界的來臨 5-5：葛羅培斯、密斯凡得羅 和 科比意 15:57
【第九堂】鄉愁的後現代5-1：西洋建築的東來 7:57
【第九堂】鄉愁的後現代5-2：再談密斯凡得羅 及柯比意 11:02
【第九堂】鄉愁的後現代5-3：路易士．康和貝聿銘 10:56
【第九堂】鄉愁的後現代5-4：複雜與含混～范求利 14:20
【第九堂】鄉愁的後現代5-5：後現代的來臨 28:29
【第十堂】當代與未來5-1 ：建築邁向新科技 18:10
【第十堂】當代與未來5-2 ：法蘭克．蓋瑞的現代建築 13:25
【第十堂】當代與未來5-3 ：當代西方建築 12:45
【第十堂】當代與未來5-4 ：姚仁喜談當代建築 32:07
【第十堂】當代與未來5-5 ：高希均 姚仁祿談「漢寶德東西建築十講」 11:43

Names

source: Vsauce 2013年10月19日

學術英文論文寫作 線上資源

學術英文論文寫作 線上資源
source: 英文論文寫作不求人 (作者: 廖柏森老師)

1.普渡大學線上寫作實驗室
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu

2. 威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校寫作中心
The Writing Center@The University of Wisconsin--Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html

3. 北卡羅來納大學寫作中心
The Writing Center, University of North Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts

4. 達特茅斯學院寫作課程
Dartmouth Wrting Program
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/about.shtml

5. 哈佛大學寫作中心
The Wrting Center, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/resources.html

6. 多倫多大學學術寫作建議
Advice on Academic Writing, University of Toronto
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice

7. 伊利諾大學香檳分校寫作者工作坊
Writers Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/

8. 德州農工大學寫作中心學術寫作
Academic Writing, Texas A&M University
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/how-to/academic/

9. 天普大學寫作中心講義、訣竅和寫作指引
Handouts, Tipsheets, adn Writing Guides, Temple University Writing Center
http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/support-for-writers/handouts.asp

10. 華威大學線上學習英文
Learning English On-line at Warwick, University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/leap

11. 曼徹斯特大學學術片語銀行
Academic Phrasebank, The University of Manchester
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk

12. 香港大學寫作機器
Writing Machine, The University of Hong Kong
http://www4.caes.hku.hk/writingmachine/

13. 香港理工大學學術寫作者
Academic Writer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/academicwriter/Questions/writemodeintro.htm

閱讀原文書的技巧--符碧真 (台大演講網)

主題：閱讀技巧
講者：符碧真 教授 (臺大師培中心)

http://speech.ntu.edu.tw/user/vod_search.php?srh_PID=6&film_sn=1266&show=1&key_no=50

研究生資料蒐集技巧--石美倫 (台大演講網)

研究生資料蒐集技巧--石美倫 (台大演講網)

http://speech.ntu.edu.tw/sng/ci/?c=User&m=vod_search&srh_PID=1&film_sn=1737&show=1&key_no=50

綠屋頂 綠牆:炎熱地球 降溫之道

source:  dxmonline

大小創意邀請樹花園(Tree Garden)公司董事長李有田，
分享城市綠屋頂以及綠牆的概念。

內容包括：
1）都市屋頂或露台、陽台，外牆面綠化的科學意義。
2）世界各地，包括臺灣，成功的實例。
3）在臺灣，屋頂、露台、陽台、外牆面綠化的基本設計概念 及基礎知識。
4）常見的錯誤的想法。
5）果樹、蔬菜種植的可能性。

垂直綠化的好處，包括了：

1）隔熱節能省電 擺脫西曬房子的夢靨。
2）生物多樣性與生態跳島。
3）減緩都市熱島效應。
4）停滯雨水減緩驟雨涇流造成馬路淹水。
5）美化建築物成為地標。
6）政府綠建築和都更獎勵綠牆施作增加容積率。

我們能為這塊土地做什麼？
將平面的不透水鋪面儘量改成【透水鋪面】，
讓雨水可以滲入地下，回補地下水
讓驟雨帶來的雨水，
先濕潤土壤儲存起來，多餘的才排走，
也不會造成排水管道的洩水能量超載，讓馬路積水。

土地失去的綠意，我們努力從空中補回來，
讓都市成為補償綠意的最佳舞台。

Slavoj Žižek. The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capitalism. 2012

source: European Graduate School    2012年10月2日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Western Buddhism, the West, capitalism, science, ideology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, bodhisattva, samsara, enlightenment, kharma, nirvana, war, Thomas Metzinger, free will, Benjamin Libet, Martin Heidegger, Patricia and Paul Churchland, and The Lion King. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012 Slavoj Žižek.

Is There An Introvert Craze Because of Technology? | Idea Channel | PBS ...

source: pbsideachannel

The physics of sperm vs. the physics of sperm whales - Aatish Bhatia

source: TED-Ed 2013-09-23
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/human-sperm...
Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm -- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of...other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how fluid will behave, often fluctuating due to size of the swimmer. Aatish Bhatia explores the great (albeit tiny) sperm's journey.
Lesson by Aatish Bhatia, animation by Brad Purnell.

The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of (by Addison Anderson)

source: TED-Ed 2013-10-01
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-most-gr...
Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno earned his chops at a young age, studying cadavers and drawing anatomic connections between species. Steno made outsized contributions to the field of geology, influencing Charles Lyell, James Hutton and Charles Darwin. Addison Anderson recounts Steno's little-known legacy and lauds his insistence on empiricism over blind theory.
Lesson by Addison Anderson, animation by Anton Bogaty.

Art for Life's Sake: In Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma

source: AspenInstitute  2013-06-27

World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, 2013 Harman-Eisner artist in residence, discusses his far-reaching vision for how artists can practice their citizenship, as individuals and through institutions—and how the arts fulfill a fundamental human need by forging and strengthening community.

Interviewer: Damian Woetzel, Director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program

Session produced by the Aspen Institute Arts Program, under the direction of Damian Woetzel. For more information about the Aspen Institute Arts Program, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/artsprogram

How People Disappear

source: Vsauce 2013-09-25
http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce
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Target story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/mag...
World population clock: http://www.worldometers.info/world-po...

How to disappear:
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David Eagleman - Seeing Sound, Tasting Color: Synesthesia

source: bigthink
"There are many different forms," says David Eagleman, a neuroscientist known for his ability to garner important insights into the nature of perception and consciousness through idiosyncratic methods. "Essentially, any cross-blending of the senses that you can think of, my colleagues and I have found a case somewhere."
Directed / Produced by
Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

Transcript--
David Eagleman: One of the things I study in my lab is called synesthesia, and it represents a blending of the senses. So we've all heard the anesthesia, which means no feeling. Synesthesia means joined feeling. So somebody with synesthesia, they might hear music and it causes them to see colors physically, or they might hear something and it puts a taste in their mouth, physically they're experiencing that, or they might eat something and it puts a feeling on their fingertips. The most common forms of synesthesia have to do with over-learned sequences, like letters or numbers or weekdays or months, triggering a color experience. So somebody might look at the number six and that's red to that synesthete, or they look at the letter J and that's purple. And it's an internal experience, it's automatic, it's involuntary and it's unconscious, and to a synesthete it's just self-evidently true that J is purple.

It used to be thought this was very rare. The original estimates were 1 in 20,000, but we now know it's quite common. It's probably up to 4 percent of the population has some form of synesthesia. There are many different forms. Essentially, any cross-blending of the senses that you can think of, my colleagues and I have found a case somewhere, so we now know it's very common. And the reason it's so interesting to me is because it's a very good inroad into understanding how different brains can be perceive reality differently, so you're sitting here, your neighbor is sitting here and you're both looking at the same thing and yet you're seeing the world very differently.

And it turns out synesthesia is heritable, so my lab is pulling the genes for it right now. And the reason that's so interesting is because it's what I'm calling perceptual genomics, which is to say how do little genetic changes change the way we perceive reality. And, of course, most synesthetes, historically, have lived their whole lives and they may even die without ever suspecting that they're seeing reality differently than someone else because we all accept the reality presented to us. So synesthesia is a really direct way to look at how individual changes can lead to different beliefs about reality.

Oliver Sacks：從幻覺認識我們的心智（中英字幕）

source: TEDtalksDirector / DesignSourceTWIWAN
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

Martin L. Rossman - How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

source: UCtelevsion
Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant Martin L. Rossman, MD, discusses how to use the power of the healing mind to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve pain, change lifestyle habits, and live with more wellness. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [3/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17631]

The Afterlife Investigations 1 - Rupert Sheldrake, PhD

source: UFOTVstudios

The Afterlife Investigations 2 - Researcher Montague Keen

source: UFOTVstudios

The Afterlife Investigations 3 - Dr. David Fontana

source: UFOTVstudios

Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

source: TED    2012年9月18日
Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. Julian Treasure sounds a call to action for designers to pay attention to the "invisible architecture" of sound.

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

source: TED 2012-09-28
For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal -- illuminating the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide. (Filmed at TEDxMaui)

Steven Pinker: Language and Consciousness, Part 1 Complete: Thinking Al...

source: ThinkingAllowedTV   2012年10月8日
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2spink...
This is Part 1 of a four part, two-hour Thinking Allowed DVD. Are our thoughts shaped by the language we use?

Julian Treasure-聲音影響我們的四種方式（中文字幕）

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Evan Grant: 藉由cymatics技術使聲音可視化（中英字幕）

source: TED / DesignSourceTAIWAN
Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.

Leon Botstein: Art Now (Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture,...

source: bigthink
Leon Botstein, Conductor / President of Bard College

President Leon Botstein of Bard College steps boldly into the fray to answer one of the most enduring human questions: What is art? This discussion spills over into debates about art's value to society ---- whether access to the arts is right as basic as education or health care, and whether it should be assessed and supported by government or left to the "invisible hand" of the free market. President Botstein explains why it is essential to ask these questions and offers a sturdy basis for evaluating them. He goes so far as to suggest that engaging with art can give our lives meaning and purpose. 

The Floating University
Originally released September 2011.

Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell

source: bigthink
The Universe in a Nutshell: The Physics of Everything
Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at CUNY

What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe? Dr. Michio Kaku explores how physicists may shrink the science of the Big Bang into an equation as small as Einstein's "e=mc^2." Thanks to advances in string theory, physics may allow us to escape the heat death of the universe, explore the multiverse, and unlock the secrets of existence. While firing up our imaginations about the future, Kaku also presents a succinct history of physics and makes a compelling case for why physics is the key to pretty much everything.

The Floating University
Originally released September, 2011.

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain

source: bigthink
Steven Pinker - Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University

How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why language is such a fundamental part of social relationships, human biology, and human evolution. Finally, Pinker touches on the wide variety of applications for linguistics, from improving how we teach reading and writing to how we interpret law, politics, and literature.

The Floating University
Originally released September, 2011.
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Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People th...

source: bigthink
Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? An Introduction to Demography and Populations Study through an Examination of the World's Population

Professor Joel Cohen: Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, Mathematical Biologist, Columbia University.

In the next fifty years the world will face population problems that it has never faced before. Billions will live in mega slums without access to clean water or medical care. In his lecture, Professor Joel Cohen teaches you how demography can provide answers to the life or death questions caused by the world's swelling population and dwindling resources. Can we prevent an outcome where wealthy western countries are in permanent population decline, while third world cities into swell into massively overcrowded slums with no access to education, healthcare, or hope?

The Floating University
Originally released September, 2011.

Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics

source: bigthink
Tamar Gendler, Department of Philosophy Chair at Yale University, Cognitive Scientist

Who gets what and who says so? These two questions underlie and inform every social arrangement from the resolution of schoolyard squabbles to the meta-structure of human societies. They are also the basis of political philosophy. Professor Tamar Gendler uses the work of three titans of the discipline, Thomas Hobbes, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick, as a lens to guide us through the taut debate about the role of government in society, asking "Will we embrace the radical state of nature or will we surrender our freedom to the leviathan of the state?"

The Floating University
Originally released September 2011.

Dennis Charney: Neuroplasticity and Your Resilient Brain

source: bigthink
Mindfulness therapy is an emerging, non-pharmacological therapy that involves exercising the human brain to improve learning, memory problems, anxiety and problems with depression.

Dennis S. Charney, MD, is the Dean of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and a world expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of neural circuits and neurochemistry related to human anxiety, fear, mood and discovery of new treatment for mood and anxiety disorders. He later expanded this area into pioneering research related to the psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to stress. He's a professor of neuroscience at Mt. Sinai.
Charney's most recent book is Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges: http://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Science-Mastering-Greatest-Challenges/dp/052...

A prolific author, Dr. Charney has written more than 700 publications, including groundbreaking scientific papers, chapters, and books. He has authored a many books, including Neurobiology of Mental Illness (Oxford University Press, USA, Third Edition, 2009); The Peace of Mind Prescription: An Authoritative Guide to Finding the Most Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004); The Physicians Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorders (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006), and Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Lifespan (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Dr.

Transcript--
One of the things that we have found in our research is that in general we don't make full use of the capacity of the human brain. We identified that actually initially from hearing from a couple of the POWs when they were in solitary confinement. They told us that when they were in solitary confinement for years and all they had was the ability to think that they developed unusual cognitive capacities that they never had before when they were in solitary confinement, like they were essentially exercising their brain.

One individual told us he was able to multiply eventually many numbers by many numbers, 12 numbers by 12 numbers accurately. Never was able to do that before. Another told us that he was able to remember to very early times in his childhood, like remembering the names of the students in his kindergarten class. Admiral Shoemaker, one of the individuals that we came to admire a lot, built a house in his mind nail by nail, cabinet by cabinet, room by room and then when he got out he built that house, and when we met him he was having a fight with his wife because she wanted to renovate the house and he said no way was that going to happen.

That brought home that when you exercise your brain and you don't have any outside distractions because you're in solitary, you have enormous capacities. Our research group subsequently hearing about this and others around the country have now taken a tact that through specific exercises we might be able to enhance brain plasticity, or using more of the capacity of the human brain.

For example, we now have a research study in which where through exercises, through psychological exercises are trying to retrain the circuits that are involved in depression. It's not a typical psychotherapy. It's very specifically oriented toward improving the circuits that are involved in causing human depression. So far there are some positive results around that. For certain forms of learning and memory problems, new therapies have been developed that exercise the human brain around learning and memory mechanisms. With human anxiety, practicing certain techniques that tap into the circuits and the chemistry of anxiety is now an area of focus. Mindfulness therapy is an example of that.

So that's a really emerging area to develop new therapies, non pharmacological therapies, that exercise the human brain to improve learning and memory problems and anxiety and problems with depression.

Directed / Produced by
Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd