lectures/ideas: October 2015

2015-10-30

GSD Talks | Technologies of Design: Eric Höweler

source: Harvard GSD 2015年10月22日
10/21/2015
Eric Höweler, assistant professor of architecture and organizer of the conference Adaptive Architectures and Smart Materials, will give a brief overview of the event, held earlier this month in Chicago. This was the first iteration of the Merck Harvard GSD conference series, which brings together academics, historians, industry leaders, and building scientists to explore the potentials and opportunities for architecture and industry.
The integration of new communication, interactivity and display technologies in architecture fundamentally transforms spaces and places into networked, responsive and communicative environments. Within this context, architecture has become "smart" through the introduction of technologies at the scale of devices and equipment. A building envelope is currently the site of intense architectural speculation, with the introduction of CNC fabrication techniques that allow for increased formal complexity, as well as new material properties in glass, polymers and fabrics that create building envelopes with new spatial, visual and thermal properties. These new materials, which have the capacity to transform architecture, its ability to regulate its appearance, its optical properties, its configuration, and its thermal qualities, demand a radical rethinking of interiority, exteriority, privacy, publicness, exposure, and visibility within architecture.

Technologies of Design
This series of lectures, conversations, and events offers occasions to discuss material, structural, and building technologies and their connection, consequence, and impacts on design.

Symposium on Architecture: Organization or Design?

source: Harvard GSD 2015年10月20日
10/15/2015From cybernetics to systems theory to present-day parametricism, organization has haunted the architectural imagination. Today, many debates about design practice center on data. Given the pervasiveness of information in the material, spatial, formal, and programmatic forms of organization that today’s designer must confront—in objects, networks, and genealogies—the obsession with data is hardly surprising. But data has no intrinsic bearing on the architectural process or its products. It is; how data is organized—acquired, quantified, represented, processed, and manipulated—is what differentiates design outcomes.

GSD Talks | Innovate: Organization

source: Harvard GSD 2015年10月20日
10/16/2015A follow up to the Symposium on Architecture event.

Energy Revolution

source: Harvard University 2015年10月21日
We can launch an energy revolution that drastically decreases CO2 emission and other deleterious consequences associated with fossil fuel burning. Energy extraction can be cut by more than 50% by converting fossil fuel burning engines to electric motors and replacing fossil fuel burning power plants with renewable sources. In addition, energy efficient systems and improvements in computation and connectivity can significantly reduce energy consumption and lower energy costs. These goals can be achieved using commercially available technologies. New technologies may offer even greater opportunities.

Alain Badiou & Judith Balso. Contemporary art: considered philosophicall... (2014)

source: European Graduate School 2014年9月30日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou and Judith Balso, French philosopher and poet discussing the nature of contemporary art, contemporaneity and the dual tenets of modern art, subtraction and formalization. Other topics include modernity, music, painting, rupture, event, poetry. In relation to the authors Hegel, Osip Mandelstam, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer and Dante. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Alain Badiou and Judith Balso.

Alain Badiou. Introduction To The Philosophical Concept of Change. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年1月18日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the philosophical concept of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between repetition and tradition, the mathematical concept of generic sets, the relationship between the idea of truth and the generic, the impossibility of the transmission of the thought of change and the structure of desire in relationship to Plato, Saint Paul, Kurt Gödel, P.J. Cohen and Georg Cantor focusing on difference, identity, love, life, exceptionality, positive and negative forms of change, generic audiences and the relationship between desire and law. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. From Logic to Anthropology, or Affirmative Dialectics. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2012年9月3日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou, contemporary philosopher, discusses logic, anthropology, philosophy, Karl Marx, politics, negativity, negative dialectics, affirmative dialectics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, capitalism, the future, negation, affirmation, event, subject, Saint Paul, Paris 1968, subjectivity, democracy, Jacques Rancière Ranciere, revolution, human and animal, humanity, the capitalist market of finitude, human rights, the right of the infinite, truth, and dialectical materialism, with a response by Slavoj Žižek Zizek . Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2012 Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Philosophical Question of Change Within Greek Antiquit... (2012)

source: European Graduate School 2013年1月23日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the philosophical concept of change within Greek antiquity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between change and negation, the empirical and universal experience of change, the identity of being and thinking, the relationship between being and becoming and Aristotle's question concerning a prime mover and causality in relationship to Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heraclitus, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant
focusing on poetry, being qua being, negativity, the One, pure affirmation, the inexistence of negation, dialectics, double negation, the proof of God's existence, perfection, contradiction and subjectivity. 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. Alain Badiou.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Spring 2014)--Mark J. Madou / UC Irvine

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UCI Engineering 165/265 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Spring 2014)
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Advanced Manufacturing Choices (Spring 2013)--Marc J. Madou / UC Irvine

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2015-10-29

Nudging and Medicine: A Workshop

source: HarvardCPL 2015年10月23日
Alister Martin (CPL Dubin Fellow 2013-15), Robert Reynolds (CPL Gleitsman Fellow 2013-15) and Max Bazerman (Co-Director of CPL) facilitate a workshop on nudging and medicine to the CPL Fellows n October 15, 2015.

Calculating the global economic cost of climate change

source: Stanford 2015年10月21日
New research finds that without climate change mitigation, most countries will see an economic downturn by 2100.

RSA Replay: The Future of Capitalism

source: The RSA 2015年10月22日
Channel 4’s economics editor Paul Mason shows how, from the ashes of the recent financial crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy.
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, journalist and Channel 4 economics news editor Paul Mason wonders whether this time capitalism itself has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new.
At the heart of this change is information technology: a revolution that has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work, production and value; and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership. Almost unnoticed, in the niches and hollows of the market system, whole swathes of economic life are changing.. Goods and services that no longer respond to the dictates of neoliberalism are appearing, from parallel currencies and time banks, to cooperatives and self-managed online spaces. Vast numbers of people are changing their behaviour, discovering new forms of ownership, lending and doing business that are distinct from, and contrary to, the current system of state-backed corporate capitalism.

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DNA | Forensic DNA Investigation || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2015年10月22日
FORENSIC DNA INVESTIGATION
Greg Hampikian (1:06), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joint appointment in Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University

Introduced by Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Alain Badiou. The Concept of Change: Mathematics and Vitalism. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年2月12日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answering students' questions concerning the philosophical concept of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses technical questions concerning mathematics, politics and the philosophy of life in relationship to Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Galileo Galilei, Martin Heidegger and Plato focusing on time, space, representation, the relationship between being and change, nature, the distinction between a set and number, the identity of being and thinking, the One and the multiple, void, subjectivity, Plato's cave allegory, truth, exteriority and interiority, the power of the State, the Event, and heroism. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Ontology of Change. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年2月7日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the ontology of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses Aristotle's concept of the prime mover, the rational determination of God, thinking of change by the notions of division and becoming, the subjective structure of knowledge of being, the relationship between multiplicity and change, the localization of being in a world, the possibility of thinking pure multiplicity as such and the relationship between multiplicities in relationship to Aristotle, Nicolas Malebranche, Immanuel Kant, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Democritus and Georg Cantor focusing on the infinite subject, perfection, fidelity, the One, pure multiplicity, atoms, physics, set theory, extensionality, qualitative difference, intensive difference and absolute identity. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Being and Change In A World. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年3月13日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about change in a world with respect to being and an Event. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relation between identity and difference, the logic of being and the logic of worlds, the opposition between being and appearing, existence as the immanent possibility of being, the difference between a thing and an object and the relationship between an Event and truth in relationship to Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx focusing on infinity, pure multiplicity, the point, extensionality, minimum and maximum difference, order-relations, void, the empty set, subjectivity, place, revolution and the proletariat. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Philosophical Concept of Change Within Politics. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年1月31日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the question of change in the political field. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between State and law, the dialectics of possibility and impossibility, the relationship between political action and artistic creation, relativity within the empirical experience of change, the distinction between realization and creation, the Event and the consequences of change focusing on repetition, violence, repression, irrational numbers, the forcing of possibility, the structure of worlds, truth, revolutions and negation. 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. Alain Badiou.

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2013)--Roger Rangel / UC Irvine

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Description: UCI Engineering MAE 130A covers the following topics: fluid statics; fluid dynamics; Bernoulli's equation; control-volume analysis; basic flow equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy; differential analysis; potential flow; viscous incompressible flow.

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Introduction to Thermodynamics (Spring 2013)--Roger Rangel / UC Irvine

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Description: This course introduces thermodynamic principles; open and closed systems representative of engineering problems; and first and second law of thermodynamics with applications to engineering systems and design. Topics include: thermodynamic concepts, thermodynamic properties, the first law of thermodynamics, first law analysis for a control volume, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and second law analysis for a control volume.

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Engineering Problem Solving (Spring 2013)--Jasper Alexander Vrugt at UC Irvine

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Description: Introduction to computer programming within a numerical computing environment (MATLAB or similar) including types of data representation, graphical display of data, and development of modular programs with application to engineering analysis and problem solving.

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2015-10-28

How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist

source: TED-Ed 2015年10月22日
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Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the quick burst of heightened alertness and energy needed to perform our best. But stress isn’t all good. When activated too long or too often, stress can damage virtually every part of our body. Sharon Horesh Bergquist gives us a look at what goes on inside our body when we are chronically stressed.
Lesson by Sharon Horesh Bergquist, animation by Adriatic Animation.

RSA Replay: Our Health: Who Cares?

source: The RSA 2015年10月19日
We’re living longer, and with chronic and lifestyle-related diseases on the rise, our healthcare systems are struggling to increase access and quality of care while more effectively managing escalating costs.
At the same time, there’s a growing need for people to find new ways to take control of their personal health – including ways to be healthy, to live well, and to care for themselves and their families at home.
We all know that prevention is better than cure and understand the need for active health management, but despite this, when it comes to our health, we are a nation that buries its head in the sand.
Leading healthcare company Philips has recently carried out a major Picture of Health survey into the nation’s health experiences and attitudes, and the findings show that there is a clear gap between what we know we should do and what we are doing.
How then do we motivate people to care more about their own health and in doing so, enable individuals to make the right choices?

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The Girls of War in 1914 and 2014: The Evolution of the Protection Racket

source: Harvard University 2015年10月23日
How have gender roles in war changed over the last century? As women have openly joined militaries and paramilitary organizations, the roles of women in service have advanced and diversified. In the United States, the Combat Exclusion Policy was recently lifted to allow women to serve in frontline combat and complete combat operations. Despite increasing numbers of countries beginning to expand the role of women in their militaries, an analysis comparing the U.S. media coverage of British girls in World War I and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign in 2014 suggests that significations of girls as wars’ innocent, hapless victims in need of men’s protection remain prominent in media outlets. This seminar revisits Sue Rae Peterson’s (1977) idea of the ‘protection racket’ to analyze the current status of women in 21st century war and conflict.

DNA | The Ethical Frontier of DNA || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2015年10月22日
THE ETHICAL FRONTIER OF DNA
Arthur Caplan (2:20), Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine

Introduced by Danielle Allen, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Government and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

Alain Badiou. The Concept of Change: Aesthetics and Politics. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年2月19日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answering students' questions about the philosophical concept of change. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses change within the field of aesthetics, the relationship between mathematics and art, genericity in politics, affirmative dialectics and the relationship between philosophy and art in relationship to Karl Marx and Georg Cantor focusing on truth, universality, generic sets, collectivity, the public, multiplicity, subjectivity, set theory, the proletariat, negativity, revolutions, the imitation of nature, painting, capitalism, technology and death. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Questions Concerning The Event, Life and Death. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年3月3日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answers students' questions concerning his theory of an Event and the philosophy of life and death. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the unsayable part of an Event, the different status of the trace in Being and Event and Logic of Worlds, naming an Event, the experience of death and the dialectical process of subjectivity in relationship to Martin Heidegger and Immanuel Levinas focusing on the encyclopedic situation of a world, love, subjectivity, the organization of consequences, the Immanent Two, the One, the dialectics of possibility and impossibility, Dasein, historical life, contradiction, suffering, quality of life and the Idea. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Post-Evental Subject Via The Existence of Truths. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年3月18日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the relationship between a singular change, a subject and the existence of truths. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the philosophical concepts of being, world, object and thing, an Event as the mediation of a truth and being, the question of the subject at the level of affect and ecology, the reversal of the relationship between an Event and a subject, and the death of God focusing on the concept of singular universality, anxiety, the Real, the human animal, patience for absolute change, infinite subjectivity, the consequences of an Event, terrorism, the relationship between history and nature, mysticism, and choice. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Ontology of Multiplicity: The Singleton of The Void. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2012年1月4日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about three possibilities concerning an absolute beginning. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the singleton of the void, the absolute difference between zero and one, returning to classicism, naming and exteriority in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on pure difference, affirmation, repetition, succession, novelty, god, capitalism, corruption, immaterial images, infinite price, minimum difference and love. 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. Alain Badiou.

Special Topics in Earth System Science (Fall 2013)--Michael J. Prather / UC Irvine

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Description: Each quarter is devoted to current topics in the field of Earth System Science. Topics addressed vary each quarter. For this course, topics discussed include: climate change, biodiversity, demographics, transportation and urban systems, cost-benefit analysis, negative impacts on the environment, environmental policy, and sustainability.

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Global Climate Change (Fall 2014)--Michael J. Prather / UC Irvine

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Description: Observations over the 20th century show extensive changes in atmospheric composition, climate and weather, and biological systems that have paralleled industrial growth. Evidence of globally driven changes in these biogeochemical systems is studied, including projected impacts over the 21st century.

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2015-10-27

Calls vs. balls: An evolutionary trade-off

source: Cambridge University 2015年10月22日
Howler monkeys are about the size of a small dog, weighing around seven kilos, yet they are among the loudest terrestrial animals on the planet, and can roar at a similar acoustic frequency to tigers.
Evolution has given these otherwise lethargic creatures a complex and powerful vocal system. For males, a critical function of the roar is for mating: to attract females and scare off rival males.
But not all male howler monkeys have been equally endowed. The bigger a male howler’s vocal organ, and the deeper and more imposing roar they possess, the smaller their testes and the less sperm they can produce.
Dr Jacob Dunn from Cambridge's Division of Biological Anthropology describes this evolutionary 'trade-off' and how it relates to Darwin's work on sexual selection.

RSA Replay: Commerce With a Conscience

source: The RSA 2015年10月20日
James Timpson OBE is taking his family business to new heights with an innovative recruitment and staff development approach which achieves commercial and social goals.
Visionary business leader James Timpson operates an “upside down management” structure, with a high level of autonomy given to front line teams; everyone else is there to help them provide excellent service.
The success of the long-running family retail company springs from robust and democratic business principles and an innovative and philanthropic approach to recruitment.
Working closely with prisons across the UK, James has built a training and employment model which offers opportunities to ex-offenders wanting to change their lives for the better.
James Timpson visits the RSA to receive the 2015 Albert Medal for innovation in enterprise management, and to show how empowering individuals creates business value.

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William Thorndike: "The Outsiders" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2015年10月22日
What makes a successful CEO? Most people call to mind a familiar definition: “a seasoned manager with deep industry expertise.” Others might point to the qualities of today’s so-called celebrity CEOs—charisma, virtuoso communication skills, and a confident management style. But what really matters when you run an organization? What is the hallmark of exceptional CEO performance? Quite simply, it is the returns for the shareholders of that company over the long term.

In this refreshing, counterintuitive book, author Will Thorndike brings to bear the analytical wisdom of a successful career in investing, closely evaluating the performance of companies and their leaders. You will meet eight individualistic CEOs whose firms’ average returns outperformed the S&P 500 by a factor of twenty—in other words, an investment of $10,000 with each of these CEOs, on average, would have been worth over $1.5 million twenty-five years later. You may not know all their names, but you will recognize their companies: General Cinema, Ralston Purina, The Washington Post Company, Berkshire Hathaway, General Dynamics, Capital Cities Broadcasting, TCI, and Teledyne. In The Outsiders, you’ll learn the traits and methods—striking for their consistency and relentless rationality—that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance.

Humble, unassuming, and often frugal, these “outsiders” shunned Wall Street and the press, and shied away from the hottest new management trends. Instead, they shared specific traits that put them and the companies they led on winning trajectories: a laser-sharp focus on per share value as opposed to earnings or sales growth; an exceptional talent for allocating capital and human resources; and the belief that cash flow, not reported earnings, determines a company’s long-term value.

Drawing on years of research and experience, Thorndike tells eye-opening stories, extracting lessons and revealing a compelling alternative model for anyone interested in leading a company or investing in one—and reaping extraordinary returns.

About the Author
William N. Thorndike, Jr. of Westwood/Boston. Founded Housatonic Partners, a private equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco, in 1994. Mr. Thorndike is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Director of Alta Colleges; Carillon Assisted Living, LLC; CONSOL Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNX); Lincoln Peak Holdings, LLC; The London Company, LLC; OASIS Group Ltd.; QMC International, LLC; White Flower Farm, Inc., and a Trustee of The Stanford Business School Trust; WGBH; the College of the Atlantic (Chair); and a founding partner at FARM, a social impact investing collaborative. He is the author of The Outsiders.

DNA | Mammoths, Neanderthals, and Your Ancestors || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2015年10月22日
WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

INTRODUCTION
Janet Rich-Edwards (9:17), Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

MAMMOTHS, NEANDERTHALS, AND YOUR ANCESTORS
Moderator: George Church (24:37), Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
John Hawks (29:29), Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beth Shapiro (54:36), Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spencer Wells (1:20:16), scientist, author, entrepreneur, and former explorer-in-residence and director of the Genographic Project at National Geographic

PANEL DISCUSSION (1:46:05)

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:57:43)

Alain Badiou. Toward A Positive Definition of The Infinite. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about a positive form of the dialectical relation between the finite and infinite. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the distinction between finite and infinite possibilities, immanent infinity as life potency, different types of infinity, and the complete separation between the infinite and the One in relationship to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexandre Koyré, Auguste Comte, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, immortality, physics, capitalism, humanity, equality, God, Christianity, affirmation and virtuality. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Ontology of Multiplicity: Omega As Event. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2012年1月3日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the finite and infinite in an ontology of multiplicity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses set theory, the formulas of existence and obligation, the reactionary vision in politics, and omega as a limit point and event in relationship to Plato, Georg Cantor, René Descartes, Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida focusing on truth, God, the One, affirmation, void, extensionality, globality, locality, difference, succession, repetition, new worlds, memory and life. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Infinity and Set Theory: How To Begin With The Void. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2012年1月2日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the relationship between the finite and infinite in the context of set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou recapitulates the struggle between reactive classicism and reactive romanticism, new humanism, grace and immanent life and goes on to discuss set theory and the paradox of beginning with nothing in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, affirmation, subjectivity, the trace, the void, absolute beginning, the empty set, indeterminacy and omega. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Infinity and Set Theory: Repetition and Succession. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2012年1月2日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the operation of succession and naming in set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses nothingness and infinity as two forms of being, the materiality of names, creative repetition and the matheme of the infinite in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Jacques Lacan, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, negation, affirmation, the indefinite, the encore, creative repetition, subjectivity, weak and strong infinity, omega, Faust, jouissance and woman. 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. Alain Badiou.

Air Pollution and Global Environments (Fall 2013)--Saewung Kim / UC Irvine

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Earth System Science 23: Air Pollution and Global Environments (Fall 2013)
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Description: We will discuss sciences and societal consequences of air pollution problems such as: photochemical smog, atmospheric particle pollution, indoor pollution, acid rain, and human triggered climate change. Essential concepts of chemistry, physics, meteorology and mathematics will be introduced. The consequences of air pollution will be discussed in historical and international perspectives. The main educational goal is raising critical thinking skills for the students to develop their own opinions future environmental issues.

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Lecture 1. Logistics/Definition of Air Pollution 1:14:20
Lecture 2. Air Composition-Before Human Interferences 1:16:24
Lecture 3. Understanding of Temperature and Pressure 1:16:44
Lecture 4. Steam Engine vs Internal Combustion Engines 1:08:36
Lecture 5. Photochemical Ozone Part I. 1:14:06
Lecture 6. Photochemical Ozone Part II. 1:02:17
Lecture 7. Atmospheric Particles-Regional and Global Scale 59:38
Lecture 8. Dynamic Atmosphere, Part I. 1:12:44
Lecture 9. Review 1:02:58
Lecture 10. Dynamic Atmosphere, Part II. 1:14:24
Lecture 11. Interactions between Sun Light and Atmosphere 1:13:50
Lecture 12. Indoor Air Pollution and Acid Rain 1:13:36
Lecture 13. Ozone Chemistry 1:17:50
Lecture 14. Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Part I 1:07:11
Lecture 15. Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Part II 1:19:30
Lecture 16. Air Pollution and Global Climate, Part I. 1:16:41
Lecture 17. Air Pollution and Global Climate, Part II. 1:16:27
Lecture 18. Air Pollution and Global Climate, Part III. 1:04:35
Lecture 19. Final Review 1:17:42

On Thin Ice: Climate Change and the Cryosphere (Winter 2014)--Julie Ferguson / UC Irvine

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Earth System Science 21: On Thin Ice: Climate Change and the Cryosphere (Winter 2014)
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Description: In recent decades we have observed a significant reduction of the cryosphere due to anthropogenic climate change. The observed and predicted changes in the extent and amount of snow and ice will have major impacts on climate, ecosystems and human populations both at a local and global scale. This course will introduce students to the science behind climate change as well as the physical and chemical processes that govern components of the cryosphere, including snow, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. Particular emphasis will be placed on the important role that each component plays in the larger climate system and potential feedbacks. We will also examine some of the social, economic and political impacts that the melting cryosphere will have on countries around the Arctic and also worldwide, such as access to new petroleum reserves, infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost, sea level rise and decreases in freshwater availability.

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Lecture 01. Introduction 46:42
Lecture 02. Tools for Studying Earth System 44:28
Lecture 03. What Controls Earth's Global Temperature? 42:56
Lecture 04. Earth's climates 45:24
Lecture 05. Anthropogenic Climate Change 47:08
Lecture 06. Future Climate Change 47:15
Lecture 07. Snow 49:39
Lecture 08. Outlook for Snow 41:58
Lecture 09. Permafrost 41:19
Lecture 10. Permafrost and the Carbon Cycle 45:37
Lecture 11. Sea Ice, Part I. 46:32
Lecture 12. Sea Ice, Part II. 41:13
Lecture 13. Implications of Summer Sea-ice Free Arctic 44:27
Lecture 14. Formation of Glaciers, Ice Caps and Ice Sheets 43:26
Lecture 15. Glacier Mass Balance 46:07
Lecture 16. Measuring Glacier Mass Balance and Ice Dynamics 44:46
Lecture 17. Glacier Dynamics 48:25
Lecture 18. Surges, Tidewater Glaciers and Ice Shelves 45:11
Lecture 19. Glacial Landscapes 40:10
Lecture 20. Climate Records from Ice Sheets/Mountain Glaciers 45:34
Lecture 21. Ice Age World and Past Impact of Ice on Humans 40:30
Lecture 22. Melting Glaciers: Glacial Outburst Floods 43:29
Lecture 23. Melting Glaciers: Future of Water Supplies 39:34
Lecture 24. Sea Level Change 48:37
Lecture 25. Measuring Sea Level Change 44:34
Lecture 26. Consequences of Sea Level Change 41:06

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The Magic of Bird Flight, David Lentink

source: Stanford 2015年10月22日
There’s so little we understand about how birds fly. Through incredible photography and observations in his lab’s wind tunnel, engineering professor David Lentink highlights rarely detected bird behavior. By studying nature, his lab seeks to build better drones.
Stanford+Connects: Washington, DC, September 26, 2015

RSA Replay: Optimism, Knowledge and the Future of Enlightenment

source: The RSA 2015年10月19日
Physicist David Deutsch and cosmologist Martin Rees lead a special event exploring the theme of optimism as a force for 21st century progress.

Austin Shaw: "Mindfulness and Creativity" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2015年10月21日
About this Talk:
Both mindfulness and creativity are currently two of the most celebrated words in the English language, the first enjoying a recent surge in popularity, the latter with a legacy far more enduring.

But what do these words actually mean? And how can we engage them as vehicles for enriching our own lives as well as the lives of all those around us?
Through his own experiences as a designer, teacher, and healer, and through his own 13 year journey as Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner, Austin Hill Shaw, will explore these topic in an in depth, highly engaging, highly interactive presentation.

About Austin
Austin Hill Shaw is founder of Creativity Matters and author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative.
He works with individuals that want to unlock their full creative potential and organizations that want to develop cultures of innovation.

For more info visit http://austinhillshaw.com/

DNA | The Future Utility of DNA || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2015年10月23日
THE FUTURE UTILITY OF DNA SCIENCE
Moderator: Christine Seidman (00:44), Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacob Corn (2:41), Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Murdoch (32:54), Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Head of Department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Floyd Romesberg (59:45), Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:27:35)

CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards (1:38:24), Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Alain Badiou. A History of Finitude and Infinity: Classicism. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2011年12月17日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the classical vision of the relationship between the finite and infinite in Greek antiquity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the Greek conception of the One, apeiron, the Platonic Good, the One-All, being, existence, paganism and aesthetics in relationship to René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Plato, Aristotle, Blaise Pascal and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on being, existence, hubris, perfection, negativity, immortality, totality, cosmos, subjectivity, tragedy, possibility, life and death. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Questions Concerning The Infinite. 2011

source: European Graduate School 2012年1月4日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answers students' questions on infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses three historical sequences of the infinite, the philosophy of life, the dialectical relationship between infinity and finitude, distinctions between infinities and set theory in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on hubris, science, Christianity, totality, God, capitalism, the One, void, being, existence, truth, subjectivity, dialectics, Greek tragedy, perfection and affirmation. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. A History of Finitude and Infinity: Romanticism and Modern... (2011)

source: European Graduate School 2011年12月17日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the dialectical conception of the relationship between the finite and infinite in romanticism and modernity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the dialectical fusion of the One and the infinite, Christianity, God, the figure of Christ, truth, miracle and transcendental affirmation in relationship to René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Plato, Blaise Pascal and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on being, existence, truth, subjectivity, abstraction, miracle, possibility, the common measure and generating the new. 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. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Different Philosophical Orientations Toward The Infinite. ...(2011)

source: European Graduate School 2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about four different philosophical choices concerning infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the possibility to maintain or suppress the relationship between the One and infinite, pure multiplicity without an immanent or transcendent reference to the One, and the faithful subject in relationship to Plato, Georg Cantor, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on nihilism, capitalism, the weak and poor god, nature, paganism, truth, life, affirmation and reactive subjectivity. 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. Alain Badiou.

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