How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce

source: TED-Ed     2015年9月8日
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Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence—which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Karrot Animation.

What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

source: TED-Ed    2014年12月1日
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Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Michael Mauser explains the visual phenomenon that is floaters.
Lesson by Michael Mauser, animation by Reflective Films.

Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital (Stanford U)

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source: Stanford      Last updated on 2014年9月25日
With over a century and a half of venture capital experience and many more years of practice in entrepreneurship, the teaching team and guest lecturers for this student initiated course cover the fundamentals for building a successful company. While there is no set formula for building a great company, basic principles and general patterns are manifested in the most successful start-ups.

1. Iterating Your Product and Market Strategy 51:50
2. Funding Your Startup 57:20
3. Making the Team Work: Executives, Board, and Partners 1:02:01
4. Paying Attention to Details: It's All in the Details 58:17
5. Taking it to the Next Level 44:33
6. Doubling Down on Success: Go International or Get Acquired? 1:07:13
Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital | Course Introduction 1:17:08
Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital | Starting 56:24
Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital | Seed Fund 53:53

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (Stanford University)

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source: Stanford      Last updated on 2014年9月25日
Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from business, finance, technology, education, and philanthropy, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Innovation in a Disruptive Environment 1:00:19
Citizen Engineer 1:01:45
A Historical Perspective on Semiconductors and Moore's Law 1:03:02
A Serious Take on Internet Game Play 1:09:32
Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn? 1:18:33
From Stanford to Startup 58:14
Innovate for America 1:01:43
Developing Products That Save Lives 1:01:11
The True Value of Partnerships 1:01:21
A New Vision for Capital Markets 54:57
How to Build Instant Connections 58:21
Effective Models for Sustainable Growth 55:20
Reach Your Escape Velocity 58:53

Manuel De Landa. Deleuze and The New Materialism. 2009. (1-11)

source: European Graduate School       Jan 4, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel de Landa speaking about the importance of Gilles Deleuze in the 21st century and the fundamentals of materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Questioning the role of structuralism and the post-modern position in philosophy, de Landa argues for a view of a materialist world autonomously removed from the concepts of our own mind. His challenge, he says, is to remove a transcendental plane from material objects, that is to remove the concept of essence from the world, without giving rise to a metaphysical position. Towards this, de Landa used the analogy of the battlefield as an example of the social material space to illustrate a plane of existence of extreme materiality. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland.

Manuel De Landa. Dualities of Meaning in Gilles Deleuze. 2009 (1-8)

source: European Graduate School        Feb 19, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa lecturing about the duality of meaning in signification and significance in the Gilles Deleuze and Science seminar. He spoke about how these definitions shape perceptions and attitudes, drawing on Hume and Kant to explain the views of Gilles Deleuze. Referencing CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to discuss the advent of advertising in the birth of media, and the resulting formations of power, De Landa explored ethical decisions both within, and without the Academy. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Manuel De Landa 2009

Manuel De Landa. Intensive Thinking in Deleuze's Materialism 2009 (1-7)

source: European Graduate School       Feb 19, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa speaking about the idea of intensive thinking as a hallmark of Gilles Deleuzes materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. De Landa discussed the idea of difference in the circulation of matter and the process of production versus evolution. In intensive thinking, as De Landa explains, intensity replaces extensity; the things that matter in thinking are significance, relevance, importance versus a possible explication of a truth. De Landa spoke about Aristotle, Einstein, Heidegger, and the development of modern physics in an effort to explain his concepts. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland.