2015-11-06
Group theory 101: How to play a Rubik’s Cube like a piano - Michael Staff
source: TED-Ed 2015年11月2日
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Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to music, and their common ground has something to do with a Rubik's Cube puzzle. Michael Staff explains how group theory can teach us to play a Rubik’s Cube like a piano.
Lesson by Michael Staff, animation by Shixie.
Martin Hielscher. Adorno and Aesthetic Theory. 2009 (1-7)
source: European Graduate School 2010年3月6日
http://www.egs.edu/ Martin Hielscher speaking about the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno, the need for an aesthetic theory, relevance, the truth content of the artwork, and the history and philosophy of art. Martin Hielscher lecturing about Adorno and a philosophy of experience, the possibility of experience, relief and liberation, the cultural industry, critical theory, universal mediation, products, formats, lifestyles, turns, phrases, activities, global cultural control and standardized entertainment products. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Martin Hielscher
Martin Hielscher holds the Theodor W. Adorno Chair at the European Graduate School and is currently the dean of the Media and Communications Division there. Hielscher is a translator of literature based in Munich, as well as a widely known critic, editor and author. He has lectured internationally on contemporary German literature and philosophy, as well as on creative writing. Hielscher has been visiting professor to several universities, including Washington University in St. Louis, Leipzig University and is currently honorary professor at the University of Bramberg.
A Scientific Perspective on Evaluation of Transporters in Drug Development
source: Stanford 2015年10月26日
Dr. Lei Zhang, Senior Advisor for Regulatory Programs and Policy in the Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Office of Translational Sciences, CDER, FDA, discusses scientific issues for evaluating drug transporters.
John Kay: "Other People's Money" | Talks at Google
source: Talks at Google 2015年10月27日
John Kay: Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
Recorded in London, October 2015
About the book:
We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business. But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector's activity: the vast majority of lending is within the finance sector. So what is it all for? What is the purpose of this activity? And why is it so profitable?
Industry insider John Kay argues that the finance world's perceived profitability is not the creation of new wealth, but the sector's appropriation of wealth - of other people's money. The financial sector, he shows, has grown too large, detached itself from ordinary business and everyday life, and has become an industry that mostly trades with itself, talks to itself, and judges itself by reference to standards which it has itself generated. And the outside world has itself adopted those standards, bailing out financial institutions that have failed all of us through greed and mismanagement.
We need finance, but today we have far too much of a good thing. In Other People's Money, John Kay shows, in his inimitable style, what has gone wrong in the dark heart of the finance sector.
John Kay is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is a director of several public companies and contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. He chaired the UK government review of Equity Markets which reported in 2012 recommending substantial reforms. He is the author of many books, including The Truth about Markets (2003) and The Long and the Short of It (2009) and Obliquity (2010), published by Profile Books.
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Everybody's Talking about Equity, But Nobody Knows the Meaning of the Word
source: HarvardEducation 2015年10月30日
Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Remarks: Robert Peterkin, Professor of Practice, Emeritus, HGSE
Introduction: Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Ed.M.’92, Ed.D.’95, Professor of Practice, HGSE
Panelists:
• Jennifer Cheatham, Ed.M.’06, Ed.D.’10, Superintendent, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI
• Joseph Davis, Ed.M.’00, Ed.D.’08, Superintendent, Ferguson-Florrisant School District, MO
• Stephen Zrike, Jr., Ed.M.’03, Ed.D.’10, Receiver of the Holyoke Public Schools, MA
The equity mission of urban school districts — to provide an excellent education to all students — is more difficult than ever to achieve. This Askwith Forum examines the social responsibility superintendents bear in leading their districts in educating underserved students. How can these leaders move their districts beyond providing “equity of access” to achieve “equity of outcomes” with students’ more advantaged peers? Our panel of urban superintendents shares their unique perspectives on this work with Charles Ogletree, and Robert Peterkin closes the evening by examining the implications for future leadership practice.
This forum is being held in conjunction with the Urban Superintendents Program convening in celebration of the USP program, which began 25 years ago.
Part of HGSE's Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity community conversation.
Robert Putnam on Inequality and Opportunity
source: The RSA 2015年10月30日
Robert Putnam explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality, and asks: what can be done to address the widening ‘opportunity gap’. Watch the full replay:https://youtu.be/7lF4CN3_bVc
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In this excerpt from the event 'Closing the Opportunity Gap', distinguished political scientist, Professor Robert Putnam shares the key insights from this work, explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality, and considers what practically can be done to address the widening ‘opportunity gap’.
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