lectures/ideas: 11/27/15

2015-11-27

How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn

source: TED-Ed 2015年11月24日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-clo...
The study of clouds has always been a daydreamer’s science, aptly founded by a thoughtful young man whose favorite activity was staring out of the window at the sky. Richard Hamblyn tells the history of Luke Howard, the man who classified the clouds and forever changed humanity’s understanding of these changeable, mysterious objects.
Lesson by Richard Hamblyn, animation by Nick Hilditch.

#LongLiveTheQueen: Missouri’s First Transgender Homecoming Queen

source: HarvardEducation 2015年11月18日
A Missouri teen, Landon Patterson, made history earlier this year as a Kansas City high school's first-ever transgender homecoming queen. Join us for the inaugural speaker series: Out Front! LGBTQ Leaders to Learn From. We will be joined by Landon, Landon's mother, along with her cheerleading coach. Listen to Landon tell her story, in her own words. Come hear Landon's inspiring story of courage. Q&A to follow. RSVP for this event. Sponsored by QueerEd @ HGSE, and the Office of Student Affairs.

CRISPR-Cas9: Safeguarding Gene Drives

source: Harvard University 2015年11月16日
In this animation, learn how effective safeguarding mechanisms developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School can be applied to ensure gene drive research is done responsibly in the laboratory. These safeguards enable responsible scientific investigation into how gene drives could one day be leveraged for the greater good of human health, agriculture, and the environment. For more information, please visit http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrele...

Patrik Schumacher. In defence of capitalism. 2015

source: European Graduate School 2015年11月17日
http://www.egs.edu/ Patrik Schumacher, Professor of Architecture presents "In defence of capitalism". A Public Open Lecture for the students and faculty of The European Graduate School / EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland, 2015.

Patrik Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics, and architecture in Bonn, London, and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in Architecture in 1990. In 1999, he completed his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. In 1996, he founded the "Design Research Laboratory" with Brett Steele at the Architectural Association in London and continues to teach in the program. Since 2000, Patrik Schumacher is also guest professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2013, he was appointed as the first John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. In 2010 and 2012, he published the two volumes of his theoretical opus magnum The Autopoiesis of Architecture. In 2002, Patrik Schumacher curated Latent Utopias - Experiments within Contemporary Architecture, and he is currently planning the exhibition Parametricism – The New International Style.

In his much debated article Parametricism - A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design (2009), Patrik Schumacher argued that the global convergence in recent avant-garde architecture justifies the enunciation of a new style: Parametricism. The style is rooted in digital design techniques and takes full advantage of the computational revolution that drives contemporary civilization. Its latest refinements are based on advanced parametric design systems and scripting techniques. This style is poised to succeed modernism as a new epochal style for the twenty-first century. It thus closes the transitional period of uncertainty that was engendered by the crisis of modernism and that was marked by a series of short lived episodes including Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, and Minimalism. Thus, Schumacher argues that Parametricism is architecture's answer to the momentous technological and socio-economic transformation of world society brought about by the information age.

In his treatise The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol.1: A New Framework for Architecture (2010), Patrik Schumacher analyses architecture's key distinctions, concepts, values, styles, methods, and media. The book thus presents a comprehensive discourse analysis of discipline. The central thesis of "The Autopoiesis of Architecture" is that the phenomenon of architecture can be most adequately grasped if it is analyzed as an autonomous network (autopoietic system) of communications. The communications of architecture comprise drawings, texts, and built works. The built works of architecture constitute a special set of reference points within the overall network of architectural communications and serve society as communicative frames for social interaction.

In the second volume of his opus magnum, The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol.2: A New Agenda for Architecture, Schumacher proposes a new agenda for contemporary architecture in response to the challenges and opportunities posed by current societal and technological developments. The Volume ends with a manifesto for the new style of Parametricism, promoted as candidate to become the unified, epochal style for the twenty-first century. To be credible, a unified style must be backed up and guided by a unified theoretical system that is able to integrate many partial theories: a theory of architecture's societal function, a theory of the discipline's self-demarcation, a theory of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, media theory, process theory, etc. The theory of architectural autopoiesis presents such an integrated theoretical system. It is nothing other than the rational reconstruction and systematization of a discursively evolving discipline made explicit as unified theory and opened up to criticism and constructive elaboration.

Ted Koppel: "Lights Out" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2015年11月16日
Presented by the News Lab in cooperation with Talks at Google:
Ted Koppel stopped by Google NYC to discuss his new book "Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath"
About the book:
Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Jeffrey Pfeffer: "Leadership BS" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2015年11月9日
Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer stops by the Googleplex for a conversation with Karen May, VP of People Development.
Too many leadership failures. Too many career derailments. Too many toxic workplaces filled with disengaged, distrustful employees. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the author of Power, offers an incisive dissection of the multibillion-dollar leadership industry and presents ways to fix its many problems.
In Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer pulls back the curtain, showing how leadership really works and why so many leadership development efforts fail. In this forthright and persuasive critique, Pfeffer argues that much of the oft-repeated wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science. In an age when transparency is considered a virtue, Pfeffer makes the case that strategic misrepresentation isn't as harmful as you think, that breached agreements are a part of business, that immodesty is frequently a path to success, and that relying on the magnanimity of your boss is a bad bet.
Using research findings from social psychology, sociology, and sociobiology, and filled with practical, actionable advice, Leadership BS encourages readers to finally stop accepting sugar-laced but toxic potions as cures and to understand the realities of organizations and human behavior.
To make real change, Pfeffer argues, we need to get beyond the half-truths and self-serving stories that are so prominent in the mythology of leadership. In calling BS on so much conventional wisdom, Leadership BS offers both a provocative, scientific examination of how leadership actually works—and how it doesn't—and a prescription for leaders future and present.

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2015-11-27

How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn

#LongLiveTheQueen: Missouri’s First Transgender Homecoming Queen

CRISPR-Cas9: Safeguarding Gene Drives

Patrik Schumacher. In defence of capitalism. 2015

Ted Koppel: "Lights Out" | Talks at Google

Jeffrey Pfeffer: "Leadership BS" | Talks at Google

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