lectures/ideas: June 2016

2016-06-30

How playing sports benefits your body ... and your brain - Leah Lagos an...

source: TED-Ed 2016年6月28日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-playing...
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The victory of the underdog. The last minute penalty shot that wins the tournament. The training montage. Many people love to glorify victory on the field, cheer for teams, and play sports. But should we be obsessed with sports? Are sports as good for us as we make them out to be, or are they just a fun and entertaining pastime? Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh show what science has to say on the matter.
Lesson by Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.

The Film Experience (Fall 2013) by David Thorburn at MIT

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source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2016年3月16日
MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F13
This complete set of lecture videos provides a close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema.
More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms
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1. Introduction (2007) 51:20
2. Keaton (2007) 57:28
3. Chaplin, Part I (2007) 52:10
4. Chaplin, Part II (2007) 1:02:20
5. Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène 48:02
6. German Film, Murnau 48:34
7. The Studio Era 55:37
8. The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks 56:17
9. Alfred Hitchcock 49:14
10. Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window 54:14
11. The Musical 45:36
12. The Musical (continued) 58:42
13. The Western 44:04
14. The Western (continued) 59:38
15. American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007) 52:22
16. American Film in the 1970s, Part II (2007) 55:34
17. Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism 47:01
18. Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937) 53:52
19. Italian Neorealism, Part I (2007) 54:09
20. Italian Neorealism, Part II (2007) 50:50
21. Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows 56:25
22. Kurosawa and Rashomon 58:46
23. Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact 42:56
Meet the Educator 9:03
Why Study Film? 3:42
Approach to Lecturing 12:40
The Film Experience: A Course in Transition 9:45
The Video Lecture Conundrum 5:52
Beyond Film: Television & Literature 4:35
Thematic Spines of the Course 11:36

Askwith Forum – With This Ring: Winning Marriage Equality

source: HarvardEducation 2016年4月13日
Speakers:
• Julie Goodridge, Ed.M.’83, Founder and CEO, NorthStar Asset Management; lead plaintiff in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, winning marriage rights for same sex couples in Massachusetts
• Timothy McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard College; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
• Marc Solomon, Principal and National Director, Civitas Public Affairs; former National Campaign Director, Freedom to Marry; author, Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
Moderator: Matthew Miller, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.’06, Lecturer on Education and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, HGSE
Public opinion on marriage equality shifted more dramatically than nearly any other civil rights debate in history. What made the movement successful? What lessons can we learn from the marriage equality movement? What's next for LGBTQ equality, now that marriage is the law of the land? What role should educators play in advancing equality? How can teachers and school leaders create safe and welcoming spaces for LGBTQ families?
This forum is being held in conjunction with the Out Front! LGBTQ Leaders to Learn From speakers series, and is part of HGSE's Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity community conversation.

Empathic Media: The Case of Gaming

source: Stanford 2016年6月13日
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Andrew McStay, a Reader in Advertising and Digital Media, Bangor University examines how gaming is a leading example of empathic media because it was first within the media industry to market rich consumer-level biometric entertainment; but also because it offers a clear sense of the value exchange implicit in consumer-level empathic media (data for services).

Friedrich Nietzsche: Will to Power (Part II: Lectures 200-323) by Jason J. Campbell

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source: drjasonjcampbell 2011年9月18日/上次更新：2014年5月1日
http://jasonjcampbell.org/uploads/Nie...

微分方程 (2014)--李榮耀 / 交大

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source: nctuocw 2015年3月22日/上次更新：2016年3月24日
本課程是由交通大學應用數學系提供。
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Mathematical models as differential Equations – qualitative and quantative analysis.
First order differential equations.
Second order linear differential equations.
Higher order linear differential equations.
Second order nonlinear differential equations – pendulum motion.

Lec01 第一週課程 (1/3) 課程介紹 18:53
Lec02 第一週課程 (2/3) Introduction of ODE 25:50
Lec03 第一週課程 (3/3) Big Picture for ODE 1:19:00
Lec04 第二週課程 (1/2) 1st order linear system 56:35
Lec05 第二週課程 (2/2) 1st order linear system: 量的分析 1:32:30
Lec06 第三週課程 (1/2) 2nd order linear equation with constant coefficeints 32:11
Lec07 第三週課程 (2/2) Practical Problem 1:34:00
Lec08 第四週課程 (1/2) Two more “derivation” of math models from:--Predator-Prey problem--Deposit and Withdraw problem 39:21
Lec09 第四週課程 (2/2) 1.2 ODE Big Picture 1:36:47
Lec10 第五週課程 1.2 Mixed Problem 1.3 Slope Field 52:39
Lec11 第六週課程 (1/2) 1.3 Slope Field1.4 Numerical Technique 57:23
Lec12 第六週課程 (2/2) 1.5 IVP解: 存在性與唯一性1.6 質分析, phase line(for autonomous system) 1:32:38
Lec13 第七週課程 (1/2) 1.7 Bifurcation and one supplement for 1.6(real problem) 50:20
Lec14 第七週課程 (2/2) Complete Chapter 1 1:44:33
Lec15 第八週課程 (1/2) Chapter 2: 1st order system and 2nd order equation 59:10
Lec16 第八週課程 (2/2) 2.2 Geometry of the system(by vector field)2.3 Damped harmonic oscillator 1:45:14
Lec17 第九週課程 (1/2) 2.4 Special systems(solutions can be solved explicitly)2.5 Euler’s method for 1st order system 58:40
Lec18 第九週課程 (2/2) 2.6 存在與唯一性(for 1st order system)2.7 (假的) 3D-system (流行病傳染問題)2.8 (真的) 3D-system (氣象預報簡化系統: Lorenz equation) 1:42:02
Lec19 第十週課程 3.1 線性理論 57:58
Lec20 第十一週課程 (1/2) 3.2 Straight-Line Solutions3.3 Phase Portraits for Linear Systems with Real Eigenvalues 54:06
Lec21 第十一週課程 (2/2) 3.2 Straight-Line Solutions3.3 Phase Portraits for Linear Systems with Real Eigenvalues 3.4 complex valued eigenvalues 1:32:12
Lec22 第十二週課程 3.5 Special cases of Linear systems 56:28
Lec23 第十三週課程 (1/2) To complete 3.5 59:16
Lec24 第十三週課程 (2/2) 3.5 to complete 3.6 2nd order linear system and 2D linear system 1:38:54
Lec25 第十四週課程 To complete 3.6 55:19
Lec26 第十五週課程 (1/2) 3.7 Trace – Determinant Plane 1:00:43
Lec27 第十五週課程 (2/2) To complete chapter 33.7 Part II: T-D plane 3.8 3D linear system 1:52:43
Lec28 第十六週課程 (1/2) Non-linear 2nd order ode:--Pendulum motion--Pendulum motion and spring motion--Differences of phase portraits between linear and Nonlinear 2nd order equations 59:57
Lec29 第十六週課程 (2/2) Continue nonlinear 2nd order ode 1:38:32
Lec30 第十七週課程 Special case for solving problems 42:34

Roger Kornberg, “Unexpected Role of Chromatin in Transcription”

source: Yale University 2016年4月18日
Presentation by Dr. Roger Kornberg at the Sidney Altman Symposium held on March 24, 2016 at the Greenberg Center, Yale University.

[臺大探索第15期] 秩序與複雜的華爾滋

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source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年4月6日

探索15-1講座：從天體力學到混沌理論的形成/陳國璋教授 2:22:50
探索15-2講座：簡單的開始，卻通往複雜？！/班榮超教授 2:17:58
探索15-3講座：勞倫茲，蝴蝶，以及他們共同掀起的混沌風暴 / 陳義裕教授 2:29:22
探索15-4講座：花豹的斑紋與數學不得不說的故事/廖思善教授 2:26:23
探索15-5講座：同步現象的歷史、數學和應用/莊重教授 2:15:56
探索15-6講座：微粒電漿: 複雜中的律動 / 伊林教授 2:16:39
探索15-7講座：心臟和大腦中的有序和渾沌 / 陳志強研究員 2:09:46
探索15-8講座：混沌的年代，混沌的經濟 / 陳啟明教授 2:38:23

探索15-8講座：混沌的年代，混沌的經濟 / 陳啟明教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年6月16日
說明在1987年的股票市場大崩潰之後，混沌經濟學便逐漸成為眾人注目的焦點。特別是在進入21世紀後，高頻率的股票市場暴漲暴跌現象，早已脫離常態分佈應有的表現。在這個非常態已逐漸成為常態的時代，黑天鵝成群飛來，混沌經濟學能否解釋並預測經濟市場上的變化?混沌經濟學是否能與大數據分析結合來幫助我們度過這個混沌的年代?

本講座將從物理學與經濟學的發展與研究演進的比較開始，逐步介紹混沌經濟學的起源與研究方法。混沌經濟學，也稱為非線性經濟學，開始於20世紀80年代
，應用非線性混沌理論來解釋現實經濟現象，並考慮經濟活動的非線性相互作用，充分利用非線性動力學的分叉、分形和混沌等理論，分析經濟系統的動態行為，以期產生新的經濟概念、新的經濟分析方法，得到新的經濟規律的一門新興跨領域科學。
【本期開始提供講座同步線上LIVE直播，請見活動官網 http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/chaos】
演講時間：2016/6/4 14：00
演講地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳
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Shaolan Hsueh: "Chineasy" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年6月2日
We were joined in London by Shaolan Hsueh who shared the journey behind Chineasy, and taught us some Chinese characters along the way. Shaolan can be found on Twitter at @ShaoLan_Hsueh
Recorded in London, March 2016

About the book:
Learning Chinese is hard, and ShaoLan made it her mission to simplify it as much as possible. Her system, Chineasy, associates the complex Chinese characters with easy to understand beautiful illustrations of their meaning. She published her first book in 2014 and now she is back with a second, richly illustrated book Chineasy Everyday.
The book on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Alice Medrich: "Flavor Flours" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月13日
Chef Alice Medrich demos a recipe at KitchenSync. Using flours such as rice, oat, corn, buckwheat, chestnut, teff, sorghum, and coconut as hero ingredients and sources of flavor and texture—not just as mere substitutes for wheat flour—Flavor Flours breaks tradition with classic and contemporary gluten-free baking.
Winner, James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book of the Year in Baking & Desserts

In this monumental new work, beloved dessert queen Alice Medrich applies her baking precision and impeccable palate to flavor flours—wheat-flour alternatives including rice flour, oat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, teff, and more. The resulting (gluten-free!) recipes show that baking with alternate flours adds an extra dimension of flavor. Brownies made with rice flour taste even more chocolaty. Buckwheat adds complexity to a date and nut cake. Ricotta cheesecake gets bonus flavor from a chestnut flour crust; teff is used to make a chocolate layer cake that can replace any birthday cake with equally pleasing results. All of the nearly 125 recipes—including Double Oatmeal Cookies, Buckwheat Gingerbread, Chocolate Chestnut Soufflé Cake, and Blueberry Corn Flour Cobbler—take the flavors of our favorite desserts to the next level.

The book is organized by flour, with useful information on its taste, flavor affinities, and more. And because flavor flours don’t react in recipes the same way as wheat flour, Medrich explains her innovative new techniques with the clarity and detail she is known for.

2016-06-29

How the choices you make can affect your genes - Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna

source: TED-Ed 2016年6月27日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-cho...
Here’s a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA ... so how can they turn out so different — even in traits that have a significant genetic component? Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna explains that while nature versus nurture has a lot to do with it, a deeper, related answer can be found within something called epigenetics.
Lesson by Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, animation by Chris Bishop.

Ellen Brown on Why We Should Own the Banks

source: The RSA 2016年4月10日
Banks create money – nearly all of it. Should we recapture the sovereign power to create money by reclaiming ownership of the banks? Founder and President of the Public Banking Institute Ellen Brown argues that we need to own the banks – or at least some of them – in order to ensure the safety of our deposits, public and private; to reclaim the profits for the public interest; to reclaim control over where our credit goes and on what terms; and to cut the costs of government.
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Missed our last edit with Michael Levine on Children’s Reading? Watch it here:https://youtu.be/EbbcTX3uCmM

Friedrich Nietzsche: Will to Power (Part I: Lectures 1-199) by Jason J. Campbell

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source: drjasonjcampbell 2011年5月12日/上次更新：2014年5月25日
http://www.jasonjcampbell.org/uploads...

日本當代建築--曾光宗 / 交大

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source: nctuocw 2016年5月17日
本課程是由交通大學建築研究所提供
課程資訊：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
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從近代日本建築的起源來看，於明治時期引入西歐的建築教育體系，並學習西洋建築的當時，日本建築師可說是從模仿西洋建築開始的。之後的建築發展，雖然與西洋建築有著緊密的互動關係，但是由於日本擁有著不同於西方的地域特性、歷史、文化、及社會變化條件等，讓日本建築逐漸呈現出有別於西方的建築樣貌。

期間雖然於每個年代都有著不同的表現，但是在建築上體現“外顯的”或“內省的”「日本特質」，皆會不斷地重複出現在日本建築師的作品之中，進而逐漸累積並形成出在亞洲的一條獨特的建築發展脈絡。

戰前經過模仿，進而於戰後創造出具有濃郁自我性格的日本當代建築，是理解此一脈絡，並關注日本建築師及其作品的重要探討對象。同時近幾年來，日本建築在國際上的精彩表現，其背後更顯現出建築師已跳脫出建築的範疇，探尋著固有文化的優異性，以及對於日本的國家意象之深層思考的志向與企圖心。

本課程以系列主題講授的方式，嘗試以多面向地解讀日本當代建築，並尋求在理解整體歷史、文化、社會的架構下，論述此日本當代建築發展的歷程與特性。

Lec 01 課程介紹 18:04
Lec 02文明開化的想望：日本與西洋建築相遇 2:38:10
Lec 03 日本現代建築的萌芽 2:28:17
Lec 04 現代主義「濾鏡」下的傳統理解：建築中的「日本特質」 2:21:42
Lec 05 國家成長中的「建築事件」與「建築師」 2:07:21
Lec 06 日本建築師的系譜與學派 1:05:00
Lec 07 追求國家自明性的建築師－丹下健三 1:19:46
Lec 08 強調理性與抽象的「白派」建築師 2:32:51
Lec 09 崇尚土地與情感的「紅派」建築師 2:17:43

Lec 10 惡戰苦鬥的建築師－安藤忠雄 2:27:08
Lec 11 東京的歷史、都市與建築 2:32:20
Lec 12 「2020東京奧運」及東京的再生與都市躍進 1:27:33
Lec 13 關西建築的浪漫與傳說 1:12:43
Lec 14 日本建築師公會的挑戰與志向 2:02:57
Lec 15 「開東合西」：1985年台日建築師聯展之後 1:04:14

Harry Kazianis “'Shamefare': A New United States Strategy For the South China Sea”

source: Yale University 2016年5月13日
Harry Kazianis, Fellow for National Security Policy at the Potomac Foundation. Presented at Conflict in the South China Sea, May 6-7, 2016.
An international conference at Yale exploring the history of the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, featuring speakers from universities and research institutions in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, the Philippines, and across the United States. The two-day event was hosted by Yale’s Council on Southeast Asian Studies http://cseas.yale.edu/, with additional support from the Council on East Asian Studies http://ceas.yale.edu/, and the Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education http://www.ivce.org/. For the full list of speakers, please visit:http://cseas.yale.edu/sites/default/f... To view all the videos from this conference, follow this link:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Summer Science Exhibition 2016: Self made shape

source: The Royal Society 2016年6月9日
The genetic battlefields in plants that program their shape.
How do small groups of plant cells in microscopic buds turn themselves into the diverse flower and leaf shapes that we see all around us? Our exhibit shows how the latest technologies are helping us reveal the fascinating internal conflicts that create an endless array of plant shapes.
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages.
https://royalsociety.org/events/summe...

探索15-7講座：心臟和大腦中的有序和渾沌 / 陳志強研究員

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年6月2日
說明心臟和大腦是我們身體中最重要的兩個器官。有趣的是，這兩個器官在工作時其物理性質和它們的生物組成一樣重要。在物理上，兩者都為可激發系統，可以非線性方程來描述。和其他非缐性系統一樣，複雜的動力行為，有時有序，有時無序，甚至渾沌都可在這兩個器官中觀察到。非線性現象，如螺旋波，同步，倍週期和渾沌等都是在這兩個系統中見到。但是否所有有序行為都是好的而無序和渾沌都是無益的？在這演講中，我們將以大鼠的大腦和心臟實驗來說明，有序和渾沌都是需要的。臨床上，心臟在失去同步後將引起心律不整；而在大腦中，太多的同步也會帶來癲癇。我們相信，在體內機能的調控中，有序和無序要達到平衡才能有健康的身體。
【本期開始提供講座同步線上LIVE直播，請見活動官網http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/chaos】
演講時間：2016/5/28 14：00
演講地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳
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Tom Vanderbilt: "You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice" |...

source: Talks at Google 2016年6月2日
Best-selling author & journalist Tom Vanderbilt visited Google to discuss his latest book, "You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice." Among other topics, Tom discussed:
Why YouTube got rid of the five-star rating system
Why we can eat the same thing for breakfast every day, but crave novelty for dinner
Why a "blue shirt with khaki pants" is such a common men's look
Why winning an award makes a book's Amazon ratings go down
How you can tell if a review on Yelp or TripAdvisor is fake
Why Coldplay is the most divisive band, and Pink Floyd is most liked by Republicans
Why museums exhaust us

Tom is best-known for his bestseller "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do."
Discussion moderated by Sachit Egan.

Steve Case: "The Third Wave" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月13日
Steve Case discusses his book "The Third Wave." A pioneer who made the Internet a part of everyday life when he cofounded America Online (AOL), Steve shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. Steve explains how we’re at a major tipping point in the history of the economy: the Third Wave of the internet is quickly approaching and entrepreneurs will finally have the tools to transform the largest industries in the world and dramatically change the way we live our lives.
This talk was moderated by Mary Grove, Director of Google for Entrepreneurs.

2016-06-28

Cinzia Cirillo / 交大: Design of Empirical Studies and Traffic Safety Analysis 實證研究之設計與交通安全評估

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source: nctuocw 2015年10月12日
Design of Empirical Studies and Traffic Safety Analysis
本課程是由交通大學管理學院運輸與物流管理學系提供。
授課教師：美國馬里蘭大學Dr. Cinzia Cirillo教授應邀授課
為培養國內交控人才及研發本土化交通控制技術，以提升國內交通控制技術水準，辦理「交通控制人才培育講座計畫」，特邀請國際專業講座來臺講授交通控制系列課程，本課程由美國馬里蘭大學Dr. Cinzia Cirillo教授講授。
課程資訊：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
授權條款：Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
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Lec01 Behavioral Models Multinomial Logit: Power and limitations 2:35:46
Lec02 Nested Logit Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) Probit 2:27:00
Lec03 Mixed Logit 2:27:03
Lec04 Mixed Logit Simulated Assisted Estimation 2:16:57
Lec05 Integrated Discrete Continuous Choice Models 2:34:53
Lec06 Travel Surveys National Household Travel Survey 2:35:59
Lec07 Stated Preference Methods 2:28:03
Lec08 BIOGEME TUTORIAL 1:51:14

Creating Video Games, Fall 2014 at MIT

Is there a disease that makes us love cats? - Jaap de Roode

source: TED-Ed 2016年6月23日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-...
Today, about a third of the world’s population is infected with a strange disease called toxoplasmosis — and most of them never even know it. And while the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in the intestines of cats. Could this disease be the reason so many people love cats and keep them as pets? Jaap de Roode shares what we know about toxoplasmosis.
Lesson by Jaap de Roode, animation by Anton Bogaty.

Patrick McGinnis: "The 10% Entrepreneur" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年6月1日
The London team were pleased to welcome Patrick McGinnis to Google, to discuss his latest book "The 10% Entrepreneur" and the multiple paths you can follow to invest your cash, time, and expertise in areas you feel passionate about.
Recorded in London, May 2016
Patrick is on Twitter at @pjmcginnis

About the book:
Choosing between the stability of a traditional career and the upside of entrepreneurship? Why not have both? What if there was a way to have the stability of a day job with the excitement of a startup? In The 10% Entrepreneur, Patrick McGinnis shows you how, by investing just 10% of your time and resources, you can become an entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck. McGinnis details a step-by-step plan that takes you from identifying your first entrepreneurial project to figuring out the smartest way to commit resources to it. A successful 10% Entrepreneur himself, McGinnis explains the multiple paths you can follow to invest your cash, time, and expertise in a start-up including as a founder, angel, adviser, or aficionado. When you put McGinnis s 10% principles into action, you’ll quickly start racking up small wins, then watch as they snowball into your new (and far more entrepreneurial) life.

About the author:
Patrick J. McGinnis is a venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded Dirigo Advisors, after a decade on Wall Street, to provide strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs and fast growing businesses. He is also a 10% entrepreneur, investing in, advising and launching a diverse portfolio of companies and investments in the United States, Latin America and Asia. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he writes for Business Insider, the Huffington Post, Boston Magazine and Forbes. He lives in New York City.
Find the book on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Immortality and Personal Consciousness? (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth 2016年5月31日

 Nicholas Humphrey - Immortality and Personal Consciousness? 7:03
Paul Fiddes - Immortality and Personal Consciousness? 9:12
Deepak Chopra - Immortality and Personal Consciousness? 7:13

Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev: The Current State of Ukraine’s Government

source: Yale University 2016年4月27日
Yuriy Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He is here at Yale as a visiting fellow in the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center.
Episode April 20, 2016

Summer Science Exhibition 2016: Breaking the greenhouse - storing sky as stone

source: The Royal Society 2016年6月9日
Can Martian rocks help us combat climate change?
Ninety seven percent of scientists agree that our planet is warming, with negative social, ecological and financial effects. Our exhibit reveals how one solution to our Earthbound global warming problems may lie underground on Mars, where we believe carbon dioxide from the planet’s ancient atmosphere is now stored as rock.
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages.
https://royalsociety.org/events/summe...

Todd Rose: "The End of Average" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月31日
Are you above average? Is your child an A (or D) student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we resemble it or how far we deviate from it.
The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like developmental milestones, GPAs, personality assessments, standardized test results, and performance review rankings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it. That assumption, says Harvard’s Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.

In The End of Average, Rose draws on insights from the new science of the individual to show that no one is average. Not you. Not your kids. Not your employees. This isn’t hollow sloganeering—it’s a mathematical fact with enormous practical consequences.
But while we know people learn and develop in distinctive ways, these unique patterns of behaviors are lost in our schools and businesses which have been designed around the mythical “average person.” This average-size-fits-all model ignores our differences and fails at recognizing talent. It’s time to change it.
Rose offers an alternative—the three principles of individuality—and reveals how to take full advantage of them to gain an edge in school, in our careers, and in life.
Debbie Newhouse moderated this Talk at Google.
About Dr. Todd Rose:
Todd Rose is the director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he leads the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. The Lab's flagship project is the Individual Mastery Project, also at the Harvard School of Education, a long-term study investigating the development of individual excellence and expertise. He is also the co-founder of The Center for Individual Opportunity, a non-profit organization that promotes the principles of individuality in work, school, and society.

探索15-6講座：微粒電漿: 複雜中的律動 / 伊林教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年6月3日
演講所使用之影片版權為講者所有，請勿說明電漿是一個由大量帶正電離子與帶負電電子的複雜集合體，粒子高速運動看似混亂，但又透過其間的交互作用，可以展現不同尺度的律動。如果將電漿中置入大量微米尺度微粒，每一微粒可負載近萬電子，產生更強大交互作用，可透過降低系統背景溫度，將懸浮微粒排列成整齊晶格或融化成液態。本演講中，將以此系統為平台，介紹透過光學顯微觀測追蹤微粒軌跡，了解液體微結構與動力行為，並非如直覺般混亂無序，可在隨機熱擾動與交互作用力的競爭下，產生豐富多重尺度律動；並進一步了解擴散、粘滯、超冷液體、晶化諸現象的微觀動力起源。
【本期開始提供講座同步線上LIVE直播，請見活動官網 http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/chaos】
演講時間：2016/5/21 14：00
演講地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳作其他用途。

Einstein's Theory of Relativity Can't Explain Nonlocality

source: Big Think 2016年6月4日
Musser's book is "Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything" (http://goo.gl/iUwrnU).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/george-mus...

Transcript - So spooky action at a distance was Einstein’s kind of appellation for the idea of nonlocality. Non-locality is the technical term for it. So the example I often give is two coins. So you can treat some of these particles as having two possible outcomes of a measurement. And you can think about it as heads or tails of a coin. So you create two of them. You give one to your friend. Your friend goes off somewhere and you keep the other. And you both flip the coin and you come up with heads, they come up with heads. You come up with tails, they come up with tails. Heads, tails. It just goes back and forth. And yet they’re the same answer on both sides.

So this non-local connection among these particles or whatever kind of object is bearing that connection seems to violate our intuition from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. So that theory among other things said that influences in nature are limited by the speed of light. So you can’t have any kind of subspace radio or answerable like they have in science fiction. There has to be a limit to the speed at which influences the signals can propagate. So these particles which can exist on the opposite sides of the universe seem to disobey that principle. But the situation’s kind of subtle and the reason it’s subtle is that the particles are unable to send an ordinary communication. You can’t use them to radio signal or have some kind of telemetry or remote control across that gap. And the reason is quite simple. The reasons are the outcomes of those particle experiments or the flips of the coin are random. So they just come up heads or tails and heads or tails and you can’t decide is it heads or is it tails. So you’ve got no way to manipulate the coin and thereby produce an outcome at the distant location. So you can’t communicate. You can’t send a signal. So on the one hand the phenomena seems to violate relativity theory. But on the other hand it kind of pulls back from the precipice. It doesn’t actually violate it in a practical sense. You can’t send a signal faster than light.

It still however poses kind of a theoretical conundrum. Why are these particles able to coordinate their behavior even though they’re so far apart. So there’s a tension with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity not perhaps an outright observed contradiction of the theory.

The question of why these particles can coordinate, why these coins can land on the same side no matter where they might be is really it could be very perplexing. And Einstein was troubled by it. He thought the particles for instance were basically had a mechanism in them or some kind of like gimmick built into them like a magician would have kind of a trick coin. And he thought the particles were also like trick coins that they were preprogrammed to land on one side or the other. But in the 60s and 70s that particular explanation was ruled out. So the other possibility is that there might be some kind of signal going between them. But that seems to be ruled out because you couldn’t do the experiment kind of in synchrony. You can do it at the same time and yet the coins can still act in a coordinated way. So you’re kind of left with like what’s going on. It’s just a mystery here. There’s almost like a magical magic wand or Obi-Wan sensing the disruption of all Alderaan kind of situation going on here. It’s kind of a magical situation. So the thinking today is that it represents a violation, a kind of undermining of space, the very fabric of space.

That things in the universe seem to be located far apart from one another. They have individual locations and they need to interact by mechanisms that propagate within space. And these particles violate that expectation so it seems to indicate that space itself is somehow not fundamental. It’s not a real or deep feature of reality.

2016-06-27

基礎工程 (Fall 2015)--黃安斌 / 交大

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source: nctuocw 2016年2月23日/上次更新：2016年3月7日
An introduction for undergraduate civil engineering students to the fundamental concepts and application of foundation engineering.
本課程是由交通大學土木工程學系提供。
授課教師：土木工程學系黃安斌老師

課程資訊：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
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Lec01 基礎工程課程介紹
Lec02 Ch 2 Natural soil deposit and subsoil exploration (1/3) 1:29:32
Lec03 Ch 2 Natural soil deposit and subsoil exploration (2/3) 42:05
Lec04 Ch 2 Natural soil deposit and subsoil exploration (3/3) 1:10:42
Lec05 Ch 3 Shallow foundations ultimate bearing capacity (1/3) 1:32:36
Lec06 Ch 3 Shallow foundations ultimate bearing capacity (2/3) 47:31
Lec07 Ch 3 Shallow foundations ultimate bearing capacity (3/3) 15:28
Lec08 Ch 5 Shallow foundations: allowable bearing capacity and settlement (1/3) 1:01:50
Lec09 Ch 5 Shallow foundations: allowable bearing capacity and settlement (2/3) 42:07
Lec10 Ch 5 Shallow foundations: allowable bearing capacity and settlement (3/3) 43:05
Lec11 Ch 6 Mat Foundations 1:00:36
Lec12 Ch 7 Lateral Earth Pressure (1/4) 33:02
Lec13 Ch 7 Lateral Earth Pressure (2/4) 1:17:25
Lec14 Ch 7 Lateral Earth Pressure (3/4) 37:37
Lec15 Ch 7 Lateral Earth Pressure (4/4) 1:07:21
Lec16 Ch 8 Retaining Walls (1/2) 45:10
Lec17 Ch 8 Retaining Walls (2/2) 59:30
Lec18 Ch 9 Sheet Pile Walls (1/3) 37:29
Lec19 Ch 9 Sheet Pile Walls (2/3) 1:07:49
Lec20 Ch 9 Sheet Pile Walls (3/3) 1:11:56
Lec21 Ch 10 Braced Cuts (1/3) 46:56
Lec22 Ch 10 Braced Cuts (2/3) 36:55
Lec23 Ch 10 Braced Cuts (3/3) 1:25:20
Lec24 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (1/6) 42:53
Lec25 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (2/6) 40:35
Lec26 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (3/6) 1:18:24
Lec27 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (4/6) 40:42
Lec28 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (5/6) 1:20:00
Lec29 Ch 11 Pile Foundations (6/6) 56:39

String Theory and Holographic Duality (Fall 2014) by Hong Liu at MIT

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source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2016年3月2日/上次更新：2016年3月2日
MIT 8.821 String Theory and Holographic Duality, Fall 2014
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-821F14
Instructor: Hong Liu
This course covers the new field of Holographic Duality, which brings together many seemingly unconnected subjects including string theory/quantum gravity, black holes, QCD at extreme conditions, exotic condensed matter systems, and quantum information.
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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1. Emergence of Gravity 1:31:11
2. Classical Black Hole Geometry 1:18:22
3. Causal Structure of a Black Hole and Black Hole Temperature 1:22:04
4. Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature 1:28:44
5. Black Hole Thermodynamics 1:19:45
6. Holographic Principle 1:26:05
7. Structure of Large N Expansion 1:23:09
8. Large N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I 1:29:45
9. Large N Expansion as a String Theory, Part II 1:53:10
10. Basics of String Theory and Light-cone Gauge 1:42:25
11. String Theory in the Light-cone Gauge 1:22:18
12. String Spectrum and Graviton 1:44:57
13. Physics of D-branes, Part I 1:23:58
14. Physics of D-branes, Part II 1:52:27
15. Physics of D-branes, Part III 1:24:10
16. Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture 1:49:03
17. More on AdS / CFT Duality 1:48:07
18. General Aspects of the Duality 1:24:58
19. Mass-dimension Relation 1:52:06
20. Euclidean Correlation Functions: Two-point Functions 1:22:43
21. Euclidean Correlation Functions: Higher-point Functions 1:20:30
22. Computation of the Wilson Loop 1:50:49
23. Duality at a Finite Temperature and Finite Chemical Potential 1:25:55
24. Holographic Entanglement Entropy 1:56:32

"Cambridge Talks X | Bound and Unbound: The Sites of Utopia" PhD Colloquium

source: Harvard GSD 2016年4月26日
4/14/16
In the five hundred years since the publication of Thomas More’s Of A Republic’s Best State and of the New Island of Utopia (1516), the project of imagining an ideal society has emerged as simultaneously regenerative and devastating on multiple fronts: for the concept of the polity, for the composition of social fabrics, and, most relevant from the vantage of the design disciplines, for the formation of buildings, cities, and territories. This year’s Cambridge Talks, now in its tenth edition, aims to provide a spectrum of exemplary instances of utopia’s modern guise.

In the main conference panels, we bring together speakers to address the rivalry between those utopian endeavors that organize space mainly through social relations and production, and those whose expansive impulse searches out some form of technical mastery over spatial configuration. In other words, utopia can be understood as either embodied or totalizing, bound or unbound. By taking examples from the 19th and 20th centuries, the case studies presented here—from communes and plantations to infrastructural projects and global ecologies—exhibit various attempts to imagine social conditions alongside spatial ones. A concluding discussion will touch upon the philosophical and theoretical ramifications of utopia today.

April 14, 3 PM – 6 PM
PhD Colloquium
Respondents:
Ana Miljački, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sonja Dümpelmann, Harvard University
April 15, 9 AM – 5 PM
Panel 1: Embodied Utopia
Luis Casteñeda, Syracuse University
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Erika Naginski, Harvard University
Respondent: Catherine Ingraham, Pratt Institute
Panel 2: Total Utopia
Daniel Barber, University of Pennsylvania
Sara Pritchard, Cornell University
Abby Spinak, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
Respondent: John May, Harvard University
Keynote Lecture
Damian White, Rhode Island School of Design
Discussants: K. Michael Hays and Neil Brenner, Harvard University

Summer Science Exhibition 2016: CANBUILD - deconstructing cancer

source: The Royal Society 2016年6月9日
Meticulous models of cancer's life-support system.
In cancer, normal cells are recruited and corrupted to act as a life-giving microenvironment for the tumour. Our exhibit shows how we’ve deconstructed tumours, used the information to begin to re-build cancer in the lab, in ways that will allow us to test vital new treatments that target its life-support.
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages.
https://royalsociety.org/events/summe...

Preventing Gun Violence: Public Health Perspectives | The Forum at HSPH

source: Harvard University 2016年1月27日
This Forum event examined gun violence through a public health prism. Panelists talked about patterns of violence, including social forces such as the grinding violence, crime and poverty that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities. Panelists also discussed President Obama’s recent announcements about gun violence prevention, prompted by a series of mass shootings as well as ongoing urban violence. And they explored dynamics at state and Congressional levels that are impacting public safety measures now and moving forward.
Presented January 26, 2016 in Collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Harvard GSD 2016 Class Day Lecture (by Toshiko Mori)

source: Harvard GSD 2016年5月31日
05/25/2016: Harvard GSD 2016 Class Day Lecture by Toshiko Mori.

探索15-5講座：同步現象的歷史、數學和應用/莊重教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年6月3日
說明在自然界同步現象無所不在。如P細胞(pace maker cell)如何協調規律的心跳；如上億個電子走向鎖步（lockstep)使得超導現象發生。動植物中如螢火蟲同步發光；森林中的樹木同步開花結果，鳥羣的等速有隊形的同步飛行。甚至人們也發現有癲癎症腦中某區域的細胞羣有相位同步的現像；自閉症卻因某區域的細包羣無法同步。

這個演講將先談同步現象的歷史,我們從Huygens(1629-1695)觀察到擺鐘的反同步現象談到近代幾位同步現象的主要貢獻者。接著我們將談及這些人如何將這些問題數學和建模式化。這部分我們將少用複雜的方程式而盡量以直觀而文字呈現出來。
最後我們將談及同步現象的一些應用。其中我們會提及混沌同步的應用，這個應用是己可商業化，是由交通大學丘成桐中心工作團隊研發完成。
【本期開始提供講座同步線上LIVE直播，請見活動官網 http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/chaos】
演講時間：2016/5/14 14：00
演講地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳

David Sumpter: "Soccermatics" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年6月1日
David Sumpter joined us in London to talk shot statistics and the geometry of passing, using complex maths to reveal the inner workings of the beautiful game that is football*.
*Or soccer, depending on where you live.

About the book
Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How do we make sense of these? The answer lies in the mathematical models applied in biology, physics and economics. Soccermatics brings football and mathematics together in a mind-bending synthesis, using numbers to help reveal the inner workings of the beautiful game.
- How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically?
- What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style?
- What can defenders learn from lionesses?
- How much of a score line is pure randomness and how much is skill?
- How can probability theory make you money at the bookies?
Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football. No matter who you follow – be it Bristol City, Burton Albion, Barnet or Barrow, or one of the Premier League big boys – you’ll be amazed at what mathematics has to teach us about the world’s favourite sport.

About the author
David Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading to Sweden.
An incomplete list of the applied maths research projects on which David has worked include pigeons flying in pairs over Oxford; the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; fish swimming between coral in the Great Barrier Reef; and dancing honey bees from Sydney. In his spare time, he exploits his mathematical expertise in training a successful under-nines football team, Uppsala IF 2005. David is a Liverpool supporter with a lifelong affection for Dunfermline Athletic.
You can follow David on Twitter - @soccermatics
Find the book on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths: "Algorithms to Live By" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月12日
Practical, everyday advice which will easily provoke an interest in computer science.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, New York Times editors’ choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Paris Review, as well as in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science, and has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in San Francisco.

Tom Griffiths is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at UC Berkeley, where he directs the Computational Cognitive Science Lab. He has published more than 150 scientific papers on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to cultural evolution, and has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the American Psychological Association, and the Psychonomic Society, among others. He lives in Berkeley.
On behalf of Talks at Google this talk was hosted by Boris Debic.
eBook
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

2016-06-24

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, IAP 2015 at MIT