2016-03-28

Deirdre Barrett - Why Sleep?


source: Closer To Truth    2016年3月21日
Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? The physical benefits of sleep cannot be overstated, from fighting disease to ensuring brain health.
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'The Frankfurt School'-In Our Time BBC Radio 4


source: Gaelic Neoreactionary    2015年9月1日
Thu 14 Jan 2010
"Melvyn Bragg and guests Raymond Geuss, Esther Leslie and Jonathan Rée discuss the Frankfurt School.This group of influential left-wing German thinkers set out, in the wake of Germany's defeat in the First World War, to investigate why their country had not had a revolution, despite the apparently revolutionary conditions that spread through Germany in the wake of the 1918 Armistice. To find out why the German workers had not flocked to the Red Flag, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and others came together around an Institute set up at Frankfurt University and began to focus their critical attention not on the economy, but on culture, asking how it affected people's political outlook and activities. But then, with the rise of the Nazis, they found themselves fleeing to 1940s California. There, their disenchantment with American popular culture combined with their experiences of the turmoil of the interwar years to produce their distinctive, pessimistic worldview. With the defeat of Nazism, they returned to Germany to try to make sense of the route their native country had taken into darkness. In the 1960s, the Frankfurt School's argument - that most of culture helps to keep its audience compliant with capitalism - had an explosive impact. Arguably, it remains influential today.Raymond Geuss is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London; Jonathan Rée is a freelance historian and philosopher, currently Visiting Professor at Roehampton University and at the Royal College of Art."
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The conception of Geist (spirit), the dialectical method, concepts of being,


source: nptelhrd  2015年4月29日
Lecture 24 from Aspects of Western Philosophy by Dr. Sreekumar Nellickappilly, Department of  Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL, visit http://nptel.ac.in

GTAC 2015: The Uber Challenge of Cross-Application/Cross-Device Testing


source: GoogleTechTalks    2015年11月26日
http://g.co/gtac
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Apple Chow (Uber) and Bian Jiang (Uber)
Soon after joining Uber in March 2015, we encountered an Uber-unique challenge while investigating UI testing tools for our mobile applications. Many of our sanity tests require our rider application and driver application communicating/coordinating their actions with each other in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario. In this talk, we will present our platform agnostic solution, called Octopus, and discuss how it coordinates communication across different apps running on different devices. This solution can be adopted for any tests that require coordination/communication across different apps or devices (e.g. a multi-user game, multi-user messaging/communication app, etc.)

Jon Ronson: "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年2月18日
Journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson joined us in London to talk about his book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed".

About the book:
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.
A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.
Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.
More about Jon at his website jonronson.com
The book is on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Human Emotion with June Gruber at Yale University

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source: YaleCourses    Last updated on 2014年7月2日
What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry?
Although these questions date back to early philosophical texts, only recently have experimental psychologists begun to explore this vast and exciting domain of study. The course will begin by discussing the evolutionary origins of distinct emotions such as love, anger, fear, and disgust. We will ask how emotions might color our cognitive processes such as thinking and memory, the relationship between emotions and the brain, development of emotions in childhood, and how emotions shape our social relationships. We will also consider how these methods can be applied to studying mental illness in both children and adults. The course will conclude by studying the pursuit of happiness and well-being, trying to understand what makes us happy. Course website: http://www.yalepeplab.com/teaching/ps...

This course will introduce students to a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion. Some questions the course will address include: What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry? Although these questions date back to early philosophical texts, only recently have experimental psychologists begun to explore this vast and exciting domain of study.
The course will begin by discussing the evolutionary origins of distinct emotions such as love, anger, fear, and disgust. We will ask how emotions might color our cognitive processes such as thinking and memory, the relationship between emotions and the brain, development of emotions in childhood, and how emotions shape our social relationships. We will also consider how these methods can be applied to studying mental illness in both children and adults. We conclude by studying the pursuit of happiness and well-being, trying to understand what makes us happy.

This course is part of a broader educational mission to share the study of human emotion beyond the boundaries of the classroom in order to reach students and teachers alike, both locally and globally, through the use of technology. This mission is generously supported by, and in collaboration with, the Yale Office of Digital Dissemination and the Yale College Dean's Office. This series was recorded and produced by Douglas Forbush, Lucas Swineford, and the Yale Broadcasting and Media Center.

1.1: Course Overview by June Gruber  1:23
1.2: Introduction  13:02
1.3: What is an Emotion?  19:03
2.1: Emotion Elicitation I  21:40
2.2: Emotion Elicitation II  21:44
2.3: Emotion Measurement  24:49
3.1: Emotion in Animals  15:30
3.2: Monkeys and Emotion  27:39
3.3: Dogs, Rats, Elephants and Emotion?  16:06
4.1: Evolution and Emotion I (Introduction)  21:16
4.2: Evolution and Emotion II (Cultural Universality)  20:16
4.3: Evolution and Emotion III (Social Constructivism)  17:47
5.1: Culture and Emotion  36:11
5.2: Gender and Emotion  14:35
5.3: Love and Sex  24:57
6.1: Emotion Behavior I (Laughter)  21:33
6.2: Emotion Behavior II (Crying)  16:42
6.3: Emotion Behavior III (Touch)  18:06
7.1: Psychophysiology I (Introduction)  24:48
7.2: Psychophysiology II (Cardiovascular System)  30:46
7.3: Psychophysiology III (Specificity and Coherence)  17:51
8.1: Emotion and the Brain I (Affective Neuroscience)  18:58
8.2: Emotion and the Brain II (Pleasure and Intensity)  24:37
8.3: Emotion and the Brain III (Emotion Control and Specificity)  23:35
9.1: Self-Conscious Emotions (Introduction)  20:09
9.2: Pride and Embarrassment  25:58
9.3: Shame and Guilt  24:34
10.1: Emotions in the Social World (Introduction)  21:33
10.2: Emotions in a Social World II (Social Emotions)  23:08
10.3: Emotions in a Social World III (Emotions and Relationships)  36:13
11.1: Emotion and Morality (Introduction)  33:19
11.2: Emotion and Morality (The Good)  20:42
11.3: Emotion and Morality III (Psychopathy)  39:24
12.1: Emotion and Cognition I (Introduction)  25:38
12.2: Emotion and Cognition II (Emotional Intelligence)  28:08
12.3: Emotion & Cognition III (Unconscious Emotion)  24:00
13.1: Judgment & Decision Making I (Appraisal)  15:52
13.2: Judgment & Decision Making II (Neuroeconomics & Consumption)  22:25
13.3: Judgment & Decision Making III (Decision & Risk-Taking)  15:52
14.1: Emotion Regulation I (What is Emotion Regulation)  13:43
14.2: Emotion Regulation II (Evidence)  21:41
14.3: Emotion Regulation III (Relationships)  21:38
15.1: Emotion Development I (Infancy)  21:08
15.2: Emotion Development II (Adolescence)  17:25
15.3: Emotion Development III (Aging)  15:31
16.1: Physical Health I (Sleep)  20:33
16.2: Physical Health II (Stress)  17:53
16.3: Physical Health III (Hormones)  16:48
17.1: Emotional Disorders I (Fear and Anxiety)  33:07
17.2: Emotional Disorders II (Depression and Mania)  25:43
17.3: Emotional Disorders III (Psychosis & Personality Disorders)  23:45
18.1: Emotion & Health I (Resilience) 24:24
18.2: Emotions and Health II (Mindfulness)  20:45
18.3: Emotion and Health III (Psychotherapy)  26:20
19.1: Happiness I (What is Happiness)  30:39
19.2: Happiness II (Happiness and Morality)  20:42
19.3: Happiness III (Dark Side of Happiness)  15:22
20.1: Future of Emotion  30:53

Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Fall 2014) by Achilles Speliotopoulos at UCBerkeley

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source: UCBerkeley      Last updated on 2014年12月10日
Physics 7B, 001 - Fall 2014
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Gayatri Spivak: On Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research

Forum: Lezing Gayatri Spivak - 24-03-15 from Stedelijk Museum on Vimeo.
Gayatri Spivak, University Professor at Columbia University, lectures on Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research.
See more: stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/forum/lecture-gayatri-spivak