Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer

source: TED-Ed    2016年3月28日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-sol...
Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you forever. Can you solve the riddle he left for you and get the inheritance? Lisa Winer shows how.
Lesson by Lisa Winer, animation by Artrake Studio.

Rachel K. Ward. Roland Barthes and Fashion Photography. 2012

source: European Graduate School   2013年3月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Rachel K. Ward, talking about the dude, male, hipster, and modesty. In the lecture Rachel K. Ward discusses the concepts of silence, fantasy, fashion, photography, in relationship to Georg Simmel, Karl Lagerfeld, Roland Barthes, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, focusing on brands, isolation, spectacle, and signifiers. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2012 Rachel K Ward.

Rachel K. Ward, Ph.D., is a rising philosopher who specializes in the intersection of fashion and art. She is a Professor of fashion media at the European Graduate School (EGS) where she teaches an intensive summer seminar. The focus of her work is visual culture as meta-language, specifically how fashion images serve as a site for the negotiation of desire. For Ward, fashion photography functions as an intersection of aesthetic, ethical and social values. As a popular but equally creative and often progressive media it crosses thresholds of both journalism and art. The result is a unique form of media that works to advance ideal, mythical and capitalist desires.

Ward has a combination of academic and professional experience in the US and Europe. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "The Vanishing Point: Decadence, Desire, Truth", receiving the Magna Cum Laude distinction at EGS. Ward also holds an MA in Art History, receiving Cum Laude distinction at the University of Florida. Her graduate thesis on artist Edward Ruscha, entitled "Scenic Drive," was published by MAXXI in Rome. Ward also holds a BA in Psychology, with an Art History minor, from Stetson University, Florida. Ward supports her academic work with more than a decade of professional experience in international fashion and art. She has been featured for her creative work in Vogue (Paris), as well as in the New York Times, Artforum's "Best of" and others. Additionally, she has written journalism for the New York Times global edition, Haute Living, V Magazine and ArtReview. She has also consulted in fashion and art branding, photography and private collections.

Academy 2013 Hegel: the unnatural historian (by Frank Furedi)

source: battleofideas  2013年11月26日
At the Institute of Ideas Academy 2013, Professor Frank Furedi delivered a plenary lecture on Hegel. This is the video of that lecture and the Q&A session which followed, chaired by Angus Kennedy of the Institute of Ideas.

GTAC 2015: Robot Assisted Test Automation

source: GoogleTechTalks   2015年11月26日
http://g.co/gtac
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Hans Kuosmanen (OptoFidelity) and Natalia Leinonen (OptoFidelity)
OptoFidelity is a Finnish high-tech company with 10 years of experience in developing and delivering R&D test automation solutions. This talk will include our experiences and future outlook of non-intrusive test methods used in mobile device UI performance testing. Did you know that Chrome OS team uses a robot solution from OptoFidelity to measure end-to-end latency of Android and Chrome OS devices?

Secretary William Perry: "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年2月23日
Dr. Perry talks about nuclear weapons and disarmament issues.
"My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose.

In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it.

This book traces his journey from the Cuban Missile Crisis to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration, to offsetting the Soviets' numeric superiority in conventional forces to the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007 -- with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger -- of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons.

Perry was the 19th US Secretary of Defense from February 1994 to January 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–1994) and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–1981). He is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University.
Talk hosted by Boris Debic.

Health and Environmental Economic Policy (Fall 2014) - Michael Anderson at UCBerkeley

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source: UCBerkeley    Last updated on 2014年12月10日
Environmental Economics and Policy 145, 001 - Fall 2014
Health and Environmental Economic Policy - Michael Anderson
Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Is Theory Critical?

source: UCI Media Services     2015年8月4日
What is the environment for “critical theory” going forward? To what extent can or should such concepts as the Anthropocene, globalization, neocapitalism, or neoliberalism frame current and emerging modes of critical practice?
Moderator: David Theo Goldberg
Panelists: Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Sim, Geoffrey Bennington, Ackbar Abbas, Lilith Mahmud
Day 1 | Friday, May 22