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source: TED-Ed 2016年4月4日
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The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t supposed to have an effect — and are often fake — miraculously make people feel better. What’s going on? Emma Bryce dives into the mystery of placebos’ bizarre benefits.
Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Globizco.
source: Closer To Truth 2016年4月1日
Cosmologists believe that multiple universes really exist; they call the whole vast collection, which might even be infinite in number, the 'multiverse'. But how are all these universes generated?
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source: Talks at Google 2016年3月3日
Rajiv Satyal is an Indian-American standup comedian. He hosts his own weekly show at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and has garnered 4 million+ YouTube views. In this Talk at Google he is speaking about the role of comedy in society.
Are comedians now society’s most trusted truth-tellers?
In olden times, the role of the court jester was to convey truths to the King without fear of retribution. Today, oh, how our Kings have fallen: the government, the media, the church, the business world - who operates with credibility anymore? Are comedians the last ones standing?
Comedian Rajiv Satyal, who has been hired by everybody from the US and Indian Governments to Fortune 500 companies to over 100 colleges, created an internet video entitled I AM INDIAN, which has been viewed over 50 million times, shared by Bollywood stars, and used to introduce the Indian Prime Minister around the world. Satyal posits that, ironically, it’s due to his skills as a standup comic that his message was taken so seriously.
Satyal breaks down the five elements of communication success, showing you why hiring a jester may be the cleverest move a King can make.
Rajiv Satyal is a Los Angeles-based comedian/host. He began his career in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. Rajiv had an unusual entry into standup, doing his act for then-World No. 1 tennis player Pete Sampras in a locker room. Satyal has some interesting claims to fame: he opened for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in front of 17,000 people. He made the massively viral I AM INDIAN video, which was shared by Bollywood stars and used to introduce the Indian Prime Minister in Shanghai and Dubai. He has opened for Russell Peters more than any other Indian comedian. Rajiv even hosted Dave Chappelle’s very first show after his much-publicized African hiatus.
Satyal performs weekly at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. He has garnered 50 million+ online views and been featured on NBC, NPR, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Bob & Tom, Times Now, Zee TV, Pandora, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, India Abroad, and the LA Times.
Rajiv has performed on three continents. He co-created the world-touring Make Chai Not War, a Hindu/Muslim stand-up show. The U.S. State Dept. sponsored it, sending it to seven cities in India. The show became part of the Congressional Record after being mentioned on Capitol Hill to Secretaries of State HIllary Clinton and John Kerry.
The University of Cincinnati engineer and former P&G marketer has done stand-up at more than 100 colleges. He named his alma mater’s online radio station “Bearcast,” launched/managed a Miss India America’s career, and has spoken to audiences from Fortune 500 companies to NFL players on innovation, diversity, and personal branding. His corporate clients include P&G (10 times), GE (7 times), General Mills, Quaker, Cisco and more. He runs a consulting business called the Standpoint Agency, which helps marketers generate insights for their brands.
Satyal has acted in national commercials and in TV shows. He has recorded 127 episodes of his podcast, The TanGent Show, and has interviewed everyone from Deepak Chopra to Seth Godin to Preity Zinta. Rajiv produces sketches, improvises, and writes TV ads.
Rajiv wrote No Man’s Land, a 100-minute one-person show about his dating life that sold out all six performances from LA to NY to San Francisco to Cincinnati. This show actually led to Satyal’s marriage, which itself had a comedic arc: Rajiv proposed to his girlfriend while opening for Kevin Nealon, and at his wedding, Russell Peters finally opened for him.
source: Nottingham Contemporary 2014年11月12日
Drawing on his forthcoming book project Foucault’s Last Decade, Stuart Elden Professor of Political Theory and Geography at University of Warwick and one of the founding editors of the journal Foucault Studies, will speak on the later writings of Michel Foucault.
With responses from Alex Vasudevan, Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at University of Nottingham and Sophie Fuggle Senior Lecturer in French at Nottingham Trent University.
Chaired by Colin Wright, Deputy Director of the Centre for Critical Theory University of Nottingham.
In collaboration with the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
source: sbcomm 2013年11月14日
Axel Honneth is the Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the Director of the Institute for Social Research and C4-Professor of Social Philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of numerous books, including The I in the We (Polity Press, 2013), The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory (Princeton University Press, 2010), and Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2007). In his lecture, Honneth will show that Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's concept of "ethical life" entails some immanent criteria that allow him to distinguish, within the horizon of a given form of life, between valid norms and merely accepted ones. Honneth will identify those general criteria that Hegel sets out as immanent givens of any justifiable form of ethical life, and then examine whether these provide clues for discerning a certain directionality of moral development within history.
source: Marek Jeziorek 2011年10月25日
A dialogue between Prof. Tu Weiming (杜维明 教授) and Prof. Homi Bhabha was held at 2010 Beijing Forum at Peking University on May 20th, 2010. The dialogue was moderated by Prof. Wu Zhipan (吴志攀 教授). Prof. Tu Weiming (杜维明 教授) is the Director of Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and a Lifetime Professor of Philosophy Peking University. He is also Research Professor and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University. Prof. Homi Bhabha is the Director of the Humanities Center and the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. The dialogue is held in English, while moderator communicates in both English and Chinese. Originally recorded in PAL.
source: Talks at Google 2016年2月24日
Biolite: Addressing One of the Biggest Killers in the Developing World
Nearly half the planet cooks with wood or cow dung on smoky, open fires. The smoke from these open fires prematurely kills four million people in the developing world each year — more than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined. BioLite, a NY-based startup, designs and manufactures the HomeStove, an ultra-clean, biomass cookstove that reduces smoke by 90%. Come hear BioLite’s lead Engineer, Ryan Gist, and Managing Director Ethan Kay discuss how they’ve designed this revolutionary product in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.
