lectures/ideas: 04/11/16

2016-04-11

陳義裕：星際效應─玄妙時空理論的絢麗展現 (2015 科學 Express 電影講座)

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心影音平台 2015年6月2日
講者：陳義裕/國立臺灣大學物理學系教授
講題：星際效應─玄妙時空理論的絢麗展現

「星際效應」特地聘請了國際知名物理學家索恩教授當執行製作人及科學顧問，以便保證片中所用到的科幻情節有紮實的物理根據。果然，此片公映後佳評如潮、票房捷傳，也實至名歸地獲得了本屆奧斯卡視覺特效的金像獎。但在片中扮演重要角色的各種玄奇物理概念，從黑洞、蟲洞到時光旅行……在在令人瞠目結舌，頗覺不可思議！想進一步了解此中的奧密嗎？在這場演講中，我們將以輕鬆的方式教你相對論的基本概念，然後把這些知識應用到片中提到的各種物理效應中，讓你帶著好奇心進來，裝滿科學新知回去。
時間：104年5月14日14時至16時30分。
地點：台灣大學竹北校區碧禎館2樓206室（新竹縣竹北市莊敬一路88號）

How To Count Past Infinity

source: Vsauce 2016年4月9日
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I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) head around it.
I’m also grateful to David Eisenbud, the Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, for his help and for connecting me with Hugh Woodin.
And of course, big thanks to Brady Haran who created the “mile of pi” seen in this video and connected me with all these mathematicians in the first place. His channel, Numberphile, is superb:https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
BOOKS related to these topics that I used:
“The Outer Limits of Reason” by Noson S. Panofsky: http://amzn.com/0262019353
“Infinity and The Mind” by Rudy Rucker: http://amzn.com/0691121273
“Roads to Infinity” by John C. Stilwell: http://amzn.com/1568814666
“More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy” by Eric Steinhart: http://amzn.com/1551119099
“Satan, Cantor and Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles” by Raymond M. Smullyan:http://amzn.com/0486470369
classic book that helps introduce concept of axioms: “Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics” by Raymond L. Wilder: http://amzn.com/0486488209
Hugh Woodin speaking about infinity at the World Science Festival: https://youtu.be/KDCJZ81PwVM?t=29m45s

Modern Philosophy: Jeremy Bentham by Gregory B. Sadler

"Radical Practice: Asserting Power and Agency"

source: Harvard GSD 2016年3月28日
On March 8, 2016, Women in Design, a Harvard Graduate School of Design student group, will celebrate its third-annual International Women’s Day. Dedicated to empowering women designers, we propose an open dialogue on what it means to be a creative woman developing, challenging, and innovating her craft in the 21st century. In exploring conventional and potential modes of practice, we aim to cultivate radical alternatives to the dominant roles and methods of our fields. As we reflect on strides the design fields have made toward achieving gender equity, we see International Women’s Day 2016 as a catalytic platform to investigate how radical practice can re-situate—and revolutionize—our work.

Women in Design continues to challenge how women, as well as other underrepresented groups in the design disciplines, can work for equity across representation, compensation, and valuation. To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we have invited pioneering women practitioners across the design disciplines to engage and share their backgrounds, experiences, and philosophies of radical practice—the what, how, and why (or why not). In this spirit, we invite you to join us in questioning and speculating how, both individually and collectively, we can radically transform the design field.

In honor of International Women's Day, architect Julia King, artist Diana al-Hadid, resilience officer Atyia Martin and public curator Susan Surface will convene to discuss their experience cultivating radical alternatives to the dominant roles and methods in design and reflecting on what it means to be a creative woman developing, challenging, and innovating her craft in the 21st century.

Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age

source: GoogleTechTalks 2016年3月5日
Google Tech Talk, 9/22/2015, Presented by Megan Prelinger
ABSTRACT: Cultural historian Megan Prelinger presents her book Inside the Machine, a visual history of the electronic age that captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future. A rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century, Inside the Machine journeys from the very origins of electronics, vacuum tubes, through the invention of cathode-ray tubes and transistors to the bold frontier of digital computing in the 1960s. But the history of electronics in the twentieth century is not only a history of scientific discoveries carried out in laboratories across America. It is also a story shaped by a generation of artists, designers, and creative thinkers who gave imaginative form to the most elusive matter of all: electrons and their revolutionary powers.
About Megan Prelinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_P...

Zach Weinersmith: "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年3月7日
Author and entrepreneur Zach Weinersmith joined us in London to talk about web comics, BAHFest! and his new children's book Augie and the Green Knight.
Recorded in London, January 2016
@ZachWeiner (https://twitter.com/ZachWeiner)
smbc-comics.com

Piaget on Piaget

source: Luis Lam 2013年5月1日
Full documentary about Jean PIaget's Genetic Epistemology. It shows some of the classic experiments about seriation, conservation of volume and drawings. Filmed in Switzerland, 1977.

Piaget's stages of cognitive development

source: khanacademymedicine 2013年12月20日
Learn about the stages and developmental milestones in Piaget's theory of cognitive development. By Carole Yue.
These videos do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. The videos are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or seen in any Khan Academy video.

Prof. Paul Guyer - Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason

source: 2012年1月27日

"Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason" by Professor Paul Guyer was presented
as part of the prestigious Edinburgh Philosophy lecture series, the
Nature of Knowledge Lectures.

Paul Mason: "PostCapitalism" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年3月3日
Paul Mason joined us in London to talk about his book PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future. Recorded in December 2015, London.

About the book (press release):
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system by which entire societies function, has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new.
At the heart of this change is information technology: a revolution that, as Mason shows, has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work, production and value; and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership - in fact, he contends, it is already doing so. Almost unnoticed, in the niches and hollows of the market system, whole swathes of economic life are changing.. Goods and services that no longer respond to the dictates of neoliberalism are appearing, from parallel currencies and time banks, to cooperatives and self-managed online spaces. Vast numbers of people are changing their behaviour, discovering new forms of ownership, lending and doing business that are distinct from, and contrary to, the current system of state-backed corporate capitalism.
In this groundbreaking book Mason shows how, from the ashes of the recent financial crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy. Moving beyond capitalism, he shows, is no longer a utopian dream. This is the first time in human history in which, equipped with an understanding of what is happening around us, we can predict and shape, rather than simply react to, seismic change.
More about the book on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

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