Telling Stories?: family life and social science research (Ann Phoenix - 26 Nov 2015)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2015年12月1日
Speaker: Professor Ann Phoenix, Thomas Coram research unit, Dept of Social Sciences, UCL Institute of Education
While narrative methods are increasingly used in the social sciences, some remain sceptical about whether stories have more than a peripheral part to play. This talk draws on a large research programme – Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches (NOVELLA) – to argue in favour.

The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor

source: TED-Ed 2016年4月19日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-surpris...
It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It’s official: you’ve got the flu. It’s logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is the result of the infection coursing through your body — but is that really the case? Marco A. Sotomayor explains what’s actually making you feel sick.
Lesson by Marco A. Sotomayor, animation by Henrik Malmgren.

bell hooks - Are You Still a Slave? Liberating the Black Female Body | Eugene Lang College

source: The New School     2014年5月7日
The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) presents a conversation with bell hooks, scholar-in-residence at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (http://www.newschool.edu/lang) and other leading voices in black feminism and the LGBTQ community: author Marci Blackman (Tradition), film director Shola Lynch (Free Angela and All Political Prisoners), and author and activist Janet Mock (Redefining Realness), about liberating the black female body.

For more than three decades, bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins) has been recognized internationally as a scholar, poet, author, and radical thinker. The dozens of books and articles she has published span several genres, including cultural and political analyses and critiques, personal memoirs, poetry collections, and children's books. Her writings cover topics of gender, race, class, spirituality, teaching, and the significance of media in contemporary culture. According to Dr. hooks, these topics must be understood as interconnected in the production of systems of oppression and class domination.

The bell hooks residency at The New School is an opportunity for students to engage with education as a practice of freedom. They can participate in a series of intimate conversations and public dialogues on subjects ranging from politics to love, race to spirituality, gender to lived bodies.
More information for the bell hooks scholar-in-residence| http://www.newschool.edu/lang/bell-ho...
Location: The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Tuesday May 6, 2014 at 4 pm

Realism & Liberalism

source: Rhonda Callaway    2013年12月4日
Introduction to realism and liberalism

Sidewalk Labs: Reimagining the City as a Digital Platform

source: GoogleTechTalks   2016年3月22日
Google Tech Talk, 2/22/2016, Presented by Anand Babu and Craig Nevill-Manning
ABSTRACT: Since humans first settled in cities thousands of years ago, technology has repeatedly revolutionized the way we live. Just in the last 200 years, steam, electricity and the automobile have radically changed the daily lives of city residents. We are now poised for a revolution based on digital technology that can improve quality of life and make cities more human-focused, while using scarce resources more efficiently. Sidewalk Labs will discuss the opportunities and challenges that they are taking on as they start up right here in New York City.
Note: Some slides are blurred due to confidential material.

About the speakers:
Anand Babu
Anand is Chief Operating Officer for Sidewalk Labs. He previously led efforts in Google's Special Projects team focused on cities and transportation and led product incubation within Google’s Machine Intelligence team.
Anand is originally from Peoria, Illinois and earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MBA and M.S. in Engineering Management from Northwestern University / Kellogg School of Management. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City, where he’s nurturing his kids’ interests in garbage trucks, trains, and maps.

Craig Nevill-Manning
Craig is Chief Technology Officer of Sidewalk Labs, leading the engineering team – which focuses on developing new urban technologies – and working with portfolio companies to develop their engineering teams and technology. Before joining Sidewalk Labs, he founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in New York City. As a Director at Google New York, Craig worked on a broad array of impactful products.
A native of New Zealand, he earned a BSc in Computer Science from Canterbury University and a PhD in Computer Science from Waikato University. Passionate about great coffee, he co-founded Happy Bones café in Little Italy with his wife Kirsten and partners from New Zealand.

陳丕燊：量子重力場論 — 物理的最終前沿？(探索14-7講座)

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 影音平台   2015年12月22日
說明二十世紀結束之際，物理學已不單侷限於理論的交鋒：量子力學之於半導體晶片、相對­論之於衛星定位，皆有決定性的地位。相對論與量子力學，並稱二十世紀的兩大物理學革命­，兩者分別極為成功的詮釋了巨觀宇宙與微觀宇宙，卻互不相「融」。各種量子重力理論在­過去幾十年紛紛提出，包括弦論 (string theory) 及迴圈量子重力論 (loop quantum gravity) ，但是至今都還沒有成功。

其實這些努力並非無的放矢，霍京在1974年發現著名的「黑洞蒸發」現象之後不久就指­出，他的黑洞蒸發會導致所謂「黑洞訊息消失悖論」，就是說量子力學的基本假設：機率守­恆，和廣義相對論不能相容。此外在晚期宇宙加速擴張的解釋上，所有數據都傾向支持愛因­斯坦的宇宙常數，可是在廣義相對論裡，它只是一個任意值的常數。量子真空能量是宇宙常­數一個自然的微觀解釋，可是它的值卻比加速擴張所需的暗能量密度大了124個數量級！ 這樣的歧異有沒有冰消瓦解的一日？ 可以說，要想成功地結合相對論與量子論，就需要引進革命性的新思維。這是二十一世紀物­理學最具挑戰的課題，且讓陳丕燊教授用深入淺出的語言，帶領我們想像未來物理的最終前­沿。
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2015/12/12 pm2：00 ,臺灣大學應用力學館國際會議廳

Oby Ezekwesili, Ibukun Awosika, TY Bello: "Smashing the Glass Ceiling" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年3月24日
To mark the 2016 International Women's Day, three extraordinary women leaders in Nigeria discuss "Smashing the Glass Ceiling" and navigating the limitations placed on women in African societies.

PANELISTS
Oby Ezekwesili - Nigeria's former Minister of Education, former Vice President of the World Bank and leader of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy group
Ibikun Awosika - Business leader and first woman chairperson of a leading Bank in Nigeria
TY Bello - Celebrity photographer, songwriter and philanthropist
Moderated by Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor

Andrew Steer: "World Resources Institute: Stories to Watch" | Talks at G...

source: Talks at Google   2016年3月9日
Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute (WRI), presents “Stories to Watch,” a preview of the big environment and economic development stories – backed up by data and analysis – that WRI believes will shape the world in 2016.
This year’s focus ranges from how we'll turn the Paris Climate Agreement from promise to action to what the major trends are in energy, finance, business, food, and cities. The World Resources Institute is a global research organization and long-time partner of Google. “Stories to Watch” is one of WRI's flagship events, now in its 13th year. www.wri.org

20th Century Philosophy: Jean-Paul Sartre by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler 2012年5月29日/上次更新：2014年6月21日
In this lecture, I explore some of the key themes of Jean-Paul Sartre's classic exposition of his atheist Existentialism, "Existentialism is a Humanism." I focus in particular on the themes of existence preceding essence, radical human freedom, criterionless choice that is nevertheless one made for all humanity, and on the human being as a project of freedom

Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" this is perhaps the best place to start for studying Sartre 53:44
Core Concepts: Jean-Paul Sartre, Criterionless Choice a shorter video, focused specifically on this theme 12:54
Core Concepts: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existence Precedes Essence another short video, focused on this single theme 18:27
Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (part 1) Sartre's early classic "philosophical novel" 1:12:17
Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (part 2) continuing on, getting into some of the key metaphysical themes of the novel 57:47
Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit 1:08:20
Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Wall" one of Sartre's short stories, set in the Spanish Civil War 52:50
Philosophy Core Concepts: Hell Is Other People in Sartre's "No Exit" 18:37

Paul Morrell on the Built Environment

source: The RSA   2016年3月19日
Paul Morrell OBE explores a range of challenges facing the built environment professions and the need for adaptability at a time of marked institutional, technological and social evolution.
Watch Paul Morrell OBE in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full replay: https://youtu.be/I31qav9ub7Q
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