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Michelangelo was one of the biggest international artists of his time, but being Michelangelo was not easy: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics and depicted in unauthorised portraits. This talk will examine the processes by which artists such as Michelangelo, Sofonisba Anguissola and Titian became early modern celebrities.
Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death from gynaecological malignancies. Professor Usha Menon speaks about her group's 30- years journey and one of the largest randomised controlled trials ever involving more that 202,000 British women to try to establish whether a screening programme may save lives.
source: UWTV 2014年1月13日
Cornel West—a self-described intellectual freedom fighter influenced by the Baptist church, American transcendentalism, the Black Panthers and European philosophy—seeks to revive the best of liberalism, populism and democratic socialism. In this talk, West teaches that racial division fosters the poverty, paranoia, fear and distrust that undermine our nation's democratic process.
Cornel West, professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion, Harvard University
04/27/2001
source: Talks at Google 2016年3月24日
The Global Fund has a bold vision many may think impossible: a world free of the burden of HIV, TB and malaria. Mark Dybul talks about some of The Global Fund’s strategies for solving this complex, distributed problem, and the need for innovation and technology to help accelerate the end of these diseases as epidemics.
Mark has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist and teacher. He was also a founding architect and driving force behind the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) under George W. Bush, and served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator though 2009.
source: Talks at Google 2016年4月6日
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon.
One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated—there are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similar—there is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet.
A bold and inspiring synthesis by one of our most accomplished biologists and gifted storytellers, The Serengeti Rules is the first book to illuminate how life works at vastly different scales. Read it and you will never look at the world the same way again.
Sean B. Carroll is an award-winning scientist, writer, educator, and executive producer. He is vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Allan Wilson Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Brave Genius, and Remarkable Creatures, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Reviews:
"A thought-provoking challenge to complacency."--Kirkus
Endorsements:
"A master storyteller, Carroll explores the unity of biology from the molecular level to the Serengeti, the rules that
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source: Gregory B. Sadler 2012年11月27日/上次更新：2014年6月16日
In this video, I examine Albert Camus' classic existentialist novel, The Stranger, and explore some of its philosophical themes. I also discuss its central character, Meursault, his seeming lack of character, and whether he exemplifies the "absurd man" of Camus' essay "The Myth of Sisyphus"
