How do we separate the inseparable? - Iddo Magen

source: TED-Ed   2016年5月9日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-s...
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It’s easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful. But there’s another story we don’t hear about -- how did we get our raw ingredients in the first place, from the chaotic tangle of materials that is nature? Iddo Magen uncovers the answer in a group of clever hacks known as separation techniques.
Lesson by Iddo Magen, animation by Augenblick Studios.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Dan Robinson at Oxford University

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source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年3月30日/上次更新：2016年3月30日
Professor Dan Robinson gives a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. It remains a matter of controversy as to just what the central project of the Critique is, but surely one objective is to establish the character and range of objective knowledge in light of the limits of sense and reason. The lectures in this series are intended to clarify the major claims advanced by Kant in this connection, and to test the arguments he adduces in their support. This series of talks was given at Oxford.

1 Kant's Project in The Critique of Pure Reason 46:55
2 The Philosophical Context of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason 45:27
3 Space, Time, & The Analogies of Experience in Kant's Critique 48:47
4 Synthetic A Priori Judgments in Kant's First Critique 40:14
5 Idealism & Kant's Refutation In The First Critique 42:44
6 Kant's Transcendental Deduction of The Categories 40:21
7 The Self & Synthetic Unity of Apperception in Kant 41:50
8 The Paralogisms & Antinomies of Pure Reason 37:24

David Hume & Thomas Reid's Critique by Dan Robinson at Oxford University

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source: Philosophical Overdose   2014年7月6日/上次更新：2016年4月11日
Professor Dan Robinson of Oxford University gives a series of eight lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of the work of David Hume. Under "David Hume", the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, "The most important philosopher ever to write in English". His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. The most significant features of Hume's work, as understood by Reid, are the representative theory of perception, the nature of causation and causal concepts, the nature of personal identity, and the foundations of morality. Each of these topics is presented in a pair of lectures, the first summarizing Hume's position and the second Reid's critique of that position.

David Hume's Representational Theory of Knowledge 1:00:20
Thomas Reid's Common Sense Realism 52:21
David Hume on Causation & Explanation 49:49
Reid on Causation & Active Powers 45:42
David Hume on Personal Identity 41:41
Thomas Reid on Personal Identity 49:09
David Hume's Sentimentalist Theory of Morals 50:23
Reid on the Principles of Morals 53:35

Calculus I by Matthew Leingang (New York University)

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source: New York University    2011年11月2日/上次更新：2014年6月27日
Open Ed: Leingang, Calculus I
For course related materials, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-edu...

Calculus I - Functions and their Representations 57:37
Calculus I - A Catalogue of Essential Functions 56:56
Calculus I - Limit 59:55
Calculus I - Calculating Limits 1:02:19
Calculus I - Continuity 57:47
Calculus I - The Derivative 1:07:21
Calculus I - Basic Differentiation Rules 1:00:38
Calculus I - The Product and Quotient Rules 1:06:32
Calculus I - The Product and Quotient Rules 1:09:21
Calculus I - Linear Approximations and Differentials 51:27
Calculus I - Exponential Functions 1:04:12
Calculus I - Derivatives of Logarithmic and Exponential Functions 1:00:20
Calculus I - Exponential Growth and Decay 1:03:40
Calculus I - Inverse Trigonometric Functions 1:06:18
Calculus I - Indeterminate Forms and L'Hôpital's Rule 1:08:38
Calculus I - Maximum and Minimum Values 1:04:22
Calculus I - The Mean Value Theorem 51:17
Calculus I - Derivatives and the Shapes of Curves 1:02:54
Calculus I - Curve Sketching 59:49
Calculus I - Optimization 47:02
Calculus I - Antiderivatives 58:53
Calculus I - Areas and Distances, the Definite Integral 1:07:49
Calculus I - Evaluating Definite Integrals 53:34
Calculus I - The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 46:51
Calculus I - Integration by Substitution 53:09

Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey (Columbia University)

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source: ColumbiaLearn    2015年10月26日

ROMARE BEARDEN: A BLACK ODYSSEY | 2015

 In 1977, Romare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th century, created a cycle of 20 collages and watercolors (miniature variations of his collages) based on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African-American culture. The works conveyed a sense of timelessness and the universality of the human condition, but their brilliance was displayed for only two months in New York City before being scattered to private collections and public art museums.

 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery showing of Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey was the first time these works will be seen again in New York City since they were created. Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey underscores the fact that this tale of the dislocated but heroic traveler's search for a way home is Bearden's own most pervasive and important artistic theme. The addition of a collage from Bearden's 1968 series, "House in Cotton Field," invites the viewer to consider the artist's Homeric collages not as rarefied explorations of Western antiquity, but as evocations of familiar seekers of a welcoming place to stay.

 The exhibition features some 50 works, including collages, watercolors, and line drawings as well as additional compositions relating to Bearden’s interest in classical themes, such as examples of his mid-1940s drawings based on Homer's other epic, The Iliad. The additional works greatly increase the resonance and power of the original 20 collages and examine Bearden’s motivations in creating these works within the context of the “Odysseus Series” and his overall body of work.

 For the Wallach Gallery presentation, singular materials were added from Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, including a 1935 special edition of James Joyce's Ulysses produced by The Limited Editions Club. The book contains reproductions of 20 preliminary drawings and six etchings by Henri Matisse, who based his illustrations on six episodes in Homer's Odyssey. Several of Matisse’s original etched plates will also be displayed, allowing visitors to consider a related but very different artistic visualization of the Odyssey.

 The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929 by George Macy, who endeavored to match classic texts with fine artists, creating distinctive volumes that became renowned in rare book circles. Visitors to the Wallach will be able to see the continuity of this tradition with the addition of the lush 1983 volume, Poems of the Caribbean by Derek Walcott, selected and illustrated by Bearden. Almost 50 years later, the Bearden-Walcott Limited Editions Club publication offers another yet another example of visual artists engaging the written word.

 Born in Charlotte, N.C., Bearden moved with his family to Harlem as a young child, part of the migration of African Americans from the South to greater opportunity in the North. Throughout his career, Bearden created images of the lives of travelers on their way to and from home, a theme no more powerfully explored than in his “Odysseus Series.” Bearden had examined classical themes before, but the “Odysseus Series” expanded his exploration of literary narratives and artistic genres by presenting his own personal reinterpretation of the subject.

 Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey is curated by English and jazz scholar Robert G. O’Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and founder and former director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia. The exhibition is complemented by a fully illustrated companion book of the same name (DC Moore Gallery, 2008), written by O’Meally. The book includes full-color images of Bearden’s work and an essay by O’Meally. The Smithsonian Institute has also developed a comprehensive website for the exhibition project.

 “In creating a black Odyssey series, Bearden not only staked a claim to the tales of ancient Greece as having modern relevance, he also made the claim of global cultural collage—that as humans, we are all collages of our unique experiences,” said O’Meally. “Indeed, Bearden does not merely illustrate Homer - he is Homer’s true collaborator, and he invites us as viewers to inherit Homer’s tale and interpret it as our own.”  

Frank Stewart, photographer | February 6, 2015 24:41

Wallach Art Gallery Visit with Robert O'Meally 21:25

Rev. Dwight Andrews, Emory University | February 12, 2015 55:01

Emily Greenwood, Yale University | February 27, 2015 30:28

Ozlem Berk Albachten, Bogazici University | April 16, 2015 23:17

Mike Ladd, artist & musician | March 6, 2015 40:37

Mike Ladd, artist & musician | January 20, 2015 4:36

Wendy Johnson, Paris | January 20, 2015 15:08

Brent Edwards, Columbia University | January 20, 2015 26:27

Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside | December 2, 2014 11:25

Rosanna Warren, University of Chicago | November 21, 2014 8:46

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University | October 23, 2014 10:11

Improvisation in the Sciences | Milind Gajanan | March 10, 2015 25:10

Improvisation in the Sciences | George Lewis | March 10, 2015 22:37

Improvisation in the Sciences | Martin Chalfie | March 10, 2015 13:27

Karen van Dyck, Columbia University | April 15, 2015 10:31

Wallach Art Gallery Visit with Robert O'Meally | Part 1 7:36

Wallach Art Gallery Visit with Robert O'Meally | Part 2 7:59

Wallach Art Gallery Visit with Robert O'Meally | Part 3 6:50

Geri Allen & Dwight Andrews | February 12, 2015 1:04:54

The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Prof Sir Michael Marmot - 19 Jan 2016)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures     2016年1月26日
Speaker: Prof Sir Michael Marmot
UCL Institute of Health Equity
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries, and these health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health only goes so far. Professor Sir Michael Marmot looks at evidence from around the world to show how we can reduce the health gap.

The Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium 2014 at Yale (Yale U)

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source: Yale University   上次更新日期：2015年5月15日
This Ahlfors-Bers Conference is the sixth in a series of triennial colloquia devoted to the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core heritage is in geometric function theory, quasiconformal mapping, Teichmüller theory and Kleinian groups, hyperbolic manifolds, and partial differential equations including Schramm/Stochastic-Loewner-Evolution/Equations. Today we see the influence of Ahlfors and Bers on algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, dynamics, probability, geometric group theory, number theory and topology.

"Teichmüller theory in Outer space" 59:31
"Surface Subgroups, Cube Complexes, and the Virtual Haken Theorem" 1:00:16
"Roots of Polynomials and Parameter Spaces" 59:12
"Rigidity of Teichmüller space" 56:10
"Quasi-isometric rigidity of the class of convex-cocompact Kleinian groups" 58:24
"The Circle and the Cardioid" 59:55
"The complex geometry of Teichmüller space and symmetric domains" 56:57
"On isomorphism and disjointness of interval exchanges and flows on flat surfaces" 46:09
"Computing the image of Thurston's skinning map" 1:00:10
"Conformal invariance and critical behavior within critical fractal carpets" 1:03:22

探索13-2講座：以電波之筆描繪無限未來 / 陳士元教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心     2015年4月14日
從一百多年前馬可尼發出那通越洋無線電報開始，無線通訊便正式進入我們的生活；時至今­日，手機主導了多數人的生活型態。手機及各種穿戴式裝置之所以能相互通訊，均是透過電­磁波傳遞訊號；而電磁波看不見、摸不著，許多人因為不瞭解而聞「波」色變；其實，電磁­波跟聲波、水波一樣，是一種傳遞能量的方式，並不可怕。

在本講中，陳教授將依循電磁學的發展脈絡介紹電磁波的基本現象，並談談發射與接收電磁­波的利器¾天線及其工作原理，最後，根據電磁波與天線的特性，討論無線通訊系統的可能­架構與未來發展。

講座時間：2015.4.11 下午2點
地點：台灣大學 應用力學研究所 1F 國際會議廳

Carmine Gallo: "The Storytellers Secret" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google     2016年4月1日
Communications expert Carmine Gallo talks about his new book, "The Story Tellers Secret" to teach us why some ideas stick and others don't.
While the roots of storytelling are ancient, Gallo shares the latest science that proves its impact, which only became evident in just the past decade. Neuroscientists helped us understand why the brain is hardwired for story, and why some stories trigger a rush of neurochemicals like cortisol, oxytocin, and dopamine. These elements cause people to pay attention, form empathy and feel good, helping explain why nothing moves hearts and minds like a great story.
The science of storytelling that Gallo uncovers here helps explain why:
Some TED talks go viral – and others are forgettable;
Some leaders start movements – and others miss the mark;
Some companies have high employee engagement – and others see high turnover;
Some non-profits raise millions of dollars – and other struggle;
Some job candidates stand out and others can’t persuade recruiters;
Some entrepreneurs change the world – and others don’t;
Why do we need to hone our skills at storytelling? Because the ability to package ideas into a compelling story is one of the most proven skills that makes leaders successful. The power of narrative allows messages to make a difference (and not fall on deaf ears) – is a skill as important for visionary leaders and political candidates, as it is for business leaders, professionals, parents, teachers, and job seekers.
The talk was hosted by Dave Marx. You can find out more at www.carminegallo.com .

Lubov Azria: “Nothing starts without a dream” | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年3月16日
BCBGMAXAZRIA is the premier lifestyle brand for today’s dynamic woman. We embody a vision of global style and attitude. BCBGMAXAZRIA isn’t just a company - it’s a philosophy, an attitude and the realization of a dream. We are a brand that doesn’t follow trends, we embody style. We are a passionate team, who love style, innovation and creativity. Our goal is to inspire women to be inspirational; to feel beautiful, confident and empowered. Ask our customers what they were wearing during the most influential moments of their lives…
…the answer will be BCBGMAXAZRIA.
Moderated by Lisa Lee.