Jean-Luc Nancy. Love and Community. 2001

source: European Graduate School    2016年5月15日
http://www.egs.edu/ Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and thinker talking about shattered love, demand, desire, lack, impossibility, heart, body, deconstruction, christianity, religion, philosophy, metaphysics, Jacques Lacan, community, civilization. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media an http://www.egs.edu/ Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2001, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Jean-Luc Nancy (b. 1940) is a French philosopher. He is the Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Chair and a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Nancy graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne (Paris) in 1962, where he worked with Georges Canguilhem. During his time at the Sorbonne, he also worked with Paul Ricoeur, who supervised his MA thesis on Hegel’s philosophy of religion. He briefly taught in Colmar before becoming an assistant at the Institut de philosophie at the University of Strasbourg in 1968. In 1973, he completed his doctoral dissertation on Kant’s analogical discourse under the supervision of Paul Ricoeur. In the same year, Nancy became maître-assistant (later maître de conférences) at the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg, where he remained a professor until his retirement in 2002. He has been a guest professor at numerous universities, among them the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Susan Baserga - The Promise of Poop

source: Yale University     2016年3月10日
Science on Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series that features scientists whose passion for their work inspires us all. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and engaging science demonstrations by Yale college students. Science on Saturdays provides an opportunity for Yale scientists and residents of New Haven and beyond to come together over a shared sense of wonder. On March 5th, Susan Baserga teaches about the human microbiome and how fecal transplants are being developed as treatments for curing disease.

Daphna Shohamy--Learning from experience: How our brains remember the past and shape our future

source: Columbia    2016年4月7日
Dr. Daphna Shohamy’s research explores how different parts of the brain work together to support learning, what this means for how memories are built, and what the consequences are for how we make decisions.
This talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series, offered free to the public to enhance understanding of the biology of the mind and the complexity of human behavior. The lectures are hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Speaker: Daphna Shohamy, PhD. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia University as well as a Principal Investigator of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.

Matthew Meselson, “Sex is Necessary“

source: Yale University     2016年4月18日
Presentation by Dr. Matthew Meselson at the Sidney Altman Symposium held on March 24, 2016 at the Greenberg Center, Yale University. Introduction by Symposium moderator, Dr. Daniel DiMaio.

Big Questions in Free Will (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth   2016年5月2日

Eddy Nahmias - Big Questions in Free Will 3:49
Thalia Wheatley - Big Questions in Free Will 7:45
Roy Baumeister - Big Questions in Free Will 2:38
Bruce Hood - Free Will and Decision Making 10:11
Daniel Dennett - What is Free Will? 6:01
Alison Gopnik - Free Will and Decision Making 9:40
Roy Baumeister - Free Will and Decision Making 7:00
Christof Koch - What is Free Will? 2:45
John Searle - What is Free Will? 9:03
Michael Almeida - Does God's Knowledge Eliminate Free Will? 9:14
Hugh McCann - Does God's Knowledge Eliminate Free Will? 10:48
Greg Boyd - How Can Free Will Work? 5:24

探索15-1講座：從天體力學到混沌理論的形成/陳國璋教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心     2016年4月6日
說明混沌理論屬於數學學門的新興領域，但其中主要的基本概念源於十九世紀對天體力學與­熱力學的研究。在這場演講中，我們將從天體力學的故事談起，先簡介克卜勒，牛頓，歐拉­，拉格朗日等人的卓越貢獻，再講述十九世紀龐加萊，波茲曼開創的新理論，乃至啓發二十­世紀混沌理論形成的過程。
【本期開始提供講座同步線上LIVE直播，請見活動官網http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/chaos】
演講時間：2016/3/26 14：00
演講地點：臺灣大學 思亮館國際會議廳
最新消息請見探索講座粉絲專頁：https://www.facebook.com/CASExplores/

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)

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source: Yale University    上次更新日期：2015年10月13日
This playlist features videos from faculty and guests of The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. Learn more about the ISPS by visiting our website, http://isps.yale.edu/

What is ISPS? 5:34
The Imprint of Congress: “How to Think About It” 1:20:55
The Imprint of Congress: “The History” 1:13:03
The Imprint of Congress: “An Assessment” 1:27:08
ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality 4:46
SHOW ME THE MONEY: How Transparency in Political Donations Could Change American Elections 1:54:27
ISPS MIDTERM 2014: Expert Perspectives and Predictions 1:09:57
How 'microtargeting' works in political advertising 7:51
ISPS Health at Yale: Improving Healthcare Delivery in America 2:11
Jacob Hacker presentation at Policy Network 33:41
Keynote Address by Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School, for the ISPS Conference on Money in Politics 1:03:51
Opening Address by Senator Chris Murphy for the ISPS Conference on Money in Politics 41:34
The Future of Medicare: Policy Options and Political Realities 1:28:38
Is American Politics Undermining the American Dream? 1:16:16
@YaleLive with Jacob Hacker, Beverly Gage, and David Bach 1:00:47
U.S. Health Care: What's at stake in this election? 7:27
Yale Experts Judge Obama's Jobs Plan 5:16
The Politics of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America 14:05
Ethnicity and Violence in Chechnya 11:45
What's Left for the Left 59:50
This Year in Bioethics 1:03:13
Healthcare Reform: A Civil Discourse in a Turbulent Age 1:27:55
Professor Susan Hyde: International Election Monitoring 15:10
Professor Thad Dunning: Ethnic voting in Mali 14:15
Deep Issues of the 2012 Elections: Jacob Hacker 1:34:04
Jacob Hacker's 'Prosperity Economics' 2:18
Big Think Interview With Jacob Hacker 28:37
U.S. Economic Policies, in Hindsight 3:23
Jacob Hacker on Economic Inequality 7:41

Conversations on Online Learning | On the Future of Education

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source: ColumbiaLearn    2014年12月4日
Conversations on Online Learning at Columbia University brings influential speakers to discuss the future of education in an open public forum.
The series is hosted by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.
For more information, visit http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/onlinelearning/conversations.html

Robert Darnton – Digitize, Democratize | Columbia University, December 3, 2014 1:08:29
Shigeru Miyagawa – Open CourseWare and MOOCS, November 6, 2014 39:23
Brian Greene, Claudia Dreifus, Maurice Matiz - World Science U 1:00:35
Marcia Linn - Innovations in Online Education: What Works? 51:24
Anant Agarwal - Reinventing Education 1:04:25
Al Filreis - On the Communitarian Possibilities of MOOCs, January 31, 2014 1:09:25
Chris Dede - The Future of Digital Learning in Higher Education 1:02:47
Audrey Watters - Data is the New Oil: MOOCs, Metaphor, and Money 1:01:38
Jeffrey Selingo - Tomorrow's College: The Future of Higher Education 1:03:26
Candace Thille, Director of Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative 50:58
Daphne Koller - The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits 55:09

Edgar Engleman/Cafe Scientifique: Immunotherapy for Cancer

source: Stanford Blood Center    2015年11月27日
with Edgar Engleman, MD, Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford Blood Center Founder and Medical Director.
A new era has begun when it comes to the treatment of cancer. In the past, we have been unable to mobilize the immune system of patients with cancer, but now we can!
Learn why this proved to be so difficult for so many years, and how we can now use immunotherapy to treat and potentially cure a wide range of cancers.

Kay Bea Jones: Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini

source: Yale University    2015年7月17日
Yale School of Architecture Public Lecture Series
Professor Jones discusses her illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini - reintroducing Albini’s contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design.
Kay Bea Jones
George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857 Memorial Lecture
September 11, 2014