The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

source: TED-Ed     2016年5月19日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-origin-...
Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text — even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory, which states that given enough elements in a set or structure, some interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge.
Lesson by PatrickJMT, animation by Aaron, Sean & Mathias Studios.

Kevin Grazier: 'Hollyweird: From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年5月11日
Kevin Grazier, planetary physicist, joins Gia Mora for a conversation at Google. Grazier is known not only for his work on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn, but also for his work as a science consultant in Hollywood. He's consulted for several television series and movies, most notably the series Defiance, Battlestar Galactica, and Eureka, and the films Gravity and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He and Stephen Cass co-authored the book "Hollyweird Science: From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse.” Gia Mora is a member of Scirens, “… a group of science enthusiastic actresses whose mission is to share and discuss science news, advocate for its literacy and inspire scientifically infused entertainment in all forms." [quote from scirens.com]

[臺大探索第十二期] 現代醫學的興起

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source: 臺大科學教育發展中心     2014年10月8日

探索12-1講座： 現代醫學的困境 / 黃達夫教授 2:07:42
探索12-2講座：外科醫學的誕生 / 王道還助理研究員 2:08:39
探索12-3講座：現代醫院的誕生 / 李尚仁副研究員 2:10:12
探索12-4講座： 微生物致病理論 / 劉士永研究員 1:40:23
探索12-5講座： 殺敵務盡?化學療法的誕生 / 郭文華副教授 2:17:02
探索12-6講座：精神醫學的誕生 / 巫毓荃助研究員 2:17:07
探索12-7講座：熱帶醫學的誕生 / 李尚仁副研究員 1:47:56

探索12-8講座：生殖醫學：人類傳宗接代的守護神/謝豐舟教授 1:44:08

Richard Nisbett: Culture and Intelligence

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年4月18日
Date: Tuesday 12 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Nisbett
Discussants: Dr Hyun-Jung Lee, Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Chair: Dr Bradley Franks

Are humans getting smarter? Are some groups smarter than others? Are some groups getting smarter faster than others? What are the possibilities for increasing the rate of growth of human intelligence? Hint: Science, mathematics, logic and philosophy have generated concepts in the past 150 years of great power which have yet to escape into the reasoning toolkits of laypeople.

Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and Co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. "The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." – Malcolm Gladwell

Hyun-Jung Lee is Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management, LSE. Her research is on multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and cross-cultural management.

Michael Muthukrishna (@mmuthukrishna) is an Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology. His research focuses on the evolution of humans and human culture and the many implications of these psychological and evolutionary processes.
Bradley Franks is Associate Professor at LSE.
The Department of Social Psychology (@PsychologyLSE) is a leading international centre dedicated to consolidating and expanding the contribution of social psychology to the understanding and knowledge of key social, economic, political and cultural issues.

Does God Have Traits? (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth      2016年4月18日

Philip Clayton - Does God Have Traits? 6:43
Brian Leftow - Does God Have Traits? 4:13
Varadaraja Raman - Does God Have Traits? 2:19
Greg Boyd - What is God Like? 7:48
Paul Davies - Big Pictures of God 7:47
Alvin Plantinga - Can God Change? 4:25

Is This Normal? Real World Complexities Associated With Automated Chemistry Assays

source: UWTV    2016年1月28日
This presentation focuses on the various complexities encountered with automated chemistry assays. Real world examples are used to illustrate how calibration shifts, inter-instrument bias and inter-assay bias can complicate clinical interpretation and influence patient care.
Dina Greene, PhD, DABCC, associate director, Chemistry, director, Chemistry Fellowship Program, assistant professor, Laboratory Medicine, UW
01/13/16
http://uwtv.org

The Human Experience in Medical Care Panel Discussion

source: Yale University   2016年4月12日
This panel discussion is a wide-ranging discussion of how medical professionals may better serve their patients by focusing on the human experience of medical care. Panelists included Matthew Ellman, M.D., Lisa Sanders, M.D., William Sledge, M.D. and moderated by Professor Richard Prum.

Andrew Granville: The Patterns in the Primes

source: Yale University    2015年8月20日
Math Mornings is a series of public lectures aimed at bringing the joy and variety of mathematics to students and their families. Speakers from Yale and elsewhere talk about aspects of mathematics that they find fascinating or useful. The talks will usually be accessible to students from 7th grade and up, although occasionally some familiarity with high-school subjects will be helpful. Math Mornings lectures will take place on three Sundays each semester, at Davies Auditorium, 10 Hillhouse Avenue.

Math Mornings is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. It is part of Yale's Science Outreach program. To find out more see http://yale.edu/scienceoutreach

On Sunday, March 30, Andrew Granville gave his talk, "The Patterns in the Primes." A whole number, greater than 1, is a prime number if, and only if, it is not the product of two smaller whole numbers. The sequence of primes begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ... Are there any predictable patterns in the prime numbers? Is there are a formula for primes? Perhaps the main difficulty in answering these questions is that primes are defined in terms of what they are not (that is, they are not the product of two smaller whole numbers), rather than what they are, which makes them surprisingly difficult to understand. In this talk, Andrew Granville reviews what is known to be true, what we believe to be true but cannot prove, as well as discusses some wild speculations. He explores some of the latest most exciting discoveries in the theory of prime numbers, and see how we can apply those discoveries.

Jason J. Campbell: Medical Ethics Lecture

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source: drjasonjcampbell    2012年5月3日/ 上次更新：2013年10月20日

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Maxwell Bennett: The History of Consciousness

source: Yale University 2014年2月3日
Maxwell Bennett, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, delivers a Franke lecture entitled, "The History of Consciousness".