Why do some people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed    2016年5月26日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some...
Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So what’s behind this annual onslaught of mucus? Eleanor Nelsen explains what happens when your immune system goes rogue.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelson, animation by TED-Ed.

Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time

source: Yale University    2015年8月7日
Franke Program in Science and the Humanities
Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time
Professors David Albert and Tim Maudlin visited Yale to give lectures and participate in discussion for an event titled "Mechanical Explanations and the Direction of Time." Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He delivers a lecture titled "Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time."

Subjects of Reason: goods, markets and imaginaries of the global future

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年1月22日
Date: Thursday 21 January 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sheila Jasanoff
Chair: Professor Andrew Lang

The lecture will look at how discourses of exchange create commensurable systems of exchange across highly disparate regions and forms of life. Three legal encounters will be considered as points of friction: the creation of the single carbon market; the regulation of GMOs by the World Trade Organisation; and the Novartis-India litigation on the cancer drug Gleevec.

Sheila Jasanoff (@SJasanoff) is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. A pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 100 articles and chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including Controlling Chemicals, The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies, with particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell University and has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments in the US, Europe, and Japan. Sheila Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her grants and awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ehrenkreuz from the Government of Austria. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente.
Andrew Lang is Professor of Law at LSE.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

From Oscar Pistorius to Reality TV: the implications of using the courtroom as a television studio

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年4月15日
Date: Wednesday 13 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Lord Dyson, Ruth Herz, Dikgang Moseneke
Chair: Professor Linda Mulcahy

The Judicial Images Network Project was established in 2014 to bring together scholars and across disciplines and continents to explore issues surrounding the production, regulation and consumption of judicial images. Directed by Professors Leslie Moran and Linda Mulcahy this lecture is the final event in a series of three. The event will feature two speakers with extensive experience of the issues that arise from televised trials. The Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa Dikgang Moseneke will discuss the experience of, and issues arising from, the televising of the trial of Oscar Pistorious. Ruth Herz will reflect on her experience as a judge who took part in a popular German courtroom based reality TV show. Chaired by the Master of the Rolls this event will examine the ethical implications of allowing cameras into courts and whether and how the presence of cameras impacts on the dynamics of the trial.

Lord Dyson is the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice.
Ruth Herz is a former judge in Cologne, author and for several years was presiding judge on German television programme Das Jugendgericht (Youth Court).
Dikgang Moseneke is the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. For participating in anti-apartheid activity he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment all of which he served on Robben Island. In 1993 Moseneke served on the technical committee that drafted the interim constitution and in 1994 he was appointed Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, which conducted the first democratic elections in South Africa. Before his appointment as Justice of the Constitutional Court, in November 2001 Moseneke was appointed a Judge of the High Court in Pretoria. On 29 November 2002 he was appointed as judge in the Constitutional Court Court and in June 2005, Moseneke was appointed Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa.
Linda Mulcahy is Professor of Law at LSE and Director of LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Centre and PhD Academy.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth      2016年4月11日

Stuart Hameroff - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 5:50
Subhash Kak - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 5:18
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 8:35

Jason J. Campbell: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism

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source: drjasonjcampbell     2013年11月16日/上次更新：2014年1月20日

1. Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 0:31
Section 1.0: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:28:57
Section 1.1: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:23:38
Section 1.2: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 46:59
Section 1.3: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:19:53
Section 1.4: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:28:26
Section 1.5: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 51:32
Section 1.6: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 2:20:13
Section 1.7: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:29:25
Section 1.8: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:34:44
Section 1.9: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:44:53
Section 2.0: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:46:25
Section 2.1: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:40:14
Section 2.2: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:38:20
Section 2.3: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:10:02
Section 2.4: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 59:39

Richard Schwartz: Higher Dimensional Space and the Things In It

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, September 29, Richard Schwartz, professor of mathematics at Brown University gave his lecture, "Higher Dimensional Space and the Things In It." Dr. Schwartz works on geometry and dynamics, uses computers to explore intricate mathematical systems, and writes illustrated books for kids. On Sept. 29th, he gave a friendly introduction to higher dimensional space and spoke about some of the objects in it, like spheres, cubes, and other polyhedra. He also explained some of the really weird properties of polyhedra in high dimensional space, and might even convince you that these things are really true.

Alan Winfield: "The Thinking Robot" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google   2016年5月10日
Professor Alan Winfield from The University of the West of England joined us to share his work on Robots and Ethics, in a talk entitled "The Thinking Robot".

About the Book:
Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely thought - by scientists and engineers as well as the public - that by turn of the 21st century we would have intelligent robots as butlers, companions, or co-workers.

About the Author:
Alan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. He holds an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship with the theme Intelligent Robots inScience and Society, and blogs about robots, open science and related topics at his blog.
You can also follow him on Twitter: @alan_winfield
Alan's book "Robotics: A Very Short Introduction" on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

【台大探索第七期】大腦、演化與學習

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source: 臺大科學教育發展中心    2012年4月18日
人類獨特嗎？
千百年來，許多哲學家與科學家都熱衷於探究這個問題。有人認為人類並非獨一無二，因為我們已經從許多其他動物身上找到愈來愈多的­獨特之處，甚至是「人性」；另一種觀點則指出進步的語言能力、成熟的藝術創造以及系統的學習模式，都讓人類在萬物中顯得與眾不同­。
人類確實很獨特。我們會追求夢想，我們會為了道德價值而調整慾望，我們還會為了真相而去建構抽象理論。我們之所以能如此，都是因­為大腦的作用。人類的大腦是演化的產物，即使在分子的構造與神經元的數量上只有些許的差異，就足以造成黑猩猩與人類之間無法跨越­的鴻溝。
腦科學是二十一世紀的顯學，本期【探索基礎科學講座】特別邀請到台大醫學院教授謝豐舟醫師擔任顧問，為我們策畫【大腦、演化與學­習】系列講座，從生理構造、心智狀態到學習特性，帶你一起深入探索大腦的奧妙。

【探索講座七】學習：一門結合心理學、神經科學與機器學習的新科學 2:14:34
【探索講座七】周泰立副教授：語言的演化、發展與差異 2:00:50
【探索講座七】 梁庚辰教授：學習記憶的神經基礎 2:18:24
【探索講座七】王弘毅副教授：靈長類的大腦演化與人類的生存適應 2:04:41
【探索講座七】丁照棣教授：果蠅的學習與記憶 2:18:52
【探索講座七】胡志偉教授：箱子裡的過去-談人類的記憶系統 1:59:21
【探索講座七】陳倩瑜副教授：機器學習的演進與應用 2:22:31
【探索講座七】謝豐舟教授：從生物形式變異之極限看人類心智的演化 2:08:55

Khenpo Karten Rinpoche: "Compassion & Collaboration" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年4月26日
A lack of foundation for love and compassion fills the world with problems. The foundation needed is mutual trust. For trust to come, what is needed is kindness, mutual respect, and understanding that our welfare is interconnected. Understanding this makes it easy for people to work together. In this talk, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of mutual trust this foundation motivates us to work together toward a common good.
Khenpo Karten Rinpoche is a teacher from the Manjushri Dharma Center.