RSA Replay: Is Britain Still a World Enterprise Power?

source: The RSA    2016年5月24日
Britain was built by some of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs in history. But who will shape its future? Is Britain still one of the world’s great enterprise powers - and if not what needs to change? Liam Byrne MP, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sherry Coutu and Mariana Mazzucato discuss whether the UK can sustain a competitive advantage on a global economic stage.
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Hasok Chang: Who cares about the history of science?

source: The Royal Society    2016年6月1日
The 2015 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture was this year presented by Professor Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
He looks at how we can learn from the radically different ways in which scientists have made sense of the universe over the ages.
Filmed: 6.30pm - 7.30pm on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at The Royal Society, London.
https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/...

Jose-Luis Galache: The Fun and Fear of Near-Earth Asteroids | CfA

source: Harvard University    2016年2月1日
The explosion of an asteroid over Russia in 2013 caught by hundreds of dashcams, and the perennial reminder of the dinosaurs' demise due to an earlier, and bigger, asteroid impact, serve to illustrate the fear that asteroids may inspire in us. But near-Earth asteroids, our closest neighbors in the Solar System, also offer hitherto unimagined opportunities for exploration and resource harvesting. They might even be the stepping stones we require to seed the solar system with space colonies. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center is on the front line of asteroid discoveries and is vital to the research of asteroid scientists the world over. We'll explore its inner workings and how it contributes to both the fun and fear of near-Earth asteroids. Speaker: Dr. Jose-Luis Galache

Richard Sennett, "Interiors and Interiority"

source: Harvard GSD    2016年4月26日
4/22/16
Richard Sennett's talk will trace how intimate physical spaces emerged, historically; he will explore the relationship between the concepts "inside" and "subjective" and whether interior spaces and interiority are disappearing today, under the influence of social media.
A faculty member at New York University and the London School of Economics, Sennett gave his most recent public talk at the GSD in 2012, when he was the Loeb Fellowship Program's Senior Scholar. Since his first books on the city and the family, published in 1969, he has authored numerous studies in cultural sociology, including The Culture of the New Capitalism (Yale, 2005); The Craftsman (Yale, 2008); and Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation (Yale, 2012). He is also an accomplished musician and the author of the novels An Evening of Brahms (Knopf 1984) and Palais-Royal (Knopf, 1987).
His talk is part of the Symposium on Architecture: Interior Matters, organized by Kiel Moe, Associate Professor of Architecture and Energy.

Cheltenham Science Festival - sleep research - Evan Davis and Prof. Russell Foster

source: Oxford BRC    2013年7月9日
Join sleep-deprived presenter of Radio 4′s Today's programme, Evan Davis, and Oxford BRC researcher Professor Russell Foster on the subject of sleep. Filmed at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

Yanis Varoufakis: "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google     2016年4月29日
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism.

In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about—the perils of the euro’s faulty design, the European Union’s shortsighted austerity policies, financialized crony capitalism, American complicity and rising authoritarianism—was confirmed as the “troika” (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece’s economic crisis.

Here, Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe’s crisis and America’s central role in it. He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe that are necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis–ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.

Varoufakis is the Finance Minister of Greece. A Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens and a visiting professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, he is the author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World, among others.

This Authors at Google talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

William Green: "Lessons From the Great Minds of Investing" | Talks at Go...

source: Talks at Google      2016年4月11日
William Green, author of the highly rated book "The Great Minds of Investing", will speak about the most important lessons he has learned in two decades of studying, interviewing, and writing about many of the world's best investors. He will discuss how you can become more successful — both as an investor and in other areas of life — by reverse-engineering the greatest investors and figuring out how they stack the odds of success in their favor. The goal: to become richer, wiser, and happier.

William has written for many publications, including Time, The New Yorker, Fortune, Forbes, Barron's, Money, Worth, Bloomberg Markets, and The Economist. He was the Editor of the European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian editions of Time. As a co-author, he worked closely with Guy Spier, helping him to write his memoir, The Education of a Value Investor. William has interviewed many remarkable investors, such as Sir John Templeton, Joel Greenblatt, Howard Marks, Bill Ackman, Seth Klarman, Bill Miller, Tom Russo, Marty Whitman, Bill Nygren, Donald Yacktman, Mohnish Pabrai, Jean-Marie Eveillard, Peter Lynch, Bill Ruane, and Michael Price.

【台大探索第三期】人間氣候的前世今生 (2010)

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心     2013年8月15日

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Cosmic Orphans with Trent Dupuy | CfA

source: Harvard University     2014年1月30日
Stars are big and hot and burn with nuclear fires. Planets are small and usually orbit stars. And then there are brown dwarfs. Not quite planet, not quite star, they are faintly glowing cosmic orphans traveling through the universe. This talk presents new insights into these oddities that walk the line between stars and planets. Speaker: Dr. Trent Dupuy

Empowerhouse = Passive House = Energy efficient, environmentally sustainable, affordable housing

source: The New School     2013年3月20日
In December 2012, students, faculty, leadership and alumni from Parsons The New School for Design (http://www.newschool.edu/parsons), the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy (http://www.newschool.edu/milano) at The New School for Public Engagement (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag...), local government agencies, and the community came to celebrate the dedication of Empowerhouse (http://parsit.parsons.edu).
This highly energy efficient, environmentally sustainable, affordable housing for DC Habitat was developed over several years by over 200 students at Parsons, Milano, and Stevens. The house was designed as an entry in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, a sustainable building competition. The first house in Washington, D.C. to meet Passive House standards for energy use, Empowerhouse took first place in the competition's Affordability category, and now is a new model for Habitat for Humanity moving forward.
Read more about the event in our New School News blog - http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2012/....