Susan David on Emotional Agility

source: The RSA    2016年5月27日
Drawing on more than twenty years of research in the field of behavioural science, Harvard psychologist Susan David reveals how ‘emotional agility’ is the key to flourishing in work and life.

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Laurie Wallmark: "Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine" | Talks a...

source: Talks at Google     2016年6月7日
Laurie Wallmark stopped by the Google NYC office to discuss her latest children's book "Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine".

About the book:
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada understands the machine better than anyone else and writes the world's first computer program in order to demonstrate its capabilities.

3D City | RSA Student Design Awards Shortlisted | Moving Pictures

source: The RSA     2016年6月3日
3D City by Oliver Crawford, Dorota Kiermowicz, Tatiana Dzhafarova & Tomas Koza: RSA Student Design Award Shortlisted. 3D City: a 3D-rendered animation focused on bringing the issues of climate and over-consumption to the forefront of people’s mind that aims to capture their attention on the issue through a unique style.
Animator: Oliver Crawford, Dorota Kiermowicz, Tatiana Dzhafarova & Tomas Koza, Ravensbourne College, Animation
Voice: Richard Sennett ('Live with Less' audio)
Moving Pictures: Sponsored by The Bryan Foster Legacy to the RSA
Visit the RSA Student Design Awards website: http://sda.thersa.org/

Yale Day of Data 2015: Chaitan Baru, “Data Science R&D: Current Activities, Future Directions"

source: Yale University    2016年6月7日
Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor for Data Science, CISE Directorate, National Science Foundation, gives a keynote presentation for the Yale Day of Data 2015, with an introduction by Yale University President, Peter Salovey, on September 18, 2015. For more information about the Day of Data, visithttp://elischolar.library.yale.edu/da...

Minecraft tree “probably” the tallest tree in the Tropics

source: Cambridge University     2016年6月7日
A tree the height of 20 London double-decker buses has been discovered in Malaysia by conservation scientists monitoring the impact of human activity on the biodiversity of a pristine rainforest.
The Yellow Meranti stands 89.5m tall in an area of forest known as ‘Sabah’s Lost World’ – the Maliau Basin Conservation Area, one of Malaysia’s last few untouched wildernesses. Its height places it ahead of the previous record-holder, an 88.3m Yellow Meranti in the Tawau Hills National Park.
The giant tree was discovered during reconnaissance flights by conservation scientists from the University of Cambridge working with the Sabah Forestry Department to help protect the area’s biodiversity. It comes at a crucial time, as the Sabah government takes measures to protect and restore heavily logged areas in the region.
The Yellow Meranti is also one of the species that can be grown in the computer game Minecraft.

Cultural Diplomacy Influence and Partnerships to Maximize Impact

source: New York University     2016年6月7日
As Scotland’s contribution to the EU’s Month of Culture this May, the Scottish Affairs Office in Washington, DC organized a half-day conference on Cultural Diplomacy. This symposium explored how different countries can learn from each other and work together to enhance their presence in a cluttered diplomatic landscape.
On May 25, 2016, NYU Washington, DC hosted experts from the UK, Peru and Sweden, who examined the role of culture in broader diplomatic objectives.
For more information, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/global/global-aca...

The Girls of War in 1914 and 2014: The Evolution of the Protection Racket

source: Harvard University     2015年10月23日
How have gender roles in war changed over the last century? As women have openly joined militaries and paramilitary organizations, the roles of women in service have advanced and diversified. In the United States, the Combat Exclusion Policy was recently lifted to allow women to serve in frontline combat and complete combat operations. Despite increasing numbers of countries beginning to expand the role of women in their militaries, an analysis comparing the U.S. media coverage of British girls in World War I and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign in 2014 suggests that significations of girls as wars’ innocent, hapless victims in need of men’s protection remain prominent in media outlets. This seminar revisits Sue Rae Peterson’s (1977) idea of the ‘protection racket’ to analyze the current status of women in 21st century war and conflict.

Anita Berrizbeitia, "On the Limits of Process: The Case for Precision in Landscape"

source: Harvard GSD     2016年4月19日
It has been almost four decades since the idea of process erupted into the field of landscape architecture as a primary driver of design. Initially associated with hermeneutics—a poetics inherent to the medium of landscape and a conceptual framework to bridge the divide between ecology and design—the idea of process today remains largely unquestioned, applied uncritically regardless of social and political conditions. Anita Berrizbeitia MLA '87, professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, will explore the limits of process and will argue for the need to define the term differently today in order to address the conditions of diverse contexts of urbanization. With a response by Michel Desvigne, Peter Louis Hornbeck Design Critic in Landscape Architecture.

Anita Berrizbeitia is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on design theories of modern and contemporary landscape architecture, the productive aspects of landscapes, and Latin American cities and landscapes. She was awarded the 2005/2006 Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, she studied architecture at the Universidad Simon Bolivar before receiving a BA from Wellesley College and an MLA from the GSD.

Berrizbeitia has taught design theory and studio, previously at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Her studios investigate innovative approaches to the conceptualization of public space, especially on sites where urbanism, globalization, and local cultural conditions intersect. She also leads seminars that focus on significant transformations in landscape discourse over the last three decades. From 1987 to 1993, she practiced with Child Associates, Inc., in Boston, where she collaborated on many award-winning projects.

Berrizbeitia is co-author, with Linda Pollak, of Inside/Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport, 1999), which won an ASLA Merit Award; author of Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956-1961 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Prize in 2007 from the Foundation for Landscape Studies; and editor of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2009), which received an ASLA Honor Award. Her essays have been published in Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens (Princeton Architectural Press), Recovering Landscape (Princeton Architectural Press), Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected (Princeton Architectural Press), CASE: Downsview Park Toronto (Prestel), Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press), Retorno al Paisaje (Evren), and Hargreaves Associates: Landscape Alchemy (ORO Publishers), as well as in magazines such as A+U.

Michel Desvigne, Peter Louis Hornbeck Design Critic in Landscape Architecture, is a landscape architect internationally renowned for his rigorous and contemporary designs and for the originality and relevance of his research work. His projects, developed in more than twelve different countries, are regularly published in the international press. He works with leading architects including Herzog and de Meuron, Foster+Partners, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Christian de Portzamparc, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers. He was awarded the French national Urbanism Grand Prize in 2011. Desvigne’s most renowned urban public spaces include Draï Eechelen Park (Luxemburg), Sammons Park in Dallas (US), the Saint Louis Art Museum (US), the New Qatar National Museum in Doha, Burgos Boulevard (Spain), Lyon Confluence 2 and Ile Seguin prefiguration garden (France). Recently Michel Desvigne has been awarded the leading role in the planning and implementation of the Paris-Saclay cluster (7700 ha), the landscape and urban plan for the development of Euralens (1200 ha), as well as the redevelopment of the old port of Marseille, awarded “prix de l’aménagement urbain” in 2013.

Rediscovering Pluto with J. Kelly Beatty | CfA

source: Harvard University      2015年11月20日
In mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto after a 9½-year journey. But really this historic encounter has been 85 years in the making, ever since 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh discovered this enigmatic body at the edge of our planetary system. Today we realize that Pluto is among the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, even though initially it was believed to be a body perhaps as massive as Earth. This presentation traces the history of Pluto — from predictions of its existence, to the discovery of its moons, to its “demotion” to dwarf-planet status — and explores the amazing, unexpected findings revealed by New Horizons.

The Quest for Earth-like Planets with Courtney Dressing | CfA

source: Harvard University     2013年11月26日
Red-dwarf stars are the most common stars in the universe. Researcher Courtney Dressing presents findings that these most-numerous of stars also harbor plenty of planets. Thus, Earth-like planets are more prevalent than we thought and should be located right next door.