lectures/ideas: 06/24/16

2016-06-24

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, IAP 2015 at MIT

Graham Ogg – Scratching the surface of allergic reactions

source: Oxford BRC 2016年5月6日
Graham Ogg, Professor of Dermatology, University of Oxford, talks about how allergic disease is a major health problem which can have significant consequences for patients and their families. It can manifest as isolated skin problems through to severe reactions such as life-threatening anaphylaxis. Our skin, digestive system and lungs are exposed to billions of different external challenges each day, yet we still know little about why allergies tend to develop to particular food or airborne triggers. At the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre we are trying to understand how allergies occur and how to prevent and treat such problems. We have recently found a new cell type in the skin which seems to be important in contributing to allergic problems. Early research is showing us how the cell works and we are currently working on clinical trials to try to block the cell function. During the presentation, we will discuss what is known about processes that occur in the body during allergic reactions, and then show how the new cell type might contribute, and how future treatments might impact.

Keyu Jin: Clear and Present Challenges to the Chinese Economy

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年3月11日
The slides for this event are available to download here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia...
Date: Wednesday 9 March 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Keyu Jin
Dr Keyu Jin will discuss the impact of China’s financial reforms.
Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and Centre for Economic Performance.
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.

Summer Science Exhibition 2016: Cleaning up space junk

source: The Royal Society 2016年6月9日
On a mission to pick up litter...in space!
Since the beginning of the space age, over 7,000 tonnes of space junk has been generated - mostly empty rocket casings and dead satellites. Most of the objects launched into space are still orbiting the Earth, threatening collisions with active satellites. Our exhibit invites you to explore our flagship RemoveDEBRIS mission, which aims to be the first to test capture technologies that drag space junk back into the Earth’s atmosphere to burn up.
Our free, week-long festival (Monday 4 July - Sunday 10 July) features 22 curated exhibits and a series of inspiring talks and activities for all ages.
https://royalsociety.org/events/summe...

Jason J. Campbell: Introduction to the Logic of Argumentation

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source: drjasonjcampbell 2012年8月31日/上次更新：2014年5月3日

Are Steroids Really Bad for Your Health? Maybe Not, says Steven Kotler

source: Big Think 2016年6月1日
Many diseases supposedly linked to steroid use in adults simply do not occur, says Steven Kotler. Steroids are, however, great at combating HIV/AIDS and as an anti-aging too. His latest book is Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact (http://goo.gl/eLjsSX).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/steven-kot...

Transcript - I had no interest whatsoever in steroids. I got involved in this because an editor who is a friend of mine called me up and said Jose Canseco just wrote this crazy book where he said steroids are the wonder drug of tomorrow. And I said look man, I am not much of a baseball fan. It kind of bores me and everybody knows steroids are terrible for you. Canseco’s out of his mind. There’s no way – like you’re wasting my time. And he said, you know, it was very, very convincing. He said I’ll pay you to do the research. I was like absolutely I’m in. So I started looking at it and I just started I said okay, I’m just going to read – I’m going to go back ten years and read the articles in major journals – The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature – that kind of thing. I’m not even going to go that deep. Very very quickly what I started to discover is every single thing I thought I knew about steroids was wrong. Every crazy disease these drugs had been linked to have nothing to do with it. I’ll give you a phenomenal example. Steroids were linked to liver cancer, liver problems, right. It had nothing to do with the steroid. It has to do with the coating they put around the steroid so it could pass through the stomach and get into your bloodstream. That was what was causing the problems. That coating has obviously since been replaced. But Nick Evans who’s at UCLA is the only person literally in history whose ever done long-term steroid studies, right. Long term abusers. Body builders, double and triple stacking steroids for 10, 20 years at a time.

None of the things we’ve been told about are real. The only danger he found is since the heart is a muscle there is a certain point if you’re taking massive massive doses over long periods of time it can expand it, it can grow, right and grow bigger than the blood vessels and the ventricles and what not which would be a problem. And this doesn’t mean, by the way, when teenagers use steroids, right, when you’re still producing lots of these substances it’s an absolute disaster, right. That’s bad news. But in adults everything we’ve been told tends to be wrong and some of what we’ve been told costs millions of lives, right. It turns out steroids are phenomenal, phenomenal in fighting back AIDS. They’re really, really, really good. Nobody wanted to talk about it. When doctors started treating AIDS patients with it the guy who started doing this was a guy named Walter Jekot. The government jumped in and put him in jail for five years. He scared the hell out of a ton of doctors and the result of this kind of us trying to keep sports pure and, you know, preserve the competitive advantage has been millions of people died as a result. So not only is everything you’ve been told about steroids wrong, but there were a lot of consequences. The people who have been at the forefront of this and kind of pushing it forward is the life extension community, right. Our hormones decline as we age so the idea here is we can replace them. And they’ve been working on this stuff for 10, 15 years at this point with some success. It is now one of five or six different ways people are attacking aging, right, and fighting back death. But one thing seems to be sure. Since Google’s in the anti-death game, right, Peter Diamandis, my partner, in Bold and Abundance has human longevity incorporated there in the life extension game. There are big companies, massive amounts of resources getting involved and steroids are a piece of this puzzle. And I think we’re going to have to as a country rethink our position on these drugs and anti-aging stuff is going to force us to do it.

Andrew Zimmern: "The Broken Food System" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月26日
Andrew Zimmern discusses the broken food system, how to fix it and stories from his travels at home and abroad.
Andrew Scott Zimmern is an American television personality, chef, food writer and teacher. He is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America and Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World. For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award in 2010 and another in 2013. He also hosts the show Dining with Death, which discusses some of the foods that could cause death.
Moderated by James Mulcahy.

Dr. Susan Murphy: "Wearable Tech in Healthcare" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年5月31日
University of Michigan Professor of Statistics & Psychiatry, Susan Murphy, discusses her research on improving sequential, individualized, decision making in health, in particular on clinical trial design. Susan is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow of the College on Problems in Drug Dependence, a former editor of the Annals of Statistics, a member of the US National Academy of Medicine and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.

Lawrence Corey: Progress in Developing an HIV Vaccine: Empiricism and a Bit of Optimism

source: UWTV 2016年5月10日
HIV continues to be the epidemic of our lifetime. Even today, 2 million new infections occur worldwide and there are over 50,000 new cases a year in the US. Developing an HIV vaccine has been a scientific challenge, but new technologies and approaches are leading to guarded optimism about achieving this goal. Dr. Lawrence Corey, professor of medicine and laboratory medicine at the University of Washington, past president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and head of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, will discuss the state of the HIV vaccine field and the role Seattle plays in this field.

Lawrence Corey, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, adjunct professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Washington
03/30/2016
http://depts.washington.edu/labweb/Ed...
http://uwtv.org

(2015下-商專) 英文翻譯（二）蔣筱珍 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

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source: 華視教學頻道 2016年2月29日
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