2016-07-13

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Cláudio L. Guerra


source: TED-Ed    2016年7月11日
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The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievements in human history. The now-famous double helix is almost synonymous with Watson and Crick, two of the scientists who won the Nobel prize for figuring it out. But there’s another name you may not know: Rosalind Franklin. Cláudio L. Guerra shares the true story of the woman behind the helix.
Lesson by Cláudio L. Guerra , animation by Chris Bishop.

Luci Tapahonso | An Afternoon with the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University     2016年4月7日
Luci Tapahonso (6:23), inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation and professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, reads an assortment of her poetry followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.
Introduction by Kristiana Kahakauwila, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; assistant professor of creative writing, Western Washington University; and an instructor in the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, Oregon State University-Cascades.
Discussion moderated by Shelly Lowe (54:00), Executive Director, Harvard University Native American Program, will moderate the discussion with the audience.

John Preskill “Quantum Information and Spacetime”


source: Yale University    2016年5月17日
2016 Leigh Page Prize Lecture Series, hosted by Yale Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, “Quantum Information and Spacetime”
Abstract: Aside from enabling revolutionary future technologies, quantum information science is providing powerful new tools for attacking deep problems in fundamental physical science. In particular, the recent convergence of quantum information and quantum gravity is sparking exciting progress on some old and very hard questions.

Shenzhen: A new breed of intellectual property (Part 3) | Future Cities ...


source: WIRED UK     2016年6月21日
In this third episode of our Future Cities strand, we explore how attitudes in Shenzhen about patents and intellectual property differ to those in the West.
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In particular, we look at how the evolution of “shanzhai” - or copycat manufacturing - has created an ecosystem that could transform traditional models of business, distribution and innovation. Although, technically, any knock-off goods can be called shanzhai, the word's meaning has recently shifted to refer to electronic goods, and episode three delves behind the scenes of this business culture.
The final part of the series is out next Tuesday June 28, when we’ll be asking to what extent the practices in Shenzhen have the power to revolutionise our world. Subscribe to the WIRED YouTube channel to not miss an episode.


Future Cities is part of a new flagship documentary strand from WIRED Video that explores the technologies, trends and ideas that are changing our world.

RSA Replay: The Path to Living Well by Michael Puett


source: The RSA    2016年4月28日
Professor of Chinese history and philosophy Michael Puett has taken Harvard by storm in recent years, delivering its most popular undergraduate course, and attracting thousands of students to his lectures on the ancient teachings of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Xunzi.
At the RSA, he invites us to re-examine the impact of Western philosophy on our lives and some of our deepest held assumptions, and to "unlearn" many ideas that inform modern society. The ancient Chinese philosophers show that the key to living well is not by "finding" ourselves and slavishly following a grand plan, as so much of Western thought would have us believe, but rather through a path of self-cultivation and engagement with the world. Believing in a "true self" only restricts what we can become - and tiny changes, from how we think about careers to how we talk with our family, can have powerful impact on our lives and relationships.

Agriculture: Nutrition, Therapeutics and Health by V. Vijaya Lakshmi & Jayashankar Telangana

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source: nptelhrd     2016年5月18日
Nutrition, Therapeutics and Health (NM) by Dr. V. Vijaya Lakshmi (Instructor Incharge), Dept. of FDNT, Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agri. University. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction 7:01
Lec-02 Relationship between Food, Nutrition and Health 1 16:29
Lec-03 Relationship between Food, Nutrition and Health 2 12:08
Lec-04 Digestion, absorption and utilization of Nutrients 1 17:07
Lec-05 Digestion, absorption and utilization of Nutrients 2 10:09
Lec-06 Recommended dietary allowances 13:15
Lec-07 Carbohydrate 12:05
Lec-08 Fiber 10:13
Lec-09 Protein 6:50
Lec-10 Protein - health significance 7:31
Lec-11 Fat 7:50
Lec-12 Energy 1 7:36
Lec-13 Energy 2 6:46
Lec-14 Energy 3 10:16
Lec-15 Fat Soluble Vitamins 1 9:04
Lec-16 Fat Soluble Vitamins 2 9:06
Lec-17 Fat Soluble Vitamins 3 9:14
Lec-18 Water Soluble Vitamins 1 8:42
Lec-19 Water Soluble Vitamins 2 10:05
Lec-20 Water soluble Vitamins 3 13:39
Lec-21 Water soluble Vitamins 4 13:56
Lec-22 Major minerals 1 9:54
Lec-23 Major minerals 2 11:58
Lec-24 Trace minerals 1 11:30
Lec-25 Trace minerals 2 10:24
Lec-26 Water 12:39
Lec-27 Nutritional Disorders 12:07
Lec-28 Balanced diet and food groups 13:38
Lec-29 Food guide for selecting adequate diet, practical aspects of food selection 17:07
Lec-30 Meal planning 15:29
Lec-31 Other aspects affecting food selection 9:07
Lec-32 Food sanitation & hygiene 15:51
Lec-33 Water Purification 5:47
Lec-34 Therapeutic adaptation of normal diet 11:41
Lec-35 Principles of therapeutic diet 9:49
Lec-36 Diet during fevers 12:48
Lec-37 Diet in lung disease 11:52
Lec-38 Diet in GI disorders – constipation 11:35
Lec-39 Diet during diarrhoea 15:48
Lec-40 Diet in disorders of liver 14:05
Lec-41 Diseases of gall bladder 8:19
Lec-42 Diet in Diabetes 12:45
Lec-43 Diseases of Heart & blood vessels 11:09
Lec-44 Diet for myocardial infarction 7:04
Lec-45 Diet in kidney disorders 14:11
Lec-46 Diet in renal failure 13:28
Lec-47 Diet in cancer 15:29
Lec-48 Diet in metabolic disorders 14:31
Lec-49 Diet in stress, burns & surgery 16:14

Susheela Kaushik: Women Studies


source: Cec Ugc     2014年12月16日

Nature of State & Women Empowerment in India 59:43
Violence against Women and Children 58:39
Sexual Harassment at Work Place 31:00
Women and Panchayati Raj in India 59:10
Democracy, Women's Participation in South Asia 58:47
Gender Mainstreaming of Higher Education 59:26
Women Issues in India 54:31
Women's Studies : A Tool of Social Engineering 58:58
Women's Studies : A Tool of Social Engineering. 59:58
Women and Media 58:24
Women in Higher Education in India 1:00:06
Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education 58:15
Economic Empowerment of Women : Approaches and Policies 1:01:00
Women and the Media 1:01:03
Secularism in India 57:43

Bhim Singh Dahiya: English (New Delhi, India)

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source: Cec Ugc     2016年4月8日

The Pre Romantics and Blake 55:53
The Age of Johnson 58:09
The Age of Pope 57:33
The Age of Dryden 59:27
The Shakespearean Stage 58:59
Lecture 6 : The Sonneteers (Sidney, Spencer) 1:01:06
Multiculturalism 52:45
William Congreve : The way of the World 55:58
Aphra Behn The Rover 56:04
John Dryden : Mac Flecknoe 53:15
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book -III 59:07
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book -II 54:52
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi 54:39
John Milton : Paradise lost book - I 54:33
Meta Physical Poets : Andrew Marvell 55:16
Meta Physical Poets : John Donne 56:15
Shakespeare's Summing :up 54:11
Shakespeare's Sonnets 57:01
Shakespeare's The Tempest 54:13
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice 55:36
Shakespeare's Othello 58:43
Shakespeare's Macbeth 54:56
Shakespeare's King Lear 55:43
Shakespeare's Hamlet 45:21
Shakespeare's Henry IV -I 56:33
"Shakespeare's History Play : Realism" 55:18
" As You Like It : Shakespeare's Romantic Vision" 53:46
The Shakespearean Text 54:32
Classics of American Fiction -II 55:11
Classics of American Fiction 55:38
Wyatt and Surrey 56:31
Thomas More's Utopia - Part 2 51:10
Thomas More's Utopia - I 47:56
Classics of American Literature : Drama -II 52:04
Classics of American Literature : Drama - I 49:03
Role of Women Writers in the Present-Day World 56:50
Premchand's Afterlife : Growing Relevance 57:04
Post Independence Hindi Short Fiction 56:52
Post Independence Hindi Novel 59:54
Classics of American Literature : Poetry 53:58
Classics of American Literature : Poetry 45:50
Contemporary Hindi Writing 58:00
Muktibodh as a Poet of Commitment 1:00:17
Hungarian Romanticism : Freedom and Love 39:52
Reading English Literature 55:12
Early Modern English Literature - Part 1 57:33
18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 2 57:15
English Literature - Part 5 9:31
Post-Modern English Literature 1:01:39
20th Century English Literature 59:48
21st Century English Literature 59:10
Literary Theory 57:43
English : Literary Theory 58:14
English : Literary Theory 57:12
Literary Theory : Base and Superstructure 58:41
Beginning of American English - Part 2 56:32
Beginning of American English 58:02
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction 1:00:22
Later 19th Century American Literature 57:46
Early 20th Century American Literature 58:15
Women Writers of America 51:42
Feminism 1:00:10
Black American Literature 42:36
Postmodernism 1:00:25
Post Colonialism 59:29
Summing Up : Literary Theory 52:34
Writing in India : An Introduction 58:51
A View of Kabir 58:04
Women Bhakti Poets : Mira 51:25
Progressive Hindi Poetry 58:27
Hungarian Romanticism 52:15
Premchand's Short Stories 56:40
Premchand's Novels 56:05
Premchand : An Introduction 57:00
Black Drama - Part 2 58:51
Black Drama 46:06
Life and Literature 43:07
Black American Literature : Poetry 58:14
Tagore's Poetry 58:47
Black American Literature : Fiction 58:39
Iqbal as a Poet 57:20
Tagore's Fiction and other Prose Writing 56:52
20th Century Indian Writing : A Perspective - Part 2 54:46
A view of Lal Ded's Poetry - Part 2 57:04
Black American Drama 47:43
Women Bhakti Poets : Lal Ded 52:13
20th Century Indian Writing : A Perspective 56:39
Ghalib as a Humanist 57:16
Ghalib's Letters : A View 52:42
19th Century : The period of Indian Renaissance 59:00
Diaspora Writing 59:51
Classic American Literature 58:59
Beginnings of American Literature 59:50
English : Literary Theory 52:48
English : Literary Theory 58:45
English : Literary Theory 57:58
English : Literary Theory 59:24
English : Literary Theory 59:01
English : Literary Theory 59:44
English : Literary Theory 1:00:39
Literary Theory 1:00:48
20th Century English Literature 1:00:09
Early 20th Century English Literature - Part 2 59:40
Early 20th Century English Literature - Part 1 58:55
English Literature - Part 4 59:53
English Literature - Part 3 54:12
19th Century English Literature - Part 2 52:42
An Overview of 19th Century English Literature - Part 1 56:28
18th and 19th Century English Literature - Part 1 1:02:06
Early Modern English Literature - Part 4 57:34
Early Modern English Literature - Part 3 56:30
Early Modern English Literature - Part 2 59:24
Reading English Literature 1:00:28

Chemical - Mass Transfer Operations I by B. Mandal (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd     2013年10月11日
Mass Transfer Operations I by Prof. Dr. B. Mandal, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lec-01 Introduction to Mass Transfer 45:45
Lec-02 Molecular Diffusion 52:22
Lec-03 Fick's Law of Diffusion 46:58
Lec-04 Steady state molecular diffusion in fluids Part I 44:59
Lec-05 Steady state molecular diffusion in fluids Part II 42:52
Lec-06 Diffusion coefficient: Measurement and Prediction Part I 44:12
Lec-07 Diffusion Coefficient: Measurement and Prediction Part II 45:34
Lec-08 Multicomponent Diffusion and Diffusivity in Solids 45:51
Lec-01 Concept of Mass Transfer Coefficient 51:02
Lec-02 Dimensionless Groups and Co-relations for Convective 49:33
Lec-03 Mass Transfer co-efficient in Laminar Flow Condition 48:39
Lec-04 Boundary Layer Theory and Film Theory in Mass Transfer 47:38
Lec-05 Mass Transfer Coefficients in Terbulant Flow 48:09
Lec-06 Interphase Mass Transfer and Mass Transfer Theories Part I 49:40
Lec-07 Interphase Mass Transfer and Mass Transfer Theories Part II 54:23
Lec-08 Interphase Mass Transfer and Mass Transfer Theories Part 3 51:03
Lec-01 Agitated and Sparged Vassels 53:53
Lec-02 Tray Column Part I 53:25
Lec-03 Tray Column Part II 57:06
Lec-04 Packed Tower 59:54
Lec-01 Introduction to Absorption and Solvent selection 55:33
Lec-02 Packed Tower Design Part I 48:44
Lec-03 Packed Tower Design Part II 49:44
Lec-04 Packed Tower Design Part III 52:20
Lec-05 Mass Transfer Coefficients Correlation and HETP Concept 46:49
Lec-06 Tray Tower Design and Introduction to Multicomponent System 44:48
Lec-01 Introduction to Distillation and Phase diagrams 45:17
Lec-02 Azeotropes and Enthalpy Concentration Diagrams 51:38
Lec-04 Batch and Steam Distillation 49:43
Lec-05 Fractional Distillation 53:33
Lec-06 Fractional Distillation: McCabe Thiele Method 46:48
Lec-07 Fractional Distillation: Minimum Reflux and Pinch Point 40:06
Lec-08 Fractional Distillation: Subcooled Reflux ,Tray Efficiency and Use of Open Steam 42:47
Lec-09 Fractional Distillation: Multiple Feeds and Side Stream 37:00
Lec-10 Multistage Batch Distillation with Reflux 37:15
Lec-11 Fractional Distillation: Ponchan and Savarit Method 35:48
Lec-12 Ponchan and Savarit Method and Packed Tower Distillation 40:08
Lec-13 Multicomponent Distillation 35:43

Zoos Enrich Our Lives but Cost Animals Their Dignity, Says Bill Nye


source: Big Think      2016年6月14日
Responding to the shooting of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, Bill Nye says the treatment of animals in zoos is plainly unethical. Yet zoos do have a role in maintaining the health of ecosystems.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-o...

Transcript - So recently a four-year-old kid got into a gorilla enclosure in a zoo and the zoo officials decided in the safety of the kid they had to kill the gorilla. So here was an animal that was in his natural habitat in Africa doing his gorillatical thing. And he got captured and ended up in a zoo. And then the guy got shot because some kid crawled into his enclosure. It’s just – there’s no good thing about this. With that said my life was certainly enriched by going to zoos. I learned that even a giraffe could exist was an amazing thing to me. And the smell of the zoo was or is something I’ll never forget. It reminds me of farms, there’s animal excrement that has to be dealt with. And you see how much you have in common with these creatures. Is it ethical? I think we all agree it would be better no if we didn’t have zoos. If we had a way to interact with animals without causing them such hardship. Now the example from my personal experience which really affects me and affects my judgment on this. There was a guy named Ivan who was a gorilla brought to the United States in the 1960s. My recollection is 1962.
And he lived with a family in Tacoma, Washington. And they hung out. The gorilla was at the dinner table and they did gorilla-human interaction things, played games, did stuff. But the guy eventually got to be the 400 pound gorilla in the room and they had to put him in an enclosure in a cage that was concrete. And you could visit him in the B&I Department Store in Tacoma, Washington. And this is in the Pacific Northwest and this guy was a character, a feature, a tourist attraction. And I don’t know – I’m not a primate expert but I looked at Ivan. I looked him in the eye. We had a little meeting behind the glass and the guy wasn’t angry to me so much as bored. Like this sucks, you know, I got a rubber swing. Humans are interesting but it’s really not my deal. He got transferred to the Atlanta zoo and I visited him in the Atlanta zoo and he had it going on man. He had a big enclosure. He had girl gorillas. And you could just tell by the way he was walking around this does not suck. This is cool. That was my interpretation of Ivan’s emotions. I may be completely wrong about this but Ivan grew up with humans. He accepted humans. Humans were as much his pets as he was our pet. And so there was some crossover there that I found really compelling as a human. Read The Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/EfDYbN.

Lane Michel: "Heart Rate Variability Science Meets Heart and Mindful Practices" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google     2016年6月9日
Intelligent use of emotion is key to improving physiology and health in every aspect of life. We can quickly build skills and habits that harness science and consciousness for improved personal and professional effectiveness. Lane Michel, founder of VeraHeart, will introduce the research, tools and practices that increase well-being, mental clarity, performance and emotional stability when heart and mind work together. He helps people live their heart adventure and make positive changes. Michel is also an engineer, executive, entrepreneur, inspirational guide, writer and Heartmath® Certified Trainer.
You can find Lane's slides here: http://www.veraheart.com/talks-at-goo...

James Grant: "The Forgotten Depression of 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google     2016年5月19日
The Forgotten Depression tells of the slump of 1920-21: high unemployment, collapse in commodity prices, upsurge in bankruptcies and sharp break in stock prices. Unlike the Great Depression, the 1920 affair was over in 18 months. What explains its brevity? James Grant is founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and has appeared in The WSJ, Claremont Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs, as well as on TV on Sixty Minutes, Charlie Rose and Wall Street Week.