How to turn protest into powerful change - Eric Liu

source: TED-Ed    2016年7月14日
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We live in an age of protest. On campuses, in public squares, on streets and social media, protestors around the world are challenging the status quo. But while protest is often necessary, is it sufficient? Eric Liu outlines three strategies for peacefully turning awareness into action and protest into durable political power.
Lesson by Eric Liu, animation by Sarah Saidan.

Whither France? The Pessimistic Turn in Modern French Thought

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年2月4日
Speaker(s): Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh
Recorded on 25 January 2016 at Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
How have the rise of conservative and inward looking intellectual traditions undermined France’s progressive imagination? Can French progressive ideals be revived?
Sudhir Hazareesingh is CUF Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.
The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

Blood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the world

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年3月4日
Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Leif Wenar
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon

Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the petrol station and the mall.
In this lecture, Leif Wenar will talk about his new book, Blood Oil, which goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that puts shoppers into business with the men of blood - and discovers an ancient law that once licensed the slave trade, apartheid and genocide. The abolition of this rule marked some of humanity's greatest triumphs - yet the rule zombies on in today's multi-trillion dollar resource trade, enriching tyrants, warlords and terrorists worldwide.
By our own deepest principles, over half of the world's traded oil is stolen. Blood Oil shows how the West can lead a peaceful global revolution by finally ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, conflict minerals and other stolen resources. Upgrading world trade will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, and better able to solve urgent problems like climate change. Blood Oil shows how citizens, consumers and leaders can act today to avert tomorrow's crises - and to create a more united human future.
Leif Wenar (@LeifWenar) is Chair of Philosophy and Law at King's College London. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton and Stanford and a Fellow of the Carnegie Council Program in Justice and the World Economy.
Margot Salomon is an Associate Professor in the Law Department and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights where she directs the multidisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy (Lab).
The Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE (@LSEHumanRights) is a trans-disciplinary centre of excellence for international academic research, teaching and critical scholarship on human rights.

Objects of Belief; Stone Vessels with Roland Deines

source: University of Nottingham     2016年5月12日
Anyone who has heard of the Marriage Feast at Cana (Gospel of John 2:1-11) has heard of ‘the six stone jars, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.’Jars made of stone seems a most strange idea!
Prof. Roland Deines looks at two, much smaller, stone vessel – they all date from a period of about 80 years before the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE, and are found exclusively on Jewish sites – and what they can tell us about Jewish domestic life in the period from the beginning of the reign of Herod the Great until the destruction of the temple. The video illustrates the point that archaeological evidence can often remove the obscurity of texts and be a window into another culture and world.
Other videos you may wish to look at include;
Margaret Barker's walk through the Old Testament parts 1-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Mcd...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9kj...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduuT...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzEC...
Why Study The Old Testament alongside the New with Margaret Barker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsaY...

The Effect of Music on a Child’s Brain | Mr Know it All | WIRED

source: WIRED UK     2016年5月31日
You’ve may have heard that music is good for the development of a child’s brain, but does it matter what kind of genre you select for the speakers?
In this episode, Mr. Know-It-All weighs in on the age-old battle of the bands when it comes to positive cognitive development: Led Zeppelin or The Wiggles?
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Native Politics in Literature and Art | Native Peoples, Native Politics || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University     2016年5月23日
PANEL 3: NATIVE POLITICS IN LITERATURE AND ART
Moderated by Shelly Lowe (Navajo), executive director, Harvard University Native American Program
(3:27) Kristiana Kahakauwila (Native Hawaiian), writer; 2015–2016 Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
(20:34) Frank Waln (Sicangu Lakota), musician
(34:44) Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip), photographer and creator, Project 562
Q&A (56:36)

Guy Claxton on Why Your Mind Needs Your Body

source: The RSA     2016年5月12日
Western Culture has long separated the mind from the body; the brain, has been privileged as the source of intellect, with the rest of the body annexed as mere matter. But the new field of ‘embodied cognition’, offers a richer, more holistic view of intelligence that involves the whole body. Author and education reformer Professor Guy Claxton introduces this new field, explores the far-reaching implications of the persistence of the Cartesian mind/body ‘error’, and reveals how an appreciation of the whole body’s intelligence can enrich all our lives.
Missed our last Spotlight with Matthew Desmond, Campbell Robb, Owen Jones and Afua Hirsch on Economic Inequality? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/AeIUYAusc1I

Advanced Algorithms by Jelani Nelson (Harvard University)

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source: Harvard University      2016年7月11日
Advanced Algorithms (COMPSCI 224)

Lecture 1 Logistics, course topics, word RAM, predecessor, van Emde Boas, y-fast tries. 1:28:19
Please see Problem 1 of Assignment 1 at http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~minil... for a corrected analysis of the space complexity of van Emde Boas trees
Lecture 2 Fusion trees, word-level parallelism, most significant set bit in constant time. 1:25:40
Lecture 3 Hashing: load balancing, k-wise independence, chaining, linear probing. 1:28:46
Lecture 4 Symmetrization, hashing: linear probing (5-wise indep.), bloom filters, cuckoo hashing, bloomier filters. 1:27:52
Lecture 5 Hashing: cuckoo hashing analysis, power of two choices. 1:21:37
Lecture 6 Amortized analysis, binomial heaps, Fibonacci heaps. 1:23:47
Lecture 7 Splay trees. 1:26:46
Lecture 8 Online algorithms, competitive analysis, move-to-front, paging. 1:24:06
Lecture 9 Randomized paging, packing/covering linear programs, weak duality, approximate complementary slackness, primal/dual online algorithms (2-competitive deterministic ski rental). 1:24:56
Lecture 10 Online primal/dual: e/(e-1) ski rental, set cover; approximation algorithms via dual fitting: set cover. 1:24:34
Lecture 11 Approximation algorithms via dual fitting (wrap-up), LP integrality gaps, definitions of PTAS/FPTAS/FPRAS, PTAS for knapsack. 1:25:41
Lecture 12 FPTAS (knapsack), FPRAS (DNF counting), semidefinite programming, Goemans-Williamson MAXCUT algorithm. 1:25:05
Lecture 13 Guest lecture: Rong Ge: Learning Topic Models. 1:21:46
Lecture 15 linear programming: standard form, vertices, bases, simplex. 1:26:14
Lecture 16 Simplex wrap-up, strong duality, complementary slackness, ellipsoid, intro to interior point. 1:24:58
Lecture 17 Path-following interior point, first order methods (gradient descent). 1:26:44
Lecture 18 second order methods (Newton's method), path-following interior point wrap-up. 1:24:43
Lecture 19 Learning from experts, multiplicative weights. 1:21:34
Lecture 20 Linear programming via multiplicative weights, flows, augmenting paths. 1:23:38
Lecture 21 Scaling for max flow, blocking flow. 1:27:09
Lecture 22 Preferred path decomposition, link-cut trees. 1:20:16
Lecture 23 Heavy-light decomposition, O(log2n) amortized analysis of link-cut trees, min cost max flow, min cost circulation, shortest augmenting paths. 1:26:46
Lecture 24 More efficient exponential-time algorithms: exponential divide-and-conquer (TSP), pruned brute force (3-SAT), Schöning's algorithm (3-SAT), inclusion-exclusion (k-colorability). 1:26:03
Lecture 25 Zeta transform, Möbius inversion, streaming algorithms, necessity of randomization and approximation, distinct elements. 1:26:15
Lecture 26 Power of random signs: ℓ2 norm estimation, subspace embeddings (regression), Johnson-Lindenstrauss, deterministic point query. 1:25:03

Chemical Reaction Engineering 1 (Homogeneous Reactors) by K. Krishnaiah (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2016年5月20日
Chemical Reaction Engineering 1 (Homogeneous Reactors) by Prof K. Krishnaiah, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Lec-1 Motivation & Introduction Part I 56:23
Lec-2 Motivation & Introduction Part II 38:35
Lec-3 What is Chemical Engg. Part I 46:52
Lec-4 What is Chemical Engg. Part II 57:36
Lec-5 What is Chemical Reaction Engg. Part I 41:08
Lec-6 What is Chemical Reaction Engg. Part II 48:11
Lec-7 Homogeneous & Heterogeneous Reactions Part I 1:02:58
Lec-8 Homogeneous & Heterogeneous Reactions Part II 41:41
Lec-9 Basics of Kinetics and Contacting 50:39
Lec-10 Design of Batch reactors Part I 34:57
Lec-11 Design of Batch reactors Part II 18:03
Lec-12 Basics of Plug Flow Reactor Part I 43:03
Lec-13 Basics of Plug Flow Reactor Part II 36:28
Lec-14 Design of Plug Flow Reactors Part I 50:06
Lec-15 Design of Plug Flow Reactors Part II 38:27
Lec-16 Basics of Mixed Flow Reactors 50:29
Lec-17 Design of Mixed Flow Reactors 51:40
Lec-18 Basics of Kinetics 56:21
Lec-19 Kinetics of Heterogeneous reactions Part I 52:52
Lec-20 Kinetics of Heterogeneous reactions Part II 1:00:14
Lec-21 Kinetics of Heterogeneous reactions Part III 55:31
Lec-22 Kinetics of Homogeneous reactions 54:06
Lec-23 Reaction rate for Homogeneous reactions 34:02
Lec-24 Gas Phase Homogeneous reactions 40:37
Lec-25 Contd. And later Reactor Design of PFR 1:22:54
Lec-26 Reactor Design for MFR and Combination of reactors. 59:59
Lec-27 PFR and MFR in series. 51:27
Lec-28 Unsteady state MFR and PFR 58:12
Lec-29 Recycle Reactors 39:31
Lec-30 Recycle Reactors (Autocatalytic reactions) Part I 43:46
Lec-31 Recycle Reactors (Autocatalytic reactions) Part II 30:30
Lec-32 Multiple Reactions Part I 44:30
Lec-33 Multiple Reactions Part II 39:27
Lec-34 Multiple Reactions Part III 38:27
Lec-35 Multiple Reactions Part IV 37:46
Lec-36 Multiple Reactions Part V 1:39:02
Lec-37 Multiple Reactions Part VI 43:29
Lec-38 Non-Isothermal Reactors Part I 43:03
Lec-39 Non-Isothermal Reactors Part II 40:47
Lec-40 Non-Isothermal Reactors (Graphical Design) 1:00:32
Lec-41 Non-Isothermal Reactors contd. & Adiabatic Reactors 54:11
Lec-42 Non-Isothermal Reactors (Graphical Design) Contd. 40:36
Lec-43 Non-Isothermal Batch Reactors 48:06
Lec-44 Non-isothermal Plug Flow Reactors Part I 39:26
Lec-45 Non-isothermal Plug Flow Reactors Part II 46:57
Lec-46 Adiabatic Plug Flow Reactors 40:37
Lec-47 Non-isothermal Mixed Flow Reactors 44:31
Lec-48 Non-isothermal Mixed Flow Reactors Contd. (Multiple steady states) Part I 54:43
Lec-49 Non-isothermal Mixed Flow Reactors Contd. (Multiple steady states) Part II 52:37
Lec-50 Non-Ideal Flow & Residence Time Distributions (RTD) basics Part I 46:14
Lec-51 Non-Ideal Flow & Residence Time Distributions (RTD) basics Part II 40:40
Lec-52 RTD for various reactors contd. Part I 1:12:03
Lec-53 RTD for various reactors contd. Part II 1:37:41
Lec-54 Diagnosing the ills of equipments & Various RTD Models 43:24
Lec-55 Dispersion Model 54:01
Lec-56 Dispersion with reaction Model and Tanks in Series Model 1:43:31
Lec-57 Multi-parameter model (MFR with dead space and bypass) 58:26
Lec-58 Direct use of RTD to predict conversion Part I 1:30:37
Lec-59 Direct use of RTD to predict conversion Part II 44:28
Lec-60 Direct use of RTD to predict conversion Part III 1:20:34

Electronics - Analog Circuits and Systems 1 by K. Radhakrishna Rao(IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2016年5月19日
Analog Circuits and Systems 1 by Prof. K. Radhakrishna Rao, Prof (Retd), IIT Madras. Texas Instruments, India.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Lec-01 Introduction to Sensors, Signals and Systems 52:06
Lec-02 Role of Analog Signal Processing in Electronic Products Part I 35:02
Lec-03 Role of Analog Signal Processing in Electronic Products Part II 1:00:04
Lec-04 Analog Signal Processing using One Port Networks 53:36
Lec-05 Analog Signal Processing using One Port Networks, Passive Two Ports and Ideal amplifie 58:22
Lec-06 Synthesis of Amplifiers using Nullators and Norators 52:14
Lec-07 Passive Electronic Devices for Analog Signal Processing 56:19
Lec-08 Active Devices for Analog Signal Processing Systems 52:54
Lec-09 Electronic Devices for Analog Circuits Part I 1:00:56
Lec-10 Electronic Devices for Analog Circuits Part II 1:02:28
Lec-11 Feedback in Systems 59:47
Lec-12 Static Charecteristic of Feedback Systems 58:23
Lec-13 Dynamic Behaviour of Feedback Systems Part I 58:34
Lec-14 Dynamic Behavior of Feedback Systems Part II 1:00:26
Lec-15 Design of Feedback Amplifiers Part I 50:32
Lec-16 Design of Feedback Amplifiers Part II 1:00:09
Lec-17 Design of Feedback Amplifiers and Instrumentation Amplifiers 1:07:32
Lec-18 Instrumentation Amplifiers, Integrators and Differentiators 55:25
Lec-19 Non linear Analog Signal Processing 1:03:07
Lec-20 DC Voltage Regulators 55:37
Lec-21 Filters Approximations to ideal filter functions 1:07:08
Lec-22 Passive Filters Part I 57:07
Lec-23 Passive Filters Part II 1:03:56
Lec-24 Active Filters Part I 1:04:23
Lec-25 Active Filters Part II 49:03
Lec-26 Active Filters Q enhancement 57:40
Lec-27 State Space Filters 1:01:46
Lec-28 Universal Active Filter Effect of Active Device GB 1:02:00
Lec-29 State Space Filters Tuning of Filters 1:04:03
Lec-30 Automatic Tuning of Filters PLL and Review of Filter Design 57:04
Lec-31 Waveform Generation 57:18
Lec-32 LC Oscillator Effect of Non idealities 1:08:17
Lec-33 Transconductor based Oscillator 1:00:52
Lec-34 Regenerative Comparators and Non Sinusoidal Oscillators 56:51
Lec-35 Non Sinusoidal Oscillators and VCO FM & FSK Generators 53:13
Lec-36 Phase and Frequency Followers 1:00:58
Lec-37 Frequency Locked Loop Popularly known as PLL 1:10:38
Lec-38 Design of PLL and FLL 59:57
Lec-39 Analog System Design 56:13

Chemical - Microscale Transport Processes (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2013年7月16日
Microscale Transport Processes by Prof. S. Dasgupta, Dr. Somnath Ganguly, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lec-01 Introduction 50:59
Lec-02 Introduction (Contd.) 56:22
Lec-03 Lab on Chip 53:30
Lec-04 Lab on Chip (Contd.) 54:24
Lec-05 Microscale manufacturing practices 53:10
Lec-06 Photolithography 52:42
Lec-07 Photolithography (contd.) 55:29
Lec-08 Deposition 56:38
Lec-09 Plastic microfluidic devices 59:33
Lec-10 Mixing 54:34
Lec-11 Micro Heat Pipes 57:50
Lec-12 Mixing (contd.) 56:48
Lec-13 Mixing (contd.) 55:29
Lec-14 Micro Heat Pipes (contd.) 53:11
Lec-15 Mixing (contd.) 55:56
Lec-16 Dispersion 57:11
Lec-17 Dispersion (contd.) 54:28
Lec-18 Dispersion (contd.) 55:16
Lec-19 Electrowetting 53:58
Lec-20 Electro osmosis 57:04
Lec-21 Electrowetting (contd.) 55:38
Lec-22 Electro osmosis (contd.) 54:53
Lec-23 Dielectrophoresis 55:57
Lec-24 Dielectrophoresis (contd.) 54:44
Lec-25 Dielectrophoresis (contd.) 53:38
Lec-26 Scaling dimension and issues 54:08
Lec-27 Slip flow 53:24
Lec-28 Microstructured reactor 58:55
Lec-29 Immiscible flow in microchannel 54:23
Lec-30 Immiscible flow in microchannel (contd.) 54:08
Lec-31 Immiscible flow in microchannel (contd.) 55:49
Lec-32 Scaling dimension and issues (contd.) 55:36
Lec-33 Immiscible flow in microchannel (contd.) 57:18
Lec-34 Plastic device making 57:05
Lec-35 Transport processes and their descriptions 58:19
Lec-36 Convective fluid dynamics in microchannels 58:02
Lec-37 Microfluidic networks 58:35
Lec-38 Electrohydrodynamic atomization 57:26
Lec-39 Electrohydrodynamic atomization (contd.) 57:29
Lec-40 Interfacial phenomena in thin liquid films 58:20

Adam Kucharski: "The Perfect Bet" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google      2016年6月21日
Adam came into our London office to discuss the long and tangled history between betting and science, and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision-making. Recorded in May 2016.
You can follow Adam on Twitter - @AdamJKucharski

About the book:
Gamblers have been trying to figure out how to game the system since our ancestors first made wagers over dice fashioned from knucklebones: in revolutionary Paris, the 'martingale' strategy was rumoured to lead to foolproof success at the roulette table; now, in the 21st century, professional gamblers are using cutting-edge techniques to tilt the odds further in their favour. At the roulette wheel, card table or racecourse, science is giving us the competitive edge over opponents, casinos and bookmakers. But is there such a thing as a perfect bet?

About the author:
Adam Kucharski is a lecturer in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His research uses mathematical and statistical models to understand disease outbreaks, and the effects of social behaviour and immunity on transmission and control. During 2014-15, he worked on the analysis of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Find the book on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Conrad Anker: "The Call of Everest" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google     2016年6月10日
On June 3rd, 2016 Conrad spoke at Google about the history, science and future of climbing the world's highest peak.
Conrad Anker has summited Mount Everest three times. On his first summit he discovered the body of George Mallory, the legendary British climber. On his third summit he didn't use supplemental oxygen. He was featured in the film Meru, about the first ascent of the Shark's Fin route of the Indian Himalayas.
This Talk was hosted by Monica Poletti.

Chris Anderson: "TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google      2016年5月19日
Chris Anderson, Head of TED, stops by Google Chicago for a fireside chat with Google's Jim Lecinski, VP - Sales & Service.
Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. His exciting and informative new book TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking serves as Anderson’s instruction manual from his 15 years of working with many of the world’s most impactful speakers.
Jim Lecinski, Vice President, leads Google's Brand, Performance, Platforms and Creative solutions teams in the Americas. His focus is product commercialization-- developing the go-to market strategies and initiatives for Google’s product lines that help major marketers adapt to the new digital marketing realities.

Michael Prystowsky: Pathology Education: Medical School to Practicing Pathologist

source: UWTV    2016年4月5日
This presentation by Dr. Michael Prystowsky, tells three stories to address three questions:
- How should we train pathologists to practice 21st century medicine?
- Is maintenance of certification an educational opportunity?
- How much pathology does every medical student need to know?

Dr. Michael Prystowsky, MD, Ph.D., professor and university chair, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
02/24/16
http://depts.washington.edu/labweb/Ed...
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