2016-08-19

After the Drug Wars: report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy


source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年2月17日
Date: Monday 15 February 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Dr John Collins, Dr Joanne Csete, Catalina Pérez Correa González, Javier Segredo
Chair: Professor Danny Quah

As the UN meets to form the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 2016 many member states are examining how to roll back the war on drugs and institute new policies. The LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy will provide a new framework for global drug control efforts, grounded in public health, sustainable development and human rights.
John Collins is Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Project (IDPP).
Joanne Csete is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Columbia University.
Catalina Pérez Correa González (@cataperezcorrea) is Professor and Researcher in Legal Studies Division at CIDE (Mexico).
Javier Segredo is the Regional Democratic Governance and Citizen Security Advisor at the UN Development Programme.
Professor Danny Quah (@DannyQuah) is Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre.
LSE IDEAS (@LSEIDEAS) is a foreign policy think-tank within LSE's Institute for Global Affairs.

John McDonnell on Labour's Economic Policy


source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)   2016年2月19日
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2016
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: John McDonnell
Chair: Professor Tony Travers

John McDonnell (@johnmcdonnellMP) has been the MP for Hayes and Harlington since 1997 and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since September 2015. He was born in Liverpool and stood as a candidate for Leader of the Labour party against Gordon Brown in 2007 and again in 2010. In 1981, he was elected to the Greater London Council as a member for Hayes and Harlington. He became the Chair of Finance, responsible for the GLC’s budget, and was Ken Livingstone's deputy leader until 1985. From 1985-87, he was Head of the Policy Unit at Camden Borough Council, then Chief Executive of the Association of London Authorities from 1987 to 1995 and the Association of London Government from 1995-97.

Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics.
British Government @ LSE (@lsegovernment) is an initiative currently based in the Government Department to promote and develop research on British Government being conducted at the LSE. So far world class speakers have attended our events, talking on a range of topics.

Hilary Putnam on Meaning & Semantic Externalism


source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年3月25日
Hilary Putnam was awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2011 “for his contribution to the understanding of semantics for theoretical and ‘natural kind’ terms, and of the implications of this semantics for philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, and metaphysics“. In this talk, Putnam describes the path which led to the work for which he was being honored. Hilary Putnam (1926-2016) was an American philosopher and mathematician who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.
Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" can be found here: https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...

Reincarnation and Robots with Ben Goertzel

source: New Thinking Allowed     2016年6月2日
Ben Goertzel, PhD, is author of many books on artificial intelligence including Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really Really Try; Engineering General Intelligence, Vols. 1 and 2; The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind; and The Path to Posthumanity. He is also editor (with Damien Broderick) of an anthology about parapsychology titled, Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. He is chief scientific officer for Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong.
Here he notes that, while the question of reincarnation in robots seems outlandish, most of our present technology would have seemed nonsensical and incomprehensible to earlier generations of humans. He quotes the 14th Dalai Lama who suggested (half-jokingly) that artificial intelligence programmers of the future might incarnate into robots. He cites Stephen Braude’s book, Immortal Remains, as demonstrating that we must consider some version of consciousness operating outside of the body. He outlines the sort of scientific and metaphysical models that might lead to such a development.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on April 29, 2016)

Introduction to Geophysics (U of South Alabama)

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source: worldethq    2013年10月31日
http://www.world-earthquakes.com
University of South Alabama: Introduction to Geophysics

1. Introduction to Geophysics 43:10
2. Wave Theory, refraction and reflection 47:32
3. Petroleum, generation and migration 1:11:33
4. Reservoirs, trapping mechanisms, porosity 57:11
5. Electric (Wire line), SP and resistivity logs 47:19
6. Gamma ray logs 33:23
8. The porosity logs 44:57
9. Isopach maps. Top of formation maps 30:06
10. Fence Post Diagrams 36:54
7. Well logging services. Interview with Jeff Keevan 25:23
11. Introduction to Seismology 49:21
12. Seismic Stratigraphy 45:17
13. Sequence Stratigraphy Part 1 44:31
14. Sequence Stratigraphy Part 2 47:06

A. V. Ravishankar Sarma: Introduction to Logic (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2015年3月17日
Humanities - Introduction to Logic by Dr. A.V. Ravishankar Sarma, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Identification of Arguments 54:41
02 Non- arguments 49:59
03 Types of Arguments: Deductive vs Inductive 49:55
04 Nature and Scope of Deductive and Inductive Arguments 44:34
05 Truth, Validity and Soundness 55:23
06 Strength of Inductive arguments, Counter example method 52:43
07 Toulmin’s Model of Argumentation 49:09
08 Identification of Formal and Informal Fallacies 56:38
09 Informal Fallacies: Fallacies of relevance 55:54
10 Fallacies of Weak Induction and Fallacies arising out of ambiguity in Language 56:40
11 Introduction and motivation for Syllogistic Logic 57:57
12 Aristotle theory of Syllogisms-1 48:56
13 Syllogistic Poem, Reduction of Syllogisms 57:47
14 Syllogistic Poem, Reduction of Syllogisms 58:45
15 Nature and Scope of Propositional Logic 55:22
16 Syntax of Propositional Logic 57:10
17 Logical Connectives: Truth Tables 59:18
18 Truth Table Method: Validity, Consistency, Logical Equivalence 1:00:42
19 Semantic Tableaux Method for Propositional Logic 58:32
20 Knights and Knaves Puzzles 58:53
Lec-21 Semantic Tableaux Method: Further Examples 58:15
22 Natural Deduction Method 57:32
23 Natural Deduction: Examples 41:02
24 Conjunctive and Disjunctive Normal Forms 57:38
25 CNF, DNF and satisfiability and Validity 59:15
26 Resolution and refutation method 57:30
27 Resolution and refutation method: Examples 58:14
28 Axiomatic Propositional Logic 56:48
29 Hlbert Ackermann Axiomatic system 57:03
30 Proofs in the PM system 56:27
31 Hilbert and Ackermann System 58:20
32 Outlines of Predicate Logic 58:58
33 Outlines of Predicate Logic 50:05
34 Building blocks of Predicate Logic 54:17
35 Quantifiers, freedom, bondage 57:29
36 Translation in to predicate Logic 59:21
37 Semantics of Predicate Logic 54:23
38 Truth, satisfiability, validity in Predicate Logic 37:19
39 Formation Trees for wff’s in predicate Logic 44:25
40 Semantic Tableaux Method for Predicate Logic 45:24
41 Semantic Tableaux method: Satisfiability, Validity 57:33
42 Natural Deduction in Predicate Logic 53:56
43 Important theorems in First order Logic 45:43
44 Limitations of first order logic and Introduction to the course 58:11

What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans


source: TED-Ed    2016年8月18日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the...
The elephant is a creature of epic proportions — and yet, it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells. And on the epically small end of things, there are likely millions of unicellular species, yet there are very few we can see with the naked eye. Why is that? Why don’t we get unicellular elephants? Or blue whales? Or brown bears? Murry Gans explains.
Lesson by Murry Gans, animation by Zedem Media.

Young-Kee Kim, “An Atom as an Onion”


source: Yale University    2016年6月30日
Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities - "Physics of Dance”
“An Atom as an Onion”
Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the two most massive particles (the W boson and the top quark), as well as the Higgs particle, which gives mass to elementary particles. Between 2004 and 2006, she was the spokesperson of the CDF experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron, a collaboration with more than 600 physicists from around the world. From 2006 to 2013, she was Deputy Director of Fermilab. She is currently working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN. She has served on numerous national and international advisory committees, councils, and boards and been honored with the Ho-Am Prize, South Korea’s Science and Education Service Medal, the University of Rochester’s Distinguished Scholar Medal, and Korea University’s Alumni Award. She has been a Sloan Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Musician & Activist Neil Young with the RSA's Matthew Taylor


source: The RSA     2016年7月12日
Musician & Activist Neil Young with the RSA's Matthew Taylor. Matthew caught up with Neil in Canterbury, the day after the London concert, the final gig of the UK leg of his 2016 European tour, just before Neil and the crew left for the continent. Recorded on one of the tour buses, Matthew speaks with Neil about his stance on music, authenticity, innovation, democracy and the environment and how they braid together in his work over the decades.
Neil Young’s fifty-five year career has seen him become, and maintain a position as a globally significant singer songwriter across many genres. He is also recognised as the Grandfather of Grunge. But Neil is more than that. As an environmental activist he has been fearlessly speaking truth to power through his performance and direct action for decades.

Resilient and Brilliant: "Coming Up Queer in the Bay" | Talks At Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年7月15日
Join us for a panel dialog with LGBTQ+ youth advocates and a local queer youth leader. In this talk we discuss ways to support local queer youth in navigating their experiences of race, oppression and empowerment in our communities, and ways we can be inclusive of diversity in our professional and everyday lives. Learn how to give back and get involved with the next generation of LGBTQ+ youth!

Speakers:
Youth Speaker:
Pablo Rodriguez - Queer Youth Leader and Activist

Panelists:
Kate Calimquim - Larkin Street Youth Services' Castro Youth Housing Initiative
Zakiya Harris - Hack the Hood
Erik Martinez - Wellness Initiative, San Francisco Unified School District
Stephanie Perron - Our Space LGBTQ Community Center
Jocelyn "J-Wo" Wong - Artist, Activist and Youth Mentor
Moderated by Allison Day

Forgotten Thinkers: Jacques Barzun by Wesley Cecil


source: Wes Cecil    2015年12月18日
Lecture delivered at Peninsula College exploring the life and thought of the prolific critic and historian Jacques Barzun. Lecture by Wesley Cecil PhD.

Dr. Jordan Peterson - "Self-Deception in Psychopathology"


source: BuddhismPsychology    2011年12月11日
Dr. Jordan Peterson, just one of four speakers from the "Mind Matters: Toward a New Understanding of Psychopathology" conference, held on Saturday March 19, 2011, gives a talk on "Self-Deception in Psychopathology."
Information about the conference: What does it mean for the mind to be pathological? What criterion should we use to diagnose and categorize people as mentally ill? Can there be alternative models of psychopathology other than the medical model? If so, what are they? This conference presents a series of discussions, as well as an open panel debate, regarding the development and comparison of different conceptions of psychopathology.

This conference was organized by the U of T Jungian Society and the Buddhism & Psychology Students Union. The following are recognized for their generous support: Arts and Science Student Union, Paradigms & Archetypes Program, Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Program, and New College.
The Self Authoring program is available here: http://www.selfauthoring.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_P...
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/pe...
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Basic Electronics by T. S. Natarajan (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2008年1月21日
Lecture Series on Basic Electronics by Prof. T. S. Natarajan, Department of physics, IIT Madras
For more Courses visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 1 Introduction to Basic Electronics 56:23
Lecture - 2 Electronic Devices 1 55:09
Lecture - 3 Electronics Devices 59:50
Lecture - 4 Some Useful Laws in Basic Electronics 59:05
Lecture - 5 Some Useful Theorems in Basic Electronics 59:53
Lecture - 6 Semi Conductor Diodes 59:02
Lecture - 7 Application of Diodes 55:13
Lecture - 8 Wave Shaping using Diodes 58:39
Lecture - 9 Zener Diode Characteristics 56:31
Lecture - 10 Transistors 57:44
Lecture - 11 Transistor Biasing 57:56
Lecture - 12 Transistor Biasing 57:28
Lecture - 13 Basic Characteristic of an Amplifer 56:52
Lecture - 14 Hybrid Equivalent Circuit, H-Parameters 57:42
Lecture - 15 Circuit Analysis using H-Parameters 56:02
Lecture - 16 Frequency Response of Amplifiers 54:32
Lecture - 17 Frequency Analysis 58:00
Lecture - 18 Power Amplifiers 56:21
Lecture - 19 Differential Amplifiers CKT 58:08
Lecture - 20 Integrated Chip 58:29
Lecture - 21 Typical Characteristic of Operation Amplifier 58:20
Lecture - 22 Four Types of Feed Back 56:08
Lecture - 23 Four Types of Feed Back 55:41
Lecture - 24 Mathematical Operations 1:00:33
Lecture - 25 Mathematical Operations 55:17
Lecture - 26 Mathematical Operations 58:09
Lecture - 27 Characteristics of Operation Amplifier 58:30
Lecture - 28 Characteristics of Operation Amplifier 56:14
Lecture - 29 Characteristics of Operation Amplifier 56:12
Lecture - 30 Inverter/Non-Inverter Circuits 57:52
Lecture - 31 Applications of Op Amps 57:03
Lecture - 32 Non-Linear Op Amp circuits 54:06
Lecture - 33 Applications of Op Amps 53:18
Lecture - 34 Active Diode Circuits 57:58
Lecture - 35 Oscillatiors 57:20
Lecture - 36 Logarthmic and Anti-Logarthmic Amplifer 57:14
Lecture - 37 Filters 53:23
Lecture - 38 Unit Junction Transistor 55:37
Lecture - 39 Silicion Controlled Rectifier 57:07
Lecture - 40 Field Effect Transistor 56:07

Dynamics of Physical System by Soumitro Banerjee (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2010年1月14日
Electrical - Dynamics of Physical System by Prof. Soumitro Banerjee, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 1 Introduction to System Elements 58:08
Lecture -2 Newtons Method and Constraints 57:04
Lecture - 3 Derivation of the Lagrangian Equation 52:52
Lecture - 4 Using the lagrangian Equation to Obtain Differential Equations(Part-I) 54:21
Lecture - 5 Using the lagrangian Equation to Obtain Differential Equations(Part-II) 55:24
Lecture - 6 Using the lagrangian Equation to Obtain Differential Equations(Part-III) 54:56
Lecture - 7 Using the lagrangian Equation to Obtain Differential Equations(Part-IV) 56:57
Lecture - 8 Obtaining First Order Equations 54:50
Lecture - 9 Application of the Hamiltonian Method 55:12
Lecture - 10 Obtaining Differential Equations Using Kirchoff's Laws 55:21
Lecture - 11 The Graph Theory Approach for Electrical Circuits(Part-I) 57:43
Lecture - 12 The Graph Theory Approach for Electrical Circuits(Part-II) 55:54
Lecture - 13 The Bond Graph Approach-I 55:26
Lecture - 14 The Bond Graph Approach-II 56:54
Lecture - 15 The Bond Graph Approach-III 56:34
Lecture - 16 The Bond Graph Approach-IV 57:21
Lecture - 17 The Bond Graph Approach-V 56:08
Lecture - 18 The Bond Graph Approach-VI 56:28
Lecture - 19 The Bond Graph Approach-VII 54:25
Lecture - 20 Numerical Solution of Differential Equations 54:40
Lecture - 21 Dynamics in the State Space 57:30
Lecture - 22 Vector Field Around Equilibrium Points-I 55:40
Lecture - 23 Vector Field Around Equilibrium Points-II 55:30
Lecture - 24 Vector Field Around Equilibrium Points-III 57:35
Lecture - 25 Vector Field Around Equilibrium Points-IV 56:41
Lecture - 26 High Dimensional Linear Systems 58:56
Lecture - 27 Linear Systems with External Input-I 57:26
Lecture - 28 Linear Systems with External Input-II 59:35
Lecture - 29 Linear Systems with External Input-III 58:12
Lecture - 30 Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems-I 58:33
Lecture - 31 Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems-II 55:27
Lecture - 32 Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems-III 57:14
Lecture - 33 Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems-I 56:28
Lecture - 34 Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems-II 56:25

Control Engineering by Madan Gopal (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd     2010年10月22日
Electrical - Control Engineering by Prof. Madan Gopal, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lec-1 Introduction to control problem 33:43
Lec-2 Basic Feedback Structure 1:00:23
Lec-3 Introduction to Control Problem (Contd.) 49:03
Lec-4 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response 52:34
Lec-5 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response (Contd.) 56:15
Lec-6 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response (Contd.) 49:29
Lec-7 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response (Contd.) 54:27
Lec-8 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response (Contd.) 52:10
Lec-9 Dynamic Systems and Dynamic Response (Contd.) 52:24
Lec-10 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems 56:34
Lec-11 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems (Contd.) 52:46
Lec-12 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems( Contd.) 52:10
Lec-13 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems( Contd.) 49:13
Lec-14 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems( Contd.) 48:16
Lec-15 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems( Contd.) 54:21
Lec-16 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems (Contd.) 49:28
Lec-17 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems (Contd.) 53:33
Lec-18 Models of Industrial Control Devices and Systems (Contd.) 43:47
Lec-19 Basic Principles of Feedback Control 57:14
Lec-20 Basic Principles of Feedback Control (Contd.) 52:04
Lec-21 Basic Principles of Feedback Control (Contd.) 49:43
Lec-22 Basic Principles of Feedback Control (Contd.) 51:44
Lec-23 Concepts of stability and Routh Stability Criterion 48:23
Lec-24 Concepts of stability and Routh Stability Criterion (Contd.) 46:41
Lec-25 Concepts of stability and Routh Stability Criterion (Contd.) 54:49
Lec-26 The Performance of Feedback Systems 59:07
Lec-27 The Performance of Feedback Systems (Contd.) 49:22
Lec-28 The Performance of Feedback Systems (Contd.) 44:30
Lec-29 The Performance of Feedback Systems (Contd.) 48:04
Lec-30 Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots 55:16
Lec-31 Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots (Contd.) 51:15
Lec-32 Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots (Contd.) 58:45
Lec-33 Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots (Contd.) 54:41
Lec-34 Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots (Contd.) 53:24
Lec-35 The Nyquist Stability Criterion and Stability Margins 54:18
Lec-36 The Nyquist Stability Criterion and Stability Margins (Contd.) 52:55
Lec-37 The Nyquist Stability Criterion and Stability Margins (Contd.) 48:34
Lec-38 The Nyquist Stability Criterion and Stability Margins (Contd.) 52:13
Lec-39 Feedback System Performance Based on the Frequency Response 49:34
Lec-40 Feedback System Performance Based on the Frequency Response (Contd.) 44:41
Lec-41 Compensator Design Using Frequency Response Plots 56:53