Liz Lerman, “Creative Research: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Domains”

source: Yale University    2016年6月30日
Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities - "Physics of Dance”
“Creative Research: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Domains”
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, and educator. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multigenerational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance. She is currently pursuing new projects with fresh partnerships, including a recent semester at Harvard as an artist-in-residence. Her work Healing Wars just finished touring across the United States. Lerman conducts residencies on the Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio. Her essay collection, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was published in 2011. Lerman has received numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance. Her work has been commissioned by Harvard Law School, Lincoln Center, the American Dance Festival, and the Kennedy Center among many others.

How do quantum physicists affect industry?

source: University of Oxford     2016年7月15日
Sir Martin Wood founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 as a spin-out company to manufacture superconducting magnets for research. We find out how an Oxford researcher of quantum computation is working with the company today to create tools for tomorrow's researchers.

Benjamin Burger: Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany (Utah State University)

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source: Benjamin Burger    2015年8月24日
Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany is a graduate level course in paleontology at Utah State University, which covers the major groups of marine invertebrates, fossil plants, and the important techniques and tools used in the field of paleontology. It covers ichnology, fossil preservation, taphonomy, ontogeny, cladistics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, extinction and evolutionary rates, and many other tools used by professional paleontologists in the study of fossils and their importance in the field of geology. Course lectures are produced and broadcast from the Uintah Basin Campus in Vernal, Utah. If you like more information about the course and becoming a student at Utah State University check out this website: http://geology.usu.edu

How good is the fossil record? 30:05
How do you describe a fossil specimen? 29:50
What is ontogenetic variation? 32:50
How do you sample a fossil population? 30:39
How do you name a new fossil species? 31:47
How do you assemble a cladogram or phylogenetic tree using fossils? 34:46
How do you identify a fossil? 38:40
How do you use fossils to tell time? 39:59
How can fossils reveal what the ancient marine environment was like? 32:35
What does a fossil community tell you about the periodcity of catastrophic events? 10:21
How has paleontology revolutionize the study of evolution? 18:44
What are the major events in the history of life? 34:22
What evidence do we have of the earliest single celled life in the fossil record?  10:40
What is so important about fossil sponges? 10:42
What are Cnidarians and what has their fossil record revealed about the history of life? 15:57
What are Fossil Bryozoans? 13:28
What are Brachiopods? 13:13
What are the major groups of fossil Molluscs? 34:56
What does the fossil record reveal about the evolution of Echinoderms? 22:16
What are Fossil Graptolites, and why are they useful in geology? 19:54
What are Trilobites and Other Fossil Arthropods? 32:16
What is Ichnology? 12:27
Why study fossil plants? 14:39
What are some of the problems in studying fossil plants? 11:46
Lecture 27 Fossil Fungi 26:23
Lecture 28 Fossil Algae 19:36
How did plants colonize the land, based on what we know from modern plants? 20:34
How did plants colonize the land, based on the fossil record? 16:18
How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous? 29:41
What is the fossil record of Horsetails? 16:15
How did the first seed plants (the Gymnosperms) evolve? 20:12
How good is the fossil record of Cycads? 23:21
How did gymnosperms diversify during the early Mesozoic to become a modern dominate plant group? 16:00
What is the significance of the fossil record of Ginkgo? 19:42
How can you use fossil leaves to study past climates? 13:17
Has Darwin’s Abominable Mystery been solved? 13:56
What is an Angiosperm? 22:18
The Fossil Plants of the Green River Formation of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. 14:43

Parapsychology and the Media with Joseph McMoneagle

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年7月25日
Joseph McMoneagle is a world renowned remote viewer who has worked professionally in the field for almost four decades – both within the military and as a private contractor. He is author of Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, and Remote Viewing Secrets. He is also coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West. He is the recipient of a congressional Legion of Merit Award for his remote viewing work within the U.S. government military intelligence services. He has successfully demonstrated remote viewing on television, both live and taped, on numerous occasions.
Here he points out that he is comfortable working with “honest skeptics” in the media. He prefers such individuals to “true believers”. On the other hand, working with hostile scoffers is a waste of his time. He describes several examples in which he demonstrated remote viewing for television audiences both in the United States and Japan. He explains the many of the difficulties that people in the media have in presenting parapsychological phenomena. In many instances, they are afraid of ridicule if they appear to endorse the reality of the phenomena.

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 June 12, 2016)

Hilary Putnam Interview on Mind, Language, & Epistemology

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年4月7日
In this interview, Hilary Putnam discusses his work in philosophy on various issues regarding the nature of mind, language, existence, and knowledge, including consciousness and qualia, conceivability, skepticism and brains in a vat, semantic externalism, properties and natural kinds, intentionality, the twin earth thought experiment, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reference, and analytic philosophy itself.
I highly recommend Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" which can be found here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
Credit for this interview goes to Vadim Vasilyev and Dmitry Volkov from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, who conducted this interview with Putnam in April 2010. More information can be found at www.hardproblem.ru

Household Workers Unite || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University    2016年2月24日
This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the historical and contemporary significance of domestic worker organizing.
Featuring:
Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers
Premilla Nadasen, Department of History, Barnard College
Monique Nguyen, MataHari
Natalicia Tracy, Brazilian Worker Center

Moderated by Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School
Introduced by Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Forgotten Thinkers: Emilie du Chatelet

source: Wes Cecil    2016年3月19日
A lecture exploring the life and thought of the 18th century thinker Emilie du Chatelet. Delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil PhD. I apologize for the microphone noise, I had some technical difficulties while recording.

The Path to Living Well with Michael Puett

source: The RSA    2016年7月20日
The Path to Living Well with Michael Puett. Harvard’s most popular philosopher Michael Puett draws from ancient Chinese teachings to help us re-examine and challenge deeply-held assumptions about how to live our lives. 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.
Watch philosopher Michael Puett in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full replay: https://youtu.be/DbaMY3yBgwM

Dava Newman: "Mars and Beyond: Exploring Today for Tomorrow" | Talks at ...

source: Talks at Google    2016年7月19日
NASA is on a journey to Mars, and we are closer to reaching the Red Planet with human explorers than we have ever been in our history. Across the country, and around the world, NASA and its partners are working right now on the technologies and missions that will enable human “boots on Mars” in the 2030s.
We are testing advanced technologies for the next giant leaps of exploration. From solar electric propulsion to cutting edge life support systems, to the first crops grown in space, the journey to Mars is already unfolding in tangible ways across NASA today for tomorrow. Other breakthrough technologies we need are moving from drawing boards to development.
The agency’s strategic approach involves developing capabilities in three stages – from missions close to Earth involving commercial partners and the International Space Station, advancing to missions in Earth–Moon orbit, or deep space, using the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and finally moving on to Mars, where explorers will be practically independent from spaceship Earth.
The innovation required to achieve a human mission to Mars cuts across science, human exploration and technology. It builds on what has gone before, while driving the next advances. Our journey to Mars inspires educators and students by investing in new leaders ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow’s missions.
On behalf of Talks at Google Dava Newman was hosted by Boris Debic.

R. Krishnakumar: Introduction to Finite Element Method (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd      2014年1月7日
Mechanical - Introduction to Finite Element Method by Dr. R. Krishnakumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

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Vatsala Misra: Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd   2014年12月17日
General - Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture by Mrs.Vatsala Misra, Instructure Incharge Japanese Language, Foreign Language Programme, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction to Japanese scripts 53:38
02 Jiko shoukai (Self introduction) 54:30
03 Dochira kara desu ka ( Where are you from?) 55:32
04 Senmon wa nan desu ka (What is your specialization?) 58:14
05 Kore wa hon desu (This is a book) 58:00
06 Ikura desu ka (How much is it?) 1:00:04
07 Ima nan-ji desu ka (What is the time now?) 52:52
08 Kaigi wa roku-ji-han kara desu (The meeting is from 6:30) 53:35
09 Ashita Tokyo e ikimasu. (I will go to Tokyo tomorrow) 53:12
10 Watashi wa mainichi roku-ji ni okimasu (I wake up at 6’oclock everyday) 1:01:14
11 Itsu Kanpur e kimashita ka (When did you come to Kanpur?) 53:23
12 Yūbinkyoku wa asoko ni arimasu (The post office is over there) 58:44
13 Rao san wa doko ni imasu ka (Where is Mr. Rao?) 50:26
14 Pikuniku e ikimashō (Let’s go for a picnic) 55:36
15 Kesa pan to tamago o tabemashita (I ate eggs and bread for breakfast) 56:24
16 Depa-to no tonari no biru wa ginkō desu (The building next to the department 1:00:15
17 Taj hoteru wa ookii hoteru desu(Hotel Taj is a big hotel) 53:39
18 Hoteru de nani o tabemashita ka (What did you eat at the hotel?) 55:42
19 Tokyo wa ōkikute kirei desu (Tokyo is big and beautiful) 53:55
20 Ko-hi- wa oishiku arimasen(Coffee is not tasty) 48:57
21 Hantai kotoba (Opposites) 59:56
22 Watashi wa mainichi miruku o nomimasu (I drink milk everyday) 57:19
23 Watashi wa oniisan ni kamera o moratta(I received a camera from my brother) 57:59
24 Nani o tabetai desu ka(What do you want to eat?) 54:09
25 Nani o sashiagemasu ka (Giving and Receiving) 47:37
26 Sensei wa watashi ni hon o kuremashita (My teacher gave me a book) 58:25
27 Chotto matte kudasai ( Just a minute please) 53:34
28 Ke-ki o tabete mite kudasai ( Eat and see how is the cake) 59:55
29 Nani o shite imasu ka(What are you doing?) 49:50
30 Tokyo ni sunde imasu ( I live in Tokyo) 53:11
31 Kanji ga kakemasu (I can write Kanji) 54:54
32 Imōto wa ningyō o hoshigatte imasu (My sister wants a doll) 1:01:03
33 Aisukuri-mu ga ke-ki yori suki desu (I like ice-cream more than cakes) 52:16
34 Kutsu o kai ni ikimasu ( I am going to buy shoes) 54:44
35 Ashita motto atsuku narimasu (It is going to become very hot tomorrow) 52:20
36 Rainen Tokyo e iku to omoimasu (I think I will go to Tokyo next year) 55:03
37 Pen de kaite mo ii desu ka(Is it alright to write in pen?) 50:01
38 Comprehensions and Expressions 40:02
39 Basic Kanji 37:51
40 Basic Kanji 52:22

Analog ICs by K. Radhakrishna Rao (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年8月29日
Electrical - Analog ICs by Prof. K. Radhakrishna Rao, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 1 Basic Building Blocks In Analog ICs 50:16
Lecture - 2 Current Mirrors 45:19
Lecture - 3 Translinear Networks 44:56
Lecture - 4 Differential Amplifier 49:46
Lecture - 5 Differential Amplifier Characteristics 56:58
Lecture - 6 Video Amplifier and RF/IF Amplifiers 49:23
Lecture - 7 Cascode Amplifier 43:18
Lecture - 8 IC Negative Feedback Wide Band Amplifiers 46:30
Lecture - 9 IC Negative Feedback Amplifiers 47:52
Lecture - 10 Voltage Sources And References 57:58
Lecture -11 IC Voltage Regulator 47:37
Lecture -12 Characteristics and Parameters Of Voltage 52:26
Lecture -13 Protection Circuitry For Voltage Regulator 47:47
Lecture -14 Switched Mode Regulator And Operational 41:56
Lecture - 15 IC Operational Voltage Amplifier 50:20
Lecture - 16 General Purpose Operational Amplifier-747 48:18
Lecture - 17 Transconductance Operational Amplifier 47:11
Lecture - 18 Audio Power Amplifier and Norton's Amplifier 35:51
Lecture - 19 Analog Multipliers 52:44
Lecture - 20 Analog Multipliers 53:33
Lecture - 21 Voltage Controlled Oscillator 43:26
Lecture - 22 Voltage Controlled Oscillator 50:37
Lecture - 23 Self Tuned Filter 48:40
Lecture - 24 Phase Locked Loop 50:51
Lecture - 25 Phase Locked Loop 39:45
Lecture - 26 Phase Locked Loop 31:15
Lecture - 27 Phase Locked Loop 41:00
Lecture - 28 Current Mode ICs 46:44

Illumination Engineering by N. K. Kishore (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2008年10月21日
Electrical - Illumination Engineering by Prof. N. K. Kishore, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 1 Introduction to Illumination Engineering 49:59
Lecture - 2 Instructional Objectives 49:44
Lecture - 3 Eye and Vision I 53:45
Lecture - 4 Eye and Vision II 45:57
Lecture - 5 Laws of Illumination 55:41
Lecture - 6 Photometry 53:52
Lecture - 7 Incandescent Lamps 54:01
Lecture - 8 Discharge Lamps I 54:26
Lecture - 9 Discharge Lamps II 54:20
Lecture - 10 Discharge Lamps III 55:49
Lecture - 11 Illumination Systems I 53:27
Lecture - 12 Illumination Systems II 51:43
Lecture - 13 Glare 55:11
Lecture - 14 Color 51:20
Lecture - 15 Interior Lighting 55:21
Lecture - 16 Sports Lighting 51:36
Lecture - 17 Road Lighting 51:12
Lecture - 18 Lighting Calculations 56:28
Lecture - 19 Lighting Applications 52:54
Lecture - 20 Conclusions on Illumination Engineering 57:13