2016-10-04

Maureen Long: "Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Tsunamis, Oh My! The Science of Natural Disasters"


source: Yale University    2016年9月27日
Science on Saturdays at Yale - Maureen Long - Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Tsunamis, oh My! The Science of Natural Disasters
When the earth twitches buildings fall, volcanoes erupt, and killer waves reshape the ocean shore. Join us this Saturday to learn from Professor Maureen Long about how earth scientists use the theory of plate tectonics to understand and prepare for geologic disasters. Science on Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series that features scientists whose passion for their work inspires us all. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and engaging science demonstrations by Yale college students. Science on Saturdays provides an opportunity for Yale scientists and residents of New Haven and beyond to come together over a shared sense of wonder.

What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature? (Closer to Truth)


source: Closer To Truth    2016年8月29日
What are the most fundamental questions, the most penetrating questions, that we can ask of the natural world? Stretch your mind. Envision all manner of things, whether in the 'heavens' or on the Earth. What might be the ultimate theories of a future physics?
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Nima Arkani-Hamed - What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature? 6:25
Michio Kaku - What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature? 5:04
Paul Davies - What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature? 5:23

Daniel Eisenstein, "Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"


source: Harvard University    2016年8月31日
The Sound waves propagating through the plasma of the Universe only 400,000 years after the Big Bang now offer some of our most precise measures of the composition and history of the Universe. In the last decade, we have been able to detect the fossil imprint of these sound waves using maps of the distribution of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Professor Eisenstein will give an overview of the cosmological role of the sound waves and our observational program then describe what the results tell us about the shape of the Universe and the evolution of dark energy.

Shamans and Their World with Stanley Krippner


source: New Thinking Allowed   2016年9月1日
Stanley Krippner, PhD, professor of psychology at Saybrook University, is a Fellow in five APA divisions, and past-president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY. He is co-author of Demystifying Shamans and Their World, The Voice of Rolling Thunder: A Medicine Man’s Wisdom for Walking the Red Road, Dream Telepathy, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them, The Mythic Path, and Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans, and co-editor of Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion, Healing Tales, Healing Stories, Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence, Advances in Parapsychological Research and many other books. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.
Here he discusses the common features that he has observed in his studies of shamans around the world. He describes their rituals in terms of drumming, dancing, sensory deprivation, drugs, diet, and dreaming. He notes that shamans often invoke the “trickster” archetype, but that this should not be taken to imply that they are necessarily fraudulent. Shamans receive that designation from their community; and they work in the service of that community. A self-appointed healer, therefore, is not a shaman. However, all shamans are healers.

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 May 13, 2016)

Tania Bruguera | The Role of Ethics in Political Art || Radcliffe Institute



source: Harvard University     2016年10月3日

As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tania Bruguera RI ’17 asks, “What are the uses of art?” Out of all the possible answers to that question, Bruguera has found art particularly useful in changing political discussions in Cuba—and beyond—with its integration into everyday life.

Bruguera is the 2016–2017 Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Darrah Chavey: Ethnomathematics (Beloit College)

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source: Darrah Chavey     2016年8月28日
The ethnomathematics of a drawing tradition from Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Sona drawings, often done in the sand, are a one-line drawing form (i.e. an "Eulerian graph") used for decorations, but also used to transmit stories, lessons, and moral and cultural values to the boys in the months-long "coming of age" classes.

Ethnomathematics Lecture 2: Central Symmetry Groups (Revised) Beloit College, Math 103: On Central Symmetry Goups (Cn and Dn), the "products" of two symmetries, and Da Vinci's Theorem about Central Symmetry Goups. Cultural example on Southwest American Indians and 4-fold rotations. 1:11:57
Ethnomathematics: Sona Designs from Africa The ethnomathematics of a drawing tradition from Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Sona drawings, often done in the sand, are a one-line drawing form (i.e. an "Eulerian graph") used for decorations, but a...  48:16
Ethnomathematics: Number Words The meanings of the words used for numbers in different languages, and how larger numbers are constructed from smaller numbers in many different ways. 53:31
Ethnomathematics Lecture 13: Number symbols Beloit College, Math 103: The symbols various cultures have used to write, or transcribe, numbers. 31:10
Ethnomathematics Lecture 12: Win Trees for Games. Achi, Mancala Beloit College, Math 103: Using game trees from specific positions, e.g. 1- or 2-ply trees, to analyze a position. Using longer game trees from a position to demonstrate it's a winning position. Ex... 58:03
Ethnomathematics Lecture 11: Game Charts & Blockade Games Beloit College, Math 103: Using Game Charts to analyze maximal blockade games. Using lookahead to simplify such analysis. Examples include Pong Hau K'i (from China) and equivalent games from Korea,...53:59
Ethnomathematics Lecture 10: Game Trees and Game Charts Beloit College, Math 103: Creating Game Trees and Game Charts to analyze puzzles and games, and using lookahead to simplify such trees and charts. Examples include "River Crossing" problems (9th ce... 57:46
Ethnomathematics Lecture 9: Introduction to Puzzles and Games Beloit College, Math 103: Logic puzzles, or Combinatorial puzzles, and their analysis. The use of Game Trees to solve such puzzles. Examples include "Three Mug" problems (15th century Europe), and ... 59:05
Ethnomathematics Lecture 8: Double Strips & Compound Patterns Beloit College, Math 103: Designs created by combining copies (Double Strips) or interlacing pairs of patterns (Compound Patterns). Understanding orbits of motifs in a design. 40:59
Ethnomathematics Lecture 7: Symmetry Breaking Beloit College, Math 103: When a culture uses some technique to deliberately break the symmetry of a design, and when they do so on a geometrically regular basis, we would like to be able to model ... 1:03:29
Ethnomathematics Lecture 6: Symmetry Combinations Beloit College, Math 103: Using the calculations of combinations of symmetries to classify the possible perfect 2-colorings in strip patterns. Applying the same ideas to designs with two "similar",... 1:01:54
Ethnomathematics Lecture 5: Color Symmetries Beloit College, Math 103: Color symmetry patterns. 54:12
Ethnomathematics Lecture 4: Wallpaper Symmetry Beloit College, Math 103: Wallpaper (all-over) symmetry groups, and classifying the 17 types of symmetry groups. Cultural Example: Symmetry preferences of Hmong sub-groups. 1:03:49
Ethnomathematics Lecture 3: Strip Symmetries Beloit College, Math 103: On the 7 strip symmetry groups, with the beginnings of why the "other 5" cannot exist. Cultural Examples: Tibetan Sand Mandalas vs. Norwegian Rosemaling. 59:00
Ethnomathematics Lecture 2: Central Symmetry Groups Beloit College, Math 103: On Central Symmetry Goups (Cn and Dn), the "products" of two symmetries, and Da Vinci's Theorem about these groups. Cultural example on Southwest American Indians and 4-fo... 47:52
Ethnomathematics Lecture 1: Geometric Designs & Symmetries Beloit College, Math 103: On geometric designs and the four basic symmetry types: Rotations, Reflections, Translations, and Glide-Reflections. Cultural Example: Egyptian art has no glide-reflections. 47"51

A.I. Ethics: Should We Grant Them Moral and Legal Personhood? | Glenn Cohen


source: Big Think    2016年9月23日
Artificial intelligence already exhibits many human characteristics. Given our history of denying rights to certain humans, we should recognize that robots are people and have human rights.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/glenn-cohe...

Transcript - The question about how to think about artificial intelligence in personhood and writes artificial intelligence I think is really interesting. It's been teed up I think in two particularly good films. AI, which I really like but many people don't; it was a Stanley Kubrick film that Steven Spielberg took over late in the process. And then Ex Machina more recently, which I think most people think is quite a good film. And I actually use these when I teach courses on the subject and we ask the question are the robots in these films are they persons yes or no? One possibility is you say a necessary condition for being a person is being a human being. So many people are attracted to the argument say only humans can be persons. All persons are humans. Now maybe not be that all humans are persons, but all persons are humans. Well, there's a problem with that and this is put most forcefully by the philosopher Peter Singer, the bioethicist Peter Singer who says to reject a species, possibility of the species has rights not to be a patient for moral consideration, the kind of things that have moral consideration on the basis of the mere fact that they're not a member of your species he says is equivalent morally to rejecting giving rights or moral consideration to someone on the basis of their race. So he says speciesism equals racism. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/QiZYh3.

Born Poor, Stay Poor: The Silent Caste System of America | C. Nicole Mason


source: Big Think     2016年8月29日
There's a lot missing from debates and policy surrounding poverty but the biggest deficit, according to Dr C. Nicole Mason, is in honesty. Impoverished people aren't poor because they're lazy, they're poor because social mobility is institutionally suppressed. Mason's latest book is "Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America" (http://goo.gl/AOsgVz).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/c-nicole-m...

Transcript - We’re not talking honestly about what it really takes to get from poverty to the middle class. So, for example, we know that only four percent of people who are born into poverty will ever make it to the upper middle class or to, you know, have middle class success. And so what that means is that 96 percent of people are not making it out. And I think we’re being dishonest when we say everybody has a fair and equal chance of achieving the American Dream. So it wasn’t until college that I figured out that I was poor. I hadn’t – before then I had no context for what it meant to have less than other people who lived around me or across town. And I certainly didn’t know that I was outside of what was considered the middle class. And the first time that I heard about people living in poverty was in a political science class. In there we were talking about welfare policies. And one of the big policies at the time was welfare reform. And the debate was raging about what should be done and a lot of the conversation was up here and really detached from the women and families that were going to be directly impacted by the policy.
So we heard a lot of things about welfare queens, people living off the system, not wanting to work, women being lazy, having multiple children. And that really wasn’t the reality for the women who were actually impoverished. And so when we look at the kind of policies that result – the kind of policy, the welfare reform policy that we got on the other end we got a policy that said well, you can’t – if you don’t work you can’t receive benefits. And you have time limits. And if you have another child you’re penalized. Those policies and that restrictiveness was counter to the everyday lived experiences of the women who were actually receiving the benefits. So what was excluded from that policy was a clear pathway out of poverty like education. There missing – in the very beginning there was very few provisions for childcare and a lot of other things that we know family and women need to be able to chart a path out of poverty. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/BwXuen.

Kari Byron: "The Art of Science" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年8月30日
Kari Byron is best known as a host on Discovery Channel's flagship show MythBusters. For over a decade Kari has been a strong presence in the world of reality-based science television, going on to host Thrill Factor, Head Rush, Punkin Chunkin, and Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships (LDRS). In this Talk Kari shares her passion for art and science, what she's learned about encouraging more women to pursue STEAM careers and some of the cool experiences she's had as a host of multiple science-based programs.
Moderated by James Morehead

輕鬆學韓語1~6冊 (2008 / 共 529 集): 林明德 / 國立教育廣播電台

輕鬆學韓語1~6冊 (2008 / 共 529 集) 林明德
source: 國立教育廣播電台

Scott Sandell: The Current State of Silicon Valley and Unicorns


source: Stanford    2016年8月30日
Scott Sandell is a Managing General Partner at NEA and head of the firm’s technology investing practice. NEA raised a venture fund with over $3 billion in new capital, and this talk was given one week after that raise.
In this talk, Scott discusses the state of Silicon Valley and unicorns.
MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital
We often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants, from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital.
The course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different models of venture capital today.

The Normativity of Logic


source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年6月26日
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) gives a talk at the 9th Formal Epistemology Workshop MCMP (Munich, May 29--June 2, 2012) titled "A dialogical, multi-agent account of the normativity of logic".
I don't own it.

Debkumar Chakrabarti: Ergonomics for beginners: Industrial design perspective (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年6月25日
Engineering Design - Ergonomics for beginners: Industrial design perspective by Prof. Debkumar Chakrabarti, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

20 Horizontal work surface 50:43
19 Vertical work surface 45:18
40 Scope for exploration 52:03
18 Chair characteristics 46:50
39 Humanising design :Design and human compatibility, comfort and adaptability aspects 39:05
38 Vertical arm reach and relevant 38:02
17 Posture and body supportive devices 50:38
37 Furniture support 47:42
16 Posture and job relation 56:54
36 Workstation design 41:57
15 Human body-structure and function 44:37
5 Occupational safety and stress at workplace 50:24
14 Statistical treatment of data and percentile calculations 53:04
34 Some checklist for task easiness 45:44
13 Measuring techniques 46:03
33 Design process involving 50:49
12 Anthropometry : squatting and cross-legged postures 47:04
32 Ergonomics criteria/check 49:29
11 Anthropometry landmark: sitting postures 51:06
31 Ergonomics design methodology 34:24
10 Static and synamic anthropometry: standing 47:04
30 Environmental factors influencing 43:29
09 Anthropometry: body growth and somatotypes 52:13
29 Visual displays 50:43
08 Human body - structure and function, anthropometrics 51:05
28 Visual performance 50:14
07 Physiology, (work physiology) and stress 53:50
27 Human error and risk perception 45:46
26 Cognitive aspects and mental workload 49:31
6 Ergonomics/ human factors fundamentals 56:50
25 Information processing and perception 42:31
05 Mutual task comfort: two way dialogue, communication model 52:11
24 Psycho-social behaviour aspects, behavior and stereotype 47:36
04 Domain, philosophy and objective 48:58
23 Communication and cognitive issues 49:39
03 Journey, fitting task to man 48:13
22 Work Counter 50:35
02 Design today - human aid to lifestyle 44:11
21 Movement 49:43
01 Introduction 33:46

Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy by H. S. Ray (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年7月10日
Metallurgical - Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy by Prof. H. S. Ray, Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01-Extraction of Copper (Contd.) 52:23
02-Brief History of Non-ferrous Metal (Contd.) 50:45
03-Sources of Non-ferrous Metal 52:57
04-Mineral Benefication Techniques 55:33
05-General Methods of Metal Extraction 54:21
06-Principles of Carbon Reduction 50:37
07-Principles of Hydrometalling 53:22
08-Principles of Electrometallurgy 55:06
09-Electrometallurgy (Contd.) and Temkin Model for Fused Salts 53:30
10-Refining of Metals - Chemical Methods 55:35
11-Refining of Metals - Physical Methods 44:28
12-Concluding part of Module - 4 54:27
13-Concluding part of Module - 4 (Contd.) 53:21
14-Module - 5 Extraction of Metals from Oxides, Extraction of Magnesium 54:52
15-Extraction Aluminium 55:18
16-Extraction Aluminium (Contd...1) 55:08
17-Extraction Aluminium (Contd...2) 54:09
18-Extraction Aluminium (Contd...3) 55:17
19-Extraction of Tin 56:45
20-Extraction of Ferro Alloys 52:31
21-Module - 6 Extraction of Metals from Sulphides Extraction of Copper 56:22
22-Extraction of Copper (Contd.) 54:23
23-Hydrometallurgy of Copper 56:10
24-Extraction of Lead 51:29
25-Extraction of Zinc-Imperial Smelting Process 54:59
26-Module - 7 Extraction of metals from halides, Extraction of reactor metals 56:15
27-Extraction of reactor metals (Contd...1) 55:09
28-Extraction of reactor metals (Contd...2) 55:07
29-Extraction of Titanium 54:13
30-Extraction of Precious Metals 56:47
31 Production of Secondary Metals and Treatment of Wastes 55:03
32-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 55:13
33-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 54:06
34-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 54:08
35-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 54:47
36 Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production (Contd...4) 53:45
37-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 53:39
38-Energy and Environment Related Issues in Nonferrous Metals Production 54:06
39 Nonferrous Metals in India - Unleashing its true potential 55:55
40 Nonferrous Metals in India - Unleashing its true potential (Contd.) 58:21
41-Review and Summary 54:22
42-Review and Summary (Contd...1) 53:41
43-Review and Summary (Contd...2) 56:04

Science and Technology of Polymers by B. Adhikari (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd   2014年2月4日
Metallurgical - Science and Technology of Polymers by Prof. B. Adhikari, Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Basic Concepts on Polymers 54:48
02 Basic Concepts on Polymers (Contd.) 56:58
03 Basic Concepts on Polymers (Contd.) 40:41
04 Polymer Raw Materials 58:59
05 Principles of Polymer Synthesis 56:57
06 Principles of Polymer Synthesis (Contd.) 57:12
07 Principles of Polymer Synthesis (Contd.) 58:44
08 Principles of Polymer Synthesis (Contd.) 59:00
09 Principles of Polymer Synthesis (Contd.) 58:43
10 Principles of Polymer Synthesis (Contd.) 58:41
11 Structure and Properties of Polymers (Contd.) 59:24
12 Structure and Properties of Polymers (Contd.) 58:52
13 Structure and Properties of Polymers (Contd.) 58:00
14 Structure and Properties of Polymers (Contd.) 59:08
15 Polymerization Techniques 56:08
16 Polymerization Techniques (Contd.) 54:31
17 Polymerization Techniques (Contd.) 58:09
18 Polymer Products 57:34
19 Polymer Products (Contd.) 56:49
20 Rubber Products 58:26
21 Rubber Products (Contd.) 58:32
22 Conducting Polymers 56:15
23 Conducting Polymers (Contd.) 59:01
24 Liquid Crystalline Polymers 56:53
25 Stimuli Responsive Polymer and its application 56:43
26 Stimuli Responsive Polymer and its application (Contd.) 57:48
27 Polymeric Nanomaterials and Devices (Contd.) 58:09
28 Polymeric Nanomaterials and Devices (Contd.) 57:26
29 Polymeric Nanomaterials and Devices (Contd.) 52:05
30 Environmental Degradation of Polymers 54:28
31 Environmental Degradation of Polymers (Contd.) 58:27
32 Polymer Composites 59:00
33 Polymer Composites (Contd.) 1:00:31
34 Polymer Composites (Contd.) 55:12
35 Multicomponent Polymeric Materials 55:32
36 Multicomponent Polymeric Materials (Contd.) 57:18
37 Multicomponent Polymeric Materials (Contd.) 58:08
38 Viscoelasticity 55:23
39 Engineering and Speciality Polymers 55:09
40 Engineering and Speciality Polymers (Contd.) 58:51