Does Transpersonal Psychology Revamp Reality? (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth    2016年9月6日
Transpersonal psychology is the claim that our mental well-being relates, in some sense, to nonphysical interactions of some kind. Transpersonal psychology assumes the reality of ESP, a controversial position to say the least. But can transpersonal psychology supply its own evidence through its therapies? Or do the arguments run in circles?
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Philip Kim, "Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Graphene"

source: Harvard University    2016年8月31日
The two most important achievements in physics in the 20th century were the discoveries of the theory of relativity and quantum physics. In 1928, Paul Dirac synthesized these two theories and wrote the Dirac equation to describe particles moving close to the speed of light in a quantum mechanical way, and thus initiated the beginning of relativistic quantum mechanics. Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite discovered only a decade ago, has been providing physicists opportunities to explore an interesting analogy to relativistic quantum mechanics. The unique electronic structure of graphene yields an energy and momentum relation mimicking that of relativistic quantum particles, providing opportunities to explore exotic and exciting science and potential technological applications based on the flat carbon form. In this presentation Professor Kim discuses the brief history of graphene research and its implications in science and technology.

The Ancient Mystery Traditions with P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年9月8日
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus (his spiritual name) is a practicing polytheist and scholar. He is author of A Serpent Path Primer, Ephesia Grammata: Ancient History and Modern Practice, The Phillupic Hymns, The Syncretisms of Antinous, and other devotional books. Under his legal name of Phillip Bernhardt-House, he is author of Werewolves, Magical Hounds, and Dog-Headed Men in Celtic Literature. He is on the social science faculty at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington.
Here he notes that the Orphic and Eleusinian mystery traditions of ancient Greece were influenced by earlier Egyptian initiation rituals. The mythologies of these cults all refer to a journey into the underworld. In ancient Greece, virtually all persons of status in society were initiated into these cults. The rituals are not fully known, as they were protected by solemn oaths of secrecy. However, it seems clear from accounts that are available that the initiates found them to be a source of inspiration. Often initiates reported that they no longer feared death. He suggests that the rituals may have been a rehearsal, of sorts, for actual death. While some ancient traditions involved spiritualistic communication with the deceased, the mystery traditions seemed, instead, to entail communication with higher consciousness or deities.

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 a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration. 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 July 2, 2016)

Ozalp Babaoglu: "Sustainable High-Performance Computing through Data Science"

source: Talks at Google     2016年9月8日
As technological progress brings us ever closer to achieving exaFLOP executions in High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, new challenges emerge for rendering executions sustainable: how to power, cool and control resources on HPC systems so as to keep them running at exascale performance levels for periods long enough to complete demanding computations. It is a certainty that future HPC systems will achieve exascale performance through massive parallelism employing millions of processor cores running billions of threads. At these scales, failures and errors will be frequent, with many instances occurring daily. This fact places resilience squarely as another major roadblock to sustainability. In this talk, I will argue that large computer systems, including exascale HPC systems, will ultimately be operated based on predictive computational models obtained through data-science tools, and at that point, the intervention of humans will be limited to setting high-level goals and policies rather than performing “nuts-and-bolts” operations. The breakthrough I am aiming for is the automatic control of future exascale systems based on predictive data-driven models. Prediction will enable anticipating anomalous states, such as those due to failures, as well as forecasting regular behavior for keeping power consumption at bay. The predictive models will include not only the computer system as such, but also its geographical, socio-political and physical environment including power and cooling infrastructures.
Ozalp Babaoglu is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. He received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley. Babaoglu’s virtual memory extensions to AT&T Unix as a graduate student at UC Berkeley became the basis for a long line of “BSD Unix” distributions. He is the recipient of 1982 Sakrison Memorial Award, 1989 UNIX International Recognition Award and 1993 USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Awardfor his contributions to the Unix system community and to Open Industry Standards. Before moving to Bologna in 1988, Babaoglu was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he conducted research on distributed systems and fault-tolerance. Since moving to Italy, he has been active in numerous European research projects in distributed computing and complex systems including BROADCAST, CABERNET, ADAPT and DELIS. In 2001 he co-founded the Bertinoro international center for informatics (BiCi). Since its inception, this “Italian Dagstuhl” has organized more than 150 prestigious scientific meetings/schools and has had thousands of young researchers from all over the world pass through its doors. In 2002 Babaoglu was made a Fellow of the ACM for his “contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing, BSD Unix, and for leadership in the European distributed systems community”. From 2002 to 2005 he was the coordinator of the European Union Framework Five project BISON that resulted in seminal work on biology-inspired techniques applied to dynamic networks and on gossip-based distributed algorithms. In 2007, he co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) conference series and has been a member of its Steering Committee since inception and has served as co-general chair for the 2007 and 2013 editions. Since 2013, he has been on the Selection Committee for the ACM Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which brings together young researchers in Computer Science and Mathematics with Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates. He currently serves on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. Previously, he served for two decades on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and Springer-Verlag Distributed Computing.

Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月10日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-it-bad-t...
Humans should urinate at least four to six times a day, but occasionally, the pressures of modern life force us to clench and hold it in. How bad is this habit, and how long can our bodies withstand it? Heba Shaheed takes us inside the bladder to find out.
Lesson by Heba Shaheed, animation by Artrak Studio.

The Humane Arts: WALKING

source: Wes Cecil    2012年9月14日
A discussion of the importance of walking on the cultural history. Delivered as a lecture by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. at Peninsula College. Part of the Humane Arts Lecture Series exploring the key elements in developing a humane existence.
For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go tohttp://www.facebook.com/HumaneArts

Computational Electromagnetics by Raymond C. Rumpf (U of Texas at El Paso)

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source: CEM Lectures    2013年8月30日

Lecture 1 (CEM) -- Introduction to CEM This lecture introduces the course and steps the student through an overview of most of the major techniques in computational electromagnetics. 1:02:27
Lecture 2 (CEM) -- Maxwell's Equations 1:07:15
Lecture 3 (CEM) -- Electromagnetic Principles 1:05:43
Lecture 4 (CEM) -- Transfer Matrix Method 48:09
Lecture 5 (CEM) -- TMM Using Scattering Matrices 1:15:41
Lecture 6 (CEM) -- Periodic Structures 54:50
Lecture 7 (CEM) -- Diffraction Gratings and the Plane Wave Spectrum 36:17
Lecture 8 (CEM) -- Perfectly Matched Layer 38:10
Lecture 9 (CEM) -- Finite-Difference Method 1:07:44
Lecture 10 (CEM) -- Maxwell's Equations on a Yee Grid 1:08:18
Lecture 11 (CEM) -- Finite Difference Analysis of Waveguides 47:25
Lecture 12 (CEM) -- Formulation of Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain 55:11
Lecture 13 (CEM) -- Implementation of Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain 1:09:01
Lecture 14 (CEM) -- Examples of Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain 18:12
Lecture 15 (CEM) -- Finite-Difference Time-Domain 58:57
Lecture 16 (CEM) -- Beam Propagation Method 23:41
Lecture 17 (CEM) -- Maxwell's Equations in Fourier Space 55:06
Lecture 18 (CEM) -- Plane Wave Expansion Method 1:11:54
Lecture 19 (CEM) -- Formulation of Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis 44:33
Lecture 20 (CEM) -- Implementation of Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis 22:19
Lecture 21 (CEM) -- RCWA Tips and Tricks 38:26
Lecture 22 (CEM) -- Method of Lines  25:12
Lecture 23 (CEM) -- Slice Absorption Method 44:40
Lecture 24 (CEM) -- Introduction to Variational Methods 47:23
Lecture 27 (CEM) -- Optimization 50:35

Think Again Podcast – Mixtape – The Writers' Room

source: Big Think    2016年9月18日
Some amazing moments have happened this past year––fun, profound, profoundly painful. This, the fourth of our first year "mixtapes", focuses on the most memorable bits of writerly wit and wisdom from the first year of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast. With playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare on (not) resting on your laurels, National Book Award Winner James McBride on writing with a roomful of giant talents, rapper and first-time novelist Kate Tempest on writers' block as "fear of writing", and Nobel Laureate Turkish author Orhan Pamuk on why writing programs should teach writers to manage their own psychology.
Each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you may have heard of with short clips from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject. These conversations could, and do, go anywhere.
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How to Get Creatively Unstuck: A Lesson from Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Big Think    2016年9月2日
Author Jonathan Safran Foer on the two surprising qualities successful writers need. Foer's latest book is "Here I Am" (http://goo.gl/t3j64W).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/jonathan-s...

Transcript - I think very often when people refer to being stuck, or this is certainly my own experience and I've talked about it enough with friends, some of whom are writers, some of whom are other kinds of artists, some of them do other things with your life, often times when people refer to being stuck they don't mean like creatively blocked, they don't mean that they don't have any good ideas, they mean that they don't have any ideas that they care about; that nothing they're making feels important to them. When you don't care about something you just don't do a good job with it. Maybe you can for a while. It's possible to fake it for a bit or it's possible to have incentives to do things like I have a deadline or my boss is going to be looking over my shoulder if I don't, but for most of us we do our best work when we care about it.
So when I teach if a student will say something to me like I really love this but I know it's not going to be a good book or I actually have a friend who also teaches who was telling me about an experience he had were a student came up to him and said, "I wrote all these notes for this book I want to write but I find that I never write the book, I just really love working on the notes for the book." And my friend's advice was, "Well, probably the notes are your book. If that's what you love and that's what you're drawn to and you're imagination wants to go there then just let it go there. The worst that can happen is it's a book that will be for nobody but you, but that is actually a much better fate than writing a book that lots of people like that isn't for you." So when something draws my attention, when something feels important or even just pleasurable to me, I work on it even if it's off the track, even if I'm already 60 percent of the way into what I thought was the book I was going to write if I suddenly find that one of the little voices in it is appealing to me more than it ought to, this person I thought was a side character suddenly like elbowing into the middle of the room and just wants to stay there and wants to be the center of attention, I will make that character the center of attention despite it being a very efficient way to work because I know that I have become unsuccessful, I've become stuck, I've become unhappy when I'm working on something that I know isn't really what I care about. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/bnlojk.

初、中級泰語: 李錫強 / 國立教育廣播電台

標準泰國語初級(2008 / 共 88 集): 李錫強
泰國語會話中級(2008 / 共 88 集): 李錫強
source: 國立教育廣播電台

Dalton Caldwell: Incubators, Accelerators, and Y Combinator

source: Stanford    2016年8月30日
Dalton Caldwell is a Partner at Y Combinator. After graduating, Dalton founded two media companies, iMeme and Mixed Media Labs.
In this talk, Dalton talked about what startups and founders need to be focused on early on in order to succeed.
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.

Nietzsche on Nihilism & the Death of God

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年5月16日
In this first talk, Ken Gemes introduces Nietzsche as the philosopher of the death of God. Nietzsche claims that we have not yet fully understood the ramifications of the modern rejection of belief in God. Giving up the belief in God undermines all our values, though many cling to those values in the absence of God or of any other justificatory basis for those values. When we truly appreciate the meaning of the death of God, we will, says Nietzsche, lapse into nihilism; the inability to find any foundation for values and meaning in the world. This Nietzsche presciently predicts as the future of Europe for the next two hundred years. Nietzsche does not endorse nihilism but seeks to move beyond it to a new affirmation of this world, the one and only world. But what does Nietzsche mean exactly by nihilism? This is discussed in the talk.
The second talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWBIF...

Concrete Technology by B. Bhattacharjee (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年3月11日
Civil - Concrete Technology by Dr. B. Bhattacharjee, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Production and Composition 1:00:07
Mod-01 Lec-02 Structure and Hydration 1:01:23
Mod-01 Lec-03 Structure and Hydration. 54:30
Mod-01 Lec-04 Properties and Tests 57:30
Mod-01 Lec-05 Types and Use 1:02:02
Mod-02 Lec-06 Aggregates (Size , Shape) 55:47
Mod-02 Lec-07 Packing, FM,SM 58:31
Mod-02 Lec-08 Properties 59:26
Mod-03 Lec-09 Chemical Admixtures 57:37
Mod-03 Lec-10 Chemical Admixtures. 58:46
Mod-03 Lec-11 Mineral Admixtures 54:01
Mod-03 Lec-12 Mineral Admixtures. 54:57
Mod-03 Lec-13 Mineral Admixtures.. 59:52
Mod-04 Lec-14 Mix Proportioning of Concrete: General Principles 55:29
Mod-04 Lec-15 Mix design of Concrete: General and IS Method 1:00:27
Mod-04 Lec-16 Mix Design of Concrete:Is Example and British (DOE) Method 59:23
Mod-04 Lec-17 Mix Design of concrete: ACI 211 Method 55:25
Mod-04 Lec-18 Mix Design of concrete:Packing Density, Rheology 50:33
Mod-05 Lec-19 Batching and Mixing of concrete: General Principles 57:14
Mod-05 Lec-20 RMC and Transporting Concrete 56:56
Mod-05 Lec-21 Workability and Pumping of Concrete 1:03:15
Mod-05 Lec-22 Compaction and Curing Concrete 59:13
Mod-06 Lec-23 Strength of Concrete: Factors Affecting 55:35
Mod-06 Lec-24 Strength of Concrete: Aggregate Contribution 54:18
Mod-06 Lec-25 Strength of Concrete: Factors Affecting Test Results 1:00:10
Mod-06 Lec-26 Mechanical Properties of Concrete:Elastic Moduls, Poision\'Ratio,Fatigue, Impact 1:03:51
Mod-07 Lec-27 Creep of Concrete 57:26
Mod-07 Lec-28 Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete 1:01:10
Mod-07 Lec-29 Shrinkage of Concrete 51:42
Mod-07 Lec-30 Shrinkage of Concrete. 54:44
Mod-08 Lec-31 Fundamental Concepts, Degradation Process, Attacks 57:49
Mod-08 Lec-32 Frost Action and Rebar Corrosion 1:00:24
Mod-08 Lec-33 Carbonation and Chloride Affect 1:02:02
Mod-08 Lec-34 Rebar Corrosion 57:17
Mod-08 Lec-35 Rebar Corrosion and General Strategy 49:57
Mod-09 Lec-36 High Strength Concrete 1:01:58
Mod-09 Lec-37 High Strength Matrics and SCC 56:01
Mod-09 Lec-38 Self Compacting Concrete 56:54
Mod-09 Lec-39 Fiber Concrete 59:18
Mod-09 Lec-40 Fiber and Roller Compacted Concrete 56:49
Mod-09 Lec-41 Special Concrete and Sustainability 51:43

Krishna: Complex Analysis (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年11月5日
Mathematics - Complex Analysis by Prof. P. A. S. Sree Krishna, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Mod-01 Introduction 39:20
Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction to Complex Numbers 1:04:04
Mod-01 Lec-02 de Moivre's Formula and Stereographic Projection 48:56
Mod-01 Lec-03 Topology of the Complex Plane Part-I 54:43
Mod-01 Lec-04 Topology of the Complex Plane Part-II 50:59
Mod-01 Lec-05 Topology of the Complex Plane Part-III 55:01
Mod-02 Lec-01 Introduction to Complex Functions 53:35
Mod-02 Lec-02 Limits and Continuity 49:22
Mod-02 Lec-03 Differentiation 59:51
Mod-02 Lec-04 Cauchy-Riemann Equations and Differentiability 53:39
Mod-02 Lec-05 Analytic functions; the exponential function 51:55
Mod-02 Lec-06 Sine, Cosine and Harmonic functions 57:15
Mod-02 Lec-07 Branches of Multifunctions; Hyperbolic Functions 51:07
Mod-02 Lec-08 Problem Solving Session I 51:06
Mod-03 Lec-01 Integration and Contours 48:43
Mod-03 Lec-02 Contour Integration 52:04
Mod-03 Lec-03 Introduction to Cauchy's Theorem 41:19
Mod-03 Lec-04 Cauchy's Theorem for a Rectangle 1:00:49
Mod-03 Lec-05 Cauchy's theorem Part - II 50:32
Mod-03 Lec-06 Cauchy's Theorem Part - III 48:01
Mod-03 Lec-07 Cauchy's Integral Formula and its Consequences 56:06
Mod-03 Lec-08 The First and Second Derivatives of Analytic Functions 52:09
Mod-03 Lec-09 Morera's Theorem and Higher Order Derivatives of Analytic Functions 50:36
Mod-03 Lec-10 Problem Solving Session II 55:39
Mod-04 Lec-01 Introduction to Complex Power Series 49:15
Mod-04 Lec-02 Analyticity of Power Series 48:54
Mod-04 Lec-03 Taylor's Theorem 49:58
Mod-04 Lec-04 Zeroes of Analytic Functions 50:43
Mod-04 Lec-05 Counting the Zeroes of Analytic Functions 52:10
Mod-04 Lec-06 Open mapping theorem -- Part I 51:17
Mod-04 Lec-07 Open mapping theorem -- Part II 47:05
Mod-05 Lec-01 Properties of Mobius Transformations Part I 48:02
Mod-05 Lec-02 Properties of Mobius Transformations Part II 46:30
Mod-05 Lec-03 Problem Solving Session III 48:05
Mod-06 Lec-01 Removable Singularities 45:29
Mod-06 Lec-02 Poles Classification of Isolated Singularities 48:28
Mod-06 Lec-03 Essential Singularity & Introduction to Laurent Series 46:30
Mod-06 Lec-04 Laurent's Theorem 45:45
Mod-06 Lec-05 Residue Theorem and Applications 51:56
Mod-06 Lec-06 Problem Solving Session IV 53:05

Optoelectronic Materials and Devices by Monica Katiyar & Deepak Gupta (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年4月3日
Metallurgy - Optoelectronic Materials and Devices by Prof. Monica Katiyar & Prof. Deepak Gupta, Department of Metallurgy and Material Science, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Conductivity of materials, Drude's theory and its failures 1:00:11
Mod-01 Lec-02 Free electron theory 56:46
Mod-01 Lec-03 Free electron theory 53:26
Mod-01 Lec-04 Crystal structure, Reciprocal lattice I 58:51
Mod-01 Lec-05 Reciprocal lattice II, Brillouin zone and Bragg's diffraction condition 52:06
Mod-01 Lec-06 Viscosity (Contd.) and Surface Tension 57:14
Mod-01 Lec-07 Surface Tension (Contd.) and Fluid Statics 57:40
Mod-01 Lec-08 Fluid Statics (Contd.) 57:23
Mod-01 Lec-09 Fluid Statics ( Contd.) 58:14
Mod-01 Lec-10 Fluid Statics (Contd.) and Fluid Under Rigid Body Motion 58:59
Mod-02 Lec-11 Semiconductor E-k diagrams and their material properties 57:39
Mod-02 Lec-12 Equilibrium carrier statistics in semiconductors: density of states, fermi 51:25
Mod-02 Lec-13 Equilibrium carrier statistics in semiconductors: qualitative examination 1:07:08
Mod-02 Lec-14 Equilibrium carrier statistics in semiconductors: quantitative examination 51:58
Mod-02 Lec-15 Doping in semiconductors 54:34
Mod-02 Lec-16 Equilibrium carrier statistics in semiconductors: complete ionization of dopant levels 54:00
Mod-02 Lec-17 Equilibrium carrier statistics in semiconductors: carrier freeze out 50:37
Mod-02 Lec-18 Semiconductor junctions in band-diagrams 1:03:49
Mod-02 Lec-19 Linear dielectric behavior 1:00:46
Mod-02 Lec-20 Non-linear dielectric behavior 59:15
Mod-03 Lec-21 Carrier recombination-generation-I: band-to-band transition 48:54
Mod-03 Lec-22 Carrier recombination-generation --II: Other mechanisms 48:41
Mod-03 Lec-23 R-G statistics via R-G centers 56:16
Mod-03 Lec-24 Optoelectronic materials and bandgap engineering 44:58
Mod-03 Lec-25 Optical properties of materials 1:00:50
Mod-03 Lec-26 Optical properties of single interfaces: Fresnal reflection coefficients 50:02
Mod-03 Lec-27 Optical Properties of two interfaces: thin film case 48:55
Mod-03 Lec-28 Drift 50:58
Mod-03 Lec-29 Diffusion 54:59
Mod-03 Lec-30 Continuity Equation 53:53
Mod-04 Lec-31 Resistor and diode (p-n junction) 47:57
Mod-04 Lec-32 Fundamentals of p-n junction 1:02:08
Mod-04 Lec-33 Fundamentals of p-n junction contd. 38:04
Mod-04 Lec-34 Solar cells 58:37
Mod-04 Lec-35 Microelectronics processing 1:44:30
Mod-04 Lec-36 MOS capacitor 49:03
Mod-04 Lec-37 Transistor 48:38
Mod-04 Lec-38 Organic Electronics 39:56
Mod-04 Lec-39 Organic Light Emitting Diodes 54:09
Mod-04 Lec-40 Organic Solar Cells and Organics Thin Film Transistors 42:21