Hope in the Face of Fear: How Advances in Neuroscience Will Transform Treatments for Anxiety and OCD

source: Columbia        2016年10月25日
On September 19, at 6:30pm, psychiatrist Dr. Helen Blair Simpson discussed her acclaimed work on anxiety and related disorders (including obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD). Taken together, these are some of the most common psychiatric disorders in the world.
Anxiety disorders (including OCD) affect more people worldwide than any other group of mental illnesses and are the sixth leading cause of global disability according to the World Health Organization (WHO). During her lecture, Dr. Simpson describes her current work both in improving the lives of today’s patients, while also working in concert with brain imagers, geneticists and others to develop revolutionary treatments for the patients of tomorrow.
Dr. Simpson — a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute — is one of the world’s leading experts in anxiety. She helped to develop the first OCD treatment guidelines for the American Psychiatric Association, and has also advised the WHO on obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.
This lecture was part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series, offered free to the public to enhance understanding of the biology of the mind and the complexity of human behavior. The lectures are hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Steven Pinker on Violence

source: Harvard University    2016年9月6日
Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology discussing his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined.
Moderator
Homi Bhabha
Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Questioners
Stanley Hoffmann
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
Amy Hollywood
Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School
James Kloppenberg
Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University
Charles Maier
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University

Pop science: Stanford engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling

source: Stanford     2016年9月12日
The spinning rainbow surface of a soap bubble is more than mesmerizing – it’s a lesson in fluid mechanics. Better understanding of these hypnotic flows could bring improvements in many areas, from longer lasting beer foam to life-saving lung treatments. For more info: http://stanford.io/2cX7x1r
Music: "Arp and Piano Beat" by Podington Bear http://bit.ly/2crnHiK

Precognition with Edwin C. May

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年9月14日
Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West and also Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory. He is the coeditor of a two volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science.
Here he shares his hypothesis that precognition is the basic mechanism that can explain every other form of parapsychological information transfer. Macro-psychokinesis, he suggests, may be the only suspected paranormal phenomenon that is not always amenable to explanation as a form of precognition. He offers several arguments for resolving the paradoxes posed by precognition – such as the apparent incompatibility of precognition and free will. He also maintains that precognition need not entail backward causality – as it is an informational process rather than a mechanical causal chain.

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 June 17, 2016)

What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月17日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-causes...
When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes. So what causes cavities, and how can we avoid them? Mel Rosenberg takes us inside our teeth to find out.
Lesson by Mel Rosenberg, animation by Andrew Foerster.

Human Arts: Cultural Milieu by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil   2012年10月20日
A lecture on the aspects of society that contribute to advancement in the arts and sciences. Presented by Wesley Cecil, PhD. at Peninsula College.

(2016上-商專) 商用英語會話 (上): 徐琍沂 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續更新清單 (請按左上角選取影片觀看)

source: 華視教學頻道    2016年9月29日

Genome Mapping Will Expand Our Life Expectancies | Alec Ross

source: Big Think    2016年9月9日
No pep talks here, just a prediction by innovation expert Alec Ross that gene code and precision medicine is set revolutionize life the same way that computer code has. Ross' book is "The Industries of the Future "(http://goo.gl/ZoQBpV).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/alec-ross-...

Transcript - The world’s last trillion dollar industry was created out of computer code. The world’s next trillion dollar industry is going to be created out of a genetic code. Our bodies are made up of about 25,000 genes and the first human genome was mapped about 15 years ago. It was done so over a period of about a decade and at a cost of 2.7 billion dollars. Just five years ago Steve Jobs was one of ten people who had the privilege of paying $100,000 to get his genome mapped. Today the same thing that cost 2.7 billion dollars 15 years ago or $100,000 five years ago costs a couple thousand dollars. And that cost is going to continue to go down. What does this mean? It means two things. It means we are going to be able to diagnose illnesses far, far, far, far earlier. And it means we’re going to be able to develop precision medicines. First on precision medicines. Right now if you get an illness you go to your doctor and depending on what you have they’ll prescribe you one or two medicines. If you’re fat you’ll get a big dosage. If you’re skinny you’ll get a lower dosage. That’s the personalization. In the future as what I think will be as soon as four or five years when we get medicines they will be personalized to account for our personal genetic makeup as well as the specific genetic makeup of the illness that we have. And what I think this will do is it quite likely will add a couple years of expected life expectancy to all of us. It’s kind of a big deal.
The second thing – early diagnosis of illnesses. I play racquetball every now and then with this guy named Bert Vogelstein. And when I first met Bert Vogelstein I thought he was a gym rat. He’s sort of this scraggly old guy in his 60s, gray beard, wears a knee brace over his 1970 style gray sweatpants, carts his racquetball gear to the court in a dingy old Samsonite suitcase. It turns out Bert is the world’s most cited living scientist. He’s Dr. Bert Vogelstein from Johns Hopkins University. And some 30 years ago he and his team of researchers determined how mutations in proteins cause cancer. Kind of a big deal. So now Bert and his team of researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed something called a liquid biopsy. And what a liquid biopsy does is it takes a blood sample, you know, just like we get at our annual checkup now testing for things like cholesterol levels and whether you’ve got an STD. And in that blood sample they can detect cancerous cells at 1/100 the size of what can be detected by an MRI. What does that mean? It means that cancers that are routinely found in stages 3 and 4 and which are more likely than not fatal will be found early in stage 1 where cure rates are far, far higher. This is another life expectancy changer. This is another thing that is going to add years to many people’s lives.

Search for Meaning (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth    2016年9月29日
To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be found, or purpose realized, without invoking supernatural forces?
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Peter Tse - Search for Meaning 4:58
Seth Lloyd - Search for Meaning 11:06
Raphael Bousoo - Search for Meaning 4:42

Food for Thought: Sustaining Alaska's Wild Salmon Economy | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月15日
An enlightening panel discussion with key movers and shakers involved in responsibly sustaining the Alaskan fishing industry.
Panelists:
Ms. Jill Weitz-Salmon Beyond Borders
Mr. Kirk Hardcastle-Taku River Reds
Chef Tim Archuleta-Ichi Sushi
Chef Trevor Kunk-Formerly of PRESS

An Uncertain Skeptic: Richard Rorty & Philosophy as Epistemology

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年5月18日
In 1979 Richard Rorty published his magnum opus Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. The headlining ambition of the book is to complete a turn Rorty discerned in current analytic philosophy against a constellation of ideas informed by the assumption that Mind serves as the foundation of epistemic authority. By setting this in a broader ‘therapeutic’ context inspired by Heidegger and Wittgenstein, the aim was to ‘liberate’ philosophers from their epistemologically fixated inquiries and, in the spirit of the book’s other hero, Dewey, provide them with a new intellectual task: helping to spread the ‘precious values’ of the Enlightenment by playing their part in “continuing the conversation of the West”. Its attempt to transform the philosopher from epistemologist to hermeneuticist makes philosophy more existential than programmatic in character. Nevertheless, its synthesis of the pragmatic and behaviorist elements in Sellars, Quine and Davidson with the historicism of Kuhn presents a challenge to those who wish to retain a ‘realist’ or ‘transcendental’ standpoint for inquiry, and thus aim to draw a methodological line in the sand between philosophy and science, or between philosophy and other ‘kinds of writing’.
This talk was given by Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins) at a conference on Richard Rorty and his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.

Advanced Optical Communication by R. K. Shevgaonkar

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source: nptelhrd     2014年3月24日
Electronics - Advanced Optical Communication by Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction 52:19
02 Basics of Light 51:13
03 Ray Model -I 49:56
04 Ray Model -II 49:15
05 Wave Model-I 53:06
06 Wave Model-II 54:38
07 Wave Model-III 53:03
08 Signal Distortion - I 54:59
09 Signal Distortion - II 55:01
10 Signal Distortion - III 53:41
11 Practical issues in Implementation of Fiber link 53:07
12 Optical Sources 53:24
13 Light Emitting Diodes -I 52:37
14 Light Emitting Diodes -II 51:13
15 Laser - I 52:48
16 Laser - II 52:36
17 Laser - III 52:29
18 Laser - IV 52:12
19 Laser - V + Photon Detector 53:12
20 Photo Diodes and Detector Noise 54:16
21 Photo Detector 50:43
22 Optical Receivers - I 52:39
23 Optical Receivers - II 51:43
24 Receiver Sensitivity Degradation 53:01
25 Fiber Optic Link Design 54:21
26 Wavelength Division Multiplexed Systems 52:11
27 EDFA 54:29
28 Integrated Optics - I 53:19
29 Integrated Optics - II 53:35
30 Tutorials -I 1:00:45
31 Tutorials -II 56:53
32 Introduction to Non-Linear Fiber Optics 53:57
33 Non-linear Schrodinger Equation 50:08
34 Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD) 51:15
35 Self Phase Modulation (SPM) 53:33
36 Solitonic Communication 48:24
37 Raman Amplifier 54:50
38 Cross Phase Modulation and four wave mixing 51:13
39 Laboratory Experiments -I 40:30
40 Laboratory Experiments -II 1:00:59
41 Laboratory Experiments -III 50:52

Amit Mitra & Sharmishtha Mitra: Applied Multivariate Analysis (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年4月22日
Mathematics - Applied Multivariate Analysis by Dr. Amit Mitra, Dr. Sharmishtha Mitra, Department of Mathematics and Science, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Prologue 1:01:28
1 - Basic concepts on multivariate distribution - I 57:22
02 Basic concepts on multivariate distribution - II 57:14
03 Multivariate normal distribution - I 55:44
04 Multivariate normal distribution - II 54:57
05 Multivariate normal distribution - III 49:30
06 Some problems on multivariate distributions - I 54:25
07 Some problems on multivariate distributions - II 58:38
08 Random sampling from multivariate normal distribution and Wishart distribution - I 1:00:08
09 Random sampling from multivariate normal distribution and Wishart distribution - II 59:59
10 Random sampling from multivariate normal distribution and Wishart distribution - III 1:01:23
11 Wishart distribution and it's properties -I 57:39
12 Wishart distribution and it's properties- II 56:29
13 Hotelling's T2 distribution and it's applications 1:01:21
14 Hotelling's T2 distribution and various confidence intervals and regions 1:00:22
15 Hotelling's T2 distribution and Profile analysis 55:16
16 Profile analysis-I 55:44
17 Profile analysis II 56:52
18 MANOVA-I 58:45
19 MANOVA- II 58:16
20 MANOVA- III 57:59
21 MANOVA & Multiple correlation coefficient 57:23
22 Multiple correlation coefficient 58:58
23 Principal component analysis 52:44
24 Principal component analysis 1:00:01
25 Principal component analysis 57:44
26 Cluster Analysis 58:15
27 Cluster Analysis 58:22
28 Cluster Analysis 57:30
29 Cluster Analysis 55:19
30 Discriminant analysis and classification 1:00:00
31 Discriminant Analysis and Classification 57:24
32 Discriminant Analysis and Classification 54:37
33 Discriminant Analysis and Classification 56:41
34 Discriminant Analysis and Classification 58:47
35 Discriminant Analysis and classification 54:24
36 Discriminant Analysis and Classification 46:39
37 Factor_Analysis 58:26
38 Factor_Analysis 44:11
39 Factor_Analysis 57:51
40 Canonical Correlation Analysis 56:40
41 Canonical Correlation Analysis 57:36
42 Canonical Correlation Analysis 58:14
43 Canonical Correlation Analysis 1:09:10

D. Bahuguna & Malay Banerjee: Calculus of Variations and Integral Equations (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年3月19日
Mathematics - Calculus of Variations and Integral Equations by Prof. D. Bahuguna, Dr. Malay Banerjee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 57:50
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03 54:48
04 54:43
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20 51:13
21 57:13
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