Why is Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" considered a masterpiece?...

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月18日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-verm...
Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She’s the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer’s "Girl with the Pearl Earring," a painting often referred to as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North.’ But what makes this painting so captivating? James Earle explains how this work represents the birth of a modern perspective on economics, politics, and love.
Lesson by James Earle, animation by Tess Martin.

UC Davis: Brief Overview of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory by Markus Luty

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source: Markus Luty    2013年4月12日
An overview of quantum field theory for Physics 230A at UC Davis, spring quarter 2013
UC Davis: Brief Overview of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Lecture 01 | Overview of Quantum Field Theory 1:00:59
Lecture 02 | From Particles to Fields 1:36:34
Lecture 03 | From Fields to Particles 1:51:25
Lecture 04 | Symmetry 1:12:56
Lecture 05 I Symmetry II 1:34:11
Lecture 06 | Interactions I 1:43:27
Lecture 07 | Particles with Spin 1:28:02

Egyptian Civilization and Hieroglyphics by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2012年11月11日
The second lecture in the Languages and Literatures lecture series presented by Wesley Cecil PhD at Peninsula College. This lecture explores the 3,000 year history of Egypt, focusing on the development of Hieroglyphics and the lasting influence of Egyptian ideas. NOTE: In the lecture I erroneously state that Jean-François Champollion was in Egypt with Napoleon. He did not go to Egypt until a later archaeological expedition. This is what happens when you lecture without notes.

The Rotten Financial System (Rot $) is the Enemy. We are the Opposition, Part 1.

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年9月28日
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEresist https://twitter.com/hashtag/lseresist
Date: Monday 26 September 2016
Time: 7.30-9pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Vivienne Westwood
Chair: Professor Nigel Dodd
Drawing on her experience as a fashion designer and activist, Vivienne Westwood discusses how we can resist propaganda through critical thinking, the collaboration of intellectuals and activists, and the arts.
Vivienne Westwood (@FollowWestwood) is a renowned fashion designer and activist. She has always used her collection and catwalk shows as a platform to campaign for positive activism with regards to human rights and the effects of climate change and overconsumption.
Nigel Dodd (@nigelbdodd) is a Professor and Head of Department in the Sociology Department at the LSE.
The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology) was established in 1904 and remains committed to top quality teaching and leading research and scholarship today.
This is the launch event for Resist: Festival of Ideas and Actions. Resist is a campus-wide 3-day festival taking place at LSE from Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 September 2016 hosted by the Department of Sociology at LSE. Through a vibrant array of events including public discussions, film screenings, workshops, soapbox debates and art exhibitions, the festival aims to draw a wide audience into the distinct ways in which the theme of resistance has been interpreted and understood within academic research, the arts, grassroots activism campaigns, student debate and mainstream politics. For more information on the festival visit Resist: Festival of Ideas and Actions http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events... , the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LSEresist and follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #LSEresist https://twitter.com/hashtag/lseresist
This project is supported by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
Vivienne Westwood will be speaking again on 28 September at The Rotten Financial System is the Enemy. We are the Opposition. Part 2.

Sanskrit and Indian Civilization by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2012年11月27日
The third in the Languages and Literatures lecture series presented by Wesley Cecil, Ph.D. at Peninsula College. This lecture focuses on the still thriving tradition of Sanskrit, its development and widespread influence.

(2016上-商專) 衍生性金融商品: 林容如 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續更新清單 (請按影片左上角選取影片觀看) 

source: 華視教學頻道    2016年9月7日
更多衍生性金融商品（商專）請見 http://vod.cts.com.tw/?type=education...

Take This Perception Test to See How Visually Intelligent You Are | Amy Herman

source: Big Think    2016年9月10日
We're only seeing a fraction of the world around us. Amy Herman teaches the art of perception; if you're game to test your visual intelligence, take one of her perception challenges here.
Amy Herman's book is "Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life" (http://goo.gl/03uM0u).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/amy-herman...

Transcript - Visual intelligence is the concept that we see more than we can process and it's the idea of thinking about what we see, taking in the information and what do we really need to live our lives more purposefully and do our jobs more effectively.
What I ask the people at The Art of Perception to do one of them is looking down at a piece of paper and the other is looking at the painting and they have one minute to describe what it is that they see to their partner and the partner has to sketch what are they hear. And it's not about the artwork, it's not about how well you draw it's how well can you describe a new set of unfamiliar data, how well do you listen and how well do you take that articulation and transfer it to your own language.
How many of you said there was a train coming out of a fireplace? And everyone raises his or her hands. And how many of you referenced smoke or steam in your discussion? Lots of hands go up. And then I ask the question who articulated that there are no tracks under the train? And a few astute people actually raised their hand and said I said there were no tracks under the train. And then I ask who noticed and then articulated that there was no fire in the fireplace? And hands go up. Not too many. Then we talk about other aspects in the painting. How many people mentioned the wood grain on the floor? Most people noticed the wood grain on the floor. How many people mentioned wainscoting, that kind of paneling on the walls? And I always have some decorative arts aficionados oh yes I know about wainscoting. And then I say how many of you mentioned a mantle on the fireplace? Lots of hands go up. Who mentioned candlesticks? Lots of hands go up. And then I ask how many of you said there were no candles in the candlesticks? And people say oh no never got there. And then I ask what really observant nerd said it's12:42 or 8:05 on the clock? Who got to mention the time? Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/xZYdq5.

Russell's Theory of Descriptions (1-3) by Kane B

source: Kane B    2013年8月11日
This series is a basic introduction to Russell's theory of descriptions. In this video, we begin by considering some puzzles about singular terms.
Re the distinctions listed at 5:44 : If you're at all unclear about any of these, I introduce all three of them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L4GBn... .
As for my claims regarding on which side of the distinctions (3) and (4) fall, of course there are questionable and have been questioned. It has been held, for example, that identity statements such as "Robert Zimmerman = Bob Dylan" are necessary, not contingent. The very distinction between analytic and synthetic statements has been challenged. Some empiricist philosophers (Mill is the most famous example) have held that even logical truths such as A=A (Robert Zimmerman = Robert Zimmerman) are contingent, a posteriori, synthetic. Etc.
What's clear, though, is that there is some prima facie difference in meaning between (3) and (4), and it's difficult for the commonsense view of singular terms to account for this difference.

Russell's Theory of Descriptions 1 - Some Puzzles A basic introduction to Russell's Theory of Descriptions. 14:40
Russell's Theory of Descriptions 2 - Frege & Meinong 27:30
Russell's Theory of Descriptions 3 28:40

Heliomorphism

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source: Harvard GSD     2016年9月22日
Inaugural Conference of the Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization: “heliomorphism”
The topic of solar orientation and urban form is both perennial and, once again, timely. The discourses and practices of ‘ecological urbanism’ have turned our focus to the terrestrial topics of hydrological connectivity and ecological function. Heliomorphism proposes to revise and extend the ecological urbanism agenda by returning to solar performance. Recent projects by a number of leading architects and urbanists have suggested new forms of urban order through solar orientation. In many of these projects, designers correlate the shape of the city to a complex and contradictory economy of solar performance.The topics of solar orientation and social order, public health, and political economy were fundamental questions for many protagonists and projects of modern planning. In the wake of the collapse of modern planning, singular models of social urban order based on latitude and solar equity have given way to neoliberal models of market driven urbanization. The inaugural conference of the Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization returns to this archaic aspect of urban order, and convenes an international group of GSD faculty and doctoral candidates, as well as a select group of GSD alumni to examine its present potentials through three discursive frames: plug-ins, commons, and zero-sum.

“heliomorphism” | Plug-ins 1:19:52
“heliomorphism” | Zero Sum 1:10:56
"heliomorphism” | Commons 1:15:31
“heliomorphism” | Introduction and Mariana Ibañez 51:09
“heliomorphism” | Iñaki Ábalos and Closing Remarks 38:56
"heliomorphism” | Scott Cohen 23:35
"heliomorphism” | Eric Howeler 20:13

Dudley Herschbach: The Impossible Takes a Little Longer

source: Harvard University    2016年9月7日
The Impossible Takes a Little Longer: presented April 15, 2015 at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Again and again, intrepid, persevering innovators achieve wonderful things regarded as “impossible.” In this talk, Dudley Herschbach wants to suggest how it is that in science such things are often achieved and to emphasize some implications for science education. First, however, Herschbach tells a story of an “impossible” educational triumph. It conveys key aspects of the scientific enterprise, including the practical value of “curiosity-driven” research and the kinship of science and humanistic arts.

Arun Sundararajan: "The Sharing Economy and the Future of Digital Governance" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月19日
Sharing isn’t new. But today, we are beginning a transition to crowd-based capitalism: a new way of organizing economic activity, a successor to the corporate-centered model of managerial capitalism that dominated the 20th century. In my book, “The Sharing Economy,” I explain the technological and social factors that have caused sharing to take center stage in the economy, and describe the effects on growth, regulation, what it means to have a job, the social contract, the basis for interpersonal trust, and how connected we feel to each other.
In my talk at Google, I will provide an overview of some of the topics above, after which I will discuss how crowd-based capitalism and the growing sophistication of digital trust systems are challenging the world’s existing models of regulation and governance. As digital technologies make deeper inroads into the “physical” world, these challenges become more pronounced. Autonomous vehicles, blockchain technologies, and emerging platform models for labor, energy and healthcare accelerate this convergence, exacerbating the misfit between old regulatory boxes and new ways of providing familiar things.
I argue that the solution involves a radical shift from the historical role that government has played in regulating commercial and social activity, along with the formalizing and expansion of the de facto delegation of responsibility to digital platforms that has been under way for over a decade. I discuss three emerging approaches that appear especially promising for the future, and argue against “open data” as a universal panacea. I draw from numerous examples that include YouTube, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Handy, Getaround, France’s BlaBlaCar and La Ruche Qui Dit Oui, China’s Didi Chuxing, and India’s Ola.

World Leaders Forum - His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, President of the Republic of Namibia

source: Columbia   2016年9月26日
This World Leaders Forum program features an address by His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, President of the Republic of Namibia, titled, Transparency and Governance Reforms in Africa, Development Reforms and Constitutional Democracy, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Design: Now, More Than Ever | Carrie Bishop | RSA Replay

source: The RSA    2016年9月14日
Design: Now, More Than Ever with director at FutureGov Carrie Bishop. The world is facing urgent challenges – and design can help us solve them. To celebrate the launch of the 2016/17 RSA Student Design Award briefs, FutureGov’s Carrie Bishop explains why design is needed now more than ever as a tool for tackling global problems.

Richard Boyd - Objective Truth

source: SonytoBratsoni    2013年1月14日
Richard Boyd interviewed on the question of objective truth.
9 Aug 2008.

Poltergeist Phenomena with Stephen E. Braude

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年4月11日
Stephen Braude, PhD, is an emeritus professor and former chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has also served as president of the Parapsychological Association. He is author of First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind, Crimes of Reason, The Gold Leaf Lady, Immortal Remains, The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science, and ESP and Psychokinesis. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Myers Memorial Medal awarded by the Society for Psychical Research for outstanding contributions. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Here he points out that poltergeists are thought to represent the recurrent, spontaneous psychokinetic activity of particular individuals. This is an unconscious process not under the control of the individual. However, generally, the troubling phenomena tend to go away once psychological problems are resolved. Hauntings, on the other hand, represent similar phenomena – associated with a particular location rather than a particular person. Hundreds of such cases have been observed by researchers. The discussion covers many details and nuances found in the available research literature.

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 serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. 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 March 12, 2016)

V. Babu: Gas Dynamics and Propulsion (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年6月3日
Mechanical - Gas Dynamics and Propulsion by Prof. V. Babu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction 49:24
02 Introduction / Fundamental Ideas 47:50
03 Fundamental Ideas 48:00
04 Fundamental Ideas 42:52
05 Fundamental Ideas / Normal Shock Waves 53:21
06 Normal Shock Waves 52:44
07 Normal Shock Waves / Rayleigh Flow 49:06
08 Rayleigh Flow 45:52
09 Rayleigh Flow 53:19
10 Rayleigh Flow / Fanno Flow 47:46
11 Fanno Flow 48:20
12 Fanno Flow 45:55
13 Fanno Flow / Quasi One Dimensional Flows 48:47
14 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 48:23
15 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 48:29
16 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 47:50
17 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 50:15
18 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 43:32
19 Quasi One Dimensional Flows 47:13
20 Oblique Shock Waves 48:06
21 Oblique Shock Waves 52:00
22 Oblique Shock Waves 51:20
23 Oblique Shock Waves / Prandtl Meyer Waves 44:06
24 Prandtl Meyer Waves 46:09
25 Prandtl Meyer Waves 52:05
26 Propulsion - an Introduction 42:20
27 Components of the Gas Turbine Engine 48:48
28 Components of the Gas Turbine Engine 45:29
29 Components of the Gas Turbine Engine 45:50
30 Components of the Gas Turbine Engine 47:24
31 Components of the Gas Turbine Engine / Thermodynamic Analysis of the Engine 50:46
32 Thermodynamic Analysis of the Engine 44:57
33 Thermodynamic Analysis of the Engine 49:54
34 Calculations for Thrust and Fuel Consumption 50:54
35 Calculations for Thrust and Fuel Consumption 48:18
36 Calculations for Thrust and Fuel Consumption / Emerging Trends 50:28
37 Emerging Trends / Ramjets 47:27
38 Ramjets 47:33
39 Ramjets / Scramjets 49:01
40 Scramjets 42:50

P. D. Srivastava: Functional Analysis (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年6月19日
Mathematics - Functional Analysis by Prof. P. D. Srivastava, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Metric Spaces with Examples 53:51
02 Holder Inequality and Minkowski Inequality 55:51
03 Various Concepts in a Metric Space 52:50
04 Separable Metrics Spaces with Examples 50:44
05 Convergence, Cauchy Sequence, Completeness 53:57
06 Examples of Complete and Incomplete Metric Spaces 51:19
07 Completion of Metric Spaces + Tutorial 54:21
08 Vector Spaces with Examples 53:41
09 Normed Spaces with Examples 55:09
10 Banach Spaces and Schauder Basic 56:24
11 Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces and Subspaces 54:14
12 Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces and Subspaces 55:35
13 Linear Operators-definition and Examples 56:22
14 Bounded Linear Operators in a Normed Space 55:38
15 Bounded Linear Functionals in a Normed Space 54:36
16 Concept of Algebraic Dual and Reflexive Space 56:57
17 Dual Basis & Algebraic Reflexive Space 54:31
18 Dual Spaces with Examples 56:04
19 Tutorial - I 55:48
20 Tutorial - II 58:14
21 Inner Product & Hilbert Space 56:21
22 Further Properties of Inner Product Spaces 55:51
23 Projection Theorem, Orthonormal Sets and Sequences 54:27
24 Representation of Functionals on a Hilbert Spaces 51:13
25 Hilbert Adjoint Operator 57:17
26 Self Adjoint, Unitary & Normal Operators 55:24
27 Tutorial - III 56:11
28 Annihilator in an IPS 55:47
29 Total Orthonormal Sets And Sequences 55:17
30 Partially Ordered Set and Zorns Lemma 54:07
31 Hahn Banach Theorem for Real Vector Spaces 55:05
32 Hahn Banach Theorem for Complex V.S. & Normed Spaces 55:07
33 Baires Category & Uniform Boundedness Theorems 58:27
34 Open Mapping Theorem 57:15
35 Closed Graph Theorem 52:49
36 Adjoint Operator 57:00
37 Strong and Weak Convergence 54:46
38 Convergence of Sequence of Operators and Functionals 54:37
39 LP - Space 53:38
40 LP - Space (Contd.) 52:58

Vittal Rao: Advanced Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra for Engineers (IISC Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年6月18日
Mathematics - Advanced Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra for Engineers by Prof. Vittal Rao, Centre For Electronics Design and Technology, IISC Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Prologue Part 1 57:44
02 Prologue Part 2 52:25
03 Prologue Part 3 53:05
04 Linear Systems Part 1 53:41
05 Linear Systems Part 2 55:24
06 Linear Systems Part 3 54:51
07 Linear Systems Part 4 55:42
08 Vector Spaces Part 1 54:52
09 Vector Spaces Part 2 55:16
10 Linear Independence and Subspaces Part 1 56:51
11 Linear Independence and Subspaces Part 2 56:06
12 Linear Independence and Subspaces Part 3 59:21
13 Linear Independence and Subspaces Part 4 55:24
14 Basis Part 1 58:23
15 Basis Part 2 56:12
16 Basis Part 3 57:17
17 Linear Transformations Part 1 56:54
18 Linear Transformations Part 2 56:53
19 Linear Transformations Part 3 56:52
20 Linear Transformations Part 4 59:03
21 Linear Transformations Part 5 58:01
22 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 1 55:11
23 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 2 54:07
24 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 3 55:59
25 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 4 56:25
26 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 5 56:29
27 Inner Product and Orthogonality Part 6 52:43
28 Diagonalization Part 1 55:34
29 Diagonalization Part 2 57:11
30 Diagonalization Part 3 57:23
31 Diagonalization Part 4 59:40
32 Hermitian and Symmetric matrices Part 1 54:37
33 Hermitian and Symmetric matrices Part 2 56:18
34 Hermitian and Symmetric matrices Part 3 57:40
35 Hermitian and Symmetric matrices Part 4 57:06
36 Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Part 1 57:52
37 Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Part 2 57:19
38 Back To Linear Systems Part 1 57:37
39 Back To Linear Systems Part 2 58:32
40 Epilogue 56:13