Elie During. Materiality of the Image. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures    2016年10月19日
http://www.egs.edu Elie During, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Valetta/Malta. March 27 2016.
Materiality of the Image. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta.

Elie During is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest - Nanterre, a seminar lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and currently a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1993 to 1998 and spent one year at Princeton University as a graduate student. From 1998 to 1999, he worked in New York for the French Cultural Service. He received his PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre in 2007 for his research on the philosophical reception of the theory of relativity (“From Relativity to Spacetime: Bergson between Einstein and Poincaré,” 2007). He has since been exploring the notion of spacetime at the juncture of metaphysics, science, and aesthetics, where the durations of mind and matter appear to intersect.
Elie During is affiliated with the Institut de Recherches Philosophiques (IREPH) in Nanterre, and a project manager for the CIEPFC, an international center for the study of contemporary French philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is a member of the editorial board of the review Critique and a co-director of the “MétaphysiqueS” series at the Presses Universitaires de France.
His publications include two volumes of selected philosophical readings (L'Âme, Flammarion, 1997; La Métaphysique, Flammarion, 1998), an introduction to Poincaré's philosophy of science (La Science et l’Hypothèse: Poincaré, Ellipses, 2001), books on philosophy and cinema (Matrix, Machine philosophique [in collaboration with Alain Badiou, Thomas Bénatouïl, Patrice Maniglier, David Rabouin, Jean-Pierre Zarader], Ellipses, 2003; Faux raccords: la coexistence des images, Actes Sud, 2010), essays on the nature of time (The Future does not Exist: Retrotyes [with Alain Bublex), Éditions B42, 2014; Temps flottants: introduction à la vie simultanée, Bayard, forthcoming in 2015), and a study on the philosophical implications of the theory of relativity (Bergson et Einstein: la querelle du temps, PUF, forthcoming in 2015).
He co-authored a book with Bernard Stiegler (Philosopher par accident. Entretiens avec Elie During, Galilée, 2004) and contributed to the critical edition of Bergson’s complete works (Durée et simultanéité, PUF, 2009 and Le souvenir du présent et la fausse reconnaissance, PUF, 2012). His articles touch on various subjects: aesthetics (cinema, architecture, contemporary art), philosophy of science (spacetime and related matters), and contemporary thought (Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze, Simondon, Badiou, Rancière and others).

Is Your "Self" Just an Illusion? (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth    2016年9月15日
Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don't look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodies is different. We feel unity across time, but is this solidified sense of self an illusion?

Michael Tooley - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? 5:45
Daniel Dennett - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? 12:52
Colin McGinn - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? 7:41
Galen Strawson - What are Selves? 9:12
Deepak Chopra - What are Persons? 7:10
Raymond Tallis - What are Persons? 6:16
John Searle - How Do Persons Maintain Their Identity? 12:31
Susan Blackmore - How is Personal Identity Maintained? 7:26
Marilyn Schlitz - Is Consciousness an Illusion? 6:03

Charles Tart - What is an Afterlife? 9:01

“Please Pardon Our Dust” with Doug Finkbeiner | CfA

source: Harvard University    2016年9月19日
Many beautiful astronomical images result from starlight being absorbed or scattered by interstellar dust. These processes make for pretty pictures, but also confound astronomers as they try to see through the dust. New efforts are creating a 3-D map of cosmic dust within our galaxy by measuring the colors of nearly 1 billion stars. The resulting data visualizations are not only picturesque, but also crucial to the star-mapping mission of the Gaia satellite and the science of the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Generating this dust map required years of work – but it beats wiping off shelves and knick-knacks!
Doug Finkbeiner is a Harvard professor of physics and of astronomy, and leader of the research group creating a 3-D map of Milky Way dust.
Original music by Mark C. Petersen, Loch Ness Productions. Used with permission.
Movies & animations used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Stanford researchers design new brain simulation tool

source: Stanford    2016年9月27日
A new simulation technology could one day help surgeons plan operations to relive brain swelling before they cut into the skull. For more info: http://stanford.io/2dpPSQY
Music: "Airglow" by Stelardrone http://bit.ly/2cG1LjG

Prophecy and the End Times with Richard Smoley

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年9月21日
Richard Smoley is editor of Quest: The Journal of the Theosophical Society in America. He is also former editor of Gnosis Magazine. His books include Hidden Wisdom: The Guide to the Western Inner Traditions, Inner Christianity: The Guide to the Esoteric Tradition, Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism, The Essential Nostradamus, Conscious Love: Insights from Mystical Christianity, The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe, The Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History, The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness, and How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible.
Here he points out that prophecies concerning the destruction of the world date back to the time of Jesus. He suggests that such prophecies are a strategy for softening the existential fear of personal death. He also notes that there has always been a market for such dramatic prophecies. The various prophetic utterances in the western tradition, he claims, are best understood as comments on the political and social climate at the time – rather than as statements about the future. In reviewing the extensive quatrains of the famous seer, Nostradamus, Smoley was unable to uncover any pattern of accurate prophecies.

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. 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 August 6, 2016)

Electronics - Advanced Logic Synthesis

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source: nptelhrd    2015年6月16日
Electronics - Advanced Logic Synthesis by Dhiraj Taneja, Broadcom, Hyderabad. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 MOS Transistor 39:46
mod01lec02 MOS Transistor - Detailed Study 1:26:36
Mod-02 Lec-03 Combinational Circuits & layout 1:04:30
Mod-02 Lec-04 Delay 1:05:25
Mod-02 Lec-05 Sequential Circuits 1:01:14
Mod-02 Lec-06 Logical Effort 59:37
Mod-02 Lec-07 Circuit Families 58:02
Mod-03 Lab-1 53:58
Mod-03 Lab-2 1:01:45
Mod-03 Lab-3 1:01:47
Mod-03 Lab-4 1:22:34
Mod-03 Lec-08 Introduction to Synthesis 53:57
Mod-03 Lec-09 Libraries 1:58:45
Mod-03 Lec-10 RTL Coding for Synthesis 56:29
Mod-03 Lec-11 Reading Design in DC 1:01:23
Mod-03 Lec-12 Design Environment 59:25
Mod-03 Lec-13 Design Constraints 1:00:39
Mod-03 Lec-14 Compile Flow and stratergies 1:07:04
Mod-03 Lec-15 Analysis and Reporting 56:51
Mod-04 Lab-5 57:40
Mod-04 Lec-16 Advanced Synthesis Techniques 54:19
Mod-04 Lec-17 Datapath Extraction Guidelines 54:10
Mod-04 Lec-18 Power - Methodology and Analysis 1:36:57
Mod-05 Lab-6 58:25
Mod-05 Lab-7 1:38:26
Mod-05 Lab-8 1:09:25
Mod-05 Lab-9 56:17
Mod-05 Lec-19 Static Timing Analysis - Concepts and Flow 1:19:05
Mod-05 Lec-20 Interconnects and Delay calculation 1:02:20
Mod-05 Lec-21 Clock and Exceptions 1:30:44
Mod-05 Lec-22 On Chip Variation 1:00:27
Mod-05 Lec-23 Introduction to Crosstalk 1:00:13
Mod-05 Lec-24 Gaussian / Normal Distribution 47:56
Mod-05 Lec-25 Equivalence Checking / Formal Verification 1:18:48

Professors Schulten and Ha: Biomolecular Physics Course (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

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source: NanoBio Node   2014年1月24日
For more information, visit http://nanohub.org/resources/20191
Course notes and exercises: http://nanohub.org/resources/19299Physics 550: Biomolecular Physics Course

Lecture 28: Protein Sequence Analysis 1:16:55
Lecture 27: Genome Engineering and Synthetic Cell 1:22:32
Lecture 26: Third Generation Sequencing & Gene Expression Analysis Tools 1:08:18
Lecture 25: Noise in Gene Expression & Sequencing Method 1:16:50
Lecture 24: Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level 1:20:40
Lecture 11: Stochastic Processes II 1:21:17
Lecture 23: Single Molecular Manipulation & Optical Traps 1:20:12
Lecture 22: FRET & Force/Toggle Switch/Repriscillator/Gene Regulation Function 1:21:37
Lecture 21: Super Resolution Imaging & smFRET 1:17:36
Lecture 20: DNA Origami/Encode/DNA Flexibility 1:20:20
Lecture 19: Motor Proteins/Florescence/DNA & 2-State System II 1:19:30
Lecture 15: Physics of the Neuron III 1:19:17
Lecture 18: Motor Proteins/Florescence/DNA & 2-State System 1:18:20
Lecture 17: Regulation of Gene Expression 1:21:33
Lecture 16: Intro to BioPhysics 1:21:55
Lecture 12: Stochastic Processes III 1:23:38
Lecture 11: Stochastic Processes II 2:20:31
Lecture 9: Protein Overview 1:15:07
Lecture 8: Vision II 1:12:31
Lecture 7: Vision I 1:25:47
Lecture 10: Stochastic Processes 1:21:43
Lecture 6: Interaction of Molecules with Light IV 1:19:02
Lecture 5: Interaction of Molecules with Light III 1:20:09
Lecture 4: Biomolecular Physics - Interaction of Molecules with Light II 1:20:57
Lecture 3: Biomolecular Physics - Photosynthesis II + Interaction of Molecules with Light I 1:18:24
Lecture 1: Biomolecular Physics - Introduction to Biomolecular Physics 1:08:59

Persian Language and Literature by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2013年4月28日
A lecture on the history and development of the Persian language and associated literature. Delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil PhD.

(2016上-商專) 法律概論: 劉瀚宇 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續性更新清單 (請按影片左上角選取影片觀看)

source: 華視教學頻道     2016年9月12日
更多法律概論（商專）請見 http://vod.cts.com.tw/?type=education...

Jepson Leadership Forum presents Annette Gordon-Reed

source: University of Richmond    2016年9月23日
The Jepson Leadership Forum presents Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard historian and law professor whose research, among other things, explores the life of America's third president. The author of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, discussed Thomas Jefferson's Intellectual and Ethical Understanding of Slavery, on the University of Richmond campus. Sept. 15, 2016

Online Dating Has Created a Six-Fold Increase in Sexual Assaults | Mary Aiken

source: Big Think    2016年9月24日
When dating online, people disclose personal details more readily than in real life. This leads to a false sense of intimacy that can result in serious misunderstandings over sexual desire. Aiken's book is "The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online" (http://goo.gl/A3qbwb).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/mary-aiken...

Transcript - Lots of people have a positive experience of online dating. One of the criticisms of my book is that I showcase a lot of negative content in terms of all things cyber. But there’s a good reason for that. We have an army of marketers over here telling us it’s all good. I want to position myself over here saying well it’s not so good. And hopefully then we can meet in the center and have a balanced debate. So online dating. What could go wrong? Well like all things in life it comes with risk. So the NCA which is the National Crime Agency in the UK, police force, recently issued a report to say that there has been a six-fold increase in sexual assaults associated with online dating. And what was really disturbing about that report is that 71 percent of these assaults took place on the first date and either in the home of the victim or the offender. So the question is well why is that happening? So if you look more closely at the research as a forensic cyberpsychologist the thing that really disturbed me is that the offenders reported didn’t have the typical profile of a sex offender in that they didn’t have previous convictions and they didn’t have a criminal record.
A large number of them did not have a typical profile. So what does this mean? Does it mean that sex offenders are now moving online to online dating forums to find victims more easily? Or does it mean that something else is happening in the dating world and it’s ending up with this catastrophic outcome. So let’s think about it from a cyberpsychology perspective. When you date online you create this avatar, this profile, this representation of self. But is it really you or is it an idealized version of self? And let’s not forget the person that you’re trying to date is also creating this profile. Princess Diana – we all remember Princess Diana. She said that her marriage was a little crowded because there were three people in it. Well online dating you’ve got four people in the relationship. You’ve got two cyber selves and you’ve got two real world selves. So the question is do you really know the person you’re dating. We talk to kids about stranger danger. I want to talk to you guys about stranger danger in terms of online dating. As the police say, get to know the person and not the profile. So what is the science behind why you think this stranger is suddenly an intimate friend? Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/izczQ4.

Barry Meier: "Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran" | Talk...

source: Talks at Google     2016年9月29日
New York Times reporter Barry Meier spoke recently to an audience at Google New York about his latest book "Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran".

About the book:
In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.
Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, draws on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. The result is an extraordinary tale about the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace. Its colorful cast includes CIA operatives, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers, White House officials, gangsters, private eyes, FBI agents, journalists, and a fugitive American terrorist and assassin.
Missing Man is a fast-paced story that moves through exotic locales and is set against the backdrop of the twilight war between the United States and Iran, one in which hostages are used as political pawns. Filled with stunning revelations, it chronicles a family's ongoing search for answers and one man's desperate struggle to keep his hand in the game.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/ELltfl

The Firth Post Graduate Seminar 2016

source: University of Nottingham    2016年9月26日
The Firth Lectures take place every other year in the University of Nottingham, and it is the custom to ask the lecturer to conduct a post-graduate seminar on some aspect of her/his work. In 2016 the Firth Lecturer was Dr Rowan Williams and he conducted a joint-seminar with Professor John Milbank on the theology of Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The seminar was chaired by one of the doctoral candidates in the department: Mr King-Ho Leung.
Firth Lectures 2016: Imagining Faith; perceptions of religious belief in modern writing - Part 1 https://youtu.be/i3OwDUdo6Oo
Firth Lectures 2016: Imagining Faith; perceptions of religious belief in modern writing - Part 2 https://youtu.be/AuhqQcNte4M

Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Limits of Thought

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年2月13日
This is an introduction to the life, work, and legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a towering figure of the twentieth century; on his return to Cambridge in 1929 Maynard Keynes wrote, “Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train”. Wittgenstein is credited with being the greatest philosopher of the modern age, a thinker who left not one but two philosophies for his successors to argue over: The early Wittgenstein said, “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world”; the later Wittgenstein replied, “If God looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of”. Language was at the heart of both. Wittgenstein stated that his purpose was to finally free humanity from the pointless and neurotic philosophical questing that plagues us all. As he put it, “To show the fly the way out of the fly bottle”. He was something of a philosopher's philosopher. But how did he think language could solve all the problems of philosophy? How have his ideas influenced contemporary culture? And could his thought ever achieve the release for us that he hoped it would? Melvyn Bragg discusses Wittgenstein and these questions with Ray Monk (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton), Barry Smith (Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London), and Marie McGinn (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York).
More Wittgenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK3E...
http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wit...
This is a BBC Radio 4 program called "In Our Time".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

Textile - Natural Dyes by Padma Vanker (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2013年3月17日
Textile - Natural Dyes by Dr. Padma Vanker, Department of Textile Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Natural Dyes 39:05
02 Natural Dyes 40:24
03 Natural Dyes 37:15
04 Natural Dyes 38:52
05 Natural Dyes 38:54
06 Natural Dyes 39:13
07 Natural Dyes 38:49
08 Natural Dyes 37:02
09 Natural Dyes 38:19
10 Natural Dyes 37:57
11 Natural Dyes 38:17
12 Natural Dyes 38:40
13 Natural Dyes 39:16
14 Natural Dyes 39:21
15 Natural Dyes 39:15
16 Natural Dyes 36:31
17 Natural Dyes 38:34
18 Natural Dyes 39:08
19 Natural Dyes 38:43
20 Natural Dyes 39:09
21 Natural Dyes 39:44
22 Natural Dyes 39:04
23 Natural Dyes 38:09
24 Natural Dyes 39:10
25 Natural Dyes 39:08
26 Natural Dyes 22:07
27 Natural Dyes 38:00
28 Natural Dyes 40:02
29 Natural Dyes 39:06
30 Natural Dyes 38:54
31 Natural Dyes 37:13
32 Natural Dyes 39:29
33 Natural Dyes 40:36
34 Natural Dyes 38:58
35 Natural Dyes 38:38
36 Natural Dyes 37:55
37 Natural Dyes 39:02
38 Natural Dyes 39:02
39 Natural Dyes 38:24
40 Natural Dyes 38:06

Textile - Theory of Yarn Structures by Bohuslev Neckar (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd   2012年12月10日
Textile - Theory of Yarn Structures by Prof. Bohuslev Neckar, Department of Textile Technologies, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Fibers and Yarns: Terms Definitions and Relations 48:49
02 Fibers and Yarns : Terms, Definitions and Relations 40:38
03 Compression of Fibrous Assemblies 49:59
04 Compression of Fibrous Assemblies contd. 51:32
05 Pores Among Fibers 47:57
06 Pores Among Fibers Contd... 51:20
07 Orientation of Fibers 45:56
08 Orientation of Fibers Contd. 50:06
09 Mechanics of Parallel Fiber Bundles 46:28
10 Mechanics of Parallel Fiber Bundles Contd. 45:40
11 Modelling of Internal Yarn Geometry 58:10
12 Modeling of Internal Yarn Geometry 42:24
13 Relations Among Yarn Count T, Twist Z, Packing Density, And Diameter D 48:05
14 Relations Among Yarn Count T, Twist Z, Packing Density, And Diameter D Contd.. 42:55
15 Relations Among Yarn Count T, Twist Z, Packing Density, And Diameter D Contd... 44:54
16 Relations Among Yarn Count T, Twist Z, Packing Density, And Diameter D Contd.... 34:25
17 Bundle Theory of Yarn Unevenness 47:18
18 Bundle Theory of Yarn Unevenness Contd. 52:07
19 Yarn Strength as a Stochastic Process 46:12
20 Yarn Strength as a Stochastic Process Contd.. 30:30