Rethinking Our Understanding of Human Cognition, Behaviour, and Mental Illness

source: Simon Fraser University 2   016年10月27日
On October 17, 2016, the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy award was presented to SFU evolutionary biologist Dr. Bernard Crespi for his research on the Diametric Theory of Human Mental Illness.
The Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy was established at Simon Fraser University in 1993 to honour and encourage work that provokes and/or contributes to the understanding of controversy.
The Sterling Prize may be awarded for work in any field, including - but not limited to - the fine arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and education. The selection of the annual prize winner is the responsibility of the Sterling Prize Committee.

Introduction to Bioinformatics by Tolga CAN (Middle East Technical University)

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source: METUOpenCourseWare      2013年3月29日
OpenCourseWare [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
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Avital Ronell. Dissecting the paraconcept of the complaint. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年11月4日
http://www.egs.edu Avital Ronell, Jacques Derrida Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Valetta/Malta. March 27 2016.
Avital Ronell is the Jacques Derrida Chair and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, as well as University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University.
Her research and theoretical contributions extend across the fields of literary studies, philosophy, feminist theory, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, ethics, and performance art.

As one of the first English translators of Jacques Derrida’s work, Avital Ronell is widely credited as one of the primary figures introducing his work to English speaking audiences—and American academia more specifically. While Derrida is certainly the over-whelming influence on Ronell’s work, she is in constant dialogue with a number of philosophers and theorists, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, or Maurice Blanchot, to name but a few. While her work is often considered as deconstructive, Derridean, Heideggerian, post-feminist, post-structuralist, or psychoanalytic, Ronell’s thinking and writing works beyond these labels remaining utterly singular and thoroughly transgressive.
Among Avital Ronell’s significant works are: Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (ed. Diane Davis, 2007), Fighting Theory (with Anne Dufourmantelle, trans. Catherine Porter, 2010), Schriften zur Literatur: Essays von Goethe bis Kafka (trans. Marc Blankenburg, 2012), and Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012).

What Is Truth? Philosophical Theories

source: Philosophical Overdose   2016年10月6日
Pontius Pilate famously asked: what is truth? In the twentieth century, the nature of truth became a subject of particular interest to philosophers, but they preferred to ask a slightly different question: what does it mean to say of any particular statement that it is true? What is the difference between these two questions, and how useful is the second of them? Melvyn Bragg discusses these and related questions regarding truth with Simon Blackburn, Jennifer Hornsby, and Crispin Wright. This is from a BBC program called In Our Time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

Tatiana Bilbao: “The House and the City”

source: Harvard GSD    2016年10月17日
Tatiana Bilbao, through the work of her multicultural and multidisciplinary office based in Mexico City, attempts to understand the place that surrounds her and to translate its rigid codes into architecture. As a reaction to global capitalism, the studio aspires to regenerate spaces in order to humanize them and to open up niches for cultural and economic development. The firm’s recent projects include a botanical garden, a master plan and open chapel for a pilgrimage route, a biotechnological center for a technology institution, a house that can be built for $8,000, and a funeral home. Their work has been published in A+U, Domus, and the New York Times, among other periodicals.Bilbao has been a visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture and Rice School of Architecture. She was named as an Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York in 2009 and received the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2012 and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize in 2014. Her work is in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities: "Evolutionary Roots of Female Orgasm"

source: Yale University   2016年10月10日
The origin and meaning of female orgasm has occupied biologists and philosophers since the beginning of the study of life. The main problem is that female orgasm has no manifest roles in human reproduction but is nevertheless a complex physiological trait. Two of our speakers, Professor Gunter Wagner and Professor Mihaela Pavličev, propose that female orgasm is derived from a neuro-endocrine reflex that was necessary for ovulation but in primates lost its reproductive role. We shall also discuss the implications of our model for the understanding of so-called "orgasmic dysfunction." Professor Elisabeth A. Lloyd will serve as the respondent.

Museums in a Global Age

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年10月10日
Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Richard Armstrong, Adrian Ellis, Tiffany Jenkins
Chair: JJ Charlesworth
A panel discussion considering the roles and responsibilities of museums as cultural dialogue takes on a new urgency in diverse national contexts. How do museums engage with and reflect the world they inhabit?
Richard Armstrong has served as the Director of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation since November 2008. Armstrong works with senior staff to maximize all aspects of the Foundation’s operations: permanent collections, exhibition programs, acquisitions, documentation, scholarship, and conservation. Previously, Armstrong was The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, where he also served as Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art. From 1981 to 1992, he was a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he organized four Biennials, as well as several other exhibitions.
Adrian Ellis is a global thought leader in international arts and culture whose work spans the fields of cultural strategy, policy, and economics. He is Founding Director of AEA Consulting, one of the world's leading arts, culture and entertainment consulting firms. Prior to founding AEA, he served as Executive Director of The Conran Foundation in London, where he planned and managed the creation of the Design Museum.
Tiffany Jenkins (@tiffanyjenkins) is an academic, broadcaster and columnist, and author of Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There. She has been a visiting fellow at LSE, Department of Law and was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas.
JJ Charlesworth (@jjcharlesworth) is an art critic, writer and commentator. JJ studied fine art at Goldsmiths College, London, in the mid-1990s, before turning his hand to criticism. His writing on artists, reviews and commentaries on art, culture and politics have appeared in many publications including ArtReview, Art Monthly, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Time Out London, the Daily Telegraph and online platforms art-agenda and ArtNet News. Since 2006 has worked on the editorial staff of ArtReview, and is currently the magazine's publisher. He has lectured and taught extensively, and in 2016 completed his PhD - a study of art criticism in Britain during the 1970s.
Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School - from weekly free music concerts in the Shaw Library, and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own professional conductors, various film, art and photographic student societies, the annual LSE photo prize competition, the LSE Literary Festival and artist-in-residence projects. For more information please view the LSE Arts website.
Founded in 1949, ArtReview (@ArtReview_) is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach. Aimed at both a specialist and a general audience, the magazine features a mixture of criticism, reviews, reportage and specially commissioned artworks, and offers the most established, in-depth and intimate portrait of international contemporary art in all its shapes and forms.

Charles Vogl: "The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging" | T...

source: Talks at Google    2016年10月11日
The Art of Community is the first book to distill principles from 3,000 years of spiritual traditions for leaders to create belonging in any organization, field or movement. It is written to support mission driven leadership.
Strong communities help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such communities aren't just happy accidents—they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they're in a company, in a faith institution, or among friends and enthusiasts. Drawing on 3,000 years of history and his personal experience, Charles Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective, and connected communities. He provides hands-on tools for creatively adapting these principles to any group—formal or informal, mission driven or social, physical or virtual. This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a vibrant, living entity that will greatly enrich its members' lives.

What others are saying:
“The Art of Community is a powerful, practical, and modern articulation of, and advancement on, timeless wisdom. Emerging or veteran leaders who integrate these principles will build communities that are more resilient, passionate, and harmonious in the face of adversity and uncertainty. Flip to any page to find insight and inspiration.”
—Alan Price, Founding Director, Global Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business School, and author of Ready To Lead?
“A useful field guide to create durable and profound connections . . . An important undertaking, as isolation and loneliness are a root cause of the breakdowns all around us, including extreme violence.”
—Peter Block, author of Community and Flawless Consulting
“A brilliantly intentional, well-composed plan for engaging and developing communities.This book is both an inspiration and a field guide for those who wish to connect deeply and build the communities our world so desperately needs.”
—Thomas A. Kolditz, PhD, Brigadier General, US Army (ret.), and Director, Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders
“This book is full of rich wisdom and simple tools to help make community real. Our mission statement includes the word ‘community,' but I never truly understood what it meant until reading this book. Too often we declare a community around affiliation without digging into the shared values and care for one another that make a real community.”
—Jason Jay, PhD, Director, Sustainability Initiative, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of Beyond the Choir
“A deeply thoughtful and compelling book that shares many insights with clarity, accessible examples, and ideas for implementation. I learned a lot.”
—Lawrence Levy, former CFO. Pixar Animation Studios; cofounder, Juniper Foundation; and author of To Pixar and Beyond
“Charles Vogl's book is a lucid, ferociously intelligent, and readily accessible road map to building a more connected culture. Education about community and character has been subordinated in American education to myopic cognitive and commercial learning. The result everywhere around us is devastating, from unprecedented wealth disparities to rampant tribalism. This work points to a much-needed antidote.”
—Marty Krasney, Executive Director, Dalai Lama Fellows

Is Less Always More? 4 Simplicity Tips | Lisa Bodell

source: Big Think    2016年10月7日
Simplicity is essential to doing your best, most meaningful work. Discover how to simplify the crush of emails in your inbox and meetings on your schedule with these four guidelines. Bodell's latest book is "Why Simple Wins" (https://goo.gl/alSEko).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/lisa-bodel...

Transcript - Everyone says that they want to innovate but then myself and my teams would go into companies and the very people that hired us to come in and help them innovate were the very people that were holding us back from doing it when we got there. And I thought why? And it was this whole idea of risk, fear, power, control, risk aversion. And I started to ask everybody that I met a very simple question to get at the problem of why people were not able to innovate the way that they should. Here was the question: I asked them what do you spend your day doing? And do you know what the answer was? I wasn't surprised by the uniqueness of the answer, I was surprised by the absolute consistency of it.
So if I talked to let's say 100,000 people a year across all different countries, companies, industries, levels within the organization and I asked them what did they spend their day doing? Do you know what they say? Meetings and emails. Now, I believe that people get up everyday to do meaningful things. I don't have a single friend that wakes up, looks at their inbox and feels extra popular because they have more people that have contacted them. People don't want to spend their day doing that, they want to work on work that matters. So I think that getting to work that is simpler and eliminating those complexities or mundane tasks are not just going to make people more productive at work but they're going to be more satisfied, they're going to have a sense of purpose and our businesses, the results that we have there, are going to be dramatically better because of it. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/MSe7Dt.

Languages and Literatures: Conclusion by Wesely Cecil

source: Wes Cecil  2014年6月13日
The final lecture in the Languages and literature cycle that discusses some of the wider issues surrounding the nature of language. Delivered by Wesely Cecil PhD at Peninsula College.
I want to thank Peninsula College, the Peninsula College Foundation, and all of the folks who have attended and listened to these lectures over the last two years.

Intuition and the Brain with Nancy du Tertre

source: New Thinking Allowed    2015年12月10日
Nancy du Tertre, JD, is a corporate lawyer specializing in securities litigation. She is also a psychic detective, spiritual medium, medical intuitive, and remote viewer. She is author of Psychic Intuition: Everything You Wanted to Ask But Were Afraid to Know. She has also written How to Talk to an Alien. In addition she is certified in the Intuitive Gestalt Dialogue Method.
Here she describes how the brain fundamentally functions as a filter screening out a barrage of incoming information from every sense. She endeavors to examine psychic ability in terms of neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology. She claims that psychic information need not be considered supernatural. It is simply data. To receive intuitive information, “you try to free your mind from your mind.” Rational thought, while valuable, can be the antithesis of psychic intuitive functioning. Emotions can also interfere with psychic functioning. She points out that she was not born a psychic, but in middle age, developed these abilities by engaging in a series of training programs. She maintains out that young children are naturally psychic, but typically lose this ability by about the age of seven.

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). His master’s degree is in criminology. 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. His American Indian name, chosen at age eight, is Soaring Eagle.
(Recorded November 17, 2015)

Vijay K. Jain: Advanced Machining Processes (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2012年7月3日
Mechanical - Advanced Machining Processes by Prof. Vijay K. Jain, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

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P. K. J. Mohapatra: Nanotechnology - Economics / Management / Entrepreneurship (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2013年7月3日
Nanotechnology - Economics / Management / Entrepreneurship by Prof. P. K. J. Mohapatra, Department of Nanotechnology, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction 54:48
02 Market Equilibrium : Demand and Supply 51:11
03 Elasticity of Demand 54:51
04 Demand Forecasting 52:50
05 Production 53:23
06 Exercises on Economics 41:38
07 Cost - Volume - Profit Relationships 51:23
08 Cost Management Systems and Activity Costing Systems 56:31
09 Relevant Information and Decision Making 51:30
10 Cost Allocation 54:19
11 Exercises on Economics (Contd.) 53:44
12 Double - Entry Bookkeeping 55:18
13 Job Costing 53:36
14 Process Costing 53:32
15 The Master Budget 50:27
16 Flexible Budegst and Variance Analysis 53:57
17 Financial Statements 54:18
18 Financial Statements (Contd.) 51:45
19 Analysis of Financial Statements 53:15
20 Exercises (Contd.) 52:33
21 Time Value of Money 54:06
22 Comparison of Alternatives 53:45
23 Comparison of Alternatives (Contd.) 50:53
24 Comparison of Alternatives (Contd. ) 52:25
25 Depreciation Accounting 52:12
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27 Exercises 52:45
28 Evolution of Management Thoughts 56:52
29 Functions of Management 53:45
30 Functions of Management (Contd.) 55:16
31 Functions of Management (Contd. ) 55:26
32 Directing 52:34
33 Product Development 55:04
34 Forecasting Revisited 54:17
35 Forecasting Revisited (Contd.) 56:26
36 Forecasting Revisited (Contd. ) 55:51
37 Capacity Planning 54:07
38 Capacity Planning (Contd.) and Plant Location 54:58
39 Product Service Strategies and Plant Layout 54:13
40 Plant Lauout (Contd.) and Production Planning and Control 57:40
41 Production Planning and Control (Contd.) 56:04
42 Inventory Management 56:50
43 Inventory Management (Contd.) 54:46
44 Supply Chain Management 53:49
45 Supply Chain Management (Contd.) and Marketing Management 53:28
46 Marketing Management (Contd.) 53:04
47 Forms of Ownership 53:29
48 Starting a New Company and Small - scale Industrial Undertakings 52:59
49 Capital Financing 53:30
50 Entrepreneurship - Final Words 55:22

Herbie Hancock: Innovation and New Technologies | Mahindra Humanities Ce...

source: Harvard University    2014年5月7日
Set 4 - Innovation and New Technologies