lectures/ideas: 11/16/16

2016-11-16

Is It Okay to Touch Mars?

source: Vsauce 2016年11月10日
Watch Nat Geo's MARS Monday 11/14 at 9/8c: http://makemarshome.com/
Watch Kevin and Jake's videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MhE...
*Thanks to Nat Geo for sponsoring this video*
Earth and Mars size comparison: http://www.space.com/16871-how-big-is...
calculate how much you’d weigh on Mars: http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/you...
Martian ‘sun dial’:
http://www.universetoday.com/96930/cu...
http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/inter...
Touching Mars images (walnut regolith): http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/mult...

Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance, Part Three: Apophenia and Discernment, with Brendan Engen

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年3月3日
Brendan Engen, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Waycross, Georgia. He is co-author with Jeffrey Mishlove of a 2007 paper, published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, titled “Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance: A New Theory of Paranormal Experience”.
Here he points out that apophenia is a psychopathological term used by skeptics to dismiss the entire notion of synchronicity. He argues, however, that not all ostensible synchronistic events are best explained away in this fashion. He also notes that many instances of apophenia may be harmless. Also, some genuine synchronicities can lead to harmful consequences. There are no set rules for distinguishing between these possibilities. The theory of archetypal synchronistic resonance will benefit from the collection of more case studies.

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 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 February 20, 2016)

Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering (Patrick Shamberger / Texas A&M University, College Station, TX)

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source: Patrick Shamberger 2015年1月5日
Video lectures for Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering (MSEN 201/MEEN 222), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
http://engineering.tamu.edu/materials

Quantum Mechanics Brief overview of quantum mechanics for materials scientists. What is the significance of the Schroedinger equation? How do the "principle quantum numbers" lead to the organization of the periodic table of elements? 23:06
Orbital Filling 16:24
Atomic Bonding 20:13
Interatomic Forces & Energy Curves 15:05
Single Crystal, Polycrystalline, Amorphous 13:49
Families of directions/planes 7:56
Crystallographic Points 6:35
Crystallographic Planes 9:55
Crystallographic Directions 6:31
Atomic densities and Packing Factors 14:54
FCC structure 8:50
Ionic crystal structures 9:31
Interstitial Sites 8:44
Structures of polymers 7:25
Polymers: Geometric Isomer 3:29
Polymers: Stereoisomers 4:50
Intro to Phase Diagrams 14:24
Phase Diagrams: The Lever Rule 14:02
Point Defects 8:09
Edge Dislocations 9:24
Screw Dislocations 7:09
Diffusion: Fick's first law 8:25
Diffusion: Steady state 5:42
Diffusion: Mechanisms 6:39
Diffussion: Activated Process 12:42
Macroscopic Stress Strain Behavior 8:26
Mechanical Properties Definitions 12:17
Macroscopic elastic and plastic deformation 8:37
Elastic and plastic deformation at the atomic scale 7:17
Electrical Properties: Formation of electronic bands 9:58
Electrical Properties: Types of Band Structures 11:32
Electrical properties: Temperature and resistivity 7:13
Electrical properties: Dopants/Alloying 10:01
Thermal Expansion 9:47
Heat Capacity 7:17
Thermal Conductivity 8:53
Atomic Origins of Magnetization 10:23
Magnetic Domains 10:13
Optical Absorption in Materials 8:39
Optical Emission 6:17

Advanced Material Characterization Workshop (June 7-8 2016)

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source: NanoBio Node 2016年6月9日

Cryogen-Free Scanning Probe Microscopy (Craig Wall, RHK Technology) 23:56
Introduction to elemental analysis by ED-XRF (Justin Masone, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments) 23:19
Quantitative AM-FM mode for fast and versatile imaging of nanoscale elastic modulus (Marta Kocun) 26:32
In-situ & real time study of SEI formation on anode in a Lithium battery cell (Song Xu) 22:54
Rutherford backscattering (Tim Spila, FS-MRL, University of Illinois) 21:59
High speed & resolution nanoscale tomography measurements of low Z engineered materials(Tom McNulty) 28:20
Tutorial 10: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry 37:44

Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez

source: TED-Ed 2016年11月14日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-we-reall...
Annually, we shower over 5 billion pounds of pesticides across the Earth to control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply. But is it worth it, knowing what we do about the associated environmental and public health risks? Fernan Pérez-Gálvez weighs the pros and cons of pesticides.
Lesson by Fernan Pérez-Gálvez, animation by Mighty Oak.

Paranoia: developments in understanding and treatment - Daniel Freeman

source: Oxford BRC 2016年10月19日
Presentation by Daniel Freeman, NIHR Research Professor, University of Oxford and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Freeman describes the latest Oxford research studies on the causes of paranoia and how these have led to improved treatment.

Dancing in the Rain: Leading with Compassion, Vitality, and Mindfulness in Education

source: HarvardEducation 2016年10月17日
Dancing in the Rain offers a lively and accessible guide aimed at helping education leaders thrive under pressure by developing the inner strengths of mindfulness and self-compassion, expressing emotions wisely, and maintaining a clear focus on the values that matter most. Jerome T. Murphy, a scholar and former dean who has written and taught about the inner life of education leaders, argues that the main barrier to thriving as leaders is not the outside pressures we face, but how we respond to them inside our minds and hearts.
Location Gutman Conference Center (Area 4)

Sociology of WE Du Bois: why Du Bois is the founder of American scientific sociology

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年10月24日
Date: Thursday 20 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Aldon Morris
Chair: Professor Nigel Dodd
In this talk Aldon Morris discusses evidence from his book, The Scholar Denied, showing Du Bois, an influential 20th century black scholar, was the founding father of modern scientific sociology.
Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African and American Studies, Northwestern University.
Nigel Dodd (@nigelbdodd) is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sociology.
For more than 50 years the BJS has represented the mainstream of sociological thinking and research. Consistently ranked highly by the ISI in Sociology, this prestigious, international journal publishes sociological scholarship of the highest quality on all aspect of the discipline, by academics from all over the world.

The Power of Pre-Suasion | Robert Cialdini | RSA Replay

source: The RSA 2016年10月10日
The Power of Pre-Suasion with Robert Cialdini. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? The world’s foremost expert on influence reveals the results of three decades of research.
Cialdini’s latest research shows that the secret to persuasion doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered. He visits the RSA to show that the best persuaders spend more time crafting what they do and say before making a request. In this way, they gain a singular kind of persuasive traction by arranging for recipients to be receptive to a message before they encounter it. Cialdini calls this pre-suasion. “To persuade optimally,” he says, “it’s necessary to pre-suade optimally.” In other words, to change minds most effectively, a pre-suader must change initial “states of mind.”
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Art Wolfe: "Photographs from the Edge" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年10月19日
Art Wolfe visited Google Kirkland to talk about his 100th book: "Photographs from the Edge: A Master Photographer's Insights on Capturing an Extraordinary World." His work has been featured in many television shows and well known magazines. Along with many other awards for his photographs, he's been awarded with Nature’s Best Photographer of the Year Award, the North American Nature Photography Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
In this talk, he gives us a peek at some of the pictures in the book which span his career and the fascinating stories behind them.

Have a Moral Dilemma? Start with Your Gut Reaction, but Don’t Stop There...

source: Big Think 2016年10月17日
Making ethical decisions is a process that starts in our gut, i.e with our automatic response. But it is essential to also think about moral dilemmas, says Harvard Law Professor Glenn Cohen.Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/glenn-cohe...

Transcript - When thinking about an ethical problem first of all you should start always with your gut intuition. What's my intuition about this case? You never stop there. You have to keep pushing yourself to say why do I think this. First thing to do I think is to think about cases that are somewhat similar and somewhat different. Sometimes it's varying one fact. So a great example from this classic one in philosophy is the trolley problem. There's a trolley coming at – you're the conductor of a trolley; it's coming at a branch in the road; you're heading towards five people but if you flip of the switch you can redirect it so that it kills only one person. What should you do is the problem.
Well, when you start with that case we then begin with variations: what if it's three people versus one person? What if in fact there are three tracks and not two and one of them would lead to your own death for example? What if in fact instead of having to just flip the switch you'd have to push a fat man off a bridge in the way of the trolley? So these are all variations in the case and you begin by thinking does my answer change by that variation? Why would my answer change in that variation? Can I derive a principle from this? So there are principles like action versus inaction. The greater versus the fewer. The question of how at proximity I am. Did I cause the problem to begin with or am I just coming on the scene at a time when I can help, for example? So you push yourself to derive principles. You then test those principles out in new cases that are alike and unalike again. That's one way of approaching the problem. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/HdLxyt.

Myths of the American Mind: Race by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil 2015年1月23日
The fourth lecture in Wesley Cecil's American Mind series focuses on the origins and influence of the concept of Race in America. This lecture was delivered at Peninsula College. The Map of Africa mentioned in the lecture can be seen at: https://www.facebook.com/HumaneArts/p...
By popular demand, I will be adding links to references and support material to previous lectures in the coming months.

So It Goes: The Illusion of Self & Temporal Passage

source: Philosophical Overdose 2015年5月16日
Buddhists believe that the existence of an enduring self is an illusion and that this illusion is the root of the suffering inherent in the human condition. In this talk, J. David Velleman explores whether this particular Buddhist thought can be understood in terms familiar to analytic philosophy. How might the illusion of an enduring self lie at the root of human suffering? After explaining the sense in which the enduring self is indeed an illusion, it is argued that this illusion goes hand-in-hand with another — namely, the illusion of the passage of time. Seeming to be an enduring self, even though one is not, is what makes time seem to pass, even though it does not. And the appearance that time passes, it is argued, is the source of the suffering that is alleviated when both illusions are dispelled.
"Change presupposes a certain position which I take up and from which I see things in procession before me: there are no events without someone to whom they happen and whose finite perspective is the basis of their individuality. Time presupposes a view of time. It is, therefore, not like a river, not a flowing substance. The fact that the metaphor based on this comparison has persisted from the time of Heraclitus to our own day is explained by our surreptitiously putting into the river a witness of its course...Time is, therefore, not a real process, not an actual succession that I am content to record. It arises from my relation to things." Merleau-Ponty
The paper for this talk can be found here: http://www.amherstlecture.org/vellema...
This lecture was given at Amherst College. I don't own it.

Fluid Mechanics by S. K. Som (IIT Kharagpur)

A. H. Sheikh & S. K. Satsangi: Strength and Vibration of Marine Structures (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2009年9月8日
Ocean - Strength and Vibration of Marine Structures by Prof. A. H. Sheikh and Prof. S. K. Satsangi, Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur.

Lec-1 Introduction to Ship Structures-I 59:51
Lec-2 Introduction to Ship Structures-II 59:52
Lec-3 Deflection of Structure Beam-I 59:33
Lec-4 Deflection of Structure Beam-II 59:43
Lec-5 Deflection of Structure Beam-III 59:51
Lec-6 Deflection of Structure Beam-IV 59:31
Lec-7 Statically Indeterminate Structures-I 59:37
Lec-8 Statically Indeterminate Structures-II 59:37
Lec-9 Statically Indeterminate Structures-III 59:57
Lec-10 Statically Indeterminate Structures-IV 59:40
Lec-11 Statically Indeterminate Structures-V 59:37
Lec-12 Statically Indeterminate Structures-VI 59:43
Lec-13 Longitudinal Bending of Hull Grider-I 59:43
Lec-14 Longitudinal Bending of Hull Grider-II 59:51
Lec-15 Longitudinal Bending of Hull Grider-III 59:44
Lec-16 Theory of Column-I 59:51
Lec-17 Theory of Column-II 59:52
Lec-18 Theory of Column-III 59:52
Lec-19 Theory of Column-IV 59:50
Lec-20 Calculation of Momentum of Inertia of Main Section 59:53
Lec-21 Bending in Inclined Condition 1:00:07
Lec-22 Calculation of Deflection/Shear Stress 59:38
Lec-23 Ship Vibration-I 59:23
Lec-24 Ship Vibration-II 59:51
Lec-25 Ship Vibration-III 59:45
Lec-26 Ship Vibration-IV 59:51
Lec-27 Ship Vibration-V 59:51
Lec-28 Propeller Induced Vibration&Hull Frequency Estimation 59:49
Lec-29 Hull Frequency Estimation From Basic Group(Contd...) 59:41
Lec-30 Analysis of Bulkhead-I 59:24
Lec-31 Analysis of Bulkhead-II 59:47
Lec-32 Stress Concentration/Structural Discontinuities 59:54
Lec-33 Composite Construction 59:50
Lec-34 Method of Plastic Analysis 59:56
Lec-35 Calculation of Natural Frequency of Hull Girder 1:00:00
Lec-36 Hull Resonance Diagram 1:00:17

P. K. Das: Applied Thermodynamics for Marine Systems (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2010年3月31日
Ocean - Applied Thermodynamics for Marine Systems by Prof. P. K. Das, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

Lec-1 Introduction&Some Definitions 52:48
Lec-2 First Law of Thermodynamics(Closed System) 54:08
Lec-3 First Law of Thermodynamics(Open System) 50:46
Lec-4 Second Law of Thermodynamics 51:31
Lec-5 Second Law and Carnot Principle 53:17
Lec-6 Property of Pure Substance, Steam Table 53:05
Lec-7 Ideal Gas Laws, Different Processes 52:24
Lec-8 Introduction to Vapour Power Cycle 54:07
Lec-9 Vapour Power Cycle 52:24
Lec-10 Steam Power Cycle, Steam Nozzle 52:09
Lec-11 Basic Concept of Turbine, Velocity Diagram 52:32
Lec-12 Steam Turbine-Impulse 53:55
Lec-13 Reaction Turbine Compounding 53:44
Lec-14 Comparison of Different Staging Arrangement 55:06
Lec-15 Basics Laws of Fluid Mechanics 53:42
Lec-18 Refrigeration Vapour Compression Cycle 54:38
Lec-17 Pipeline&Pipe Network 50:01
Lec-16 Pipe Friction, Major Loss, Minor Loss 53:43
Lec-19 Psychometrics 51:30
Lec-20 Psychometrics(Contd...) 54:21
Lec-21 Psychometric Processes 54:57
Lec-22 Psychometric Processes(Contd...), Air Conditioning 51:52
Lec-23 Summer&Winter Air Conditioning 50:22
Lec-24 Gas Power Cycles, Cycles for IC Engines 52:36
Lec-25 Gas Turbine Cycles 55:02
Lec-26 Modification of Brayton Cycle 53:02
Lec-27 Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer Forced&Free Convection 53:16

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