lectures/ideas: 11/23/16

2016-11-23

Good Germs; Bad Germs

source: University of Oxford 2016年10月4日
Invisible to the naked eye, yet a constant presence, microbes ('germs') live in, on and around us.
The researchers in this project collaborate with members of the public to explore and experiment on the microbial life in their kitchens (and in one instance - a cat) and starts to unpick what we really mean by 'clean' and 'dirty'.

The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年10月26日
Date: Monday 24 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Raj Chetty
Chair: Professor Steve Machin
Professor Raj Chetty will give three lectures over three consecutive days in the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture series under the overarching theme of "Improving Equality of Opportunity: new lessons from big data" asking the question "How Can We Improve Economic Opportunities for Low-Income Children?" Raj Chetty will discuss findings from the Equality of Opportunity Project, which uses big data to develop new answers to this important and timely policy question. The presentation will show how children's opportunities to climb the income ladder vary substantially depending upon where they grow up. It will then identify factors that contribute to this geographic variation in opportunities for upward mobility. The talks will conclude by offering policy lessons for how social mobility and economic opportunity can be increased in the next generation.
Raj Chetty is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. His work on tax policy, unemployment insurance, and education has been widely cited in media outlets and Congressional testimony.
Steve Machin is Director of the Centre for Economic Performance.
The CEP (@CEP_LSE) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the LSE Research Laboratory. It was established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1990 and is now one of the leading economic research groups in Europe.
The two other lectures that are part of this series are on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 October.

The Role of Spiritism in the Mexican Revolution, Part Three: Death of a Spiritist, with C. M. Mayo

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年3月14日
C. M. Mayo is a literary journalist, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, and noted literary translator of contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry. Her books include Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual; The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire; Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion; Miraculous Air; and Sky Over El Nido.
Here she describes the difficulties Francisco Madero faced in ruling Mexico after the 1910 Revolution. Some enemies opposed him because he was a spiritist. Others, both on the right and left, felt dissatisfied with his policies. At the end of his life, when faced with a coup d'état, he demonstrated enormous courage in the face of death. This would be consistent with his spiritist beliefs.
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 26, 2016)

Why do we feel nostalgia? - Clay Routledge

source: TED-Ed 2016年11月21日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-f...
Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the world report experiencing and enjoying nostalgia. But how does nostalgia work? And is it healthy? Clay Routledge details the way our understanding of nostalgia has changed since the term was first coined in the late 17th century.
Lesson by Clay Routledge, animation by Anton Bogaty.

Summer School on Molecular and Multiscale Simulation

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source: NanoBio Node 2012年6月20日

Molecular Dynamics (Emad Tajkhorshid) 1:08:58
Molecular Dynamics Software (NAMD) 50:13
Coarse-grained and Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems 1:10:15
Coarse-grained / Multiscale Simulation Software (NAMD), including validation 56:28
Coarse-grained Simulation of Ion Channels 1:06:12
Multiscale Simulation Software (BioMoca) 1:17:13
An Overview of Multiscale Simulation Algorithms: Guidelines and Pitfalls to Avoid 2:48:05

Beckman Institute Director's Seminar Series

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source: NanoBio Node 2013年1月29日
Beckman Institute Director's Seminar Series

Applications and Biological Effects of Ultrasound Imaging (Brendon Smith) 14:33
What Can Listeners Learn About Different Speakers' Voices? 17:39
Spectroscopy of Intracellular Transport 13:30
Membrane Sculpting by F-BAR Domains 12:17
Modeling of Microvascular Composites 15:25
Computational Imaging of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins 1:02:16
Quantitative Phase Imaging 57:26
Synthetic Optical Holography (Brad Duetsch) 25:13

Human Arts (Wesley Cecil at Peninsula College)

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source: Wes Cecil 2012年9月14日
The Humane Arts Lecture Series explore the key elements in developing a humane existence.
For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go to http://www.facebook.com/HumaneArts

The Humane Arts: WALKING 55:07
Humane Arts: Letter Writing 1:09:36
Humane Arts: Conversation 55:49
Languages and Literatures: Cuneiform Civilizations 56:13
Humane Arts: The Salon and Cafe' 1:01:07
Humane Arts: Cultural Milieu 1:09:53
Humane Arts: Conclusion 1:02:28

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (Charles Cockell / University of Edinburgh)

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source: Open Education Edinburgh 2014年7月6日
Prof Charles Cockell, "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" (ASTROBIO), School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

0.0. Introduction 1:29
1.1. Introduction: What is Astrobiology? 17:44
1.2. History of Astrobiology 20:08
1.3. What is Life? 20:32
1.4. Life on Earth 13:20
1.5. The Structure of Life: Building Blocks 9:43
1.6. The Structure of Life: Cells 14:23
2.1. Origin of Life: Building Blocks 11:29
2.2. Origin of Life: Location 11:53
2.3. Origin of Life: Alternative Chemistries 11:10
3.1. Formation of the Solar System: The Early Earth 4:01
3.2. Conditions on the early Earth 12:17
3.3. Evidence of Early life on Earth 7:03
3.4. The Tree of Life 9:21
4.1. Formation of the Solar System 18:16
4.2. The Rise of Multicellularity 13:32
4.3. The Great Oxidation Event 17:41
5.1. What makes a Planet Habitable? 8:05
5.2. The Search for Life on Mars 10:27
5.3. Mars as a Location for Life 15:40
5.4. Could We Be Martians? 7:54
6.1. Europa - Life in the Cold? 7:26
6.2. Enceladus - Life in the Cold? 6:39
6.3. Other icy bodies 14:43
7.1. The Search for Exoplanets: Methods 6:39
7.2. The Search for Exoplanets: Types of Planets 8:36
8.1. Biosignatures of Life in Exoplanet Atmospheres 8:08
8.2. How to look for Biosignatures 6:12
8.3. Missions to find Biosignatures 6:06
9.1. Is there anybody out there? 8:00
9.2. Contacting Extraterrestrial Civilisations 5:33
9.3. How do we look for extraterrestrial intelligences? 6:14
10.1. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Social Dimension 14:40

Introduction to Philosophy (Dave Ward / University of Edinburgh)

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source: Open Education Edinburgh 2014年5月23日
Dr Dave Ward: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Videos from our free online course available on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy/

0.0. Introduction 1:40
1.1. What is Philosophy? 12:31
1.2. Philosophy: Difficult, Important and Everywhere 11:04
1.3. Philosophy: How do we do it? 17:05
2.1. The Basic Constituents of Knowledge 13:11
2.2. The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem 18:38
2.3. Do We Have Any Knowledge? 10:36
3.1. Descartes Substance Dualism Theory of the Mind 11:17
3.2. Physicalism Identity Theory and Functionalism 13:24
3.3. Functionalism and What Mental States Do 8:41
3.4. Functionalism and Functional Complexity 4:12
4.1. The Status of Morality 13:28
4.2. Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 13:25
4.3. Objections to Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 11:24
5.1. Introduction: Hume on Testimony and Miracles 8:49
5.2. Reids Challenge to Hume 2:14
5.3. Reid's Argument 5:40
5.4. Kant the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy 4:17
6.1. The Aim of Science Saving the Phenomena vs Truth 2:31
6.2. Saving the Phenomena Ptolemeic Astronomy 5:15
6.3. Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy 2:06
6.4. Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument 3:32
6.5. Scientific Anti Realism Constructive Empiricism 7:27
6.6. Realist Rejoinders Inference to the Best Explanation 5:51
6.7. Concluding Summary 2:07
7.1. Time Travel 1: What Might Time Travel Be Anyway? 7:19
7.2. Time Travel 2: Grandfather Paradoxes 9:15
7.3. Time Travel 3: Two Senses of Change 7:24
7.4. Time Travel 4: Causal Loops 7:45
7.5. Time Travel 5: Where Next? 8:54

"Why Not Me?"

source: HarvardEducation 2016年10月14日
"Why Not Me" is the first-ever live storytelling event at Harvard designed to give Asian students the platform to share personal stories illuminating bias and barriers that put them on the outside looking in. Our goal is to address issues that are missing in our educational experiences. Snap judgment. Stereotype. Model Minority Myth.
It is organized by The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Pan-Asian Coalition in Education and produced by China Personified "One in a Billion" podcast. The event is open to all Harvard students.

A Chronicle of a Black Family Through the Ages with author Gail Lumet Buckley

source: The New School 2016年10月24日
Sponsored by the Institute for Retired Professionals (http://newschool.edu/irp) at The New School (http://newschool.edu), Fridays@One: A Chronicle of a Black Family Through the Ages with author Gail Lumet Buckley.
In The Black Calhouns writer Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her family of well-educated African-American professionals against the tapestry of black history from Civil War times to today. Buckley, the daughter of legendary entertainer Lena Horne and author of another family history The Hornes, offers a panoramic view of American society from an African-American viewpoint.
Fridays@One is supported in part by the Estelle Tolkin Memorial Fund.
Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnold Hall
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Mental Health Matters | Jonny Benjamin | RSA Replay

source: The RSA 2016年10月16日
Mental Health Matters with Jonny Benjamin. The RSA celebrates World Mental Health Day 2016 with a public event focusing on children and young people. Depending on who you ask, our current generation of youngsters are either ‘snowflakes’ in need of greater resilience, or the product of the economic, political and social insecurity that has come to define our times, creating new pressures which have helped to drive up rates of mental distress. Join us to discuss these challenges and potential solutions with an expert panel including Sarah Brennan, Chief Executive of Young Minds, Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive of Turning Point and NHS England Board Member, and Jonny Benjamin, campaigner and activist.
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Jamie Metzl: "Eternal Sonata" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年10月24日
Jamie Metzl's new novel, Eternal Sonata, imagines a future global struggle to control the science of extreme human life extension. The near-term sci-fi thriller raises fundamental questions about our millennial quest for immortality and what we might be willing to do to attain it. Metzl has written extensively about the genetics revolution and other technology issues, and the novel is infused with insights about the implications of exponential life science technologies. Google's Ray Kurzweil says, "’Eternal Sonata’ is a brilliant exploration of the many challenges and opportunities our species will face as the exponential growth of real-world technology moves us toward immortality.”
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/UH2kEo

'Hey Bill Nye, Why Don't Computers Allow Us to Talk Directly to Animals?...

source: Big Think 2016年10月25日
Could we use computers to translate animal communication into human language? If so, what would we learn? And might it unlock a new understanding of existence and our place in the cosmos?
Do you want to ask Bill a question for a future "Tuesdays with Bill?" Click here to learn how to submit: (http://goo.gl/Joiqzo).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-o...

Transcript - Hassa: Hey Bill. I’m a big fan of your work. This is Hassa from Tunisia. I’m at the University of Freiburg in Germany. My question for you today is how can it be that human beings still can’t communicate with animals? I mean we have powerful computers by now. Isn’t it just easier to just record a lot of data, let the computers look for a pattern and play them back and it allows the responses. Imagine all the implications. Animals can become better tools for us or even closer friends. And can even ask them what their perspective of life is. I hope you answer my question. Have a nice day.
Bill Nye: Hello, hello. Hassick? Did I pronounce it correctly? I’m doing my best. I only heard it once and the sound is not too good. Hassick, greetings. Thank you for your question. Can we communicate with animals better than we do now. Well I’ve spent a lot of time with dogs and I really have a sense of what they’re thinking. I certainly have a sense of when they’re happy and when they’re sad. I’ve spent a little bit of time with gorillas. Now I’m talking about a tiny amount of time. But you can certainly tell when a gorilla is happy, when a gorilla is angry and you can also tell when gorillas are communicating with each other. Now this is one of the things I wonder about all the time. Is there a gradient, is there an increasing stair step of intelligence, of language skill between let’s say a gibbon, a bonobo, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a human. Is there a gradient of intelligence from cow to horse to zebra to giraffe. I don’t know but these animals certainly the mammals anyway certainly have emotions that we can detect and interact with. But I’m very skeptical so far that animals really ponder the universe and our place within it. And I’m very skeptical that bonobos or chimpanzees have developed something like the periodic table of the elements.

Ludwig Wittgenstein with John Searle (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年2月26日
John Searle and Bryan Magee discuss Ludwig Wittgenstein and his philosophical work, from the Tracatus to the Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein was a famous Austrian-British philosopher of the early 20th century who worked primarily in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/
Subtitles/transcript have now been added.
This interview is from a 1987 BBC program.

G. Saravana Kumar & U. S. Dixit: Engineering Mechanics (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd 2010年4月15日
Mechanical - Engineering Mechanics by Dr. G. Saravana Kumar and Prof. U. S. Dixit, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati.

1 Fundamentals Of Engineering Mechanics 58:47
2 Equations of Equilibrium 1:01:05
3 Truss Analysis Part-I 58:24
4 Truss Analysis Part-2 1:02:13
5 Analysis of Frames&Machines 1:01:41
6 Internal Forces 1:03:18
7 Internal Forces in Beams 1:03:25
8 Cables 1:04:32
9 Friction 54:41
10 Application of Friction Part-1 1:00:04
11 Application of Friction Part-2 58:21
12 Application of Friction Part-3 59:56
13 Centroids & Center of Mass 57:02
14 Centroids & Area of Moments 1:03:28
15 Product of Inertia, Rotation of Axis and Principle Moments of Inertia 59:00
16 Second Moment of Mass 59:37
17 Principle Mass Moments of Inertia 55:18
18 Virtual Work of Ideal System 58:36
19 Principle of Virtual Work 1:01:47
20 Systems with Friction 50:04
21 Potential Energy 57:52
22 Stability of Equilibrium 59:32
23 Kinematics of a Particles 44:43
24 Kinematics of a Particle Moving on a Curve 1:01:09
25 Relative Motion 1:00:10
26 Plane Kinematics of Rigid Bodies 1:03:39
27 Kinematics of a Particle 1:00:26
28 Work and Enjoy 1:00:24
29 Impulse and Momentum 1:02:45
30 Direct and Oblique Impulse 1:02:02
31 Plane Kinetics of Rigid Bodies 58:51
32 Kinetics of a Body 27:30
33 Method of Momentum and Analysis of Robot Manipulator 55:37
34 Kinematics in 3D 56:48
35 Kinetics in 3D 1:03:21
36 Free Vibration 59:51
37 Forced Vibration(Damped Undamped) 56:57
38 Vibration of Rigid Bodies Part-1 1:00:54
39 Vibration of Rigid Bodies Part-2 1:02:54
40 Some Problems of Vibration 1:04:31

Strength of Materials by S. K. Bhattacharyya (IIT Kharagpur.)

P. Banerjee: Structural Analysis II (IIT Bombay)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年3月25日
Civil - Structural Analysis II by Prof. P. Banerjee Dept. of Civil Engineering IIT Bombay

1 Structural Analysis 55:00
Lecture - 2 55:12
Lecture - 3 49:32
Lecture - 4 55:41
Lecture - 5 52:32
Lecture - 6 52:54
Lecture - 7 53:50
Lecture - 8 53:38
Lecture - 9 54:29
Lecture - 10 57:24
Lecture - 11 58:26
Lecture - 13 58:22
Lecture - 14 56:24
Lecture - 15 56:28
Lecture - 16 55:17
Lecture - 17 53:15
Lecture - 18 52:51
Lecture - 19 55:23
Lecture - 20 55:49
Lecture - 21 57:38
Lecture - 22 52:55
Lecture - 23 52:52
Lecture - 24 55:27
Lecture - 25 54:21
Lecture - 26 57:11
Lecture - 27 55:11
Lecture - 28 54:17
Lecture - 29 55:10
Lecture - 30 56:55
Lecture - 31 54:43
Lecture - 32 52:41
Lecture - 33 53:39
Lecture - 34 53:34
Lecture - 35 55:45
lecture - 36 57:08
Lecture - 37 56:15
Lecture - 38 57:50
Lecture - 39 53:52
Lecture - 40 53:04

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