lectures/ideas: 12/17/16

2016-12-17

Like Mother, Like Child – Professor Paul Leeson

source: Oxford BRC 2016年11月29日
Professor Paul Leeson, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, talks about links between the cardiovascular health of a mother and her child. Up to 10% of pregnancies are complicated by high blood pressure in the mother. Increasingly, it is being appreciated that this problem identifies both a mother and child at risk of high blood pressure at other times in life. An understanding of the biological links between mother and child, which may influence later blood pressure, is being used as a means to develop more effective prevention approaches for later cardiovascular disease.

David Chalmers Interview

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年11月18日
Chalmers here discusses how he came to philosophy and his interest in the nature of consciousness and the so-called "hard problem". He also discusses artificial intelligence, the nature of the universe, free will, personal identity, mind-uploading, and the nature of philosophy itself. This is from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies : http://hardproblem.ru/lang-pref/en/ab... They also have a Youtube channel which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCei3...

LSE Events | The Man Who Knew: the life and times of Alan Greenspan Professor Charles Goodhart

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年11月16日
Date: Monday 7 November 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Sebastian Mallaby
Chair: Professor Charles Goodhart
No post-war figure has loomed over global finance as imposingly as Alan Greenspan, America’s Fed chairman from the booming 1980s until the eve of the 2008 financial crash. And no figure has been more paradoxical: a man who preached the virtue of the gold standard, yet came to embody paper money; a man who posed as a dry technocrat, yet was political to his core. From his debut as an acolyte of the cultish libertarian novelist, Ayn Rand, through his controversial relationship with Richard Nixon and successive presidents, Greenspan was the ultimate Washington wise man, the quiet God in the machine. But when global finance melted down, Greenspan’s reputation melted with it.
Drawing on five years of untrammelled access to Greenspan, his papers, and his professional and personal intimates, Sebastian Mallaby has written the definitive study of the preeminent financial statesman of the post-war era. Reckoning both with Greenspan’s monetary decisions and with his approach to financial regulation, Mallaby grapples with the central mystery that Greenspan’s life presents to us. Why did a man so universally celebrated forge a financial system that proved so fatally unstable? And how will his successors protect us from a future crash?
Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE. He is the author of a newly published biography of Alan Greenspan The Man Who Knew: the life and times of Alan Greenspan.
Charles Goodhart is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previously, 1987-2005, been its Deputy Director. Until his retirement in 2002, he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985.
The Systemic Risk Centre (@LSE_SRC) was set up to study the risks that may trigger the next financial crisis and to develop tools to help policymakers and financial institutions become better prepared.

The Psychology of Shame with Gerald Loren Fishkin

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年11月14日
Gerald Loren Fishkin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. He is author of The Science of Shame and Its Treatment. He is also author of American Dream, American Burnout; Police Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions; and Firefighter and Paramedic Burnout: The Survival Guide.
Here he notes that shame is a deep-seated affect that is located deep within the mammalian portions of the brain. He makes a point of distinguishing between shame and guilt, insofar as toxic shame can be completely crippling at an emotional level. It is typically the result of early childhood trauma. Toxic shame also results in abusive and unrelenting forms of self-talk. Fishkin maintains that neither positive affirmations nor cognitive behavioral therapy are adequate for dealing with toxic shame. However, he offers a compassionate approach with a variety of processes that have shown themselves to be effective.
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 exploration. 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 July 10, 2016)

Righting the Record: Conservatism and the Archives || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University 2016年11月18日
Righting the Record: Conservatism and the Archives
A Schlesinger Library Event
Over the past half-century, grassroots activists and organizations both left and right have focused on women’s roles, family values, homosexuality, and reproductive policy, transforming modern American life. Yet the collections of major public repositories, especially those housed at universities, tend to document only one side of this complicated history: the left side. The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study hosted a conversation among scholars, intellectuals, and activists to explore the consequences of the current situation and examine possible solutions. “Righting the Record” is part of the library’s multifaceted approach to enhancing the diversity of the documentary record, to ensure that students, researchers, and scholars can write more complete and balanced histories of our times.
Moderated by Ross Douthat (11:52), op-ed columnist, New York Times
PANELISTS:
Donald Critchlow (20:33), professor of history and director of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
Jennifer A. Marshall (37:19), vice president, Heritage Foundation
Michelle Nickerson (45:32), associate professor of history, Loyola University Chicago
Charmaine Yoest (55:22), senior fellow, American Values
Panel Discussion (1:10:08)
Audience Q&A (1:34:29)

Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridle...

source: Big Think 2016年11月27日
"Behind every rise of fascism is a failed revolution," said the Frankfurt School thinker Walter Benjamin. Here, Slavoj Žižek revives that statement in the context of the failed left. Zizek's latest book is "Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail" (https://goo.gl/m2Aj7S).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/slavoj-ziz...

Transcript - I still believe in the saying of this oath Frankford School fellow traveler Marxist Valter Benjamin who said that behind every rise of fascism there is a failed revolution. I think even if we strategically, I'm not sure about it, accept this term Islam fascism for Islamic fundamentalist, this so called Islam fundamentalism is strictly relative with the disintegration of secular Islamic left, which was pretty strong in the '50s, '60s and so on, but then began to disintegrate. So I think we shouldn't be too fascinated with this phenomenon. We should rather ask what happened with the left. I think this phenomenon of right wing populism are strictly the obverse of something that did not happen. They didn't just happen, they happened because something else didn't happen because the left didn't provide a proper answer. And that's for me the true tragedy today. On the one hand we are entering a period, and we are already in this period for almost ten years, where rage, discontent are exploding everywhere, even in our Western countries, Occupy Wall Street in Europe, the demonstrations in France, Greece and so on. On the other hand it is as if the left, even if it succeeds in, sometimes not always, in recapturing the energy of this rage cannot really offer a new political model that would be not only seductive enough to mobilize millions of people, but even in itself it doesn't have enough consistency. What I'm saying is this, in Europe we didn't yet fully accept the fact that the 20th century is over. By this I mean the following: The 20th century left, which had basically three strengths orientations, Stalinist communism, that's over. Not only it's over, in a beautiful irony where ex-communists are still in power they are mostly the most efficient agents of the most ruthless new liberal global capitalism. Do you know what I mean? If you want to be a successful capitalist today don't go to Western Europe, go to China where every Chinese will tell you the main function, almost, of the communist party is to prevent the formation of an independent working movement trade unions to keep workers under control, Vietnam the same story and so on. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/Ep3N3a.

History Now and Then - History and Change

source: SchAdvStudy 2016年11月29日
02-11-16 Institute of Historical Research
Is history necessarily the story of 'change'? Who/what makes things change? The role of 'Great men/women' - and other factors?
History Now and Then seminar series
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk/
Chair: Daniel Snowman
(Institute of Historical Research)
Margaret MacMillan
Rana Mitter
Andrew Roberts
Gareth Stedman Jones

Christina Hendricks: Hobbes, Leviathan: The Monster in the Machine (15/10/2015)

source: Arts One Open 2015年10月15日
In this lecture for the Arts One Program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Christina Hendricks discusses
- Hobbes' method of starting with clear definitions, then moving to statements, then syllogisms
- Some of the historical background to the text (events leading up to the English Civil War, disputes between Parliament and King Charles I)
- The sovereign as Leviathan
- Hobbes' view of humans as automata (his mechanism and materialism)
- The commonwealth as an artificial person
This is the first of two lectures on this text for Arts One in Fall 2015, and the political aspects of the text are discussed further in the second lecture (which was not recorded, but you can see more lectures on Hobbes from Arts One here: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/thoma...).

Christina Hendricks: Immanuel Kant, "Conjectural Beginning of Human History" 17/09/(2013)

source: Arts One Open 2013年9月17日
Lecture by Christina Hendricks for the "Remake/Remodel" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/ka....

How high can you count on your fingers? (Spoiler: much higher than 10) - James Tanton

source: TED-Ed 2016年12月15日
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-high-c...
How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers -- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands, which we use to count to ten. But is that really as high as we can go? James Tanton investigates.
Lesson by James Tanton, animation by TED-Ed.

Civil Engineering & Water: Integrated Water Management (Delft University)

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source: tawkaw OpenCourseWare 2014年6月14日

7 IWRM revisited 1:19:38
6 Water, food and energy 58:47
5 Stakeholders 51:26
4 Scenarios and tools 1:18:50
3 Lake Volta 21:48
2 The warming up of the Rhine 16:57
1 Introduction 51:44

Arun Kanda: Mechanical - Project and Production Management (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年4月23日
Mechanical - Project and Production Management by Prof. Arun Kanda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi.

Lecture - 1 Project and Production Management - An Overview 57:31
Lecture - 2 Project Management: An Overview 50:36
Lecture - 3 Project Identification and Screening 56:36
Lecture - 4 Project Appraisal: Part 1 53:39
Lecture - 5 Project Appraisal:Part II 56:09
Lecture - 6 Project Selection 55:09
Lecture - 7 Project Representation 53:23
Lecture - 8 Consistency and Redundancy in Project Networks 56:11
Lecture - 9 Basic Scheduling with A-O-A Networks 56:30
Lecture - 10 Basic Scheduling with A-O-N Networks 57:32
Lecture - 11 Project Scheduling with Probabilistic Activity 55:17
Lecture - 12 Linear Time-Cost Tradeoffs in Projects 56:02
Lecture - 13 Project Crashing with Multiple Objectives 56:46
Lecture - 14 Resource Profiles and Leveling 55:10
Lecture - 15 Limited Resource Allocation 51:14
Lecture - 16 Project Monitoring and Control with PERT/Cost 57:56
Lecture - 17 Team Building and Leadership in Projects 55:27
Lecture - 18 Organizational and Behavioral Issues 59:23
Lecture - 19 Computers in Project Management 53:45
Lecture - 20 Project Completion and Review 56:15
Lecture - 21 Life Cycle of a Production System 55:59
Lecture - 22 Role of Models in Production Management 58:09
Lecture - 23 Financial Evaluation of capital Decisions 54:40
Lecture - 24 Decision Trees and Risk Evaluation 58:42
Lecture - 25 Introducing New Products & Services 58:43
Lecture - 26 Economic Evaluation of New Products & Services 58:30
Lecture - 27 Product Mix Decisions 53:47
Lecture - 28 Product & Process Design 1:00:05
Lecture - 29 Issues in Location of Facilities 57:52
Lecture - 30 Mathematical Models for Facility Location 1:00:56
Lecture - 31 Layout planning 52:51
Lecture - 32 Computerised Layout Planning 59:59
Lecture - 33 Product Layouts and Assembly Line Balancing 1:00:13
Lecture - 34 Forecasting 58:48
Lecture - 35 The Analysis of Time Series 59:18
Lecture - 36 Aggregate Production Planning: Basic Concepts 59:37
Lecture - 37 Modelling Approaches 1:01:13
Lecture - 38 Basic Inventory Principles 57:31
Lecture - 39 Inventory Modelling 58:49
Lecture - 40 Material Requirements Planning 59:58
Lecture - 41 Scheduling of Job Shops 1:02:00

Basic Electronics by Chitralekha Mahanta (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年10月7日
Electronics - Basic Electronics by Dr. Chitralekha Mahanta, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. IIT Guwahati.

Module - 1 Lecture - 1 Semiconductor materials 53:13
Module - 1 Lecture - 2 PN Junction Diodes 59:56
Module - 1 Lecture - 3 Diode Equivalent Circuits 1:00:36
Module - 1 Lecture - 4 Diode Rectifier Circuits 1:03:37
Mod-1 Lec-5 Zener Diode and Applications 1:01:20
Module - 1 Lecture - 6 Clipping and Clamping Circuits 1:05:44
Module - 2 Lecture - 1 Transistor Operation-Part-1 56:09
Mod-2 Lec-2 Transistor Operation Part-2 1:01:33
Module - 2 Lecture - 3 Biasing the BJT 1:02:23
Module - 2 Lecture - 4 Biasing the BJT-Part-2 59:25
Module - 2 Lecture - 5 BJT Small Signal Analysis 1:01:10
Module - 2 Lecture - 6 BJT Amplifier-Part-1 59:49
Module - 2 Lecture - 7 BJT Amplifier Part - 2 1:01:27
Module - 2 Lecture - 8 Frequency Response of BJT Analysis-Part-1 1:02:00
Module - 2 Lecture - 9 Frequency Response of BJT Analysis Part-2 1:02:07
Module - 2 Lecture - 10 Transistor as a Switch 1:02:00
Module - 3 Lecture - 1 Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field 59:09
Module - 3 Lecture - 2 Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor(MOSFET)-Part-2 56:07
Module - 3 Lecture - 3 MOSFET under dc operation 54:39
Module - 3 Lecture - 4 Mosfet as an Amplifier 1:00:00
Module - 3 Lecture - 5 Small signal model of MOSFET - Part 1 1:00:56
Module- 3 Lecture - 6 Small signal model of MOSFET Part -2 59:57
Module - 3 Lecture - 7 High Frequency model of mosfet 1:02:03
Module - 3 Lecture - 8 Junction Field Effect Transistor 1:02:10
Module - 4 Lecture - 1 Operational Amplifier (Introduction) 59:11
Module - 4 Lecture - 2 Ideal Op-Amp 1:05:06
Module - 4 Lecture - 3 Op-Amp applications Part -1 56:06
Module - 4 Lecture - 4 Op-Amp Applications Part -2 58:27
Module - 4 Lecture - 5 Op-Amp Applications Part - 3 58:49
Module - 4 Lecture - 6 The practical Op-Amp 57:35
Module - 4 Lecture - 7 Positive feedback and oscillation 57:34
Module - 4 Lecture - 8 Comparator 58:10
Module - 5 Lecture - 1 Large Signal Amplifiers 1:02:30
Module - 5 Lecture - 2 Transformer Couple Power Amplifier 1:03:10
Module - 5 Lecture - 3 Class AB Operations of Power Amplifier 1:04:40
Module - 5 Lecture - 4 Power BJTs 1:03:51
Module -5 Lecture - 5 Regulated Power Supply 1:02:51
Module - 5 Lecture - 6 Four Layered Diode 1:05:44
Module - 5 Lecture - 7 Silicon Control Rectifier 1:03:05
Module - 5 Lecture - 8 SCR Applications 59:14

Electronics - Digital Communication (IIT Bombay)

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