2017-01-31

A New American Political System? (New York University)

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1:02:33 A New American Political System: The Role of Parties (and Third Parties) NYU School of Law, in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC and the Law School's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic debuts the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum. This annual forum, supported by a...
57:15 Vice President Joe Biden: A New American Political System? Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum hosted by NYU School of Law at NYU Washington, DC.
In the wake of the 2016 elections, the program will address the ev...
50:01 A New American Political System? The Changing Role of the News and Social Media NYU School of Law, in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC and the Law School's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, debuted the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum, on December 8, 2016. This annua...
46:56 A New American Political System? Closing Remarks NYU Sidley NYU School of Law, in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC and the Law School's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, debuted the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum. This annual forum, supported by...
52:50 A New American Political System? Effect of Developments in Technology on Political Information NYU School of Law, in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC and the Law School's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, debuted the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum. This annual forum, supported by...
43:09 A New American Political System? The State and Direction of Campaign Finance NYU School of Law, in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC and the Law School's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic, debuted the inaugural Sidley Austin Forum, on December 8, 2016. This annua...

2016: The Year in Review


source: The RSA    2016年12月30日
2016: The Year in Review. Conflict, refugee and migration crises, an extraordinary US election race - and result, and post-Brexit-vote tumult for the UK and the EU - 2016 has been a year of exceptional, world-changing events. Our group of expert reviewers – historian and author of The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan; academic and cultural critic Sarah Churchwell and political scientist Matthew Goodwin - reflect on what has been a turbulent year in national and international political, social and cultural events.
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An Ancient Ocean World from the Dawn of the Solar System - Carol Raymond, JPL


source: caltech   2017年1月3日
"Ceres: An Ancient Ocean World from the Dawn of the Solar System" - Carol Raymond, JPL Principal Scientist and Deputy Principal
Investigator of the Dawn Mission; Jakob van Zyl, JPL
Director for Solar System Exploration
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- Dawn Mission: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
- 2016–17 Watson Lecture Series Season: https://www.caltech.edu/master-calend...
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The Future of Prediction by Andy Clark (The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 3)


source: SchAdvStudy   2016年11月21日
25-10-2016 Institute of Philosophy
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
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The Chandaria Lectures 2016
Lecture 3 - The Future of Prediction
Professor Andy Clark
(University of Edinburgh)
The Institute of Philosophy is delighted to announce that this year's Chandaria Lecture series will be given by Professor Andy Clark of the University of Edinburgh.

The ‘predictive processing’ framework shows great promise as a means of both understanding and integrating many of the core information processing strategies underlying perception, thought, and action. But this leaves many questions unanswered. What is the true scope of this story – can it really be a theory of ‘everything cognitive’? Is it falsifiable? Can a story that posits prediction error minimization as cognitive bedrock accommodate the undoubted attractions of novelty and exploration? What can it tell us about specifically human forms of thought and reason? And what, if anything, does it have to say about the nature and possibility of conscious experience itself?
Andy Clark was appointed to the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at University of Edinburgh in 2004. Prior to that he had taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of Sussex, Washington University in St Louis, and Indiana University, Bloomington. He was Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program at Washington University in St Louis, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. His research interests include philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence, including robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture.

Prediction Machines by Andy Clark (The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 1)


source: SchAdvStudy    2016年11月17日
18-10-2016 Institute of Philosophy
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/
The Chandaria Lectures 2016
Lecture 1 - Prediction Machines
Professor Andy Clark
(University of Edinburgh)
The Institute of Philosophy is delighted to announce that this year's Chandaria Lecture series will be given by Professor Andy Clark of the University of Edinburgh.

Biological brains are increasingly cast as 'prediction machines'; evolved organs forever trying to predict their own streams of incoming sensory stimulation. Rich, world-revealing perception only occurs, these stories suggest, when cascading neuronal activity is able to match the incoming sensory signal with a multi-level stream of apt 'top-down' predictions. This blurs the lines between perception, thought, and imagination, revealing them as inextricably tied together. In this talk, I first introduce this general explanatory schema, and then discuss these (and other) implications. I end by asking what all this suggests concerning the fundamental nature of our perceptual contact with the world.
Andy Clark was appointed to the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at University of Edinburgh in 2004. Prior to that he had taught at the University of Glasgow, the University of Sussex, Washington University in St Louis, and Indiana University, Bloomington. He was Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program at Washington University in St Louis, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. His research interests include philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence, including robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture.

Merleau-Ponty - Sensible Objects (English Subtitles)


source: Eidos84    2011年8月25日
"Exploration of the Perceived World: Sensible Objects", the third of Merleau-Ponty's 1948 radio lecture series.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender

Merleau-Ponty - Exploration of the Perceived World: Space (English Subti...


source: Eidos84    2011年8月14日
"Exploration of the Perceived World: Space", the second of Merleau-Ponty's 1948 "Causeries" radio lecture series.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender.

Merleau-Ponty - The World of Perception and the World of Science (Englis...


source: Eidos84    2011年8月11日
"The World of Perception and the World of Science", the first of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Causeries" radio lecture series, broadcast on the 9th of October 1948.
Translated and subtitled by Kris Pender.

Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh


source: Eidos84   2011年1月17日
Daniela Vallega-Neu - "On Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh". April, 12 2007.
*Cleaned up the audio as best I could. Turn down the volume to cut out background noise.

Ancient Cities, Modern Inquiries: Contemporary Debates Focusing on Africa and the Middle East

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source: Yale University  2016年12月5日
Recordings from the 2016 Summer Institute for Teachers, offered by Yale University’s Programs for International Education Resources (PIER).
For more information, please visit: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/summer-institute

Kenneth Harl - Orientation and Introduction to the Ancient World 1:10:35
Roderick McIntosh - Why Study African Cities? 59:40
Steven Garfinkle - Commerce, Communication, and State Formation: Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia 1:01:06
Eric Cline - The Collapse of Cities and Civilizations at the End of the Late Bronze Age 1:01:35
Steven Tuck - Summing It All Up: Lessons from Ancient Cities for the Modern City Designer/Dweller 48:57
Martin J. Murray - Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Cities from Scratch 59:01
Garth Myers - Looking at US Cities from Urban Africa 59:03

Gidon Eshel | Rethinking the American Diet || Radcliffe Institute


source: Harvard University    2016年12月21日
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gidon Eshel ’17 tells us that every dietary choice we make has a far greater impact than we might realize—and often in unexpected areas. Eshel, in collaboration with scientists from the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been developing multi-objective metrics of diet, to simultaneously optimize health outcomes and environmental impact.
Eshel is the 2016–2017 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

2016 US-China Forum: A Conversation with Deb Frodl


source: The University of Chicago 2016年11月18日
Deb Frodl, global executive director of Ecomagination at GE, speaks at the 2016 US-China Forum about GE’s Ecomagination growth strategy and the ways in which the company strives to make economic and environmental impact through innovative solutions.
The US-China Forum is sponsored by the China-United States Exchange Foundation in collaboration with the University of Chicago. The annual forum brings together renowned experts—including faculty from the University of Chicago and scholars from China—for high-level engagement focused on issues of importance to both countries and, by extension, the world. It is intended to spur long-term research collaborations between Chinese and University of Chicago researchers. The 2016 program focused on water and urban development and was hosted by the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

Per Gustavsson: "Finding the causes of environmentally induced disease and eliminating them"


source: karolinskainstitutet    2016年11月25日
"Finding the causes of environmentally induced disease – and eliminating them"
Per Gustavsson, professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), occupational epidemiology

Uses of Philosophy for Living: The Accursed Share


source: Wes Cecil   2016年12月16日
The fourth lecture in Wesley Cecil's Uses of Philosophy series. This lecture explores the problems we encounter in a culture that has overwhelming material abundance and a cultural imperative to desire more of everything all the time.

Shawn Stevenson: "Sleep Smarter" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年12月22日
Shawn Stevenson is a bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast in the world on iTunes. With a university background in biology and kinesiology, Shawn is the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, providing wellness services for both individuals and organizations. Shawn is also a dynamic keynote speaker who has spoken for TEDx, universities, and numerous organizations.

In his book, Shawn breaks down why physiologically sleep is so critical, how many people approach getting optimal sleep wrong, and quick hacks to get the best sleep of your life. Topics include:
1. Why timing your sleep is like timing an investment
2. How your devices impact your sleep quality
3. What toxic chemicals are in most mattresses and how to avoid them
4. How alcohol affects your sleep
5. The connection between sex, orgasm, and sleep
6. How to hack your bedroom to create a sleep sanctuary
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/RdyyEZ

Listening to Animals with Miranda Alcott


source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年12月28日
Miranda Alcott, MA, is an intuitive, animal communicator. She also has been a certified Crisis Responder and instructor/trainer for the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), as well as a member of NOVA's Response Team. She earned her masters degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She has also studied with renowned "animal ambassador," Linda Tellington-Jones, and is a Certified TTOUCH Practitioner for Companion Animals.
Here she describes how each animal species has a unique culture. Animals can communicate with us, and can even teach us, if we are willing to quiet our minds, let go of our preconceptions and listen. This often comes naturally to children. In fact, sometimes children experience communication from animals as an imaginary playmate. Animals can also communicate through visual imagery and energetic patterns akin to what is sometimes thought of as the "aura". When opening up to communication with animals, it is very important to develop a sense of inner self-trust. She claims that we all, subconsciously, use telepathy throughout the day.

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 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 study of 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 December 4, 2016)

Being & Becoming - Plato's Parmenides by Michael Sugrue


source: Philosophical Overdose   2016年12月26日
A talk on Plato's Parmenides given by Michael Sugrue. He explains the intellectual context of the dialogue and what led to Plato's theory of Forms, which arose out of an attempt to avoid the absurdities implied by the unchanging monism of Parmenides and the pluralistic flux of Heraclitus.

The Science of Political Judgment and Empathy | Paul Bloom


source: Big Think 2016年12月19日
The title of Paul Bloom's latest book may ruffle a few feathers; it's called Against Empathy [https://goo.gl/RdVl6W]. Empathy has come into its own of late, held on a pedestal as one of the most glorified emotional skills – but Bloom argues that at times it can cloud our judgement. When it comes to political debates, typically the debate isn’t all over whether or not to empathize, it’s over who to empathize with, he says. There are some political issues, such as climate change and free speech, in which empathy favors one side of the issue, and encourages inaction over action.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/paul-bloom...

Transcript - When I tell people I’ve been writing a book against empathy often they look at me suspiciously because most of my friends are liberal and say wait, is this some sort of conservative book? Are you attacking liberals and progressives? And it’s a natural question to ask because a lot of people associate empathy with liberal and progressive politics and they associate other traits with conservatives. The conservatives would say they associate reason with conservatives. The liberals would say we associate selfishness and self-interest with conservatives. But one thing people often agree about is that on both sides is that the liberals are more empathic for better or worse. And, if so, then my attack on empathy is an attack on liberal politics. And that would certainly be interesting. But that’s not the way I’m going to go. I think there’s some experimental evidence that actually liberals are a little bit more impacted than conservatives. There’s empathy tests that you could give and it turns that liberal score a little bit higher than conservatives. With Libertarians below everybody kind of on the floor here. But it’s not a big difference. And it turns out that when it comes to political debates typically the debate isn’t all over whether or not to empathize, it’s over who to empathize with. Do you empathize with black teenagers who are shot by cops. Or do you empathize with cops who have a difficult and dangerous job. Do you empathize with the parents of a toddler who got shot by a gun due to lax gun laws.

Or do you empathize with somebody who is raped because she is not permitted, has no right to own a gun to defend herself. Do you empathize with the woman or the fetus. Do you empathize with the beneficiary of affirmative action who otherwise wouldn’t get into a college or with the white kid who is going to get in because his grades are great but isn’t going to get in because he’s white. And so on and so forth. Every sort of argument where liberals and conservatives face off against, each side points to somebody to empathize with and argues that way. And I think this is a horrible way to have political discussions. Any policy of any scope from affirmative action to gun laws to abortion laws is going to have some winners and losers. And inevitably people who suffer upon any application of law. And so pointing out oh, let me tell you the story of somebody who suffered. Somebody who suffered because of Obamacare. Somebody who suffered because we’re getting rid of Obamacare. It’s a stupid argument. It’s an appeal to the passion while what you really want to know is statistics. You want to know well how many people are suffering. How many people are better off this way and how many people are worse off that way... [transcript truncated].

2017-01-28

Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal

source: SchAdvStudy
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - touch 4:05
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - taste 4:51
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - smell 8:00

The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective

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The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 3 56:45
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 2 53:28
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression and Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 52:16

Biological Identity Conference

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Biological Identity Conference - Welcome and Alvaro Moreno 56:10
Biological Identity Conference - David S. Oderberg 48:36
Biological Identity Conference - Philippe Huneman 40:45
Biological Identity Conference - Eric T. Olson 37:42
Biological Identity Conference - Matteo Mossio 42:51
Biological Identity Conference - Ellen Clarke 39:05
Biological Identity Conference - Denis Walsh 42:55
Biological Identity Conference - Anne Sophie Meincke 45:05

Hume's Legacy

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Hume's Legacy - Hume and Civil Society 1:31:20
Hume's Legacy - Relishing Fine Strokes: From Sentiments to Standards 1:32:27
Hume's Legacy - Hume's Contribution to Psychology 1:23:57
Hume's Legacy - Misunderstanding Hume: The Case of Practical Reason 1:29:04

Bower birds, hominids and the art world


source: SchAdvStudy    2013年12月18日
25-10-13 Institute of Philosophy
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/about/new...
The Artful Brain Conference: Bower birds, hominids and the art world - Greg Currie (York)
Art being a much disputed notion, I take as my starting point a simpler idea but one with—I hope—interesting relations to art: the idea of an aesthetic artifact. What does the history of aesthetic artifacts look like? I suggest it is a very long history, beginning much earlier than the supposed "dawn of art" 40,000 years ago. This much more ancient habit involved shaping stones, and raise two problems I want to confront. The first is whether these early hominid activities are different, in principled ways, from the activities of such creatures as bowerbirds, for if the answer is no, there does not seem to be much gain for understanding art by looking at stone tool industries. The second is whether there really are any grounds for thinking that the "cultural big bang" of 40,000 years ago marks a shift from mere aesthetic artifact-making to the production of something deserving of the title art.

Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn


source: Eidos84    2011年2月6日
Professor Drew Dalton on "Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn".
The talk deals with 20th and 21st century developments in the phenomenology founded by Husserl and Heidegger that allow the discussion of the Divine within phenomenology. The Turn began with Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, but the heart of the turn includes: Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chretien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and finally Jean-Luc Marion (you could also include Jean-Francois Courtine and Paul Ricoeur, but these weren't discussed in the lecture).

Cornel West: 'What is Philosophy?'


source: Eidos84    2010年12月2日
A very short clip on the esteemed Cornel West's views on the nature of philosophy. For West, philosophy can be seen as 'a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death; wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism; and wrestling with democracy in the face of structures of domination'...

Gilbert Simondon - 'The Technical Object as Such'


source: Eidos84     2012年11月15日
Gilbert Simondon on 'the Technical Object as Such', an excerpt from 'Entretien sur la mécanologie' (1970).
Complete video interview (in segments) available at http://atelier-simondon.ens.fr/entret.... Text published in Revue de Synthèse 130(1) (2009), pp. 103-132.
Trans. Kris Pender

Emmanuel Levinas by Michael Barnes


source: StJohnsNottingham    2016年7月7日
This is an extract from one of our timeline projects. Please visit our timeline website for more information and to access our online editions. http://www.stjohnstimeline.co.uk/

James Baldwin’s American Scene

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source: Yale University    2016年10月28日
“James Baldwin’s American Scene” is the subject of the Fall 2016 Franke Lectures in the Humanities, hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center. The lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the humanities to a wide and general audience.
Ed Pavlić - “The Whole Body of the Sound: Listening to Jimmy Baldwin Listen” 1:20:51
Rich Blint - “The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on American Cinema” 1:32:17
Magda Zaborowska - “Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation: James Baldwin’s Queer Dwellings” 1:15:13
Christopher Lebron - “Why Does James Baldwin Love You?” 1:11:12
Franke Lectures in the Humanities: “James Baldwin's American Scene” 1:02:31

Jennifer Scheper Hughes | Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity


source: Harvard University    2016年12月21日
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jennifer Scheper Hughes ’17 presents “Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity,” in which she explores the religious dimensions of the collapse of the indigenous population in Mexico in the 16th century.
Hughes is the 2016–2017 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Surround Sound's Point of Origin


source: Stanford    2016年12月5日
From the October 24th mediaX Sensing and Tracking for 3D Narratives Conference, Chris Chafe, Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University looks to the next couple of years and the potential for the growth and deployment of surround sound in media of all kinds. From car audio systems to joggers with earbuds and from youtube to concert halls.

Uses of Philosophy for Living: Friendship


source: Wes Cecil    2016年11月18日
The third lecture by Wesley Cecil PhD. in the Uses of Philosophy for Living series explores the concept of friendship and our current struggles with establishing and maintaining close friends. Delivered at Peninsula College.

Chuck Bryant & Josh Clark: "Stuff You Should Know" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年12月29日
Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark host the popular podcast Stuff You Should Know. Take a behind the scenes look at how they have become the experts in educating the public about common things and how they work.
Listen here: https://goo.gl/MmWncc
Moderated by Carrie Battan.

Kristin Neff: "The Science of Self-Compassion [...]" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年12月22日
"Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" is part memoir, part overview of the insights coming from Kristin Neff’s past 15 years of research. Self-compassion involves treating ourselves kindly, like we would a close friend we cared about. Rather than making global evaluations of ourselves as “good” or “bad,” it involves generating kindness toward ourselves as imperfect humans, and learning to be present with the inevitable struggles of life with greater ease. It motivates us to make needed changes in our lives not because we’re worthless or inadequate, but because we care about ourselves and want to lessen our suffering. This talk will present theory and research on self compassion, and discuss research indicating that self- compassion is a more powerful and effective motivational tool than self-criticism. A brief self-compassion practice will also be taught that can be used in daily life.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/DqCtP0

Anarchism


source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月24日
In this episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that “Anarchy is order”. Speaking in 1840, he was the first self-proclaimed anarchist. Anarchy comes from the Greek word “anarchos”, meaning “without rulers”, and the movement draws on the ideas of philosophers like William Godwin and John Locke. It is also prominent in Taoism, Buddhism and other religions. In Christianity, for example, St Paul said there is no authority except God. The anarchist rejection of a ruling class inspired communist thinkers too. Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince and leading anarcho-communist, led this rousing cry in 1897: “Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... Or the destruction of States and new life starting again.. on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!” In the Spanish Civil War, anarchists embarked on the largest experiment to date in organising society along anarchist principles. Although it ultimately failed, it was not without successes along the way. So why has anarchism become synonymous with chaos and disorder? What factors came together to make the 19th century and early 20th century the high point for its ideas? How has its philosophy influenced other movements from The Diggers and Ranters to communism, feminism and eco-warriors? With John Keane, Professor of Politics at Westminster University; Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University; Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian.




This is a BBC episode of In Our Time. For more information, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x9t

Tim Ferriss on Mastery: Start with End Game and Make Space for Creativity


source: Big Think     2016年12月18日
Amid all the powerhouse, brilliant minds Tim Ferriss has interviewed for his podcast and new book Tools of Titans, one idea kept springing up: creating empty space. A second concept, by contrast, came up only once, through conversations with Joshua Waitzkin, an American chess player who takes an ‘endgame’ approach to every pursuit he undertakes. Ferriss explains these two concepts in detail, why they’re so vital, and how they can be applied across many fields.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/tim-ferris...

Transcript - One of the concepts that comes up over and over again with prolific creative minds that I've interviewed for the Tim Ferriss Show or for the book Tools of Titans is creating empty space. And one of the guests Josh Waitzkin, who never does any media, can I curse on this? He always texts me with profanity laden SMSs because I'm the only one who can pull him out of his cave to do media. But he is best known perhaps as the chest prodigy, and I'll explain why I put that in air quotes, besides how funny it looks on camera, that formed the basis or who formed the basis for Searching for Bobby Fischer, both the book and the movie. He was a very well known chess player and continues to be an incredible chess player. But he has applied his learning framework to more than chess. So he was a world champion in tai chi push hands, he was the first black belt in Brazilian jujitsu under the phenom probably the best of all time Marcelo Garcia, who trains in New York City and he's a nine-time world champion something like that. And he's now tackling paddle surfing and he can apply it to just about anything. He works with some of the top financial mines in the world, hedge fund managers and beyond, the best of the best; top one percent.
So, why? What are the principles that he shares? One of them is creating empty space, cultivating empty space as a way of life, and these are all tied together so I'll mention another one. Learning the macro from the micro and then beginning with the end in mind. And these all work together. So I'll explain in fact the last two first. Josh learned to play chess or I should say more accurately was coached by his first real coach in the opposite direction when compared to most training and most chess books. He was taught in reverse. What does that mean? He began with the end game and with very few pieces. So they cleared all the pieces off the board, instead of starting with openings, meaning what do you do first the first five to ten moves, he started with the ending game with king and pawn versus king. What does this do? Well this forces you to focus on principles like opposition, creating space, zugzwang, which is a principle of forcing your opponent to do anything that will destroy their position or anything they can possibly do will worsen their position. And these types of principles that you learn when there's an empty board with a few pieces accomplish a few things. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/1OtqjR.

2017-01-27

Wendy Brown. In the account of Neoliberalism. 2016


source: European Graduate School Video Lectures    2017年1月25日
http://www.egs.edu Wendy Brown, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee Switzerland. August 13 2016.
Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of political and social theory, Continental philosophy, and critical theory, together with the examination of contemporary capitalism. In her research into the problems that plague contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism, she employs theoretical works of Michel Foucault, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Frankfurt school.
In 1983, Wendy Brown received her doctoral degree from Princetown University. She subsequently taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and also at Williams College. Since 1999, she has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.
Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (2005) consists of seven articles which were all written for some particular occasion. Brown emphasises this trait of her book and claims that “such occasions mimic, in certain ways, the experience of the political realm: one is challenged to think here, now, about a problem that is set and framed by someone else, and to do so before a particular audience or in dialogue with others not of one’s own choosing.” Every essay in this book begins with a particular problem: what is the relationship between love, loyalty, and dissent in contemporary American political life?; how did neoliberal rationality become a form of governmentality?; what are the main problems of women’s studies programs?, etc. According to Brown, the aim of these essays is not to produce definitive answers to the given questions but “to critically interrogate the framing and naming practices, challenge the dogmas (including those of the Left and of feminism), and discern the constitutive powers shaping the problem at hand.”
In Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006), Wendy Brown subverts the usual and widely accepted conception that tolerance is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern Western world. She argues that tolerance cannot be perceived as a complete opposite to violence, but that can also be used to justify violence. In order to substantiate this thesis, Brown associates tolerance with figures like George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Samuel Huntington, Susan Okin, Michael Ignatieff, Bernard Lewis, and Seyla Benhabib and claims that “tolerance as a political practice is always conferred by the dominant, it is always a certain expression of domination even as it offers protection or incorporation to the less powerful.”
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010) examines the revival of wall-building in the contemporary world. She shows that the function of these walls is ultimately problematic because they cannot stop crimes, migration, or smuggling, cannot play a defensive role in the case of a war like they did in the past, and they cannot do anything against potential terrorist attacks. However, even if they cannot stop all these threats, walls still have an important symbolic function which Brown explores in her book.
Her most recent work Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015) uses Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics to analyze the hollowing and evisceration of democracy under neoliberal rationality. Brown describes neoliberalism as a furtive attack on the very foundation of democracy. She treats “neoliberalism as a governing rationality through which everything is “economized” and in a very specific way: human beings become market actors and nothing but, every field of activity is seen as a market, and every entity (whether public or private, whether person, business, or state) is governed as a firm. Importantly, this is not merely a matter of extending commodification and monetization everywhere, as in the old Marxist depiction of capital’s transformation of everyday life. Neoliberalism construes even non-wealth generating spheres—such as learning, dating, or exercising—in market terms, submits them to market metrics, and governs them with market techniques and practices. Above all, it casts people as human capital who must constantly tend to their own present and future value.” To be saved, democracy again needs to become not only the object of theoretical rethinking but also of political struggle.

The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen


source: TED-Ed    2017年1月26日
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What’s your sign? In Western astrology, it’s a constellation determined by when your birthday falls in the calendar. But according to the Chinese zodiac (生肖), it’s your shuxiang, meaning the animal assigned to your birth year. Of the many myths explaining these animal signs and their arrangement, the most enduring one is that of The Great Race. Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen recounts this classic myth.
Lesson by Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen, animation by Marta Prokopová.

Emmanuel Levinas on Maurice Blanchot


source: Eidos84    2012年10月9日
Emmanuel Levinas on his early relationship with Maurice Blanchot. From Hugo Santiago's 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. Kris Pender and Philippe Salmon

Emmanuel Levinas: The Right To Be (English Subtitles)


source: Eidos84    2011年6月22日
"The Right to Be", section two of "Penser Aujourd'hui: Emmanuel Levinas" (1991).
Levinas discusses the idea that the "perseverance of Being" is the source of all evil and suffering. For Levinas, such perseverance is not to be understood in terms of the individual's right to be, but rather in relation to a perceived right to violence and excess. Levinas also discusses the Biblical Genesis story. In this account, evil, as the immoderate or excessive aspiration of man towards Being, is absent. Evil is subsequent to the Creation, which was "good"; evil is therefore of a secondary nature to the good and, Levinas claims, is solely manifested in relation to man.
Thanks again to Salmon Philippe [youtube user "salmonfishandships"] for assistance with the translation.

Emmanuel Levinas: The Strong and the Weak (English Subtitles)


source: Eidos84    2011年6月26日
"The Strong and the Weak", section three of "Penser Aujourd'hui: Emmanuel Levinas" (1991).
Levinas discusses his famous analyses of the face. For Levinas, the face expresses a weakness and demands responsibility for the other. Levinas links this notion of responsibility to the Biblical ideas of "holiness" and "election/the elect".
Thanks to Salmon Philippe for assistance with the translation.

Interview with Levinas (English Subtitles)


source: Eidos84    2011年5月6日
On June 29 1993 Michel Field interviewed Emmanuel Levinas on the occasion of the recent publication of "Dieu, la Mort et le Temps", a collection of Levinas's course materials. Field questions Levinas about the lateral character of his approach to philosophy at the crossroads of different civilizations. Levinas also talks about one of his favourite themes, the relation between one human and another, which consists of transcendence, "the exit from oneself".

Emmanuel Levinas: Being in the Principle of War (English Subtitles)


source: Eidos84 2011年6月10日
"Being in the Principle of War", section one of "Penser Aujourd'hui: Emmanuel Levinas" (1991).
Interviewed by Catherine Chalier, Levinas first explains what brought him to philosophy and ontology, and his early engagement with Heidegger. In relation to the experience of Being, Levinas discusses "the sadness of (self-)interestedness" (la tristesse de l'intéressement), which is a product of contemporary experience. Levinas makes the distinction between self-interestedness and "disinterestedness'' (le desintéressement); disinterestedness is "to lose interest in oneself", and is peculiar to human being. For Levinas, the idea of disinterestedness is essential to his philosophy, and can also be called "holiness." Finally, in response to the claim that values of holiness are largely disengaged from historical reality, Levinas states that, on the contrary, his philosophy is deeply concerned with history, and the experience of holiness, in historical periods succeeding Biblical times, is precisely "the rationality of history".
Many thanks to my good friend Salmon Philippe [salmonfishandships] for assistance with the more difficult aspects of translation.

Before and After: Experiences from Newly Built and Renovated Conservation Laboratories


source: Yale University     2016年12月15日
Panel discussion on the designing and renovation or construction of conservation laboratories for treatment of library and archival collection materials.

BOSTON ORIGINALS: Season Finale Reading | Woodberry Poetry Room


source: Harvard University    2016年12月20日
Our season finale features eight dynamic representatives of Boston-area poetry and of the vital work that is emerging among us. The readers in set No. 1 are Tanya Larkin (author of My Scarlet Ways/Saturnalia), Sandra Lim (author of The Wilderness/W.W. Norton), Audrey Mardavich (recent poems published in No Infinite and Let the Bucket Down), and Clint Smith (author of Counting Descent/Write Bloody Publishing). The readers in set No. 2 are: Keith Jones (author of Fugue Meadow/Ricochet Editions), Gail Mazur (author of Forbidden City/UChicago Press), Jill McDonough (Where You Live/Salt Publishing) and David Rivard (Standoff/Graywolf Press).
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: December 8, 2016, at the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Askwith Debates – Pass/Fail: How Test-Based Accountability Stacks Up


source: HarvardEducation     2016年12月5日
**Note the 6 p.m. start time.**
Speakers:
• Mitchell Chester, Ed.M.'88, Ed.D.'91, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Rebecca Holcombe, Ed.M.'90, Ed.D.'16, Secretary of Education, Vermont
• Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE
• Daniel Koretz, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Andrew Ho, Professor of Education, HGSE
Test-based accountability has been a cornerstone of education policy in the United States for decades, and testing now has a tremendous influence on daily life in schools. With the replacement of No Child Left Behind with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states have more leeway than previously to change the ways in which they use testing. This shift provides an ideal time to take stock of the effects of high-stakes testing and to rethink how testing is used. Proponents and skeptics will debate the pros and cons of high-stakes testing. How much has student learning really improved? Can we trust the increases in scores that states and districts and individual schools often report? What have been the effects of high-stakes testing, both good and bad, on the practices of educators? What impact does test-based accountability have on children, families, and teachers?

The Basics of Stoic Ethics


source: Gregory B. Sadler    2016年12月30日
This was an invited lecture at Rockford University, hosted by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, provided to students during one of the class sessions.
In the course of the lecture, we discuss some of the ideas central to Stoic Ethics, including what is in our control and what is not, the nature of genuine goods, the cardinal virtues (wisdom or prudence, temperance or moderation, justice, and courage), and the nature of duties, including how they fit into our roles and relationships.
We also discuss a bit about moral theories in general, and what it is that we want moral theories to do or to provide for us.

Uses of Philosophy for Living: Freedom


source: Wes Cecil    2016年10月21日
This lecture explores the concept of Freedom as an example of how to think about core ideas in a philosophical matter. The life of Martin Luther King jr. is used as an exemplar of different types of freedom and how they can be achieved. Delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College.

The end of mass incarceration?: The moral purpose of prison - Dr Jeffrey Howard


source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年12月12日
Speaker - Dr Jeffrey Howard, UCL Political Science - Thursday 8th December 2016 #ucllhl
The United Kingdom has doubled its prison population, twice, in the past 65 years. By outlining a philosophical account of the moral purpose of prisons, Dr. Jeffrey Howard will explain how we can transform our criminal justice system to make it fairer, cheaper, and better at preventing crime.

14th Annual Conference: Agency, Prospering, Progress and the Working Class by the Center on Capitalism and Society

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source: Columbia      2016年12月22日

Lawrence Levy: "To Pixar and Beyond [...]" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年12月21日
The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success.
“Hi, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.” After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he owned called Pixar.
One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and Silicon Valley executive to whom he had never spoken before, in the hope of persuading Levy to help him get Pixar on the right track. What Levy found in Pixar was a company on the verge of failure. To Pixar and Beyond is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How Levy, working closely with Jobs and the Pixar team, produced and implemented a highly improbable roadmap that transformed the sleepy graphics art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories. Set in the worlds of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the book takes readers inside Pixar, Disney, law firms, and investment banks. It provides an up-close, first-hand account of Pixar’s stunning ascent, how it took risks, Levy’s enduring collaboration and friendship with Jobs, and how Levy came to see in Pixar deeper parallels that apply to all aspects of our lives.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/HbsR16

2017-01-26

Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen


source: TED-Ed    2017年1月24日
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Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge? Eleanor Nelsen explains what this thought experiment can teach us about experience.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Maxime Dupuy.

Derrida: On The Private Lives of Philosophers


source: Eidos84    2010年9月10日
Asked what would he like to see in a documentary on a major philosopher, such as Hegel or Heidegger, Derrida replies he would want them to speak of their sexuality and 'the part that love plays in their life'. He criticises the dissimulation of such philosophers concerning their sex lives - 'why have they erased their private life from their work?'

Derrida on Blanchot


source: Eidos84    2012年11月13日
Jacques Derrida on Maurice Blanchot, from the French documentary 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. K. Pender and P. Salmon

Alain Badiou on Art: Description Without Place


source: Eidos84    2011年1月27日
Alain Badiou on art (March 7, 2006).
Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy. Badiou seeks to recover the concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. His magnum opus, "Being and Event", is considered by some to be the most important work of 20th century ontology after Heidegger's 'Being and Time". Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the Marxist tradition.

Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis


source: Eidos84   2011年1月18日
Alain Badiou, ''The Communist Hypothesis''. Lecture given on October 15, 2010.

Christopher Lebron - “Why Does James Baldwin Love You?”


source: Yale University    2016年12月13日
Franke Lectures in the Humanities, "James Baldwin's American Scene"
Christopher Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, winner of the American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, as well as numerous academic articles and book reviews on race and political ethics. Lebron has also written for the New York Times’s The Stone column and Boston Review. He has just completed “The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea,” forthcoming in 2017. He was recently named a finalist for the Hiett Prize, awarded by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which recognizes promising young scholars and writers who are influencing public debates through their work.

Jacob S. Hacker | American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper || Radcliffe Institute


source: Harvard University    2016年12月15日
American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/eve...
(6:10) Jacob S. Hacker discusses the importance of an effective public sector to America’s health, wealth, and well-being and explores why so many of our economic and political leaders seem to have forgotten this perspective. He explains these concepts in the context of recent political events, the historic 2016 election, and changing ideas about government itself.
Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and the director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, is the author, with Paul Pierson, of the recently published American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (Simon & Schuster, 2016), an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Audience Q&A (43:02)

Anniversary Address from Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society


source: The Royal Society    2016年12月8日
To celebrate our anniversary day, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, looked back at his first year as president and reflected on the challenges facing the science community in the coming years http://ow.ly/iQAj306Vyga

Kepler 's Trial


source: Cambridge University    2016年12月15日
Kepler 's Trial is a cooperation between Ulinka Rublack, Professor of History at Cambridge University and Fellow of St John's College, composer Timothy Watts, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University, and London film- and sound-artist Aura Satz. The opera premiered at St John's College in October 2016 and follows on from Rublack's monograph The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother, Oxford: October 2015. The book tells the story of how the famous astronomer's aged mother was accused of witchcraft in 1615. The proceedings which eventually led into a criminal trial against Katharina would last for six years and would involve Johannes Kepler at the height of his career as key figure in the scientific revolution.
Two operas have been written about Kepler: Paul Hindemith's Harmony of the World and Philip Glass's Kepler. While the latter ignores Kepler's personal life, Hindemith presented a problematic account of Kepler's mother and his relationship to her, which make Katharina seem witch-like. This is in line with Anglo-American writing on the subject.
This project is grounded in the most complete archival work ever carried out on this subject as well as the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who regularly met to support the development of the music, libretto and film. The opera explores musically ideas about the relation between religion and reason, what it meant to work both as a ground-breaking scientist and Protestant., and the role of old women in society
It is the first musical response ever to the story of Kepler and his mother with a text in English: http://keplers-trial.com/keplers-tria... The project is supported by a website, which features the story of the making of the opera and its cast: http://keplers-trial.com/

Uses of Philosophy for Living: The Well Formed Mind


source: Wes Cecil    2016年9月19日
The first in a series of lectures by Wesley Cecil PhD. that explores the application of philosophical thinking to daily life. The first lectures explores WHY we need philosophy to helps us think.

Kartik Gada: "The ATOM: The New Economics of Technological Disruption" |...


source: Talks at Google    2016年12月21日
Kartik Gada joined us to talk about his e-book the ATOM ( http://atom.singularity2050.com). The book examines the new economics of technological disruption, and its impact on governments, businesses, and society. The Atom is a 14-chapter e-book that contains novel concepts, research, and policy prescriptions about the various effects of technological progress on the economy and society.
Kartik is the primary blogger at The Futurist, which has received 2M visits to date and has had many successful predictions over the last 10 years.
Gada has had a career at the intersection of technology and finance,

working at Intel in their long-term vision group, as an early employee at Netgear eventually managing their entire consumer product line, and as the founder of a hedge fund that returned 70%/year from 2009-13. He also created The Uplift Prize, an innovation prize in 3D Printing for emerging markets.
Moderated by Jordan Thibodeau.
Get the book here: http://atom.singularity2050.com/

Entropy and the Nature of Time with Edwin C. May


source: New Thinking Allowed     2016年12月21日
Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West and also Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory. He is the coeditor of a two volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science.
Here he points out that entropy is intimately related to our macro-world perception that the arrow of time moves in only one direction. In the sub-atomic world, and even in the molecular world, it appears as if processes can move equally in either direction of time. Some physicists now believe that entropy is a physical force that can explain gravity. He describes his own research concerning remote viewing targets in which those with a high change of entropy are more readily perceived through clairvoyance or precognition. This finding is consistent with research in conventional sensory perception.

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 June 18, 2016)

The Standpoint of Idealism - Schopenhauer


source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月23日
A section of the supplements to the first book of Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Idea" (The Doctrine of the Idea of Perception) from LibriVox, read by Expatriate.

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change: Anti-Science Can Only Be Surmounted by Economics


source: Big Think   2016年12月16日
Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets. Atwood's latest book is "Hag-Seed" (https://goo.gl/zCzbFj).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/margaret-a...

Transcript - If you look at the history of what happened to Darwin when he published, what would you call that? Yes he was hugely attacked at the time. And it's often a case of people do not want to give up their cherished beliefs, especially cherished beliefs that they find comforting. So it's no good for Richard Dawkins to say let us just stand on the bold bear promontory of truth and acknowledge the basically nothingness of ourselves. People don't find that cozy so they will go around the block not to do that. And that's very understandable and human. And religious thinking, you know, the idea that there's somebody bigger than you out there who might be helpful to you if certain rules are observed, that goes back so far. We probably have an epigene or something or a cluster of epigenes for that and you see it a lot in small children that there is a monster under the bed and you can't tell them there isn't. They don't find that reassuring. What you can tell them is yes there is a monster under that bed but as long as I put this cabbage right in this spot it can't come out.
So yes anti-science. When science is telling you something that you really find very inconvenient, and that is the history of global warming and the changes that we are certainly already seen around us. First of all it was denial. It could not be happening. Now there's grudging admission as things flood and droughts kick in and food supplies drop and the sea level rises and the glaciers melt big time. I have seen that; been there. You can't deny that it's happening but you then have to pretend that it's nothing to do with us. So therefore nothing so we don't have to change our behavior. That's the thinking around that. And that can get very entrenched until people see that by trying to solve the problem jobs can be created and money can be made. And that will be the real tipping point in public consciousness in this country. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/B0oNAJ.

2017-01-25

Virology Lectures (Spring 2015) by Vincent Racaniello at Columbia University

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source: Vincent Racaniello    2015年1月21日
Lectures from my undergraduate virology course at Columbia University from Spring 2015.

2015 Lecture #1 - What is a virus? 59:30 In lecture #1 I introduce the world of viruses - their diversity and numbers, a definition of a virus, and their discovery in the context of the history of microbiology.
2015 Lecture #2 - The Infectious Cycle 1:14:46
2015 Lecture #3: Genomes and Genetics 1:01:43
2015 Lecture #4: Structure of viruses 1:08:12
2015 Lecture #5: Attachment and Entry 1:09:20
2015 Lecture #6: RNA directed RNA synthesis 1:04:21
2015 Lecture #7: Transcription and RNA processing 1:09:03
2015 Lecture #8: Viral DNA Replication 1:05:07
2015 Lecture #9: Reverse transcription and integration 1:10:35
2015 Lecture #10: Translation 1:10:45
2015 Lecture #11: Assembly 1:12:11
2015 Lecture #12: Infection basics 1:13:25
2015 Lecture #13: Intrinsic and innate defenses 1:12:58
2015 Lecture #14: Adaptive defenses 1:12:41
2015 Lecture #15: Viral Virulence 1:08:05
2015 Lecture #16: Acute Infections 1:16:14
2015 Lecture #17: Persistent infections 1:06:49
2015 Lecture #18: Transformation and oncogenesis 1:08:27
2015 Lecture #19: Vaccines 1:09:07
2015 Lecture #20: Antivirals 1:10:42
2015 Lecture #21: Evolution 1:13:54
2015 Lecture #22: Emerging viruses 1:12:22
2015 Lecture #23: Unusual infectious agents 1:11:42
2015 Lecture #24: HIV and AIDS 1:14:32
2015 Lecture #25: Ebolavirus 1:15:02
2015 Lecture #26: Viral gene therapy 1:17:26

Virology Lectures (Spring 2016) by Vincent Racaniello at Columbia University

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source: Vincent Racaniello    2016年1月24日
Lectures from my undergraduate virology course at Columbia University from Spring 2016.

2016 #1: What is a virus? 56:59 In this first lecture of my 2016 Columbia University virology course, we explore the definitions of viruses, their discovery and properties, and my goals for this course.
2016 #2: The Infectious Cycle 1:03:38
2016 #3: Genomes and Genetics 1:10:47
2016 #4: Structure of viruses 1:09:28
2016 #5: Attachment and Entry 1:06:30
2016 #6: RNA Directed RNA Synthesis 1:11:18
2016 #7: Transcription and RNA Processing 1:14:00
2016 #8: Viral DNA Replication 1:06:30
2016 #9: Reverse transcription and integration 1:10:17
2016 #10: Lost in translation 1:08:56
2016 #11: Assembly 1:11:34
2016 #12: Infection Basics 1:10:45
2016: Retroviral Reverse Transcription 1:50
2016 #13: Intrinsic and Innate Defenses 1:09:53
2016 #14: Adaptive Immunity 1:10:01
2016 #15: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis 1:10:02
2016 #16: Acute Infections 1:12:40
2016 #17: Persistent Infections 1:11:36
2016 #18: Transformation and Oncogenesis 1:08:53
2016 #19: Vaccines 1:08:21
2016 #20: Antivirals 1:10:53
2016 #21: Evolution 1:11:54
2016 #22: Emerging Viruses 1:15:42
2016 #23: Unusual infectious agents 1:15:18
2016 #24: HIV and AIDS 1:12:17
2016 #25: Viral gene therapy 1:13:32

John O'Keefe: "The GPS of the Brain" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google   2016年12月20日
Nobel Laureate John O’Keefe visits the GooglePlex to talk about Place Cells, the “GPS of the Brain”. A discovery for which he received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
He explains how animals and humans find their way - by working out the relationship between where they are and where other things are. The brain does this by representing places (where you are now), and representing distances and directions. O'Keefe and his colleagues established which part of the brain does this, and how it works. Your brain has cells that represent places; so when you are in a familiar environment different cells represent different locations in this environment. There are cells that represent directions, for where you are looking and where you are moving; and there are also cells that tell the distances moved in particular directions. All this together forms a so called "cognitive map", which is a framework for identifying where you are, where other things are in your environment, and how to get from one place to another.

O’Keefe is a Neuroscientist and Professor at University College London. But he was born in Harlem, NY, the son of immigrant parents. He grew up in the Bronx, studied aeronautical engineering at New York University (yes, he’s an engineer made good!), and later attended City College of New York, the last free public college in the US, where he studied philosophy of the mind. He then did an MA and PhD in physiological psychology.
Moderated by Frank van Diggelen, who leads the Android Location team.

物理(一) 2016學年: 簡紋濱 / 交大

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source: NCTU OCW    2016年12月26日
一門嚴謹完整的大一普通物理課程,除呈現物理現象外,更重要教導物理現象背後可使用的數學模型,課程中強調微分、積分、微分方程及向量微積分等數學技巧,用這些數學技巧來探索物理世界。是一門針對高中畢業生走向科學、工程專業研究領域的引導課程。
授課教師:電子物理系 簡紋濱老師
課程資訊:http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
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1. 課程介紹 7:42
2. 第0章 數學 (1/7) 13:18
3. 第0章 數學 (2/7) 8:27
4. 第0章 數學 (3/7) 9:59
5. 第0章 數學 (4/7) 20:39
6. 第0章 數學 (5/7) 20:00
7. 第0章 數學 (6/7) 16:22
8. 第0章 數學 (7/7) 22:50
9. 第一章 測量 Physics and Measurements (1/4) 14:25
10. 第一章 測量 Physics and Measurements (2/4) 15:19
11. 第一章 測量 Physics and Measurements (3/4) 14:02
12. 第一章 測量 Physics and Measurements (4/4) 17:22
13. 第二章 一維運動 Motion In One Dimension (1/5) 19:17
14. 第二章 一維運動 Motion In One Dimension (2/5) 16:10
15. 第二章 一維運動 Motion In One Dimension (3/5) 12:14
16. 第二章 一維運動 Motion In One Dimension (4/5) 19:05
17. 第二章 一維運動 Motion In One Dimension (5/5) 13:36
18. 第四章 向量與二維運動 Motion In Two Dimensions (1/5) 13:33
19. 第四章 向量與二維運動 Motion In Two Dimensions (2/5) 19:21
20. 第四章 向量與二維運動 Motion In Two Dimensions (3/5) 19:40
21. 第四章 向量與二維運動 Motion In Two Dimensions (4/5) 18:48
22. 第四章 向量與二維運動 Motion In Two Dimensions (5/5) 12:39
23. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (1/6) 17:44
24. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (2/6) 9:58
25. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (3/6) 15:53
26. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (4/6) 22:58
27. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (5/6) 16:48
28. 第五章 運動定律 The Laws of Motion (6/6) 18:44
29. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (1/7) 11:54
30. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (2/7) 10:28
31. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (3/7) 21:30
32. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (4/7) 15:44
33. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (5/7) 13:58
34. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (6/7) 11:29
35. 第六章 圓周運動與其應用 Circular Motion and Other Applications (7/7) 13:34
36. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (1/8) 18:10
37. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (2/8) 11:10
38. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (3/8) 19:47
39. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (4/8) 20:51
40. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (5/8) 12:00
41. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (6/8) 11:07
42. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (7/8) 17:37
43. 第七章 能量 Energy of A System (8/8) 12:08
44. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (1/6) 10:21
45. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (2/6) 16:51
46. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (3/6) 13:27
47. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (4/6) 16:02
48. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (5/6) 21:09
49. 第八章 能量守恆 Conservation of Energy (6/6) 12:16
50. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (1/8) 19:08
51. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (2/8) 15:07
52. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (3/8) 13:30
53. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (4/8) 14:01
54. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (5/8) 18:16
55. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (6/8) 17:11
56. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (7/8) 21:59
57. 第九章 動量 Systems of Particles and Conservation of Linear Momentum (8/8) 23:12
58. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (1/10) 21:13
59. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (2/10) 18:29
60. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (3/10) 16:55
61. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (4/10) 19:52
62. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (5/10) 17:51
63. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (6/10) 18:49
64. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (7/10) 13:55
65. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (8/10) 23:45
66. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (9/10) 11:06
67. 第十章 轉動慣量 Rotation of A Rigid Object About A Fixed Axis (10/10) 17:53
68. 第十一章 轉動慣量守恆 Conservation of Angular Momentum (1/5) 17:11
69. 第十一章 轉動慣量守恆 Conservation of Angular Momentum (2/5) 12:41
70. 第十一章 轉動慣量守恆 Conservation of Angular Momentum (3/5) 21:21
71. 第十一章 轉動慣量守恆 Conservation of Angular Momentum (4/5) 15:35
72. 第十一章 轉動慣量守恆 Conservation of Angular Momentum (5/5) 10:29
73. 第十二章 靜力平衡 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity (1/4) 16:52
74. 第十二章 靜力平衡 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity (2/4) 9:16
75. 第十二章 靜力平衡 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity (3/4) 16:26
76. 第十二章 靜力平衡 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity (4/4) 13:59
77. 第十四章 流體力學 Fluids (1/5)21:46
78. 第十四章 流體力學 Fluids (2/5) 14:24
79. 第十四章 流體力學 Fluids (3/5) 16:42
80. 第十四章 流體力學 Fluids (4/5) 21:22
81. 第十四章 流體力學 Fluids (5/5) 17:24
82. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (1/6) 17:46
83. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (2/6) 13:59
84. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (3/6) 18:11
85. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (4/6) 21:07
86. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (5/6) 20:19
87. 第十五章 簡諧振動 Oscillation Motion (6/6) 12:55
88. 第十六章 波動 Wave Motion (1/5) 18:15
89. 第十六章 波動 Wave Motion (2/5) 16:25
90. 第十六章 波動 Wave Motion (3/5) 11:20
91. 第十六章 波動 Wave Motion (4/5) 25:08
92. 第十六章 波動 Wave Motion (5/5) 23:57
93. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (1/7) 13:44
94. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (2/7) 13:09
95. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (3/7) 12:11
96. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (4/7) 15:29
97. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (5/7) 16:13
98. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (6/7) 19:25
99. 第十八章 駐波 Superposition and Standing Waves (7/7) 10:10
100. 第十九章 溫度 Temperature (1/4) 12:09
101. 第十九章 溫度 Temperature (2/4) 13:24
102. 第十九章 溫度 Temperature (3/4) 15:22
103. 第十九章 溫度 Temperature (4/4) 25:37
104. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (1/7) 12:44
105. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (2/7) 13:14
106. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (3/7) 16:36
107. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (4/7) 14:02
108. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (5/7) 23:12
109. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (6/7) 18:28
110. 第二十章 熱力學第一定律 The First Law of Thermodynamics (7/7) 10:52
111. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (1/8) 19:49
112. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (2/8) 13:12
113. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (3/8) 16:47
114. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (4/8) 12:57
115. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (5/8) 17:22
116. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (6/8) 10:02
117. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (7/8) 23:11
118. 第二十一章 氣體動力學 The Kinetic Theory of Gases (8/8) 22:29
119. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1/6) 20:44
120. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2/6) 14:10
121. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (3/6) 15:04
122. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (4/6) 11:42
123. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (5/6) 11:51
124. 第二十二章 熱力學第二定律 Heat Engines, Entropy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics (6/6) 23:17