Stanford University (videos of July 2017)

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1:18:13 Encountering Antiquity in Renaissance Europe: Greeks, Jews, and Humanists (April 2, 2009) Princeton University History Professor Anthony Grafton discusses the role of Jewish and Greek texts and individuals in shaping Renaissance thinkers' version of the ancient world.
53:26 The Importance of Understanding the Past: Greece, China, and Mesopotamia (November 18, 2009) Sir Geoffry Lloyd analyzes the social and intellectual institutions that favored or inhibited innovation in the study of science, medicine and religion in ancient Greece, China ...
1:01:26 Cicero at the Tea Party: Conflict in Republican Politics, Then and Now (May 5, 2010) Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics, argues that the Romans' contribution to our politics should be seen not in their abstract concepts but in their adversarial practices of...
2:25 New Stanford archaeology exhibit curated and installed by students A Papua New Guinean mask, shell necklaces from Samoa and Hawaii, and a ceremonial club from New Zealand are among some of the antique pieces now on display in the new exhibit, Pacific Links: Curren...
0:06 Humpback whale flapping foreflipper Researchers in the Goldbogen lab at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station used video tags to film humpback whales and found a unique and rare foreflipper movement. Previously, it was believe...
2:47 Stanford researchers develop vine-like, growing robot Mechanical engineers at Stanford have developed a robot that grows
like a vine. It’s ability to grow across distances without moving its whole body could be useful in search and rescue and medical ...
 1:43 Warhol Unframed at the Cantor Arts Center How is a soup can like Chairman Mao? At the Cantor Arts Center, Peggy Phelan, the Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts and professor of English, and Alex Zivkovic, ’17, discuss celebrity and comm...
 2:11 Stanford researchers develop algorithm to diagnose heart arrhythmias Life-threatening heart arrhythmias can be difficult to detect but a new deep learning algorithm can evaluate each second of a heart signal and diagnose 14 types of arrhythmia with performance simil...