lectures/ideas: 01/05/17

2017-01-05

Crouching Tiger: John Mearsheimer on Strangling China & the Inevitability of War

source: DeathByChina 2016年3月9日
As part of the research for my Crouching Tiger book on the rise of China’s military and its companion documentary film, I interviewed 35 of the top experts in the world from all sides of the China issue. These are key edited excerpts from my sit-down at the University of Chicago with Professor John Mearsheimer, author of the realist classic work The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
"My argument, in a nutshell, is that if China continues to grow economically over the next 30 years, much the way it has over the past 30 years, that it will translate that wealth into military might. And it will try to dominate Asia, the way the United States dominates the Western Hemisphere. And my argument is that this makes good strategic sense for China. Of course, the United States will not allow that to happen if it can. And the United States will, therefore, form a balancing coalition in Asia, which will include most of China's neighbors and the United States. And they will work overtime to try to contain China and prevent it from dominating Asia. This will lead to a very intense security competition between the United States and China's neighbors on one hand, and China on the other hand. And there will be an ever-present danger of war. "
View more excerpts in this video. Visit http://crouchingtiger.net to learn more about the book and film.

Peter Morici: China is the menace of this decade

source: Fox Business 2016年12月28日
Economist Peter Morici on the state of housing and President-elect Donald Trump's impact on trade, the markets and the U.S. economy.

China and the United States on the Brink of Nuclear War? / The Coming War On China (John Pilger)

source: Good Morning Britain 2016年12月6日 / Broadcast on 06/12/16
John Pilger has speculated that China and the US could be heading for war over economic and military expansion in the South China Sea.

source: The Big Picture RT 2016年12月9日
Thom talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III.

China and the U.S. Are Long-term Enemies?

source: IntelligenceSquared Debates 2015年10月16日
Is China's ascendancy a threat to the U.S.? China's rise as an economic and military power, coupled with its aggression in the South China Sea, have led some to call for a major rebalance of U.S. policy and strategy. Can China be trusted to act as a responsible global stakeholder? And will they be a long-term ally, or adversary?

Noam Chomsky on Trump and the decline of the American Superpower

source: History and Politics 2016年12月6日
Filmed on December 5th, 2016

Magda Zaborowska - “Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation: James Baldwin’s Queer Dwellings”

source: Yale University 2016年11月23日
Magda Zaborowska is a professor in the Departments of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Her research and teaching fields include literary and cultural studies approaches to intersections of social space and transatlantic discourses on race, nationality, sexuality, and gender; African American literature; immigrant ethnicities, feminist, and critical race theory; and post-totalitarian East-Central Europe. She has taught and been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, Furman University, Tulane University, Aarhus University in Denmark, University of Italy in Cagliari (Sardinia), and Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier in France. Among her published works are the MLA award-winning James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile; How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives; and the edited and coedited collections Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism; The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature; and Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures in the East-West Gaze. Current book projects include “Me and My House: James Baldwin and Black Domesticity” and “Racing Borderlands,” a monograph on the proliferation of American notions of race and sexuality in post–Cold War Eastern Europe.

Building Better Nanodiscs | Harvard Medical School

source: Harvard University 2016年12月1日
Harvard Medical School researchers have improved the design of tiny nanodiscs—synthetic models of cell membranes used to study proteins that control what enters and leaves a cell. The enhancements provide an unprecedented view of how viruses infect cells.

Unstructured proteins: cellular complexity and human diseases (by Madan Babu Mohan)

source: The Royal Society 2016年12月7日
Francis Crick Prize Lecture 2016 given by Dr Madan Babu Mohan

If DNA is the blueprint of life, proteins are the building blocks. Research over the last century has shown that the shapes adopted by proteins determine their functions. Mutations that affect their shapes cause human diseases. However in recent decades, scientists have discovered that a large number of proteins do not adopt defined shapes. Nevertheless, these unstructured proteins perform functions that are critical for the survival of organisms.
Join Dr Mohan to discover how unstructured proteins perform their functions, contribute to cellular complexity and cause human diseases including cancer and neurodegeneration.
Image of intrinsically disordered protein. Copyright Dr Madan Babu Mohan.

Randomness: A Visual Study

source: Institute for Quantum Computing 2016年12月7日
On November 30, 2016, more than 100,000 people worldwide participated in the BIG Bell Test, providing unpredictable measurements in the form of ones and zeros. Scientists around the world used the data in their Bell tests to perform real-time measurements.
Former Artist in Residence at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) used three different sources of random data, including the data collected by the BBT, to create Randomness: A Visual Study. The resulting visualization, which used nearly 50 000 000 ones and zeros gathered globally, is a unique creation.
Learn more: https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-qu...

Realism: Aristotle, Borges, Russell, and Moore (by Daniel Bonevac)

source: Daniel Bonevac 2016年12月2日
Realism: Aristotle, Borges, Russell, and Moore, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2016

Taubman Architecture Lecture Series (2008-2009) at U of Michigan

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source: University of Michigan 上次更新日期：2012年8月23日

2008-09-24 Herbert Dreiseitl 1:33:37
2008-10-03 Jorge Perez 47:39
2008-10-06 Matthias Sauerbach 1:51:08
2008-10-13 Eric Schuldenfrei + Marisa Yiu 1:06:25
2008-10-24 David Erdman + Clover Lee 1:16:51
2008-10-27 Roberto Quercia 1:27:38
2008-11- 03 Sarah Dunn 1:12:32
2008-11-14 James Chaffers 57:18
2008-11-17 Steven Burks 1:36:02
2008-12-01 Meejin Yoon and Erik Höweler 1:18:50
2009-01-29 Marie Sester 1:04:15
2009-02-04 Jean Louis Cohen 1:47:45
2009-02-05 David Leatherbarrow 1:20:11
2009-02-10 Nicola Delon + Julien Choppin 1:19:46
2009-02-19 Cheryl Durst 1:32:30
2009-03-03 Mark Jenkins 3:58
2009-03-11 Julie Bargmann 1:29:18
2009-03-12 Julia Czerniak 1:13:03
2009-03-20 Doug Farr 1:19:18
2009-03-23 Yanni Loukissas 1:14:32
2009-03-24 Frank Matero 1:14:01
2009-04-02 John Fetterman 1:15:37

RNA Symposium 2015

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source: UCIBrenICS    2015年5月20日
RNA Symposium 2015

Ryan Lim, UC Irvine -  Transcriptomic signatures in neurodegenerative disease 22:05
Ruslan Afasizhev, Boston University -  RNA editing enzyme machines 27:15
Ian MacRae, Scripps - Mechanisms underlying gene silencing by microRNAs 45:42
Inna Afasizheva, Boston University - Repeat-containing RNA binding proteins: switches, blocks, and triggers 22:22
Peter Sarnow, Stanford - Functions of a liver-specific microRNA in the life cycle of hepatitis C virus 43:30
Robert Spitale, UCI - Structural imprints in vivo decode RNA regulatory mechanisms 28:04
Klemens Hertel, UCI - Embracing splicing complexity: integrating mechanisms of splice site selection to predict splicing patterns 22:24
Ali Mortazavi, UCI - RNA-seq of differentiation, a few cells and a few hours at a time 29:54

UC Games and Virtual Environments Workshop (March 12, 2015)

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source: UCIBrenICS 2015年4月30日
IVECG Symposium 2015

Walt Scacchi - IVECG Symposium 11:25
Josh Tanenbaum - IVECG Symposium 9:46
Crista Lopes - IVECG Symposium 11:28
Aditi Majumder - IVECG Symposium 16:58
Jim Whitehead - IVECG Symposium 10:52
Victor Zordan - IVECG Symposium 9:03
Sheldon Brown - IVECG Symposium 11:27
Pat Seed - IVECG Symposium 17:11
Colin Milburn - IVECG Symposium 5:27
Debra Lieberman - IVECG Symposium 15:41
Tim Labor - IVECG Symposium 10:47
Marcelo Kallmann - IVECG Symposium 7:01
Jesse Colin Jackson - IVECG Symposium 11:41
Bonnie Ruberg - IVECG Symposium 8:12
Tom Boellsdorff & Braxton Soderman - IVECG Symposium 15:24
Amanda Philips - IVECG Symposium 10:23

Dave Pensado: "The Humanity of Digital" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年12月5日
Dave Pensado and Herb Trawick of "Pensado's Place" visit Google to give TechTalk called "The Humanity of Digital" : what differentiates successful products in the modern marketplace - now and in the future?
Dave Pensado is one of the recording industry’s preeminent mix engineers. With multiple Grammy nominations and wins under his belt, Dave has had an astounding career. Christina Aguilera, Pink, Shakira, Beyoncé, Flo Rida, Afrojack, Frank Ocean, and more are a fraction of the superstars who keep Dave on speed dial. From pop to hip hop, country to Latin, and R&B to alternative, Dave’s special niche is making radio-friendly records while enhancing artistic intent.
Herb Trawick is the creator, executive producer and co-host of hot internet show Pensado’s Place. Seen in over 204 countries by 10 million people a year, Pensado’s Place is the leading digital media show in the audio space. Creativity combined with taste and relentless execution is Trawick’s mantra. From manager to label exec, Broadway producer to author, exec producer to talent scout, co-host to advisor, he remains true to his vision.

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics with Ruth E. Kastner

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年12月4日
Ruth Kastner, PhD, is a philosopher exploring the foundations of physics. She is on the faculty of the physics department at the State University of New York at Albany. She is also a research associate at the University of Maryland. She is author of The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility and also Understanding Our Unseen World: Solving Quantum Riddles.

Here she points out that there are several interpretations of quantum mechanics that are very different from each other. She notes that there are many disagreements about the interpretation of the interpretations. She reviews the perspectives of great physicists such as Neils Bohr, Max Born, Ludwig Boltzmann, and David Bohm. She briefly describes the lesser known “transactional interpretation”. Then she focuses on the philosophical status of the crucial distinction between empirical and sub-empirical reality.

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. 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 August 23, 2016)

Hilary Putnam Discussion - Knowledge, Language, & Mind

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年12月3日
A distinguished LSE panel discuss the life and work of the Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam. The panel includes Julian Baggini, Professor Jesper Kallestrup, Professor Chris Norris, Dr Sarah Sawyer, and Dr Peter Dennis as chair. Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. He made important contributions to philosophy of science, mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of language.
I quite like Putnam's book "Reason, Truth and History" which you can read online here: https://ia802606.us.archive.org/23/it...
This is from the London School of Economics and the Forum for European Philosophy. http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/eve...

4 Steps for Optimizing Situational Awareness and Visual Intelligence | Amy Herman

source: Big Think 2016年11月30日
Amy Herman teaches visual intelligence to doctors, intelligence analysts and the NYPD. Here she runs through how to make decisions you can defend under questioning: ones that are perceptive and informed. Herman's book is "Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life" (http://goo.gl/03uM0u).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/amy-herman...

Transcript - Visual intelligence is the concept that we see more than we can process and it's the idea of thinking about what we see, taking in the information and what do we really need to live our lives more purposefully and do our jobs more effectively.
I work across the professional spectrum. So I work with police officers and intelligence analysts and doctors and nurses and librarians, but what's interesting for me is that the four A's are applicable to all of that. And what they are is any new situation, any new problem, any new client, any new transaction, any new environment that you're in you practice four A's. The first one is you assess your situation. What do I have in front of me? What information is here? Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/5lD21M.

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