2017-01-10
What does this symbol actually mean? - Adrian Treharne
source: TED-Ed 2017年1月5日
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Some of the world’s most recognizable symbols exist to sell products. Others, to steer traffic or advance political causes. But there’s one whose main purpose is to help people. You may know it as the wheelchair symbol, but its formal title is the International Symbol of Access. But what does the symbol actually mean? And what is its purpose? Adrian Treharne explains.
Lesson by Adrian Treharne, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.
Erdoğan Yıldırım: Contemporary Sociology Theory - Introduction (Fall 2016 at METU)
Course: Contemporary Sociology Theory - WEEK 1
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=249
Middle East Technical University
53:17 Introduction - Lecture 2
43:25 Introduction - Lecture 1
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=249
Middle East Technical University
53:17 Introduction - Lecture 2 43:25 Introduction - Lecture 1
Descartes and Kant: The Roots of Contemporary Sociology Theory (by Erdoğan Yıldırım at METU)
Course: Contemporary Sociology Theory - WEEK 2
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
Nicholas Alipui: The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Regard to Child Rights
source: Yale University 2016年12月1日
Dr. Nicholas Alipui is an expert in child health and development and former United Nations Director & Senior Adviser on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and most recently Director of Programs for UNICEF. He is a Senior Fellow, African Studies and Global Health, at the MacMillan Center and teaching a course on child health and development is context of sustainable development. Dr. Alipui has more than 30 years of experience in strategic leadership, intergovernmental negotiations, child rights advocacy and programming in diverse country and regional settings with a special focus on Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, including serving as UNICEF Representative in Kenya and the Philippines.
Aired November 30, 2016
Mark Post: Medical Technology Producing Hamburgers; Science & Cooking Pu...
source: Harvard University 2016年12月7日
Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-co...
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.
The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
A Legacy Ignored: African Americans' Parallel System of Social Work/Welfare
source: The University of Chicago 2016年12月1日
The SSA Committee on Inclusion, Equity and Diversity's Inaugural Lecture "A Legacy Ignored: African Americans' Parallel System of Social Work/Welfare During the Progressive Era" was presented by Iris B. Carlton-LaNey, AM'74, PhD, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Fundamental Algorithms in Bioinformatics by Dan Gusfield at UC Davis
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source: UC Davis Academics 2015年1月9日
This course covers fundamental algorithms for efficient analysis of biological sequences and for building evolutionary trees. This is an undergraduate course taught by UC Davis computer science professor Dan Gusfield focusing on the ideas and concepts behind the most central algorithms in biological sequence analysis. Dynamic Programming, Alignment, Hidden Markov Models, Statistical Analysis are emphasized.
Lecture 1: Introduction to bioinformatics and the course 47:30
Lecture 2: Further introduction 48:43
Lecture 3: Defining sequence similarity 51:07
Lecture 4: Extending the model of sequence similarity 48:01
Lecture 5: Computing sequence similarity 47:44
Lecture 6: Computing similarity using an alignment graph 48:00
Lecture 7: From alignment graphs to formal dynamic programming 1:09:00
Lecture 8: Sequence alignment using dynamic programming - continued 49:33
Lecture 9: Local sequence alignment 46:18
Lecture 10: End-gap-free alignment and whole-genome shotgun sequencing 51:06
Lecture 11a: Expected Length of the Longest Common Subsequence 12:38
Lecture 11b: Expected Length of the Longest Common Substring 29:31
Lecture 12: Expected longest common substring II 16:02
Lecture 13: Probability of a complete query match in a database 40:27
Lecture 14: BLAST I 50:40
Lecture 15: BLAST II 46:28
Lecture 16: BLAST statistics 9:59
Lecture 17: Probability and database search 44:55
Lecture 18: Multiple sequence alignment I 50:39
Lecture 19: Multiple sequence alignment II 50:33
Lecture 20: Multiple sequence alignment III 49:52
Lecture 21: Uses of multiple sequence alignment 41:15
Lecture 22: From profiles to Markov models 48:30
Lecture 23: Hidden Markov models 49:25
Lecture 24: Hidden Markov models and the Vitterbi algorithm 49:55
Lecture 25: From the Vitterbi algorithm to the forward algorithm 45:46
Lecture 26: Hidden Markov models - The Backwards algorithm 28:22
Lecture 27: Introduction to evolutionary trees - Ultrametric trees 20:51
Lecture 28: Algorithms for Ultrametric trees - molecular clocks 37:49
Lecture 29; Additive trees and the Neighbor-Joining algorithm 47:18
Lecture 30: Maximum Parsimony and minimum mutation methods 39:04
Postscript: Where to go next 4:50
source: UC Davis Academics 2015年1月9日
This course covers fundamental algorithms for efficient analysis of biological sequences and for building evolutionary trees. This is an undergraduate course taught by UC Davis computer science professor Dan Gusfield focusing on the ideas and concepts behind the most central algorithms in biological sequence analysis. Dynamic Programming, Alignment, Hidden Markov Models, Statistical Analysis are emphasized.
Lecture 1: Introduction to bioinformatics and the course 47:30
Lecture 2: Further introduction 48:43
Lecture 3: Defining sequence similarity 51:07
Lecture 4: Extending the model of sequence similarity 48:01
Lecture 5: Computing sequence similarity 47:44
Lecture 6: Computing similarity using an alignment graph 48:00
Lecture 7: From alignment graphs to formal dynamic programming 1:09:00
Lecture 8: Sequence alignment using dynamic programming - continued 49:33
Lecture 9: Local sequence alignment 46:18
Lecture 10: End-gap-free alignment and whole-genome shotgun sequencing 51:06
Lecture 11a: Expected Length of the Longest Common Subsequence 12:38
Lecture 11b: Expected Length of the Longest Common Substring 29:31
Lecture 12: Expected longest common substring II 16:02
Lecture 13: Probability of a complete query match in a database 40:27
Lecture 14: BLAST I 50:40
Lecture 15: BLAST II 46:28
Lecture 16: BLAST statistics 9:59
Lecture 17: Probability and database search 44:55
Lecture 18: Multiple sequence alignment I 50:39
Lecture 19: Multiple sequence alignment II 50:33
Lecture 20: Multiple sequence alignment III 49:52
Lecture 21: Uses of multiple sequence alignment 41:15
Lecture 22: From profiles to Markov models 48:30
Lecture 23: Hidden Markov models 49:25
Lecture 24: Hidden Markov models and the Vitterbi algorithm 49:55
Lecture 25: From the Vitterbi algorithm to the forward algorithm 45:46
Lecture 26: Hidden Markov models - The Backwards algorithm 28:22
Lecture 27: Introduction to evolutionary trees - Ultrametric trees 20:51
Lecture 28: Algorithms for Ultrametric trees - molecular clocks 37:49
Lecture 29; Additive trees and the Neighbor-Joining algorithm 47:18
Lecture 30: Maximum Parsimony and minimum mutation methods 39:04
Postscript: Where to go next 4:50
Theory of Computation (Fall 2011 at UC Davis) by Michael Sipser
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source: UC Davis Academics 2014年10月17日
This is a rigorous undergraduate course on the Theory of Computation, using the classic text "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Michael Sipser. The course covers machine models and languages defined by Finite State Machines, Context-Free Languages, and Turing Machines.
There are four major theorems (and their uses) that we will study during this course, providing complete proofs: the pumping Lemma for regular languages, used to show that there are languages that are not regular; the existence of a Universal Turing Machine; undecidability of the Halting problem; and Cook's theorem that NP-complete problems exist. In addition to these major results, and other results, a central goal of the course is to increase student's skill level in understanding and writing rigorous mathematical proofs.
L1: Introduction to Finite-state Machines, Regular Languages 1:05:58
L2: Regular Languages and non-deterministic FSMs 1:20:57
L4: Regular Expressions 1:18:33
L5: Regular expressions, regular languages, and non-regular languages 1:17:52
L6: The Pumping Lemma, and introduction to CFLs 1:16:42
L7: Contex-Free Grammars and Push-Down Automata 1:18:38
L8: Introduction to Turing Machines and Computations 1:14:56
L9: More TM design and introduction to non-determinstic TMs 1:19:38
L10: Equivalence of non-deterministic and deterministic TMs 1:16:05
L11: Church-Turing thesis and examples of decidable languages 1:18:05
L12: Universal Turing Machines; The Halting Problem is Recognizable but not Decidable 1:19:07
L13: Diagonalization, countability and uncountability 1:13:16
L14: More Diagonalization; Proof that Turing machines are countable 11:11
L15: Proof by diagonalization that ATM (Halting problem) is not decidable 24:49
L16: Unrecognizable languages, and reductions 40:08
L17: Using reductions to prove language undecidable 53:51
L18: More complex reductions 1:14:50
L19: Uncomputable functions, and introduction to complexity 1:21:10
L20: P, NP and polynomial-time reductions 32:47
L21: NP-completeness 1:12:31
L22: A more informal introduction to NP-completeness, Supplemental Lecture 1 48:03
L23: NP Completeness, Supplemental lecture 2 45:30
L24: NP Completeness, Supplemental lecture 3 50:27
L25: Minimizing Finite State Machines 1:13:43
L26: Minimizing the number of states in a DFA 1:25:54
Godel for Goldilocks: Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem 37:56
Second Lecture on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem 33:46
source: UC Davis Academics 2014年10月17日
This is a rigorous undergraduate course on the Theory of Computation, using the classic text "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Michael Sipser. The course covers machine models and languages defined by Finite State Machines, Context-Free Languages, and Turing Machines.
There are four major theorems (and their uses) that we will study during this course, providing complete proofs: the pumping Lemma for regular languages, used to show that there are languages that are not regular; the existence of a Universal Turing Machine; undecidability of the Halting problem; and Cook's theorem that NP-complete problems exist. In addition to these major results, and other results, a central goal of the course is to increase student's skill level in understanding and writing rigorous mathematical proofs.
L1: Introduction to Finite-state Machines, Regular Languages 1:05:58
L2: Regular Languages and non-deterministic FSMs 1:20:57
L4: Regular Expressions 1:18:33
L5: Regular expressions, regular languages, and non-regular languages 1:17:52
L6: The Pumping Lemma, and introduction to CFLs 1:16:42
L7: Contex-Free Grammars and Push-Down Automata 1:18:38
L8: Introduction to Turing Machines and Computations 1:14:56
L9: More TM design and introduction to non-determinstic TMs 1:19:38
L10: Equivalence of non-deterministic and deterministic TMs 1:16:05
L11: Church-Turing thesis and examples of decidable languages 1:18:05
L12: Universal Turing Machines; The Halting Problem is Recognizable but not Decidable 1:19:07
L13: Diagonalization, countability and uncountability 1:13:16
L14: More Diagonalization; Proof that Turing machines are countable 11:11
L15: Proof by diagonalization that ATM (Halting problem) is not decidable 24:49
L16: Unrecognizable languages, and reductions 40:08
L17: Using reductions to prove language undecidable 53:51
L18: More complex reductions 1:14:50
L19: Uncomputable functions, and introduction to complexity 1:21:10
L20: P, NP and polynomial-time reductions 32:47
L21: NP-completeness 1:12:31
L22: A more informal introduction to NP-completeness, Supplemental Lecture 1 48:03
L23: NP Completeness, Supplemental lecture 2 45:30
L24: NP Completeness, Supplemental lecture 3 50:27
L25: Minimizing Finite State Machines 1:13:43
L26: Minimizing the number of states in a DFA 1:25:54
Godel for Goldilocks: Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem 37:56
Second Lecture on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem 33:46
Futures and Options (Fall 2015 at UC Davis) by Colin Carter
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source: UC Davis Academics 2016年5月11日
ARE139: Futures and Options
This course focuses on the institutional structure and economic functions of futures and options markets. Price formation in both commodity (e.g., corn, crude oil, cotton, and cattle) and financial (e.g., Eurodollar, Treasury Bonds, and stock indexes) futures and options markets will be examined in detail. The theory and practice of hedging will be explored in depth. Additional topics include: the theory of inter-temporal price formation for commodities and financials, common approaches used to forecast prices, statistical analysis of historical price behavior, and futures and options market regulation.
Lecture 1 starts with a broad outline of the course. Carter discusses the history and basic principles of futures markets. 1:22:01
Lecture 2 1:22:24
Lecture 3 1:24:28
Lecture 4 1:22:57
Lecture 5 1:26:35
Lecture 6 1:23:56
Lecture 7 1:23:17
Lecture 8 1:25:22
Lecture 9 1:14:38
Lecture 10 1:22:48
Lecture 11 1:22:18
Lecture 12 59:10
Lecture 13 1:21:52
Lecture 14 1:24:31
Lecture 15 1:29:56
Lecture 16 1:29:56
Lecture 17 1:29:55
Lecture 18 58:57
source: UC Davis Academics 2016年5月11日
ARE139: Futures and Options
This course focuses on the institutional structure and economic functions of futures and options markets. Price formation in both commodity (e.g., corn, crude oil, cotton, and cattle) and financial (e.g., Eurodollar, Treasury Bonds, and stock indexes) futures and options markets will be examined in detail. The theory and practice of hedging will be explored in depth. Additional topics include: the theory of inter-temporal price formation for commodities and financials, common approaches used to forecast prices, statistical analysis of historical price behavior, and futures and options market regulation.
Lecture 1 starts with a broad outline of the course. Carter discusses the history and basic principles of futures markets. 1:22:01
Lecture 2 1:22:24
Lecture 3 1:24:28
Lecture 4 1:22:57
Lecture 5 1:26:35
Lecture 6 1:23:56
Lecture 7 1:23:17
Lecture 8 1:25:22
Lecture 9 1:14:38
Lecture 10 1:22:48
Lecture 11 1:22:18
Lecture 12 59:10
Lecture 13 1:21:52
Lecture 14 1:24:31
Lecture 15 1:29:56
Lecture 16 1:29:56
Lecture 17 1:29:55
Lecture 18 58:57
Berlin Economic Forum 2016
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source: Institute for Cultural Diplomacy 上次更新日期：2016年8月25日
"Innovative Nation Branding: Creative Economies, Sustainable Tourism & Responsible Foreign Investments"
Held Parallel to the Berlin International Tourism Trade Fair (ITB)
(International Conference, Berlin; March 9th - 13th, 2016)
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) 46:46
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) & Mark C. Donfried (Director General, ICD) 27:41
Marian Wendt (Member of the German Parliament) 48:57
Benito Bengzon (Tourism Undersecretary of the Philippines) 29:26
“Attracting US Foreign Direct Investment Abroad Effective Nation Branding” 49:23
André Nowak (Member of the Board of the Verein Tourismus für Alle Deutschland e.V.) 41:51
Ramón Custodio Espinoza (Ambassador of Honduras to Germany) 2:19
Alejandra Zelaya (Country Brand International Representative, Foreign Service of Honduras) 8:28
Celia Suárez (Country Brand Director, Office Presidency Honduras) 7:34
Sue Ellen Chávez (Marketing Manager, International Tourism Board of Honduras) 13:09
Panel Discussion Honduras Delegation to Berlin Economic Forum 2016 24:06
Jauhar Saleem (Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany) 43:57
Hafeez-Ur-Rehman (Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Province) 27:46
Pakistan Embassy Music Performance at the Berlin Economic Forum 2016 26:43
Joachim Pfeiffer (Member of the German Parliament) 29:51
Aigerim Raimzhanova (PhD Candidate) 17:37
Philip S. Marmo (Ambassador of Tanzania to Germany) 3:13
Devota Mdachi (Chief Deputy Officer, Tanzania Tourism Board) 15:16
Ruth Masodzi Chikwira (Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Germany) 4:15
Obediah Mazombwe (Director Nation Branding, Communications & Business Development) 26:01
Walter Mzembi (Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe) 24:02
Jean Marie Maguena (Ambassador of Gabon to Germany) 32:50
Zimbabwe Musical Performance at the Berlin Economic Forum 2016 26:27
Erines Otorbaev (Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Germany) 24:44
Omar Zniber (Ambassador of Morocco to Germany) 20:37
Nada Roudies (Secretary General, Office of the Minister of Tourism of Morocco) 36:16
Ranko Vilovic (Ambassador of Croatia to Germany) 24:45
Evgeni Velev (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia) 27:02
Mohammad Dauod Naderi (Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development, Afghanistan) 21:20
Mohammad Hamid (Finantial Officer, UN Office of Coordination Humanitarian Affairs) 18:59
Pablo Payet (MA Student, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy) 28:02
Kheswar Jankee (Ambassador of Mauritius to Germany) 34:19
Aminetou Ahmed & El Hacene Mbareck (Association for the Development of Benichab) 17:29
Professor Stetsenko (Russian Trade Ambassador) 8:43
Sergei Lavra (Father Superior Roman) 8:10
Elena V. Lassal (Kamchatka Tourism Promotion) 9:24
Emilio Silvestri (Minister of Tourism of Honduras) 38:29
"Spain: A Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Brand" 48:54
Pedro Affonso Ivo Franco (MA Student, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy) 31:40
Alberto Antonio Guani Amarilla (Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany) 5:32
Benjamin Liberoff (Vice Minister of Tourism in Uruguay) 43:41
Marian Wendt (Member of the German Parliament) 3:11
Benito Bengzon (Tourism Undersecretary of the Philippines) 4:18
André Nowak (Member of the Board of the Verein Tourismus für Alle Deutschland e.V.) 5:26
Ramón Custodio Espinoza (Ambassador of Honduras to Germany) 8:04
Jauhar Saleem (Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany) 14:03
Philip S. Marmo (Ambassador of Tanzania to Germany) 14:55
Walter Mzembi (Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe) 15:04
Jean Marie Maguena (Ambassador of Gabon to Germany) 10:44
Erines Otorbaev (Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Germany) 9:07
Omar Zniber (Ambassador of Morocco to Germany) 8:47
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) 6:35
Ranko Vilovic (Ambassador of Croatia to Germany) 11:50
Kheswar Jankee (Ambassador of Mauritius to Germany) 11:58
Aminetou Ahmed & El Hacene Mbareck (Association for the Development of Benichab) 7:14
Professor Stetsenko (Russian Trade Ambassador) 7:01
Alberto Antonio Guani Amarilla (Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany) 9:09
Benjamin Liberoff (Vice Minister of Tourism in Uruguay) 9:51
[private video]
source: Institute for Cultural Diplomacy 上次更新日期：2016年8月25日
"Innovative Nation Branding: Creative Economies, Sustainable Tourism & Responsible Foreign Investments"
Held Parallel to the Berlin International Tourism Trade Fair (ITB)
(International Conference, Berlin; March 9th - 13th, 2016)
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) 46:46
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) & Mark C. Donfried (Director General, ICD) 27:41
Marian Wendt (Member of the German Parliament) 48:57
Benito Bengzon (Tourism Undersecretary of the Philippines) 29:26
“Attracting US Foreign Direct Investment Abroad Effective Nation Branding” 49:23
André Nowak (Member of the Board of the Verein Tourismus für Alle Deutschland e.V.) 41:51
Ramón Custodio Espinoza (Ambassador of Honduras to Germany) 2:19
Alejandra Zelaya (Country Brand International Representative, Foreign Service of Honduras) 8:28
Celia Suárez (Country Brand Director, Office Presidency Honduras) 7:34
Sue Ellen Chávez (Marketing Manager, International Tourism Board of Honduras) 13:09
Panel Discussion Honduras Delegation to Berlin Economic Forum 2016 24:06
Jauhar Saleem (Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany) 43:57
Hafeez-Ur-Rehman (Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Province) 27:46
Pakistan Embassy Music Performance at the Berlin Economic Forum 2016 26:43
Joachim Pfeiffer (Member of the German Parliament) 29:51
Aigerim Raimzhanova (PhD Candidate) 17:37
Philip S. Marmo (Ambassador of Tanzania to Germany) 3:13
Devota Mdachi (Chief Deputy Officer, Tanzania Tourism Board) 15:16
Ruth Masodzi Chikwira (Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Germany) 4:15
Obediah Mazombwe (Director Nation Branding, Communications & Business Development) 26:01
Walter Mzembi (Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe) 24:02
Jean Marie Maguena (Ambassador of Gabon to Germany) 32:50
Zimbabwe Musical Performance at the Berlin Economic Forum 2016 26:27
Erines Otorbaev (Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Germany) 24:44
Omar Zniber (Ambassador of Morocco to Germany) 20:37
Nada Roudies (Secretary General, Office of the Minister of Tourism of Morocco) 36:16
Ranko Vilovic (Ambassador of Croatia to Germany) 24:45
Evgeni Velev (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia) 27:02
Mohammad Dauod Naderi (Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development, Afghanistan) 21:20
Mohammad Hamid (Finantial Officer, UN Office of Coordination Humanitarian Affairs) 18:59
Pablo Payet (MA Student, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy) 28:02
Kheswar Jankee (Ambassador of Mauritius to Germany) 34:19
Aminetou Ahmed & El Hacene Mbareck (Association for the Development of Benichab) 17:29
Professor Stetsenko (Russian Trade Ambassador) 8:43
Sergei Lavra (Father Superior Roman) 8:10
Elena V. Lassal (Kamchatka Tourism Promotion) 9:24
Emilio Silvestri (Minister of Tourism of Honduras) 38:29
"Spain: A Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Brand" 48:54
Pedro Affonso Ivo Franco (MA Student, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy) 31:40
Alberto Antonio Guani Amarilla (Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany) 5:32
Benjamin Liberoff (Vice Minister of Tourism in Uruguay) 43:41
Marian Wendt (Member of the German Parliament) 3:11
Benito Bengzon (Tourism Undersecretary of the Philippines) 4:18
André Nowak (Member of the Board of the Verein Tourismus für Alle Deutschland e.V.) 5:26
Ramón Custodio Espinoza (Ambassador of Honduras to Germany) 8:04
Jauhar Saleem (Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany) 14:03
Philip S. Marmo (Ambassador of Tanzania to Germany) 14:55
Walter Mzembi (Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Zimbabwe) 15:04
Jean Marie Maguena (Ambassador of Gabon to Germany) 10:44
Erines Otorbaev (Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Germany) 9:07
Omar Zniber (Ambassador of Morocco to Germany) 8:47
Faisal EL-Fayez (President of the Jordanian Senate) 6:35
Ranko Vilovic (Ambassador of Croatia to Germany) 11:50
Kheswar Jankee (Ambassador of Mauritius to Germany) 11:58
Aminetou Ahmed & El Hacene Mbareck (Association for the Development of Benichab) 7:14
Professor Stetsenko (Russian Trade Ambassador) 7:01
Alberto Antonio Guani Amarilla (Ambassador of Uruguay to Germany) 9:09
Benjamin Liberoff (Vice Minister of Tourism in Uruguay) 9:51
[private video]
Tim Wu: "The Attention Merchants" | Talks at Google
source: Talks at Google 2016年12月13日
Tim is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University, best known for coining the term "net neutrality." In 2006, Scientific American named him one of 50 leaders in science and technology; in 2007, 01238 magazine listed him as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates; in 2013, National Law Journal included him in "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers"; and in 2014 and 2015, he was named to the "Politico 50." He formerly wrote for Slate, where he won the Lowell Thomas Gold medal for Travel Journalism, and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
THE ATTENTION MERCHANTS provide a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. It serves as an illuminating, urgent look at how businesses commodify our attention, and what we lose when we give it to them.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/3FZEIK
The Reality of Possibility with Ruth E. Kastner
source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年12月8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 describes Plato’s famous cave allegory, and suggests that it is relevant to our understanding of quantum mechanics. Specifically, she suggests that the higher dimensional mathematical formalisms, although not empirically observable, point toward very real levels of existence. To buttress her argument, she also describes the nineteenth century parable of Flatland. In quantum theory, there are the probability clouds described by the Shrödinger psi equation. At another, more subtle, but still ontologically real level, are virtual particles.
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)
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Introduction
source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年12月13日
The introduction section of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, read by Stewart Wills.
The Science of Happiness, Motivation, and Meaning | Dan Ariely
source: Big Think 2016年12月5日
It turns out there's quite a bit of cognitive dissonance impairing our understanding of motivation and happiness. Duke University's Professor Dan Ariely fills in the gaps. Ariely's latest book is "Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations" (https://goo.gl/SkXk2p).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/dan-ariely...
Transcript - So when we think about what motivates people maybe the first think about is what we think motivates people and what don’t we understand motivates people. And maybe the first misunderstanding is about the pleasure principle. So we have this idea of we have the right to pursue happiness and we’re trying to be happy and that’s really what we’re pursuing – happiness. But think about it. What gives you happiness in a way that is observable? Maybe sitting on the beach drinking a mojito or maybe sitting on the sofa watching a sitcom. But if you do almost anything that is useful, meaningful, that you take pride of it’s not the same things. But imagine you have a whole life of sitting on the beach drinking mojitos. How happy would that life be? So the first I think mistake is that we pursue momentary happiness rather than longer term happiness. So we do the things that will make us laugh out loud today kind of. Not always laugh out loud but kind of like that. And we don’t do the things that are difficult and complex and challenging but give us a very different sense of happiness. Think about something like running a marathon. You don’t see anybody happy. Like if you came as an alien and you image peoples’ brains and you looked at their facial expressions as they’re running a marathon you would say somebody’s punishing them. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/RthrJa.
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