lectures/ideas: 01/12/17

2017-01-12

Comparative Politics (Fall 2016 at Bilkent University) by Hasan Tolga Bölükbaşı

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source: BilkentUniversitesi 2016年10月7日
Comparative Politics I - POLS 303, Fall 2016
Historical and contemporary political developments in the USA, UK, France, and Germany.

Lecture 01 (POLS 303) 56:38 Introduction
Lecture 02 (POLS 303) 44:21 Modern State
Lecture 03 (POLS 303) 49:12 Procedures of Democracy
Lecture 04 (POLS 303) 41:22 Models of Democracy
Lecture 05 (POLS 303) 46:32 Models of Democracy (cont'd)
Lecture 06 (POLS 303) 50:07 BRITAIN: Introduction
Lecture 07 (POLS 303) 42:32 BRITAIN: State Tradition
Lecture 08 (POLS 303) 47:06 BRITAIN: Political Economy
Lecture 09 (POLS 303) 44:23 BRITAIN: Political Economy (cont'd)
Lecture 10 (POLS 303) 42:40 BRITAIN: Governance and Policy Making
Lecture 11 (POLS 303) 1:08:55 BRITAIN: Representation and Participation with Current Challenges
Lecture 12 (POLS 303) 44:27 FRANCE: State Tradition
Lecture 13 (POLS 303) 43:40 FRANCE: Political Economy
Lecture 14 (POLS 303) 47:01 FRANCE: Political Economy (cont'd)
Lecture 15 (POLS 303) 44:41 FRANCE: Governance and Policy Making
Lecture 16 (POLS 303) 47:55 FRANCE: Representation and Participation
Lecture 17 (POLS 303) 43:38 USA: Critical Junctures
Lecture 18 (POLS 303) 1:11:48 USA: Political Economy
Lecture 19 (POLS 303) 38:15 USA: Governance and Policy Making
Lecture 20 (POLS 303) 43:50 USA: Representation and Participation
Lecture 21 (POLS 303) 42:54 Germany: State Tradition
Lecture 22 (POLS 303) 48:54 Germany: State Tradition and Political Economy
Lecture 23 (POLS 303) 46:03 Germany: Political Economy
Lecture 24 (POLS 303) 41:03 Germany: Governance and Policy Making
Lecture 25 (POLS 303) 51:21 Germany: Representation and Participation
Lecture 26 (POLS 303) 21:13 Japan: State Tradition
Lecture 27 (POLS 303) 46:07 Japan: Economic and Social Policies
Lecture 28 (POLS 303) 44:57 Japan: Governance and Policy Making
Lecture 29 (POLS 303) 40:49 Representation and Participation
Lecture 30 (POLS 303) 24:48 Future Challenges

What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys

source: TED-Ed 2017年1月10日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-so-g...
The North American Great Lakes — Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior — are so big that they border 8 states and contain 23 quadrillion liters of water. They span forest, grassland, and wetland habitats, supporting a region that’s home to 3,500 species. But how did such a vast and unique geological feature come to be? Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys takes us all the way back to the Ice Age to find out.
Lesson by Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys, animation by TED-Ed.

Nietzsche (Contemporary Sociology Theory at METU) by Erdoğan Yıldırım

Course: Contemporary Sociology Theory - WEEK 4 - Nietzsche
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=249

49:27 Nietzsche - Lecture 2

39:32 Nietzsche - Lecture 1

Roderick McIntosh - Why Study African Cities?

source: Yale University 2016年12月5日
Roderick James McIntosh is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Curator-in-Charge of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, New Haven, and Honorary Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He received his Ph.D from the University of Cambridge.
His major interests include African and Old World comparative prehistory, the origin of authority in complex society, urbanism, geomorphology and palaeoclimate. For the past thirty-five years he has looked comparatively at the urban landscapes of the great Niger and Senegal floodplains, including co-directorship of investigations at Jenne-jeno, sub-Saharan Africa's oldest city.
For more information, please visit: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/summer...

Garth Risk Hallberg | Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City | Rad...

source: Harvard University 2016年12月7日
The writer Garth Risk Hallberg explores the affinities between the modern social novel and the modern city. From Dickens’s London to Richard Wright’s Chicago, from the Paris of Les Misérables to the Boston of The Bostonians, the two have developed in parallel. But for a novelist, the relationship goes deeper than content.
(50:05) Following his lecture, Hallberg participates in a conversation with the novelist Claire Messud RI '05, a senior lecturer on fiction at Harvard University. Messud’s books include The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013),and The Emperor’s Children (Knopf, 2006).
Moderated by Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, a 20th-century urban historian whose book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), won the Bancroft Prize in American History.
This is a 2016–2017 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture.

Iñaki Ábalos: “Architecture for the Search for Knowledge” (Walter Gropius Lecture)

source: Harvard GSD 2016年11月30日
“Architecture for the Search for Knowledge” is the title of an aphorism written by Friedrich Nietzsche and included in his book The Gay Science (1882). Since the time Iñaki Ábalos was a student at the ETSAM in Madrid, while he has practiced as an architect, educator, and essayist, he has regarded this aphorism as a mantra. He has quoted it in nearly all his books, used it in many of his projects, and thought of it as a mandate during the years of his service as chair of the Department of Architecture at the GSD, from 2013 to 2016.One day, and probably soon, we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities; quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with high, glazed cloisters for rainy or sunny weather where no street-vendor’s cry or horse-drawn traffic noise can reach, and where good manners would prohibit even priests from praying aloud -buildings and sites that would altogether give expression to the sublimity of thoughtfulness and of stepping aside (….) We wish to see ourselves translated into stone and plants, we want to take walks in ourselves when we stroll around these buildings and gardens. (From Nietzsche’s The Gay Science)The Walter Gropius Lecture is a lecture on architecture, given by the departing chair of the Department of Architecture.

Patricia Scotland QC's Romanes Lecture 2016

source: University of Oxford 2016年12月6日
Patricia Scotland QC discusses The Commonwealth’s distinctive contribution to areas of pressing global concern, such as climate change, countering violent extremism, and eliminating violence against women and girls. She described how The Commonwealth’s hallmark characteristics of connectedness, consensus and goodwill are bringing ‘soul’ to international affairs.
From its beginnings in the late 19th century, The Commonwealth has evolved through an era of decolonisation and independence. It is bound by much more than governments, with deep links in education and civil society. Today it is home to 2.2 billion citizens, almost two thirds of them under the age of 30.

Roy Flukinger on Postmodern Art and Photography 1980-2000

source: Daniel Bonevac 2016年11月30日

Engineering for the Future (at UC Davis)

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source: UC Davis Academics 2014年10月25日
The Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series brings nationally recognized individuals to UC Davis and the College of Engineering to discuss the latest engineering advancements.

'Human Interface' Technology and Interaction 1:06:30
UC Davis College of Engineering alumnus Francis Lee is the former CEO and current board chair of Synaptics in Santa Clara. The company designs and produces the sensing technology in more than 60 percent of the touch pads in laptops, smart phones, MP3 players and other devices.
Lee presents a talk on "A Discussion of 'Human Interface' Technology and Interaction"
Future Research Directions at HP Labs 1:04:30
Building the International Space Station 59:30
Self-Assembled Nanostructures 54:25
Turbulence and Stochasticity in High-Speed Reactive Flows 59:09
High-Impact Alternative Energy R&D at a University 1:07:43
Identifying the Unique Ground Motion Signatures of Supershear Earthquakes 1:10:30
Biosignatures 1:01:59
Educating Engineers for the 21st Century 1:07:22
Francis Lee on Leadership 1:14:47
Materials to Study Cell Biology in the Fourth Dimension 1:02:58

Andy Cohen: "Challenge Your Assumptions, Change Your World" | Talks at G...

source: Talks at Google 2016年12月14日
Andy Cohen is a popular and recognized TEDx speaker, author and international thought leader with a degree in experimental psychology. This talk focuses on the hidden assumptions that people make that affecting their personal and professional lives.
How many assumptions do Googlers, for example, make in their work / daily life? We spend some time interviewing Googlers who have identified these assumptions for themselves.
Moderated by Sumit Chandel.
Featuring vignettes with Arturo Fagundo, Ruchita Poddar, and Brooke Taylor.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/NeiFtI

Six Decades in Parapsychology with Charles T. Tart

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年12月11日
Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is a past-president of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 100 scientific papers in parapsychology. He is editor of several anthologies including Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychologies, Mind at Large, and Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality. Books that he has authored include Psi: Scientific Studies in the Psychic Realm, States of Consciousness, The End of Materialism, Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception, On Being Stoned, Waking Up, and Open Mind – Discriminating Mind.
Here he states that his interest in parapsychology arose from his desire to integrate scientific and spiritual approaches to life. He describes his association, in the 1950s, with researcher Andrija Puharich at the Roundtable Foundation in Maine. He successfully replicated Puharich’s research using a Faraday cage to enhance ESP abilities. He also reviews his own research in the area of precognition. He emphasizes his opinion that parapsychology research has shown that the human mind cannot simply be reduced to the activity of the brain. He suggests that the theologians of different religions could benefit from studying the findings of parapsychology.

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 November 9, 2016)

The Counterfactual Theory of Causation by Marianne Talbot

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年12月18日
Marianne Talbot gives the second talk in a series on the nature of causation at Oxford. This talk explores the counterfactual conception of causation, which is the idea that an event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. It has its roots in Hume, but was made precise in the 20th century by David Lewis and others...
Causation is an important concept that we all use in ordinary, everyday life, as well as in science. Causation is so important in fact that it has been said that: “With regard to our total conceptual apparatus, causation is the centre of the centre”, and it has been called called ‘the cement of the universe’. But what exactly is causation? In these lectures, the most influential theories of causation are introduced, as well as the motivations for them, the arguments behind them, and the problems they face.
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This is from the University of Oxford -- Creative Commons.

Tricks for Combatting Procrastination | Tim Ferriss

source: Big Think 2016年12月6日
Tim Ferriss shares a bounty of strategies to help you really and truly overcome procrastination. And if it doesn't do it for you, hey, at least you just killed 10 minutes. Ferriss's latest book is "Tools of Titans:
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers" (https://goo.gl/BZTial).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/tim-ferris...

Transcript - Procrastination. Let's talk about it. It's a big topic. And by the way we all face it. It is a ever present evergreen issue for a reason and even the people you see on magazine covers, most of them, there are a few mutants, but they all have things they put off. And there are a few different tactics, approaches that I found very helpful that I've borrowed from, whether it's guests on the Tim Ferris Show or people I interviewed for Tools of Titans my newest book, here we go. So down the list. So one is break it down into the smallest action conceivable. And there are a few different types here. So if you have a macro goal, which is double the number of podcast downloads per episode. All right. I'm just giving that as an example. Well, we need to modify that to make it really actionable. So the first is making it hyper, hyper specific so we need a timeline at the very least. So let's say within six months doubling, and this is a real example for me, doubling the number of podcast downloads. Well, downloads are ongoing so by what point in time?
All right, I want to double the number of podcast downloads per episode by week six after publication and I want to accomplish that within six months. All right. And then we can borrow from David Allen and just ask what are some of the prerequisites, the component pieces of doing that? Let's break it out into say content and organic. You could have it paid acquisition, you make a long list of these potential buckets of activities. From there you would look at next physical actions, and this is directly from getting things done. And you could apply that to any number of these, let's just say it's ten buckets but you would ask yourself, this is a question I ask myself very often when I'm procrastinating because there is indecision, and this is a particular breed of procrastination. In other words if I have ten things on my to do list or ten potential products I could pursue what to do in that situation? And what I ask myself is which one of these if done will make the rest the relevant or easier? This is a key question I ask all the time, which one of these will make all the rest easier to do if done first, or all the rest irrelevant, don't even need to do them. That is how I will hone in on one piece of the puzzle. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/A7WnoM.

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