lectures/ideas: 01/19/17

2017-01-19

Foucault and Genealogy (Contemporary Sociology Theory at METU) by Erdoğan Yıldırım

Course: Contemporary Sociology Theory - WEEK 9 - Foucault and Genealogy
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=249

42:43 Foucault and Genealogy - Lecture 2

36:56 Foucault and Genealogy - Lecture 1

Foucault and History of Sexuality (Contemporary Sociology Theory at METU) by Erdoğan Yıldırım

Course: Contemporary Sociology Theory - WEEK 10 - Foucault and History of Sexuality
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Erdoğan Yıldırım
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=249

47:05 Foucault and History of Sexuality - Lecture 4

41:28 Foucault and History of Sexuality - Lecture 3

47:20 Foucault and History of Sexuality - Lecture 2

40:47 Foucault and History of Sexuality - Lecture 1

探索16-6講座：血管的生成：多細胞生物體內高速公路的構築過程/李心予教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 2016年12月27日
相較於開放式循環系統，多細胞生物的閉鎖式循環系統是極有效率的演化成果。閉鎖式循環系統之建立仰賴血管的生成，就像在體內建立了錯綜複雜的高速公路系統，促進了物質交換的速度與效率，藉由微血管結構將養分帶到體內的每一個細胞中，再將細胞產生的廢棄物運走銷毀，讓每一個細胞能夠正常運作。近年的研究發現，癌細胞的生長也需要依賴新生血管的生成。然而，生物體內的血管生成是如何受到調節的，則是生物學家努力研究想要理解的課題，因為對血管生成調控的充分理解與控制，可能是治療許多疾病的快速秘密通道。
講座時間：2016年11月19日（六） 14:00
講座地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳（同步網路直播）
活動官網：http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/embryos/
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How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook

source: TED-Ed 2017年1月17日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-anim...
Humans know the surprising prick of a needle, the searing pain of a stubbed toe, and the throbbing of a toothache. We can identify many types of pain and have multiple ways of treating it — but what about other species? How do the animals all around us experience pain? Robyn J. Crook examines pain in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Lesson by Robyn J. Crook, animation by Anton Bogaty.

Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence? (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth

Some claim their scientific study of extrasensory perception (ESP) overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously? If so, what would it mean for events in the physical world to defy all known physical laws?

4:17 Dean Radin - Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

3:26 Robert L. Park - Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

2:44 Stephen Braude - Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future? (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth

For God not to know the future in every last detail threatens traditional theologies. There'd be worry over God's providence, God's promises. If the future is truly open, if there are no true propositions about the future that can be known with certainty in advance, then it does not downgrade God and God's omniscience for God not to know what cannot be known.

3:26 John Polkinghorne - Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future?

7:40 James Tabor - Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future?

9:49 Greg Boyd - Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future?

How Far Does the Cosmos Go? (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth

Look up at the night sky. Some of those twinkles are not stars but galaxies, each with tens or hundreds of billions of stars. Even dark parts of the sky, empty to our eyes, are bright to the Hubble Telescope, teeming with innumerable galaxies. Now with multiple universes of various kinds, how far can the cosmos go?

1:11 Wendy Freedman - How Far Does the Cosmos Go?

8:50 Andrei Linde - How Far Does the Cosmos Go?

3:23 Alan Guth - How Far Does the Cosmos Go?

Garth Myers - Looking at US Cities from Urban Africa

source: Yale University 2016年12月5日
Garth Myers earned a Ph.D. in Geography (1993) from UCLA with an allied field in Urban Planning. Myers has an M.A. (UCLA, 1986) in African Area Studies, with Geography and Urban Planning as the major and minor fields, and a BA with Honors in History from Bowdoin College, with concentrations in African and African-American History. He has taught at the University of Kansas, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Miami University (Ohio), California State University at Dominguez Hills, and UCLA. Myers is comfortable with large lecture classes and small seminars. His teaching philosophy rests on a belief in student engagement; the best learning takes place in engaged classrooms, where the professor facilitates student discussion and debate. Myers has conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Senegal, South Africa, Finland, and the UK over the past 20 years, and he regularly uses his research to inform his teaching.
For more information, please visit: http://pier.macmillan.yale.edu/summer...

HILT 2016 Conference (Harvard U)

“On Ethiopian Jazz”: Teshome Mitiku with Either/Orchestra (Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture)

source: Harvard GSD 2016年12月5日
The Either/Orchestra, a ten-piece group that was founded in 1987 and has recorded ten albums, is regarded as one of Massachusetts’s major contributions to the international music scene. The E/O has recently become deeply involved in Ethiopian music; the group collaborated with Teshome Mitiku for the first time in 2010, in a performance that headlined the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Mitiku, an Ethiopian musician born in 1949, was part of Ethiopia’s first and most popular modern music combo, the Soul Ekos, in the 1960s. Forced to leave his country in 1970 after leading a protest song at a concert at Addis Ababa University, he moved to Sweden and later to the United States, where he now performs regularly in the Washington, D.C. area and elsewhere. This event will bring the ensemble and solo performer to the GSD for a discussion of Ethiopian jazz and a demonstration, featuring vocalist Teshome Mitiku and musicians from the Either/Orchestra: saxophonist/founder Russ Gershon, bassist Rick McLaughlin, and pianist Gilson Schachnik.

Rising Executive Pay: the Final Countdown?

source: Cambridge University 2016年12月7日
At the end of November 2016, the British Government published an open consultation green paper on corporate governance reform, seeking views on proposals relating to executive pay, employee and customer voice, and corporate governance in large private businesses. The consultation is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consult...
In this latest edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled "Law in Focus", Bobby Reddy discusses the government's ambitious green paper. In particular, Bobby casts a critical eye over the proposals revolving around executive pay and employee representatives on boards of listed companies. Rising executive remuneration has long been an emotive issue, and following some high profile instances of extreme executive pay and the rising disparity between executive and regular employee pay, the theme is once again in the headlights of the regulators. Furthermore, Bobby analyses the government's latest proposals with respect to the related topic of representing employee interests in listed companies, which fall somewhat short of previous governmental statements advocating requirements to directly appoint employees as members of boards.

Bobby Reddy is a University Lecturer in Company Law, specialising in corporate governance, corporate finance and corporate law in general. He is a former corporate partner at the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP having practised in London and Washington D.C. in the areas of public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment funds, regulatory, cross-border transactions, and company representation. He is also a trustee of the charitable corporate governance think tank, Tomorrow's Company.
For more information about Mr Reddy, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/acade...
Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty.

Mary Ann Ochota: "Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年12月19日
Mary-Ann Ochota is known for programmes like Britain's Secret Treasures and Time Team, and she joined us to discuss her new book Hidden Histories. When you drive past a lumpy, bumpy field, ever wonder what made the lumps and bumps? And when you walk into a picturesque village, ever wondered how old it is? Mary teaches how to understand the features in the fascinating British landscape, and give tips, both entertaining and practical, on what to spot and where to go. Recorded in London, December 2016.

About the book:
For the times when you’re driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and bumps; for when you're walking between two lines of grand trees, wondering when and why they were planted; for when you see a brown heritage sign pointing to a 'tumulus' but you don't know what to look for… Entertaining and factually rigorous, Hidden Histories will help you decipher the story of our landscape through the features you can see around you.
This Spotter's Guide arms the amateur explorer with the crucial information needed to 'read' the landscape and spot the human activities that have shaped our green and pleasant land. Photographs and diagrams point out specific details and typical examples to help the curious Spotter 'get their eye in' and understand what they're looking at, or looking for. Specially commissioned illustrations bring to life the processes that shaped the landscape (from medieval ploughing to Roman road building).

About the author:
Mary-Ann Ochota is a British broadcaster and anthropologist specialising in anthropology, archaeology, social history and adventure factual television. She grew up in the Northwest of England and studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge.
Ochota has reported for Channel 4's foreign affairs documentary strand, Unreported World, and contributed to both series of the ITV archaeology programme Britain's Secret Treasures presenting the history of artefacts. She presented the three-part series Raised Wild for Animal Planet, investigating cases of 'feral' children, defined as children either raised by or with animals, or children who had survived for a significant period in the wild, and she was the co-presenter of Channel 4's archaeology show Time Team with Tony Robinson.
You can follow Mary on Twitter at @MaryAnnOchota

Time's Arrow and Free Will with Ruth E. Kastner

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年12月18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 a deterministic universe implies that free will is an illusion. Many scientists hold to this view. Since quantum mechanics is founded upon Shrodinger probability waves, i.e., the psi function, she maintains that it is not a deterministic theory – and, therefore, not incompatible with free will. There is a viewpoint, known as the block world, held by many in physics that maintains that the entire history of the universe from beginning to end is predetermined and unchangeable. This viewpoint is hard to reconcile with free will.

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)

The Social Contract

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年12月19日
In this episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract and ask a foundational question of political philosophy – by what authority does a government govern? “Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains”. So begins Jean Jacques Rousseau’s great work on the Social Contract. Rousseau was trying to understand why a man would give up his natural freedoms and bind himself to the rule of a prince or a government. But the idea of the social contract - that political authority is held through a contract with those to be ruled - began before Rousseau with the work of John Locke, Hugo Grotius and even Plato. We explore how an idea that burgeoned among the 17th century upheavals of the English civil war and then withered in the face of modern capitalist society still influences our attitude to government today. With Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University; Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London; Karen O’Brien, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick http://www.bbc.co.uk.

The Psychology of Motivation: Build Purpose, Respect Contributions, Give Credit | Dan Ariely

source: Big Think 2016年12月11日
We shouldn’t have to be told that people’s hearts and souls are not piñatas, and yet here we are. Duke psychology professor and behavioral economist Dan Ariely says when it comes to increasing motivation, there’s a precursor lesson many managers, teachers and parents miss: stop crushing spirits. 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 the first lesson is don’t kill motivation. You know businesses are often not about just increasing it, it is by stop decreasing it. I’ll tell you a story I gave a talk at a company in Seattle a few years ago. It’s a big software company and I was giving a talk and I was in this room with 200 really depressed engineers talking to them. It turns out they were working on whatever the next version of the – they were working on something really important and big for that company and the week before I showed up the CEO of the company came to them and canceled the project. And they were incredibly devastated. This was a group that worked for two years on something that they felt would be the next great thing for that company and the week before he just canceled it. And they did not show up on time. They were just devastated. They were just morally devastated and by the way after that many of them just left the company. They were very good people. They were just so demoralized. And I asked them I said okay, let’s just assume the CEO had to cancel the project. Let’s assume he had to cancel for whatever reason. Let’s not question that.
What could the CEO have done not to get you to be so depressed? And they came up with all kinds of ideas. They said what if he allowed them to make a few working prototypes and distribute them within the company for a few years. Just kind of see what people do with them. They say what if he allowed them to take parts of this new technology that we’re developing and see which parts will be useful in other parts of the organization, right, have some kind of leftovers from the project. They said what if you would allow them to do a workshop for the whole company to show them the journey of the last two years. What they’ve accomplished, what they’ve learned, what they struggled with, what they figured out. And the thing about all of those suggestions, all of them would have needed some time, money and effort, right. And if the CEO thinks that those people are just like rats in a cage he said oh, I told you to go this way, you went this way. Now I want to go somewhere else. I’ll close that gate. I’ll tell you to go somewhere else. Then you don’t need to worry about motivation. But if you understand that motivation is incredibly important then you say how do we get these people who have invested a lot I this and how we don’t just crush their spirits. But what he did was to crush their spirits. So lesson number one is stop crushing people’s spirit. And, you know, it might seem like a ridiculous obvious thing to do but if you look at lots of companies you’ll see lots of places where not because people intend to do harm but just because we don’t truly appreciate where meaning comes to life. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/Usw8gm.

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