2017-07-08

Closer To Truth (videos of June 2017)

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2:29 Roy Baumeister - Free Will and Moral Responsibility Is free will required for moral responsibility? If a person with a brain tumor breaks the law, should that person be judged by lower standards? It's a slippery slope, because if a legal defense is ...
8:59 Alfred Mele - Free Will and Moral Responsibility Is free will required for moral responsibility? If a person with a brain tumor breaks the law, should that person be judged by lower standards? It's a slippery slope, because if a legal defense is ...
2:41 Adina Roskies - Free Will and Moral Responsibility Is free will required for moral responsibility? If a person with a brain tumor breaks the law, should that person be judged by lower standards? It's a slippery slope, because if a legal defense is ...
5:16 Simon Blackburn - Why Not Nothing? Why isn't there nothing at all? Why is it not the case that there is no cosmos, no laws of nature, no consciousness, literally nothing at all? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. ...
9:06 Anthony A.C. Grayling - Why Not Nothing? Why isn't there nothing at all? Why is it not the case that there is no cosmos, no laws of nature, no consciousness, literally nothing at all? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. ...
4:58 Peter van Inwagen - Why Not Nothing? Why isn't there nothing at all? Why is it not the case that there is no cosmos, no laws of nature, no consciousness, literally nothing at all? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. ...
10:42 Peter Forrest - Can the Divine be a Person or Persons? What would it mean for God to be more than one person? 'Three persons in one God' is the Christian claim, and in what sense can 'one God consisting of three persons' even make sense? What would be ...
2:41 J.L. Schellenberg - Can the Divine be a Person or Persons? What would it mean for God to be more than one person? 'Three persons in one God' is the Christian claim, and in what sense can 'one God consisting of three persons' even make sense? What would be ...
3:57 John Behr - Can the Divine be a Person Persons? What would it mean for God to be more than one person? 'Three persons in one God' is the Christian claim, and in what sense can 'one God consisting of three persons' even make sense? What would be ...
6:46 Deepak Chopra - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don't look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodi...
3:27 Colin McGinn - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don't look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodi...
3:09 Stephen Braude - What is the Nature of Personal Identity? Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don't look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodi...

CRASSH Cambridge (videos of June 2017)

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1:26:48 Ilya Yablokov - Russian Media and Conspiracy Theories A public lecture with Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds)
This is part of a series of public talks from the Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy. More information at http://www.consp...
52:32 Iain Sinclair and Nick Papadimitriou - 'In Conversation' 'In Conversation' evening with Iain Sinclair and Nick Papadimitriou.
Ian Sinclair and Nick Papadimitriou, writers on the wastelands and edgelands of Britain, will be talking about their work, foll...
1:04:10 Sophie Smith - The Nature of Politics: Quentin Skinner Lecture and Symposium Dr Sophie Smith (University of Oxford) is the Quentin Skinner Fellow 2016-17. She will be giving the annual Quentin Skinner lecture and participating in the symposium.
What are we trying to unders...
1:02 Theology and Politics in the German Imagination, 1789–1848 CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27106
This two-day international conference in July 2017 will bring together scholars of different disciplines to consider the relationships betw...
1:33:54 Outnumbered! Statistics, Data and the Public Interest - Session One A workshop at CRASSH on the uses of number, in and against the public interest: past, present and future.
Session One - Will Davies and Glen O'Hara
This event is organised by the ‘Technology and ...
1:28:08 Outnumbered! Statistics, Data and the Public Interest - Session Two A workshop at CRASSH on the uses of number, in and against the public interest: past, present and future.
Session Two - Liz McFall, Jonathan Gray and Frank Pasquale
This event is organised by the...
1:29:30 Tim O'Reilly - The WTF Economy What do self-driving cars, on-demand services, AI, and income inequality have in common? They are telling us, loud and clear, that we’re in for massive changes in work, business, and the economy. W...
1:13:30 Frank Pasquale - Humane Automation; The Political Economy of Working with Machines We are being told a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can record and imitate what you do, you will be replaced by it. Christened a “fourth industrial revolution,” a narrative of m...
1:28:07 Sophia Rosenfeld - Populism, Conspiracy and Common Sense from Thomas Paine to Donald Trump A public lecture with Dr Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania)
1:18:05 Ieva Jusionyte - Guns and Mosquitoes: How Media Makes Emergency and Routine on the Argentine Border A public lecture with Dr Ieva Jusionyte (Harvard University)
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Harvard University (videos of June 2017)

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1:02:03 The State of the Nation's Housing 2017 A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market has, by many measures, returned to normal. Housing demand, home prices, and construction volumes are all on the rise, an...
1:10:48 RESONANCE: A MODERNISM with Erin Moure During her 2017 WPR Creative fellowship, Erin Moure engaged in a journey of listening in situ to the recorded voices of four American women Modernist poets--- Muriel Rukeyser, Anais Nin, Angelina G...
7:33 Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Eric Beerbohm (FAS) Professor Eric Beerbohm (government) discussed his use of debate in the classroom as a means to help students grapple with abstract topics at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)...
12:31 Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Charles Nesson (HLS) Professor Charles Nesson (law) shared his experimentation with three debate/discussion tools at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Speaker Series event on April 24, 2017.
Vi...
48:29 Harvard IT Summit 2017: Afternoon Closing and Keynote by Karim R. Lakhani More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the afternoon program, Karim R...
53:15 Harvard IT Summit 2017: Morning Welcome and Keynote by Nicco Mele More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the morning program, Nicco Mel...
46:46 Chris Bowler | The Future of Ocean Ecosystems || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series and the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Chris Bowler RI ’17 explores how past environments affec...
50:37 Jal Mehta | Learning Deeply at Scale: The Challenge of Our Times || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jal Mehta RI ’17 looks beneath the surface of pedagogical methods in American high schools. What...
0:53 Harvard Arthrobots Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard researchers have created an entirely new type of semi-soft robots capable of standing and walking using drinking straws and inflatable tubing. The...
1:26:28 Title IX over Time || Radcliffe Institute To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, hosted a conversation about the impact of Title ...
53:21 Eugene Wang | What Was the Terracotta Army For? || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Eugene Wang RI ’17 argues against the common theory that the Terracotta Army’s purpose was to de...
1:18:25 Anthony Tan | Full Concert || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Anthony Tan ’17 presents “An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being” and Other Works . . . featur...
32:57 Anthony Tan | An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being || Radcliffe Institute AN OVERALL AUGMENTED SENSE OF WELL BEING (world premiere)
For amplified quartet and electronics
Composed by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Karin Hellqvist, violin*
Heloisa Amaral, piano*
Joshua Hyde, saxopho...
10:48 Anthony Tan | Endlessnessnessness || Radcliffe Institute ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS
Improvisation for prepared upright piano and two-channel electronics by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Anthony Tan, piano and electronics
2:34 Harvard MEDscience brings science to life for local high-schoolers Harvard’s MEDscience program offers local high-schoolers hands-on learning. The program, which is currently in 11 Boston Public Schools, is a semester long high school biology curriculum that studi...
1:22:06 Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 2 || Radcliffe Institute The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fell...
1:23:48 Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 1 || Radcliffe Institute The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fell...
1:07:19 Radcliffe Day 2017 | Honoring Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff || Radcliffe Institute The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University honors the excellence, integrity, and impact of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff—both journalists and coanchors of PBS NewsHour—with Radc...
1:35:05 Radcliffe Day 2017 | (Un)Truths and Their Consequences || Radcliffe Institute WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen RI ’02, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER (08:48)
David Brooks, New York Times co...
1:37 How Humans Walk…With Robots Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital shed light on how humans respond – or do not respond – to forces applied by rehabilitative robots.
To learn more, please vis...
0:43 Soft Exosuit for Running Building upon previous soft exosuit technology, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a soft exosuit for running. This exosuit applies forces to the hip joint using thin...

Understanding Society

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source: CRASSH Cambridge    2012年11月16日
CRASSH 'Understanding Society' lectures supported by the Thriplow Charitable Trust

Marilyn Strathern: Taking care of a concept: anthropological reflections on the assisted society 52:22
This final lecture in the series takes on the issue of what seems one of the least appealing aspects of 'society', as the term is used in common parlance, namely its vacuousness, and suggests what an anthropologist might find interesting in that. Does the Big Society render the concept even more (as in bigger) vacuous? And if it does, what might be some of the consequences? The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then means to promote it. If indeed there is no such thing, do these questions become more interesting, or less so? It is a conundrum that is best approached from a wider stage than ministerial pronouncements.
Lord Giddens: Understanding Society - A Sociologist's Perspective 44:34
Bruno Latour: The Modes of Existence project 44:37
Juliet Mitchell: 'in my heart there was a kind of fighting' (Hamlet) 39:03
Richard Sennett: The Open City 53:53

Location of Knowledge (2013)

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source: CRASSH Cambridge 2013年3月19日

John Forrester: Understanding (through) the Voice 54:24
John Forrester (Cambridge) with respondent Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) at CRASSH's Mellon Centre for Disciplinary Innovation conference The Location of Knowledge: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2305/
Simon Schaffer: Understanding (through) Things 47:22
Sarah Franklin: Understanding (through) the Body 46:12
Peter de Bolla: Understanding (through) Concepts 55:26

Technological Displacement of White-Collar Employment: Political and Social Implications

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source: CRASSH Cambridge     2016年1月29日
In recent years, the debate about automation and employment has taken a new turn. What has re-ignited the debate is the realisation that the process of ‘combinatorial innovation’ in digital technology—the combination of massive increases in processing power, big data analytics, sensor technology, digital mapping and machine learning—has opened up the possibility that large numbers of non-repetitive jobs which require some cognitive skills may become amenable to automation in the foreseeable future. This kind of work—classically defined as ‘white collar’ jobs in the UK (‘middle-class’ in the US)—represents a significant proportion of current industrial and commercial employment, and significant displacement of it by technology would be a major development for societies. Estimates of the potential disruption vary, but the best-known study (by Frey and Osborne) estimates that fully 47 per cent of the 702 job categories identified by the US Bureau of Labor could now be vulnerable.
At this stage, there is no way of determining whether the sceptics or the predictions are correct. This uncertainty, however, should not be the end of the discussion, but the beginning. The possibility that a significant proportion of middle-class work could be mechanised at the pace we have seen in other areas affected by digital technology is an eventuality that needs to be taken seriously, even if the probability of it happening is lower than evangelists believe. The existence of a stable middle class is a prerequisite for a viable democracy, and the prospect of it being destabilised is therefore of great interest to our Technology and Democracy project.
To discuss it we have brought together four speakers, each of whom brings a different perspective to the issue.

Robert Madelin is Senior Adviser for Innovation in the European Commission
Daniel Susskind is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and co-author of The Future of the Professions (OUP)
Willy Brown is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Cambridge and former Master of Darwin College
Gerard de Vries is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and a former member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, the think tank of the Dutch government for long-term policy issues
This talk is part of the Technology and Democracy Events series.

John Naughton - 19 January 2016 - Symposium Welcome and Context 12:38
Robert Madelin - 19 January 2016 - Masters of our Fate? Visions for work beyond a Tech Tsunami 46:26
Willy Brown - 19 January 2016 - Labour power, consumer power, and the degradation of work 1:04:03
Daniel Susskind - 19 January 2016 - After the professions - what? 48:55
Gerard de Vries - 19 January 2016 - Colonisation by computers: roles for politics and expertise 38:26
David Runciman - 19 January 2016 - Symposium Concluding Remarks 12:03

Universities and Slavery: Bound by History || Radcliffe Institute

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source: Harvard University     2017年3月15日
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University hosts a daylong conference to explore the relationship between slavery and universities, across the country and around the world.
The faculty conference organizers are Harvard professors:
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Daniel Carpenter, Faculty Director of the Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government
The conference builds on the Harvard and Slavery initiative, founded in 2007, in which students and faculty—led by Beckert—began a detailed examination of Harvard’s range of connections to slavery.

Universities and Slavery | 1 of 5 | Keynote 1:16:25
Universities and Slavery | 2 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Nationally 1:25:08
Universities and Slavery | 3 of 5 | Poetry Reading 15:29
Universities and Slavery | 4 of 5 | Slavery and Harvard 1:19:32
Universities and Slavery | 5 of 5 | Slavery and Universities Globally 1:35:44

文茜的世界(財經)周報+中天的夢想驛站 (2017-06月影片)

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47:14 《文茜世界財經週報》軟銀收購波士頓動力 壯大機器人戰略 2017.06.25|Sisy's Finance Weekly【完整版-FULL HD】
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