Liz Lerman, “Creative Research: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Domains”

source: Yale University    2016年6月30日
Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities - "Physics of Dance”
“Creative Research: Crossing Borders, Disciplines, and Domains”
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, and educator. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multigenerational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance. She is currently pursuing new projects with fresh partnerships, including a recent semester at Harvard as an artist-in-residence. Her work Healing Wars just finished touring across the United States. Lerman conducts residencies on the Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio. Her essay collection, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was published in 2011. Lerman has received numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance. Her work has been commissioned by Harvard Law School, Lincoln Center, the American Dance Festival, and the Kennedy Center among many others.

How do quantum physicists affect industry?

source: University of Oxford     2016年7月15日
Sir Martin Wood founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 as a spin-out company to manufacture superconducting magnets for research. We find out how an Oxford researcher of quantum computation is working with the company today to create tools for tomorrow's researchers.

Benjamin Burger: Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany (Utah State University)

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source: Benjamin Burger    2015年8月24日
Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany is a graduate level course in paleontology at Utah State University, which covers the major groups of marine invertebrates, fossil plants, and the important techniques and tools used in the field of paleontology. It covers ichnology, fossil preservation, taphonomy, ontogeny, cladistics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, extinction and evolutionary rates, and many other tools used by professional paleontologists in the study of fossils and their importance in the field of geology. Course lectures are produced and broadcast from the Uintah Basin Campus in Vernal, Utah. If you like more information about the course and becoming a student at Utah State University check out this website: http://geology.usu.edu

How good is the fossil record? 30:05
How do you describe a fossil specimen? 29:50
What is ontogenetic variation? 32:50
How do you sample a fossil population? 30:39
How do you name a new fossil species? 31:47
How do you assemble a cladogram or phylogenetic tree using fossils? 34:46
How do you identify a fossil? 38:40
How do you use fossils to tell time? 39:59
How can fossils reveal what the ancient marine environment was like? 32:35
What does a fossil community tell you about the periodcity of catastrophic events? 10:21
How has paleontology revolutionize the study of evolution? 18:44
What are the major events in the history of life? 34:22
What evidence do we have of the earliest single celled life in the fossil record?  10:40
What is so important about fossil sponges? 10:42
What are Cnidarians and what has their fossil record revealed about the history of life? 15:57
What are Fossil Bryozoans? 13:28
What are Brachiopods? 13:13
What are the major groups of fossil Molluscs? 34:56
What does the fossil record reveal about the evolution of Echinoderms? 22:16
What are Fossil Graptolites, and why are they useful in geology? 19:54
What are Trilobites and Other Fossil Arthropods? 32:16
What is Ichnology? 12:27
Why study fossil plants? 14:39
What are some of the problems in studying fossil plants? 11:46
Lecture 27 Fossil Fungi 26:23
Lecture 28 Fossil Algae 19:36
How did plants colonize the land, based on what we know from modern plants? 20:34
How did plants colonize the land, based on the fossil record? 16:18
How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous? 29:41
What is the fossil record of Horsetails? 16:15
How did the first seed plants (the Gymnosperms) evolve? 20:12
How good is the fossil record of Cycads? 23:21
How did gymnosperms diversify during the early Mesozoic to become a modern dominate plant group? 16:00
What is the significance of the fossil record of Ginkgo? 19:42
How can you use fossil leaves to study past climates? 13:17
Has Darwin’s Abominable Mystery been solved? 13:56
What is an Angiosperm? 22:18
The Fossil Plants of the Green River Formation of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. 14:43

Parapsychology and the Media with Joseph McMoneagle

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年7月25日
Joseph McMoneagle is a world renowned remote viewer who has worked professionally in the field for almost four decades – both within the military and as a private contractor. He is author of Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, and Remote Viewing Secrets. He is also coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West. He is the recipient of a congressional Legion of Merit Award for his remote viewing work within the U.S. government military intelligence services. He has successfully demonstrated remote viewing on television, both live and taped, on numerous occasions.
Here he points out that he is comfortable working with “honest skeptics” in the media. He prefers such individuals to “true believers”. On the other hand, working with hostile scoffers is a waste of his time. He describes several examples in which he demonstrated remote viewing for television audiences both in the United States and Japan. He explains the many of the difficulties that people in the media have in presenting parapsychological phenomena. In many instances, they are afraid of ridicule if they appear to endorse the reality of the phenomena.

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 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 June 12, 2016)

Hilary Putnam Interview on Mind, Language, & Epistemology

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年4月7日
In this interview, Hilary Putnam discusses his work in philosophy on various issues regarding the nature of mind, language, existence, and knowledge, including consciousness and qualia, conceivability, skepticism and brains in a vat, semantic externalism, properties and natural kinds, intentionality, the twin earth thought experiment, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reference, and analytic philosophy itself.
I highly recommend Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" which can be found here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
Credit for this interview goes to Vadim Vasilyev and Dmitry Volkov from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, who conducted this interview with Putnam in April 2010. More information can be found at www.hardproblem.ru

Household Workers Unite || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University    2016年2月24日
This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the historical and contemporary significance of domestic worker organizing.
Featuring:
Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers
Premilla Nadasen, Department of History, Barnard College
Monique Nguyen, MataHari
Natalicia Tracy, Brazilian Worker Center

Moderated by Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School
Introduced by Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Forgotten Thinkers: Emilie du Chatelet

source: Wes Cecil    2016年3月19日
A lecture exploring the life and thought of the 18th century thinker Emilie du Chatelet. Delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil PhD. I apologize for the microphone noise, I had some technical difficulties while recording.