Why do some people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed    2016年5月26日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some...
Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So what’s behind this annual onslaught of mucus? Eleanor Nelsen explains what happens when your immune system goes rogue.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelson, animation by TED-Ed.

Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time

source: Yale University    2015年8月7日
Franke Program in Science and the Humanities
Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time
Professors David Albert and Tim Maudlin visited Yale to give lectures and participate in discussion for an event titled "Mechanical Explanations and the Direction of Time." Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He delivers a lecture titled "Geometrical Structure and the Direction of Time."

Subjects of Reason: goods, markets and imaginaries of the global future

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年1月22日
Date: Thursday 21 January 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sheila Jasanoff
Chair: Professor Andrew Lang

The lecture will look at how discourses of exchange create commensurable systems of exchange across highly disparate regions and forms of life. Three legal encounters will be considered as points of friction: the creation of the single carbon market; the regulation of GMOs by the World Trade Organisation; and the Novartis-India litigation on the cancer drug Gleevec.

Sheila Jasanoff (@SJasanoff) is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. A pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 100 articles and chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including Controlling Chemicals, The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies, with particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell University and has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments in the US, Europe, and Japan. Sheila Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her grants and awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ehrenkreuz from the Government of Austria. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente.
Andrew Lang is Professor of Law at LSE.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

From Oscar Pistorius to Reality TV: the implications of using the courtroom as a television studio

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年4月15日
Date: Wednesday 13 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Lord Dyson, Ruth Herz, Dikgang Moseneke
Chair: Professor Linda Mulcahy

The Judicial Images Network Project was established in 2014 to bring together scholars and across disciplines and continents to explore issues surrounding the production, regulation and consumption of judicial images. Directed by Professors Leslie Moran and Linda Mulcahy this lecture is the final event in a series of three. The event will feature two speakers with extensive experience of the issues that arise from televised trials. The Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa Dikgang Moseneke will discuss the experience of, and issues arising from, the televising of the trial of Oscar Pistorious. Ruth Herz will reflect on her experience as a judge who took part in a popular German courtroom based reality TV show. Chaired by the Master of the Rolls this event will examine the ethical implications of allowing cameras into courts and whether and how the presence of cameras impacts on the dynamics of the trial.

Lord Dyson is the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice.
Ruth Herz is a former judge in Cologne, author and for several years was presiding judge on German television programme Das Jugendgericht (Youth Court).
Dikgang Moseneke is the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. For participating in anti-apartheid activity he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment all of which he served on Robben Island. In 1993 Moseneke served on the technical committee that drafted the interim constitution and in 1994 he was appointed Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, which conducted the first democratic elections in South Africa. Before his appointment as Justice of the Constitutional Court, in November 2001 Moseneke was appointed a Judge of the High Court in Pretoria. On 29 November 2002 he was appointed as judge in the Constitutional Court Court and in June 2005, Moseneke was appointed Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa.
Linda Mulcahy is Professor of Law at LSE and Director of LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Centre and PhD Academy.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth      2016年4月11日

Stuart Hameroff - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 5:50
Subhash Kak - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 5:18
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience 8:35

Jason J. Campbell: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism

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source: drjasonjcampbell     2013年11月16日/上次更新：2014年1月20日

1. Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 0:31
Section 1.0: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:28:57
Section 1.1: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:23:38
Section 1.2: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 46:59
Section 1.3: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:19:53
Section 1.4: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:28:26
Section 1.5: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 51:32
Section 1.6: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 2:20:13
Section 1.7: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:29:25
Section 1.8: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:34:44
Section 1.9: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:44:53
Section 2.0: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:46:25
Section 2.1: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:40:14
Section 2.2: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:38:20
Section 2.3: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 1:10:02
Section 2.4: Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism 59:39

Richard Schwartz: Higher Dimensional Space and the Things In It

source: Yale University    2015年8月20日
Math Mornings is a series of public lectures aimed at bringing the joy and variety of mathematics to students and their families. Speakers from Yale and elsewhere talk about aspects of mathematics that they find fascinating or useful. The talks will usually be accessible to students from 7th grade and up, although occasionally some familiarity with high-school subjects will be helpful. Math Mornings lectures will take place on three Sundays each semester, at Davies Auditorium, 10 Hillhouse Avenue.

Math Mornings is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. It is part of Yale's Science Outreach program. To find out more see http://yale.edu/scienceoutreach

On Sunday, September 29, Richard Schwartz, professor of mathematics at Brown University gave his lecture, "Higher Dimensional Space and the Things In It." Dr. Schwartz works on geometry and dynamics, uses computers to explore intricate mathematical systems, and writes illustrated books for kids. On Sept. 29th, he gave a friendly introduction to higher dimensional space and spoke about some of the objects in it, like spheres, cubes, and other polyhedra. He also explained some of the really weird properties of polyhedra in high dimensional space, and might even convince you that these things are really true.