lectures/ideas

2016-11-08

Anthony Aguirre - On Multiple Universes and Black Holes (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth 2016年10月18日
Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? The universe started as a hot soup. What stirred the soup into the vast ensemble of breathtaking objects that populate the universe?
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Anthony Aguirre - What can We Know in a Super-Large Universe? 5:04
Anthony Aguirre - What happens in Black Holes? 7:04
Anthony Aguirre - Do Multiple Universes Surely Exist? 5:25

Evidentiality of Spiritualist Mediumship with Stephen E. Braude

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年10月5日
Stephen Braude, PhD, served as chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has also served as president of the Parapsychological Association. He is author of Crimes of Reason, The Gold Leaf Lady, Immortal Remains, The Limits of Influence, First Person Plural, and ESP and Psychokinesis. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Myers Memorial Medal awarded by the Society for Psychical Research for outstanding contributions.
Here he suggests that a useful criterion in distinguishing between evidence for post-mortem survival as opposed to living agent psi is the motive for the mediumistic communication. If the communication seems to be of greater benefit to the deceased, this would count in favor of the survival hypothesis. For this reason, “drop in” cases are of particular significance. Braude describes one such case, from Iceland, in detail. Further discussion focuses on the accuracy of information provided by ostensible spirit communicators. Braude also argues that, in order to properly evaluate mediums, we need to know more about the nature of unusual human talent.

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 exploration. 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 July 9, 2016)

Economics of Climate Change with Professor Kabat | The New School

source: The New School 2016年9月22日
Professor Pavel Kabat joins The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA | http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org) to present a lecture on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals as part of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change series (http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org...). Pavel Kabat is director general and CEO of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.
Directed by Economist Willi Semmler. SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change Project is generously sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Tishman Environmental and Design Center (TEDC | http://blogs.newschool.edu/tedc).
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Department of Economics | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/economics
Location: Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Chemistry Laboratory Experiments (Middle East Technical University)

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source: METUOpenCourseWare 2013年1月24日
OpenCourseWare [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
Course Link: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.ph...

1. Introductory Laboratory Techniques 8:39
2. The Law of Definite Proportions 4:54
3. Compounds of Calcium and Determination of Salt Content of Tap Water 6:36
4. Enthalpy of Formation 4:00
5. Preparation and Analysis of Potassium Trioxalatoferrate (III) Trihydrate 7:44
6. The Estimation of Avogadro's Number 2:05
7. Solutions 10:48
8. Molecular Weight Determination from Freezing Point Depression 4:40
9. Kinetic Study of the Reaction between Ferric and Iodide Ions 2:33
10. Chemical Equilibrium 5:27
11. Acid-Base Titration 7:04
12. Electrochemistry - Voltaic Cells 2:29

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Legalizing Marijuana: The Public Health Pros and Cons | The Forum at HSPH

source: Harvard University 2014年10月10日
With a growing number of states considering the legalization of medical marijuana and, more broadly, the decriminalization of recreational marijuana, this Forum event examined the public health pros and cons. What does science tell us about the benefits and risks of using marijuana? What are the economics at play? And what impact might decriminalization make on social justice? Presented in collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Agency, Morals & the Mind - Emma Flynn

source: SchAdvStudy 2016年10月24日
26-09-2016 School of Advanced Study
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
http://humanmind.ac.uk/
Agency, Morals & the Mind
Morals, Culture and Society
How does the Behaviour of Others Influence What We Do?
Emma Flynn | Professor of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Durham University

How do we become members of our cultural group? How, and why, do we learn the traditions of the society within which we live? In my talk I present research which examines how young children learn from other individuals in their social group. I present a series of diffusion experiments that investigates how ‘cultural norms’ are established, transmitted and altered. My results show that 6 children are excellent imitators, copying with high fidelity tool use behaviour that they witness others perform, even copying actions which appear to be functionally irrelevant; that is they ‘overimitate’. Such overimitation allows traditions that may be causally opaque (often the case within cultural traditions) to be sustained within groups. However, equally my work demonstrates that while children are predominantly imitators, occasionally they introduce new behaviours into their social group, which are adopted and transmitted across the group. I end my talk by exploring whether a more abstract behaviour than tool use, that is cooperation, is transmitted across groups of children, showing that, across many different forms of tasks, groups of young children do adhere to cooperative behaviour.
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