Like Mother, Like Child – Professor Paul Leeson

source: Oxford BRC     2016年11月29日
Professor Paul Leeson, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, talks about links between the cardiovascular health of a mother and her child. Up to 10% of pregnancies are complicated by high blood pressure in the mother. Increasingly, it is being appreciated that this problem identifies both a mother and child at risk of high blood pressure at other times in life. An understanding of the biological links between mother and child, which may influence later blood pressure, is being used as a means to develop more effective prevention approaches for later cardiovascular disease.

David Chalmers Interview

source: Philosophical Overdose      2016年11月18日
Chalmers here discusses how he came to philosophy and his interest in the nature of consciousness and the so-called "hard problem". He also discusses artificial intelligence, the nature of the universe, free will, personal identity, mind-uploading, and the nature of philosophy itself. This is from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies : http://hardproblem.ru/lang-pref/en/ab... They also have a Youtube channel which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCei3...

LSE Events | The Man Who Knew: the life and times of Alan Greenspan Professor Charles Goodhart

source: London School of Economics and Political Science   2016年11月16日
Date: Monday 7 November 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Sebastian Mallaby
Chair: Professor Charles Goodhart
No post-war figure has loomed over global finance as imposingly as Alan Greenspan, America’s Fed chairman from the booming 1980s until the eve of the 2008 financial crash. And no figure has been more paradoxical: a man who preached the virtue of the gold standard, yet came to embody paper money; a man who posed as a dry technocrat, yet was political to his core. From his debut as an acolyte of the cultish libertarian novelist, Ayn Rand, through his controversial relationship with Richard Nixon and successive presidents, Greenspan was the ultimate Washington wise man, the quiet God in the machine. But when global finance melted down, Greenspan’s reputation melted with it.
Drawing on five years of untrammelled access to Greenspan, his papers, and his professional and personal intimates, Sebastian Mallaby has written the definitive study of the preeminent financial statesman of the post-war era. Reckoning both with Greenspan’s monetary decisions and with his approach to financial regulation, Mallaby grapples with the central mystery that Greenspan’s life presents to us. Why did a man so universally celebrated forge a financial system that proved so fatally unstable? And how will his successors protect us from a future crash?
Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE. He is the author of a newly published biography of Alan Greenspan The Man Who Knew: the life and times of Alan Greenspan.
Charles Goodhart is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previously, 1987-2005, been its Deputy Director. Until his retirement in 2002, he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985.
The Systemic Risk Centre (@LSE_SRC) was set up to study the risks that may trigger the next financial crisis and to develop tools to help policymakers and financial institutions become better prepared.

The Psychology of Shame with Gerald Loren Fishkin

source: New Thinking Allowed       2016年11月14日
Gerald Loren Fishkin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. He is author of The Science of Shame and Its Treatment. He is also author of American Dream, American Burnout; Police Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions; and Firefighter and Paramedic Burnout: The Survival Guide.
Here he notes that shame is a deep-seated affect that is located deep within the mammalian portions of the brain. He makes a point of distinguishing between shame and guilt, insofar as toxic shame can be completely crippling at an emotional level. It is typically the result of early childhood trauma. Toxic shame also results in abusive and unrelenting forms of self-talk. Fishkin maintains that neither positive affirmations nor cognitive behavioral therapy are adequate for dealing with toxic shame. However, he offers a compassionate approach with a variety of processes that have shown themselves to be effective.
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 10, 2016)

Righting the Record: Conservatism and the Archives || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University     2016年11月18日
Righting the Record: Conservatism and the Archives
A Schlesinger Library Event
Over the past half-century, grassroots activists and organizations both left and right have focused on women’s roles, family values, homosexuality, and reproductive policy, transforming modern American life. Yet the collections of major public repositories, especially those housed at universities, tend to document only one side of this complicated history: the left side. The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study hosted a conversation among scholars, intellectuals, and activists to explore the consequences of the current situation and examine possible solutions. “Righting the Record” is part of the library’s multifaceted approach to enhancing the diversity of the documentary record, to ensure that students, researchers, and scholars can write more complete and balanced histories of our times.
Moderated by Ross Douthat (11:52), op-ed columnist, New York Times
PANELISTS:
Donald Critchlow (20:33), professor of history and director of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
Jennifer A. Marshall (37:19), vice president, Heritage Foundation
Michelle Nickerson (45:32), associate professor of history, Loyola University Chicago
Charmaine Yoest (55:22), senior fellow, American Values
Panel Discussion (1:10:08)
Audience Q&A (1:34:29)

Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridle...

source: Big Think    2016年11月27日
"Behind every rise of fascism is a failed revolution," said the Frankfurt School thinker Walter Benjamin. Here, Slavoj Žižek revives that statement in the context of the failed left. Zizek's latest book is "Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail" (https://goo.gl/m2Aj7S).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/slavoj-ziz...

Transcript - I still believe in the saying of this oath Frankford School fellow traveler Marxist Valter Benjamin who said that behind every rise of fascism there is a failed revolution. I think even if we strategically, I'm not sure about it, accept this term Islam fascism for Islamic fundamentalist, this so called Islam fundamentalism is strictly relative with the disintegration of secular Islamic left, which was pretty strong in the '50s, '60s and so on, but then began to disintegrate. So I think we shouldn't be too fascinated with this phenomenon. We should rather ask what happened with the left. I think this phenomenon of right wing populism are strictly the obverse of something that did not happen. They didn't just happen, they happened because something else didn't happen because the left didn't provide a proper answer. And that's for me the true tragedy today. On the one hand we are entering a period, and we are already in this period for almost ten years, where rage, discontent are exploding everywhere, even in our Western countries, Occupy Wall Street in Europe, the demonstrations in France, Greece and so on. On the other hand it is as if the left, even if it succeeds in, sometimes not always, in recapturing the energy of this rage cannot really offer a new political model that would be not only seductive enough to mobilize millions of people, but even in itself it doesn't have enough consistency. What I'm saying is this, in Europe we didn't yet fully accept the fact that the 20th century is over. By this I mean the following: The 20th century left, which had basically three strengths orientations, Stalinist communism, that's over. Not only it's over, in a beautiful irony where ex-communists are still in power they are mostly the most efficient agents of the most ruthless new liberal global capitalism. Do you know what I mean? If you want to be a successful capitalist today don't go to Western Europe, go to China where every Chinese will tell you the main function, almost, of the communist party is to prevent the formation of an independent working movement trade unions to keep workers under control, Vietnam the same story and so on. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/Ep3N3a.

History Now and Then - History and Change

source: SchAdvStudy     2016年11月29日
02-11-16 Institute of Historical Research
Is history necessarily the story of 'change'? Who/what makes things change? The role of 'Great men/women' - and other factors?
History Now and Then seminar series
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk/
Chair: Daniel Snowman
(Institute of Historical Research)
Margaret MacMillan
Rana Mitter
Andrew Roberts
Gareth Stedman Jones