Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash

source: TED-Ed    2017年1月30日
View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/everything-you-need-to-know-to-read-homer-s-odyssey-jill-dash
An encounter with a man-eating giant. A sorceress who turns men into pigs. A long-lost king taking back his throne. On their own, any of these make great stories. But each is just one episode in the "Odyssey," a 12,000-line poem spanning years of ancient Greek history and legend. So how do we make sense of this massive text? Jill Dash shares everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey.”
Lesson by Jill Dash, animation by David Price.

探索16-8講座：稻草人、錫人和膽小獅的願望 ─ 談「器官移植」/何明志教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心   2017年1月24日
人體的器官少了、病了，是不是換一個新的就好？一個來自不同個體的器官，仍然需要血液的供給才能在新的主人身上存活，並且發揮功能。當血液進入新的器官，除了供給養分和氧氣，血液中的免疫細胞也會產生許多反應，導致移植器官的損傷。為了維持器官的正常功能，就得設法減低免疫反應，但也因此，會造成抵抗力下降，感染及腫瘤發生的機率提高。如何適當的調節免疫反應，讓移植後的器官可以長期維持健康，並且減少副作用，是奧茲國魔法師的主要任務。
講座時間：2016年12月3日（六） 14:00
講座地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳（同步網路直播）
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Denis Noble: Dance to the Tune of Life--A physiologist enters the lions' den of evolutionary biology

source: The Physiological Society   2016年12月9日
Dance to the Tune of Life: A physiologist enters the lions' den of evolutionary biology
Monday 21 November 2016

Alexia Tsotsis: The Role of Media in the Technology Industry and Beyond

source: Stanford    2017年1月9日
Alexia Tsotsis is a journalist and the former editor of TechCrunch, the leading tech industry news publication. Prior to TechCrunch, Alexia worked at both LA Weekly and SF Weekly.
In this fireside chat, Alexia examines the role of both the tech media, and the press as a whole, exploring the ways in which journalists can both contribute to and rally against Silicon Valley’s prevailing trends and opinions. The editor of a disruptive publication during an era when journalism itself has been under threat, Alexia offers numerous insights into the future direction, and role, of the media.

MS&E 476 Course Description: We often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants, from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital.
The course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and accelerators, equity crowdfunding platform, and different models of venture capital today. Through lectures, guest speakers and interviews, the course explores how companies are funded, grown, and scaled, hearing from individuals who have been at the forefront of the industry as investors, technologists and entrepreneurs.

Seminars 2016 - Technology for tomorrow

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source: Oxford Martin School    2016年1月21日

The impact of new technologies on healthcare research with Prof Martin Landray 1:26:46
Nanotechnology: the big picture with Dr Eric Drexler and Dr Sonia Trigueros 1:22:57
'The dawn of quantum technology' with Prof Simon Benjamin 1:25:13
Mind machines - the promise and problems of cognitive enhancement devices 1:23:32
'Algorithms among us: machine learning and society' with Dr Michael Osborne 1:15:19
'Predicting technological progress' with Prof Doyne Farmer 1:27:54
'Driverless vehicles: navigating an autonomous future' with Dr Ingmar Posner 1:29:04
'New and novel technologies for vaccine delivery' with Dr Christine Rollier 1:12:34

Seminars 2015 - Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research

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source: Oxford Martin School   2015年10月15日
Demographic change – the evolving health challenges 1:26:24
Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change? 1:16:12
Facing the unknown: the future of humanity 1:19:31
Mind the gap: inequality and its impacts 1:29:49
Understanding emerging infections 1:05:34
Creating the perfect human? The ethics of enhancement 1:27:56
Prevent and protect: vaccines and immune responses 1:01:49
Climate prediction in the 2020s 1:21:22

Seminars 2015 - Creating a climate for change: what’s at stake in global climate negotiations

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source: Oxford Martin School    2015年1月22日

The metabolism of a human-dominated planet 1:15:03
Climate change: dealing with uncertainty 1:18:02
Climate change: what science and the IPCC report has to say 1:24:41
Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate 1:09:39
Climate change and our oceans 1:22:02
The ‘perfect storm revisited’: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change 1:27:50
Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature?” 1:07:09
Realising human rights in a warming world 1:20:31
Top-down or bottom-up: getting traction on climate change 1:23:27
Engineering a cooler planet: Could we? Should we? 1:29:02
Inside climate negotiations: a personal perspective by Connie Hedegaard 1:31:24
Inside climate negotiations: a personal perspective by Connie Hedegaard 1:31:18
Sustainable transport: electric dreams vs carbon reality 1:19:16
A wealthy, healthy planet: creating green economic growth 1:05:00