lectures

#81 House of Games (1987), de David Mamet

Mitch Horowitz's lecture on Neville Goddard at Observatory 6/28/13

David Mamet

As part of 2014 Norton Lecture series, Herbie Hancock, who was endowed with the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry, gave his first lecture at Harvard on February 3, 2014. In this clip he discusses how Miles Davis reinvigorated his musical imagination and helped him innovate. 

Herbie Hancock "The Wisdom of Miles Davis" clip | Soundbytes

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2014

Professor Brian Butterworth, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Do animals possess the capacity to use numerical information? Is this capacity confined to primates, or indeed to mammals? It is thought that humans inherit a numerical capacity upon which more sophisticated mathematics is built. If this is the case, then we may find signs of this capacity in human infants, but we may also find that some humans are born without this capacity.

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Can fish count? UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (21 Jan 2014)

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Q-Tip Lecture RBMA 2013

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Brian Eno Lecture RBMA 2013

Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Past Belief: Visions of Early Christianity in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Anthony Grafton focuses on the efforts of artists and scholars to recreate the early history of Christianity in a period of crisis in the church from the 15th to the 17th century. In this first lecture, entitled “How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Jewish Origins of Christianity,” originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on March 30, 2014, Grafton explores how the pictorial form of the Last Supper, a central theme in art, was radically transformed after the beginning of the Reformation in 1517. He shows how writers with great archaeological and historical learning delved into Roman antiquities and Jewish texts from the time of the origins of Christianity in order to bring back the world in which the Last Supper actually took place.  

The Sixty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Part 1

What is the link between the way plants make use of sunlight, the migration of the European robin, our sense of smell, and mutations in DNA? Jim Al-Khalili believes the exciting new field of quantum biology may provide the answers. He is one of a growing number of scientists using quantum mechanics to describe the workings of the wet, warm biological world. This lecture is a heady mix of the weirdness of quantum mechanics and its still speculative applications in biology - all based on his forthcoming book out early next year. Presented by the Cambridge Humanist Group. - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/fully-booked-sir-hermann-bondi-lecture-life-edge-coming-age-quantum-biology#sthash.nNFYRZ5q.dpuf

Sir Hermann Bondi lecture: life on the edge - the coming of age of quantum biology

Speaker(s): Professor Frank Wilczek | In his new book, which he will discuss in this public lecture, world-class physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that had guided his pioneering work in quantum physics. As his book looks to demonstrate, this quest has also guided the work of all scientific pursuit in the western world, from Pythagoras and Plato to Galileo and Newton, Maxwell and Einstein. Indeed, Wilczek looks to show us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. A Beautiful Question  is the culmination of Wilczek’s life work, a work that looks to combine the age-old quest for beauty with the age-old quest for truth. Frank Wilczek (@FrankWilczek) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University, when he was 21 years old. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT.

A Beautiful Question: finding nature's deep design [Audio]

P28....Autopsy

Journalist Juliet Jacques discusses her Transgender Journey blog for The Guardian - the first time that gender reassignment has been documented for a mainstream British publication. Responding to conservative and 'radical' feminist critiques of transsexualism, she explores recent media myths and stereotypes and explains how she aimed to use those media to deconstruct them. 

Lecture on 20 February, 2012 at UCL as part of UCL's Diversity Month 2012

Read Juliet's blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/transgender-journey

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Juliet Jacques: Transgender Journey

http://www.92Y.org/VPC - Author/playwright/director David Mamet reads a manuscript version of Faustus, later published in 2004. During the audience Q&A, he talks about adapting plays into film and his memories of Shel Silverstein. He also offers advice to young writers.

Recorded March 25, 2002 92nd Street Y

David Mamet: Faustus | 92Y Readings

This public lecture series discusses concepts from the physical sciences that underpin both everyday cooking and haute cuisine. Each lecture features a world-class chef who visited and presented their remarkable culinary designs. 

Food and Science | Lecture 1 (2012)

An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Digital Nation," airing Feb. 2, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn and connect in ways that we're only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff, to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the "Digital Nation" Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture -- from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds, to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future, to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us -- and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.

Digital Nation - Audiocast

The internet illuminati tells us how to think about Wikileaks. For <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/">Ethan Zuckerman</a> and <a href="http://www.rushkoff.com/">Douglas Rushkoff</a>, it's kind of an "I Told You So" moment. <a href="http://www.ellsberg.net/">Daniel Ellsberg</a> explains why Bradley Manning is a better comparison than Julian Assange while <a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian York</a> says FAIL to Time Magazine's choice for person of the year. Cartoonist <a href="http://joealterio.com/">Joe Alterio</a> draws the cables and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/trailhead.html">Christopher Beam</a> celebrates the diplomatic 'talent' pool. Plus <a href="http://gabriellacoleman.org/">Gabriella Coleman</a> on Anonymous, <a href="http://www.evgenymorozov.com/">Evgeny Morozov</a> on DDOS, and your host asks "What Would China Do?"

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