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Speaker(s): Professor Andrew Gamble | One of the aims of LSE Summer School is to bring the LSE experience to all those attending its many courses between July and August. Five years ago we launched our first full programme of Lectures. These have been an immense success. All lectures are exclusively for LSE Summer School students, and are given by top flight speakers talking on the big issues of the day. The events begin at 5.30pm and take place in the Old Theatre, located in the Old Building on Houghton Street. Lectures will be followed by a reception where students will be able to speak to the lecturers. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording). Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:30:00 GMT

Crisis without End? The Unravelling of Western Prosperity [Audio]

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rapid experimentation mindset, the design thinking process, and how to get started with rapid experimentation at your company. Hint: start small.

Julie Stanford on Vetting Designs Through Rapid Experimentation

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The Sports Scientists is a podcast designed with the primary intention of having some fun chatting about fitness. If we're offensive, it's all meant in good fun, and we do apologize in advance! Every week, we'll talk about (mostly) fitness related issues and make bad jokes about them. We'll definitely have some actual intellectual content, but the attempts at humor will be much more predominant. Drs. Mike Israetel and James Hoffmann are both sport scientists, and if you're looking for their intellectual work, their social media accounts are where to find links to it. Marcos Rodriguez is a longtime personal trainer to celebrities and business leaders in New York City, and has his ear to the street on current (and usually ridiculous) fitness trends and fads.

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On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Brian Goetz. Brian is the Java Language Architect at Oracle. The two start with a discussion on what the six-month cadence has meant to the teams developing Java. Then move to a review of the features in Java 9 through 12. Finally, the two discuss the longer-term side projects (such as Amber, Loom, and Valhalla) and their role in the larger release process for the JDK.

* The JVM’s sixth-month cadence changed the way the JDK is delivered and planned. While it definitely provides more rapid delivery at expected intervals, the release train approach turned out to also improve flexibility and efficiency.
* Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are almost identical. Most of the JDK distributions are forks from OpenJDK with different bug fixes and backports applied. So the difference between the distributions now is largely which bug fixes are picked up.
* Local Variable inference (which was released as part of Java 10) illustrated the tension on making changes to the language. Many people wanted the change, but many others felt it would enable people to write bad code. Oracle had to balance the two views when making the change.
* The number of Java versions allow finer grain decision making on what is appropriate for an application. With the adoption of containers, applications are bundled with an exact JDK version rather than having to use one from a systems level. The different versions give developers more options.
* Incubating features are new libraries added to the JDK. They were offered starting with Java 9 as a way for people to test and offer feedback more rapidly. With Java 12, preview features will be released. Preview features are similar but are core platform and language features.
* Shenandoah and ZGC are both low latency garbage collectors. They originally came from different sources. While both garbage collectors are similar, each has different performance characteristics under different workloads. The two garbage collectors represent options available to JVM developers.
* Most non-trivial JDK features take more than six months to develop. Longer term side projects like Amber, Loom, Valhalla are where these features are developed prior to being released with a version of the JDK. The projects range from language enhancements to concurrency work.

Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on Java and the JDK

This Extra Inning of the Ballpark features audio from the US Centre’s event “Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump,” which took place on 25 July 2018. Joseph Uscinski, associate professor of political science at University of Miami, speaks about his book American Conspiracy Theories and why President Trump might be America’s first conspiratorial president. Using an analysis of more than a hundred years of data taken from newspapers, surveys, and the internet, Professor Uscinski demonstrates that conspiracy theories follow a strategic logic: they are tools used by the powerless to attack and defend against the powerful. Our chair for this event, Ros Taylor, is Research Manager for the LSE Truth, Trust & Technology Commission, based in the Media Policy Project within the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

The Ballpark | Extra Innings: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump with Joe Uscinski

UPDATE-  Due to the logistical difficulty and expense of recording the SS podcast, we will no longer be making regular content.  We are also discontinuing our subscriptions to the Soundcloud and iTUNES platforms.  All back content and potential future episodes will be hosted exclusively on our YouTube and FB pages.

The Sports Scientists is a podcast designed with the primary intention of having some fun chatting about fitness. If we're offensive, it's all meant in good fun, and we do apologize in advance! Every week, we'll talk about (mostly) fitness related issues and make bad jokes about them. We'll definitely have some actual intellectual content, but the attempts at humor will be much more predominant. Drs. Mike Israetel and James Hoffmann are both sport scientists, and if you're looking for their intellectual work, their social media accounts are where to find links to it. Marcos Rodriguez is a longtime personal trainer to celebrities and business leaders in New York City, and has his ear to the street on current (and usually ridiculous) fitness trends and fads.