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Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, delivers a lecture on the phenomenon of statistic decline in violence throughout human history. Aug 15, 2013

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined

Autonomie, Entscheidungen, freier Wille - Was kann das menschliche Gehirn leisten und wo sind seine Grenzen?

Mit dem menschlichen Gehirn und seinen Grenzen befasste sich das Forum Fachdidaktik Biologie, Fachgruppe Biologie der Universität zu Köln auf seiner Jahresveranstaltung. Zum Leitthema „Das menschliche Gehirn: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen" hielt der bekannte Neurobiologe Professor Dr. Manfred Spitzer den Vortrag „Neurobiologie und Erziehung" am 21.Juni 2012 an der Universität zu Köln.

Den gesamten Vortrag findet ihr unter:
http://youtu.be/pHOIdOG9oJM
oder
https://itunes.apple.com/de/itunes-u/biologie-und-chemie-leben/id430585395?mt=10

Prof. Dr. Manfred Spitzer  // Neurobiologie und Erziehung

David Cameron, Professor of Political Science at Yale; Director of the Program in European Union Studies discusses the Italian Election and the Survival of the Eurozone.

The Italian Election and the Survival of the Eurozone

Season 2 Episode 3 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Andy Wimbush.

Andy Wimbush is a third year PhD candidate in English at Darwin College researching Samuel Beckett's enduring interest in quietism as a personal solution and artistic inspiration.

For further information and related links please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/andy-wimbush-beckett-and-quietism.

The Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

Andy Wimbush: Samuel Beckett and Quietism

Performed by Therese Plummer.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark whips up a savory and suspenseful confection, filled with murder, mystery, history, and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans's legendary French Quarter 

That old black magic 

Aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan has barely arrived in New Orleans to perfect her pastry skills at the renowned French Quarter bakery Boulangerie Bertrand when a ghastly murder rocks the magical city. 

Intrigued by the case, Piper can't help but look for the "Hoodoo Killer" among the faces around her. Could it be the handsome guide eager to give her special private tours? Or the inscrutable jazz musician who plays on historic Royal Street? What about the ratings-starved radio talk-show host? Or even the amiable owner of the local Gris-Gris Bar? 

Though Piper has a full plate decorating cakes for upcoming wedding celebrations, she's also landed an exciting but unnerving role in a movie being shot in the Big Easy. When the murderer strikes again, leaving macabre clues, she thinks she can unmask the killer. But Piper will have to conjure up some old black magic of her own if she hopes to live long enough to reveal the truth. 


That Old Black Magic by Mary Jane Clark

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Axel Körner

Verdi’s hugely popular American opera Un ballo in maschera (1859) was completed during the final stages of the Unification of Italy. Why did Italy’s compositore nazionale celebrate Unification with an opera set in Boston? Verdi depicts an altogether rather dark and disconcerting image of life in the New World. When president elect Abraham Lincoln attended one of the opera’s first performances in New York, he left the theatre shortly before the final act, allegedly fearing an assassination attempt. Did anybody remember this scene when Lincoln was shot in a theatre four years later? The lecture explores ideas about social and political change in transnational perspective, demonstrating how cultural developments inform our understanding of political events.

Axel Körner is Professor of Modern History and Director of the UCL Centre for Transnational History. He has been teaching at UCL since 1996. His publications include Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy (2009); America Imagined (with N.Miller and A.I.P.Smith, 2012); 1848 – A European Revolution? (ed., 2000); and Das Lied von einer anderen Welt (1997). He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the École Normale Supérieure, Paris; and the Remarque Centre of New York University.

Unveiling Modernity: Verdi’s America & Unification of Italy – Professor Axel Körner (UCL History)

Multilingual mixologist Joaquin Simo is steeped in cocktail culture. For his concoctions, the names are borrowed from foreign languages, overheard phrases and racehorses. http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-05-08/cocktail-hour-would-you-prefer-bitter-taste-calm-or-seven-days-grave

"The Bitter Taste of Calm," and other great names for cocktails

Our eTutor, Sev, teaches you some phrases that will come in handy if you're ever a guest at someone's home in France.  

Being a Guest in France: Some Tips for Travelers

Sample used within The Orb's 'Little Fluffy Clouds'. I searched far and wide for this, so please feel free to download and enjoy

A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones

My new album "Deaf Safari" (CD / LP) coming spring 2015 on Compost Records

Felix Laband = Ding Dong Thing

Emanative’s latest body of work comes in the form of this incredible collaborative piece of art all in the name of the charity, the Steve Reid Foundation. With features from Four Tet, Collocutor, The Pyramids, Earl Zinger, Jessica Lauren, Finn Peters, Rocketnumbernine, United Vibrations and Steve Reid collaborator Ahmed Abdullah! This will be a limited edition release of 500 2xLP on 180g-heavyweight vinyl.

This whole double album was conceived from the beginning as a way to raise both
money and awareness for Gilles Peterson's Steve Reid Foundation.
Orchestrated by Nick Woodmansey/Emanative, but not without the generosity, help and contribution of every musician and collaborator involved.
 
All of the effort and countless hours invested by all; from the musical, recording and mastering to the organisational and administrative; including the record's art and design, have been given with the sole intention of flowing towards this cause - in the knowledge that all proceeds are going to The Steve Reid Foundation.
 
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Emanative’s ‘The Light Years Of The Darkness’ album be our first release for the Steve Reid Foundation. In Keeping with Steve’s open ended approach and his musical history Nick Woodmansey has delivered a knock out Jazz and beyond album.”
Gilles Peterson

Emanative, Earl Zinger & Valerie Etienne - Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe

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Lecture: 'Alan Turing, a broken heart and the invention of the computer' 
Dr Jon Agar (UCL Science and Technology Studies)
with an introduction from Sir Stephen Wall, Chair of UCL Council

This event is being held to commemorate the centenary of Alan Turing's birth and celebrate LGBT History Month. The talk will explore biographer Andrew Hodges' argument that Turing's feelings for his friend Christopher Morcom and the trauma of Morcom's premature death were pivotal in the development of Turing's ideas about the human spirit, the nature of consciousness and, ultimately, the development of the computer.

Date, Time and Venue:
16 February, 1-2pm, J Z Young lecture theatre, Wilkins building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Dr Jon Agar: Alan Turing, a broken heart & the invention of the computer

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Keynote Speech at Inc 500 Seminar 2011

Odetta - Hit or Miss

John Searle at the University of Cologne
American Philosopher accepts Albertus Magnus Professorship 2013

John Searle is one of the most important philosophers of language of our time. As Albertus Magnus Professor, he will be holding lectures and a seminar on the themes of "Language and Social Ontology", "Mind and Brain" as well as "Perception and Intentionality" from 6th till 8th May, 2013 at the University of Cologne.

More on:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UniversitaetzuKoeln

John Searle // Lecture 1: "Language and Social Ontology"

Dies ist das offizielle Soundcloud-Profil der Universität zu Köln. 
This is the Soundcloud profile of the University of Cologne.