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Free learning with The Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2748 --- Author Iain Banks talks to Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more. (Full) --- Interview also available as audio only http://audioboo.fm/boos/263163-author-iain-banks-in-conversation-with-the-open-university Study 'Creative writing' with the OU http://www3.op...

Stanford University Professor and 2012 Nobel Laureate Al Roth speaks on his prize-winning research and ground-breaking successes with exchange markets and his life-saving favorite, kidney exchanges. Dr. Roth was the keynote speaker for the GSB Spring Reunions on May 3, 2013. He was introduced by Dean Garth Saloner. Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Related Links http://alumni.gsb.stanford.edu/events/virtual Selected Works from Dr. Roth http:/...

Carmine Gallo shares the three simple secrets all inspiring messages share, and how inspiring executives and entrepreneurs tell their brand or product story in a way that's understandable, memorable and emotional. Gallo addressed the Stanford Graduate School of Business as part of the Mastery in Communication Initiative's Expert Speaker Series. Gallo is a best-selling author, communications coach, and keynote speaker. He is a former reporter and anchor for CNN and CBS. He has sat down with...

At first, banks in Nigeria were able to weather the global financial crisis. However, the second-round effects saw the collapse of prices on the stock market, credit contraction, and depletion of external reserves. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as part of the Global Speaker Series at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, walks through the lessons learned from the crisis. Unlike European banks, Nigeria acted decisively in injecting capital to stabilize ban...

The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today. Related Links: http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/

California, the ninth largest economy in the world, recently launched a new carbon cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, leads this program that could provide a model to support other regional or national efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Moderated by Professor Mar Reguant, Nichols discusses the new cap-and-trade system and the current thinking around regional and federal policies. Ni...

JD Schramm, Stanford GSB lecturer in organizational behavior and director of the Mastery in Communication Initiative, presents this workshop specifically designed to help alumni speakers for the 40-Year-Strong anniversary celebration of the Public Management Program and the Center for Social Innovation to create a four-minute personal story of impact . The workshop includes topics like how to get quickly to your point and how to inspire your audience. It also features case discussions h...

An area of which 19th century British mathematics could be uniformly proud was applied mathematics where new techniques were used on a wide range of problems. Figures such as William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin), Peter Guthrie Tait, George Stokes and James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in applying mathematics to understanding the physical world. They worked on many topics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, hydrodynamics and the theory of gases. This lecture will intr...

Free learning with The Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2748 --- Author Iain Banks talks to Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more. (Full) --- Interview also available as audio only http://audioboo.fm/boos/263163-author-iain-banks-in-conversation-with-the-open-university Study 'Creative writing' with the OU http://www3.op...

Novelists reflected contemporary attitudes and influenced the way the City was seen both by the wider public at the time and then by later generations. Could long dead novelists have been far more powerful than long dead economists? Consider the fact that our view of Victorian society is so influenced by the negative images of Dickens when, at the time, Britain was the richest and most advanced country in the world! The transcript and downloadable versions of this event by Professor Ranald...

http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses Gilles Deleuze, knowledge, perception, science, nature, philosophy, subjectivity, the subject, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Ryle, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2011 Manuel DeLanda. Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and d...

A talk and performance to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Professor Roger Parker discusses Benjamin Britten's first string quartet, before The Badke Quartet performs in full the String Quartet No 1 in D major (1941). The transcript and downloadable versions of this event by Professor Roger Parker and The Badke Quartet are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quar...

Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skins into parchment; copying texts; painting and gilding minatures; and binding folios between boards, a process that reveals much about medieval scribal and artistic practice. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-making-of-medieva...

Speaker(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Nicola Lacey, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Dr Maung Zarni Recorded on 19 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street. Audio podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1516 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu constituency in Burma. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1...

Patent Attorney Katherine White of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital kicks off this new speaker series with advice for inventors on securing successful patents in a talk sponsored by the Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. Series: "Von Liebig Forum" [5/2004] [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 8679]

Speakers: Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood Chair: Howard Davies This event was recorded on 18 February 2009 in Old Theatre, Old Building While each system of national law seeks to regulate affairs within only one society, international law concerns the entire world. Yet it has almost none of the methods of enforcement available to national legal systems. So, can it change the world? Christopher Greenwood was elected a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November 2008. He is...

Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen Chair: Professor Lord Stern This event was recorded on 27 July 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Amartya Sen explores the ways in which, and the degree to which, justice is a matter of reason, and of different kinds of reason. This event marks the launch of Professor Sen's new book The Idea of Justice. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard and an honorary fellow of LSE. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master ...

Speaker(s): Professor Martti Koskenniemi Recorded on 25 January 2012 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. Martti Koskenniemi is director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and visiting professor at LSE Law. mp3 audio podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1324

Speaker(s): Alex Salmond MSP Chair: Professor Paul Kelly Recorded on 15 February 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Alex Salmond will set out his vision for Scotland's future, including the opportunities provided by independence, setting the context for the Scottish government's plans for a referendum. Alex Salmond is the first minister of Scotland. He was born in Linlithgow in 1954. He attended Linlithgow Academy before studying at St Andrews University, where he gr...

The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today. Related Links: http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/

BEST (Brands, Experience and Social Technology) addresses the questions: How do leading organizations create compelling brands and connect through experiences? As today's savvy consumers are increasingly participating in brands (rather than merely receiving their messages), how do companies foster better experiences, conversations and relationships - with both their employees and customers? Moreover, how do you harness social media to build and amplify a brand? MC Hammer spoke to this l...

The New School for Public Engagement is a division of The New School, a university in New York City offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. | http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement Using a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, ESL education specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman traces the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years, discussing h...

(March 9, 2010) Frank Longo, MD, PhD, George and Lucy Becker Professor, discusses the intricacy human mind and how different types of memory and memory loss function. Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford School of Medicine: http://med.stanford.edu/ Stanford Continuing Studies: http://continuingstudies.stanford.e...

Panelists talk about what their organizations are doing to support teachers, and the most successful efforts and investments aimed at recruiting, strengthening, and retaining our teacher corps. Related Links: Stanford School of Education: http://ed.stanford.edu/ Connections Academy: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/home.aspx Nord Anglia: http://www.nordanglia.com/ The Preuss School: http://preuss.ucsd.edu/ Carnegie Foundation: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ The Education Trust-...

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics http://www.newschool.edu/vlc http://www.veralistcenter.org Jane Bennett - Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter How can objects sometimes be vibrant things with an effective presence independent of the words, images, and feelings they may provoke in humans? This question is posed by Political theorist Jane Bennett delivers the inaugural lecture as the Vera List Center for Art and Politics embarks on a ...

Center for Public Scholarship | http://www.newschool.edu/cps 1995 - In the Company of Animals - Keynote: Stephen Jay Gould | The New School April 6-8, 1995: The 4th conference in the Social Research Conference series, In the Company of Animals examined our relationship with other animals over time and in different cultures through a public conference at the New School, a poetry reading organized by the American Academy of Poets, and exhibits and other public programs at the Pierpont...

Watch "The Skinny on Obesity" with Dr. Lustig: http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717] More UCTV videos about sugar: http://www.uctv...

Speaker(s): Professor David Nutt Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun Recorded on 5 December 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. David Nutt will reflect on his ten years' experience on the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until 2010, and present new analyses comparing the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology. David Nutt is Edmond J Safra Professor of Neuropsychology at Imperial College London. He was chair of the ACMD until 2010 and is now chair of th...

Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Kahneman Discussant: Professor Paul Dolan Chair: Evan Davis Recorded on 1 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street This public conversation with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman hosted by LSE and the Hay Festivals will focus on his best selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Professor Kahneman will be signing copies of his book after the event. Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a Professor of ...

"Brain Reconstruction: The next biomedical breakthrough, or a biological impossibility?" by Professor Jack Price, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. How close are we to true brain reconstruction? Professor Jack Price details the latest advances in this field of neuroscience, as well as covering the conceptual and regulatory obstacles that researchers face. The transcript and ...

Speaker(s): Bill Gates, Professor Hans Rosling Recorded on 9 February 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. The Global Poverty Project has partnered with The Co--operative during the UN Year of Co-operatives to launch a new initiative that will raise awareness and inspire communities to take action for the 1.4 billion people still living in extreme poverty. Bill Gates will speak to the inaugural Global Poverty Ambassadors as part of the London launch of his Annual Letter. In the letter, h...

The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose and treat Motor Neuron Disease, why motor neurons degenrate and the genetic basis of disease. It will also cover new cellular and animal models of disease that are informing us about disease mechanisms and will advance drug discovery. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/whither-to-the-creeping-paralysis-progress-on-the-roa...

Contributors: Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal, Robin Sutherland, Cathy Vaughan The Health, Community and Development Research Group present an account of the Photovoice method for developing the theory and practice of community participation. Case studies from Kenya, Papua New Guinea and rural Canada. LSE Institute for Social Psycology - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology/ Health, Community and Development @ LSE - http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/socialpsychology/research/hcd/

Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's endangered languages, considering historical examples of threatened languages that have been wiped out (like Gaulish) and those that have been rescued from extinction (such as Basque). The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the full conference's page on the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/symposium-rare-and-endangered-languages Gresham College has been...

http://www.egs.edu/ Giorgio Agamben, contemporary philosopher, discusses gesture, commandment, language, religion, linguistics, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, art, and poetry. This is the seventh lecture of his 2011 summer seminar. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Giorgio Agamben is perhaps Italy's most famous contemporary philosopher; as a leading figure in both ...

Speakers: Professor Philippe Van Parijs Chair: Professor Luc Bovens This event was recorded on 12 February 2009 in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Is democracy sustainable in a multilingual polity? Or should appropriate institutions make democracy compatible with multilingualism? Which of these views does the experience of the European Union support? Or is the EU irrelevant to this dispute as English fast becomes Europe's lingua franca? Philippe Van Parijs directs the Hoover Chair in ...

Dr Mark Turin discusses his own experience of preserving and revitalising the Thangmi language in Nepal. He discusses the problems encountered, both cultural and political, but also the great benefits that await if we can preserve the many endangered languages of the world. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the full conference's page on the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/symposium-rare-and-endangered-languages...

Professor Tony Lynch, Personal Chair of Student Learning (English for Academic Purposes), presented his inaugural lecture entitled "The Importance of Listening to International Students". The title is intentionally ambiguous. It refers firstly to the importance for international students of having adequate comprehension of spoken English; and it also alludes to the importance for the University of taking account of international students' perceptions of studying at Edinburgh. In the lecture...

Future Forum -- How Will the Asian Century Shape Australia's Future? Is the first in a series produced by ABC News 24 with ANU, looking at the big issues that will confront the nation a decade from now. The first in the Future Forum series was filmed in Darwin with an eight-strong expert panel moderated by ABC Lateline presenter Ali Moore. The ANU panellists are: Dr Katherine Morton, Dr Nicholas Farrelly, Professor Andrew MacIntyre and Professor Hugh White. The discussion kicks off wit...

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What's the most important issue to you in this election, and why? Trent, President of the College Republicans at Shippensburg University and a retired officer in the U.S. Army, thinks the war in Iraq is the most important issue in this election. Upload your answer to this question and post it to youtube.com/cspan, where you can watch and rank other voter's videos, too.

This video is repulsive... so watch it in HD for good measure. Gav and Dan confidently attempt the world famous cinnamon challenge. Will they swallow the spoonful just fine, or will they eject a spray of cinnamon dust in glorious slow motion? I'm betting on the second one. Be sure to follow the lads on twitter. Gav - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Dan - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Shot at 500fps on a Phantom Flex Cinnamon Challenge - The Slow Mo Guys

In this exceptionally dangerous video, Gav and Dan up the game when it comes to slow mo flying liquids with... on fire slow mo flying liquids. Filmed at 2500fps with a Phantom Flex. Best served in 1080p HD. Follow Gav on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Flame Throwing - The Slow Mo Guys

Gav and Dan give you a brief insight into what they get up to in their free time. Oh... and there's some slow mo too. Follow us on twitter: Gav - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Dan - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Filmed at 1000fps with a Phantom Flex

Gav and Dan slow down time by over one thousand times to show you how bullets look when fired from an underwater gun. Follow Gav on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Smarter Every Day - http://www.youtube.com/destinws2 Underwater Bullets at 27,000fps - The Slow Mo Guys Filmed with the Phantom V1610 at 27,450fps

If you can't watch it due to age restriction, watch it here! - http://blip.tv/theslowmoguys/banger-week-day-5-giant-paint-explosion-6581439 It's the final day of Banger Week! Gav and Dan blow up paint tins in what easily is the messiest and bloodiest episode ever. Follow Gav on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Don't try this at home! Day 5 - Giant Paint Explosion - The Slow Mo Guys Filmed at 2500fps with a Phantom Flex

Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plu...