November 29, 2011

@Google Presents: Daniel Kahneman




Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields?including economics, medicine, and politics?but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book.

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. ... (Read more)



Daniel Kahneman

October 10, 2011

Anatomy of Pelvis

Pelvic Anatomy Sacro-iliac Joint physical therapy animations




Basic Hip Anatomy




Anterior Bone Landmarks (Pelvis)




Posterior Bone Landmarks (Pelvis)




Anatomia SIstemica - PELVIS ARTICULACIONES Y LIGAMENTOS



Anatomia SIstemica - PELVIS - MUSCULOS

September 29, 2011

ロシア武術システマインストラクターの北川貴英氏が、古武術介護の岡田慎一郎さんにシステマの基本を伝授

『看護師のためのwebマガジン by 医学書院』のインタビュー記事

「岡田慎一郎 meets ロシア武術「システマ」の世界」

に掲載されている動画です。先に上記のインタビューを読んだ上で、下の動画を見た方がいいかもしれません。














Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity











Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.

Systema training in Osaka





































September 1, 2011

Power of Music (Foreign languages & hip hop). Anthony Pineda & Susanna Zaraysky on NBC.




Songs, TV and other media help us learn foreign languages. Hip-hop music can keep at-risk kids in school and out of trouble. Susanna Zaraysky and Anthony Pineda discuss how they were inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks' book, MusicophiliaPaperback, Kidle edition), about the power of music. Interview with Damian Trujillo on Comunidad del Valle on NBC station KNTV in California. http://www.languageismusic.com

August 5, 2011

50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God




1. Lawrence Krauss, World-Renowned Physicist
2. Robert Coleman Richardson, Nobel Laureate in Physics
3. Richard Feynman, World-Renowned Physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics
4. Simon Blackburn, Cambridge Professor of Philosophy
5. Colin Blakemore, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Neuroscience
6. Steven Pinker, World-Renowned Harvard Professor of Psychology
7. Alan Guth, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Physics
8. Noam Chomsky, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Linguistics
9. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Laureate in Physics
10. Peter Atkins, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Chemistry
11. Oliver Sacks, World-Renowned Neurologist, Columbia University
12. Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
13. Sir John Gurdon, Pioneering Developmental Biologist, Cambridge
14. Sir Bertrand Russell, World-Renowned Philosopher, Nobel Laureate
15. Stephen Hawking, World-Renowned Cambridge Theoretical Physicist
16. Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel Laureate in Physics
17. Ned Block, NYU Professor of Philosophy
18. Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel Laureate in Physics
19. Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford Professor of Mathematics
20. James Watson, Co-discoverer of DNA, Nobel Laureate
21. Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy, Miami University
22. Sir Patrick Bateson, Cambridge Professor of Ethology
23. Sir David Attenborough, World-Renowned Broadcaster and Naturalist
24. Martinus Veltman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
25. Pascal Boyer, Professor of Anthropology
26. Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge Professor of Economics
27. AC Grayling, Birkbeck Professor of Philosophy
28. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate in Physics
29. John Searle, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy
30. Brian Cox, Particle Physicist (Large Hadron Collider, CERN)
31. Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Laureate in Physics
32. Rebecca Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy
33. Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado
34. Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
35. Leonard Susskind, Stanford Professor of Theoretical Physics
36. Quentin Skinner, Professor of History (Cambridge)
37. Theodor W. Hansch, Nobel Laureate in Physics
38. Mark Balaguer, CSU Professor of Philosophy
39. Richard Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
40. Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge Professor of Anthropology
41. Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson, Princeton Research Scientist
42. Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Laureate in Physics
43. Hubert Dreyfus, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy
44. Lord Colin Renfrew, World-Renowned Archaeologist, Cambridge
45. Carl Sagan, World-Renowned Astronomer
46. Peter Singer, World-Renowned Bioethicist, Princeton
47. Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
48. Robert Foley, Cambridge Professor of Human Evolution
49. Daniel Dennett, Tufts Professor of Philosophy
50. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics


Via Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/50_famous_academics_talk_about_god.html







51. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate in Physics, MIT
52. VS Ramachandran, World-Renowned Neuroscientist, UC San Diego
53. Bruce C. Murray, Caltech Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science
54. Sir Raymond Firth, World-Renowned Anthropologist, LSE
55. Alva Noe, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy
56. Alan Dundes, World Expert in Folklore, Berkeley
57. Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
58. Bede Rundle, Oxford Professor of Philosophy
59. Sir Richard Friend, Cambridge Professor of Physics
60. George Lakoff, Berkeley Professor of Linguistics
61. Sir John Sulston, Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine
62. Shelley Kagan, Yale Professor of Philosophy
63. Roy J. Glauber, Nobel Laureate in Physics
64. Lewis Wolpert, Emeritus Professor of Biology, UCL
65. Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard Professor of Social Ethics
66. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke University
67. Richard Dawkins, Oxford Evolutionary Biologist
68. Bruce Hood, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Bristol
69. Marvin Minsky, Artificial Intelligence Research Pioneer, MIT
70. Herman Philipse, Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University
71. Michio Kaku, CUNY Professor of Theoretical Physics
72. Dame Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge Professor of Anthropology
73. Max Tegmark, World-Renowned Cosmologist, MIT
74. David Parkin, Oxford Professor of Anthropology
75. Robert Price, Professor of Theology and Biblical Criticism
76. Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Psychology, Virginia
77. Max Perutz, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
78. Rodolfo Llinas, Professor of Neuroscience, New York
79. Dan McKenzie, World-Renowned Geophysicist, Cambridge
80. Patricia Churchland, Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego
81. Sean Carroll, Caltech Theoretical Cosmologist
82. Alexander Vilenkin, World-Renowned Theoretical Physicist
83. PZ Myers, Professor of Biology, Minnesota
84. Haroon Ahmed, Prominent Cambridge Scientist (Microelectronics)
85. David Sloan Wilson, Professor of Biology and Anthropology, SUNY
86. Bart Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies, UNC
87. Seth Lloyd, Pioneer of Quantum Computing, MIT
88. Dan Brown, Fellow in Organic Chemistry, Cambridge
89. Victor Stenger, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Hawaii
90. Simon Schaffer, Cambridge Professor of the History of Science
91. Saul Perlmutter World-Renowned Astrophysicist, Berkeley
92. Lee Silver, Princeton Professor of Molecular Biology
93. Barry Supple, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, Cambridge
94. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Professor of Law
95. John Raymond Smythies, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatric Research
96. Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute For Social Anthropology
97. David Gross, Nobel Laureate in Physics
98. Ronald de Sousa, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Toronto
99. Robert Hinde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, Cambridge
100. Carolyn Porco, NASA Planetary Scientist



Via Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/50_famous_scientists_academics_speak_about_god_part_ii.html

July 10, 2011

Learn English! It's easy if you dance and chant! -- Well, no thanks.

Of course, the Grammar-Translation is a bad thing and English must be embodied when you learn it as a second language. Yes, yes, of course.






Am I being too sarcastic?



If you like a philosophical flavor in the concept of foreign language learning ...

July 4, 2011

David Eagleman on his book "Incognito": What's hiding In The Unconscious Mind



Below is some excerpts from the NPR site (http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136495499/incognito-whats-hiding-in-the-unconscious-mind)


The cells are connected to one another in a network of such staggering complexity that it bankrupts human language and necessitates new strains of mathematics. A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

...

Ours is an incredible story. As far as anyone can tell, we're the only system on the planet so complex that we've thrown ourselves headlong into the game of deciphering our own programming language. Imagine that your desktop computer began to control its own peripheral devices, removed its own cover, and pointed its webcam at its own circuitry. That's us.

...

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. The vast jungles of neurons operate their own programs. The conscious you ? the I that flickers to life when you wake up in the morning ? is the smallest bit of what's transpiring in your brain. Although we are dependent on the functioning of the brain for our inner lives, it runs its own show. Most of its operations are above the security clearance of the conscious mind. The I simply has no right of entry.

Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot. This book is about that amazing fact: how we know it, what it means, and what it explains about people, markets, secrets, strippers, retirement accounts, criminals, artists, Ulysses, drunkards, stroke victims, gamblers, athletes, bloodhounds, racists, lovers, and every decision you've ever taken to be yours.
...

The brain is a complex system, but that doesn't mean it's incomprehensible. Our neural circuits were carved by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species' evolutionary history. Your brain has been molded by evolutionary pressures just as your spleen and eyes have been. And so has your consciousness. Consciousness developed because it was advantageous, but advantageous only in limited amounts.

Consider the activity that characterizes a nation at any moment. Factories churn, telecommunication lines buzz with activity, businesses ship products. People eat constantly. Sewer lines direct waste. All across the great stretches of land, police chase criminals. Handshakes secure deals. Lovers rendezvous. Secretaries field calls, teachers profess, athletes compete, doctors operate, bus drivers navigate. You may wish to know what's happening at any moment in your great nation, but you can't possibly take in all the information at once. Nor would it be useful, even if you could. You want a summary. So you pick up a newspaper ? not a dense paper like the New York Times but lighter fare such as USA Today. You won't be surprised that none of the details of the activity are listed in the paper; after all, you want to know the bottom line. You want to know that Congress just signed a new tax law that affects your family, but the detailed origin of the idea ? involving lawyers and corporations and filibusters ? isn't especially important to that new bottom line. And you certainly wouldn't want to know all the details of the food supply of the nation ? how the cows are eating and how many are being eaten ? you only want to be alerted if there's a spike of mad cow disease. You don't care how the garbage is produced and packed away; you only care if it's going to end up in your backyard. You don't care about the wiring and infrastructure of the factories; you only care if the workers are going on strike. That's what you get from reading the newspaper.

Your conscious mind is that newspaper. Your brain buzzes with activity around the clock, and, just like the nation, almost everything transpires locally: small groups are constantly making decisions and sending out messages to other groups. Out of these local interactions emerge larger coalitions. By the time you read a mental headline, the important action has already transpired, the deals are done. You have surprisingly little access to what happened behind the scenes. Entire political movements gain ground-up support and become unstoppable before you ever catch wind of them as a feeling or an intuition or a thought that strikes you. You're the last one to hear the information.

However, you're an odd kind of newspaper reader, reading the headline and taking credit for the idea as though you thought of it first. You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.

June 4, 2011

Richard Dawkins on science, art and "doing useless things"

Richard Dawkins on Why Science is Art





Richard Dawkins: The Importance of Doing Useless Things











Short videos of Noam Chomsky: From politics to language, and to love!

Chomsky on Democracy in America





Democracy: America's Oldest Spectator Sport





Noam Chomsky on Language's Great Mysteries





Noam Chomsky on Love: "Life's Empty Without It"











June 2, 2011

Dan Ariely: What Is Behavioral Economics?









May 21, 2011

Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books



Construct a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed, and then analyze that corpus using advanced software and the investigatory curiosity of thousands, and you get something called "Culturomics," a field in which cultural trends are represented quantitatively.

In this talk Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel — co-founders of the Cultural Observatory at Harvard and Visiting Faculty at Google — show how culturomics can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.


http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/05/Culturomics






April 25, 2011

自由報道協会主催 孫 正義 記者会見



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14195781



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民放テレビ3/12の水素爆発を「爆破弁を使ってガスを抜くような作業です」と解説

確かに3/12の時点では何が起きているか誰もよくわからないような状況でした。しかしこの民放テレビがコメンテーターとして招いた「専門家」(?)は、後日水素爆発とわかった事象を「爆破弁を使ってガスを抜くような作業です」と解説しています。

今後、テレビ報道を見るときの参考まで。




私がこの情報を得たのは、


笑える福島第一原発のニュース ベスト5
http://hakaiya.com/20110425/diary-23227


です。ぜひご覧ください。



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April 21, 2011

「福島の子どもたちを放射能から守れ!政府交渉」ライブ録画 (2011/04/21)


これが日本の「選良」 の一側面です。

私も含めた学校教師は、こういった対応をする人々を「選良」として育ててきました。

そしてまさにこの動画の「選良」の多くは、全国津々浦々の学校に指示・命令を出す人々です。



この動画の「選良」を私は個人的には責めません。

誰が出てきてもおそらく同じような対応しかできなかったでしょう。



ですが、このような組織文化を私は責めます。

そしてこのような組織文化を容認してきた自分を責めます。


動画はぜひ最後までご覧ください。










「文科省、原子力安全委員会は年間累計放射線量20mSvに引き上げの判断、根拠、また福島の現状、放射線管理区域、法的整合性についてまったく認識、理解していなかった。」









April 20, 2011

孫 正義 講演 「震災復興に向けて」



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14153702

資料PDF






April 19, 2011

城南信用金庫が脱原発宣言 - 理事長メッセージ










小出裕章氏原発学習会(主催:生活クラブ生活協同組合・静岡)2011.04.16

私にとっては、この講演が震災以降最も有益なものでした。



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14058706








April 16, 2011

心からの叫び!元原発技術者菊地洋一さん中部電力靜岡支店で訴えた








JAPAN: The Earthquake & The Worldwide Aftershocks








April 15, 2011

Moral Foundations of Politics: Professor Shapiro, Yale University (22-25)

22. Democracy and Majority Rule (I)





23. Democracy and Majority Rule (II)





24. Democratic Justice: Theory





25. Democratic Justice: Applications







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Moral Foundations of Politics: Professor Shapiro, Yale University (16-21)

16. The Rawlsian Social Contract





17. Distributive Justice and the Welfare State





18. The "Political-not-Metaphysical" Legacy





19. The Burkean Outlook





20. Contemporary Communitarianism (I)





21. Contemporary Communitarianism (II)






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Moral Foundations of Politics: Professor Shapiro, Yale University (11-15)

11. Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice





12. The Marxian Failure and Legacy





13. Appropriating Locke Today





14. Rights as Side Constraints and the Minimal State





15. Compensation versus Redistribution







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Moral Foundations of Politics: Professor Shapiro, Yale University (6-10)

6. From Classical to Neoclassical Utilitarianism





7. The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility





8. Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis





9. The Marxian Challenge





10. Marx's Theory of Capitalism






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Moral Foundations of Politics: Professor Shapiro, Yale University (1-5)

1. Information and Housekeeping





2. Introductory Lecture





3. Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition





4. Origins of Classical Utilitarianism





5. Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice






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March 21, 2011

Nuclear Boy: Unique way to explain the situation in Fukushima





Original upload by http://www.youtube.com/user/onaradaijobu
Translation by http://www.shibatabread.com




March 10, 2011

Untangling the brain - by Nature Video










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Morphological change in autonomous machines



Evolutive morphological change of robots enhances their capabilities








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March 9, 2011

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama


Francis Fukuyama: "The Origins of the State: China and India"




Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited












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