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- Charlie Chaplin: A Message For All Of Humanity — a masterpiece of communication, especially considering the time. Could perhaps be a fruitful exercise to annotate it to explore what I (now) would have expressed differently.
- Maja Göpel: On Digitalisation, Sustainability & Climate Justice — A critical talk about sustainability, technology, society, growth and ways ahead
- asks questions about how the technical, social and environmental impacts of new technologies can be brought together in a more systemic way
- stimulates discussion around the role of technical tinkerers in the societal transition to sustainable social, technical, financial etc. systems
- Dr Mike Ryan : Covid-19 is a wake-up call to how we live our lives
- background story: 5 lessons Dr. Mike Ryan says we need to learn from Covid-19
- seen via this tweet
- "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. But this kind of steady growth is the centrepiece of the entire global economy. Who would realise at 5 minutes to 12, that there is a problem? Think about it." — Prof. Al Bartlett — Full video
- "The only sustainable growth is degrowth"
- actually, not — what we need is a steady-state economy
- Ecocide law: protecting the future of life on Earth | Jojo Mehta | TEDxStroud
- provides an overview of the issue of ecocide law and the idea of recognizing ecocide at the level of the International Criminal Court
- What we can and need to change to keep climate change low - the scientist view
- not the best talk rhetorically, didactically or in terms of slides, but a decent coverage of one of today's key issues
- with lots of examples drawn directly from the IPCC reports, to which commentary and contextualization are provided
- Shell Oil's Stark Climate Change Warning from 1991 — lays out in useful detail what was known about climate change back then
- Wissenskompass — Harald Lesch presents a compass for knowledge and education, with Raum (space), Zeit (time), Energie (energy) and Materie (matter) as the man dimensions; also mentions Copernicus, Darwin and Popper and points to coordinated videos from a philosopher and a historian
- Icy Warning from the World's Highest Mountains | Lonnie Thompson
- about glaciers as climate archives and why their loss is important
- with important side notes on research funding, international collaboration and heart transplantation
- The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy by Jeremy Rifkin (official website)
- decomposes the three industrial revolutions so far into contemporaneous shifts along three key elements of an economy:
- communication technologies
- energy production
- mobility of goods, services and people
- Timeline:
- Chapter 1: The Great Economic Revolutions in History 12:40
- Chapter 2: The Science of Productivity 20:56
- Chapter 3: A New Smart Infrastructure 29:12
- Chapter 4: Zero Marginal Cost and the Rise of the Sharing Economy 35:30
- at about 37 min, he brings up Wikipedia in a very positive light, for having democratized knownledge in 15 years, at high accuracy
- Chapter 5: Financing the Transition 54:32
- Chapter 6: The Generation of Mass Employment 56:30
- Chapter 7: A New Consciousness for A New Era 1:00:06
- Q&A: 1:12:58
- at 1:41:54 in the end credits, the URL
www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/is shown, which is dysfunctional now, but here is an archival copy
- decomposes the three industrial revolutions so far into contemporaneous shifts along three key elements of an economy:
- The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire — a great example for an engaging lecture
- The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin
- about A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
- CC BY, has two videos
- Computer-designed organisms
- see also this infographic
- some more details in What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
- about A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
- Inside the mind of a climate change scientist | Corinne Le Quéré
- "I have a mountain of data on my shoulders" [that tell the story of climate change]
- engaging story around using data as a basis for getting people to act
- "I have a mountain of data on my shoulders" [that tell the story of climate change]
- Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright — nice 5-min intro to vocal learning
- Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation — basically a video frontend to a paper that asks "What do we do if collapse is coming?", and breaks this down into
- Resilience — things we absolutely do not want to let go, i.e. our core values
- Relinquishment — things we absolutely need to let go
- Restauration — things that we may have lost and that are worth getting back into our lives
- Jane Morton: Don’t mention the emergency? — the entire talk is about how to mention it
- The reality of climate change — by David Puttnam of Climate Change Act fame
- multiple historic examples (from economics, health, environmental sustainability and leadership) around the theme of
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disregard of human suffering (of some) in the pursuit of economic profit (for others)
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- multiple historic examples (from economics, health, environmental sustainability and leadership) around the theme of
- Simon Anholt at EAIE Helsinki 2019 — keynote given at the 2019 annual meeting of the European Association for International Education
- "We have to learn to change the culture of governance worldwide from one that is fundamentally competitive to one that is fundamentally collaborative"
- applies likewise if "governance" is substituted by "research" but he actually frames it such that governments could learn a lesson from universities
- "We have to learn to change the culture of governance worldwide from one that is fundamentally competitive to one that is fundamentally collaborative"
- This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay — about Bhutan's Gross National Happiness policy and how it can inspire effective measures towards sustainability and climate justice, both in their country and around the world
- De klimaatzaak
- about State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation
- broadcast in 2015, with the initial ruling of the district court featured as the highlight, which was uphelp in later instances twice, the latest being by the Dutch Supreme Court in December 2020
- remarkably car-centric for a piece on climate change and emissions from fossil fuels
- also multiple depictions of single-use plastics and of upper-class lifestyle
- Hugues Lantuit: Collapsing Arctic coastlines
- outlines the dramatic increase of coastal erosion in the Arctic and its impact on both local communities and the global climate
- points out that scientists need to work together with affected communities, rather than parachute science (a term which he did not use)
- Yuval Noah Harari on the need of ethical training for "coders"
- makes the case for including "ethics for coders" in education
- also calls for an "antivirus for the brain" a few min later
- from ca. 38 min on, they also tackle some of the most important questions in the world
- nuclear threats
- climate change
- bioengineering
- at about 42 min, Yuval frames it all as expectations of future growth, pointing out that this is unsustainable
- at about 48:30, Yuval Harari makes the case for scientists putting more effort into reaching the general public, write Wikipedia entries
- This 3D-Printed Bunny Could Be the Future of Data Storage
- How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19 — discusses the merits of log-log plots for detecting changes in exponential growth
- see also Covid-19: Are we flattening the curve?, a Jupyter notebook inspired by the video
- I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs — about Jocelyn Bell's discovery of pulsars and the role of role models in making our world a more equitable place
- Bruce Caron on "Open Science, Culture Change, and You"
- part of a talk series by the Ronin Institute
- nice intro to his anthropological research on the open science community and especially the Open Scientist Handbook
- some key quotes that resonated with me
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Best advice I got when I entered academia: "We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind."
- mentioned at 22:09 min
- then this Twitter search, which gave
- this related tweet
- the original (perhaps)
- then this Twitter search, which gave
- write-ups:
- Should we steer clear of the winner-takes-all approach?
- partly based on Being Kind
- mentioned at 22:09 min
- “The level and quality of current knowing in any science discipline increases as the square of the number of scientists times the amount of available conversation.” (at 27 min)
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- The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti — with a good range of examples for
- unconventional solutions by AI-based systems
- how humans, robots and AI can collaborate
- Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss
- 3-page exercise, "fear setting", with respect to a looming decision
- Page 1: What if X happened?
- Define your fears
- Consider strategies to prevent them
- Consider what could be done about them if they did come true
- Page 2: What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success?
- emotionally, physically, financially etc.
- Page 3: What is the cost of inaction?
- emotionally, physically, financially etc.
- on several time horizons, e.g.
- in 6 months
- in 1 year
- in 3 years
- Page 1: What if X happened?
- 3-page exercise, "fear setting", with respect to a looming decision
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari
- some key ideas:
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3:08 Most important things to emphasize in education are Emotional intelligence and mental stability.
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3:30 Kids need to reinvent themselves repeatedly because of rapid change.
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4:15 Build identities like tents.
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5:32 The old political and economic models assume that ultimate authority is the free choice of individuals.
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6:58 Free will is not a scientific reality.
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9:10 Govts and Corporations will have privileged access to your brain.
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They can understand you better than you.
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11:30 Humans will no longer be black boxes.
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12:25 AI becomes revolutionary only with the help of AI
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15:02 Technology isn't deterministic
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18:50 Religions and God
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21:45 Religion vs. spirituality (Religion is about definite answers. Spirituality is a quest for questions.)
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23:00 Engineers are forced to think about philosophy
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26:42 The role of fiction in organizing ourselves. (Even economies and corporations are basically a story)
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30:30 Reality exists. If an entity can suffer then it is real.
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33:00 Fiction doesn't mean it's bad or unimportant
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34:30 "Exciting news for free" model creates fake news. - nice quotes:
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- key quotes:
- some key ideas:
- The 2 Most Important Skills For the Rest Of Your Life | Yuval Noah Harari on Impact Theory
- spolier:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Mental balance
- spolier:
- If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett
- entertaining tour through the world of comparisons between neural and computer systems
- ponders how evolution could bring about intelligent designers
- tree of life at 1m:58s
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How could a slow mindless process build a thing that could build a thing that a slow mindless process couldn't build on it's own. (4m:39s)
- cites Tecumseh Fitch's "nano-intentionality" paper (11m:17s)
- compares termite and human architecture (23m:32s)
- quotes Goethe "When ideas fail, words come in very handy" (42m:18s)
- quotes MacCready (46m:46s):
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Over billions of years on a unique sphere, chance has painted a thin covering of life -- complex, improbable, wonderful and fragile. Suddenly, we humans, … have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power: we now wield the paintbrush.
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- quotes Richard Dawkins' introduction of the concept of a meme (56m:56s):
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I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind. The new soup is the soup of human culture.
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- ponders how evolution could bring about intelligent designers
- entertaining tour through the world of comparisons between neural and computer systems
- I am 30 years old, and a month ago I got my first passport | Maha Mamo
- about what it means to be stateless, and how to end statelessness by providing everyone with an environment where they belong
- Sustainable Investing: What you didn't know could make you money. | Karina Funk | TEDxWilmington
- makes the case that profits and environment need not be as much at odds as they are often pereceived to be
- she highlights what she called "environmental business advantage", i.e. some business advantage gained from reducing the environmental footprint of the company
- more on this in this report
- Luisa Neubauer|TEDxYouth@München: Why you should be a climate activist
- makes the case that everyone should be a climate activist, and gives some pointers on how to get started
- How to be a climate activist
- organize
- choose your action
- plan
- What One Person Can Do About Climate Change | Ella Lagé
- got involved with 350.org
- joined a group demanding that the city of Berlin divest from fossil fuels
- success
- joined a group demanding that the city of Berlin divest from fossil fuels
- website http://was-macht-mein-geld.de/
- got involved with 350.org
- See what three degrees of global warming looks like — with examples from Bangladesh and Fiji as well as some climate modeling and political perspective
- Forget climate Apocalypse. There's hope for our warming planet | Jelmer Mommers
- climate change framed as the problem of visualizing an invisible problem
- Focuses on three things
- Accuracy of reporting
- Humanness
- Hopefulness
- shows some representations/ visualizations
- map of climate change-related food insecurity
- as per Food Security Index
- plot of Western military interventions overlaid on map of borders of deserts, which have caused conflicts throughout history, radicalizing people who then go on to perpetuate conflict
- "along with the temperatures, we are turning up the amount of suffering on Earth, ... the volume of existing problems"
- plot of prices of solar energy going down
- "it's peace energy" (since investing in solar reduces the need for fossil-based energy and thus the contributions to fossil-linked conflicts)
- Easter parade in New York City
- in 1900: almost all vehicles are horse-drawn carts
- in 1913: almost all cars
- so change can happen quickly
- map of climate change-related food insecurity
- climate justice
- Paris treaty
- pressure from the streets
- A simple and smart way to fix climate change | Dan Miller
- Why climate change can wreck our soul?
- Why do we all ignore it?
- We respond to threats that
- are visible
- have historic precedence
- are immediate
- have direct personal impacts
- simple causality
- caused by an enemy
- Climate change does not fit these patterns
- But our perception on the matter is changing
- while some see it as "simply" an environmental issue, more and more are realizing that this is an issue with economic, social, political, security and other ramifications
- We respond to threats that
- How can we fix the disconnect?
- "There's a way to do it that almost everybody will like"
- Carbon tax
- nicely explained
- The question is not whether climate legislation will happen but whether it will happen in time before major climate tipping points are reached
- Carbon tax
- "There's a way to do it that almost everybody will like"
- Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond — nice overview of Wikidata in the context of enriching machine learning with machine knowing, i.e. structured representation of knowledge
- Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks
- analyzed over a million Jupyter notebooks and looked at document features and use cases
- accompanying paper: Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks
- post on the Jupyter blog: We Analyzed 1 Million Jupyter Notebooks — Now You Can Too
- Wikimedia Research Showcase - July 2020 — on Wikipedia and COVID-19
- the first presentation by Denise Smith is essentially a summary of her paper "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review", published in February 2020, which concluded
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The literature positions Wikipedia as a prominent health information resource in various contexts for the public, patients, students, and practitioners seeking health information online. Wikipedia’s health content is accessed frequently, and its pages regularly rank highly in Google search results. While Wikipedia itself is well into its second decade, the academic discourse around Wikipedia within the context of health is still young and the academic literature is limited when attempts are made to understand Wikipedia as a health information resource. Possibilities for future research will be discussed.
- in the Q & A at around 30 min, she mentions that a university — the University of British Columbia came to her mind, but she wasn't sure — has changed tenure and promotion criteria so as to take into account all contributions to knowledge
- I tried to find anything about the corresponding policy or policy change, but the best I found is this rather classical policy:
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a) Candidates for appointment, reappointment, tenure or promotion, other than those dealt with in paragraph (b), are judged principally on performance in both teaching and in either scholarly activity or educational leadership. Service to the academic profession, to the University, and to the community will be taken into account but, while service to the University and the community is important, it cannot compensate for deficiencies in teaching, scholarly activity or educational leadership. Tenured appointments are granted to individuals who have maintained a high standard of performance in meeting the criteria set forth below and show promise of continuing to do so.
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- I tried to find anything about the corresponding policy or policy change, but the best I found is this rather classical policy:
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- the second presentation is by Giovanni Colavizza about his paper COVID-19 research in Wikipedia, for which the code sits at https://github.com/Giovanni1085/covid-19_wikipedia, while the abstract is as follows:
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Wikipedia is one of the main sources of free knowledge on the Web. During the first few months of the pandemic, over 5,200 new Wikipedia pages on COVID-19 have been created and have accumulated over 400M pageviews by mid June 2020.1 At the same time, an unprecedented amount of scientific articles on COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic have been published online. Wikipedia’s contents are based on reliable sources such as scientific literature. Given its public function, it is crucial for Wikipedia to rely on representative and reliable scientific results, especially so in a time of crisis. We assess the coverage of COVID-19-related research in Wikipedia via citations to a corpus of over 160,000 articles. We find that Wikipedia editors are integrating new research at a fast pace, and have cited close to 2% of the COVID-19 literature under consideration. While doing so, they are able to provide a representative coverage of COVID-19-related research. We show that all the main topics discussed in this literature are proportionally represented from Wikipedia, after accounting for article-level effects. We further use regression analyses to model citations from Wikipedia and show that Wikipedia editors on average rely on literature which is highly cited, widely shared on social media, and has been peer-reviewed.
- in sum, this presentation underlined the importance of the Wikipedia editors active around COVID-19 having had existing networks, mechanisms and expertise to leverage in response to the pandemic
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- the first presentation by Denise Smith is essentially a summary of her paper "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review", published in February 2020, which concluded
- You Should Learn How to Hack | Ymir Vigfusson — makes the case that essentially everyone should adopt a hacker's mindset when thinking about systems they are engaged in, because that can help expose (and eventually address) vulnerabilities
- Mensch gegen Virus - 11.05.2020 ∙ Geschichte im Ersten ∙ Das Erste
- looks at past epidemics from the perspective of the current one
- Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature — very entertaining discussion (from June 1, 2012) between John Hockenberry (moderator) and quantum physicists Paul Davies, Seth Lloyd, Thorsten Ritz about quantum phenomena in biological systems
- see also the 2021 review article Quantum Biology: An Update and Perspective
- What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End (also in German)
- Basic idea is to visualize life as a matrix of 52 weeks by 100 years and then pondering the meaning of the elements of that matrix. Well done.
- Why the majority is always wrong | Paul Rulkens
- intro story about Einstein being challenged about using the same questions in an exam as he did the year before, to which he is reported to have replied
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"The questions are the same, but the answers have changed."
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- about thinking inside/ outside of boxes bound by norms and standards
- breakthroughs happen when those standards are put in question and reframed, reversed or done away with
- nice use of a flipchart
- intro story about Einstein being challenged about using the same questions in an exam as he did the year before, to which he is reported to have replied
- What one skill = an awesome life? | Dr. Shimi Kang
- spoiler: Adaptability
- mentions three things that humans are not doing that are throwing us off balance
- "P.O.D" (she wrote a book on it: "The Dolphin Way")
- Play (gives passion)
- unstructured, like the Lego of old times, not overprescribed and directed
- Others (connecting with them gives purpose)
- why do we adapt?
- social isolation corrodes our bodies
- Downtime (gives balance)
- rest and relaxation are a key prerequisite to adaptability
- essentially, a breakthrough starts with a break
- rest and relaxation are a key prerequisite to adaptability
- Play (gives passion)
- "P.O.D" (she wrote a book on it: "The Dolphin Way")
- Ronin Institute Seminar: Jon Wilkins, 15 February 2018
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"Our capitalist system [...] is reasonably efficient at distributing rivalrous goods. It is not very good at dealing with non-rivalrous goods."
- Nice overview slide at 36mon rivalrous vs. non-rivalrous goods in academia/ scholarship
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- Andy Harris: How to Begin Thinking Like A Programmer
- nice intro to programming, focusing on getting the algorithm part sorted out before jumping into a specific language and its syntax, reusing the algorithm sketch as comments
- always writes while loops as
while(KeepGoing) - end with an explanation as to why Python is a good language to learn for beginners
- Core Values - Your Inner Compass | Larisa Halilović | TEDxFerhadija
- some key recommendations at around 9min
- recognize, name and define values
- critically analyze your values
- test them via dilemmas, cause and effect
- ask yourself why you chose the way you did
- connect with others who share your values
- set life rules according to your values
- clarify what is not negotiable
- if that does not work as a starting point, maybe start from what has annoyed you and use that to figure out what is opposed to your values
- clarify what is not negotiable
- some key recommendations at around 9min
- A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
- based on the assumption that the most useful skill in a programmer is problem decomposition, he outlines a draft set of software design principles and red flags for when the principles have been violated
- talks about tactival versus strategic approaches to design
- puts an emphasis on designing for the common use cases, such that deviations from them would result in added complexity
- book: A Philosophy of Software Design
- Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world
- great intro on how photos and videos of fungi can help explore the interconnectedness of life forms on the planet
- My draft email to them (to be posted via this form): -> Reusing some of your materials in research and education -> -> Dear Catherine and Stephen, -> -> I am a biophysicist, data scientist and science communicator and came across your work via the video recommendations on YouTube, which pointed me to your video "Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYunPJQWZ1o . It got me thinking about how such materials could be put to use in education both for the broader public and for specialists in mycology, ecology, forestry, nature conservation and related fields. -> -> [ask for them to release somee of their materials under open licenses, for wiki and/ or via RIO]. See also https://scholia.toolforge.org/work/Q106399457
- Top hacker shows us how it's done | Pablos Holman — introduces a number of hacks, from lock picking to hotel WiFi and Bluetooth surveillance to car keys, and then explains that he is applying this hacker mindset to humanity's biggest problems, e.g. by hacking into the life cycle of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes in various ways, including using an excimer laser to cut off their wings in flight
- The Spring
- inspiring approach to realizing the vision of providing every human with clean drinking water
- they use open hardware sensors
- Children of India speaking with Greta Thunberg's voice
- How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
- about holistic management (planned grazing)
- see also the documentary Running out of Time
- This YouTube video included an ad that I actually watched, about the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance's 30 Harvests initiative towards sustainable agriculture
- Climate change – living on the water — nice documentary of (mainly architectural) approaches to living above and below water, featuring both existing and futuristic examples, including some barrier buildings
- The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Greta Thunberg - Inspiring Others to Take a Stand Against Climate Change - Extended Interview
- Data Science: A Vision of Things to Come -- Joel Grus -- Keynote at #SDSC2020
- takes some data science-related topics, trains a mental model on their states in 2010 and 2020 and then predicts their states for 2030 and 2040
- A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- describes a future in which the current climate crisis was averted by concerted climate action
- Alexander von Humboldt: der erste Wikipedianer?
- nice idea to frame his desire to share his research with the widest possible audiences as a precursor to Wikipedia
- The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
- lots of insightful demos about artistic aspects of various programming languages and software in general
- backstory about the creation of the Rockstar language
- The three secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone
- resilient people
- know that suffering is part of life
- this stops them from feeling discriminated against
- are good at selecting where to put their attention
- focus on things they can change and somehow accept what they can't
- can find something they are grateful for despite their negative experience
- ask themselves whether what they are doing is helping or harming them
- know that suffering is part of life
- resilient people
- Virologin Melanie Brinkmann über #NoCovid — good overview about the societal issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and about the scientific approaches to documenting the problems and working on solutions
- highlights that if a community strives to reach a stage where all COVID-19 cases can be completely documented, then that goal is more easily reachable than via an endless chain of half-hearted lockdowns and re-openings
- The Future of Solid State Wind Energy - No More Blades
- lots of interesting examples, including the Dutch Windwheel and Powerpods
- 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
- essentially argues that a situation of crisis stacking, rather than a linear sequence of crises, lead to the end of eight of the ca. nine major powers of the Bronze age in the Eastern Mediterranean
- those "G8" were globally interconnected through marriages, trade and defense pacts, and with the exception of Egypt, went down together during about a century after invasions commonly attributed to the Sea peoples
- I don't like notebooks - Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
- demonstrates in an engaging way how ceertain key elements of Jupyter notebooks conflict with good data science and software development practice and teaching
- Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
- nice overview on how to use behavioral experiments with animals to deconstruct the components of their morality:
- empathy and consolation
- prosocial tendencies
- reciprocity and fairness
- nice overview on how to use behavioral experiments with animals to deconstruct the components of their morality:
- Atomic Habits: How to Get 1% Better Every Day - James Clear
- summary:
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a. Noticing - People think they lack motivation, when in fact they lack clarity.
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b. Wanting - Environment plays a role. Create environment for you to succeed in your goal.
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c. Doing - Optimize for the start line, not finish line.
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d. Liking what you do - We repeat behaviors, because we like them.
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- summary:
- Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart
- the importance of habits for learning, and how to create habits that assist it
- A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning — nicely presents in a beginner-friendly way some key approaches to machine learning: linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, naive Bayesian statistics, support vector machines, neural networks, K-means and hierarchical clustering
- Ecosia as a place to work
- with concrete examples of policies, practices and perks
- Die Zerstörung der CDU. — most solid commentary I have come across regarding the 2019 European Parliament election in May 2019
- Auer, Sören: Towards Knowledge Graph based Representation, Augmentation and Exploration of Scholarly Communications.
- describes The Open Research Knowledge Graph being developed at TIB Hanover https://labs.tib.eu/orkg/
- interesting approach to building a scholarly knowledge graph similar to WikiCite but more focused on experts than on "the crowd"
- Brauchen wir wirklich eine CO2-Steuer?
- comments and discussion on the pros and cons of a carbon tax and emission trading in Germany and Europe
- The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it (Katharine Hayhoe | TEDWomen 2018)
- The title says it all
- With some remarks on travel impact and remote talks
- Ten "foods" to avoid
- Artifical sweeteners
- Donuts, Cake, Frosting
- Margarine, shortening, partially hydrogenated, trans fats
- Monosodium glutamate
- White flour, modern wheat, cereals
- Processed oils, anything deep fried
- Genetically modified food
- Processed meat
- No-fat or low-fat variants of foods
- Ten foods to prioritize
- Non-starchy vegetables
- leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts
- Berries
- straw, rasp, black, blue
- Meat from naturally raised animals
- Eggs from pasture-raised animals
- Natural fats and oils (unprocessed or low-processed)
- butter from grass-fed cattle, extra virgin olive oil, medium chain triglycerides (usually made from cocos oil), lard, tallow
- Nuts
- macadamia, pecan, walnut, almonds
- Seeds
- chia, flax, hemp, pumpkin
- Avocado
- Tubers
- sweet potatos, potatos, rutabaga, turnips, carrots
- Herbs and spices
- garlic, giner, turmeric, cinnamon, cloves, cilantro, parsley, dill, rosemary
- Non-starchy vegetables
- Andrew Winston: The Big Pivot
- outlines how businesses can rethink their operations and adjust them towards better alignment with the environment
- highlights the importance of "heretic" questions, e.g. whether a house can generate more energy than it consumes
- Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris
- "How have we convinced ourselves that in the moral sphere, there is no such thing as moral expertise, or moral talent, or moral genius even?"
- "We simply must converge on the answers we give to the most important questions in human life. And to do that, we have to admit that these questions have answers."
- What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom — suggests that figuring out superintelligent AI is a hard problem, and that making it safe for humanity is harder still, so we should strive to work out the control part as much as possible before we figure out the superintelligence part per se, and if we are successful, this new AI might actually be aligned with our values and thus help humanity develop in a way we would approve of.
- basically the same recommendation but told in a slightly different fashion: Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
- Why values matter | Jan Stassen | TEDxMünchen — introduced the Wertemuseum where objects are on exhibit along with a story on personal values that relate to them
- Doing Core Values | Bob Keiller | TEDxGlasgow — at about 10 min, he talks about how people were sharing stories about how the core values have been used
- How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman
- with lots of examples regarding how to integrate data of different kinds across sources, scales and assumptions
- Programmable Matter: Giving Physical Objects Digital Capabilities
- they are developing photochromic dyes that allow the colors of suitably engineered physical objects to be changed persistently and reversibly
- odd vision of perhaps getting physical stuff for free, and having to pay just for the app
- How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates)
- proposes a new approach to designing an academic poster
- I pinged the presenter about participation in his study
- He also has a manifesto Let's Make Science User-Friendly
- PART II
- The Mathematics of String Art
- explains and calculates how images like this can be created using one thread on a circular structure with a number of nails
- Life in North Korea — unusually close encounters with the populace
- brings up the idea of North Korea as a pioneer in sustainable tourism
- A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte
- numerous good examples of how caricature nails certain conversations, and how antidemocratic measures make caricature suffer
- A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
- not sure what's new about it, but contains a high-level overview of carbon sequestration approaches
- Copenhagen Atomics - Asia Nuclear Business Platform (Thomas Jam Pedersen on Molten-Salt Reactors)
- "really keen on openness and transparency"
- GitHub repo: copenhagenatomics
- "we also have several data libraries that are available online"
- got there via the following chain, where the next video was linked as "related" from the YouTube page of the previous one:
- Sing for the Climate Belgium - Final clip (I actually saw the Flemish version but cannot find that right now, as I had been distracted by an ad for CuriosityStream (cf. Wikipedia entry)
- Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger
- Thorium can give humanity clean, pollution free energy | Kirk Sorensen
- Making Safe Nuclear Power from Thorium | Thomas Jam Pedersen
- Jessica Richman: Why should science be limited to scientists?
- another one by her: The Future of Research: Citizen Science!
- see also Only "Scientists" Can Do Science
- What is Regenerative Agriculture? — quick intro to no-till farming, regenerative grazing and agro-forestry
- The Virginia Indians: Meet the Tribes
- introduces the 11 native tribes recognized by the State of Virginia
- one of them are the Nansemond
- see their Mattanock Town
- one of them are the Nansemond
- part of the collection of videos about the Monacans
- see also Disappering Indians?
- introduces the 11 native tribes recognized by the State of Virginia
- Sacagawea - Heroine of the Lewis and Clark Journey
- The Lewis & Clark Expedition recounted from the perspective of Sacagawea
- Terra X Imperium - Der Kriegsruf der Indianer
- very introductory overview of the interactions between Native Americans, Europeans and the fledgling USA
- mentioned the Cherokee Phoenix, a bilingual newspaper published in both English and Cherokee
- Citizen Science: Everybody Counts | Caren Cooper
- big plug for iNaturalist, with useful generic remarks about citizen science, collaboration and sharing
- Tal Danino on using bacteria to cure cancer
- uses probiotic bacteria that are genetically modified to produce signal that is detectable through urine color
- similar approch for therapy, i.e. genetically modified to produce cancer-treating drugs
- in both scenarios, signal is enhanced through quorum sensing
- Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data
- about how to link patient data to patient's course of action, with thoughts on redesigning the forms that are used to convey the result of clinical diagnostics to patients
- Mongolian nomads’ ultimate dilemma
- well-done documentary about the nomadic way of life and how it faces extinction
- A guided tour through Cellosaurus
- nice overview of the data structure, cross-referencing and context
- Atheism 2.0 | Alain de Botton
- looks at aspects of religions that atheists can learn from to enrich their lives, e.g. around arts, education, travel
- Five dangerous things every school should do | Gever Tulley
- Let kids co-design their education
- Trust the kids
- The default answer to "Can I"/ "Am I allowed to" questions should be yes
- Focus on habits and character instead of test scores
- Let's agree that Everything is interesting
- Isaac Kohane : How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?
- starts with a nice analogy to hurrikane information, where available satellite and other data is integrated in almost real time into predictive models that clearly lay out the options people will be facing as a result. Why don't we integrate patient data with people's lifes in the same way?
- How breathing and metabolism are interconnected | Ruben Meerman
- will-presented and easily understandable overview of the role of inspiration ("atoms in") and expiration ("atoms out") in metabolism ("chopping up" our food in order to "stick together" what we're made of)
- Peter Chiarelli: Accelerating open science and the urgency to act now
- highlights traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder as major injuries incurred by US soldiers in Iraq
- discusses research silos
- demands open science principles to be followed for medical research
- Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
- How many trees in the world?
- provides an estimated number and some background on how it was arrived at, nicely visualized
- Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions | David Asch
- highlights how behavioral economics can help improve behavior
- with side notes on the role of Batman in the introduction of seatbelts in America
- How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi
- nice pic at 8:47 min in about how mobile screens capture our attention
- quote (9:40):
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the only people who refer to their customers as users are drug dealers and technologists
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- Music Theory in 16 Minutes — very clearly laid out overview of major and minor scales, intervals, chords and the circle of fifths
- Programmieren Lernen für Kids - in Minecraft (36C3)
- instructor created a simplified world in Minecraft that
- has no distractions
- does not allow users to do things manually
- has a turtle that
- can do things
- can be remote controlled through programs
- uses MineCraftEdu, which is not available since 2016
- key component is ComputerCraftEdu, which is still available stand-alone
- alternative Microsoft Education Edition is only available for actual schools, so not for parents or volunteer teachers
- contact info
- see also Meet & Code
- instructor created a simplified world in Minecraft that
- Everything is Connected -- Here's How: | Tom Chi
- tells three stories
- heart
- breath
- brain
- links them, respectively, to
- evolution of the universe
- biological evolution
- evolution of human culture
- speaks of a "color palette" of life which we can use to paint our own lives and to which we can add new colours (e.g. for the piano)
- tells three stories
- How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig
- distills it to answering five questions, which he demoes in the talk and has people shout their responses (I did not shout, but am penciling in my responses)
- Who are you (just first name)?
- Q20895785
- Comment: even though I am using my real name essentially everywhere on the web where this is an option, I have multiple names in multiple contexts, e.g. in different languages, and while unique identifiers like an ORCID ID or a Wikidata QID can map all of these in principle, there are some that I do not want to mix too much in public.
- another way to explore some aspects of who I am is to plunge into some of the recordings of some of my activities
- Q20895785
- What is the best thing that you feel uniquely qualified to teach?
- open collaboration
- Who do you do it for?
- current and future generations
- What do these people want or need?
- a fair chance to live their lives to the fullest, without compromising the chances of current or future generations to do the same
- How do these people change as a result of your activities?
- become more collaborative themselves, both in the present and with past or future generations, as well as with other species and technology
- Who are you (just first name)?
- distills it to answering five questions, which he demoes in the talk and has people shout their responses (I did not shout, but am penciling in my responses)
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley
- on the importance of focused learning and diffuse learning/ relaxation
- Dan Whaley | The Revolution Will Be Annotated
- introduces the Web annotation tool Hypothes.is as an element of human cultural evolution
- Tess Posner, AI4ALL Diverse and Inclusive AI - H2O World San Francisco
- Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
- fast system (e.g. anger — about things that feel like they happen) and slow system (e.g. rational thought — about things that feel like you do / did them)
- see Wikipedia about the underlying book
- All of TEDMED 2015
- GE material tests
- exposes a range of material samples to tests (abrasion, crushing, punching)
- do similar series on biomedical techniques/ materials?
- How messy problems can inspire creativity
- some good examples, e.g. Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
- Ramesh Raskar on Camera Culture and mental framework for innovation
- I actually watched several of his talks — this one is just a good overview
- Is our climate headed for a mathematical tipping point? - Victor J. Donnay
- kid-friendly explanation of the concept behind the term "climate tipping point"
- Manu Prakash on Foldscope
- Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer
- title says it all
- The art of focus – a crucial ability | Christina Bengtsson
- suggests to skip writing to-do lists and to think about no-to-do lists instead
- Bitcoin Blockchain Ethereum - Vitalik Buterin
- Visually appealing but still useful summary of blockchains
- A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib
- Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data
- putting data into a human context
- David Gruber: unexpected discovery of biofluorescent fish
- Sue Desmond-Hellmann: A smarter, more precise way to think about public health
- makes the case for bringing precision medicine approaches to public health
- Digital biology and open science -- the coming revolution | Stephen Larson
- putting OpenWorm into the context of engineering, digital biology and open science
- What your doctor won’t disclose — about http://www.whosmydoctor.com/ (apparently defunct now) and other aspects of transparency on the doctors' end in the context of establishing trust with patients
- Truly sustainable economic development: Ernesto Sirolli at TEDxEQChCh
- harnessing the power of local communities for economic development
- Flashmob Nürnberg 2014 - Ode an die Freude
- a very special, deeply emotional kind of public engagement
- Why Are Scorpions Fluorescent?
- briefly discusses six hypotheses and a bit of evidence for or against them
- Is stigma an invisible killer? — Nahid Bhadelia
- discusses the stigma that patients and caregivers often experience, and what can be done about it
- key factor: education
- discusses the stigma that patients and caregivers often experience, and what can be done about it
- Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
- quite personal perspective on essential personality traits, presented in a highly original way
- The surprising habits of original thinkers — Adam Grant
- The Open Patient: Healing through sharing
- features OpenNotes
- blog post
- summary tweet
- Audrey Tang: Stories from the Future of Democracy
- open data as a key principle in the government of Taiwan
- Billionaire Mathematician - Numberphile — shortened version of a 1h interview with James Harris Simons about his mathematical research, his entrepreneurship and his philanthropy
- Back to the thesis: Francis Collins
- useful
- great illustrations
- Derek Muller (Veritasium): The key to effective educational science videos
- recommends to always start with the misconceptions
- Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars
- sonification as a way to (a) explore data, (b) help bridge gaps between the sighted and un-sighted
- Big Data: Biomedicine
- soundbites and visualizations around BD2K; not openly licensed
- How to Learn Anything... Fast - Josh Kaufman
- Five main steps
- Define a target performance level: Be clear about what you want to learn; define what it looks like if you succeed in learning it
- Deconstruct the skill: decompose it into subskills, in order to practice the most important individual subskills first
- Do some research to identify what those most important subskills are by skimming relevant literature, course materials and such; try to find out enough to allow you to self-correct as you practice
- Remove barriers to practice: make it easy to actually sit down and practice, undistracted
- Pre-commit a useful amount of time (he said at least 20h) of focused deliberate practice
- Five main steps
- Jay Gattuso: From nothing to daily use - How Python changed my work life
- Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | Raffaello D'Andrea
- demonstrates a number of drones, quadrocopters and friends, including an octocopter and a monocopter, and discusses topics like safety features, minimal number of movable parts, or the value for artistic expression
- The Future of Flying Robots | Vijay Kumar | TED Talks
- demonstrates applications of drones in agriculture, e.g. to count the number of fruits in an orchard or to identify the need for water, fertilizer or pesticides
- Data Management Hub — introductory talk by Ingo Keck on the Data Management Hub, a kind of blockchain-based distributed Dropbox for researchers
- Matthew DeGennaro: Mutant mosquitoes hold key to life-saving perfume
- Ogie Shaw: Winning The Mental Battle of Physical Fitness and Obesity
- gist: exercise daily, first thing in the morning, for 20 min or less, against resistance; reward it
- NEJM Data Summit
- video recordings
- see also entry in events
- Much of TEDMED 2016
- see also entry in events
- Jeff Rosen — Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America
- starts with some stats about incarceration rates in the US and other Western countries
- on final slide, he quotes "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" from Dostoyevsky and asks what American prisons can tell about American society, which brings him on a trip to Germany to visit prisons (including a former concentration camp), talk to law enforcement officers and convicted criminals, which forms the main part of the talk.
- From Syria to Germany in three stories | Kareem Kousa, Yusuf Zein & Ibrahim Andrun
- three personal stories of young men who fled from Latakia to Hamburg
- What does the Quran really say about a Muslim woman's hijab? | Samina Ali
- says that the Quran does not require women to wear a veil but instead recommends them to "do as the Romans do"; the requirements for veils have originated from clerical commentaries later on
- points out that those clerical commentaries but not the Quran itself seem to see it preferable for women to stay at home, uneducated and always at the service of their husbands
- Manage data like source code
- introduces Quilt, a data package manager that allows to install, compile and version data and to access it like Python objects
- Veritasium: Is Most Published Research Wrong?
- Tetiana Ivanova - How to become a Data Scientist in 6 months: a hacker’s approach to career planning
- tried to distill the key elements of learning and learning-friendly behaviour and environments and put them into practice by learning data science from scratch, consciously avoiding institutional settings but making active use of Google, Stack Exchange, Kaggle, hackathons, other meetups etc.
- similar approach in I Dropped Out of School to Create My Own Data Science Master’s — Here’s My Curriculum
- similar in spirit to What I do or: science to data science
- AI & The Future of Work
- explores how repetitive work is being replaced by automation
- TL;DR:
- Education needed for things that can not soon be automated
- Make things with love and dedication
- Feeling empathy
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
- Those four things are often missing in curricula
- Education needed for things that can not soon be automated
- Aled Edwards: Why biomedical philanthropy supports redundant science
- makes a clear case for open science as a driver of innovation
- Why the majority is always wrong
- argues that innovation usually comes from doing things differently rather than from merely doing things the same way at different intensities, which most people tend to do in response to challenges
- Every second counts
- "America first", but can we just agree on making [country X] second?
- A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton — "Let's make sure our ideas of success are truely our own."
- The scientific method is crap
- "instead, embrace the cycle of scientific thinking — observe, explain, predict"
- Our approach to innovation is dead wrong
- on the importance of early feedback from the real world when trying something new
- Disruptive ideas
- rather than inviting the poor to come into town for seminars, give them tablets and allow them to learn at home
- Why I live a zero waste life | Lauren Singer
- got rid of buying packaged stuff
- starting with food
- produces the products that she needs (e.g. tooth paste; lotion) herself
- brings her own jars etc. to the point of sell
- if she buys something non-consumable (e.g. clothes), it's second hand
- got rid of buying packaged stuff
- Two adults, two kids, zero waste | Bea Johnson
- basically the same approach as Lauren's (whom she inspired)
- slightly different angle on downsizing and benefits
- Seconds from Disaster S02E01 Space Shuttle Columbia (via https://twitter.com/VegetaSolo1/status/928603521641050116 )
- documentary about the Columbia disaster, highlighting the role of both data and human judgement for decision-making in complex contexts
- How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained — explores the likelihood of extremely unlikely events in the context of gaming, with interesting trickshots, the observation that a century has about pi billion seconds and an interesting visualization of orders of magnitude similar to Avogadro's constant
- Introduction to Beaker Browser (2-min demo)
- Carl Sagan On Alien Civilizations — includes remarks on the Pioneer plaques
- The Distributed Web, and the Browser I Wrote to Surf It (Beaker Browser Demo) (18 min, with some more background as well as demos)
- Open Litter Map: Challenging Plastic Pollution with Open Data | Sean Lynch | TEDxTallaght
- introduces Open Litter Map
- Natalie Portman and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation
- mostly her moderating him into fascinating monologues — with occasional interaction — about some of the most important facets of life, both at the individual and societal levels
- The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video
- Data from half a world away helps rescue stranded Thai football team
- company specialized in geomodelling provides detailed map of the cave, which was critical to rescue attempts
- How Pandemics Spread — really nice 7-min introduction to the topic
- Der "Tyrannosaurus" von Tambach-Dietharz — provides background on the fossil site Bromacker and the discovery of Orobates pabsti
- Asaf Bartov: Wiki + data = Wikidata (and why you should care)
- Lýdia Machová - Ten things polyglots do differently
- summary at 30:35min
- 1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is The Best Thing?
- uses Wikidata to define what a "thing" is
- 35C3 - Freude ist nur ein Mangel an Information
- How learning German taught me the link between maths and poetry | Harry Baker | TEDxVienna
- The most important language you will EVER learn | Poet Ali | TEDxOrangeCoast
- nice overview of non-linguistic ways of sharing experiences
- Sabine Hossenfelder: Was läuft falsch in der gegenwärtigen Physik? (What's wrong with Physics today?)
- with comments (starting at about 53min) on the current academic system, e.g. preregistration at 56 min or social norms at 57 min
- Harald Lesch: Sind wir allein im Universum? — quite entertaining
- Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection | Tesia Marshik
- does away with the common notion that people have learning styles (auditory/ visual/ tactile/ olfactory)
- Why It's Almost Impossible to Skip a Stone 89 Times — explains some of the physics behind stone skipping, with reference to the current world record (88) and estimates of the theoretical maximum (about 300)
- Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony — I did not watch the whole thing but just the ca. 5 min related to climate change, prompted by this tweet
- How to use BigBlueButton — explores the basics, except recordings
- Lothar Wieler on the COVID situation in Germany on 17 November 2021
- I have already watched the snippets available in this Twitter thread, which suggest that it may be worth watching the entire thing
- Dagen H, 3 september 1967, del 1
- See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse
- Clean Code - Uncle Bob
- 5 Major Reasons Religion Is the No.1 Cause of Poverty in Africa | Rev Walter Mwambazi | TEDxLusaka
- Professor Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University, U.S.: Semantic Web: A 20-year Perspective — only watched the Wikidata part at about 34 min so far
- Jordan: The mysterious Stone Age village — about excavations in Ba'ja
- Computer & Technology Basics Course for Absolute Beginners — a good one-hour intro to basic computer topics for those who've never looked closely into how computers work
- Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies
- The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything | Yuval Noah Harari | TED
- Becoming As Ethical As We Think We Are | Morgan Hamel | TEDxYYC
- My life started when they said it was over | Elin Kjos | TEDxKI
- Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python
- Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
- Theory and Practice of Social Tipping Interventions - Event I
- Python Tutorial for Beginners (5 Hours)
- Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change
- The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet: Michael E. Mann — for background, see here
- Hoimar von Ditfurth : Der Ast auf dem wir sitzen — TV show "Querschnitt" (ZDF, Germany) from 1978 about global warming and climate action
- see also this short excerpt and this copy (Part I, Part 2)
- Michael Meyer-Hermann on COVID-19 and NoCOVID in Planatarium Jena
- Deep Code: Jordan (Green) Hall Documentary
- The Unfolding Meta-Crisis, Jordan Hall
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone - Keynote by Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder
- The Big U-Turn Ahead: Calling Australia to Action on Climate Change — Will Steffen
- one of the most powerful presentations outlining what is known about climate change and what this means for climate action
- watched parts of it via this Twitter thread
- see also this paper: Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
- The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning
- Michael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives
- Introduction to Wikidata — Presented by the Monarch Initiative as part of the OBO Academy
- Michael Clarage: Electrical Shaping of Biology | Thunderbolts
- Michael Clarage: Electrical Form and Function | Thunderbolts
- Die arktische Oase
- What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology? - with Dan Davis
- Constructor Theory: A New Explanation of Fundamental Physics - Chiara Marletto and Marcus du Sautoy
- Alternative Personalmodelle für Universitäten in Deutschland
- Forschung, Fake und faule Tricks | Doku | ARTE
- Yeonmi Park: North Korea | Lex Fridman Podcast #196
- Nick Miller presents: An Inconvenient Truth
- COVID Research Synergies / Social Sciences Research
- Ronin Seminars
- Moonwalking with Einstein | Joshua Foer | Talks at Google
- An Introduction to Disease Modeling: Understanding COVID-19 Means Understanding Disease Modeling
- “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
- Recordings from Chaos Communication Congresses
- e.g. from 36C3 (2019)
- The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth
- Two collections of movies recommended by the Australian Red Cross:
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Turing Lecture, May 29, 2018
- The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander
- Aufstand oder Aussterben? Die Bewegung "Extinction Rebellion"
- Making transparent wood
- We are all connected with nature: Nixiwaka Yawanawa — an indigenous perspective from Brazil
- Lessons from Oak Ridge National Laboratory by Syd Ball, ORNL at Thorium Energy Conference 2018
- Lernen sichtbar machen — critical appraisal of John Hattie's Visible Learning
- Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
- Strands of the modern semantic web: schema.org, Wikidata, and the Knowledge Graph
- Wikimania 2016, Hackathon: Running bots and executive code on labs with just a web terminal (PAWS)
- Entrega Cap. 2 Nueva Telenovela Cubana — about Wikipedia in Cuba
- Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality?
- Wikidata Turns 6: A Special Interview with Denny Vrandečić
- Donner vie à la science ouverte à l'INM, par Guy Rouleau
- Disintegrating Rockets - Softwarefehler in der Raumfahrt (und wie wir versuchen sie zu vermeiden
- How to Generate Your Own Wikipedia Articles (LIVE)
- Python : Bar Chart Word Cloud from text file, Wikipedia by Using jupyter Notebook
- Web Scraping Wikipedia tables using Python
- Building Interactive Maps: Pt 1 - Web Scraping Wikipedia
- Image Synthesis From Text With Deep Learning | Two Minute Papers #116
- Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt
- A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
- Aled Edwards: Why biomedical philanthropy supports redundant science
- Become a Citizen Data Scientist
- soil carbon cowboys — on holistic grazing as an approach to harmonize animal husbandry with strengthening biodiversity, improving resilience to extreme weather events, and potentially even capturing carbon via soil organic matter
- background: [carboncowboys.org/]{https://carboncowboys.org/]
- Reconciliation in OpenRefine for Wikidata
- a two-part screencast
- see also https://histhub.ch/cat/net/blog/openrefine/
- Wikidata as universal (library) thesaurus
- Pathways for discovery of free software
- Where money meets open source - Nadia Eghbal (GitHub)
- What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python? — see also Daniel-Mietchen/ideas#1377
- Naftali Tishby: Information Theory of Deep Learning
- The World We Want: OpenStreetMap and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Application of predictive analytics in humanitarian response, by USG Lowcock — seen here
- Democratisation of Knowledge with Katherine Maher
- A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
- Preventing the Next Global Pandemic: Lessons from Ebola and Zika
- TED talk on fight against Ebola
- Ending infectious diseases | Susan Desmond-Hellman, CEO Gates Foundation | Code Conference 2016
- Why Open Blockchains Matter — seen here
- HPC and AI: Helping to Solve Humanity’s Grand Challenges
- Observable: Vega-Lite: A Crash Course
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For rapid charting and fast explorations of data in Observable, we recommend Vega-Lite: you get all the classic, standard charts in just a few lines of code, and then build on them with advanced faceting, layering, and interactivity. Vega-Lite is more powerful than making an off-the-shelf chart in Excel, and faster than making a totally custom visualization in D3.
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- older TED MED talks
- Sandra Collins: Memory Keepers
- Frank Miedema: Science in Transition
- Pardis Sabeti: How we'll fight the next deadly virus
- Big Data: Personalized Learning
- Beyond Code: Repository Mining with Clojure
- Michaela Murphy | On Resilience
- CMake talk
- Rafael Yuste: What understanding the brain means to science and medicine
- 8 TED talks on the origin of ideas
- Create Flappy Bird in Python
- Ideas from Europe
- Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
- Guido van Rossum - Keynote: Python now and in the future
- Diary of a Citizen Scientist with Sharman Apt Russell
- Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- Healing With Poetry - Nelofer Khan Habibullah
- Life in the Fast Lane - The Power of Large Scale Graphs
- Videos from MLconf — all around machine learning
- Sandy Pentland - Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread
- Alex 'Sandy' Pentland - How social networks make us smarter
- Stuart Brown: Play is more than fun
- Michael J. Twery: "The Role of Sleep in Health"
- Zika at University of California TV
- Margaret Levenstein - Financing Innovation or Speculation, the Case of Cleveland — research on the impact of the 1930s Great Depression on innovative firms in the Midwest
- Missing Evidence: Does physics still need experiment?
- The Tyranny of Evidence
- Mike Osterholm: "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs”
- Building large-scale crowdsourcing communities with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
- Making: Book Dash at the Goethe-Institut
- background
- seen via this tweet
- Fighting Disaster with Crowdsourcing
- Yann LeCun - Self-Supervised Learning: The Dark Matter of Intelligence
- The Humanitarian Data Exchange and HOT, CJ Hendrix
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap: mapping the future of crisis response by Joseph Reeves
- Deaf Anime Girl In VR Talks About Getting Bullied
- Ending Pandemics in Our Lifetime
- An Afternoon with NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins (HHS Only)
- What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
- Tensorflow DeepLab v3 Xception Cityscapes
- Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. A film about Open Access.
- Design Patterns in Python | Peter Ullrich
- Kate Robinowitz: Open Data + You = Better Cities - Codeland - NYC 2017
- Economist Max Roser—Our World in Data
- Climate model-data comparisons
- How to Become a Data Scientist in 2017? | Data Scientist Career | Data Science Future
- Video of Navigate All the Knowledge (ConceptMap.io) presentation — with Wikidata visualizations
- Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro
- The Hidden Secret of the Statues on Easter Island
- Working Out Loud: The making of a movement | John Stepper
- Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis
- Making robots more like children | Rodney Brooks
- Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
- language acquisition happens
- Sharon Terry: Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
- had watched that during TEDMED 2016 — notes at Daniel-Mietchen/events#51
- Why Astronomers Love Python And Why You Should Too
- TPU Notebook Walkthrough: Introduction to TFRecords
- The animated guide to blockchain (Explanimators: Episode 5)
- #OER18 Session: Wikidata, the Semantic Web, and the emerging global knowledge base
- The Beauty of Being a Misfit
- What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python?
- Using Petscan to find articles in Wikipedia using template SBL --- candidate to connect to WIkidata object with Property P3217
- How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
- The next Internet Revolution | Juan Benet
- The World In 2050 [The Real Future Of Earth] – Full BBC Documentary 2017
- Top Science Discoveries of 2017 Documentary
- collection of videos about the Monacans
- #31Days31Videos Intro
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