Disruptive Innovations in Neuroscience: Jeff Lichtman [NO_PRINTED_FORM]
1/3/2021
GPOL.INT
Ben Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War [Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture regarding Oleg Gordievsky]
1/4/2021
GPOL.PMC
Middle East Institute
Mercenaries or Private Military Contractors? Privatising the State Monopoly of Violence [Middle East Institute, panel]
1/4/2021
GPOL.HST
Cambridge
James Harris - The Great Fear: Intelligence and Threat Perception under Lenin and Stalin [Cambridge]
1/7/2021
PHYS.NUC
MIT
Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte [MIT]
1/8/2021
RELI.HST
Princeton
“Ethiopian Christianity in the World of Martin Luther and 16th Century Protestantism” [David Daniels, Princeton Theological Seminary]
1/8/2021
GPOL
Columbia University
Edward Said With Noam Chomsky, on Palestine [Columbia, 1999]
1/8/2021
RELI.MED
Varieties of Meditative Experience with Matthew Ingram [New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove]
1/9/2021
BIOL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 19. Cell Trafficking and Protein Localization [Barbara Imperiali]
1/10/2021
CHEM.BIO
MIT
MIT 5.08J Biological Chemistry II, Spring 2016, Lecture 19. Cholesterol Biosynthesis 1 [Joanne Stubbe]
1/18/2021
PHYS
UC Berkeley
Physics for future Presidents Physics 10 Lecture 01 Atoms and Heat [Berkeley]
1/20/2021
NEUR
NeuroImaging & NeuroRadiology - Theory & Practice - CT + MRI - Neuroscience Lecture Series [Richard McMurtrey]
1/21/2021
PHYS.NUC
JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements
Where do the elements come from? Nucleosynthesis in stellar environments [Anna Simon, JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements]
1/22/2021
PHYS.NUC
Neutrino Interactions and Nucleosynthesis, 1 - Carla Fröhlich [UC-HiPACC]
1/23/2021
GPOL.MIL
Paul Springer Foreign Policy Research Institute
Thinking about Military History in an Age of Drones, Hackers, and IEDs [Paul Springer Foreign Policy Research Institute]
1/24/2021
ENGN
MIT
MIT 2.003SC Engineering Dynamics, Fall 2011, Lecture 15. Introduction to Lagrange With Examples [J. Kim Vandiver]
1/25/2021
27
PHYS.NUC
UKAEA
Fusion Tutorial 6: Alternative Fusion Technologies [James Roberts, UKAEA]
1/29/2021
BIOL.MOL
Becoming an Expert Tips & Tricks for Running the RNAscope® Assay 202004290502 1 [Amrita Roy]
LC
2/4/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 20. Cell Signaling 1 – Overview [Barbara Imperiali]
2/4/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 21. Cell Signaling 1 – Examples [Barbara Imperiali]
2/4/2021
NEUR
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 22. Neurons, Action Potential, & Optogenetics [Adam Martin]
2/6/2021
BIOL.AST
Ask An Astrobiologist: Everything You Need to Know About the Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission [Host Graham Lau, guests Dr. Kennda Lynch, Dr. Frances Rivera- Hernandez, Dr. Svetlana Shkolyar]
2/7/2021
PHYS
An Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy and Focused Ion Beam (Matthew Bresin) [NanoBio Node]
2/8/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 23. Cell Cycle and Checkpoints [Adam Martin]
2/8/2021
GPOL
CSIS
Surprise and Innovative Operational Concepts Gaining Competitive Advantage in Great Power Conflicts [CSIS, Mark Cancian, Frank Hoffman, Diem Salmon, Thomas Mahnken]
LC
2/8/2021
PHYS.BIO
Quantum biology and nanobiophysics: Examples in the context of photosynthesis -[ICTP Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, Tjaart Kruger, 11/19/20]
2/11/2021
PHYS.PAR
Simon Fraser University
Richard Feynman Colloquium: “The Strong Interaction” Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada 1977
LC
2/14/2021
COMP.DLT
Cryptoeconomics In 30 Minutes by Vitalik Buterin (Devcon5)
2/16/2021
22
COMP.DLT
Algorand Boston Meetup | Silvio Micali presents Algorand’s Foundational Technology
2/17/2021
NEUR.CON
Connectomics: Turning your center into a precision brain medicine institute [Omniscient Neurotechnology, Michael Sughrue, Michael McDermott, Michael Rosenbloom]
LC
2/18/2021
BIOL.MOL
Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP): Assay Development Challenges and Solutions [Lucigen]
LC
2/23/2021
PHYS.NUC
CERN
Fusion Plasma Physics and ITER - An Introduction (1/4) [CERN, David Campbell]
LC
2/24/2021
RELI.KAB
Intro to Kabbalah Part I - The Tree of Life & Hebrew Letters [Ordre Martinistes Souverains]
2/25/2021
GPOL.HST
Labor and Economics in Nazi Germany [Channel Islands Cal State University, Kevin Volkan]
2/26/2021
BIOL.TEC
MONAI – An Open Source Framework for AI Development in Medical Imaging [Prerna Dogra, Jorge Cardoso]
DIY Open Source Medicine Ft. Dr. Mixael Laufer - Biohack Chat #14 [The Thought Emporium]
3/1/2021
GPOL
FPRI
What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners [Stephen Kotkin]
3/1/2021
GPOL
Schieffer Series: The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers [CSIS, Heather Conway, Juan Zarate, Michael Isikoff]
3/1/2021
GPOL
NATO Secretary General speech at the Joint Meeting of the US Congress, 03 APR 2019 [Jens Stoltenberg]
3/2/2021
GOVT.FIN
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on crypto regulation [Jeremy Allaire, Mehrsa Baradaran, Rebecca Nelson]
3/4/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 24. Stem Cells, Apoptosis, & Tissue Homeostasis [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021
BIOL.ONC
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 25. Cancer I [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021
BIOL.ONC
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 26. Cancer II [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021
GOVT.CCP
FPRI
What Comes After the Communist Party in China? [FPRI, Stephen Kotkin, Robert Kaplan]
3/5/2021
NEUR
Golgi-Cox Staining of Neuronal Dendrites and Dendritic Spines with FD Rapid GolgiStainTM Kit [FD Neurotechnologies, Inc.]
3/6/2021
28
RELI.KAB
Ben Gurion University
Madame Blavatsky and Kabbalah - Julie Chayes [Ben Gurion University]
3/6/2021
RELI.KAB
Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan - Kabbalistic Numerology [Unity Vancouver]
3/6/2021
RELI.KAB
Meru Foundation
A Matrix of Meaning for Sacred Alphabets (1991) [Meru Foundation, Arthur Young]
3/7/2021
BIOL.MOL
Chapman University
Science on Tap - Designing New Molecules Lessons from Nature’s Molecular Machines with Maduka Ogba [Chapman University]
3/8/2021
GOVT.FIN
Chamber of Digital Commerce
Patrolling the Block: Regulators Panel at DC Blockchain Summit 2019 [Chamber of Digital Commerce, Amy Kim, Dan Gorfine, Kavita Jain, Jessica Renier, Valeria Szczepanik]
3/9/2021
NEUR
University of British Columbia
Joan Chiao - Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences [University of British Columbia]
3/9/2021
NEUR
Allen Institute
Open for (neuro)science tutorials: Introduction to the Allen Brain Map [Allen Institute, Kaitlyn Casimo]
3/9/2021
COMP.ART
UC Berkeley
Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by Modeling the Brain with Jeff Hawkins [UC Berkeley]
3/10/2021
BIOL.PHY
Florey Institute
Diet, evolution, gut health and brain function - Professor John Furness and Dr Martin Stebbing [Florey Institute]
3/12/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 27. Visualizing Life – Dyes and Stains [Barbara Imperiali]
3/12/2021
BIOL.CEL
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 28. Visualizing Life - Fluorescent Proteins [Barbara Imperiali]
3/13/2021
74
MATH.ALG
What makes the natural log “natural”? | Lockdown math ep. 7 [3Blue1Brown]
LC
3/13/2021
105
GPOL
Center for Global Policy
The Geopolitics of Yemen’s Civil War [Center for Global Policy, Theodore Karasick, Giorgio Cafiero]
3/14/2021
54
GOVT.FIN
The Blockchain Industry: Legal and Regulatory Challenges [Harvard Law School, Jeff Engerman, (Partner at Gunderson Dettmer), Nimit Sawhney (CEO and Co-founder of Voatz), Christina Spiliakos (Regulatory Counsel at Circle), Michael Welsh (Associate at Cooley)]
3/14/2021
65
ECON.MAC
Bretton Woods at 75 - Rethinking International Cooperation [Ricardo Reis, Melissa Dell, Emmanuel Farhi, Keyu Jin]
3/14/2021
80
BUSI.NMK
The psychology of digital marketing. Rory Sutherland, Ogilvy
3/15/2021
93
COMP.ART
Friedrich-Alexander University
Machine Learning for Physicists (Lecture 1) [Friedrich-Alexander University, Florian Marquardt]
LC
3/15/2021
67
RELI.HST
Juliana Cesano - The Way of the Mystic: St. Teresa of Avila’s Life and Teaching [Theosophical Society in America]
3/16/2021
56
NEUR.VIS
Allen Institute
Coding and Vision 101 Lecture 1: A Walk-through of the Mammalian Visual System [Allen Brain Institute, R. Clay Reid]
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell [Cambridge University Physics Society, Anthony Zee]
3/21/2021
53
GPOL.HST
Gresham College
Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich - Professor Alec Ryrie [Gresham College]
3/22/2021
77
BIOL.GEN
UC Santa Cruz
Kraw Lecture: Telomeres: from curiosity driven research to human disease [UC Santa Cruz, Carol Greider]
3/22/2021
51
BIOL.IMM
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 30. Immunology 1 – Diversity, Specificity, & B cells [Adam Martin]
3/22/2021
92
GOVT.BUR
CSIS
A Conversation with FBI Director Wray and National Security Lawyers on Civic Education as a National [CSIS, Christopher Wray, Suzanne Spalding, Elizabeth Parker, James Baker, Jennifer O’Conner, M. Tia Johnson, Steve Bunnell]
3/23/2021
55
NEUR.VIS
Allen Institute
Coding and Vision 101 Lecture 2: What is Meant by Computation? [Allen Brain Institute, Christof Koch]
LC - didn’t understand the calculus, or some of the neuronal logic gate diagrams.
3/23/2021
47
MATH.CAL
MIT
Lec 18 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 [David Jerison]
MC - understanding waxed and waned; made progress in understanding of summation, summation notation; didn’t understand financial application of integration.
3/23/2021
60
ECON
MIT
[MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance, Fall 2013, Lecture] 1. Introduction, Financial Terms and Concepts [Jake Xia]
MC - general overview of terms; still don’t sufficiently understand standard deviations.
3/23/2021
27
NEUR
Introduction to Neurophysiology [Lesley Williams, independent youtube channel]
MC - several new terms, unable to retain; now better understand the taxonomy of total nervous system ( CNS / PNS ( Somatic / Auto (SNS / PSNS) )
3/24/2021
49
MATH.CAL
MIT
Lec 20 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 [David Jerison]
LC - piecemeal understanding, but felt strong subliminal connections were made, in terms of calculus’s application potential]
3/24/2021
60
GPOL.INT
FPRI
Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression [FPRI, host Ron Ranieri, guest Jack Devine]
3/24/2021
60
GPOL.MIL
FPRI
Military Strategy: A Global History [FPRI, host Ron Ranieri, guest Jeremy Black]
3/25/2021
50
GPOL.CYB
CSIS
Evolution of Russian Cyber Tactics and Operations [CSIS, Heather Conley, Dmitri Alperovitch, James Lewis]
3/25/2021
51
GOVT
Lowell Christy: Designing Government [Club of Remy]
3/25/2021
28
NEUR
Neurophysiology of Attention: Attention Networks [Dr. Paul Merritt, independent channel]
LC - Still do not understand the taxonomy of brain areas, only some areas and vaguely at that; I did understand, albeit gnostically, the notes about physiological effect of marijuana use; also, am currently high.
3/25/2021
96
COMP.ART
DeepMind x UCL | Deep Learning Lectures | 8/12 | Attention and Memory in Deep Learning [Alex Graves]
LC - Did not understand most of this lecture, but there were a few moments of understanding; learned about “transformer networks” which I will look into.
3/28/2021
28
ECON.MAC
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Introducing the Invisible Ideology (Part 1) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
3/29/2021
69
GPOL.PMC
Private Military & Security Companies in International Relations - lecture [The Security Distillery, Sean McFate]
HC - Seem to have a solid understanding, theoretically, of how the privatization of military force impacts the geopolitical framework of war; didn’t know that Prighozin also commands the Internet Research Agency; still don’t understand how the IRA complements the Wagner Group
3/29/2021
35
ECON.MAC
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Keynesian Embedded Liberalism (Part 2) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
MC - Better able to understand political historical context of neoliberalism, and that it was theoretically preceded by “Embedded Liberalism”; understanding is slouching toward a Deleuzian economics.
3/29/2021
29
ECON.MAC
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society I: 1918 - 1939 (Part 3) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
MC - Much of the biographical information on Hayak slipped past me; somewhat reinforced my ability to contextualize neoliberalism both politically and theoretically.
3/29/2021
GPOL
StratComDC : Ms. Lyudmila Savchuk on Infiltrating the Internet Research Agency [Atlantic Council]
3/31/2021
62
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018 [Gary Gensler]
MC - Still don’t understand the various “layers” of the internet, nor how blockchain can serve as an additional layer, but I am building an understanding of blockchain itself.
3/31/2021
46
ECON.MAC
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ The Chicago School (Part 5) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
4/1/2021
51
BIOL.IMM
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 31. Immunology 2 – Memory T cells, & Autoimmunity [Adam Martin]
LC - Couldn’t follow the explanations of B Cells, the “killer” T Cells and the “helper” T Cells, etc.
4/1/2021
78
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 2. Money, Ledgers & Bitcoin [Gary Gensler]
HC - Wasn’t familiar with many of his historical points, but the concepts I understood relatively easily: if assets > liabilities, the excess of assets is capital. Now that I’m typing this, I think I see a way that my understanding of capital has been crooked. I’ve been understanding it as mobilized excess assets, but now I’m understanding it as all excess assets, mobilized or stagnant.
4/2/2021
65
BIOL.HMB
American Physiological Society
Microbiota and the Gut-Brain Axis – 2018 Refresher Course Pt 3 [American Physiological Society, Stephen Collins]
LC - Didn’t understand the taxonomy of bacteria phyla, still don’t have an understanding of the nervous system map.
4/2/2021
45
COMP.DLT
Scalable blockchains as data layers | Vitalik Buterin [Teipei Ethereum meetup]
LC - Much of the information was over my head, but I did make progress on understanding the nature and potential of blockchains with higher layers.
4/3/2021
77
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 3. Blockchain Basics & Cryptography [Gary Gensler]
MC - Slightly improved understandings of the hashing mechanism and of public/private key cryptography, but still largely piecemeal understandings; still only starting to understand the role of randomness in cryptography.
4/3/2021
75
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 4. Blockchain Basics & Consensus [Gary Gensler]
MC - Now have a better appreciation of the scale of the bitcoin mining industry, as well as a better appreciation of the difficulty of cracking the hash function.
4/4/2021
76
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 5. Blockchain Basics & Transactions, UTXO and Script Code [Gary Gensler]
MC - Now have a better understanding of the operational difference between transacting and mining, how the latter verifies and appends packets of the former.
4/5/2021
82
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 6. Smart Contracts and DApps [Gary Gensler, guest Larry Lessig]
MC - Now have a better understanding of contracts, “A promise or performance in exchange for a promise or performance” and how they can be automated via algorithms.
4/5/2021
48
MATH.CAL
MIT
Lec 19 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 [David Jerison]
LC - Made substantial progress in understanding the relation between derivatives and antiderivatives, as the converse perspectives of differentiation; also made substantial progress understanding the fundamental theory of calculus, which I understand as stating that the integral, from a to b, of f(x) in respect to x = the difference between the antiderivative F at b and F at a; much of the applications of these concepts I was not able to follow.
4/6/2021
48
BIOL.IMM
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 32. Infectious Disease, Viruses, and Bacteria [Barbara Imperiali]
MC - Much of the etymology remains uncharted for me, making the understanding of technical naming/taxonomic conventions unnecessarily difficult; beginning to understand the structural impact upon molecules by chemical reactions, but still cannot elaborate on the how of it, namely how a change in molecular structure can have seemingly emergent ramifications on larger scales.
4/6/2021
81
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 7. Technical Challenges [Gary Gensler]
4/7/2021
60
RELI.HST
Ancient Iran: Heaven, Hell, and the Good Life - 2020 History Lecture Series [Joel Thomas Walker]
MC - Wasn’t familiar enough with the history to robustly contextualize the presented information.
4/7/2021
65
PHYS.THE
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Convergence Public Lecture: The Genesis and Renaissance of General Relativity [Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jurgen Renn]
LC - No substantial progress made in conceptual understanding, seeing as my math foundations are flimsy; now have a somewhat more robust understanding of the timeline of physics, and what relativity broadly entailed; still cannot meaningfully distinguish between special and general relativity.
4/7/2021
76
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 8. Public Policy [Gary Gensler]
MC - Lost him for a while when he started talking about investor protection, but I do seem to intuit his high-order government concepts.
4/9/2021
81
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 9. Permissioned Systems [Gary Gensler]
4/9/2021
76
PHYS.PAR
FermiLab
Scientific Seminar: First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab [Fermilab, Chris Polly, Aida El-Khadra
LC - Much of it was over my head, but I did manage to get a better footing in understanding how these particles interact, according to the models.
4/10/2021
74
GOVT
Yale
Lecture 8: Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government [Yale, Ian Shapiro]
4/11/2021
51
BIOL.IMM
MIT
MIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 33. Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance [Barbara Imperiali]
4/12/2021
51
COMP.QUA
Introduction to Quantum Computing 1. Qubits and Quantum States, Quantum Circuits, Measurements - Part 1 [Qiskit, Elisa Baumer]
LC - Much of it was beyond my comprehension, but I did manage to digest some of the discourse pertaining to Dirac notation, namely the equations which involve transpositions and complex conjugates, although I still have trouble understanding those two, perhaps stemming from an insufficient familiarity with vector and matrix algebra.
27
BIOL.EVO
Scripps
Deep Dive: Evolutionary Developmental Biology [Scripps Oceanography, Deirdre Lyons]
4/13/2021
81
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 10. Financial System Challenges & Opportunities [Gary Gensler]
4/14/2021
77
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 11. Blockchain Economics [Gary Gensler]
4/15/2021
75
COMP.DLT
MIT
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 12. Assessing Use Cases [Gary Gensler]
MC - Starting to understand how to realistically gauge and audit blockchain applications; as a panel speaker in a different video pointed out, the good projects have use cases that actually need to operate in a blockchain infrastructure.
4/16/2021
63
GOVT.CCP
CSIS
China’s New Legislative Agenda: Unpacking China’s “Two Meetings” [CSIS, Scott Kennedy, Jude Blanchette, Bonnie Glaser, Mikko Huotari]
4/17/2021
45
BIOL.GEN
Sequencing DNA with Linux Cores and Nanopores [Linux Conference Australia, David Eccles]
4/19/2021
77
PHYS.PAR
Electron-Ion Collider Project Launch [Brookhaven Lab, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Howard Zemsky, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Khianne Jackson, DoE Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar, Stuart Henderson, Maurie McInnis, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Mark Warner, NY State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Steve Bellone, CERN Director General Fabiola Gianotti, Asc. Director at Jefferson Rolf Ent, Cathy Cutler, EIC Project Manager Diane Hatton.]
4/19/2021
51
PHYS.EMG
MIT
8.02x - Lect 16 - Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday’s Law, Lenz Law, SUPER DEMO [MIT Walter Lewin]
4/20/2021
54
COMP.ART
Stanford University
Stanford CS224N: NLP with Deep Learning | Winter 2020 | BERT and Other Pre- trained Language Models [Jacob Devlin from Google AI Language]
LC - Still do not understand most of the architectural elements of neural networks (“Feed Forward” etc), but I am starting to understand the difference across approaches to contextual association of words, whether its long-term memory, short-term memory, or even a sort of forward memory wherein later words can be associated in a manner that is predicate to the association of earlier words.
4/21/2021
49
MATH.CAL
MIT
Lec 22 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 [David Jerison]
4/22/2021
83
GPOL
FPRI
What is Eurasia? - Stephen Kotkin [FPRI]
4/23/2021
91
ECON.LAB
Berggruen Institute
After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked [Berggruen Institute, Juliet Schor, Trebor Schulz, Yakov Feygin]
4/23/2021
80
PHYS.PAR
UC Berkeley
The Higgs Boson Explained [Berkeley, Mark Richards, Beate Heinemann, Lawrence Hall, Marjorie Shapiro, Josh Ruderman, Louise Skinnari]
4/24/2021
62
NEUR.VIS
Allen Institute
Coding and Vision 101, Lecture 3: The Structure of the Neocortex [Allen Brain Institute, Clay Reid]
LC - Did not understand the what functionally distinguishes layers of the cortex, but I am slowly managing to assemble a conceptual map of the brain; also struggling to understand the variety of distance scales involved in neuroscience.
4/24/2021
52
GPOL.CYB
The Cyber Shell Game – War, Information Warfare, and the Darkening Web [black hat USA 2019 convention, Alexander Klimburg]
LC - Did not follow the rich historical timeline laid out, nor do I understand the basic architecture of the internet, but I do appreciate how game theoretical strategy can transform within the framework of the internet and how this strategy can scale up from individual actors to state-level actors.
4/26/2021
88
BIOL.CEL
HCA Development Seminar Series: Stem Cell, Organoid Models, and Regenerative Biology [Human Cell Atlas, Barbara Treutlein, Karl Koehler, Aviv Regev, plus five others]
LC - Didn’t grasp the detailed individuation pathways for in vitro stem cells, or the particular enzymes required to steer the particular individuation to hair follicle cells;
4/26/2021
75
PHYS.AST
FermiLab
At the edge of time: Exploring the mysteries of our universe’s first seconds [Fermilab, Dan Hooper]
MC - Lecture was for the general public, and was thus, in and of itself, not too difficult; still having issues grasping the concept of wavelength and frequency.
3/5/2022
62
GPOL
Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance
Sergei Guriev on The Implications of Sanctions on the Russian Economy [Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance]
4/8/2022
The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 16. The Importance of George Washington
4/9/2022
The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 17. The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)