DateDuration (min)TopicInstitutionTitleReflection
1/1/2021NEURMcGovern Institute @ MITDisruptive Innovations in Neuroscience: Jeff Lichtman [NO_PRINTED_FORM]
1/3/2021GPOL.INTBen Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War [Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture regarding Oleg Gordievsky]
1/4/2021GPOL.PMCMiddle East InstituteMercenaries or Private Military Contractors? Privatising the State Monopoly of Violence [Middle East Institute, panel]
1/4/2021GPOL.HSTCambridgeJames Harris - The Great Fear: Intelligence and Threat Perception under Lenin and Stalin [Cambridge]
1/7/2021PHYS.NUCMITBreakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte [MIT]
1/8/2021RELI.HSTPrinceton“Ethiopian Christianity in the World of Martin Luther and 16th Century Protestantism” [David Daniels, Princeton Theological Seminary]
1/8/2021GPOLColumbia UniversityEdward Said With Noam Chomsky, on Palestine [Columbia, 1999]
1/8/2021RELI.MEDVarieties of Meditative Experience with Matthew Ingram [New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove]
1/9/2021BIOLMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 19. Cell Trafficking and Protein Localization [Barbara Imperiali]
1/10/2021CHEM.BIOMITMIT 5.08J Biological Chemistry II, Spring 2016, Lecture 19. Cholesterol Biosynthesis 1 [Joanne Stubbe]
1/18/2021PHYSUC BerkeleyPhysics for future Presidents Physics 10 Lecture 01 Atoms and Heat [Berkeley]
1/20/2021NEURNeuroImaging & NeuroRadiology - Theory & Practice - CT + MRI - Neuroscience Lecture Series [Richard McMurtrey]
1/21/2021PHYS.NUCJINA Center for the Evolution of the ElementsWhere do the elements come from? Nucleosynthesis in stellar environments [Anna Simon, JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements]
1/22/2021PHYS.NUCNeutrino Interactions and Nucleosynthesis, 1 - Carla Fröhlich [UC-HiPACC]
1/23/2021GPOL.MILPaul Springer Foreign Policy Research InstituteThinking about Military History in an Age of Drones, Hackers, and IEDs [Paul Springer Foreign Policy Research Institute]
1/24/2021ENGNMITMIT 2.003SC Engineering Dynamics, Fall 2011, Lecture 15. Introduction to Lagrange With Examples [J. Kim Vandiver]
1/25/202127PHYS.NUCUKAEAFusion Tutorial 6: Alternative Fusion Technologies [James Roberts, UKAEA]
1/29/2021BIOL.MOLBecoming an Expert Tips & Tricks for Running the RNAscope® Assay 202004290502 1 [Amrita Roy]LC
2/4/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 20. Cell Signaling 1 – Overview [Barbara Imperiali]
2/4/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 21. Cell Signaling 1 – Examples [Barbara Imperiali]
2/4/2021NEURMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 22. Neurons, Action Potential, & Optogenetics [Adam Martin]
2/6/2021BIOL.ASTAsk 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]
2/7/2021PHYSAn Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy and Focused Ion Beam (Matthew Bresin) [NanoBio Node]
2/8/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 23. Cell Cycle and Checkpoints [Adam Martin]
2/8/2021GPOLCSISSurprise and Innovative Operational Concepts Gaining Competitive Advantage in Great Power Conflicts [CSIS, Mark Cancian, Frank Hoffman, Diem Salmon, Thomas Mahnken]LC
2/8/2021PHYS.BIOQuantum biology and nanobiophysics: Examples in the context of photosynthesis -[ICTP Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, Tjaart Kruger, 11/19/20]
2/11/2021PHYS.PARSimon Fraser UniversityRichard Feynman Colloquium: “The Strong Interaction” Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada 1977LC
2/14/2021COMP.DLTCryptoeconomics In 30 Minutes by Vitalik Buterin (Devcon5)
2/16/202122COMP.DLTAlgorand Boston Meetup | Silvio Micali presents Algorand’s Foundational Technology
2/17/2021NEUR.CONConnectomics: Turning your center into a precision brain medicine institute [Omniscient Neurotechnology, Michael Sughrue, Michael McDermott, Michael Rosenbloom]LC
2/18/2021BIOL.MOLLoop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP): Assay Development Challenges and Solutions [Lucigen]LC
2/23/2021PHYS.NUCCERNFusion Plasma Physics and ITER - An Introduction (1/4) [CERN, David Campbell]LC
2/24/2021RELI.KABIntro to Kabbalah Part I - The Tree of Life & Hebrew Letters [Ordre Martinistes Souverains]
2/25/2021GPOL.HSTLabor and Economics in Nazi Germany [Channel Islands Cal State University, Kevin Volkan]
2/26/2021BIOL.TECMONAI – An Open Source Framework for AI Development in Medical Imaging [Prerna Dogra, Jorge Cardoso]LC
2/28/2021MATH.GEOCarnegie Mellon UniversityLecture 2B: Introduction to Manifolds (Discrete Differential Geometry) [CMU, Keenan Crane]LC
2/28/2021BIOL.TECDIY Open Source Medicine Ft. Dr. Mixael Laufer - Biohack Chat #14 [The Thought Emporium]
3/1/2021GPOLFPRIWhat Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI’s 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners [Stephen Kotkin]
3/1/2021GPOLSchieffer Series: The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers [CSIS, Heather Conway, Juan Zarate, Michael Isikoff]
3/1/2021GPOLNATO Secretary General speech at the Joint Meeting of the US Congress, 03 APR 2019 [Jens Stoltenberg]
3/2/2021GOVT.FINSenate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on crypto regulation [Jeremy Allaire, Mehrsa Baradaran, Rebecca Nelson]
3/4/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 24. Stem Cells, Apoptosis, & Tissue Homeostasis [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021BIOL.ONCMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 25. Cancer I [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021BIOL.ONCMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 26. Cancer II [Adam Martin]
3/4/2021GOVT.CCPFPRIWhat Comes After the Communist Party in China? [FPRI, Stephen Kotkin, Robert Kaplan]
3/5/2021NEURGolgi-Cox Staining of Neuronal Dendrites and Dendritic Spines with FD Rapid GolgiStainTM Kit [FD Neurotechnologies, Inc.]
3/6/202128RELI.KABBen Gurion UniversityMadame Blavatsky and Kabbalah - Julie Chayes [Ben Gurion University]
3/6/2021RELI.KABRabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan - Kabbalistic Numerology [Unity Vancouver]
3/6/2021RELI.KABMeru FoundationA Matrix of Meaning for Sacred Alphabets (1991) [Meru Foundation, Arthur Young]
3/7/2021BIOL.MOLChapman UniversityScience on Tap - Designing New Molecules Lessons from Nature’s Molecular Machines with Maduka Ogba [Chapman University]
3/8/2021GOVT.FINChamber of Digital CommercePatrolling the Block: Regulators Panel at DC Blockchain Summit 2019 [Chamber of Digital Commerce, Amy Kim, Dan Gorfine, Kavita Jain, Jessica Renier, Valeria Szczepanik]
3/9/2021NEURUniversity of British ColumbiaJoan Chiao - Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences [University of British Columbia]
3/9/2021NEURAllen InstituteOpen for (neuro)science tutorials: Introduction to the Allen Brain Map [Allen Institute, Kaitlyn Casimo]
3/9/2021COMP.ARTUC BerkeleyIntelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by Modeling the Brain with Jeff Hawkins [UC Berkeley]
3/10/2021BIOL.PHYFlorey InstituteDiet, evolution, gut health and brain function - Professor John Furness and Dr Martin Stebbing [Florey Institute]
3/12/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 27. Visualizing Life – Dyes and Stains [Barbara Imperiali]
3/12/2021BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 28. Visualizing Life - Fluorescent Proteins [Barbara Imperiali]
3/13/202174MATH.ALGWhat makes the natural log “natural”? | Lockdown math ep. 7 [3Blue1Brown]LC
3/13/2021105GPOLCenter for Global PolicyThe Geopolitics of Yemen’s Civil War [Center for Global Policy, Theodore Karasick, Giorgio Cafiero]
3/14/202154GOVT.FINThe 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)]
3/14/202165ECON.MACBretton Woods at 75 - Rethinking International Cooperation [Ricardo Reis, Melissa Dell, Emmanuel Farhi, Keyu Jin]
3/14/202180BUSI.NMKThe psychology of digital marketing. Rory Sutherland, Ogilvy
3/15/202193COMP.ARTFriedrich-Alexander UniversityMachine Learning for Physicists (Lecture 1) [Friedrich-Alexander University, Florian Marquardt]LC
3/15/202167RELI.HSTJuliana Cesano - The Way of the Mystic: St. Teresa of Avila’s Life and Teaching [Theosophical Society in America]
3/16/202156NEUR.VISAllen InstituteCoding and Vision 101 Lecture 1: A Walk-through of the Mammalian Visual System [Allen Brain Institute, R. Clay Reid]
3/16/202145COMP.DLTIOHK | Ouroboros Genesis: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [Aggelos Kiayias]
3/16/2021114GPOLGlobal Issues Speaker Series - The Arab Spring and Its Long Shadow [Austin Community College, Roy Casagranda]
3/17/202144BIOL.CELMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 29. Cell Imaging Techniques [Adam Martin]LC
3/17/202177GPOL.HSTYale“China and the World System since 1945” by Immanuel Wallerstein [Yale]
3/18/202152COMP.HSTGresham CollegeThe Scientific Life of Ada Lovelace - Professor Ursula Martin [Gresham College]
3/20/202177COMP.DLTVitalik & Tyler Cowen talk Ethereum’ - Vitalik Buterin & Tyler Cowen
3/21/2021105PHYS.QUACambridgeQuantum Field Theory in a Nutshell [Cambridge University Physics Society, Anthony Zee]
3/21/202153GPOL.HSTGresham CollegeTwo Kingdoms in the Third Reich - Professor Alec Ryrie [Gresham College]
3/22/202177BIOL.GENUC Santa CruzKraw Lecture: Telomeres: from curiosity driven research to human disease [UC Santa Cruz, Carol Greider]
3/22/202151BIOL.IMMMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 30. Immunology 1 – Diversity, Specificity, & B cells [Adam Martin]
3/22/202192GOVT.BURCSISA 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]
3/23/202155NEUR.VISAllen InstituteCoding 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.
3/23/202147MATH.CALMITLec 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.
3/23/202160ECONMIT[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.
3/23/202127NEURIntroduction 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) )
3/24/202149MATH.CALMITLec 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]
3/24/202160GPOL.INTFPRISpymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression [FPRI, host Ron Ranieri, guest Jack Devine]
3/24/202160GPOL.MILFPRIMilitary Strategy: A Global History [FPRI, host Ron Ranieri, guest Jeremy Black]
3/25/202150GPOL.CYBCSISEvolution of Russian Cyber Tactics and Operations [CSIS, Heather Conley, Dmitri Alperovitch, James Lewis]
3/25/202151GOVTLowell Christy: Designing Government [Club of Remy]
3/25/202128NEURNeurophysiology 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.
3/25/202196COMP.ARTDeepMind 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.
3/28/202128ECON.MACThis Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Introducing the Invisible Ideology (Part 1) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
3/29/202169GPOL.PMCPrivate 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
3/29/202135ECON.MACThis 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.
3/29/202129ECON.MACThis 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.
3/29/2021GPOLStratComDC : Ms. Lyudmila Savchuk on Infiltrating the Internet Research Agency [Atlantic Council]
3/31/202162COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
3/31/202146ECON.MACThis Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ The Chicago School (Part 5) [Video essay series by BarakalypseNow]
4/1/202151BIOL.IMMMITMIT 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.
4/1/202178COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/2/202165BIOL.HMBAmerican Physiological SocietyMicrobiota 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.
4/2/202145COMP.DLTScalable 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.
4/3/202177COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/3/202175COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/4/202176COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/5/202182COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/5/202148MATH.CALMITLec 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.
4/6/202148BIOL.IMMMITMIT 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.
4/6/202181COMP.DLTMITMIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 7. Technical Challenges [Gary Gensler]
4/7/202160RELI.HSTAncient 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.
4/7/202165PHYS.THEPerimeter Institute for Theoretical PhysicsConvergence 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.
4/7/202176COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/9/202181COMP.DLTMITMIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 9. Permissioned Systems [Gary Gensler]
4/9/202176PHYS.PARFermiLabScientific Seminar: First results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab [Fermilab, Chris Polly, Aida El-KhadraLC - 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.
4/10/202174GOVTYaleLecture 8: Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government [Yale, Ian Shapiro]
4/11/202151BIOL.IMMMITMIT 7.016 Introductory Biology, Fall 2018, Lecture 33. Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance [Barbara Imperiali]
4/12/202151COMP.QUAIntroduction 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.
27BIOL.EVOScrippsDeep Dive: Evolutionary Developmental Biology [Scripps Oceanography, Deirdre Lyons]
4/13/202181COMP.DLTMITMIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 10. Financial System Challenges & Opportunities [Gary Gensler]
4/14/202177COMP.DLTMITMIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Lecture 11. Blockchain Economics [Gary Gensler]
4/15/202175COMP.DLTMITMIT 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.
4/16/202163GOVT.CCPCSISChina’s New Legislative Agenda: Unpacking China’s “Two Meetings” [CSIS, Scott Kennedy, Jude Blanchette, Bonnie Glaser, Mikko Huotari]
4/17/202145BIOL.GENSequencing DNA with Linux Cores and Nanopores [Linux Conference Australia, David Eccles]
4/19/202177PHYS.PARElectron-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.]
4/19/202151PHYS.EMGMIT8.02x - Lect 16 - Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday’s Law, Lenz Law, SUPER DEMO [MIT Walter Lewin]
4/20/202154COMP.ARTStanford UniversityStanford 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.
4/21/202149MATH.CALMITLec 22 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 [David Jerison]
4/22/202183GPOLFPRIWhat is Eurasia? - Stephen Kotkin [FPRI]
4/23/202191ECON.LABBerggruen InstituteAfter the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked [Berggruen Institute, Juliet Schor, Trebor Schulz, Yakov Feygin]
4/23/202180PHYS.PARUC BerkeleyThe Higgs Boson Explained [Berkeley, Mark Richards, Beate Heinemann, Lawrence Hall, Marjorie Shapiro, Josh Ruderman, Louise Skinnari]
4/24/202162NEUR.VISAllen InstituteCoding 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.
4/24/202152GPOL.CYBThe 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.
4/26/202188BIOL.CELHCA 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;
4/26/202175PHYS.ASTFermiLabAt 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.
3/5/202262GPOLPrinceton Bendheim Center for FinanceSergei Guriev on The Implications of Sanctions on the Russian Economy [Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance]
4/8/2022The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 16. The Importance of George Washington
4/9/2022The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 17. The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)
4/10/2022Calculus 1 Lecture 1.5: Slope of a Curve, Velocity, and Rates of Change
4/10/2022The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 18. Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture
4/10/2022Redefining Value w/ SourceCred
4/12/202214Demystifying The Metric Tensor in General Relativity
4/13/2022The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 19. War and Society
4/14/2022Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism & Democracy for a Just Society | Glen Weyl | Talks at Google
4/18/202277International Centre for Theoretical SciencesThe Population-Genetic Environment (Lecture 1)by Michael Lynch
4/21/2022110CalTechBlack Holes & Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right?- Saul Teukolsky - 04/08/2022
4/21/202243The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 20. Confederation
4/23/202247The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 21. A Union Without Power
4/24/202264D.C. Bar Pro Bono CenterDeveloping Better Bylaws - Supporting Mission, Governance and Operations at Your Nonprofit
4/24/202240RadicalxChange Fireside Chat (Natalia Olson-Urtecho and Rahilla Zafar)
4/24/202244The American Revolution (HIST 116) (Joanne Freeman) 22. The Road to a Constitutional Convention
4/25/202269MITMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020 12. Carbohydrates/Introduction to Membranes (Matthew Vander Heiden)
4/26/202246YaleThe American Revolution (HIST 116) 23. Creating a Constitution
4/26/202251Overview on Nuclear Physics: Lecture 1 (Nico Orce)
4/28/202214Catalyst UniversityThe Vomeronasal Organ, Pheromones, & Mating Behavior
4/28/202248Hominin Evolution, Part 1: The First 5 Million Years
4/29/202276Calculus 1 Lecture 2.1: Introduction to the Derivative of a Function
4/29/202241YaleThe American Revolution (HIST 116) 24. Creating a Nation (Joanne Freeman)
4/29/202270Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Republic (John Foster)
8/3/2022114CalTechBlack Holes in Globular Clusters - Kyle Kremer - 07/15/2022
8/7/202250Centre for EthicsClifford Ando, Pax Romana: Peace, Pacification, and the Ethics of Empire
8/7/202253Calculus 1 Lecture 2.8: Related Rates
8/14/202294Calculus 1 Lecture 3.1: Increasing/Decreasing and Concavity of Functions
8/15/20227Calculus 1 Lecture 3.2: A BRIEF Discussion of Rolle’s Theorem and Mean-Value Theorem.
8/18/202226Calculus 1 Lecture 3.3: The First Derivative Test for Increasing and Decreasing
8/18/202228Einstein’s Field Equations of General Relativity Explained
8/21/202238US Army War CollegeClausewitz Theory of War, Background and Trinity
8/21/202253Fire Of LearningHistory of England - Documentary
8/21/202236Relativity 107b: General Relativity Basics - Manifolds, Covariant Derivative, Geodesics
8/26/202246GoogleClausewitz: His Life and Work | Donald Stoker | Talks at Google
8/27/202258Naropa UniversityRam Dass Q&A on the Bhagavad Gita, Spiritual Pitfalls & Providence - Here and Now Ep. 194
8/27/202215How Cells Produce ATP from Carbohydrates, Proteins and Lipids MCAT Biochemistry Metabolism
8/27/202254Allen InstituteNeurons: Beyond the Textbook - Educator Webinar
8/29/202257FPRIDemocracy: A German Affair
8/30/202252StanfordJames Sheehan, How and Why Democracies Fail: The Fall of Weimar Germany
9/2/202271Modern France (Lecture 1): The French Revolution
9/2/202235Calculus 1 Lecture 3.4: The Second Derivative Test for Concavity of Functions
9/2/202250National WWI MuseumPershing Lecture Series: Embattled Weimar, 1920 - Dr. Scott Stephenson
9/3/202256The Origins of Rosicrucianism (a lecture by: Jonathan Barlow Gee)
9/9/202264University of PennsylvaniaStephen Kotkin- Paradoxes of Power Lecture- University of Pennsylvania Bookstore
9/9/202253National WWI MuseumAmerica and the World War, 1914-1917 - Michael Neiberg
9/12/202248UC Davis Mind InstituteDevelopment of human amygdala-prefrontal cortex circuitry and the role of the caregiver (Nim Tottenham, Ph.D)
9/14/202247Gresham CollegeThomas More’s Magnificent Utopia - Dr Richard Serjeantson
9/18/202244Yale6. Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation
9/18/202284Calculus 1 Lecture 3.5: Limits of Functions at Infinity
9/19/202253The Weimar Republic 1918-1933 - Lecture by Eric Tolman
9/19/202293Calculus 1 Lecture 3.6: How to Sketch Graphs of Functions