Steve Keen talks about instability inherent in high debt economies. He does this while modeling economies on a computer and demonstrating the oscillations. Video Notes I have seen this kind of stability analysis applied before. It is valid for circuits and system functions – I would posit it is valid Read more…
Comments This video is not the most entertaining as the speaker has a thick Germanic accent. However the topic of generating a single photon is important for being able to do experimental quantum physics. Summary In recent years there has been increasing interest in systems capable to generate photon fields Read more…
Video Summary Phantom limbs – pain – mirror box therapy and how body image/mapping leads to cramp in a phantom limb Can not recognize mother or father because of severing of visual cortex from amygdala Temporal lobes role in applying level of importance to things in the world via emotion Read more…
The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics presents a lecture by Nobel Laureate and Berkeley grad, David Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He will discuss "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics." The lecture is part of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics Opening Symposium on October Read more…
David Mermin is great presenter. Emailed him and tried to get him to grade my solution to the homework problem. He did not want to give away the answer and spoil future talks.
The presenter examines the worst jobs of the dark ages and selects what he considers to be the worst. After selecting he performs the job to see what it was like. Worst jobs up to 1066. Viewing Notes hard – messy – frightening jobs written history starts with Roman invasions Read more…
This is more an economic and political history of Britain than anything else. The economic and political epochs of Britain are covered with nothing else talked about. Even cultural events mentioned have strong bearing on economics with an example being a massive party that was the prototype rave. Raves of Read more…
floating ribbon of carbon nanotube sheet near the end
Con 1 & 2 = confidence men Person 3 = victim The steps con 1 engages victim in conversation con 2 walks by and "finds" a wallets with 3000 dollars in it. He opens wallet and says "wow" we should keep it con 1 says no wait it might be Read more…