Monthly Archives: January 2015

Exclusive Interview: Jim Rickards & Peter Schiff Discuss Global Gold Markets [Full Discus – Video

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Med school hosts Harry Potter exhibit

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This winter, Yale has one more reason to consider itself a second Hogwarts.

This week, Harry Potters World an exhibit about Renaissance science, magic and medicine in J.K. Rowlings celebrated series debuted at the Yale School of Medicine. The exhibit is on loan from the U.S. National Library of Medicine until Feb. 28, 2015. Given the popularity of the subject matter, the library has waited several years for the exhibit to become available. A lecture series is slated to complement the material covered in the six-panel exhibit.

Its exciting that Harry Potter can be used to get people excited about medical history, said Elizabeth Bland, who curated the exhibit at the National Library of Medicine. Especially given that rare books are not as immediately accessible.

The exhibit is centered around six themes: potions, monsters, herbology, magical creatures, fantastic beasts and immortality. Each panel focuses on the themes appearance in Harry Potter, how it relates to Renaissance magic and medicine, and how it manifests itself in centuries-old texts.

University Clinical Support Librarian Denise Hersey, who chaired the working group responsible for organizing Yale events associated with the traveling exhibit, said the Medical Historical Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library own many of the Renaissance-era texts cited in the panels. But because the exhibit is not housed in an environment suitable for display of the rare books, they are only available on request, she said.

Bland said Rowlings fascination with alchemists led her to borrow from historical figures in alchemy when creating her characters. She said that Paracelsus, who is featured on the Chocolate Frog card a popular piece of Harry Potter paraphernalia pioneered medical treatments during the Renaissance. In addition, Nicolas Flamel, who is responsible for creating the philosophers stone in the book series, had a posthumous reputation as an alchemist and was rumored to be immortal.

[Rowling] tried to create a physical, visceral world based on both fictional and real people, Bland said.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the library will host lectures concerning elements of Renaissance science found in the world of Harry Potter such as pharmaceuticals and immortality.

Exhibition Registrar of the National Library of Medicine Jill Newmark said the exhibit has been traveling to libraries and universities around the world since 2009. Bland said she was originally inspired to curate the exhibit because she wanted to explore parallels between some of the ethical issues presented in the novels and the challenges encountered by real historical figures.

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Is this the Earnest, Fast-Paced Future of Science Communication?

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Its the quintessential college experience: late nights, pizza, and heady intellectual conversations. And then there was that one friend, whose philosophical musings would bring unconnected thoughts together into a stream of mellifluous prose; it all sounded pretty convincing at the time even if the specifics were hazy leaving us with the sense of fertile pastures just outside our mental grasp.

Jason Silva is the polished, better-sourced, hipper version of that roommate, one that can walk the walk in addition to talking the very frenetic talk. As the creator of the Shots of Awe video series (see an example at the end of this post) and host of National Geographics Brain Games, Silva has made a name for himself as a leading science evangelist and technology enthusiast.

But unlike the professorial Bill Nye or the authoritative Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Silva takes a different communications tack, guiding us through a journey of wonder rather than telling us precisely how it is. Its a refreshing antidote to the jaded, nothing-but-the-facts approach taken by scientists who feel they have the moral high ground, an approach that only serves to propagate a culture war. Im interested in exultation, wonderment, inspiration, and content that acts as a decentering experience, says Silva, using language that could just as easily apply to a religious experience. And in many ways, thats just what the modern world is to Silva, with its delivery and continued promise of new knowledge and techno-futurism.

To Silva, the sequence of events that, as he puts it, took a naked ape and put him on the Moon, required a carefully calibrated balance of human instincts. We are naturally curious explorers, certainly, but unbridled wanderings without focused expertise isnt particularly productive. On the other hand, ceaseless technical development and capacity building without an inspired objective leads to products with subpar utility. We love security and ritual and routine, Silva reflects, but also mystery and danger. We need to find a way to dance between these two modes, and I think thats a tough skill to develop. Theres got to be a functional output.

Silvas projects cover a wide range of subjects and flavors of functional output. His Shots of Awe are a way to eternalize fleeting epiphanies, two-minute serums meant to inspire and develop questions rather than to provide detailed explanations. Silva himself is involved with every aspect of production, from video clip curation to music selection and editing, and with a new video every week its an ambitious schedule. Brain Games* is a larger enterprise, a surprise hit for the National Geographic Channel that has offered a glimmer of educational hope as lifestyle shows dumb down other corners of the cable universe. Silva credits the shows production and writing teams, who combine triple-vetted science with a screenwriters instinct for pacing and storytelling.

If too-cool-for-school detachment seems to be on its way out as a cultural sensibility as presaged by empathy-bolstering websites like Upworthy, and Humans of New York then earnestness is a growth stock and Silva is a blue chip. By his own admission, Silva is terrified of boredom, which he characterizes as a coping mechanism to gird ourselves from the exhausting state of constant mental engagement with the world. By chasing novel connections and challenging viewers, Silva hopes to scramble previous mental models and demand a fruitful, if challenging, reconstruction. When you lose your center, you have to reconstruct your beliefs and understanding about the world, he notes. Any engagement that is potent must first disrupt.

*Brain Games airs Mondays at 9pm ET on National Geographic Channel.

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Synopsis | Charles De Gaulle: Futurist Of The Nation By Regis Debray – Video

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Citizen Skyhawk Blue Angels on a NATO! – Video

Posted: January 22, 2015 at 11:53 pm


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Opening remarks by Chairman of NATO Military Committee – NATO Chiefs of Defence Meeting, 21 JAN 2015 – Video

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Opening remarks by Chairman of NATO Military Committee - NATO Chiefs of Defence Meeting, 21 JAN 2015
Opening remarks by the Chairman of the Military Committee, General Knud Bartels, at the 172nd meeting of the Military Committee in Chiefs of Staff session, 21 January 2015. More from the event:...

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NATO Leaders Discuss Russian Actions Toward Ukraine – Video

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NATO Leaders Discuss Russian Actions Toward Ukraine
2015 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs GEN Martin Dempsey is closely following reports of Russian activity in Ukraine while meeting with NATO leaders in Brussels.

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NATO detects key Russian military equipment in east Ukraine

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By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) - Fighting in eastern Ukraine is fiercer than ever in some locations, NATO's top commander in Europe said Thursday - adding that the weapons systems seen now in the region have in the past heralded a fresh incursion by Russian troops.

"Violence has intensified and changed character in Ukraine," U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove told a news conference at NATO headquarters. He said the fighting has re-escalated to levels seen before the Sept. 5 Minsk cease-fire agreement "and in some cases beyond."

Questioned by reporters, Breedlove, the alliance's chief commander in Europe, said he couldn't confirm Ukrainian authorities' statements that 9,000 Russian troops had entered the country.

"(But) what we do see is that the Russian-backed forces have renewed capability now to bring pressure on the Ukrainian forces, and have in several places moved the line of contact to the west," he added.

What's more, said Breedlove, NATO intelligence has begun to detect "the signatures of air defense systems and electronic warfare systems that have accompanied past Russian troop movements into Ukraine."

He declined to specify which systems, and whether they include the Buk mobile surface-to-air missile battery blamed for shooting down a Malaysian jetliner on July 17, killing all 298 people aboard. But on two prior occasions, Breedlove said, deployment of such weaponry was accompanied by a border crossing by Russian troops.

"We see the same types of equipment, etc. in eastern Ukraine now," he said.

Breedlove spoke after defense chiefs from NATO's 28 nations met to help the alliance meet its wide-ranging agenda for 2015.

Without disclosing many details, Breedlove said a decision was made taken to restore direct contacts between NATO and the chief of the Russian general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, ties that were broken off after Russia's annexation of Crimea last March.

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NATO Secretary General Praises Bulgarian Contribution to Alliance

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NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg praised on Wednesday the participation of Bulgaria in the missions and operations of the Alliance.

During his meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Stoltenberg also commended the high reputation of Bulgarian military personnel, the government's press service reports.

Borisov and Stoltenberg also discussed the cooperation within the framework of the Alliance and the Readiness Action Plan, which was approved at the Wales Summit in September 2014.

Borisov highlighted that the resources allocated for defence have to be spent in pragmatic and efficient way.

This was necessary in order to strike a balance between the opportunities of the budget and the maintenance of highly prepared and materially equipped armed forces.

The initiatives of NATO and the EU, which provide opportunities for smart defence and sharing of capacities, were also underlined.

Other topics of discussion included regional and energy security.

Bulgaria was also visited by the Deputy Chairman of NATO's Military Committee Lieutenant General Mark Schissler last week.

The increase of the operational compatibility between the armed forces of Bulgaria and NATO was in the focus of Schissler's visit.

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Activu in the News: NSA Says ‘Traumatic’ Cyber Attack Coming – Video

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