While it's clear that stress can make depression worse, it's never been clear why this is. Dr. Owen Wolkowitz, a professor of psychiatry at UCSF, explores the biological connection between stress and depression. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [1/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17621]

Stanford Provost John Etchemendy attempts to define the essence and purpose of universities and the research, education, students, sports, and arts and culture embodied therewith. Stanford's mission statement promotes the creation, proliferation, and preservation of knowledge, but what is the importance of this in contemporary society?

In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's presidency. He also talks about the current potential for war with Iraq and why he feels that would be a major mistake for the United States. Series: Voices [1/2003] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7033]

“What I really worry about is our reaction to 9-11…a thousand little steps from a visa rejection by a visa officer in Chennai to a grant proposal denied, to a research paper blocked to funds not spent, or spent somewhere else, that we could get, the total sum of these things would be something that really eats at the DNA of openness, interoperability, and interactiveness with the world—the American DNA.”

Randy Pausch Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.

Repeated games create possibilities for future rewards and punishments to be used to elicit "cooperative" behaviour. This lecture looks at a simple twice repeated game to get the basic idea across, then at the infintely repeated prisoner's dilemma. The 2008 lectures do a better job on repeated games and reputations, drawing from Kreps. Original mp4's of this video and other resources related to the lectures from my introductory game theory course at the University of Canterbury , Econ 223, can be obtained at http://uctv.canterbury.ac.nz/ You'll also find the 2008 lectures - better in some respect - but only 16 out of 22 are edited.

Dr Murray N Rothbard delivers a brilliant talk on what he describes as America's only two "just" wars. Explanation is given as to why these two conflicts fit into a "just" category and why all other wars, including WWI & WWII, are illegitimate.

Murray N Rothbard is probably the most recognized mind behind the modern resurgence of Jeffersonianism and libertarianism, and is a brilliant communicator of austrian economics in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises.

All of Dr Rothbard's works, both books and lectures, can be found at the site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute at http://www.mises.org.

Physicist Stephen Jones gives his presentation "Whats New in 9/11 Research" at the 9/11 Symposium in Weats Hartford CT. 11/03/07 Dr. Jones is a founding member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice and The Journal of 9/11 Studies.

PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence - Fall 2006. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense.