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Lecture 1 — Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
First lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section): * Cryptographic hash functions 1:51 * Hash pointers and data structures 20:28 * Digital signatures 29:25 * Public keys as identities 39:04 * A simple cryptocurrency 44:39
published: 16 Feb 2015 -
James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera
James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug. "The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled. In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the ...
published: 16 Jun 2012 -
Minerva Lectures 2013 - Terence Tao Talk 1: Sets with few ordinary lines
For more information please visit: http://math.princeton.edu/events/seminars/minerva-lectures/minerva-lecture-i-sets-few-ordinary-lines
published: 24 May 2013 -
Albert Einstein in his office at Princeton University
published: 28 Jun 2014 -
Lec 01 - Linear Algebra | Princeton University
Review sessions given at Princeton University in Spring 2008 by Adrian Banner. To watch the entire course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqzsq0erqU7w7ZrTZ-pWWk4-AOkiGEGp
published: 16 Mar 2013 -
Kurt Gödel Centenary Full Lectures from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
My other Gödel videos start with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2DY8WvSOLU and my Georg Cantor videos start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26Ioa3WAtc http://garygeck.com for more info. Held at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Kurt Godel A Program to Mark the Centenary Year of the Birth of Kurt Gödel was held in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study on November 17, 2006. The program, which attracted some three-hundred people, consisted of talks aimed at a general audience on the life and work of Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) and his impact on mathematics, philosophy and computer science. Kurt Gödel was among the Institute's first Members in 1933-34, returning for further periods in the 1930s and 1940s before joining the Faculty in 1953. He remained at the In...
published: 02 May 2012 -
Lecture 2 — How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
Second lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section): * Centralization vs. decentralization 1:12 * Distributed consensus 4:45 * Consensus without identity: the block chain 17:46 * Incentives and proof of work 35:43 * Putting it all together 55:39
published: 23 Feb 2015 -
Lec 1 | MIT 14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics
Lecture 1: Introduction to Microeconomics Instructor: Jon Gruber, 14.01 students View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/14-01SCF10 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
published: 24 Jan 2012 -
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1
Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded September 22, 2008 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Stanford Continuing Studies: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/ About Leonard Susskind: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
published: 14 Jan 2009 -
Lawrence Krauss Lecture - Unifying Space and Time - Hidden Realities. Science
Facebook ► https://goo.gl/XWtyBV Krauss is a critic of string theory, which he discusses in his 2005 book Hiding in the Mirror. In his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing Krauss says about string theory "we still have no idea if this remarkable theoretical edifice actually has anything to do with the real world." Another book, released in March 2011, titled Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science, while A Universe from Nothing —with an afterword by Richard Dawkins—was released in January 2012 and became a New York Times bestseller within a week. Originally, its foreword was to have been written by Christopher Hitchens, but Hitchens grew too ill to complete it. The paperback version of the book appeared in January 2013 with a new question-and-answer section and a preface integrating t...
published: 02 Apr 2017 -
The Standard Model | Lecture 1
The first in a series of 15 lectures on the standard model of particle physics, given by Paul Langacker of Princeton at the 2013-2014 PSI. This lecture covers the historical background of particle physics. If you're having trouble seeing the board at any point in the lectures, you can check out this pdf with snapshots of the board -- one shot for each change that occurs: http://pirsa.org/pdf/loadpdf.php?pirsa_number=14010008 These are NOT my videos! All rights, credit, etc. go to the Perimeter Institute, which can be found at the website linked to below) would be a nice addition. All the videos come from, and can be downloaded from in various formats and from previous years, the Perimeter Institute (where these lectures took place) website: http://perimeterscholars.org/444.html Before...
published: 11 Oct 2014 -
The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895 as Historical Fables
The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Undoing/Redoing Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural and Intellectual History, Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University From Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies watch a lecture on the "rise of Japan" and the "fall of China" in the late nineteenth century are story lines that dominated Sinology and Japanology in the twentieth century. In the first lecture, Benjamin Elman will use a 2006 website controversy concerning Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to indicate that in the twenty-first century we are entering new historical terrain vis-à-vis "modern" China and Japan. Wars and cultural history are inseparable. The competing/complementary narratives constructed by the victors and the losers of wars on the ground and a...
published: 07 Jun 2011 -
Einstein in Princeton
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is the world's most famous theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Einstein was visiting the United States; he decided not to return to Germany. He settled in Princeton, New Jersey, becoming an American citizen in 1940. Einstein was a familiar figure about town on his bicycle. He embraced many causes, including nuclear disarmament and civil rights. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton until his death. "It Happened Here: New Jersey" is a production of Kean University, in partnership with the New Jersey Historical Commission. The series is narrated by Willie Geist. PCK Media is serving as producer of the series. For more information about this and other activities p...
published: 12 May 2014 -
Princeton University lecture - "Religion and and Money"
Dr. DeForest Soaries tells his personal story of how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced who he is and what he does today. Dr. Soaries describes the evolution from civil rights to financial freedom from the perspective of his 23 year experience as pastor of First Baptist Church in Somerset, NJ. This lecture gives background to his church's response to crass consumerism and propsperity theology.
published: 20 Oct 2014 -
Lecture by Prof. David Spergel from Princeton University
10/27/2011 2011-2012 Series of Lectures on Astrophysics and Cosmology: science of the cosmos, science in the cosmos Lecture: "Taking the baby picture of the universe" Synopsis: Observations of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the Big Bang, are snapshots of the universe as it was only three hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. These observations have addressed many of the issues that have driven cosmology over the past decades: How old is the universe? What is its shape and size? What is the composition of the universe? How do galaxies emerge? In this lecture, David Spergel focuses on the results from NASA´s Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) and upcoming measurements from ESA´s PLANK satellite. While there has been significant progress, many key c...
published: 17 Oct 2013 -
Lec 02 - Multivariable Calculus | Princeton University
Attention: Unfortunately, there is no recorded Lecture 1. The course starts with lecture 2. Review sessions given at Princeton University in Fall 2007 by Adrian Banner. To watch entire course, here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqzsq0erqU7h6_bpE-CgJp4iX5aRju28
published: 06 Mar 2013 -
Princeton in Europe Lecture, Diarmaid MacCulloch "What if Arianism had won?"
The fourth annual Princeton in Europe Lecture -- Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch asks 'What if Arianism had won?' The most noticeable and remarkable thing about Western Europe in what we call the Middle Ages is its cultural and religious unity, united by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language for worship and scholarship. Western Europeans tend to take this united medieval phase of their history for granted, but it is unique in human history for a region to be so dominated by a single form of monotheistic religion and its accompanying culture for a thousand-year period. The dominance of the Church which looked to the Bishop of Rome was a freak in human experience, albeit a freak with profound consequences for the present day. With this exercise in counterfact...
published: 15 Apr 2014 -
Lecture 3 — Mechanics of Bitcoin
Third lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section): * Bitcoin transactions 1:44 * Bitcoin scripts 11:42 * Application of Bitcoin scripts 27:20 * Bitcoin blocks 42:09 * The Bitcoin network 47:58 * Limitations & improvements 1:08:02
published: 02 Mar 2015 -
Differential Topology | Lecture 1 by John W. Milnor
Soon after winning the Fields Medal in 1962, a young John Milnor gave these now-famous lectures and wrote his timeless Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint -http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/dedo/top%20diff/Milnor%20J.%20Topology%20from%20the%20differentiable%20viewpoint%20(Princeton,%201965).pdf , which has influenced generations of mathematicians. The lectures, filmed by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), were unavailable for years but recently resurfaced. With Simons Foundation funding, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute has produced these digital reproductions as a resource for the mathematics and science communities. Milnor was awarded the Abel Prize in 2011 for his work in topology, geometry and algebra. The sequel to these lectures, written several mathemat...
published: 29 Mar 2014 -
Nima Arkani-Hamed Public Lecture: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century
Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Perimeter Institute and Institute for Advanced Study) delivers the second lecture of the 2014/15 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Held at Perimeter Institute and webcast live worldwide on Nov. 6, 2014, Arkani-Hamed's lecture explores the exciting concepts of quantum mechanics and spacetime, and how our evolving understanding of their importance in fundamental physics will shape the field in the 21st Century. Perimeter Institute Public Lectures are held in the first week of each month. More information on Perimeter Public Lectures: http://ow.ly/DCYPc Join the conversation: @Perimeter #piLIVE
published: 07 Nov 2014 -
Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates
January 25, 2012 - John Cooper gives the first of two lectures in the Tanner Lecture Series. This first lecture focuses on some of the ancient philosophies of Aristotle and how they apply to life today. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Center for Ethics in Society: http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ Tanner Lecture Series: http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
published: 01 Mar 2012 -
Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining
Fifth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section): * The task of Bitcoin miners 0:15 * Mining hardware 10:17 * Energy consumption & ecology 33:38 * Mining pools 50:16 * Mining incentives and strategies 1:04:29
published: 16 Mar 2015 -
Alexander Polyakov (Princeton University) Impossible Hyperbolae
Alexander Polyakov (Princeton University) Impossible Hyperbolae
published: 28 Feb 2016 -
Lecture 9 — Bitcoin as a Platform
Ninth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course. For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ In this lecture: * Bitcoin as an append-only log * Bitcoins as “smart property” * Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin * Bitcoin as randomness source * Prediction markets & real-world data feeds
published: 13 Apr 2015
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Lecture 1 — Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
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- Updated: 16 Feb 2015
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First lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):
* Cryptographic hash functions 1:51
* Hash pointers and data structures 20:28
* Digital signatures 29:25
* Public keys as identities 39:04
* A simple cryptocurrency 44:39
https://wn.com/Lecture_1_—_Intro_To_Crypto_And_Cryptocurrencies
James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera
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- Updated: 16 Jun 2012
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James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims.
https://wn.com/James_The_Amazing_Randi_Lecture_At_Princeton_The_Search_For_The_Chimera
Minerva Lectures 2013 - Terence Tao Talk 1: Sets with few ordinary lines
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- Duration: 50:13
- Updated: 24 May 2013
- views: 107292
For more information please visit: http://math.princeton.edu/events/seminars/minerva-lectures/minerva-lecture-i-sets-few-ordinary-lines
https://wn.com/Minerva_Lectures_2013_Terence_Tao_Talk_1_Sets_With_Few_Ordinary_Lines
Albert Einstein in his office at Princeton University
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- Updated: 28 Jun 2014
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Lec 01 - Linear Algebra | Princeton University
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- Duration: 1:58:46
- Updated: 16 Mar 2013
- views: 233466
Review sessions given at Princeton University in Spring 2008 by Adrian Banner.
To watch the entire course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqzsq0erqU7w7ZrTZ-pWWk4-AOkiGEGp
https://wn.com/Lec_01_Linear_Algebra_|_Princeton_University
Kurt Gödel Centenary Full Lectures from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
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- Duration: 2:58:07
- Updated: 02 May 2012
- views: 30893
My other Gödel videos start with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2DY8WvSOLU
and my Georg Cantor videos start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26Ioa3WAtc
http://garygeck.com for more info.
Held at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
Kurt Godel A Program to Mark the Centenary Year of the Birth of Kurt Gödel was held in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study on November 17, 2006. The program, which attracted some three-hundred people, consisted of talks aimed at a general audience on the life and work of Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) and his impact on mathematics, philosophy and computer science.
Kurt Gödel was among the Institute's first Members in 1933-34, returning for further periods in the 1930s and 1940s before joining the Faculty in 1953. He remained at the Institute until his death in 1978.
Lectures on this video:
"At Odds with the Zeitgeist: Kurt Gödel's Life and Work"
John W. Dawson, Jr., The Pennsylvania State University
[He talks about the Leibniz conspiracy at around: 36:00 ]
Panel Discussion with Speakers starts at: 40:00
Moderated by Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki
"Kurt Gödel and Computer Science" starts at 01:19:43
Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study
Karl Sigmund (University of Vienna) starts at 01:57:40
"The Nature and Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems" starts at 02:13:49
Solomon Feferman, Stanford University
https://wn.com/Kurt_Gödel_Centenary_Full_Lectures_From_The_Princeton_Institute_For_Advanced_Study
Lecture 2 — How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
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- Updated: 23 Feb 2015
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Second lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):
* Centralization vs. decentralization 1:12
* Distributed consensus 4:45
* Consensus without identity: the block chain 17:46
* Incentives and proof of work 35:43
* Putting it all together 55:39
https://wn.com/Lecture_2_—_How_Bitcoin_Achieves_Decentralization
Lec 1 | MIT 14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics
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- Updated: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 750996
Lecture 1: Introduction to Microeconomics
Instructor: Jon Gruber, 14.01 students
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/14-01SCF10
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms
More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
https://wn.com/Lec_1_|_Mit_14.01Sc_Principles_Of_Microeconomics
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1
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- Updated: 14 Jan 2009
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Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded September 22, 2008 at Stanford University.
This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
Stanford Continuing Studies:
http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/
About Leonard Susskind:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html
Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford
https://wn.com/Einstein's_General_Theory_Of_Relativity_|_Lecture_1
Lawrence Krauss Lecture - Unifying Space and Time - Hidden Realities. Science
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- Updated: 02 Apr 2017
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Facebook ► https://goo.gl/XWtyBV
Krauss is a critic of string theory, which he discusses in his 2005 book Hiding in the Mirror. In his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing Krauss says about string theory "we still have no idea if this remarkable theoretical edifice actually has anything to do with the real world." Another book, released in March 2011, titled Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science, while A Universe from Nothing —with an afterword by Richard Dawkins—was released in January 2012 and became a New York Times bestseller within a week. Originally, its foreword was to have been written by Christopher Hitchens, but Hitchens grew too ill to complete it. The paperback version of the book appeared in January 2013 with a new question-and-answer section and a preface integrating the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC.
A July 2012 article in Newsweek, written by Krauss, indicates how the Higgs particle is related to our understanding of the Big Bang. He also wrote a longer piece in the New York Times explaining the science behind and significance of the particle
https://wn.com/Lawrence_Krauss_Lecture_Unifying_Space_And_Time_Hidden_Realities._Science
The Standard Model | Lecture 1
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- Updated: 11 Oct 2014
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The first in a series of 15 lectures on the standard model of particle physics, given by Paul Langacker of Princeton at the 2013-2014 PSI. This lecture covers the historical background of particle physics.
If you're having trouble seeing the board at any point in the lectures, you can check out this pdf with snapshots of the board -- one shot for each change that occurs:
http://pirsa.org/pdf/loadpdf.php?pirsa_number=14010008
These are NOT my videos! All rights, credit, etc. go to the Perimeter Institute, which can be found at the website linked to below) would be a nice addition. All the videos come from, and can be downloaded from in various formats and from previous years, the Perimeter Institute (where these lectures took place) website:
http://perimeterscholars.org/444.html
Before attacking these topics, it would be wise have first have familiarity with quantum field theory. Excellent lectures on these topics given by David Tong (of Cambridge) and Francois David at the Perimeter Institute in 2009 and 2011, respectively, can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCFDAC024C6B67171&feature=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhSjK9aGXjoc6EhKcaLMYpafw0ROmR1w&feature=mh_lolz
For more resources on the material presented here itself, you can check out the wonderful lectures by Leonard Susskind at Stanford:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8BCB4981DD1A0108
Langacker also has a book on the standard model that can be found here:
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420079067
Also be sure to check out his website for the book, which has corrections, lecture notes, homework problems, exams, etc:
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~pgl/SMB/
Moreover, if you can't buy the above book, or don't have access to a library, you can check out the (much shorter) notes for his TASI2008 lectures:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0241
Lastly, you can also check out these texts:
http://www.cambridge.org/tw/academic/subjects/physics/theoretical-physics-and-mathematical-physics/quantum-field-theory-and-standard-model
http://www.cambridge.org/tw/academic/subjects/physics/particle-physics-and-nuclear-physics/modern-particle-physics
https://wn.com/The_Standard_Model_|_Lecture_1
The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895 as Historical Fables
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- Duration: 2:02:33
- Updated: 07 Jun 2011
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The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Undoing/Redoing Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural and Intellectual History, Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University
From Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies watch a lecture on the "rise of Japan" and the "fall of China" in the late nineteenth century are story lines that dominated Sinology and Japanology in the twentieth century. In the first lecture, Benjamin Elman will use a 2006 website controversy concerning Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to indicate that in the twenty-first century we are entering new historical terrain vis-à-vis "modern" China and Japan. Wars and cultural history are inseparable. The competing/complementary narratives constructed by the victors and the losers of wars on the ground and at sea enshroud the past in a thick ideological fog. Seeing through the fog created by the "First" (or was it the "Second"? the "Third"?) Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 allows us to place Sino-Japanese cultural interactions before 1894 in a new light with less teleology and fewer blind spots. The Meiji "rise of Japan" as event and narrative empowered uniquely "modernist" critiques of the "decadence" of Chinese art, traditional Chinese history, and conveniently provided Chinese revolutionaries with a "failed China" in a post-war East Asian world.
https://wn.com/The_Great_Reversal_The_Rise_Of_Japan_And_The_Fall_Of_China_After_1895_As_Historical_Fables
Einstein in Princeton
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- Updated: 12 May 2014
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is the world's most famous theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Einstein was visiting the United States; he decided not to return to Germany. He settled in Princeton, New Jersey, becoming an American citizen in 1940. Einstein was a familiar figure about town on his bicycle. He embraced many causes, including nuclear disarmament and civil rights. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton until his death.
"It Happened Here: New Jersey" is a production of Kean University, in partnership with the New Jersey Historical Commission. The series is narrated by Willie Geist. PCK Media is serving as producer of the series. For more information about this and other activities planned for New Jersey's 350th Anniversary, visit www.officialnj350.com.
https://wn.com/Einstein_In_Princeton
Princeton University lecture - "Religion and and Money"
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- Updated: 20 Oct 2014
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Dr. DeForest Soaries tells his personal story of how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced who he is and what he does today. Dr. Soaries describes the evolution from civil rights to financial freedom from the perspective of his 23 year experience as pastor of First Baptist Church in Somerset, NJ. This lecture gives background to his church's response to crass consumerism and propsperity theology.
https://wn.com/Princeton_University_Lecture_Religion_And_And_Money
Lecture by Prof. David Spergel from Princeton University
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- Duration: 1:19:37
- Updated: 17 Oct 2013
- views: 2187
10/27/2011
2011-2012 Series of Lectures on Astrophysics and Cosmology: science of the cosmos, science in the cosmos
Lecture: "Taking the baby picture of the universe"
Synopsis:
Observations of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the Big Bang, are snapshots of the universe as it was only three hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. These observations have addressed many of the issues that have driven cosmology over the past decades: How old is the universe? What is its shape and size? What is the composition of the universe? How do galaxies emerge? In this lecture, David Spergel focuses on the results from NASA´s Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) and upcoming measurements from ESA´s PLANK satellite.
While there has been significant progress, many key cosmological questions remain unanswered: What happened during the first moments of the Big Bang? What is dark energy? What were the properties of the first stars? Spergel discusses how future observations may start to answer these new and deeper questions.
https://wn.com/Lecture_By_Prof._David_Spergel_From_Princeton_University
Lec 02 - Multivariable Calculus | Princeton University
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- Updated: 06 Mar 2013
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Attention: Unfortunately, there is no recorded Lecture 1. The course starts with lecture 2.
Review sessions given at Princeton University in Fall 2007 by Adrian Banner.
To watch entire course, here is the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqzsq0erqU7h6_bpE-CgJp4iX5aRju28
https://wn.com/Lec_02_Multivariable_Calculus_|_Princeton_University
Princeton in Europe Lecture, Diarmaid MacCulloch "What if Arianism had won?"
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- Updated: 15 Apr 2014
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The fourth annual Princeton in Europe Lecture -- Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch asks 'What if Arianism had won?'
The most noticeable and remarkable thing about Western Europe in what we call the Middle Ages is its cultural and religious unity, united by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language for worship and scholarship. Western Europeans tend to take this united medieval phase of their history for granted, but it is unique in human history for a region to be so dominated by a single form of monotheistic religion and its accompanying culture for a thousand-year period. The dominance of the Church which looked to the Bishop of Rome was a freak in human experience, albeit a freak with profound consequences for the present day.
With this exercise in counterfactual history, Diarmaid MacCulloch draws on his experience of writing and filming an overview history of Christianity to consider how easily matters might have been different in the Christian West. He identifies Martin of Tours as a key figure, but also speculates on the perfectly plausible event of an Arian outcome to Western Christianity's emergence from the ruins of the Western Roman Empire.
For more information about this Lecture Series: http://press.princeton.edu/europe/content/pages/board/events/
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Lecture 3 — Mechanics of Bitcoin
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- Duration: 1:19:50
- Updated: 02 Mar 2015
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Third lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):
* Bitcoin transactions 1:44
* Bitcoin scripts 11:42
* Application of Bitcoin scripts 27:20
* Bitcoin blocks 42:09
* The Bitcoin network 47:58
* Limitations & improvements 1:08:02
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Differential Topology | Lecture 1 by John W. Milnor
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- Duration: 56:29
- Updated: 29 Mar 2014
- views: 62990
Soon after winning the Fields Medal in 1962, a young John Milnor gave these now-famous lectures and wrote his timeless Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint -http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/dedo/top%20diff/Milnor%20J.%20Topology%20from%20the%20differentiable%20viewpoint%20(Princeton,%201965).pdf , which has influenced generations of mathematicians. The lectures, filmed by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), were unavailable for years but recently resurfaced. With Simons Foundation funding, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute has produced these digital reproductions as a resource for the mathematics and science communities.
Milnor was awarded the Abel Prize in 2011 for his work in topology, geometry and algebra.
The sequel to these lectures, written several mathematical lives — and a Wolf and an Abel Prize later — is "Differential Topology Forty-six Years Later,"- http://www.ams.org/notices/201106/rtx110600804p.pdf
Source of the above information and lecture: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/science_lives_video/professor-john-w-milnor/
Also quite helpful:
Differential Topology
Lectures by John Milnor, Princeton University, Fall term 1958
Notes by James Munkres - http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/difftop.pdf
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Nima Arkani-Hamed Public Lecture: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century
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- Duration: 1:26:51
- Updated: 07 Nov 2014
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Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Perimeter Institute and Institute for Advanced Study) delivers the second lecture of the 2014/15 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Held at Perimeter Institute and webcast live worldwide on Nov. 6, 2014, Arkani-Hamed's lecture explores the exciting concepts of quantum mechanics and spacetime, and how our evolving understanding of their importance in fundamental physics will shape the field in the 21st Century.
Perimeter Institute Public Lectures are held in the first week of each month. More information on Perimeter Public Lectures: http://ow.ly/DCYPc
Join the conversation:
@Perimeter
#piLIVE
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Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates
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- Duration: 1:00:53
- Updated: 01 Mar 2012
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January 25, 2012 - John Cooper gives the first of two lectures in the Tanner Lecture Series. This first lecture focuses on some of the ancient philosophies of Aristotle and how they apply to life today.
Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/
Center for Ethics in Society:
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/
Tanner Lecture Series:
http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford
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Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining
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- Duration: 1:28:15
- Updated: 16 Mar 2015
- views: 26123
Fifth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):
* The task of Bitcoin miners 0:15
* Mining hardware 10:17
* Energy consumption & ecology 33:38
* Mining pools 50:16
* Mining incentives and strategies 1:04:29
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Alexander Polyakov (Princeton University) Impossible Hyperbolae
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- Duration: 48:07
- Updated: 28 Feb 2016
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Lecture 9 — Bitcoin as a Platform
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- Duration: 1:24:56
- Updated: 13 Apr 2015
- views: 12799
Ninth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture:
* Bitcoin as an append-only log
* Bitcoins as “smart property”
* Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin
* Bitcoin as randomness source
* Prediction markets & real-world data feeds
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