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Music And Creativity In Ancient Greece - Tim Hansen

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/music-and-creativity-in-ancient-greece-tim-hansen You think you love music? You have nothing on the Ancient Greek obsession. Every aspect of Greek life was punctuated by song: history, poetry, theater, sports an
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Watch: Pig Lungs Filter Human Blood In A Lab

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Human blood filters through pig lungs in the lab of Lars Burdorf at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Thousands of people die every year for lack of transplantable human organs. Scientists are experimenting with a technique called CRISPR to r
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Aristotle & Virtue Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #38

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This week we explore final ethical theory in this unit: Aristotle’s virtue theory. Hank explains the Golden Mean, and how it exists as the midpoint between vices of excess and deficiency. We’ll also discuss moral exemplars, and introduce the concept of “e
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Kant & Categorical Imperatives: Crash Course Philosophy #35

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Our next stop on our tour of ethics is Kant’s ethics. Today Hank explains hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the universalizability principle, autonomy, and what it means to treat people as ends-in-themselves, rather than as mere means. Get your ow
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The Ethical Dilemma Of Self-driving Cars - Patrick Lin

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ethical-dilemma-of-self-driving-cars-patrick-lin Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t
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What the world looks like to an algorithm

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Artificial intelligence is governing more and more of our lives, but the way it sees and understands the world is completely different from you or me. For this video, we found a way to look around inside AI’s “brain.” First, we asked fellow humans to gues
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The Conservation of "Iron Workers by Reginald Marsh Narrated

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Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago guides the viewer through the process of conserving this piece of Social Realism by Reginald Marsh. Techniques and materials are introduced and explained to aide those without experience in
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The Messy Ethics Of Self Driving Cars

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The development of self-driving cars presents one of the greatest ethical conundrums in history. Because of these inventions, which will save thousands of lives every year, we will have to decide how to kill people. Email: wendoverproductions@gmail.com Tw
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We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand

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In 1977, twin golden records were sent into space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Still sailing through space at nearly 60,000 km per hour, the records contain sound, songs, and images from earth. But how did NASA include images on an analog record? He
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Can You Teach Ethics to a Self-Driving Car?

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How do we program moral decision-making into autonomous vehicles? "NOVA Wonders: Can We Build a Brain?" premieres May 16, 2018 at 9/8c on PBS. NOVA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA on Twitter: @novapbs
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Should your phone push you to take your pills?

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Theres a surprising problem in American health care that doesnt get discussed much: up to 50% of patients dont take long-term medication properly. Medicine non adherence costs money and lives every year, and recently, technology is swooping in to help. Mo
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What Cats Teach Us About Happiness | A Cat's Philosophy

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Most of the time, cats come across as utterly indifferent. They dont seem to care about other cats and arent too attached to their owners. But does this mean that cats are immoral, heartless creatures? Are cats, from a philosophical viewpoint, devoid of e

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