15 lines
127 KiB
Plaintext
15 lines
127 KiB
Plaintext
|
0
|
||
|
hi my name floor bates and i run the everyday sexes and project which for anybody who doesn't know what it is is a very simple website that collects people's experiences of daily gender imbalance have anything on the spectrum from the more minor incidents that were often told to brush ff and not make a fuss about all the way through workplace discrimination sexual harassment to sexual assault and even rape i set the project up just under two years ago and we've now received fifty thousand entries from women of all works of life all over the world but one thing really shocked me and took me aback about the entries that started to flood in in the first months of the project and it's interesting because people often ask you know what were the most shocking entries and they expect to reply that they were the most serious ones the most harrowing stories and of course those were awful and distressng to read but the thing that really shocked me the most was the number of entries hat we receive from really young women from little girls from university students it just wasn't something that i anticipated and it's some of those stories that i want to talk about today and share some of them with you today particularly because we're here and are beautiful university city and because just so many of the entries that we've received a suggesting that there is a real problem at uk universities i want to take you through some of the things that we've heard about some of the things that are being reported to us over and over and over againso this all really started and i kind of first noticed a real spiking activity to the website the first time that freshesweet came round so the firs year that the website had been launched in april and suddenly when we hit freshe i noticed that it was a massive surge in entries to the project and i remember it started i remember really vividly with one email and it came from a girl who was about to start studying physics at a very highly respected london university and she forward me afforded me an email that she'd receive from the physics society at her university and the email said fresh s lunch this would be mainly a chance for you to scope out who's in your department and stake your claim early on the one in five girls she wrote that she was going into an incredibly el dominated area already and so here the boys in her ear her male peers were being sent the message from a university affiliated society no less to view that female peers who were in the minority in this particular course very much as sexual prey and this was really just the beginning nd so many messages and stories started coming in and often they were about fresh-wavents that were going on in freshens week so i actually started having a look at the events that were scheduled at uk universities that yearas you can see behind me these register a few o the events that i found slaggon-drag tots and vicars pimps and hoes gol prose and tennis ho se yo's and corporate ho rappers and slapper geeks and sluts and at almost every event the title sends the message usually at events that were sponsored yo an association with universities at these students were studying at that men are ceo's prose geeks they're powerful theyre talentd their intelligent whilst women were being valued again and again by their sexualisation alone and the messages we received was suggesting that this created a really serious sense of pressure for young women to dress in a certain way and it's important to say at this point that this was not about a kind of prudish morality ban it wasn't about saying women shouldn't dress in that way if they wanted to but why should it be a requirement it felt like fancy dress for the boys meant something fun meant dressing up in a whole variety of diferent ways bed every time for the girls the was a very very clear very narrow requirement of how they were expected to dress and it started to feel like it was about more than just a bet of fun and more like a kind of sexual pressurand this idea of sexual pressure was really backed up by a
|
||
|
1
|
||
|
i see a teneatis varied the tibetans divines divinisedon't let my mask scare you i'm just tryin to stay anonymous my name is anmic nagi i'm a proud indian and i have one problem with my country and the problem is why is india so filthy i've travelled outside india in neighbouring countries in asia my fiends have been to africa and we can all agree on one thing in india we tolerate filth on our streets but why we can send a rocket to mars but we can't fix this problem why do we keep our houses clean and our streets dirty even mcdonald's was coming to bangalore is cleaning he steps of its outlet out there but you can see how dirty it is outside are either incapable or unwilling to fix at outside so what's the problem via be like his and i think all over in this audience know the answer it's not my problem i pay tax i wrote isn't that enough what more should i do and som of you will say ok i want to fix it i don't even know how to start let me take you to dreamland in this dreamland there is no corruption the government is strong a budget goes up ten times do you think our chippies will be clea-what do you think and the answer is no i think we all realize it's not about money or system to tell it is abot us as a people look at this picture can someone shout out which city is this form look closely look at the furniture can you guess shout out which city is this it's not bangalorelook closely again to the clue out here at the bank of india the other clue is that it's very poorly maintained there are pan stains everywhere this is a restaurant it is singapore and it is little india sinaporeand what does this tell us about us what a singapore's brand image cleandliness it is a fine city the enforced laws the very affluent they care about their look but when a group of indians lie in one neighborhood we seem to bring down the civic standards we can beat the world's best system in fact i would like to say and i'm an indian we are the undisputed world champions of publi filthwhy do we need a policeman when we have a traffic light because we're a society that doesn't like to follow rulesin bangalow dusbins are not allowed you're expected to keep our garbage at home till the collector comes but it doesn't seem to wor so one neighborhood and bangor indraniker said let's put dustbins so they put dustbins and see what happened we don't like to follow rules so all the garbages outside the dustbin now this is the problem without a society we need to all admit that we are all ugly indians and more importantly only w can sae us from ourselves and as long as we are mosl about it we won't solve it and so do you think there s any hope what do you'll think a lot of people i've given up to leave the country the stangated communities but some people said no let us try and fix this problem in an indian way by understanding the indians psychology and so social experiments began on church street in bangalore in two thousand ten but the idea was simple let us understand indians behavior from a point of view culture behavioral psychology let see what it takes to make an ugly indian change but most importantly without him or her realizing it we don't like to be told what to do yet we falled into improving our behavior can be nudge and nagle indian towards better behaviour in public spaces you may hve heard the broken windows theory which says that if a place's ugly it becomes uglier for places beautiful it commands respect there is another theory in economics called the tragedy of the commons hich means we care for our private spaces we don't care about public spaces india is a perfect example of both these theories in action this is coromangula that lady is throwing garbage on the road in a beautiful part of an upscale neighborhood and why she doing it because someone is already thrown before what can we do to make her change her behaviour without her knowing itthis is a typical example of civic problems in india panstains on the wall this is on the wall of deconered newspaper in church street it has been like this forever because there spanstains p
|
||
|
2
|
||
|
contamination in complicated intention peiinitted in opinionated et there well i work at the seti institute that's almost my name seti search for extraterrestrial intelligence and otherwise i look for aliens and when i tell people that at a cocktail party they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face i try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate and a lot of people think is kind of idealistic ridiculous maybe even hopeless but i just want to talk to you a little bit about why i think that the job i have is actually a privilege give you a little better the motivation for my getting into this line of work if that's what you call it ing whips can we go back hallo come on earth there we go is the valley radio observatory behind the sierra nevadas in nineteen sixty eight i was working there collecting data for my thesis as kind lonely it's kinda tedious you's collecting dtaso i would amuse myself by taking photos at neither telescopes or even of myself because you know it at night i would be the only hominid within about thirty miles so here pictures of myself observatory had just acquired a new book written by a russian cosmologist by the name of joseph schlowski and expanded and translated and edited by a little known cornell astronomer by name of carl sagan and i remer reading that book and at three in the morning reading this book and it was explaining how the antennas i was using to measure the spins of galaxies could also be used to communicate to send bits o information from one star system to another now at three o'clock in the morning when you're all alone haven't had much sleep that was a very romantic idea but it was that ieathe fact that you could in fact prove that there's somebody out there just using the same technology that appealed to me so much that twenty years later i took a job at the seti institute now i have to say that my memory is notoriously porous and i often wondered whether there was any truth in this story was no misremembering something but i recently just blew up this old negative of mine and sure enough there you can see the chlain second book underneath that analog calculating deviceso it's true now the idea for ding this it wasn't very old at the time that i made that photo the idea dates from nineteen sixty on a young astronomer by the name of frank drake used this antenna in west virginia pointed at a couple of nearby str in the hopes of eves dropping on e-tnow frank didn't hear anything actually he did but it turned out to be the us air force which doesn't count as extraterrestrial intelligence but drake's idea here became very popular because it was very appealing and i get back to that and on the basis of this experi which didn't didn't succeed we have been doing seti ever since not continuously but ever since we still haven't heard anything we still haven't had anything in fact we don't know about any life beyond earth but i'm going to uggest to you that that's going to change rather soon and part react a majority of reason why i think that's gong to change it's that the equipment's getting better this is the island telescope array about three hundred and fifty miles from whatever seat you're in right now this is something that we're using today to search rite and the electronics have gotten very much better too this is frank drake's electronics in nineteen sixty this is the allen telescope array electronics today some pundit with too much time on his hands has reckoned that the new experiments are approximately a hundred trillion times better than they were in ineteen-sixty hundred twenty times better that's a degree of an improvement that will look out on your report rout something that's not appreciated by the public is in fact that the experiment continues to get better and consequently tends to get faster this little plot and every time you show a plot you lose ten percent of the audience i have the twelve of these but what what i plotted here is just some metric that shows how fast were searching in others we're ooking for a needle in a haystack when yo
|
||
|
3
|
||
|
then did casanova eeeeeeeawhat did your digital footprints say about you what i mean by digital footprints i mean all the stuff that we leave online the digital tracks and traces the stuff that makes up other people's perception of wore as well as our own some of these things are really visible and some hm are really invisible so things that you've you've watched the trail of things you've watched on yuca that recommends something else some of tings like your search history but lots of the things that elieve online stuffed are entirely within our control and are about our own of creative process so i want you to start off by thinking about what the last thing that you shared online was now this might ve been two or three minutes ago this might v been hours ago the mit ve been days ago what was that last thing that you shared it might been someting on facebook and bit besoming on snapchat i know that i disprotected tweet automatic lakes i like to be a little bit smug when i'm speaking but what was that last thing what does that thing about you if someone is looking at that what does that tell you does that tell you that's on what you are as i telling about your interests maybe it says something that's really positive or quirky so ganabing a bit smug this baking of mine oh maybe it shows that you've got interest maybe it shows that you do a particular kind of job maybe it shows a particular kind of hobby that you have made us so ing you'd really want to show to the world something really positive so if someone looks at that you'd think brilliant i recognize that person as myself and i think that's what i would like to portray to people may be portraying different parts of herself to different kinds of audiences so i've even got on right about having different kinds of identities for different kinds of context so presenting yourself in the onstage ways and off-stageways but has spin off stages come on stage an feels very relevant right sometimes you have to have different kinds of adenitis and they don't always stay totally separate and in fact some other things sharon line may be the not presenting exactly how you too it is my polite version of carin something slightly inappropriate online this is my cat godfrey he's on twitto and instagram please don't judge me judgment that's you might be sharing stuff that you don't really intend to get a wider airing now godfrey's not to embarras althogh i have to say dont ask his consent to use his image which i really shot off but maybe something gets out of harisee goes nor nat you don't expect it to get seaman then your idetity starts to be this slight model of things that intended for different kinds of udiences you get this idea of context collapse where your friends and your colleagues and people who run we people who are craft maybe they all converge in the same space they all start to see different parts of your density and that's quite challenging an wn you're showing the social media that's really likely to happen your parents might be on facebook people who you don't know mount tiat people who do know when you're sharing stuff in anonymous spaces you have to be thinking about what the identities projecing about you and what you wanted to project about youand is luch about what you share and where you share it is also whom you share a creature it with ou can choose but most of us don't choose to so even doing some research with students at university of edinburgh and we've been asking them to tell us how they use social they think about their identity online and sixty one percent of them very very rarely check their privacy settings and five percent of them have found something online that they did not want to see they thought it been taken away dioscorus settings and who you share with the circles that you share with mateo share to these networks they share further on you have control of tht but most of us choose not to exercise that and that's kind of interesting so we have these footprints we have these things that visible we have these things the are invisiblewe also cr
|
||
|
4
|
||
|
the composer holier itoiai hatton and jane amenas james and i'm experimental particle physics in what that means is that i get together wth a few thousands of my closest colleagues and we take the smallest possible things in nature and we accelerate them up to the highest possible speed and we slam them into each other to see what happens reason we did this is because we'relooking for things that mankind has never seen before very fundamental physical scales and so i'm here to share with you what someone called a dark photon is but to do so i need to set a litle bit of historical context unsuccessful click leaving i need to set a little itof historical context and flashback to eighteen ninety four when eminent physicist albert michaelson said the following he stood in front of audience fat the universe of chicago and he said the following the more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all bee discovered and these are now so firmly established at the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote a couple of decades previous electricity of magnetism had been shown to be two parts of the same force electromagnetism and this was considered such a gigantic rake rough the time that there was a prevalent attitude amongst a lot of physics that this was petymutuetand the rest were some minor details but sometimes i wonder if people like this michaelson need to because we've got to get the nobel but i wonder sometimes if people sayings like with such defendive authority just so they can ensure their place in history as like grand historical straiten so that we look back a hundred years later and mrvel at how completely wrong they were a different albert nineteen o-five special relativity nineteen fifteen general relativity and in their early decades of the nineteen hundred quantum mechanics and the thy ned to put quantum mechanics together with relativity led to something called quantum field theory and anyone of these things by themselves required such a complete paradise shifter understanding of nature as very basic scales that it's hard to imagine how michaelson could have been more wrong in his pronounces a quantum field theory that we ame up with was a language that llowed us to understand is amazing interplay between theory and experiment in paricle physics and physics twentieth century that culminated in a thing that we call the standard model of particle physics and it is essentially a list f all the particles the fundamental particles we know and the ways that they interact and its nicely summarized in this diagram from movie particle fever it doesn't have any significance beyond its just a really nice way to put it down on slide and essentially have two basic classes of particles you have the outer ring which is matter particles and there are a cork in the electron and they have the inner ring which which populated by the so-called force carrying particles or gauge bosons and so this it's an amazing most shockingly successful experimental theros that i actually earns that name the standard model capital s capital mandata a few ears may have perked up when i said that word bows none here heard the higgs bows onohaven't heard of the higgs boson perhaps you know by its more sensationalist name the kane particles are the god particle physicists don't care much for that name because it obscures the truly awsome nature of this particle but nonetheless in july of two thousand twelve skis may toed the collaboration to the experiments at the large adron collider atlas the one that i work on and see mass a complimentary experiments the large hadron collider at cern near geneva announced the discovery with his brand new particle the the higgs boson is its culms discovers amazing triumph with a culmination of decades of work by thousands of physicists and it really was it really was a fantastic triumph was the last remaining piece of the standard model puzzle to be pluged in and so you might think that when once this was plugged in we all can have turned t
|
||
|
5
|
||
|
as edison and hamme name is marcus baler a the mcfee professor of engineering it at my tea and i am also a member of the centre for computational signs and engineering in the schwartzman college of computing in this to i'll be talking about the nexus of materialized sound and sonfied material well on be talking about how vibrations sound and matter interact and how we can use music to design new and better materials we think about biologicl structures such as a spider web we can see the very detailed very intricate very complex structures if we look in a spider web in this case a three dimensional spider where there are many internal structures they go really from the macro scale all waynoanoscale reno flying inside the wobstructure and we can see that this eb has very complex architectural features as we are closer we see more more of those architectural features emerge and become visible we go even closer we can look inside each of the circle filaments we can recognize that each circle of itself consists f a hierarchical structure this hyracucal structure ranges from the molecular scale the individual protein molecules which are assembled adam by adam to form secondary structures to form tertiary structures to form bundles or proteins ultimately forming filamens assembling into bundles of filamensand fibres then forming the filaments the silk iber that you can see in the web so you can see that the web structure really has a structure that goes from the maro scale all the way down to the nano scale how are these materials built while these materials are built in nature by encoding structural information through the genetic sequence usually encoded by the letters encode information about how proteins are built proteins are built from primary sequences these genetic information letters forming sequences of amino acids forming secondary structures such as alphahelisads or better sheets and these in turn form more complicated structures such as collagen in bones spiders consisting of beta-sheet and alpha helix mixtures to also more complex structures like viruses what you see in this light in this picture here is the pathogen of covenant which has the spike protein sticking out on the surface which gives this virus its name the coronavirus or crowns this coronavirus is encoded by sequences of amino assets and quoted by letters of rna or diana to naticinformatin this ternetic information provides the building plan for how this virus is actually builtjust like te viruses built from the bottom up forming hirachical structures across defen length scales and time scales we know that in engineering we might be able to use such an approach as well thinking about an architectural system like the athletouer you cn also recognize that this system has features as well the girl from the macro altheway down to nano scale even though engineers have been using hierarchical principles foran extended period of time we have not yet been able to tun simultaneously molecular scale all the way to te microscopic level one other feature that is really interesting is a unifying fthe on feature across different manifestations of matter that is the equivalent of vibrations to matter to sound the universlity of waves and vibrations is something we see in molecules we can recognize at the quantum-mechanical level we can describe matter as collections of waves we can also see that sound is an overlaying of signwaves harmonic waves to create more compicated sound structures and we can also see that spiders for instant use waves as a way of communicating and understanding the environment waves sound vibration are universal and we can use perhaps vibrations unsound as a way of defining material models optimizing materials and even inventing and highly new materials by using reparationshere we show how we can evolve the way horace systems are builtthinking about a spider spider uses vibration as ave sensing the environment communicating with other spiders sensing threat detecting prey and many other thingsthey use the signals they collect process it n th
|
||
|
6
|
||
|
do but i'd like to strt by asking you to imagine yourself in the following scenario you are a high school senior or the parens of a high school senior and you are interested in a potential college and so you arrange for a campus visit and you go on a campus tour and everything looks great and the people are friendly but after a few minutes something strange starts to dawn on you that this campus has a really horrible smoking habit everybody you see is smoking outside everybody smells like cigarette smoke in fact agoa have lunch in a dining hall and students are actually bragging about how much they smoke one student says yesterday i smoked three packs all by myself and another student says nice i did that last week high five and you think to yourself well this is pretty strange it is otherwise grea school but they have a sort of a weird bad habit and they're oddly celebrational about it so i'm not sure i want to go hereso imagine you go o a second campus tour look at a second college and it's very similar to the first the campus looks really beautiful people are friendly except this college has a bad junk food habit everybody who sees eating junk food there's junk food wrappers everywhere there's nothing nutritious to eat in the dining hall and again people are bragging about how much they're eating so one student says last night i had a whole pizza by myself and another student says nice i did the same thing last week high fivesoif these two scenarios sound a little far fetched imagine a third scenario is you go visit another college and again it looks really great the people are friendly except at this college everybody ooks tired you see people falling asleep at their computers you visit a class and people are dozing off in class and just looks generally like everyone could use a great napo what's crazy to me about this is that i've never seen a campus ful of people who are all smokers or a campus full of people who were all sleep deprived campus ful of people who look tired and sleep tia campus full of people who are all eat junk food but a campus full of people who are all sleep deprived and tired describes every college and university i think that i've ever seen and actually most high schools at wells especially during later parts of the semester and what's interesting is that the effects of being sleep deprived all the time can be just as bad as smkingand just as bad as any too much junk food and yet lots of students would actually choose to go to college where everyone looks sleep deprived because it looks like it really hardworking college where people are very productive in achieving great things and so as a sleep researcher i've been fascinated by the biology and neuroscience of sleep for over a decade and i have a lab at williams ollege that studies mice we look at what happens in the brain body during sleep we look at how the neurons and bain control sleep but i have to say as a father as a teacher and as a colleague to a lot of hard working colleagues hardworking people newfound fascination for how we tolerate sleep deprivation is as a stand it's not just students in our schools it's really everywhere whenever i ride public transportation whether it's a bus or a subway i see people who just look exhausted and in fact ou can see people taking naps on their morning or afternoon commute and sneak them in and in our public life it's really not uncommon to see people dozing off and in general in repliprofessional lives people really just look i'm exhausted is even crazier than that to me which is that not only are people exhausted but some people choose to be sleep deprived and some people actually wear it as a badge of honor ihtcause in order to be sleep deprived you must be really hard working you must have a lot of important things to do and you must be very very productive or else why would yu be sleep deprived first place i've actually been a part of job committees where job applicants wll brag about the fact that they only get three or four hours of sleep at night actually just a couple months ago i was l
|