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14. Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
Global Problems of Population Growth (MCDB 150)
By 1950, in most of the underdeveloped world, mortality had fallen to about half its pre-modern rate. The birth rate, however, had remained high and, by 1950, was about twice the death rate. For the rest of the century, both rates fell dramatically and in parallel, maintaining the gap. The enormous excess of births over deaths in this period is known as 'the population explosion.' By 1990, the world population was growing at almost 90 million a year. Comparing the Demographic Transition in Europe and in the currently developing countries, the latter started 100 years later at a much lower economic level, fell from much higher birth and death rates, occurred much faster and with a much higher population growth rate, and added vastly more people. The developing countries saw the benefits that had accrued to the West as a result of the transition and then rapidly appropriated it for themselves. But while European countries may have quadrupled their population over 200 years, third world countries grew by as much as ten times in a much shorter period and they are still growing at a rapid rate. The problems of this rapid growth (still about 80 million a year) abound. The traditional scourges of starvation (9 million deaths a year), disease (AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria -- all claim between 1 and 2 million deaths per year) and war (Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs ~200,000 deaths) are all far too small to stabilize population. People in developing countries who want to limit their fertility, are often afraid of contraceptives (especially side-effects) and yet are willing to undergo horrendously dangerous illegal abortions to avert a childbirth.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
11:22 - Chapter 2. Issues with Mortality and Fertility Change in Developing Countries
22:27 - Chapter 3. Volume of Population Growth in Mortality Transition
26:55 - Chapter 4. Comparing Fertility Transition to Famine
36:57 - Chapter 5. Comparing Mortality Transition and Disease and War
44:49 - Chapter 6. Desires to Decrease Fertility
57:11 - Chapter 7. Abortion
01:03:05 - Chapter 8. Family Planning and Fertility Decline Worldwide
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This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
Chubb Fellowship Lecture : “Simply Too Hot: the Desperate Science and Politics of Climate”
This Chubb Fellowship Lecture will feature Bill McKibben, an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative Nobel.” He is a founder of 350.org.
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What if We Nuke a City?
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Graham Allison: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape [...] | Talks at Google
Graham Allison, director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, discusses his latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, Thucydides identified one simple cause - a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. Will Washington and Beijing follow the footsteps of Britain and Germany a century ago? Or will they find a way to avoid war as the US did in crafting a Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union?
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FEMALE WINNER - World Pole Dance Championships 2016 -Natalia Tatarintseva - UKRAINE
Natalia Tatarintseva from Ukraine - Winner of the 2016 World Pole Dance Championships Female Category held in Bucharest, Romania on 16th September 2016.
The only truly global championships - World Pole Dance Championships is a Pole Sport Fitness events featuring the World's best pole performers and athletes from 26 Countries and 5 Continents.
Pole Passion Ltd, leaders in bringing pole fitness through education and accredited instructor training programs co hosted this event with Nadia Budurusi.
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Ustad Amir Khan Sangeet Samaroh-2016 : Vidushi Anupriya Deotale reciting Raaga Rageshri
Kalashri Foundation in association with Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India organized prestigious Ustad Amir Khan Sangeet Samaroh, 2016 in New Delhi.
Here presented Raaga Raageshri on Violin by Vidushi Anupriya Deotale, accompanied on Tabla by exponent Pt. Ravindra Kumar Soni.
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Bangladesh Liberation Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Panel discussion on reminiscence of Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 - live worldwide broadcast by RadioBanglaDC
Topics:
1. Witnessing the Brutal Birth of a Nation- Personal Experiences and Reflections of 1971
Speaker: Mr. Lear Levin -- As a Producer of a pro bono Television commercial to highlight the devastating 1970 cyclone, Mr. Levin was in the erstwhile East Pakistan to raise humanitarian interest of American people in that calamity. However, when the Bangladesh Independence war started, he put his film business on hold and emptying his bank account- he started to produce a documentary chronicling the plights of Bangladeshi people with the hope that world would come to stop the merciless disaster.
His film,Joi Bangla, directed and photographed during the Bangladeshi War for Independence in 1971, was unfortunately, never released to the public after its completion. Fortunately, however,Filmmaker's Tareque and Catherine Masud were able to craft, Muktir Gaan from footage which Levin donated to them. He formed his own company with his wife in 1969 and continued directing as well as acting as director of photography on scores of commercials as well as short subjects and documentary films. In the 1980s and 90's, Lear Levin directed the feature length film, Circus for The Walt Disney Company and helped launch Martha Stewart's Television career while acting as her director and video designer. He is presently living in New York City and works as a Fine Art Photographer.
2. Tale of a Personal Tragedy : Nature of Genocide in 1971
Speaker: Dr Shelly Shahabuddin: A dedicated person for the cause of Bangladesh Liberation War. He is a speaker, thinker and writer on the subjects of Liberation War, Secularism versus Fundamentalism, Intellectual murder and Genocide in Bangladesh. His connection to Bangladesh War of Liberation is very intimate and indeed tragic. His sister, poet and journalist Selina Parveen was the only woman journalist who was brutally killed on 14th December 1971 along with other intellectuals . Dr Shelly Shahabuddin has published two books, one of which is a memoir of Shahid Selina Parveen : Shohid Selina Parveen Smriti Grontho. Currently working as Health Program Manager in CCHCS (California Correctional Health Care System, Dr Shahabuddin is a researcher on Medical Science and has published more than thirty five research articles.
3. Bangladesh 1971: Was Independence Inevitable? Reflections on the National Question
Speaker: Mr. Lawrence Lifschultz A chance encounter with an acquaintance of Bangabhundhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1970 turned the then South Asia touring Yale graduate-Mr. Lifschultz into a life-long avid follower of Bangladesh's political affairs. Lawrence Lifschultz served as the South Asia Correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review (HongKong). He has written on Asian and European affairs for The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation (New York) and the BBC. Lifschultz was educated at Yale and Cambridge Universities. He is the author and editor of several books including Hiroshima's Shadow, Why Bosnia?, and Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution.As a Fulbright Scholar in 2000, he resided in Pakistan while undertaking a study of Pakistan's nuclear doctrine. Lawrence Lifschultz has recently published an eight part series in Prothom Alo and The Daily Star entitled: The Murder of Major General Abul Manzur -- Bir Uttam. The articles have brought to light new information about General Manzur's political assassination inside the Chittagong Cantonment in early June 1981.
The War on Drugs Is a Failure
The War on Drugs is a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention being undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to both define and reduce the illegal drug trade. More on this topic:
This initiative includes a set of drug policies of the United States that are intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of illegal psychoactive drugs. The term War on Drugs was first used by President Richard Nixon in 1971.
On May 13, 2009, Gil Kerlikowske, the current Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), signaled that although it did not plan to significantly alter drug enforcement policy, the Obama administration would not use the term War on Drugs, as he claims it is counter-productive. ONDCP's view is that drug addiction is a disease that can be successfully prevented and treated... making drugs more available will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe.(2011) One of the alternatives that Mr Kerlikowske has showcased is Sweden's Drug Control Policies that combine balanced public health approach and opposition to drug legalization. The prevalence rates for cocaine use in Sweden are barely one-fifth of European neighbors such as the United Kingdom and Spain.
In June 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a critical report on the War on Drugs, declaring The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and years after President Nixon launched the US government's war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed. The report was immediately criticized by organizations that oppose a general legalization of drugs.
In 1986, the US Defense Department funded a two-year study by the RAND Corporation, which found that the use of the armed forces to interdict drugs coming into the United States would have little or no effect on cocaine traffic and might, in fact, raise the profits of cocaine cartels and manufacturers. The 175-page study, Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction, was prepared by seven researchers, mathematicians and economists at the National Defense Research Institute, a branch of the RAND, and was released in 1988. The study noted that seven prior studies in the past nine years, including one by the Center for Naval Research and the Office of Technology Assessment, had come to similar conclusions. Interdiction efforts, using current armed forces resources, would have almost no effect on cocaine importation into the United States, the report concluded.
During the early-to-mid-1990s, the Clinton administration ordered and funded a major cocaine policy study, again by RAND. The Rand Drug Policy Research Center study concluded that $3 billion should be switched from federal and local law enforcement to treatment. The report said that treatment is the cheapest way to cut drug use, stating that drug treatment is twenty-three times more effective than the supply-side war on drugs.
The National Research Council Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs published its findings on the efficacy of the drug war. The NRC Committee found that existing studies on efforts to address drug usage and smuggling, from U.S. military operations to eradicate coca fields in Colombia, to domestic drug treatment centers, have all been inconclusive, if the programs have been evaluated at all: The existing drug-use monitoring systems are strikingly inadequate to support the full range of policy decisions that the nation must make.... It is unconscionable for this country to continue to carry out a public policy of this magnitude and cost without any way of knowing whether and to what extent it is having the desired effect. The study, though not ignored by the press, was ignored by top-level policymakers, leading Committee Chair Charles Manski to conclude, as one observer notes, that the drug war has no interest in its own results.
During alcohol prohibition, the period from 1920 to 1933, alcohol use initially fell but began to increase as early as 1922. It has been extrapolated that even if prohibition had not been repealed in 1933, alcohol consumption would have quickly surpassed pre-prohibition levels. One argument against the War on Drugs is that it uses similar measures as Prohibition and is no more effective.
Nanking Massacre | Wikipedia audio article
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The Nanjing Massacre, or Rape of Nanjing, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the Postal romanization system used at the time, the city's name was transliterated as Nanking, and the event called the Nanking Massacre or Rape of Nanking.
The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.Since most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, historians have been unable to accurately estimate the death toll of the massacre. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo estimated in 1946 that over 200,000 Chinese were killed in the incident. China's official estimate is more than 300,000 dead based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. The death toll has been actively contested among scholars since the 1980s.The event remains a contentious political issue and a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations. The Chinese government has been accused of exaggerating aspects of the massacre such as the death toll, while historical negationists and Japanese nationalists go as far as claiming the massacre was fabricated for propaganda purposes. The controversy surrounding the massacre remains a central issue in Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations as well, such as South Korea.Although the Japanese government has admitted to the killing of a large number of non-combatants, looting, and other violence committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanjing, and Japanese veterans who served there have confirmed that a massacre took place, a small but vocal minority within both the Japanese government and society have argued that the death toll was military in nature and that no such crimes ever occurred. Denial of the massacre and revisionist accounts of the killings have become a staple of Japanese nationalism. In Japan, public opinion of the massacre varies, but few deny outright that the event occurred.
Axis powers | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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The Axis powers (German: Achsenmächte; Italian: Potenze dell'Asse; Japanese: 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allies. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.
The Axis grew out of the diplomatic efforts of Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. The first step was the treaty signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936. Benito Mussolini declared on 1 November that all other European countries would from then on rotate on the Rome–Berlin axis, thus creating the term Axis. The almost simultaneous second step was the signing in November 1936 of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The Rome–Berlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany, Italy and Japan.
At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia. There were no three-way summit meetings and cooperation and coordination was minimal, with slightly more between Germany and Italy. The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance. As in the case of the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, with some nations switching sides or changing their degree of military involvement over the course of the war.
Jackie Peterson's Interview
Jackie Peterson is an independent curator and exhibit developer in Seattle, Washington. She curated an exhibition called “The Atomic Frontier: Black Life at Hanford” at the Northwest African American Museum from October 2015-March 2016. In this interview, Peterson describes the exhibition and what she learned about African American experiences at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. She explains how African Americans came to the Tri-Cities, the kinds of work they were able to obtain, and the (largely informal) segregation they faced. She also contrasts how African Americans and Japanese Americans were treated by the federal government during World War II.
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133rd Knowledge Seekers Workshop Aug 18 2016
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The Samurai at Rutgers: A brief history
Rutgers was one of the first colleges in the United States to host international students from Japan, starting in the 1860s. This video tells the story of Kusakabe Taro, who traveled to the U.S. to study at Rutgers. The video was produced as part of Rutgers’ 250th anniversary celebration.
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Axis Powers | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Axis powers (German: Achsenmächte; Italian: Potenze dell'Asse; Japanese: 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allies. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.
The Axis grew out of the diplomatic efforts of Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. The first step was the treaty signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936. Benito Mussolini declared on 1 November that all other European countries would from then on rotate on the Rome–Berlin axis, thus creating the term Axis. The almost simultaneous second step was the signing in November 1936 of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The Rome–Berlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany, Italy and Japan.
At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia. There were no three-way summit meetings and cooperation and coordination was minimal, with slightly more between Germany and Italy. The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance. As in the case of the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, with some nations switching sides or changing their degree of military involvement over the course of the war.
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (香港日據時期) began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. The surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce fighting against the overwhelming Japanese forces that had invaded the territory. The occupation lasted for three years and eight months until Japan surrendered at the end of Second World War. The length of this period (三年零八個月) later became a metonym of the occupation.
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American Scientist and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: George Wald Interview
George Wald (November 18, 1906 -- April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. More:
Wald was born in New York City to Isaac Wald and Ernestine Rosenmann, Jewish immigrant parents. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Brooklyn Technical High School in New York in 1922. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from New York University in 1927 and his PhD in zoology from Columbia University in 1932. After graduating, he received a travel grant from the US National Research Council. Wald used this grant to work in Germany with Otto Heinrich Warburg where he identified vitamin A in the retina. Wald then went on to work in Zurich, Switzerland with the discoverer of vitamin A, Paul Karrer. Wald then worked briefly with Otto Fritz Meyerhof in Heidelberg, Germany, but left Europe for the University of Chicago in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power and life in Europe became more dangerous for Jews. In 1934, Wald went to Harvard University where he became an instructor, then a professor. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950 and in 1967 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in vision. In 1966 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA. He was married twice: in 1931 to Frances Kingsley and in 1958 to the biochemist Ruth Hubbard. He had two sons with Kingsley—Michael and David; he and Hubbard had a son—the award-winning musicologist and musician Elijah Wald—and a daughter, Deborah, a prominent family law attorney.
Wald spoke out on many political and social issues and his fame as a Nobel laureate brought national and international attention to his views. He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race.
Speaking at MIT in 1969 Wald bemoaned that Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed.[1]
In 1980, Wald served as part of Ramsey Clark's delegation to Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.
With a small number of other Nobel laureates, he was invited in 1986 to fly to Moscow to advise Mikhail Gorbachev on a number of environmental questions. While there, he questioned Gorbachev about the arrest, detention and exile to Gorki of Yelena Bonner and her husband, fellow Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov (Peace, 1975). Wald reported that Gorbachev said he knew nothing about it. Bonner and Sakharov were released shortly thereafter, in December, 1986.
Wald died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2. Reducing the Danger of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation
MIT RES.8-004 Reducing the Danger of Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation, IAP 2015
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Instructor: Aron M. Bernstein
This lecture focuses on proliferation and the danger of nuclear weapons in a broad sense, and ranges from an overview of the developments in nuclear weapons in the past few decades to outlooks and hopes for the future.
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