The billionaire businessman and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died in prison in new york. Hes believed to have taken his own life. Epstein once counted among his friends bill clinton, donald trump and Prince Andrew, and was charged last month with trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. He was due to stand trial next year. Earlier we got reaction from the New York Times journalist, ali watkins, who has been covering the case so far. We were all stunned. This comes on the heels of thousands of documents being unveiled on a related case and it has been working its way through the court system. It ruin to focus what this was. Every few days there isa what this was. Every few days there is a new turn this and nobody expected this. As we heard in that report, only a few weeks ago epstein was found in his cell having a p pa re ntly was found in his cell having apparently tried to take its own life and questions are being asked about how somebody in a secure unit could have
She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introduction, i talked fori t ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum, over that time, i taught a course on introductory astrophysics and i got very popular and people liked it and we moved to vickers pace and we realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has particular exper
Cspan in the house. [laughter] [applause] tonights book is call welcome to the universe and i love saying that. Welcome to the universe. They tee that too. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors, first Michael Strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] so have a seat. So just a bit of introduction. I taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 to 2003 and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum but over that time i taught a course on instructory astro physics. We realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has expertise that could see the curriculum, see the syllabus, in particular Michael Strauss is an expert on our galaxy, its structure, largescale structures of the universe in particularly. In fact, ph. D thesis was mapping the universe. Thats right. In fact, we met in the andies mountains of chile and we became good friends and colleagues. Jay richard gott, the third. While michael
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