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the republican party slow march into autocracy, led by donald trump. the one day dictator wannabe. in a speech last night at the new york young republicans club gala, the gop front runner did not back down from his comment last week that he would only be dictator on day one of a possible second term in office. instead, he doubled down on it. >> baker today, in the new york times, he said that i want to be a dictator. i didnt say that. i said i want to be a dictator for one day. but the...

Also, the Ballmer Group and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation jointly donated $30 million to help community-college students find good jobs in the Detroit region, and the X Prize Wildfire will award $11 million to teams that develop technology to detect, contain, and extinguish extreme wildfire events.

Want your $100 million ideas because vetting big ideas is exactly what he does as chief scientist for x prize. every one of these solutions that were seeing coming through the price. they have a flaw. and i often think the team thats going to win this prize or the team thats going to succeed at carbon rule in general is not just a team that can maximize its strength but can minimize the weaknesses for some finalists. that weakness maybe the cost of equipment or energy or the geopolitics of whale...

Some of the ideas are legitimately cutting edge and could be useful or at the cutting edge of the field. marcus next over is used to judging scientific bake offs. we want your $100 million ideas because vetting big ideas is exactly what he does as chief scientist for x prize. every one of these solutions that were seeing coming through the prize. they have a flaw. and i often think the team thats going to win this prize or the team thats going to succeed at carbon rule in general is not just a t...

Waste water contains a treasure trove of data on our health, well-being and inequality, and can be used to head off epidemics, track pandemics and even spot new designer drugs before their effects show up in the population. But how much information are we willing to flush down the toilet?

Also, the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged $55 million to its new Global Vaccination Initiative, and the Lilly Endowment will give $25 million to enhance pedestrian and bicycle trails in Indiana’s Marion County.

Do you make of how routine these trips are coming to space? it seems like every week or every other week there is a trip to space with someone high profile. >> yeah, its like the flood gates have happened, pam. its been about 20 years since the x prize, im sorry, that award several million dollar award to fly a civilian craft to space twice in ten days or less. twice in two weeks or less and of plane became virgin galactic and 20 years later, you see the flight. this has taken time with nasa end...

Imagine airbus flying across the atlantic ocean. the idea is to begin with the rich people and as it becomes more repeatable, reusable, more affordable, more seats becoming available, it becomes more accessible to a larger group of people. thats an exciting prospect. >> good point. good historical comparison there. over what time period does that happen, though? does that happen over a few years or over decades? >> reporter: its interesting. i did the math yesterday. 17 years after lindbergh fle...

Literacy. they were always learning new things. we think they had an abundance and redunceancy of neural connections that spared them from noticing that a lot of the neurons of compromised by disease. >> do you think that we will get to a place where alz himers is cured and is it a kind of disease that one could imagine? >> yes, absolutely. one of the things im really excited about and advising a team of folks working on creating an ex-prize for alzheimers, we dont have to feel helpless about it...

Competed. >> yes. >> and you have these kids pushed to innovate and work on a project. >> the kids go to an automotive academy, a public school. a lot of the kids are not high achieving in terms of standardized tests but if you give them a transmission manual and a saturday they will take apart a transmission in no time flat and their idea for how to win the x prize was build a couple hybrid cars that were practical and inexpensive kind of cars they could see their parents driving and they did i...