Four centuries what might happen there. While we would never want to accuse either harvard or the university of michigan of theft it is an indisputable fact this upsurge in good fortune was ours before it was theirs. Phil deloria received his bachelors degree from the university of colorado in 1982. Wanting to observe and understand humanity from many different angles, he then taught band at A Denver Metro high school. Having observed High School Music performance to satisfaction he returned to cu for journalism and mass communication. Thats when we remembered what to call the program before it became an acronym that is it different every time i say it. One of the most gracious acts of kindness to me, phil took my western American History course, which i believe then was called the early year, the not so early american frontier as part of his journalism program. In that course students were required to write about an adventure they experienced. It launched me on a western add ven tutur
This youre not in a Motor Vehicle or a train where you dont see anything. Thats a lovely slow pace where you get to meet people and get to interact with people at a ground level. You get to stay in their homes and get to understand cultures from the inside out. So, i do feel like i had this birds eye view of the world which i didnt before growing up england where i was dying to get out and i felt claustrophobic. I needed to get my head around on what this planet we live on and what we need to do to get along and to overcome all these big problems. I feel like i have some answers now that i didnt before. And i feel like the world has been sort of scaled down in many ways to that little boat that i spent so many months in my life on. When youre out on an ocean, on a small boat, you have to adapt to the circumstances. You have to live within your within finite means. You have to think about conservation of your food and water and your power and you have to fix stuff. And i think thats som
When the ideas of existence of dark energy actually brings about that our universe could become everything we can see all this can be just a tiny little part of a much grander reality what we call multiverse. There is a picture of that perhaps. You can see the little yellow circle, thats pretty much what we can see around us. If measurement and theories are correct our own universe is infinite in time. This idea of the multiverse is all of that is but a tiny piece of a much grander reality, a multiverse which is made up of many marbles like in this case which are different kinds of universes, each one of them a different loss of physics and an even and thats a sophisticated idea that we brought in to explain the mr. Of the dark push. We dont know if if this makes sense but we dont know if we will ever be able to prove or disprove these ideas. This is very controversial and yet a very exciting but it goes at the heart of one of the biggest questions ever, why are we here and what doesnt
I appreciate that. I can just look at kevin if i need. Kevin, you teach, right . In addition to blogging. Er, in sorry, pete. Blo and so,gg youre used to being front of unruly crowds. G and you may also have some experience with a particularly nerve wracking speaking engagement. One of those engagements wrote youre not quite sure where the subject matter of your talk fits with the event at hand. And then, adding to that, you learn that perhaps, i dont know, cspan is going to broadcast your talk live on television because, hey, you know, live television. Ppen this stills, happens apparently. But if youve done any public ae speaking, you also know that yu moment where a that sense of re calm settles over you. I know that pete knows that because ive now watched him speak beautifully a number of times in the past couple of days. I just want to let you know, e thiss not happening to me right now. And so, without further ado. As many of you may know, on november 29th, 1864, approximately 700
Understand something that didnt make sense anyway. Why do people think people speaking assure it was weird to be gay . I am hoping for more. That probably means it is time to wrap things up and thank our panel and to invite all of you to join us. [applause] booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweet us twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook. Com booktv. This was the night of september 9th, 2009, still highly popular president spoke to a joint session of congress and there was in the air with Tennessee Williams big daddy pilot might have called the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity. Among the mendacious lines cried out that night was this one. Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat this. Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. At the time obama said this he may have thought it was true and yet i went back and checked the record o