Now im pleased to introduce john and doctor pascual is the professor of neurology and associate dean for clinical and Translational Research at Harvard Medical School who served as the chief of the division of cognitive neurology and the Barrington Allen center for noninvasive brain stimulation act the medical center. John robison is a world recognized authority and the best times author of raising cubby. Hes from the college of william and mary. Ththe members of the number of e details his experience of the study led using the magnetic stimulation, the new experimental brain therapy. The hope of the doctors and scientists must understand and then address some of the issues at the heart. The Washington Post praises he takes readers for a ride through the science and leaves us wanting more. Hes explaining physical concepts and doesnt shy away from asking hard questions. This is a truly unusual memoir both poignant and scientifically important. Please join me in welcoming john robison an
John robinson is an authority on life with autism and the best selling author of look me in the eye, seeing different and raising cubby. He is a scholar and resident at the college of william and mary. His book details johns experiment with a dr. Led using transcranial magnetic stimulation a new experimental brain study. The hope was they could understand and address the issues at the heart of autism and aspergers. This is a truly unusual memoir. Join me in welcoming John Robinson and dr. Leon. Hello, thank you for joining us all tonight. I would like to point out that looking at us here, cant tell who is the harvard professor and who is the inmate. In fact, that is in part, one of the changes from this expansion of emotional sensitivity and range that i have experienced through this. This book of mine, this switched on, book is really a remarkable story. But one thing it is not. It is not a story of curing autism. Some people have jumped to the conclusion that is what this is about. A
The historians are looking for eyewitnesses to event that happened 60 years ago. Inall know if it happened these halls here, the only people still alive for the pages who were 16 years old at the time. We are come in handy if you times with a couple of the project and we hope to continue to do so in the future. Constantly amaze me. Meeting judge tracy was a page for eight years. Having the pleasure of driving over in his car with his Capitol Police man afterwards. Still has his badge and we got there all the security. If anyone needs a ride back, he is here. , great pressure pleasure, i. T. Is met i introduce matt. Thank you all, i met wisniewski, the historian of the house. Lineittle further down the , the senate associate historian. We are very pleased to be with you as you kick off the page union weekend. We would like to spend a little bit of time telling you about research,r recent collection acquisitions related to pages and leave sometime at the end for questions might have. The
Well we have seen north koreas leader clapping before, often after he tests a new weapon. But sunday was a very different. [ applause ] kim jongun came out for a landmark concert by a group of south korean artists, including kpop stars red velvet. Its the first time south korean performers have played in the north in more than a decade. Sundays diplomatic push also included this event, the south korean tae kwon do team put on a display for thousands of North Koreans. They kicked, jumped, and even did their own kpop dance. The shows are a sign of better ties for the koreas. But they also come as the u. S. And the south kick off annual war games. And those will be short their year, but are set to be similar in scale to past drills like these. For more we turn to cnns alexandra field who joins us live from seoul. Good to see you, alex. How significant is this moment in north and south korean relations, pop stars from the south performing for kim jongun in pyongyang, and as the leaders of