Thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im marcia eli from the Brooklyn Public Librarys center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. This year Brooklyn Public Library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. Our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. These are archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn Public Libraries special collections. And those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So we are celebrating these amazing collections and a 125th Anniversary Series titled out of the box. Five programs that put just few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved Materials Center stage clearly the dodgers and robinson have to be part of that lineup
Technology sovereignty, command, control over all of our social institutions. In other words, the book is about how american has developed a new religion, as it were, and the religion is its faith in that Human Progress and technological innovation are the same thing and that paradise can be achieved through greater and greater commitment to technology. Cspan what is technology . Guest i had to define it in the book rather broadly because not only do i include machinery Like Television and computers and all of that, but also techniques. I call them invisible technologies because most people dont think of them as a sort of machinery things like statistics and polling and bureaucratic forms any systematic and repeatable technique that tends to cause people to constrain their thinking about the world. Cspan we talked a number of years ago about television. What impact is technology having on television, and whats the impact on the country . Guest one of the reasons, brian, that i felt i d
Children. And the president said, even if our actions would only save the life of one of those children, its worth it. While the Vice President remains optimistic about administrations plans, it is not just the gop has expressed doubt. Some senate and congressional side stepping and questioning the president s push for new gun laws. Our next guest saying not only can democrats push for gun control in the south and win, some have already done so joining us now is our favorite nerd in the world, nate cohn, staff writer for the new republic. How are you . Good to be back. You say in the new article, progun control dems can win in red states and succeeding in dixie with a f from the nra. What . How . Who . How are they doing this . Best example is bill nelson who ran for the first time in 2000 when gun control supposedly cost al gore the presidency and won the state by five points and most importantly, he was winning in pensacola and not pence ka lo but the florida panhandle. He was carryi
Had games. A senate superbowl approaches, we look at the growing links between concussions and brain damage. We will speak with former professional wrestler and College Football player chris nowinski, now a leading crusader to make football and other sports safer. Longtime revolutionary. [indiscernible] writing about the life we live without having it edited by the system. As we mark the beginning of black history month, a new documentary premieres today about imprisoned journalist Mumia Abujamal. He will join us from inside prison in pennsylvania. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In breaking news from turkey, at least two people have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing at the u. S. Embassy in the capital of ankara. An official says the bomber set off an explosive device at the entrance to the diplomatic mission. The state department confirmed to cbs news least one Security Guard is dead. No grou
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Grand Central terminal celebrate its 100th birthday this month. It is a new new york icon with 750,000 people passing through every day. Tom wolf once wrote, every big city has a railroad station with the grand, to the point of glorious, classical architecture, but the grandest, mauve glorious of all by far was Grand Central station. In the 1970s, it was threatened with destruction. In the 1980s, it fell into disrepair. Now Grand Central is stronger than ever. He were is a look behind the scenes. Grand central is a place with a lot of secrets. One of them is hidden in plain sight its room behind tiffany clock, which overlooks park avenue. Today we go to places the public is never allowed to see, and we meet the characters who make sure the trains run on time. Our first stop takes us from the highest point in Grand Central to the lowest. N42 is the teenest basement in manhattan, and it provides the direct current which powers