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The producer of the wildly acclaimed and really important new documentary, bully. And the coeditor of the book by the same title. Both of which about our nations dirty little secret about bullying in schools across america. Both of the movie and the book put a human face face on what its about, what impact skids on both sides and on the sidelines and their families. So, thank you so much, cynthia, for being here today. Why dont we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself. How did yo...

And when they cover something the community doesnt want them to cover the journalists are ostracized, the local towns also pull out their advertisements which is their economic base and the newspapers to get tremendous risk to write about something that could be a scandal or something important because the community doesnt care about that and when they hear the Public Service it is a Recognition National recognition of the importance and it provides the same kind of umbrella protection the Nobel...

The interests span a broad range of topics from black holes to extrasolar planets and the emergence of possible intelligent life forms in the universe. His popular book, the golden ratio what a prize in 2003 and he is a well published author and hes with us to discuss his most recent book, brilliant blunders from darwin time find. Colossal mistakes by great scientists that have changed our understandings of life and the universe. It was released in may of 2013 and has received excellent reviews ...

World trade center. Why, when, what the problems were. Elizabeth, welcome to after words. Thank guest great. Thank you. Great to be here. Host what motivated do you publish the book. To motivate and take the time for the research. What were the underlying reason you decided focus on the struggle to reconstruct the World Trade Center . Guest in the fall of 2001 i was a graduate student in philadelphia studying urban studies and anthropology. I was interested in cities. I had become i was becoming...

Lets have a lot of effect. So in terms of utilizing their gender, they do emphasize it helps them to achieve their political goals. They deemphasizing it when theyre concerned that if it hurts their political goals. If we take the very obvious example of Hillary Clinton host i love that example. Guest one of the reasons, there has not been a senator from new york on services in a very long time. Was because she knew she is going to be running for president and that as a woman she knew to establi...

Of the Wilson Center Cold War International history project. This week David Coleman and his latest book the 14th day jfk and the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis. In a director of the Mother Center president ial Recordings Program distills the days following october 28, 1962 and shows that both the public believed the cuban missile crisis that ended president kennedy continued to walk a fine diplomatic line to secure the removal of the Nuclear Weaponry from cuba. Host as you know theres a ...

Host when you were bussed into the inner city, did you have a particularly sort of strident stance on the question of desegregation, the question of School Integration . Guest i think as kids, you dont think about it. Looking bag, i mean, even when i was reading back at the reaction for kids in the 70s when they started busing the kids, said, you know, i like it at the school, and they didnt think about it. It was the same way for me, but as we got older, i started to think about not only going ...

Looking at segregation between School Districts in long island and this and that between these issues but the reason i wrote it is i go out to the Public Schools when i was in second grade in the inner city in the housing projects in the poor neighborhoods in the city so it was something i had thought about actively since i was a little kid and so when it came into the Supreme Court i was interested in following that host talking about the personal pieces i like to ask people their personal conn...