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Now without slavery in creating the superpower. Its a very powerful revision of american history, economic is very and i think its a tremendously important book. There is a quick preview of some of the books coming out by basic books, an imprint of the Perseus Books group. Lynn sherr recalls the life of sally ride, the First American woman in space. This 45 Minute Program is next on the tv. So, onto the reason why you are all here. Im so pleased to welcome lynn sherr for her new biography trend ...

To have done a book and a movie and its a great line where reagan says that his job was to shed the light of the American People so they would turn up the heat on congress. And i think that maybe that is what my book is in the tradition of. If we get enough of the americans, it will get there political figures to follow and so a lot of times it is time to figure out out how to get an upgrade as opposed to leaving it. So now, someone who is not a republican pachyderm, a florida, universal and we ...

Please welcome lily koppel. [applause] good morning. So nice to be here. I heard there was a vicious rumor going around and i didnt make it out of new york city because of the weathers so i am so glad volunteers believe this is actually me and im here sharing the story with you this morning. I love Great American stories and i love beehives. And a combination of those two sayings as you will learn lead me to tell this amazing but looked over american story of our original astronauts wives. I wan...

There were people able to preregister when they were 17 so they could vote at 18. If you ask the vast majority, did they like the early vote period, did they like the right to exercise their constitutional privilege, the answer would be resoundingly yes. And professor raskin, youve heard someone characterize the udall amendment were considering today as an effort to repeal the First Amendment. Now, i dont believe thats accurate, but i hear it in paid ads and others and i guess if some of the bil...

Destruction and so the king at a number of case studies each one is an illustration or the United States has developed weapons designed to be less powerful, less deadly, less destructive than that have been designed to replace it or supplement. Host what are those today . The easiest to grasp of precision in guided munitions and it did san illustration with their much more accurate than previously. You can be more precise to be sure it is only the targets if they are aiming at and to do less Col...

So please hold your questions until the hand. At inclusion of this session, lilly will be an exciting area and have her autograph one of her books. Out of respect for the author is anyone else here, please turn off your cell phone to get started. So this is lily koppel. She actually joined me in escaping the polar vortex of new york city. So we are a super excited to be in tucson this weekend. Shes a bestselling author of the red letter diary became added to decimate as well as the Astronaut Wiv...

Stringfield theory, hes written multiple bestsellers. He refers to them as New York Times best sell ors, but i dont use that term. [laughter] but this book begins, the first line his new book is the future of the mind, is the name of the book. And the first line is the two greatest mysteries in all of nature are the mind and the universe. So we start from that. And he asks the questions do we have a soul . What happens to us after we die . Who am i anyway . Where do we fit into this great cosmic...

First successful recovery of film from space. Inm the time of its launch 1962 completion of the program in 1972, the corona project photographed more than 750 million square miles of soviet territory. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. For a moment, lets think back will point in time. To a point in time to october 24, 1957, to be precise. On that board the board of on that date the board of consultant activities submitted work to president eisenhower on the status of the Intelligence...

Like the way internet discussions work. Or if you were like and not a Computer Programmer but like an economist or political sciences, maybe institutional innovations eyed Prediction Markets are other ways to ensure that we can raise the quality of public liberation. Those would help with ai that they would also help us deal with a variety of other mega challenges. So it might be for a lot of people is i want to contribute, theyre not doing a specific stuff but just make the world wiser and sane...

Maybe tried, maybe failed, maybe aborted . I do not, sir. There is the general threat that we make every effort to safeguard against. Im not sure if my colleagues are aware of any attempts to produce a dirty bomb using our sources. If you want to followup with a classified briefing on the topic, we could go into that in more detail. Okay. Good enough. And im going to ask a followon question. If this is not appropriate to answer in this space, just say so, but people can go on the internet and le...