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Professor of international law, presenting this program, please join me in welcoming them. [applause] thank you. Without further ado i thought i would plunge into a question for the judge and the biographer. Richard posner, when you were the age of some of the people in this room you were fabulous yates scholar interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school was always the default graduate choice. I give some thought to graduate school, decided, not for me. I dont think i can stay. Harvard law school has a formative impression on you, i suppose . It launched you...

The National Museum opened it past september on the National Mall. A few days earl American History tv spoke with key members of the design team, responsible for the look and feel of the newest museum. Well hear what inspired the distinctive shape and about the ideas behind the history galleries. In about 20 minutes, well show the opening ceremony, including talks about president obama and george w. Bush, and performances be denise graves and stevie wonder. Hi, im the lead designer of the National Meal seem of africanAmerican Museum of culture. We well see when you come to the building. What f...

AfricanAmerican Museum. I was one of the arcing tekts. What feeling did you hope this museum would cain . I hope it would give a sense of uplift and being connected to this very unique location on the washington mat on the Nations Capital but one which would also give you a sense of intrigue, to explore the extraordinary exhibits here. You have this fantastic window on washington to see right through you have an International Background. Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that informed your work on this very American Museum . I was born on the heart of the continent. As a teenager...

[inaudible conversations] okay. Let me check the mic first. Can you hear in the become row . Okay. Im barbara mead. One of the founders of politics and prose and i wanted very much to come in and introduce steven bud dan ski because i enjoyed this book so much budiansky. It was such an impressive accomplishment to write this book. Stephen had to delve deep into mathematics, linguistics, engineering, as well as the technical history of codemaking and codebreaking. From those early electric calculating machines that allen touring was instrumental about, that were used during the Second World War...

They just do not have at the same level. Partly because i have grown up tied to one another was social media. They do have an experience of reality that is in part much more communityoriented then some of this in the older generation. To that extent they are more focused on issues of justice that they are on issues of self opportunity. That gives me reason for hope. So i think that sense to the extent that science is a force for justice and to the extent that being pro science and be in a nerd is cool especially in that young generation, i think we have a lot to look forward to. Join me and gi...