Massachusetts General Hospital and m. I. T. Her first book is called cured, the people who defeated hiv. She has been published in the new york times, Los Angeles Times and time magazine. In 2016 she published the work that is the basic of her talk tonight, entitled rise of the rocket girls the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to mars. That work was a bestseller and was widely praised by critics, including one who described it as immersive, evocative, and superbly written. Her narrative should be required reading. Another commented that when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womankind in the control room. It is a pleasure to welcome to the university of Mary Washington nathalia holt. [applause] thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me here tonight and i am excited to talk to you about rocket girls. This is a group of pioneers whose careers shaped nasa and really made it what it is today. Before i get into their history, i want to sha
The pro democracy parties of hong kong showed up to the polls in Record Number and swept the board in weekend elections a stunning rejection of the citys beijing backed government. Also on the programme. Uber and out. The ride sharing app has been told its licence will not be renewed in london. It plans to appeal. And the priceless jewellery of augustus the strong, has been stolen from a museum in dresden, where the security was anything but. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in new york, Christian Fraser is in london. Michael bloomberg, the three term mayor of this city has announced he is running for president. The 77 year old is making a late entrance, but he has the money to make up for it. Take a look at this graphic. It shows you the tv ad spending by 2020 democrats thus far. And you will see, there is Michael Bloomberg, second in the list, and he has only just entered the race. Rather than trying to win early states, he will be focusing all his attention on super tuesday, whe
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And that could be a big problem. Good afternoon welcome to the Cato Institute from the Cato Institute we are here today to talk about panic attack young radicals in the age of trump. I thought it was very interesting i have to say. It was thoughtprovoking it was all over the ideological spectrum and treated many different phenomenon with a common rubric so what are those commonalities . That so many people have simultaneously lost their minds . [laughter] and i am here today in part because i hear a great deal of the art of not losing your mind and asking questions about how do we return to a more sane place in politics . And for two main locations in that environment and the other social media. What do these have in common . So my answers are as follows. First the de tocqueville effect is a wellknown phenomenon in Political Science where a society takes to reform itself is often precisely the way in which those conditions make it even more intolerable that somehow things end up seemin
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