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Joining us for part of the hour, henry bloget, founder and ceo. Its great to have you. First up, the long rumored deal finally official. Pfizer and allergan announcing. But more importantly, the new combination will allow pfizer to relocate its headquarters in ireland, which has a much lower Corporate Tax rate than the United States. Heres pfizers ceo ian reed on the deal just last hour on squawk on the street. This is a great deal for america. It allows us to continue to sustain an investment of approximately 9 billion mainly spent in the United States. We have 40,000 combined employees in th...

That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of...

From wbez chicago, this American Life. You are listening to radio lab. Today in studio 360 i dont know how to explain this, but something happened about 15 years ago. It might have had to do with hiphop, wordy and performance oriented. Or maybe npr grew to a size that it became sort of part of everybodys i do not know. But i know what we feel, that more and more people were sort of married to it. At different points in their day, in the backseat of the car with their parents, and then they graduated and found things. Here is the weird part. In 1971, a group of people got together and said, let...

May be in pr just grew to a size, i dont know precisely what happened. But i know what you can feel. More and more people were married to it. Just different points in their day, in the back seat of their car with their parents and graduated from other things that they found. Here is the weird part. In 1971 or two, lets make serious newsmaking radio. That is the time Walter Cronkite and dan rather, the new york papersad the pentagon and woodward and bernstein were with the washington post. If you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem the countdown to music, and w...

Future of education. Lets start with branson, founder of the virgin group. He is also a high school dropout. He is not alone. Bill gates, larry ellison, steve jobs they Left High School before graduating. I talked to branson about the challenges of educating entrepreneurs as well as the future of Virgin Galactic. Richard branson entrepreneurs it is possible that school is not necessary. I left school at 15. I learned the art of entrepreneurism by getting out there and doing it. And i also educated myself in the real world. And ive seen my life as one long education that i never had. But i thin...