With President Clinton about how the impeachment should go but that his staff did cord meet with the White House Kentucky s outgoing governor has issued hundreds of pardons and commuted the large number of sentences as he left office corresponding Chan lists some of the many violent offenders he pardoned before walking out of the governor s mansion this week Kentucky Republican Matt Bevin pardoned this man who sexually assaulted a 15 year old boy a drunk driver who killed a pastor and his wife a man who decapitated a woman and left her body in a barrel a woman who threw her newborn in a septic tank at a flea market a man who at age 16 killed his parents and left their bodies in a basement and this man who raped a 9 year old girl and served less than 18 months out of his 23 year sentence New York City police have begun an investigation into the shooting of a man who was reported to have pointed a gun at pedestrians and police later was learned the weapon was fake n.y.p.d. Chief of patr
Well guess as Dr Robert Hagen astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution and author of the book Genesis talking about the genesis of life in outer space and the 2nd special guest talk about the most incendiary aspect of the evolutionary theory the application to you and me our special guest is Carl Zimmer biologist author of the book Evolution talking about how humans humans probably evolved from a common ape like ancestor according to the fossil evidence and also the voluminous evidence given to us by d n a and biotechnology so an exploration today we talk about evolution and out of space and evolution of our own bodies. Well our 1st special guest today is Dr Robert Hagen of the Carnegie Institution outside Washington d.c. He s an astrobiologist author of the new book Genesis and we are talking about how the 1st spark of life began on the planet Earth about 3 and a half 1000000000 years ago. The 1st question for you is how did you 1st get interested in science as a youth Oh man I wou
The City University of New York and this is exploration everybody can exploit race and we discuss the fascinating world of science and its impact on society and today leading off we re going to bring on 2 figures in science who are leaders in their respective fields the 1st scientists it says Shaw stack he is the director of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence now you re probably seen on t.v. a Number of specials about aliens from outer space the aliens are going to invade us the aliens are right next door watching as with their flying saucers but what about how science views the whole question of intelligent life in the universe Dr says Shostak is a Ph d. In physics he s a colleague of mine and instead of teaching graduate students that prestigious universities all the intricacies of astrophysics and quantum mechanics he instead has decided to devote his life to the surge for alien civilizations in outer space Now at 1st you may say it is self Wow that sounds like a waste of
Bus loads of Florida students arriving in Tallahassee to urge Florida lawmakers to do something to stop school violence for many that s gun control we re going to keep talking to keep pushing something is done because people are dying and this can happen to her own a student at Stillman Douglas High School where 17 people died last week but Tuesday the Florida state legislature voted down a measure that would have banned assault style weapons in the state other students will have the president s ear on Wednesday this is a listening session to see what can be done better what the actual concerns of the students are what they would like to see White House press secretary Sara Sanders says students parents and lawmakers have been invited both from Florida and from other school shootings as well the president has made a move against a controversial gun accessory going back to the deadly shooting a 58 people last October he directed the attorney general clarify whether certain Bob stock de
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and this is exploration every week on exploration we discuss the fascinating world of science and packed on society and today we have 2 very special guests because we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the most incendiary blasphemous controversial theory of all time i theory which still makes headlines around the world a theory called evolution it was 150 years ago that Charles Darwin wrote Origin of Species and set off a bombshell that reverberates even today so our 1st special guest on exploration is Dr Robert Hagen he is an astrobiologist he looks for evolution not on the earth but in outer space and the question that we re going to ask today is is it possible to bring a bunch of chemicals together to create the basic ingredients for life is life in some sense for free this had happened all by itself spontaneously in outer space according to the laws of chemistry and the laws of physics Dr Robert Hagen is an a