Terrific. He started over 50 years with admiral arley burk and to years we were at 18th and k, and less opulent surroundings to sale the least. Thats putting it mildly. We would have doing this book talk in basement with no windows and would never heat gotten here with pture an and to have the james James Kitfield here whos wherein another remarkable book. You know his bio. One of the best, best military reporters to ever work in this town. He is one of the best authors. He has the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about, and the respect of his readers and the respect of fellow journalists. Thank you for saying that. And certainly of the policy community, who consider him to be someone of just impeccable talent and character, and we have all learned quite a lot from James Kitfield over the years. The book is terrific, and i know that all of you, the holiday are coming up so dont buy one, buy two. For those of you at home who are watching on the webcast or cspan, theyr
Men. Didnt teach the students, didnt have detailed responsibility anymore. The administrative board, joint administrative board, had responsibility for the progress and wellbeing of the students, the Extracurricular Activities were merged. The dorms were coresidential. So, the notion that there was a college there was frankly part of the same, like the thing that for decades, and engaged in some important endeavors for alumni and also that they a difference to students, older women who could serve as mentors, but college i think what finally happened when neil was president of harvard, linda will son president wilson, president of radcliffe, they engaged in two years of pretty quiet negotiations to try to establish as a fact what had been reality for many, many years. There wasnt a college left that never had a faculty. It had there just wasnt anything left as a real college to preserve. So the the amazing thing is that radcliffe survived survived 1,999th, not that it ended as a colleg
Interface. There are many ways of accessing the brain. They take electrodes, place it atop the brain, which follows or ne rds narrow signals urosignals. Ferried to aion is computer, and algorithm, that takes the information and transforms it into an action command. Perhaps it is moving a cursor from left to right or moving a robotic arm. It is using computer and algorithms to read and tension from the brain. Intention from the brain who discovered them . Malcolm that is controversial. People have been using electrodes in the brain for a very long time to determine various types of movement and try to understand how animals initiate movement. 1999, researchers realized they could take the recordings and could figure out, based on the rhythms of the firing patterns the cells were creating to enact certain movements, they could recreate that movement. The early work was done in mice models and the plea moved on to monkeys and humans. What is the practical effect of bcis . Malcolm the medi
Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Now we kick off the weekend with malcolm gay. He explores the signals from the brain that dictate motor skills. And now i am very thrilled to introduce malcolm gay to left bank books. Malcolm gay is an arts reporter for the boston globe where he covers visual and performing arts. He previously worked as a contributing writer at the New York Times and the critic at large for our very own riverfront times where he reviewed of visual and performing arts. His writing has appeared in wired, the olympic, and time, among other publications. In 2004 the society of professional journalists Northern California chapter named him that youre supposed in the emerging journalist. At a 2005 he received the James Beard Award for nutrition or food related consumer issues. His work has since received other national accolades, including top honors in 2008 from the association of alternative news weeklies, and in 2009 from th
Interest in this, a neurosurgeon, neuroscience, expert, genius at barnes jewish right up the street. And hes, you know, in his 40. I think he has more than 80 patents to his name. He had a robust neurosurgery practice. Hed written a Science Fiction novel. I mean, he was one of these guys that was just incredible. And the first thing that i was planning to do was a magazine story. I was going to do kind of a quick thing. I was writing journalism everywhere, and it seemed hike a great mag teen magazine like a great magazine article. He worked to find the root of any epileptic seizure. And what he started doing, and this case, actually, was not an epilepsy case. It was a tumor. And it wasnt a well defined tumor. It was one of these tumors that kind of grows throughout the brain. And so at the surgery, you know, the patient goes down, the guy goes down, and hes anesthetized. Eric opens his head. And in the middle of the surgery, eric wakes him up. And the guy is, you know, kind of dazed an