The cia saying which is admirable but we cant walk away from the suggesting that is not who we are anymore. It is who we are. We did this is a nation that we need to address it as something that we are capable quite frankly doing again. Host eric fair thank you for sitting down and talking with me. Guest thank you for the opportunity. A so, that is what would happen over and over again. I have not. Any time in the military and i dont have family. My father, my father was very old. He was 65 when i was born. He actually enlisted in world war i he was born in england and lived here and made it as far as basic training where he got a hernia and that was that for the illustrious road to the military career. So in terms of your being kind of this person who wanders into the situations until much about them come the last one i was a little bit similar perhaps was packing for mars where you worked with the nasa Space Program. Was it harder to get access to the military or to the Space Program
A thick blurb from the boston globe, beautifully written and disturbingly funny as her previous books, grunt examines the researchers who are leading the charge in these state of the art developments. An engaging anecdote of reflection. Mary is also the author of the curious coupling of science and sex, spook, science tackles the afterlife and stiff the curious lives of human cadavers. And her writing has a appeared in about every magazine you can possibly imagine. Shes going to be in conversation with our own jeff greenwald, the author of five bestselling books including shopping for buddhas, future perfect how star trek captured planet earth, and jeff is also on our factory factory. [laughter] yeah, jeff works in our factory. [laughter] and besides that, hes also on the faculty of our travel writers conference, so if there are budding writers in the audience tonight, you can find out more about our conferences. Theres a mystery one in july and one in august, and jeff will be on the f
Festival taking place in the citys inner harbor. Then on saturday, september 24, book tv is live from the National Book festival at the Washington Convention center in the nations capital. Coverage includes talk from Pulitzer Prize winners and gordon read and joby warwick as well as your phone calls for authors bob word word, congressman john lewis and others. For more information about the book fairs and festivals book tv will be covering and to watch previous ethical coverage, click the book tv tab at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] okay, lots more if i can have your attention please. Can everybody hear me in the back back there . If youre in the back and if anybody is standing we also have the monitors on tonight. Theres a monitor in the cafc and also a monitor by one of the registers next to you so if anybody wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafc or that monitor out there. Im dana kelly. Pleasure to have youall here. Always a pleasure to have mary roach b
Critical mass in the past five, ten years. Reporter the nations feeding frenzy ahead on sunday morning. Oh, wow, that is so good. Osgood a controversial baking ingredient could be the next big growth industry, or so the voters of two western states seem too believe. Of course, theres the fact that it currently violates federal law. This morning Barry Pederson takes an arms length look. Right now what you want to do is like anything else my grandmother told me, always taste the food. Reporter but you may need a doctors permission to taste this food. Pepper with a pinch of pot. Later on sunday morning, marijuana as a cooks new secret ingredient. Osgood its no secret that outstanding food is easy to find in the biggiesy. And easy does it is actor John Goodmans motto ever since he adopted new orleans as his home. This morning he talks with our Michelle Miller. You and i will be sitting in the fabled cat bird seat. Reporter hes a memorable character actor who is also a memorable character.
Feeding frenzy. As lee cowan will be reporting in our sunday morning cover story. I think i have the best job in the world. Reporter were in the kitchen with wolfgang asking him and others just how we got so obsessed with food. I feel like foodism has hit a Critical Mass in the past five, ten years. Reporter the nations feeding frenzy ahead on sunday morning. Oh, wow, that is so good. Osgood a controversial baking ingredient could be the next big growth industry, or so the voters of two western states seem too believe. Of course, theres the fact that it currently violates federal law. This morning Barry Pederson takes an arms length look. Right now what you want to do is like anything else my grandmother told me, always taste the food. Reporter but you may need a doctors permission to taste this food. Pepper with a pinch of pot. Later on sunday morning, marijuana as a cooks new secret ingredient. Osgood its no secret that outstanding food is easy to find in the biggiesy. And easy does