Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but not at all a simple answer. Why does it take 2,000 years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe. The answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Doctor strevens, thank you very much for joining us. It is great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and about what im setting out to do with it. So, i wrote this book to answer tw
And that one cspan2s booktv more television for serious readers. Great evening. My name is steven woolfolk, director of programming and marketing at the kansas city public library. Before we get started i should mention if you have questions that you can leave those in the comments or the checkbox on the youtube page and we would get to as many as we can. If youre interested in persecuting trend that is available at most major retailers but we like to point people to shop. Org where your purchases for independent booksellers at a a time when ty need your support most. If you are a longtime follower of programming either in person or online you know that weve been heavily on the humanities. Tonight we turn our attention to the sciences obvious with every dose of the humanities on the side. Our guest is dr. Michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at New York University his book the knowl
Being on a plantation, of being controlled. Thats what were talking about. The reality that being implemented into people every day, that was being implemented into us as democrats. We wanted people to get that ideology, that way of thinking and know that theres Something Else on the other side and thats what we did , we ditched the Democrat Party and switched our party to republican vote for donald trump. What was the event that led to that ditch and switch for you to . It was the candidate back in 2015, donald trump. When he came down the escalators and said i want to secure the border and the first thing we thought is go secure your house, is atthe white house secure . The American House should be secure and he said we want to bring back jobs. We the American People are building without jobs and why would you outsource our jobs and the American People have no jobs so he has solutions to the problems that were ailing this country and that was when the lightbulb went off that this is
Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos responsible for it was white, you eliminate other human beings who should also have the same moral outrage, too much of our time today is spent on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person thats the fact that this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens is that individual dies it takes away some of our humanity and who we
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