From your studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ian bremmer is here, president of the eurasia group. The new cold war on business. Businesses in russia and china, businesses continue to cascade. Isis threatens a town on the turkish border. And ebola continues to spread. Im pleased to have you back at this table. Turkey, a place you know really well. Turkish inaction on isis dismays the United States, wall street journal. U. S. Turkey at odds as military advance. Most people believe isis will take the town right on the border. You have kurds in turkey that are able to see them. Thats how close they are. And the turks have made pretty much every bad decision that could be made in the middle east. They have been on the wrong side of the conflicts and it will be hard for them to get to a place where they can line up with the americans in the coalition. Thats kind of where we are right now. Why . Just because of the fear of kurdish radicals on the syria side . There were almost 20
Compromised, these have become two of the polarities that structure the very leftright order of battle in american political life as much as the debate over the role of government, led by Barry Goldwater, and the cultural war between mutually recriminating cultural sophisticates on the one hand and the plain or silent majority on the other that i labeled in my previous book nixon land. Note well that reagans side in this plait call battle of political battle of assets which is carried far above the minutiae of electoral tallies has prevailed. And here is their romney and accepting the nomination in 2012 speaking of the day your son Neil Armstrong land on the moon all americans who went to bet that i knew we had the greatest country in the world many some people would have thought differently but by that formulation theyre not americans. Of googles search yielded 114,000 hits. With such utterances are meant to be an ideological approach always apologizing for america. Of obama goes abro
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. It is a sunny day in miami. I am the dean of the college at Miami Dade College ended is the pleasure to be with you today for the 2014 Miami Book Fair international. The book fair is great for for the support of the night foundation, American Airlines and many other generous supporters. We would like to acknowledge special people in the audience today. I see some of you here. Thank you for your continued support. [applause] todays presentation features two speakers. We will reserve time for q a. If you entry would have been given an index card. Please be certain to jot your questions down on the card and pass them to the right on this side and on that side as well. We will be collecting them throughout the program. At this time we invite you to silence your cellphon
In his book the innovators. During this event held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View california mr. Isakson discusses his book with Computer History Museum president and ceo john hollar and then takes audience questions. And now for tonights program program, the history of computing is the ongoing story of how one of the greatest periods of creativity in Human History has been unleashed. It is he even sorts out the real story between the internet. Walter will take us on a journey starting with the distant figures but important figures of john babich. Please join me in welcoming walter isaacson. C thank you john. Its great to be back and this is an amazingly wonderful place. Its such an honor to be back here and you can even reveal my inner geek if you need to. C i think you are about to do that yourself. I grew up soldering ham radios. My dad was an electrical engineer and i love Circuit Boards so its good to get back and write about them. Is that how you originally got i
Youre going to get funded. What is the chance the grant is going to get funded . Its about one in six. Traditionally it has been one in three. In the Cancer Institute it is one in 10. Its even lower. You might say we were funding too much stuff before, and we werent putting a tight enough filter on this. The filter is rigorous peer review by experts in the field. Went back and looked. This was in Heart Disease research, but i imagine its true across the board. I can 2001 we were funding a third of the grants back in 2000 when we were funding a third of the grants. Does a grant in the 10th percentile turnout more productive than a grant funded in the 25th percentile . It is. Viewed, so is one better than the other . What happened . Peerreviewed, so is it better than the other . There is not a difference anyone can tell between the 10th percentile and the 25th percentile. They are both great. That shows we are living have to grade science on the table right now. Just at this moment of gr