From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. On milton wrote that. More than 285 Million People live with visual impairment. In recent years they have been breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of blindness. Sanford greenberg lost his vision to ball, at the age of 19. He is chairman of the board of governors at Johns Hopkins wilbert eye institute. He joins me to talk about his experience and his mission to end blindness. Plus jean bennett of the university of pennsylvania. Once again, eric kandel a Howard Hughes medical investigator. I began as i always do with my rent air to review our subject tonight. The last program we did was a new approach to the treatment of deafness. Tonight were going to consider new approaches to the treatment of blindness. As is the case with deafness, blindness is not a lifethreatening situation but in some ways is more disabling as deafness because, as
Hershey. Two economic reports today. Weekly jobless claims at 8 30 eastern time and december pending home sales at 10 00. And eu Foreign Ministers are meeting in brussels. The rouble weakening today on the threat. Andrew. Well talk about the big changes happening with mcdonalds in a minute but first a quick snapshot of other stocks this morning. Facebook beating the street on the top and bottom lines but Revenue Growth was the weakest since the start of 2014 and it rose faster. The Company Plans to cut spending by 15 billion over three years as Lower Oil Prices take a toll and qualcomm lowering its outlook for the year. They warn the newest mobile chip will not be used in Major Customer flag ship smartphones. Is that an app . Apple is selling all of these phones. Citrix with better than expected growth. The company is also cutting about 900 jobs. Also salix pharmaceutical will restate financial statements. First three quarters of 2014. Earlier this month the company said it was explori
Picture after picture. When did you commit to that . It wasnt very easy to do a lot less than you did and theres a lot of history is there. Guest it took a year to write those because i am not a writer. But once i wrote them originally for the russian exhibition, because the curators there, we are russian, we read, i read tolstoy, i kind of started the ball rolling. I did an oral thing first and worked on it and got her a set of captions and said that wasnt true. The bose was packed, with people reading captions and they got upset because they were not leaving my boots. So i started it. When i got the book contract from simon and schuster, and have to write this. Ends to go deep on it. And finding out things that are different especially with technical stuff. Was a hard thing to do. Host reaction around the rest of the world. What has it been . Guest a lot of 20 somethings really excited. That didnt expect this. Even in boston there was a young man from sudan who said hug me and a lot
I think in a sense the discussion we are going to have today, people all over this country. In a sense that many of us included myself, have seen folks go into a hospital for one problem or another and end coming out different than it went in and sometimes dying as a result. What is widely known is the major cause of death in the United States today is the heart disease, a serious problem. The second leading cause of death is cancer. According to the 2010 cdc report, 597,000 people died of heart disease, 574,000 died of cancer. What is not widely known and in fact what the function of this hearing is about and i hope to do my best with the help of my fellow senators and members of the panel is to start focusing attention on the third leading cause of death in the United States of america and that will come as the great surprise and the third leading cause of death in this country has to do with preventable medical errors in hospitals. Recent article published in the journal of Patient
[laughter] and it is an oh my. Moment and it must have been to maxwell because not only is electricity and magnetism things that can travel like waves but the wave is that the speed of light. And when you craft that you are overwhelmed with and a motion of amazement and how beautiful it all fits together because its not just symmetric. They are little bits of asymmetry that are necessary for the pieces to fit together that way. And its not just that maxwells equations are beautiful but you know what is the light that maxwells equations describe. Whoever said that the universe had to be so beautiful . Thats the part that i will never get enough of. Thank you everybody. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. Our next lecture is going to be on december 9 and its about earths orbit and earth orbit along with his sons around the galactic center. Its part of a we will be holding so we invite you december 9. Now im sure that you have further questions. Please hold those questions until