A happy first night of hanukkah to all. To all of our members and donors think you for your continued support. I can talk to you about our programs or membership. It has a lovely winter scene this month. While youre waiting in the Doctors Office or whatever. Check out our programs. If you are already we put some postcard on the table outside. Its part of our new science literacy program. The is for both science people and not science people. If you are curious more about that talk to me a couple other orders of business. You will notice we have cspan in the house. If your phone goes off it will be on tv tonight. Let me tell you about tonights guest. Tonight we have dr. Paul halpern. His interest range from space, time to higher dimensions. The recipients about guggenheim fellowship. He has appeared on the history channel. In pbs. The author of 15 Popular Science books including the quantum elaborate is available for sale at the end of the program. [applause]. I am delighted to be here
Glossy history germanys according to World Heritage site all presented in a new Coffee Table Book. Where you start off by shouting a little light on a lighting designer. Called dove she combines the traditional glass blowing techniques with modern technology while her creations have earned her a number of accolades including designer of the year in the Czech Republic or wanted to hear more about what inspires this artist so we visit her in her studio in prague. Lucio called over plays with light and the energy it radiates glass is her favorite material. The designer works with it to make objects that are both translucent and colorful like here with her lamp cups were. Told of also combines different materials here and onyx stone divides the fragile glass hemispheres of this land called. Earth light is a phenomenon its something that you cannot fully understand i mean its its very emotional its a strong source of energy. So this is the main thing what fascinates me and together with gla
Are teaming up to decipher hieroglyphs using Artificial Intelligence. They were inspired by a game where players transport themselves into the world of ancient egypt. Hybrid lives pyramids and pharaohs are all part of the assassins creed origins Video Game Developers added an educational feature based on authentic ancient egyptian sources canadian historian maxine deal on helped develop the educational concept the discovery tour could prove very useful for schools and museums. Normally we wait to make a game for entertainment for fun and we do discrepancies with history we recreate the narrative we create the story this time around were used the same environment but its not about a conflict anymore its not about the narrative its for them or about taking the time to explore. After a while developers realize that some of the hieroglyphs ancient egyptian writing can be. Stream li difficult to decode that gave them an idea for a Research Project which google wanted to support. Realize tha
Principals and superintendents to say that you have kids in the region qualifying yet only 40 kids are taking it. N you look at your taxes when i had to subsidize my classrooms, it made me very angry. Andy, what is your take on these results . Well, Big Questions about what the future of state and federal policy are going to look like. It looks like the nation is rebelling 35, maybe 40 years of the drift of policy on this. What i mean is there is a sense that americas local system of schools werent getting the job done in the way we need them to. Say, the late 1970s, early 1980s, scores on the sats and so forth. There has been this impulse to centralize more and more. We have the accountability movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The apotheosis of accountability. Top,we had race to the where we get more and more power in the State Government and at the federal government. Going through these results, it is remarkable i use the term technocrat, the idea that a central administrator with T
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