Bombshell accusations. A key government scientist claiming he was pushed out of his job in the middle of the pandemic because he pushed back against the antima lar i cant drug touted by President Trump. What the white house is saying this morning. Pets and covid. For the first time in the u. S. Two house cats testing positive for coronavirus and seven new tigers and lions infected at the bronx zoo. What the cdc is saying about animals and the virus. The count down to the nfl draft. Commissioner Roger Goodell joins us live this morning. And legends banding ther. From bon jovi to tony be nnnett and the boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. The star tstudded jersey for jersey benefit rocking out to raise moan for their home state. Good morning, america. Robin were seeing so many frontline workers support each other every single day. We really are. New york hit so hard by the pandemic. The nypd paying tribute to the Health Care Heros who volunteered to help out at new york city from all oefrp t
Wait, he says. Double or nothing i can tell you exactly what your profession is. The mathematician things this is unlikely, so says, sure, go ahead. The shepherd says, you are a world famous mathematicianings incredible, says the math ma tickings how could cue know . Well, says the shepherd, put down my dog and ill tell you. This reputation is not new. In 1914, william d. Lewis, the principle of william penn N High School in philadelphia rote about democratizing education and focused oN High School math mat makes. Misobjection he wrote is largely empire cal. I have seen so many pupils driven out of school by work which could not have any practical advantage to them, and i have watched so many classes, under the caption of algebra, i have come to believe we ought to discriminate as carefully as possible between those pupils who really need the advance mathematics and those who will find other work more profitable. 1914. What mathematics we teach in our schools, especially our high schoo
Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
Good evening welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and to a very special event. I think we are all delighted that the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted that they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america which is helping out tonight and in particular they loaned us james hansen tonight whom i will introduce in a moment. My name is john ewing. Im the president of math for america and i am a mathematician [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. [laughter] every professional mathematician knows that mathematicians and their subject have a certain reputation. A world famous mathematician is walking in the countryside one day when he comes upon a huge flock of sheep and being a world famous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep that i can tell can tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd knowing that there were an awful lot
Wouldnt be understating the intolerance that exists there. And you know i think the right should not copy the politics of the left by overstating the intolerance that does exist. Host professor, have universities always been largely liberal institutions . Guest yeah for very long time, that certainly the case. We dont have very good survey data prior to the 60s but a lot of the evidence that does exist that University Faculties were quite liberal throughout the 20th century certainly so they have been ripped liberal for very long time. They do seem to have become more liberal in the 60s and 70s the new left and particularly as feminists entered the universities in the 70s. It drifts to the left but its been a broadly liberal institution for a long time. Having said that the political makeup of the university is defined this way so its much more conservative than the Natural Science for example that in the social sciences or the humanities and within the social science its berries as we