Good evening and welcome, both newcomers and repeat offenders, if you look around here, you notice the great many ponderous and intangible books out there in the world. That being the case, its always refreshing to find whose impact in the portion to the Tipping Point is one of those books, from time to time, usually its quite unexpected, work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain, one strong spray with a passages to clean up, suddenly we can finally grasp things around us that weve always been looking at, we drop the enter gp and more sharply, it can be rather intoxicating, once again this is that kind of book. One of the delights i find of the Tipping Point is that malcolm asked the kind of question that a child might ask, the kind of question that is on the tip of her brain like the name on the tip of the tongue. Often we find it hard to focus on, not despite a bit but because of it. In the question he asks to hear is that one once weve heard asked, why didnt anybody thi
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Book blink the power of thinking without thinking which looks at how people make splitsecond decisions. Hello . If everyone can hear me my name is henry center, editorial director of the new yorker magazine i would like to welcome to you to the fifth annual new yorker festival. The message here to say please turn off any cell phones or pager devices. Malcolm will be speaking for about 40 minutes, we will have 20 to 30 minutes of q a after that. During the question period there will be microphones down the aisle and we request that you would speak into the microphone during that time. Malcolm gladwell has been a staff writer for the new yorker magazine since 1996, before that he was a new york bureau chief for the washington post. At the new yorker he very quickly made his mark establishing a new genre of story, the Malcolm Gladwell story. Theres very few people like that in the 80 years of this magazine stop editorial meetings the subjects abcome up and say thats been done to that. Som
Cooler weather, kira . I have but it happened fast. We went from hot to very chilly. Remember last week i said we were going to go on a little bit of a roller coaster. Thats what happened and now were on the cool roller coaster because the temperatures are going to continue to dip down this weekend, 54 degrees right now in san jose, look at the beautiful sunrise, that image that you see of downtown san jose, thats a live look of what it looks like outside and look at how beautiful San Francisco looks. We really just have stunning views all throughout the entire bay area right now. Wind speeds at about 18 Miles Per Hour in San Francisco now. I will say this. If youre going to be in San Francisco this evening, we are tracking some gusty winds, so i will be bringing up that forecast for you but i want to show off this 24hour temperature change because we are even cooler than yesterday. At this hour at 7 00 a. M. , we are 17 degrees cooler in santa rosa. 9 degrees cooler in San Francisco.
We will bring you the latest on the narrowing race. The war of words between the u. S. And north korea intensifies. Now pyongyang says washington is behaving like a gangster. Sarah i am sarah harman. It is good to have you with us. Hundreds of people have been protesting istanbul following an era when for president erdogan in a referendum granting him greater powers. Protesters opposed the changes, which will bring about the biggest overhaul in turkish politics since the founding of the modern republic. Many fear that earned one will steer erdogan will steer turkey towards oneman rule. A commission as called for the vote to bnl an ultimate saying there were major irregularities. The turkish government has rejected criticism. President erdogan says international monitors should know their place, after they say the vote failed to meet recognized standards. Reporter a heros welcome for the turkish president in uncorrupted his supporters believe giving him a more powers will lead to a stro