The company certainly didnt think it would happen and certainly the American People had no expectations this would happen so that idea that you have to be a little crazy to take this on and he was the right kind of crazy. Our of life coverage before we wrap up this host joining us ansettd is radio talkshow host and author of seven books Dennis Prager the most recent book is called the Ten Commandments still the best moral code. Host what is on your mind . Guest is germane to a the Ten Commandments is what i believe the american red revolution of my beloved country the greatest experiment of liberty and indecency in human history. I do believe a big part of the reason of the radicalt come sectors asian and of our society. Host how did that come about . Guest to emanate from europe after world war i especially then, europe decided it was nonsense because of the massacres forea now apparently good reason everybody understands world war to the was morally necessary but not everybody believ
So hard to believe way back then john rehm said to me, someday youll be host of that program. So he dreamed for me. He saw ahead for me in ways i could not see for myself. Now, contrast that with what we talked about earlier, the tension, the difficulties in marriage. I mean, its so complicated. Marriage is the hardest job in the world next to parenthood. [laughter] thats very true. I have a couple of smaller questions, but since you just spoke about john rehm again, one of the things i wanted to mention is that you talk at the end of the book about missing him more. And so often in our society we think, you know, grief has a time, grief ends. But this isnt actually the mourning that youre talking about, its missing him more. And i think you touched on that a bit, but id love to have you expand on it. John rehm went to Friends Seminary with Malcolm Brown of the new york times. Malcolm won a pulitzer for his coverage of vietnam along with a number of other reporters, and malcolm married
We think a lot about animals as biomedical models. Its important to know how we are treating animals. So i want to talk a little bit of the history of fixing life and this is something with the new editing tools, these are new on the scene in the last three years, they are cheaper, theyre quicker and easier to use and a lot of people have wondered if we have the capacity to now modify a lot of organisms, should we do it with humans, should we do it before theyre born in maybe the same met metaphor before the cow . What hes basically saying, you know, as oppose the sterilizations, the way we segregated people that we didnt want away from society, now we are able to do this and now seemingly sterile mocular level. And hes also bringing the point that im going reiterate with another person, the idea that we sometimes assume that biotechnology is the most effective tool for social problems and i really want to interrogate the idea with you tonight because im not sure that it is. Another pe
Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. I am willing to bet that every one of you has a story to tell about how they got to know this amazing writer. 400 years ago to this very day, april 23, 1616, William Shakespeare died. The world is much larger and connected today than it was in 1616 and a lot has happened. We are still talking to shakespeare. For many it feels like he is still in the room. If you look around he is still in the room. How is it that we still have more to say about this w
Called, shaping San Francisco. Thanks. Yee, welcome to cspan. Welcome to the vast audience at cspan programing across the United States and across the world. Were happy to have you all with us tonight at our shaping San Francisco talks. This talk tonight is on Synthetic Biology, diy meets big capital is the title they gave it. It is really borne out of a long interest i have had, in some ways the roots of shaping San Francisco which is Community Participatory history project but rooted in ses lendings acritical relationship to technology. We started in the mid 90s during the big boom then of interactive multimedia and kind of way before there was even web 1. 0 really. We were already working on this project. Weve gone through quite a few iterations. We all lived through endless rounds of hysteria technology will save us and take us to the Promised Land and so on and so one of the interesting topics for me is to try to think about what is the moment in history that youre living through