First book we are discussing here is devoted to education and competing visions of how children learn. Amandas book, the smartest kids in the world and how they got that way takes us to north and poland. Rland, she does this through the eyes of three American Kids learning in those school systems. Analysis r a unique of this. L the Washington Post says is is the most iluminating book ive seen, and the New York Times says this managed to make our culture look strangely new. Trust me, the conclusions have insights for kids of all ages as important parents. Amanda is an investigative journal with the times. Hes also the author of the unthinkable who survives when disaster strikes and why. Please join me in welcoming Amanda Ripley. Thank you. Is great to be here on many levels. One reason is this is the city in which i live. The other reason is i grow most of my articles in the library of congress. It was the only place where i could find some focus and peace. I had a new baby at the time
Festival, paul bogard presents his book the end of night searching for darkness in an age of artificial light. One of my most vivid memories is in the 1970s some friends of mine were camping in the meadow in the canadian rockies. We may back on air mattresses outside the tent. We had been forewarned that Something Big was coming. Taking in the spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower with no interference at all from city lights. We were dozens of miles from the nearest town and was a very big town. Needless to say the shower would have forfeited much of its luster if we had watched from the Vantage Point in the city or a suburb. The last words of the dying and so were supposed to have been more light. I am happy to say paul bogart is alive and well but his basic message is a variation on the great german poet outcry more Natural Light. To see what our love affair with artificial lighting causes us to miss, bogart has traveled all the around the world searching for a clean views of the heavens
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The gulf coast. Our business has just tanked. Axelrod and we remember ross perot, a selfmade billionaire and president ial candidate who called them as he saw them. There will be a giant sucking sound going south. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is our western edition. The calls are growing louder labor secretary alex acosta to resign over his handling of the secret plea deal that gave the wealthy investor Jeffrey Epstein an uncommonly light sentence in a sex trafficking case 11 years ago. Acosta was a federal prosecutor in south florida at the time. Today President Trump weighed in saying acostas very good at his job, but mr. Trump did add he will take a closer look at the case. And in the oval office, paula reid had a chance to ask the president about his relationship with epstein. Reporter President Trump once considered Jeffrey Epstein a friend, but today he distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. I was not a fan of his, that i can tell you. Reporter but m
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