Gentlemen, youve played so well this season youve earned your spot in the semifinals good luck to both teams. Heres your first tossup question. The madeira and rio negro are tributaries of the second longest river in the world. What is that river . Amazon river for 25 the mouth of the amazon is in which country whose cities include santarem and manaus . Brazil for 50 the amazon also goes by its city of iquitos in what country . Peru this nations authors include alice munro, robertson davies, and michael ondaatje. Canada for 25 frenchcanadian author yann martel wrote which book about an indian boy who survives for almost a year adrift in the pacific with only a tiger for company . Life of pi for 50 which other canadian author wrote alias grace and the blind assassin . Margaret eleanor atwood of course 50 points molecules of this compound are found in two photosystems, each of which has a different variety of this substance. What is this green pigment that plants use to generate energy f
Do you teach that and why is it important . Guest im fortunate this year at hopkins to be able to teach it personal to undergraduates. Secondly to our wonderful group, graduate students. And thirdly, to medical students. Why is it important . I think its important because science and medicine are so important in a culture today and science and medicine are the products of human beings and human activities and so if we understand science and medicine and now its really produced by real human beings, not textbook definitions of scientific medicine, then we understand as the product and we understand the things they it can do for us and its frailties. So its an opportunity to reflect on the nature that is really important part of our culture. Host do you come from a historic history background or medical background . Guest i come from a history background. In fact, as a high school and even College Student i shied away from science a bit. I came to the history of science and medicine beca
Science and medicine are the product of human beings and human activities so if we understand science and medicine and how its really produced by real human beings, not textbook definitions of scientific medicine then we understand it as a human product and we understand the things it can do for us and its frailties. So its an opportunity to reflect on an important part of our culture. Host do you come from a history background or a medical background . Guest i come from a history background. In fact, as the high school and College Students i shied away from science. I came to the history of science and medicine because i was interested in the question how do human beings make up their opinions . How do they come to opinions about things . So i studied the history of ideas and look to psychology and sociology and they came to the history of science because of this story ends of science deal with how science is make up their minds about things. Nature is infinitely complicated complicat
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
In camp the encampment so i was at the encampment, you walk a ground and learn more about it but you understand the writing and i try to have that reflected in my work. In that sense i view myself as a historian. I dont write historical fiction but i am inspired by historical fiction and love to read historical fiction. And James Mcpherson catches it in the battle cry of freedom. Is a wonderful book. Ft cant trust everything in it as fact but it does give you the sense of the place. I try to use a lot of quotations because i try to make which makes differentiating to me from some historians, but i try to have an eye for the quote that really captures something. I never use a long block and [inaudible] quote. When i read, i always skip those. I figure if the author cant summarize it why is he forcing me to do it . So i use small quotes, ones that are below 50 words so you dont have to block in denim. Then i figure thats my job as a historian, to pull out the quirks of it. And if theres