The front change of worldwide, supporting organizations whose miss is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And katherine t. Macarthur foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation, and by mutual of america. Welcome. For two weeks now the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson and i have been in pursuit of dark energy. We expect gravity to be slowing down the universe. The opposite is happening. We dont know what is causing it. And dark matter. We count for onesixth of the forces of gravity that we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the affected gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. Up there, heavenly bodies collide creating spectacular displays of fire and light. But down here, the collision of science and religion in the rough and tumble of democracy can create its own fireworks, which brings me to
Miss is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And katherine t. Macarthur foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation, and by mutual of america. Welcome. For two weeks now the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson and i have been in pursuit of dark energy. We expect gravity to be slowing down the universe. The opposite is happening. We dont know what is causing it. And dark matter. We count for onesixth of the forces of gravity that we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the affected gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. Up there, heavenly bodies collide creating spectacular displays of fire and light. But down here, the collision of science and religion in the rough and tumble of democracy can create its own fireworks, which brings me to the controversy triggered when he said this in an earlier epis
cultural tensions because people just are not the are not used to growing vegetables in their yard. another footnote on that. you won t understand without understanding real-estate development, and in the case of legal park in the 1920 s there was a company called for your good real estate. that s where you get the part from and they developed a whole network of single-family houses, etc., which became regal park but as a real-estate development and you have these garden cities which stemmed from the british inspired ideal communities in sunnyside gardens or jackson etc. so you have all these wonderful laboratory examples in queens of the urban experience, and i must say that our weekly exploration always gave us it was unexpected when we went to queens. one of the boulevards is called utopia parkway, and utopia was supposed to be utopian and there was a bunch of jus got together and they decided for a community. it never took off but we still have the name utopia pa
reminder of the terrible unfairness that besets our country. here s the latest that leaped out at me. rolling stone s report on the fallen the sharp, sudden decline of america s middle class. in it jeff tietz describes a handful of everyday people made homeless, now living out of their cars in church parking lots in southern california. once upon a time, one of them, janis adkins, had a plant nursery business in utah that grossed $300,000 annually. but two years after the financial meltdown in 2008 sales had dropped by half and the value of her land even more. she tried to refinance, but four banks turned her down flat. four banks. makes you wonder about all those big-time bankers at the other end of the scale, the ones who came running to the government and taxpayers for bailouts worth hundreds of billions of dollars, then scooped up big bonuses and perks for themselves and went back to business as usual. and what a business. you ve surely been hearing about the newest
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