The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
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Not only just just here in the united states, but lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every human being shares. But then theres also a separate nation about language, about how do you put it, what use do you put language . And those are 2 Different Things to different ways of looking at language. So if linguists can now think about the evolution of language, like what is language, or where is the language of all the ng . I mean, is it for them being divided into many different ones or will would just all speak at rahman tongue one day, sooner rather than later. Right. When i say, i dont think i will arrive at some kind of limbo where there is just simply one language used by everyone. I think there you have to distinguish between again 2 fundamental ways of looking at the evolution of language. One way is to think of it, you can think of the evolution of well, what was the initial o
Coronavirus pandemic. But 1st helping those who need it. Most volunteers are helping albanian women to escape poverty. Worldwide women are more affected by poverty than men. Theyre generally expected to look after the family. When they can work, they earn far less, can save less and their jobs are more insecure. In times of crisis, women are generally hardest hit. The United Nations says that more than 70 percent of Domestic Workers lost their jobs in the 1st few months of the pen demick. The vast majority women. According to a u. N. Study, by 2021 around 435000000, women and girls will be living in extreme poverty. 47000000 more than today and the situation isnt likely to improve by 2030. These n. G. O. S workers are on their way to a woman who lives in rural albania, with her children in fear of their lives. A group of 7 volunteers has been sent here by a foundation called a different weekend. The organization has 12000 volunteers in all the woman calls herself scored. She doesnt wan
Aspen institute. I want to thank you for being here today for what will be a fascinating conversation. While the pandemic has prevented us from gathering in person on our aspen campus, were continuing to host informative and inspiring conversations between the leading health scientists, innovators. And today were hosting a fascinating and breakthrough conversation between lisa mosconi and Natalie Morales about dr. Mosconis new book the xx brain and research on womens brain health. Shes made it her lifes work to study the female brain and a road map for reducing their risk of dementia. If youre interested in a copy, well have a link in the chat, and for more information. I would recommend it, its fantastic. As we begin to dive into this, let me briefly and properly interrogatory dues our speakers. Lisa mosconi at real cornell medical college, the founder of the womens Brain Initiative and associate of the alzheimers clinic. Adjunct member of psychology at nyu school of medicine and ph.