To create the perfect helmet. When the issue began to percolate in the early 90s in the nfl the nfl formed a committee to address this problem, the medical committee when it became quite suspect raid one of the things the committee did was suggest to people in this world that they were going to create the perfect helmet. They said we have all the money in the world. We will throw money into the problem and fix up the neuroscientists are expert in the field knew that was not the answer. They home it is good against protecting against skull fractures but could do nothing at this point to protect the brain which rattles around in fluid and hits the skull anytime it shot stop shorter said. To believe it could pave its way out of the problem with the super helmet is naive and to this day i dont know anybody who believes theres a home it out there that has solved this issue. While certainly you have had rydell suggesting data, that could reduce concussions by 31 but the ftc raise questions a
Women in combat, but its also their changing roles in war and the ever present danger of Sexual Assault and harassment and the stress on daily lives, families and relationships, when they come back home. But the overall take away from the book is much greater than that. I was wondering what you hope to address through telling these three stories of these three women . You know, i think what i was hoping to address and what i wound up addressing might be two Different Things. At the outset, really, outset, really, i think what i was hoping to address was may be, there was this Huge Division in our society and i just saw two authors walkin who have written books who are both veterans and novelists and their books are really amazing and i hope you have a chance to check them out. I think they are speaking later this afternoon. At 330. I think i was hoping to address a really big question between civilians and military mindsets. I put myself in the camp that ignorant group of people with c
Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl quintanilla, sara eisen, john ford on the New York Stock Exchange joining us this morning from san francisco, kara swisher. Kara, good morning to you. Take a quick check here on the markets at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time dows trading down 75 and that was a very abrupt change from the morning session, or at least the open, after we got these comments from north koreas foreign minister via reuters saying the president s comments over the weekend were a declaration of war and north korea has the right, they say, to take aim at u. S. Strategic bombers, regardless of their airspace obviously, more saber rattling tech already under pressure, we should note, but this was the worst drop for the dow and s p in weeks worst drop since august 17th sometimes we find ourselves wondering why the u. S. Market isnt more vulnerable to some of the threats and escalation in the standoff between the u. S. And north korea. Feels like its the really scary he
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Joining us. Good morning, everyone. Silicon valley stepping up opposition to the president S Immigration executive action. Microsoft, uber, twitter, facebook, apple and others submitting a joint brief asking the court to roll back parts of the order. They say the government should make a fundamental commitment to welcome immigrants while still boosting background checks to protect the country. From the brief the order inflicts significant harm on american business, innovation and growth and threatens ability to attract business and investment to the United States. This as Alibaba Ceo Jack Ma warns in no Uncertain Terms that if trade stops, war starts. Kara, were spending a good part of the morning dissecting who joined this letter and who did not. Your thoughts. Well, i think its just another in the ongoing sort of tech getting to these issues. For example, airbnb had an ad last night in the super bowl. Theyre all trying to speak up to the issue because it goes to the core of first of