Lineage, and the answer is that more than half of your outcome in life is already determined at the point that you were born. Host how did you get intoed in this . Guest social mobility is a topic in a longterm interest to economists sociologists, and the thing that actually got me interested in looking at personal mobility is a conversation with a journalist for the New York Times who actually said, couldnt you measure personal mobility by looking at surnames . Because a surname from our father, and if theres a high rate of mobility, what will happen is that very quickly all surnames will become average, and what actually occurred to me was, its very hard to measure social mobility because you need to know the father and children and that kind of information has only become available recently. We do know about the going back to england and middle ages, and so what actually led me on this path was just an idea of measuring what a persons mobility is like in old england compared to mode
Marc kaufman, published by national geographic. Id like to ask to please turn off your cell phone, and please dont take any pictures during the presentation. Fyi, tomorrow in the New York Times in the science section, it will be all about mars and features will be an article by this evenings speaker, mr. Kaufman. Curiosity is a cartsized robot county rover that has been exploring gale crater on mars since landing there august 2012. Nasa launched curiosity in november 2011 from cape canaveral. It took a little over eight months to reach mars. The rovers goal is to investigate the martian climate and geology and determine whether the crater has ever been ever had environmental conditions favorable to life. This is quite an intriguing subject for those interested in the exploration of space and for Science Fiction readers, too. No matter what category you fall into this evenings lecture is sure to fascinate. Marc kaufman has an be a journalist for more than 35 years. He has worked as a sc
They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. And my goal in this was the kind of embedded myself with the jet Propulsion Lab commented for about a year and a half and really kind of watched up close what they were doing, and learning the ins and outs of it all. Seeing what you saw, is nasa money well spent in your view . Is it a good investment for the u. S. . Boy, i sure think so. It felt like an honor to be spending time with these folks, brilliant, often buried in the bold and eager to explain to the public what they are doing. And when you think about it, there are many things that this nation does. Probably the thing it does best is go to mars. There have been six successful landing on mars, and all of them were by nasa. Its not just coincidence but they are like incredible sophisticated, and have laughter everyone else. Laughed. That doesnt mean they dont cooperate. Our International Agencies that work with them but it really is nas
Announced down to the teens comes obviously things have changed and often when americans tire of the what they dont want to hear about anymore and they just want to move on. Its kind of nice to see that has not been the case here, at least as far as i can tell him the reception of this book. There seems to be a lot of interest in this deal which is really a story of a micro view of american interventionism. America spent invading Foreign Countries pretty much since the very beginning. Theres really been even a few months in our history where we were not invading or occupying some of the country. Afghanistan is our longest war, our longest occupation, and, in fact, theres no and insight. We have a defensive troop authorization in place until 2024 communistic president obama announced u. S. Troops will remain in afghanistan kind of more or less indefinitely. But when i wrote this book in 2010 it was, i started it. When it went on the trip, the centerpiece of the book in 2010, it was in r
Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the