Farts for nothing. Cheer up, kyle, im sure this isnt the first time someone thought they were suffering for humanity was sucking farts. How about we get dessert to help cheer you up. [ ] test from come sdee Central World news headquarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewart. cheers and applause jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Tonight our guest, youre going to like this, Monique Brinson demery. Shes the author of finding the drag on lady its about my prom. Lets begin tonight with our special coverage of all of last nights big elections with indition 2013, wait, there was an election in 2013, edition. First up. Close to home, new york city elected worlds tallest human bill de blasio, as the mayor de blasio campaigned on progressive platform of economic disparity and economic diversity. This takes time. Jon holy [bleep] lock your doors. La revolution one has begun. De blasio won in a blowout crushing his opponent joe lhota by 49 Percentage Points at
We need to use it to reaffirm humanity. Cspan and what about antiaging drugs . Guest Life Expectancy in this country 100 years ago was 47 years old. Now it has been increased by a lot in the last century. If it can be increased even more, that is what science is for. The people who make me nervous or not the people that say lets try to use biotechnology to heal disease and extend lifespan. I think all of that those are moral gains and that is why it sciences good. Is the old temptation in the garden that we can become a god, of course, we are like god, that is the old utb utopian thing. Cspan what you know about the silicon chips in the body . In the recent book about the inventor that talks about this he says pretty much computers are getting smarter by today and the computer has be the best chess player player in the world. And it will soon have the capacity of the human brain. That mans creation of Technology May overtake man unless man merges with the machine. That we must take thi
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
Juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. In this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. Wide view open the story with a wave of . Host in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. But on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. Also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. I had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. All that power of observation and reading in between the li
Host this is a great opportunity for me. Normally, im the person having the questions asked of me, and now i get the opportunity to ask a former journalist questions about the book you wrote. So i look forward to guest ill do my best. It is an unas cos tommed role for me to answer questions. Its good to be here. Host im glad. I wanted to start to just ask you a few issues that are general in nature about the book. The first question is what drove you to this topic . What made you interested in writing a book about the fukushima accident . Guest as a journalist, it was a very compelling story. I had coveringed the three mile island accident when i was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and have followed Nuclear Issues ever since. And the first moments of that accident, when the news accounts began to come out, i watched transfixed. Because it was the first time i think the world has ever watched an accident unfold. And so i got caught up in the story. Not necessarily the technical