Discussion with professor from Rice University welcome to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you for the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to someone who sits on the board of several museums i have a deep appreciation for the role of institutions that play in the local community as a window of the past and a guide to the future the indispensable resources i go above and beyond what you read in books. Houston is fortunate enough to have this place its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist i have always sought to maintain to be involved in cultural organizations and when i applied for scholarship at the university of cambridge i had to submit an essay about was completely different to my main area of study. And a piece about the architectures i can explain later to anyone who is interested what that actually means that my first bonus check and the more Senior Executive such as the Folger Shakespeare library in washington dc the British Museum tod
Watching on cspan. We have a wonderful presentation followed by a discussion with professor from Rice University welcome to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you for the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to someone who sits on the board of several museums i have a deep appreciation for the role of institutions that play in the local community as a window of the past and a guide to the future the indispensable resources i go above and beyond what you read in books. Houston is fortunate enough to have this place its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist i have always sought to maintain to be involved in cultural organizations and when i applied for scholarship at the university of cambridge i had to submit an essay about was completely different to my main area of study. And a piece about the architectures i can explain later to anyone who is interested what that actually means that my first bonus check and the more Senior Executive such as the
Museum, and also to all of you at home who are watching via cspan. We have this evening a wonderful presentation by lord browne, and then followed by discussion with professor Daniel Minisini of rice university. So without further ado im going to hand it over to lord browne come help me welcome john browne to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me, to spend some time this week. For someone who is on the boards of several museums and galleries, i have a deep appreciation for the role that institutions like this play in the local community and, indeed, in society more generally. As a window on the past and explainer of the present and a guide to the future, they are indispensable resources which go above and beyond what you can read in books. Houston is fortunate to have this place, and its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist and subsequently an engineer, ive always sought to maintain a Broad Perspec
Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
Dozen groups of special t. S. A. Agents are fanning out at major transportation hubs, and counterterrorism teams have several individual suspects under surveillance. The government has already issued a warning of an increased terror threat, and for a time today, there was fear that it was happening at the scene of a 2013 massacre the Washington Navy yard. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter the allhandsondeck response at the navy yard was an example of the heightened concern about terrorist attacks. It was a false alarm but Law Enforcement is not taking any chances ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Metropolitan police chief cathy lanier we take every event here in washington very serious and our posture remains extremely high for all special fortunates and it will continue for the fourth. Reporter last weeks department of Homeland Security bulletin warned of an increased threat of isisinspired violence over july four. One official said, there is no specific credible intelligence for an attack but