April 20th with a big smokeout at 4 20 in the afternoon. Nowhere near what is expected. Last year and the years past, around 15,000 people were here at golden gate park. Park rangers are expecting as many as 10,000 to this gathering that you should know is unsanctioned and permitted by the city of San Francisco. Now, to help control the crowds this year are the park and city stepping up enforcement, more rangers inside and on the perimeter to eliminate traffic so people are going to have to get some really good luck finding parking off property. You wont be allowed to sell anything though we have seen a few tents up already clocking paraphernalia. And this year there will be bathrooms and lots of trash cans. They are already out. That will help keep this section of the park clean. Safety is our biggest concern. With this large amount of people, our concern is the safety of the participants here. Were unable to supervise something this large. We take it on and we have to roll with what
To how we communicate. 10 major advances that in the coming year will reshape our world, creating smarter, faster. This is the year ahead in innovation. When we hear the word robot, a image comes to mind. Robots today all share something. They are rigid. Made from metal or plastic. Changingall may be thanks to a new field called soft robots. It is exactly what it sounds like. Robots are made of soft material. In many hard material. In many applications that makes sense. Areut rebecca and her team looking at making a different kind of robot. One that you can wear. Our bodies are soft. It makes sense to me to try to put robots into our clothing. Researchers have been working with exoskeletons for a very ofg time, but they are made clunky materials. X this might be in the far future. But i think of exoskeletons that wel be more light weight and will not even know that we are wearing them. In the simplest definition of the word, a robot consists of two parts. Actuators is one of them. Our
River is a town in new jersey. Its actually a small city at this point. And i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years until the Chemical Industry came to town in 1952. And that changed everything in toms river. This book tells the story of everything that happened next. Host first of all, what kind of town is toms river . Or was it when you were writing about it . Guest well, before the Chemical Industry came to town it was a sleepy place where there were tourists from the summer from philly and new york city, but mostly there were farmers, chicken farming was a big thing in toms river. It was a quiet place. And then it started to grow very rapidly once the Chemical Industry came to town and once the garden state parkway came down. And it became a place where there was lots of rapid growth. For a while it was one of the Fastest Growing communities in the whole country. Host so its, what, halfway between new york and philadelphia on th
Sugar policy is extremely coordinated complicated. If somebody tells me they dont understand the farm bill i tell them they dont know what they are talking about. These are political decisions that have an impact on the lives not only of americans but the lives of people in the world. So we need to understand the politics and dietary overt goal is to get them into becoming advocates. Host foo next, dan fagin sat down with booktv discussed his book toms river about small town in new jersey that was negatively impacted industrial waste pollution. This interview was conducted in new york city. Its part of booktvs college series. This is about half an hour. Host toms river is the name of the book winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction last year. Nyu professor dan fagin is the author. Professor, what is toms river . Guest toms river is again in new jersey, a small city at this point. I wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years u
Really cares about what a difference 100 or 200 a month in food stamps make to a family thats really poor. Host professor nestle, how did you get interested in these topics . Guest first of all, i like to eat, so i have always been interested in food. The very first course that i taught on food and nutrition, you really cant understand anything about why people eat the way they do unless you understand the politics of food. Because people dont eat food in a vacuum. They dont make choices in a vacuum. They make choices based on whats available, how much money they have, but their friends are eating, but the culture requires and a lot of it gets into arcane politics. The most arcane politics i can think of is sugar subsidies for sugar tariffs and quote as. Our sugar policy is extraordinary complicated. The farm bill is beyond complication. Anybody who tells me they understand the farm bill, i just think they dont know what theyre talking about. Nobody can understand it. And yet, these ar