Whats we have been doing the last couple of days, we have been setting you up. For this discussion varied we did a lot of historical background of the history of pennsylvania politics leading up to the constitution of 1776. We want to think a little bit about the constitution, and in some ways, the lecture is going to set us up for the rest of the week. Thats as we close out the revolutionary era. We are trying to think about pennsylvania history in its earlier history in the blocks. We talked about ideals of william penn, his values, what kind of colony he wanted to create, the peaceable kingdom, or whatever we call it. What was the next block that we discussed . This should all be review. Ryan. The colonial area between the revolution and penns ideals. What are the dates we put on that . 1701 up to 1763. Why is 1701 important . Yes, the charter privileges, and then we ended in 1763 because that was the end of the french and indian war. What did we say about that period of pennsylvani
Whats we have been doing the last couple of days, we have been setting you up. For this discussion varied we did a lot of historical background of the history of pennsylvania politics leading up to the constitution of 1776. We want to think a little bit about the constitution, and in some ways, the lecture is going to set us up for the rest of the week. Thats as we close out the revolutionary era. We are trying to think about pennsylvania history in its earlier history in the blocks. We talked about ideals of william penn, his values, what kind of colony he wanted to create, the peaceable kingdom, or whatever we call it. What was the next block that we discussed . This should all be review. Ryan. The colonial area between the revolution and penns ideals. What are the dates we put on that . 1701 up to 1763. Why is 1701 important . Yes, the charter privileges, and then we ended in 1763 because that was the end of the french and indian war. What did we say about that period of pennsylvani
Degrasse tyson, director of Hayden Planetarium in new york city and the author of many books including welcome to the universe, death by black hole, and his latest, astrophysics for people in a hurry. Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson, in your new book, astrophysics for people in a hurry, you open it by saying that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. What does that mean . Guest get over it. [laughter] i think up until, well, really up til the year 1600 when we didnt have any particular tools to investigate be the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe. And not even knowing that our five senses had limits. If its everything you know, you think its everything the universe is trying to give you but, in fact, its not. And so around 1600 with the invention of the microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other direction, each invented within a decade of one another, then all of a sudden p
Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson did your new book astrophysics for people in a hurry you open by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense what does that mean . I think up until the year 1600 when we had no particular tools to investigate the Natural World the five senses were the primary means we gave all information about the universe and not even knowing that our five senses had live and said everything you know, the thinking of letting tries to give you but it is not better run at 1500 it would go one direction than the telescope it was a decade within one another now it becomes available to us to transcend our senses to look inside a drop of pond water to see microorganisms doing the backstroke that the sensory system could not have detected with not for the microscope so the welcome to the universe tire living creatures living in a drop of water but today we know that from childhood but that made no sense at all without Royal Society in london when they make a discove
Speech at the university of texas. Make your bed. And new yorker staff writer david graham recounts a murder spree in 1920s oklahoma that targeted the osage indians in killers of the flower moon. And our bestselling nonfiction books is the hidden life of trees. And sarah knight guide to control your emotions. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Booktv recently visited capital has asked members of congress what they are reading the summer. I got a pilot both but i just chose one because it lends all of my passions. Folks out there, may recall i taught economics at a College Level for 20 years. I went to seminary before that. So now the politics of fear is pretty toxic. So everyone is talking about ability and ethics and virtue in all of this kind of thing. And of course everything we do around here is economics and politics. So i just wanted to highlight a book that i have been, i have a couple of them but one is cal