She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
Japaneseamerican database. They are using the word registry but it is the same thing as what came down on us. A database. How many lived in that household and what we did. Database, theye came down with a curfew. All japanese have to be home by 7 00 p. M. And stayathome until 6 00 a. M. We were imprisoned at night in our homes. Our bankwe discovered accounts were frozen. Our life savings became inaccessible. That was followed by the soldiers coming to take us away. That must never happen again today. [applause] can watch the rest of that event from the Muslim Public Affairs council at 9 00 eastern on cspan. The president ial inauguration of donald trump is friday, january 20. Cspan will have live coverage of all the events and ceremonies. On cspan and cspan. Org. Listen live on the cspan radio app. Tonight on cspan, from the shakespeare theater, a mock trial on the deaths of romeo and juliet. That is followed by a discussion of the life and legacy of sandra day oconnor. Later, a look a
Japaneseamerican database. They are using the word registry but it is the same thing as what came down on us. A database. How many lived in that household and what we did. Database, theye came down with a curfew. All japanese have to be home by 7 00 p. M. And stayathome until 6 00 a. M. We were imprisoned at night in our homes. Our bankwe discovered accounts were frozen. Our life savings became inaccessible. That was followed by the soldiers coming to take us away. That must never happen again today. [applause] can watch the rest of that event from the Muslim Public Affairs council at 9 00 eastern on cspan. The president ial inauguration of donald trump is friday, january 20. Cspan will have live coverage of all the events and ceremonies. On cspan and cspan. Org. Listen live on the cspan radio app. Tonight on cspan, from the shakespeare theater, a mock trial on the deaths of romeo and juliet. That is followed by a discussion of the life and legacy of sandra day oconnor. Later, a look a
See here online at booktv. Org. Welcome to the manhattan library. My name is erica parker, im elaborate here at midmanhattan. Before we get started out of respect for the speaker and your fellow audience members i would like you to please silence all Electronic Devices at this time. Thank you for joining us for all the talk with John Mcwhorter on his book words on the move why english wont and cant sit still. So language shifts constantly. Did you know the word clue derived from clue, a middle english word meaning follow the yarn. In passionat follow thread we through the labyrinth. It does not make sense. Countless other words have changed this way taking on new meetings or new shades of meaning. In the age of means and texting, lol, dfw, et cetera, language continues to shift. But as John Mcwhorter explains, this shouldnt scare us. Submit expense of english language is evolving before our eyes, and why we should embrace the change, not fight it. John mcwhorter as an associate profess