Its very interesting you think you know because we all know about the right brothers. Then to hear david talk about their personal story, i discovered i really do not know anything about them at all. The brothers had a sister who is very helpful with everything they did. All of them live together. As they were getting older, they had a bicycle shop, they started out in a bicycle shop and one of the brothers was fascinated by flight. And then translated that to have it begin to build an airplane and they went to kitty hawk in North Carolina because thats where they thought the wind pattern would be best. So it is a wonderful story, and also about not just about that family and their relationships but also about america at that time as we were looking at what happened to manufacturing and the Industrial Revolution and the innovation that was going on at the time. Does it surprise you that the sister got short changed on that . Spee2. Guest that was typical, but it was nice to hear the re
Okay. Lets get started. Im al teich, Research Professor here at the center for international be science and International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington universitys Elliott School which is where you are now, and i want to welcome you on behalf of our center and the center for science and democracy of the union of concerned scientists. They are cosponsoring this event together with George Washington university. Shawn otto, our speaker here, is an awardwinning science advocate. Hes a writer, hes a man of many talents. Really get to know him, hes quite an impressive guy. A writer, a teacher and a speaker, and hes a cofounder of science debates. Org for which he received the ieee usa National Distinguished Public Service award. Hes advised science debate efforts in other countries as well. Hes a novelist and a filmmaker. His novel sins of our fathers, which is a lit tear thriller, was literary thriller, was a finalist in the l. A. Times book prize, and his film, the hou
[inaudible conversations] heres a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening in september. On september 18th the brooklyn book festival in brooklyn, new york. Later in the month the annual baltimore book festival in the inner harbor. On saturday, september 24th book tvs live from the National Book festival at the Washington Convention center in the Nations Capital including author talks from an at gordon reed and joey warwick as well as your phone call for authors john lewis and others. For more information about the book fairs, booktv will be covering watch previous festival coverage, the book fair tab on our website at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Lets get started. I am albert teich, Research Professor for International Science and technology and policy at George Washington university and i want to welcome you on behalf of our center, and the center for science and democracy in the union of concerned scientists, they are cosponsoring
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I saw a future. Our future. We had a future until you started destroying it. Cnn will premiere a new miniseries executive produced and guest narrated by, guess who, kevin spacey. What is it about Frank Underwood . Why do you like him . Why do we find him fascinating . Is it evil incarnate . Kevin it seems to me we could go back a long way and say we have been fascinated by political figures. Frank underwood was born out of shakespeare. He was based on richard iii and to some degree iago. Not macbeth, because macbeth hesitated. Charlie frank does not hesitate. Kevin if you ignore the murder and the conniving, he does get used on. I think that is part of what attracts people to the show. Charlie do you think that the image of that is part of the reason that donald trump seems attractive to so many people . He appears to be able to say anything, do anything, and get things done, if you buy into his own sense of who he is . Kevin there is no doubt that he seems to have burrowed into an ang