And creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Look at this glorious photograph. It was taken by a nasa space telescope and shows the remains of a supernova, an exploded star, 17,000 light years away from us, back when here on planet earth we were still in the stone age. Now hold your hand up to the screen and see how the photo resembles the xray of some large celestial hand. Thats why astronomers have called this image the hand of god. Not literally, of course. But the picture does provide us with an elegant entry into the next part of my conversation with Neil Degr
Widespread surveillance of the american public. By the National Security agency. The nsa. Both the show our president with high disapproval marks. 54 disapprove of the way he is handling his job. 40 approved. The president nevertheless seems unbothered as he addresses his years in office. Quote, president obama. The conventional wisdom is that a president second term as a matter of minimizing the damage. And playing defense rather than playing offense. But, as i reminded my team the day after i was inaugurated for a second term, we are in charge of the largest organizations on earth. And our capacity to do good, both domestically and around the world, is unsurpassed. Even if nobody is paying attention. Unquote. If you are advising the president on the state of the Union Address next week, and the remainder of the second term, what would you advise him to emphasize . I would say, stay away from the iran association, because they are divisive and problematic. What you focus on is domesti
Miss is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And katherine t. Macarthur foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation, and by mutual of america. Welcome. For two weeks now the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson and i have been in pursuit of dark energy. We expect gravity to be slowing down the universe. The opposite is happening. We dont know what is causing it. And dark matter. We count for onesixth of the forces of gravity that we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the affected gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. Up there, heavenly bodies collide creating spectacular displays of fire and light. But down here, the collision of science and religion in the rough and tumble of democracy can create its own fireworks, which brings me to the controversy triggered when he said this in an earlier epis
And then the thousands of people that gathered there did march down constitution avenue up towards the capitol. That has now seemed to diminish a little bit. Crowds are starting to disburse, come back home, get a little warm because its been raining out here. But the turnout didnt really seem that dampened, so to speak, by the rain. A lot of the people i spoke with here today felt it was important to come out not just in support of science but to show the Trump Administration that they were here supporting fact based and science based policies from the administration. This of course goes to the heart of the Climate Change debate among other things the administration is beginning to take action on. Specifically when it comes to president obamas legacy on Climate Change. Youve seen this administration take aim at things like the clean power plan, which sought to curb Carbon Emissions from power plants, as well as potentially the paris climate agreement which well be hearing a decision fr
So what were about to report to you right now is something you kind of already know. Donald trumps one of the leastpopular president s ever. Along with something that is actually really underappreciated by the political and media class that Donald Trumps problems with governing and his aides crimes are now weighing down his presidency. So while its become sort of fashionable in political circles to say things like, trump is teflon, his base never wavers in a new poll tonight, his approval has fallen to 36 . A drop of 6 in this new cnn poll. A full 61 of americans view him unfavorably. And it gets worse. With those who stock strongly disapprove of trump at 48 . Those are the kinds of voters who are likely to turn out against trump in november. Independents also giving up on trump. You can see it in this chart. They were all the way up at 47 just last month. And what youre looking at is a key data point slide. A huge shift to 31 that actually marks, get this, an alltime low for trump amo