History, technology and society at the Georgia Institute of technology where she teaches courses in the history of science, nazi germany and the history of espionage. Prior to georgia tech, she was a professor at Michigan State university, a chancellors scholar at the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and a lecturer at harvard university. Dr. Macrakis has written aauj books including her most recent publication, prisoners, lovers and spies the story of invisible inks. Her other books are surviving the swas ca Scientific Research in nazi germany, science under socialism east germany in comparative perspective, east German Foreign intelligence and seduced by secrets inside the stasi spy tech world. In addition, she is author of over 30 articles. Her awards include fellowships from the institute for advanced study in princeton, fulbright as well as grants from the National Science foundation and the humboldt foundation. Dr. Macrakis received her bachelors in history from ownerland college
I wouldve quit earlier possibly hoping to get away with the whole thing. Easy for me to say. Of course, not nice for my children to hear, if i say i would do all that they can do you. The truth is it would be hypocritical to say no, i would never touch the stuff if i had known. Because i did know. Everyone knows. The soviet union and the soviet system in Eastern Europe contains the seeds of its own destruction. Many of the problems that we saw at the end begin at the very beginning. I spoke already about the attempt to control all institutions and control all parts of the economy and political life and social life. One of the problems is that when you do that come when you try to control everything, then you create opposition and potential dissidents everywhere. It to all artists they have to paint the same way and one artist says i dont want to pay that way, i want to thank another way, you just made them into a political dissident. If you want to fuss about housing in this country, a
But the average boilermaker we now can say with some authority from the surveys we were just recently taken is much more likely to have a job, to have a goodpaying job, to have a job they are fulfilled in and to be thriving in multiple domains of wellbeing than those who went to other schools. Its our job to push all those numbers further up for the generations ahead. Well leave it there. Mitch daniels, Purdue University president and former governor of indiana. Thanks for being with us this morning. Enjoyed it, thank you. On the next washington journal, diane okay lee of the National Institute on Retirement Security discusses how prepared americans are to potentially outlive their retirement savings. After that, Mickey Mcintyre of compassion and choices looks at laws in place across the u. S. This comes in light of a 29yearolds decision to end her life following a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. Plus your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal is live at 7 0
Next a conversation with Purdue University president and former indiana governor mitch daniels. Thats followed by a debate on geneticallymodified foods and a look at how bees are being used today by the military. Next a conversation with Purdue University president mitch daniels. The fomer indiana governor and budget director spoke with viewers as part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is about 45 minutes. Sgl this week we continue our series with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning the cspan bus is on the campus of Purdue University and West Lafayette, louisiana. Now joining us from purdues campus is its president mitch daniels, the former governor of indiana. Thanks for being with us this morning. Welcome to purdue. Thank you so much. Sorry i cant be there in person. Want to start out rather broadly and just ask you to name, what do you think the greatest challen challenges are facing Higher
Deception, which is the world east best seller on gmos. For those who are interested, jeff will be speaking this saturday at noon at true nature healing arts. Im sure you can find that on the internet. Gregory stock, who is to my immediate left, is a biotech entrepreneur, best selling author and public communicator. Hes a leading authority on the broad impacts of advanced technologies in the life sciences. He founded the program on medicine, technology and society at ucla school of medicine in 1997 and served as its director for ten years. While leading a broad effort to explore technologies posed to impact humanitys future and reshape medical science. Dr. Stock has catalyzed debate about the social and Public Policy implications of molecular genetic. One of you please raise your hand when dr. Stock is here and ask what that means. And about how to most effecti effectively translate progress. Among his books, redesigning humans our genetic future. With that, let me turn this over first