Humanity, but were doing it in a unique way. This is a show about science. By scientists. And now techknow investigates religion and the brain. Hey welcome to techknow im phil torres here with dr. Crystal dilworth and Cara Santa Maria. Now today were going to start out talking about science and religion. Now to be blunt, these arent two things that often see eye to eye. True on the surface they very much seem opposed to each other and i was a scientist trained to take nothing on faith and to only look at the data. And thats whats so cool about this study. Crystal and i had the chance to go to university of utah where researchers are trying to determine whether feeling the spirit can be measured scientifically. We even got the chance to participate in the study and the results were interesting. Lets take a look. I baptize you in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Religious faith. Of the seven billion people on the planet, its estimated that 84percent are membe
Penn state and Temple Square off in their season open nerz, and well preview the matchup. This is nbc 10 news today. I am rosemary connors. First alert meteorologist, brittney shipp, tracking a cool start. We will see the temperatures dropping down to the 80s, closer to the average and thats a nice setup as we head into the Holiday Weekend. 69 in allentown, and 70 degrees in trenton, and 69 in mount holly, and low 70s in wildwood right now. Your city planner shows well mainly see sunny skies by be 10 00 a. M. , and we are going to see temperatures dropping down a bit and that will help us out. Temperatures range between 83 and 86, less humid and not as hot. I will go over how long the cooler temperatures are going to stick around. The fourth year for the event expected to draw tens of thousands of people to the ben franklin parkway. Two days of music kicks off this afternoon. Jesse gary joins us live with what you need to know, whether you are going to see the crowds are trying to avoi
Buried in, he was Arlington National cemetery. After some time, no one was in the house. It had gotten in bad shape. There are other exhibits about but wein other museums, knew we wanted to do something with this house. We may not have known exactly what we were going to do. At first, people wanted to come and see where medgar evers and his family lived. Letpened the door and people flow in and flow out. We get the point where we said, we have to Say Something about medgar. There are people right here in mississippi, my age or older, who dont really know who medgar evers was. That is what i want people to know. I want people to know who medgar evers was. I want people to know what a great difference he made in mississippi. As i said, i learned later not only in mississippi, but of theout the world, one things he said was, i like mississippi. This is home. I like fishing here. I like hunting. Mississippi is a wonderful place to grow up. He said, why should i leave . I love mississippi.
These captives coming from native communities are women and children. A large number of slaves coming from the west indies and africa are male in the early years. You have this intermixing and intermarriage. These unions and the cultural influences africans and native peoples had in the shaping of low country culture. That is a really good question. Anything else . All right. Very good. Dont forget we have our reading for wednesday. We will talk more about this rice economy. Join us each saturday evening for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of American History. Lectures are also available as podcasts. Visit our website or download from itunes. This is American History tv on cspan3. Our 2014 to her has taken us on the road to cities across america. Working with our cable partners, we have toward Historic Sites and interviewed local historians. Coming up, highlights from our travels. See the schedule and watch video from all of our stops. Highthe mo
Help of our local cable partners. Today we feature the music of several of these cities. Id like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on Temple Square in salt lake city. This is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. Some might call it americas choir. The mormon tabernacle choir was organized in 1847 when the first pioneers came into this valley. It was a small group of people who met in a bowerytype building, very rustic, and they asked for a choir to perform, but it was in 1849 that welsh pioneers came to the valley and they sang in fourpart harmony, they sang in welsh, and thats when president Brigham Young really decided you need to be the nucleus of a great choir. So it really started 1847, 1849. They used to sing in a building over on a square that was just a temporary building, but they called it the tabernacle, and thats how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. When ever you see a photograph of the choir, this org season right there in the center of the photograph and