Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan around the world, people welcomed the start of a new year and all the promise it holds. But for some in shanghai, the year began tragically after a street celebration turned into a stampede that killed 36 people. Anxious friends and relatives filled the waiting rooms at hospitals in shanghai today. They sought information about loved ones caught in the deadly stampede dur
Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan around the world, people welcomed the start of a new year and all the promise it holds. But for some in shanghai, the year began tragically after a street celebration turned into a stampede that killed 36 people. Anxious friends and relatives filled the waiting rooms at hospitals in shanghai today. They sought information about loved ones caught in the deadly stampede dur
These job creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race. Rose the Obama Administration is planning a decadelong effort to build a comprehensive map of the brains activity this project will no doubt prompt further questions about how we live and govern ourselves. Joining me now, Walter Michelle of Columbia University, Michael Shadlen len, also of Columbia University, daniel konaman of princeton university, alan alda the actor, writer and host of the upcoming pbs program, brains on trial. And once again my cohost is dr. Eric kandel, a Nobel Laureate, a professor at Columbia University and a Howard Hughes medical investigator. Im pleased to have all of them here at this table. And as usual, we begin with eric kandel. We are going to speak about the Public Policy implication of the new science of mind. You know, we picked this topic almost two years ago. And we planned to have it at t
These job creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race. Rose the Obama Administration is planning a decadelong effort to build a comprehensive map of the brains activity this project will no doubt prompt further questions about how we live and govern ourselves. Joining me now, Walter Michelle of Columbia University, Michael Shadlen len, also of Columbia University, daniel konaman of princeton university, alan alda the actor, writer and host of the upcoming pbs program, brains on trial. And once again my cohost is dr. Eric kandel, a Nobel Laureate, a professor at Columbia University and a Howard Hughes medical investigator. Im pleased to have all of them here at this table. And as usual, we begin with eric kandel. We are going to speak about the Public Policy implication of the new science of mind. You know, we picked this topic almost two years ago. And we planned to have it at t
now david brooks looks at how our unconscious mind shifts are character, intelligence, and biases. this is just under an hour. it is a great pleasure to be here. more or less in my hometown. i went to the high-school about 13 miles west of here, and so it is always good to be back home in this area. because i know philadelphia and its, i know you did not come to hear me speak. you came here to hear your help yourself speak. [laughter] i will try to be brief. get out of your way. it is a pleasure to be back. try to think of what my high-school teachers around here would have said. i was not a big man. i was actually stuffed into lockers by big man. tom wilson who played biff in the back to the future movies, and another one was just warming who chases tornadoes and was one of the subjects of the movie twister years ago. so they went on to lead exciting lives, and i went on to talk. [laughter] now, a lot of the people i talk with our politicians. so when i was given my cu