If you know him as well as she doubts andrea wulf is an expert on alexander from whom bolts life and adventures her biography reintroduced the great naturalist to a new generation of readers and now the world is marking his 250th birthday we made out with andrea wolfe at the Royal Institution in london one of britains foremost establishments for scientific education and research. Whove spent over a decade in the traces of alexander from home both shes written 2 books about him including an illustrated album about his famous expedition to south and central. Erica it depicts the hardships he endured but also his fascination encounters and discoveries and it includes his drawings which fundamentally changed your view of the americas. Q alexander from whom boyd was for sure one of the greatest scientists of previous times of all times well he was the most famous scientist of his time and i think hes undergoing a little bit of a renaissance at the moment and i think quite rightly so because
It is positive. Nine days of the last ten trading sessions. S p 500 also on track to close at a record high for the 52nd high in 2014 and nasdaq just turned positive for the month of december. And is trading around the highest level since back in 2000 and a close eye on the russell 2000. The index of small caps trying to close at a new high. We are seeing intraday records for the First Time Since june. If it does close at a record, thats the First Time Since back in march. And just think last october it was down as much as 20 from that march 4th high. Talk about a round trip for the small caps index. Incredible rebound. Talk about it with the guests today in the exchange. We have rob morgan with us. Jim lowell. Nicole sinclair. And our own jeff cox from cnbc. Com. We have trader Matt Cheslock and, matthew, ill start with you. What do you make of whens going on right now. Back at alltime highs including those small caps that were hit so hard through much of this year. Yeah, well, time t
Good friday morning to you. Im reena ninan, in for diana perez. Im john muller. We begin with breaking news from overseas. A car bomb has exploded outside of a major hotel in downtown beirut. Just steps from parliament and government buildings. At least five people were killed. Including a top aide to the former prime minister. Lebanon has seen a wave of violence in the past months, as fallout from the civil war in syria. And we have some more breaking news out of california, where a small plane crashed in the front of a home, killing two people. The plane went down overnight near fresnos chandler executive airport. Investigators say the pilot took off from that airport before crashing. And the plane may have clipped a tree. Its believed a man and 9yearold boy were the only ones onboard. No one in the house was injured. The christmas nightmare continues for many in the northern parts of the country, especially maine and michigan. Tens of thousands are still without power or heat, after
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