Distinguished guests, the recipients of the National Medal of science. Distinguished guests, the recipients of the National Medal of technology and innovation. Distinguished guests, the president of the United States. President biden welcome, have a seat. This is a happy occasion. Thank you all for being here and welcome to the white house, your house. The 1921 visit the white house, the president warren, and presented him with a precious gift. One gram carefully stored and purchased with funds raised by thousands of american women to help continue research that would transform everything from xrays to Cancer Treatment to nuclear energy. 24 years after that visit, a girl born in syria. She dreamt of being madam curie, moving to paris and becoming a scientist and then a family with real wisdom told her that if you want to dream big, dream about going to america. Thats where great science happens. Were determined to return great science to america by investing 2 of our gdp in science and
To go about this repair technique what i mean by that is after you take all of the paint and primer off the dome, the cast iron of this generation flash rusts in eight hours. The timeliness of the application is important. We have to have those processes down very well so that we dont have to double do work. What about the scaffolding gives you mild concerns . The fact that it is a massive scaffolding project, i think getting that scaffolding here, lifting it up to the roof of the dome, and then getting it installed and taken back down is just a massive logistical effort. That is probably one of the biggest risks on the job. When they did the reflecting pool in the mall, they used fairly exotic technology to keep the algae out and later we saw algae forming. Is there any exotic techniques that you will try here that are not tested . Know, there are no exotic techniques were using. We tested many, many repair techniques over the course of nearly 10 years to help advise us and test a wid
That were again setting the really, onn twitter, the web, every day, and they thought that to be a major problem. Absolutely. You also go a little bit about how obama and romney had a different strategy with the press and a different strategy about twitter itself. Compare and contrast those. Well, i think look. I laid out early on in the paper, using the Romney Campaign as a case study of how this is changing and the internet is tough, because romney is sort of a cautious. Dad sort of a cautious guy, a way to build a campaign apparatus, and the Romney Campaign had to play catchup. The Obama Campaign had a bigger staff. They had hundreds and hundreds of people in chicago monitoring every tweet, or whatever. And, again, this is not me speaking alone. Any number of reporters i interviewed for this said they thought the Obama Campaign adapted better to twitter. There are no rules about twitter in newsrooms. This all sort of happened. Like washington, the Political Class discovered twitter
I came to this work because i was working against violence against women. Stories are these really about violence against women. They are about incarceration, police brutality, but they are also about violence against women. Particularly violence against black women which is the target of the prison nation. I am humbled to be here. I so appreciate the work that you have done. I look forward to your leadership because you are organizing a world that i want to live in. Thank you. [applause] we will pick up there. I have 493 questions or something. We will get to do four or five of them probably. I want to leave some room for the audience. I want to start where beth ended. The notion of violinist against black women violence against black women. I cant think about much of anything without thinking of it through the lens of 12 years a slave. If you have not yet seen it, you must. Theres a lot of discourse publicly about it at this moment, but for me, perhaps one of the most useful aspects
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