Can introduce john tierney contributing editor at city journal and coauthor with the esteemed psychologist of the fascinating and useful new book the power of bad how the negativity affects us and how oncan rule it and it is sale outside the room. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection ofre science and public policy. Make no mistake over calm and reasonable is the contrarian voice. His New York Times column, the big city running from the mid nineties through 2002 that first made me a fan of his work there he took on any number of prevailing myths about cities from the efficacy of rent control to the root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkablef column born from his irritation at Rosie Odonnells relentless public criticism of mayor giuliani use of Law Enforcement to get the homeless off of new york city sidewalks in the nineties. So how would the wealthy new york suburb deal with a similar problem . He let his beard grow it did no
Welcome to all of our regulars, for anyone who is a first timer the secret science club is at event series and we bring sciences of all disciplines out of their labs and onto the public stages. Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and be engaged by scientific ideas and discovery and interact directly with some of the scientist. Secret science club, our regular hang out our main layers in brooklyn but secret science club north, we are back here tonight in manhattan as a part of our fifth miniseries at sympathy space. We would really like to thank all of the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy led down Johanna Thompson Rebecca White mary mead, james lazio, and zach ricci for help us expand our showing. Began for them. [applause] very big special thank you to the bar, we have the bar actually to the back and left if youve not visited yet. They have concocted our cocktail does your or
And featuring the legendary roots crew questlove tarantino steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much. Welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Youre here. [ cheers and applause you made it. Thank you. Well, guys, lets get to some news thankfully, everyone is fine but last night iran fired 22 missiles at two American Military bases in iraq its pretty scary. One soldier said he hadnt seen a bomb that big since the movie cats. Steve oh [ laughter ] jimmy things are things are so tense right now, President Trumps skin went from being on orange alert to red alert. Thats right [ laughter ] during the attack, the hashtag iran versus america was trending on twitter. Its good to know that when a war breaks out, we treat it the same way we treat bb8 versus baby yoda. [ laughter ] and this morning, trump gave an address where he talked about the attack but before he even said a word, his
I want to mention a couple of upcoming events. On december 4th we have a news maker with Sheldon White house and on december 9th a headliners coffee and conversation with lonnie bunch. And i would like to present miss abrams with down of the most highly coveted items in washington d. C. A National Press club coffee mug. And finally, before your race, one of the things you were known for was writing romance novels. Is there another novel in the works . Oh im glad you asked. I technically still have to write the third novel in the trilogy that i stopped writing when i became democratic leader. Im going to get that one done, because i dont want to hear from my mom or sister again about this. Im working on a new legal thriller, and that should be coming out sometime in the near future. But its going to be under stacey abrams, because the other name is kind of known. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. And we are adjourned. good morning, everyone. The committee will come t
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would