Succeed, including one we may not think about too often, and thats food. But some children would rather go hungry, even when they are eligible for free meals, just because of tl stigma attached. Whats the solution . Thats getting good grades can be challenging enough. Let alone trying to do it on an empty stomach. New york city is the largest Public School district in the country. Educating 1. 1 million children. And this year every child is eligible for a free lunch, regardless of parents income. New yorks not alone in offering universal free lunch. Boston, chicago, dallas, detroit, and philadelphia have similar programs. And new York City School system, 75 of the children were already eligible for free or reduced lunch. The criteria was an annual Family Income less than 37,000 for a family of three. Yet onethird of those kids who qualified chose not to eat. And the participation rates get worse. As the children grow older. Advocates hope the Free Lunch Program will get rid of lunch s
Degrasse tyson, director of Hayden Planetarium in new york city and the author of many books including welcome to the universe, death by black hole, and his latest, astrophysics for people in a hurry. Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson, in your new book, astrophysics for people in a hurry, you open it by saying that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. What does that mean . Guest get over it. [laughter] i think up until, well, really up til the year 1600 when we didnt have any particular tools to investigate be the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe. And not even knowing that our five senses had limits. If its everything you know, you think its everything the universe is trying to give you but, in fact, its not. And so around 1600 with the invention of the microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other direction, each invented within a decade of one another, then all of a sudden p
They say he has confessed to being part of both a plot in libya as well as to have been involved in the plot here in the u. K. And to have helped his brother to carry out the attack we saw monday night. Rose and we continue this evening with the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tie son. His new book is astrophysics for people in a hurry. Recent strong theoretical consideration suggest there might be such a thing as a multiverse which is this entity ot of which universes are born. So if you ask what was around before the universe, we say there would be this throbbing, living, multiverse. Possibly spawning countless, maybe even infinite other universes with slightly different laws of physics. Rose and we conclude with jeff pegues, a cbs news justice and Homeland Security correspondent. His new book is black and blue, inside the divide between the police and black america. Part of the problem is training, you know. You talk to Police Chiefs across the country and theyll acknowledge that they
They say he has confessed to being part of both a plot in libya as well as to have been involved in the plot here in the u. K. And to have helped his brother to carry out the attack we saw monday night. Rose and we continue this evening with the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tie son. His new book is astrophysics for people in a hurry. Recent strong theoretical consideration suggest there might be such a thing as a multiverse which is this entity ot of which universes are born. So if you ask what was around before the universe, we say there would be this throbbing, living, multiverse. Possibly spawning countless, maybe even infinite other universes with slightly different laws of physics. Rose and we conclude with jeff pegues, a cbs news justice and Homeland Security correspondent. His new book is black and blue, inside the divide between the police and black america. Part of the problem is training, you know. You talk to Police Chiefs across the country and theyll acknowledge that they
Fire, garbage, pollution. When you look at the south bronx, you see what . Possibility, promise, some of the worlds most beautiful people. Hinojosa hmm . All sorts of assets that are just waiting to be developed and recognized as such. Hinojosa but when you were growing up in the south bronx. Uh hinojosa . One of ten kids, okay . laughing yeah. Hinojosa what were you seeing around you . I was seeing, you know, the burnedout shells of buildings. I did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. I did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being, like, the worst place in the world and nothing good could come of it, because thats where crime and prostitution and all these awful things were, and so thats what i saw, you know, as a kid. Hinojosa what does that do to a kid . sighs deeply hinojosa i mean, profoundly, what does it do to you when you, every day to get to school, youve got to walk by the crack addicts, and th