We are at the Flight Simulator building at Purdue University and this is where a lot of things started in aviation. Program and professional flight was the first in the country to offer bachelor disease to pilots in the mid1960s. Today it continues to be one of the finest flight programs in the country. We have so many people who have been so important. ,oing back to the beginning some of the countrys most important figures, Billy Mitchell who was a world war i , thender in the air force father of the modern air force were both trained to fly by purdue graduates. The first guy involved was cliff and he graduated in 1908. His father was from dayton, ohio and he paid outofstate tuition for his son to come here to learn about internal combustion engines. We had Great Research going on on the internal combustion engine. He said he knew more about the engines and the plan was for him to go back to dayton with his father and they were going to build motorcycles. They did. They started a Moto
Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. And its shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. We expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. And to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. But they havent always been tenets of american political economy. There have been moments in our past, in our notsodistant past where we said, okay, its not necessarily the most important thing to get things as cheaply as
Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the
Was referred to as the kernel. The colonel. That was his preferred nickname. The home at all the modern amenities that were available at this time and that 19thcentury. The pocket doors are a great example of the roosevelt family business. Is a common question that we get. Were doinglts pretty well for themselves. Im sure everyone here knows that it gets that it pays to get in on the ground floor of anything in life. They arrived around 1646. In 1858,me td was born they were established socially as well as financially. Their seventh generation new yorkers. Originally, they were in the hardware business but rent a did importing and exporting of very fine glass. The grandfather would break away from class and get into real estate, banking and financing. His father was not in tune with the daytoday activities of the family business. The grandfather lived south of us on 14th street and broadway, which is where this famous photograph is taken, which you might have seemed at another time. Lo
Was in attendance had that sense of warmth and and regard for each other and for the country. It was really special. Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. By thes hosted California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible surney through john muir life. That legacy is stronger than ever. To hearing forward you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect ou