coming out to the rubin museum of art. i am tim mchenry and i direct engagement at the museum. a taste of inspiration from the philosophic way of life and brings them to you in the foothills of chelsea. i hope you can digest them. i will refer to them later in the program. this is a series that has been running for 13 years called brain waves which has psychologists, scientists from other walks of life to help us better understand how our minds and brain function and do with them. brainwaves running for 13 years, the subject of this year is power and power isn t always in the british tradition, power is not gained by attachments or clinging to positions releasing them and letting them go. tonight s conversation is very different and might be presented at the theme about the future of the nature of time. it draws upon the past and looks at how to navigate ever more perilous future and it is embodied in the new book this view of life: completing the darwinian revolution . in t
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last trial came out. why was it not until the 1980 s the actual transcript of the trial was found? it was found in the garage of the great-grandson of the defendant in the case. it had a yellow boat around it bow around it in the box. it was clear that it was
in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last trial came out. why was it not until the 1980 s the actual transcript of the trial was found? it was found in the garage of the great-grandson of the defendant in the case. it had a yellow boat around it bow around it in the box. it was clear that it was something of significance that had been capped, but it had not b