College community. Their communities are all over the place geographically. So American Life has changed in that Community Stability ascent he will with interest that in. We just kind of documented through discovering this kind of research that the social factors have kind of sabotage our ability to support these kinds of close refrigerator relationships. What we discovered to was mobility and american culture, really sabotages this relationship. So at the time were writing, the statistics were about warty three, 45 billion americans moving every year. That kind of relocation really takes a toll on our relational health. If sabotages are relational network. So we are having to take these relational hits every time we move around. We believe americans dont really consider the relational risks to the extent that they ought to in terms of taking off and moving around like that. We move for all kinds of reasons. We think we probably have taken this to lately. So we got into the mobility st
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
Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Welcome to lafayette and West Lafayette, indiana, located on the wabash river. West lafayette is home to Purdue University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next hour and 45 minutes, we will look at the history of the cities. Learn about William Henry harrison and the battle of tippecanoe. It was cold and rainy, it was early november. The troops were low on provisions. They had limited manpower and equipment. Harrison complained about his shortage of axis and their poor quality in the building of Fort Harrison on the way up. He had the troops build bonfires to keep them warm and ward off the rainfall, but had them sleep in battle conditions fully dressed on their weapons. Videoer, visit cspans archives which houses over 200,000 hours of Public Affairs programming. The archives started as an id
Brief. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. I remember every day of the oil spill was brutal. Spillmber during the oil poppedn Rolling Stone to their story about stanley mcchrystal, got a call about a fourstar general back from afghanistan and i remember walking to the residents and called the president. I said i think you need to read this story. I walked over and he met me downstairs and he read the first two paragraphs and we had a quick conversation and he said whos ever left, lets meet in the oval office. You had these events area i remember the shooting at fort hood, what awful day that was. A decent part of the evening, weise we probably spent hours in the oval office with bob gates and admiral mullen and bob mueller from the head of the fbi and the president talking some of
The pioneer. She shows us selected items of the collection including po ems and letters she wrote to her family as well as a letter she wrote to her husband on their wedding day. She worked at lafayette for the last two years of her life as she prepared for an around the world flight funded by purdue. It was during this flight she disappeared in 1937. From an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. She would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. But you can see that she has a romanticized view of the height, being able to see nature below her. When she became an aviation editor for cosmopolitan she would write about the beauty of flying and how she loved things like seeing the clouds up there and the serenity of being on her own and being able to look at the beauty below. Amelia earhart was an early woman pilot at a time when many women did not have careers outside of the home. She is most well remembered for having disappeared.