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is if you can get the disease early, block and tackle it, knock it down, you do it at an early stage we call mild cognitive impairment. if you can prevent it from progressing from mild cognitive impairment to full-blown alzheimer s you can lead an almost normal life at that stage with more hope than we ve had. charlie: with mike mullen and the effort to do something about alzheimer s when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: admiral mike mullen is here and retired in 2011 after serving four years as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it made him the top military adviser to president bush and obama during the wars in afghanistan and teaches and has been a frequent guest on the program and i m pleased to have him back at this table. we ....
harold evans, his new back is called do i make myself clear while writing well matters. the active voice is the way to write. the passive voice by and large creates more words and has no energy. let me give you an example. neil armstrong landed on the man today, active voice. the passive voice says the moon was landed on by neil armstrong today. the official language if i analyze the report how he got on the plane, it s full of things like it can safely be said and steps were taken. who took the steps, what did they do. it s all passive. rose: we conclude with alan alda called if i understood you, would i have this look on my face? my as ventions in the art of science and relating and communicating. it s like when two actors are on the stage and they are really listening to each other, when i m doing that, i don t say my next line because it s in the script, i say it because you do something or say something that makes me say it and then makes me say it a certain ....
harold evans, his new back is called do i make myself clear while writing well matters. the active voice is the way to write. the passive voice by and large creates more words and has no energy. let me give you an example. neil armstrong landed on the man today, active voice. the passive voice says the moon was landed on by neil armstrong today. the official language if i analyze the report how he got on the plane, it s full of things like it can safely be said and steps were taken. who took the steps, what did they do. it s all passive. rose: we conclude with alan alda called if i understood you, would i have this look on my face? my as ventions in the art of science and relating and communicating. it s like when two actors are on the stage and they are really listening to each other, when i m doing that, i don t say my next line because it s in the script, i say it because you do something or say something that makes me say it and then makes me say it a certain ....
harold evans, his new back is called do i make myself clear while writing well matters. the active voice is the way to write. the passive voice by and large creates more words and has no energy. let me give you an example. neil armstrong landed on the man today, active voice. the passive voice says the moon was landed on by neil armstrong today. the official language if i analyze the report how he got on the plane, it s full of things like it can safely be said and steps were taken. who took the steps, what did they do. it s all passive. rose: we conclude with alan alda called if i understood you, would i have this look on my face? my as ventions in the art of science and relating and communicating. it s like when two actors are on the stage and they are really listening to each other, when i m doing that, i don t say my next line because it s in the script, i say it because you do something or say something that makes me say it and then makes me say it a certain ....
stanford university. he changed his sex to male in 1997. also here, group of scientists norman, janet hyde of the university of wisconsin at madison. i m pleased to have all of them here and begin this conversation with my colleague eric kandel. eric: we will talk about gender identity and the biology of the brain. this is a marvelous topic and i like it particularly because it shows how brain science can be liberating in our life. as we understand the biology of our own gender identity better and become more comfortable with ourselves to become more empathic to somebody else s gender identity, we can understand it at age 9 10, a person says i am in the wrong body. we really can sympathize with them and understand what is going on. but, this is not only an interesting topic, it is an unbelievably timely topic. when we began talking about this six months ago it was not on the radar screen. we were ahead of our time. but now, you cannot pick up an issue of the new york ....