booktv continues now on c-span2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to politics and prose. finance jack bennett. welcome. before we begin, just a few notes. first we ask you to silence your cell phones. you don t want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of the talk but we do want you to be heard in recording. lastly after the talk please help us including the space by folding up your chairs and link them against the nearest wall. the signing will begin just afterward with a line stretching towards the front of the store books are available for purchase. today s guest is professor ganesh sitaraman who teaches law at vanderbilt law school. professor sitaraman worked as an advisor to elizabeth warren for the 21st century run and served as a genetic counselor in the senate. additionally, he is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. professor sitaraman is a to talk less news book, the public option: ho
become addicted to them. i don t want to talk about that as a way to get to social media yet but the addiction habits around contempt. distinguishing them as well. what is it to be addicted to contempt? it s a matter of community with other people. speaking and expressing yourself. it s a way to sort of efficiently say what you think. that happened back in the addiction so far as it passes by, it doesn t go through that court text. the part of your brain that caused the process. a deep part of the brain, sizable woman. brains default more than a million years ago. processing rewards and staying alive. what happens is when you do something that gives you stroke, it makes you feel good. you build a habit. chemical like smoking cigarettes or communicative, i get your reaction like it, it will start programming into your brain. that s how addictions work. when you find yourself communicate that way, say something over and over again, that is not being processed by your co
you re watching become of the on chan c-span with top nonfiction books and awe authorized every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. good evening. i m jack bennett and welcome to politics and prose. before we begin, we ask you to silence your cellphones. ask your questions at the microphone we pass around. and assigning will be after the folding table beside me. books available for purchase. today the annie jacobsen the author of six books including area 51, the pentagon s brain and unsensor ode history of darpa. and most recently the. create a page-turning narrative out. a [inaudible] help me walk annie jacobson to pollic and protest at the wharf. [applause] how is my sound? first of all, politics and prose, thank you for heying me. all wonderful to be here. and thanks to everybody for coming. i m here tonight to talk to you about surprise, kill, vanish. and that is a book about the cia s pair military capacity which paramilitary capacity which is some
heist, and one of the suspects is dennis rodman. a veterans memorial trashed in santa clara county. maria medina is in downtown san jose, with the search of the suspect, who goes by the name snip. reporter: surrounded by businesses, still a lot of drivers on the road at this hour, so whoever vandalized this monument was pretty brazen. the graffiti that covered the san jose veterans memorial may now be gone, but the damages left, what is left behind long after the cleanup. anybody with a pulse would not have touched the memorial. reporter: the emotion from veterans like mike salas. my immediate thoughts of the families , the ones who want to for land, shed bl never came home, anybody with a heart would never have touched a memorial like that. reporter: he felt those emotions a year and half ago. we were hit hard in the heart. reporter: a vandal spray graffiti on sons of the memorial. one of those sacred places, a lot of places families go for closure, we bu
heist, and one of the suspects is dennis rodman. a veterans memorial trashed in santa clara county. maria medina is in downtown san jose, with the search of the suspect, who goes by the name snip. reporter: surrounded by businesses, still a lot of drivers on the road at this hour, so whoever vandalized this monument was pretty brazen. the graffiti that covered the san jose veterans memorial may now be gone, but the damages left, what is left behind long after the cleanup. anybody with a pulse would not have touched the memorial. reporter: the emotion from veterans like mike salas. my immediate thoughts of the families , the ones who want to for land, shed their blood, never came home, anybody with a heart would never have touched a memorial like that. reporter: he felt those emotions a year and half ago. we were hit hard in the heart. reporter: a vandal spray graffiti on sons of the memorial. one of those sacred places, a lot of places families go for clos