She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
By filling out a survey, this information assist the staff as they plan future programs so thank you in advance for doing this. Following the lecture there will be a book signing outside the door of this room. A Service Provided by the campus bookstore. In addition to the books, todays event is cosponsored by the National Affairs committee of the democrats, also the book would not be possible without such sponsors. The book featured today is the product of 2 two distinguished career journalists. James mccartney, now deceased, and his wife, molly mccartney. For nearly four decades as a reporter for the Chicago Daily news, james covered the principal institutions of the federal government with special emphasis on war and conflict which he covered in more than 30 countries. Molly worked as a reporter for 30 years including 14 years at the Washington Post. After her husbands death in 2011 molly continued the research and writing of the book he was working on in his retirement. Americas war
When the government turns on you and you are defenseless. They can pretty much but there government behind them self to crush you in many ways. I had a gentleman visit with me and he refused to give the Bush Administration the names of all of the clients after nine 11. He said i cant do it, so they came up with some backdated options and put them in jail. They spent 30 million defending himself. If you read it it is quite amazing to see what went on. This is the hysterical kneejerk reaction after 9 11. Its a a horrible thing of course, but why. But then on my side of the coin were talking i said yeah, gave Osama Bin Laden support, he had a 14,000,000 dollar Million Dollar count. He lived in cambridge, massachusetts. No connection. But granted you think theres a connection he might want to go down that path, but they had no interest in doing that. Then i told them when i gave the account of the middle east and geneva they set out thats in enough account. We had 7,000,000,000 dollars. We
Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introduction, i talked fori t ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum, over that time, i taught a course on introductory astrophysics and i got very popular and people liked it and we moved to vickers pace and we realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has particular exper
Cspan in the house. [laughter] [applause] tonights book is call welcome to the universe and i love saying that. Welcome to the universe. They tee that too. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors, first Michael Strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] so have a seat. So just a bit of introduction. I taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 to 2003 and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum but over that time i taught a course on instructory astro physics. We realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has expertise that could see the curriculum, see the syllabus, in particular Michael Strauss is an expert on our galaxy, its structure, largescale structures of the universe in particularly. In fact, ph. D thesis was mapping the universe. Thats right. In fact, we met in the andies mountains of chile and we became good friends and colleagues. Jay richard gott, the third. While michael