Dr. Cheney has focused much of her life. On teaching children american history so that the next can generation learn from the past . But before i introduce her we had a Surprise Guest Fly in from wyoming last night and i would like dr. Cheneys husband of 52 years. Cheney to please stand up Vice President Cheney thank you so much for coming. It means a lot to me in a lot too lynn. Well im honored to introduce this mornings distinguished speaker and when i called her last year to invite her she said gay. Am i the only speaker who hasnt won a Pulitzer Prize . I said yes, but youre the only speaker who was chairman of the national endowment of the humanities for seven years. And youre the only speaker who was second lady of the United States of america for eight years. If you google dr. Cheney, you will be blown away by all of her awards and accomplishments. But as always im not going to list all of that. I expect you to do that. But while she was head of neh, she published american memory
host: dr. neil degrasse tyson did your new book astrophysics for people in a hurry you open by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense what does that mean?. i think up until the year 1600 when we had no particular tools to investigate the natural world the five senses were the primary means we gave all information about the universe and not even knowing that our five senses had live and said everything you know, the thinking of letting tries to give you but it is not better run at 1500 it would go one direction than the telescope it was a decade within one another now it becomes available to us to transcend our senses to look inside a drop of pond water to see microorganisms doing the backstroke that the sensory system could not have detected with not for the microscope so the welcome to the universe tire living creatures living in a drop of water but today we know that from childhood but that made no sense at all without royal society in london when t
This is perhaps the most radical departure for physics of life from standard physics, but it may be the critical insight needed to explain what life is
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