four years after making history by becoming the first african-american president, barack obama kicks off the second term on martin luther king day. today and inauguration day special. we will air highlights from last ides peace ball including naacp president benjamin jealous. the challenge for our country is never to see the day when a person of color would be president, nor the challenge for our country was to ensure that it would be safe for it to i hae happen again and again. we ll also hear from the legendary poet son the sanchez, ralph nader, sweet honey and the rock, and angela davis. let me say this time around we cannot subordinate our aspirations and our hopes to presidential agenda. we will look at big money behind the inauguration. four years ago president obama refused to accept corporate donations, but this year exxonmobil, at&t, christoph are among the biggest backers of today s festivities. microsoft are among the biggest backers of today s festi
we as human beings see beauty. there s a sense of balance, of order, to beautiful things. but where does that sense come from? and what does algebra or geometry have to do with it? can we quantify the beauty of a butterfly? welcome to the world of symmetry. crystals, snowflakes, shells, geometric shapes, flowers, decorative arts such as the tilings of the alhambra palace in spain; they all share something besides what we might call beauty, and that something that is imicit in the sort of regularity or self-similarity is symmetry, a symmetry we experience with satisfaction and pleasure in our everyday lives. often, that which eerience as symmetry is simply the final picture. but how did that beautiful, symmetric pattern come into being? with some close and careful inspection, anyone can see that symmetry starts with a basic motif which is then manipulated in time and space. mathematicians call such manipulations transformations, or, though this might be confusing, we also
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