President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
We working with the 64 secretary of state Madeleine Albright talking about her new book, hell and other destinations which is a very interesting book it would look forward to the conversation. Welcome to our podcast today. Guest i am enjoying talking with you anytime. Host im at the Jefferson Building of the library of congress. She is at her home and virginia we were young staffers together in the white house under president carter and i have followed your career since then with great admiration. This is your seventh book since you left us secretary of state did you ever imagine after the first woman to serve as secretary of state you would write seven books in addition since you left . Guest no. Never occurred to me i would write so many but i think it was important those who have served to write their memoirs that is what gives people an understanding of what happened. Everybody writes a somewhat different version and then to figure out what really happened. Host behind you have a l
Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine trial. Youre said youre kouscautiousy optimistic tell us about your reflection on that data. There are various landmarks along the trial that could actually derail it at any given time the first that we saw was we went into a phase one trial very quickly, really with record speed. We did it with three doses and the first thing you look at is it safe . Clearly it was is it inducing the kind of response you would predict would be protected when the company and our investigators looked at the data in the first two doses of the phase one study in normal volunteers we found something that was really quite encouraging in that the immu y immunizations induces antibodies if this were the virus here and you had an antibody that bound to one part, it would bind like maybe to this part here which is not neutralizing because the business end of the virus is here the antibodies that were induced were ones that block the component of the virus that binds to your cells. Th
Anniversary of journalism education at drake. In 1919, since 1919, our program has been characterized by service to our profession and our community. We are proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight about Climate Change with experts who are on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and a philanthropic refunded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington, d. C. They connect reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible, accurate, researchbased news stories. We are just wrapping up a 2. 5 day boot camp at drake in which political journalists from around the country received briefings from experts on science issues that will be prominent in the president ial campaign. I would like to acknowledge and thank Drake Universitys academic leader in the front row, who is herself a scientist. Also, former Wash