long chain of universes. multiple universes with multiple beginnings. is this science? or science losing its moorings? because multiple universes can never be observed. still at the fqxi conference - and still at sea - figuratively as well as literally - i meet a cosmologist who has a different approach to the early universe, lots of people have theories about how the universe began ...what state it must be in to start with and they argue with each other and they, one, everyone thinks their theory is the best. it occurred to me that there's a totally different way that's much better to think about these things and that's to exploit the idea of equilibrium. we know lot's of things that are in equilibrium in the world around us...a glass of water, a room full of air, can be in equilibrium. lots of things are in equilibrium and it means basically physics his taken however it got started and settled into one particular state. ....and it stays there. and it stays there. so what if we could describe the universe as

there was a famous case at boston university where boston university invested about one-fifth of its endowment approximately $85 million in the startup company that was founded by its own professors to read the university's president himself invested in this and encourage trustees to invest in the company and finally when the company's financial situation deteriorated the university was accused of mismanaging the university's endowment in order to prop up the company. so those kind of financial conflicts are unprecedented and it's a kind of commercial activity on the part of the university that is significant. why is all this happening? in my book i spend a lot of time looking at the various different forces that converged to create the situation. but here i will just talk about a few. one is the cut back in high year education. i'm sure people in the room are aware of this. most of the state funded universities have experienced serious financial strain. since 1980 there has been the shift state budget that goes to fund high your education has dropped by approximately one-third. many

physicists almost universally, maybe universally can agree that these things exist. and yet we don't have a very good hold. with a very precise measurement in certain respects but you can look at how quickly galaxies rotate or how much mass must exist in the galaxy and is a quite precisely, because you can look at -- [inaudible] my conception of these are constructs that we don't understand where we understand electrons and protons and normal matter. so there existed one school of thought when this deceleration was seen, that perhaps you can modify the laws of gravity, that you could explain, for instance, the anomalous rotations of galaxies that don't have enough mass to hold them together. gravity, sorry, long ranges deviated from the sort of inverse square law of isaac newton to which einstein's theory of general relativity is a good approximation when gravitational theories -- >> let me sum it up correctly. the simple solution to said einstein and newton were wrong? >> is not the civil solution so much as it is a very interesting solution. >> okay. >> because the

the recent ohio state university grad is one of a growing number of people outraged, salaries of universitykeep rising. >> it does make me very angry. >> the median pay for a public university president reached 440,000 last academic year up 4.7%. the highest paid was former penn state president who pocketed nearly $3 million after leaving them in a scandal. ohio state university, retired with a final pay of nearly 2 million. >> i don't think that they're necessarily worth that much. >> overall, roughly 35 public and private college presidents earned more than a million dollars last year. these academic leaders typically run very complex r prices with major research teams and sport teams like the ohio state buckeyes. >> california lawmaker yi has been leading a charge against executive pay at universities for years now. >> executives coming in to the system, they were being paid 400,000, 300,000, they were being paid more than the president of the united states, more than the governor. >> the outrage is fanned by perks as well as pay. ou's president entertained gusts and lived in this mansio

of ways in the universe. what is the difference between dark matter a and dart energy? dark matter is much more pedestrian in tax vaguely like ordinary matter and clusters together so there is a more inside the milky way that outside but dark energy appears to be completely uniform throughout the universe and dark energy is the energy of space, and the space has a certain amount of energy so that affects the dynamics differently which causes it to expand more rapidly. dark matter has been around as long as we can tell part of the building blocks of galaxies but the energies space at this point in the history of the universe starting to push the universe apart faster and faster and faster. there are a lot of things that we don't know. like why they have the densities' they have or there is as much dark matter as there is there what it is made out of we are good at calculating energy you can ask how much is there a dark energy and the answer is infinity. [laughter] that is wrong. it is 120 times larger. and the

brick and mortar universities, whether low-cost state university or extremely expensive private universities students who take those loans finishing those colleges. they nonetheless have a college degree. default are happening and the difficulty is happening for students in the for-profit sector, much of which happens online, the university of phoenix and others. students are taking out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, they're low income, vastly predominantly minority students, they never end up with a degree on the other side of it and they don't end up with the earning potential and power to actually pay back those loans. when you look at the problem, it's not the problem of paying for the university of wisconsin or buffalo, it ends up being exactly the kinds of schools that the president was talking about at the end there. >> melissa harris-perry, thank you. catch her every saturday and sunday, 10:00. we'll also be in washington wug this weekend, broadcasting as well. our special coverage of the march on washington, the 50 years since that. alex wagner will pick it up. >> pr

some critics say that the tuition may fall if university presidents were not paid so much. but as reported, the pay of college pst have to do with raise. >> kayla smith waits tables at night after working in a downtown columbus office for a non-profit group. >> if you need anything -- >> it is the only way she can payoff the 40,000 dollars in student loans that came with her degree. the recent ohio state university grad is one of a growing number of people outraged, salaries of rising. >> it does make me very angry. >> the median pay for a public university president reached 440,000 last academic year up 4.7%. the highest paid was former penn state president who pocketed nearly $3 million after leaving them in a scandal. ohio state university, retired with a final pay of nearly 2 million. >> i don't think that they're necessarily worth that much. >> overall, roughly 35 public and private college presidents earned more than a million dollars last year. these academic leaders typically run very complex r prices with major research teams and sport teams like the ohio state buc

in the beginning, it was an invitation, teacher of tsing hua university university. stressed on the importance of building relationship before moving towards a collaboration. he told me, we are trying to do that and tsing hua university through the national volunteer program. we have teams going to knit how, indonesia -- nepal, indonesia, and ghana. would you present a proposal? i thought for five seconds and accepted. i made a few phone calls to tanzania. i tried to look at the united nations development goals to say what is the progress and needs of tanzania in that area, to lay a background, foundation for the service. with the idea that the first stage would be anyway to build up the contact, discover the people, let the people discover us, and take it from there. to, what can we do together? the motivation was to allow young taiwanese to have a similar experience to the one i had when i went to tanzania. that is, to discover that the world is bigger than my hometown , that you can actually become friends with foreigners. this could change the direction of your l

but some say the universe is different. because the universe is not "some thing" - it's the whole thing! that's why - first - we must ask, whether the universe had a beginning? i begin with a cosmologist who focuses on the early universe, the associate scientific director of the foundational questions institute, fqxi anthony aguirre. i am attending an fxqi conference on time, at sea in more ways then one, on a ship cruising between

american universities have raised their tuition five times as fast as inflation that's enormous that's an incredible rise and it puts the entire generation into debt and they end up doing jobs like being drone operators that pay a lot of money to pay off the student debt by killing students in other countries that's how those other students of the countries end up having not to pay their student loans is that american students drove them to. it really works out well for everybody well this is why we have over one trillion dollars in student debts outstanding now a lot of that has emerged since they had conned me collapse because we've also hollowed out our jobs system we don't have jobs anymore so people are just going to university because the government apparently is giving free money well ripping off young america the college loan scandal the federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy so just like the u.s. government underwrites most mortgages

american universities have raised their tuition five times as fast as inflation that's enormous that's an incredible rise and it puts the entire generation into debt and they end up doing jobs like being drone operator. can pay a lot of money to pay off the student debt by killing students in other countries that's how those other students other countries end up having not to pay their student loans is that american students drone them to that it really works out well for everybody well this is why we have over one trillion dollars in student debt outstanding now a lot of that has emerged since they have conned me collapse because we've also hollowed out our jobs system we don't have jobs anymore so people are just going to university because the government apparently is giving free money well ripping off young america the college loan scandal the federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy so just like the u.s. government underwrites most mortgage

fine university. the first is the course of the financing and budgeting of the $3 billion per year organization. the second is my favorite among which is returning the colorado buffalo football program and basketball program to the national prominence that it used to be in and will be soon. there is anybody that questions may, just keep tuned. it will happen soon, i promise. finally, the most important issue has already been addressed by the two prior speakers, and that is addressing her deficiency of intellectual, ilisophical departments of our faculty. recruited me and sue who is in the room today -- give us a wave, sue -- sue has taken the baton from tom has become a worry engine preparing us on. after my election tom and i proposed a guiding principle to include intellectual diversity. i assure you that as we are and no mean,ord, this was sure. unfortunately, over the next several years we were unable to perceive any meaningful change. mind is no question in my that our faculty have become quite h

welcome to the best of the best from the university presses. my name is kim miller, and i am the marketing and membership coordinator at the association of american university presses. the aaup is a cooperative, nonprofit organization that promotes the work and influence of university and scholarly presses. we provide cooperative marketing, professional development, and sales efforts to our members, and we help them respond to publishing changing environments. the aaup has a membership of over 130 member presses. in the interest of time, i strongly encourage everyone to have the the aaup website at www.aaupnet.org. there you can find ample information about the association and the work that we do including our upcoming university press week scheduled to take place from november 10th to the 16th, 2013. today, four members of the university press book committee will each present titles they feel to be the best of the best from the titles they reviewed for the 23rd edition of university press books for public and secondary school libraries, which

he's not responded to the fact that trump university was never registered as a university. state education department of new york was chasing them. they kept lying to them and committing fraud with regard to what they were going to do to solve that problem. they never got their teachers certified. we deposed and have a transcript from the former president of trump university who acknowledged trump never hand picked the instructors. he never even met the instructors except for one guy he met once. he didn't participate in the curriculum. he only participated in the sales pitch. the playbook, guidelines for instructors, tells them to do just what you were talking about. sell up. you can't break ranks. you always -- >> what's wrong with that? go to a used car dealer and they try to upsell you. why does this cross the line? >> well, there are laws to protect people from fraud. the law protects, you know, the innocent and gullible as well as the cynical and sophisticated. and there were a lot of folks all over america who thought donald trump really is a successful real estate g

it's sort of interesting can you use the term universal coverage.hat term of course has been used by another prominent health reform plan, but we know that universal dust of winning 100%. so i'm sure they'll be a question from the audience about what universal means in this case. in any event, let me introduce the panelists in the order that they will speak. so first, darius lakdawalla who is a professor of pharmaceutical economics and policy at the university of southern california, school of pharmacy. he will present the basic report and followed up by amitabh chandra, professor of public policy and director of health policy research at the harvard kennedy school of government. and then the third of the eight authors who will have a formal speaking role, anupam jena, a physician who is an assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at harvard medical school and a physician at mass. general. power to discussants in order that they will speak, nina owcharenko who is the director at the center for health policy studies at the heritage foun

>> university of colorado has similar experience. /ph*dz m.d. also is partnered with public policy professor to provide additional background and evaluation of the results. both universities intend to actually send graduate students to out here for minimum one semester to assist in the data collection and interviews of the project participants so they will have some on site capability for the main parts of the study. >> thanks. >> any other speakers? i too, um, was surprised the university of maryland being awarded -- potentially awarding this contract. was there an rfp project? was there a competitive bid process. >> there was. we solicited /staeupltds of interest with qualifications. we re/saoefed six of those from universities all around the country. then we followed that up by inviting all six which we found qualified to submit proposals. >> which were the six that responded? >> i don't have the full list, but i can recall that we had maryland and colorado as a partnership, u washington partnered with -- stan /tpard university and i can't re

i taught at colombia university. now i'm teaching at the penitentiary which is an incredible experience. i've had a varied life. married, five children, my wife, jo ann, runs anthem film festival here. we live a really fun life. it's constantly changing. >> host: we are booktv. belle talking about your newest book. first of all, teaching at sing sing. what is that? >> guest: it's part of mercy college. it's a non-- privately funded education. four-year college degree program for the hard-core inmates who are in there for murder or worse, and they can get a college degree so when they do get out, they will have some kind of skill, you know, the biggest problem is recriticism. they don't have a skill so they go back to what they know which is drug dealing, 60% end up in prison. with this program, it's so successful that i think the resit vifm is stereo. there's hardly anyone going back after graduating they all get decent jobs. i teach economic and finance. my wife teaches english literature. my son has a film out that

american universities have raised their tuition five times as fast as inflation that's enormous that's an incredible rise and it puts the entire generation into debt and they end up doing jobs like being drone operators that pay a lot of money to pay off their student debt by killing students in other countries that's how those other students of the countries end up having not to pay their student loans is that american students drone them to that it really works out well for everybody well this is why we have over one trillion dollars in student debt outstanding now a lot of that has emerged since they had conned me collapse because we've also hollowed out our jobs system we don't have jobs anymore so people are just going to university because the government apparently is giving free money well ripping off young america the college loan scandal the federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy so just like the u.s. government underwrites most mortg

this was he described gilding so these universities like larry to over there the new york university my alma mater they borrow billions from the government near zero percent and they use that money to guild or to create the dorms to luxury dorms so you have these kids showing up they have sex and drugs and drink for four years and then they get out of this gilded university with forty thousand dollars in debt it's like a bad trip to las vegas you know that movie hangover the next one should be set and why you in new york city four years later you wake up with this enormous debt hangover having you know impregnated five or six people including your professors and you're walking around there like a dead zone b. actually that tell you he does talk about this so like who's raking it in because of that so once again contractors the so-called you know people around washington d.c. and connected are raking it in thanks to this essentially free money from. government for them first in line are the colleges and universities and the contractors who build their extravagant athletic complexes ho

assault add woman near a south bay university. the school is responding to the attack. >> preparations to on the new bay bridge are continuing. ahead, the change happening today at the toll plaza and the impact on drivers. >> it is 6:00 a.m. and we thank you for the company. we know you want to know what it is like and mike nicco has the weather. >> good morning, everyone, off to a great start. you can see from mount tamalpais we do have a lot of cloud cover out there this morning and temperatures are running in the mid-50's to around 60 and now this afternoon we will get sunshine an hour quicker than yesterday and that will lead to warmer temperatures from two to seven degrees warmer than yesterday. today and tomorrow are the warmest days of the weekend and our brightest. now the traffic with sue. we have a motorcycle down west 580 beyond 580 and a motorcycle has been destroyed, and you can see the slow line of traffic leading to oakland before the macarthur maze. in fremont, southbound 680 at miss, center divide in lane three an

i'm glad for you to come to binghamton university. i'm the director of rainbow pride union here, the largest lbgt organization on campus. my main concern is that i know a lot of stories of people who are lbgt who come out to their parents and their parents are supporting them financially for college and when they come out, their parents cut out that support. i was wondering if maybe in the future part of your affordability for college would be able to include lbgt people. >> well, first of all, the programs that we have in place don't discriminate and shouldn't discriminate, and the good news is, i think the phenomenon that you just described is likely to happen less and less and less with each successive year. think about the incredible changes that have been made just over the last decade. doma is gone. don't ask, don't tell is gone. more importantly, people's hearts and minds have chamber of commerced -- changed and i think that's reflective of parents as well. i think more and more what we recognize is that just as we judge people

university student.ddow show" starts now. >> if you wanted to get ahold of donald trump, why didn't you get ahold of me? you know i hang out with him all the time. i'll hook you up. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. okay. when japanese pilots turned to kamikaze attacks in world war ii it was meant to not be only effective in a direct sense, but also terrifying. the piloted aircraft used as a missile could obviously do great direct damage to whatever it hit. the psychological effect of being up against an enemy who would do that, a military that would expect its own men to deliberately kill themselves, was also just meant to terrorize, to make their enemies believe there was nothing they wouldn't do, no lengths they

but it is not roger garrison of auburn university. there are a number of other economists going to church pace university or hillsboro college. there's a number of schools. nyu has a few economists. i would consider myself one of the premier supporters of the austrian school. i have applied it here in this case to the investment world. so i call it a viennese waltz down wall street. the reason i called it that was not too connected to the austrian school, but also because the traditional view is that stop prices are ever in them walk down wall street. i took my title from the famous book, a random walk down wall street. i reject that notion completely. i would argue that wall street is more like a dance. human action. they don't make random decisions. they make deliberate decisions based on why are they buying? why are they selling? why are you here today? why are you interviewing me? you have a purpose in coming here. so stock prices are the same way. why they may appear to be random, we can be fooled by randomness. so stock prices a

they're not universal.inly, there remain cultural communities they're dependent upon region. they're dependent upon ethnicity. so there's contingencies there. there's a diversity in the cultures of black america, but they do still exist. there's still black institutions that are in place and functioning. the number of black people attending church may be lower, but it is not the case that they don't still exist. >> eddie, you can jump in here. >> i think it's important for us not to overstate the racial shifts. of course there will be shifts in the way that we understand how culture works, how people find their feet within any cultural spaces. how deidentities are formed butt doesn't follow from that the cultural markers whether it be black churches, a forum, a culinary practice, or simply just a style, that the degree to which it is ascribed to by younger generations via the older generations doesn't mean it's no longer a culture or fragmented in a way that it's no longer recognizable. just as people would

>> the university says that it's a space issue.ere's a lot of construction projects going on. >> sure. >> a couple hundred million dollars' worth. funding is not the issue because we're very confident that we don't need funding from the university. we're not asking for money. we can easily raise the funds from the outside community as other resource centers have done such as city college san francisco. and a few others in the local community. >> again, i just want to be fair because we don't have the university here to reply. >> sure. >> but what about those? what's the big deal in having a resource center? >> it's significant for the simple fact that we've got a lot of men and women who are now transitioning from the military back into, you know, civilian life. and a lot of these bright young folks want to go ahead and pursue higher education. the hard thing about it is most of them, unfortunately, suffer from disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. >> sure. >> and at the same time also have other issues, you know, as fa

universities rank oh among the best in the world.is year 13 out of top 20 universities are here in the u.s. but they are also the most expensive, and it's not clear if students are getting what they paid for. according to the global higher education rankings on average students in the u.s. paid $14,000 a year to go to college. in australia you would pay $7.5000. in canada, students pay about $6,000 per year. and universities in england are subsidized by the government. students there just pay $5,000 a year. in france higher education is government funded, so out-off-pocket costs are very low, and students pay $600 on average a year. well, still with us david, vice president for post education, and from las vegas, natalia abrams, the co-founder of student debt crisis. and we're also joined by neil mcclumcclue ski. david, why is it so much more expensive to go to college in the united states than other countries. >> you said it, because of public subsidy. our institutions were publicly funded vastly over the last three decades, and we'

fighters let's talk about this now further with edmund ghareeb piece at lecture at the american university in washington edmund hi there thanks for your time but first of all why are the kurds being targeted here when they've been on the sideline of this why are the focus for these a read as actions that we think of happened. this is becoming a very complicated and complex war even a very complex war in the first place what we are seeing here is that the kurds are becoming concerned over the growing power of one front. and other radical organizations in that part of the world both sides are trying to control this is especially which is very close to the border of turkey which has its own problems with with the kurdish with its own kurdish minorities and is becoming very much concerned about the events in syria since it supports the opposition in syria and is very much concerned that the back human near the border will also affect my could spill over into its own territory and inflame the situation further there are going it's already inflamed in turkish kurdistan so it's it's a very emotiv

the rest of the three doctorate degrees are all from korean universities.o, you know, it is happy to know that she has, the president, she has some things in mind for the university. during the ceremony she invited the board chairman of the university to attend. this is a barry special relationship. during the five terms of assembly in korea, she has several times been invited by mr. -- minister. if she has any special thoughts in her mind, it would help to look over to the international political constance. it is quite different, you know. >> china and south korea both have new leaders. how good you think relationship will be between the countries? >> preferring to call us free china instead of tie 1. korean newspapers, they still say this. saying that she prefers to call us free china. exit -- >> is it until today? >> it is different. >> how is it different? how will the relationship be different? >> i think at least we have -- we can tell koreans what happened, we have a big change. i think the correa still worries about political issues. if you want to

caller: ending it is mainly a universities -- i think it is mainly universities.f you have that gap between ivy league's and student aid, it seems like there's nothing for a middle-class student. >> let's get more calls on the costs of college. we'll hear from an assistant editor regarding common core standards for k-12. students return to school. mitchell. indiana. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. i feel like college is not worth it at the moment. tuition is going up. >> where do you go to school? caller: a university. it seems that students are applied more pressure at the schools. there are increasing costs. >> mitchell, thank you for your call. we change the focus of the conversation. thank you for all of your calls on the cost of college. next we will look at k-12 education and what the federal government role is in that. the so-called common core standards in schools this year. we will speak to that assistant editor of a publication. justin amash was asked about a question at a town hall last week. [video clip] >> i'm very concerned about something