my guest tonight michio kaku. he is a theoretical quantum physicists post laying on the neurosciences. i will ask him to give me his lunch money. [ laughter ] let's begin in the ukraine. a barrier twixt between east and west, a thin borscht wall f you will show the russian influence, represented here by the crying bear, a classic icon of russian power and european influence represented by an (bleep). [ laughter ] who thinks his tiny coffee is somebody better than anybody else's coffee. if it was so great, why don't you drink more of it? [laughter] >> anyway my point is ukraine descended to chaos. >> the the problems began when president yanukovych favored the union. a country split in two until demonstrators finalry called for president yanukovych to step down. >> riot police and protesters clashed again in kiev's independence square. >> jon: first thing i'm going to do when i'm a dictator, i'm going get rid of all these (bleep) squares. [ laughter ] nothinging good happens -- nothing good happens for dictators in

my guest tonight michio kaku.im to give me his lunch money. [ laughter ] let's begin in the ukraine. a barrier twixt between east and west, a thin borscht wall f you will show the russian influence, represented here by the crying bear, a classic icon of russian power and european influence represented by an (bleep). [ laughter ] wh

one negative review in the wall street journal we got great reviews in the new york times from michio kaku tani has been their lead reviewer the washington post the l a times the list goes on and so you know i. i don't share the opinion of that journal writer and certainly the answer to question is now when i first met hillary clinton on the campaign trail when i first interviewed her at the white house she sat below a picture of eleanor roosevelt and i told her that i had interviewed only roosevelt and she went because i mean she was we couldn't believe you know that i was twenty two at the time and elmo was in the late sixty's does she still hold that feeling about elma that ever come up in talking to her. we didn't talk to her about that but i do know that one of the things that she has been involved in is a project eleanor roosevelt one of the major universities in d.c. to kill number of stores washing or georgetown off the top of my head but it's a project that was done by women in the lead of black who is now heavily involved in the ready for hillary movement that hillary clinton is

cbs contributor michio kaku writes a book the physics of the mind.oulders is the most sophisticated on the we know on the universe. i read that i'm like wow. >> that's right. the two greatest mysteries all science, the origin of the universe outer space. and then innerspace. what's shutting on your shoulders. it only consumes about 40 watts of power, and yet, it exceeds the capability of any computer on earth. we take it for granted. >> so why is a physicist writing about neuroscience? >> when is were a kid i you've to read on reading objectsly thinking. i thought why bother to flunk a college course when you it can hit the play button and learn it. today, we can actually do many of the feats of science fiction. this is incredible. in the last 10 15 years we've done more with the human brain than in all of human history. >> let's get specific because that's what your book really talks about. communicating telepathically. the idea that you could just speak and communicate with your computer or another human being. you say that's being done in in labs?

michio kaku. he's the author of "the future of the mind." posing is it real or programming? explain to us where we are with the brain. >> remember "total recall" where memories were put on the mind? we're on the brink, the threshold of initiating all these wonderful things. think about it, telepathy, reading minds, telekinesis, moving things with the mind, these are things that are going to be done tomorrow, not today. >> it seems as if the human experience is totally lost to then this technology that takes over control. so what is our fail safe as we continue to explore and continue to learn? is there a fail safe to protect us from our own advances? >> when you watch movies such as "irobot," you think robots are going to put us in zoos and throw peanuts at us. >> right. >> what we're beginning to do is understand our own brain, not a robot brain but our own brain. we're beginning to understand why we have super geniuses who can do fantastic mathematical problems in their head and using your thoughts to energize machines. so that the mind is

she joins professor michio kaku from the university of new york.he past. there have been five other major extinctions. the rules of the game changed so that you really don't know what's going to happen would be what i say to that. >> when we hear extinction, we think dinosaurs, catastrophic. are you predicting something catastrophic? >> dinosaurs, it's a pretty confirmed consensus that dinosaurs were willed by an asteroid impact. now i hear we are the asteroid, humans are the asteroid and could have that sort of effect. >> just for the record -- >> they're talking five skpin extinctions. that's the last ones they did do. >> was it instant or did they die off over a period of time? >> when you go back that far, you know, everything gets compressed down to lair. sort of csi on something that happened 65 million years ago. >> what are you saying here? that we're going to be extent due to the planet. what is it that extincts us? >> it's the very rapid change in the planet. a lot of animals can't keep up. a lot of organisms can't keep up with that. the

. >> cbs news contributor michio kaku is here with us.book goes on sale next week. good morning. >> good morning. >> this one was, i think, the second since 1950. >> that's right. you have to go back 30, 50 years to find quicks of this magnitude. when you think of earthquakes, you think of california, places rubbing together like the san andreas fault. this is different. we're in the middle of the new york american plate. this is called an intraplater three years as a consequence. >> it's not open yet. they were going to but it's not totally open yet. >> that's right. the san andreas fault, you know roughly once every 100 years or so, a big rupture takes place but these are because of seizures in the plats that are ancient. >> what's the different between what we see on the west coast as compared to what we see in the south? >> in california we have two plates grinding with each other. that's the rubbing of two plates. here in the middle of a plate we have ancient fisures. we don't even know the configuration, geometry, and powetown ten c