he had some science training as an undergrad in caltech in chemical engineering in 1918.r i he taught to he taught math to artillery recruits. his family immigrated to l.a. and he worked odd jobs. when he was working as a math teacher in san francisco, he saw an advertisement for a satellite film studio. he basically hustled himself in the door, let them think he had more experience than he did because he was interested. and that was the thing that got the ball rolling. although he had a great deal of success in hollywood in the 1930's, he left hollywood to enlist in world war ii and make other films. he came back at a moment when his career was in a lull. it sounds incongruous because many of us are member him for "it's a wonderful life," which is a beloved christmas classic. at the time it got mixed reviews. he was in a lull. that's part of the reason why he wanted to do these films. the other piece was the fact that he was a deeply committed catholic. we will see that influence when we look at these films. another thing to say about capra is that later in his life, he

or caltech. and i saw that personally when i was trying to get engineering help for my work on "unsafe at any speed." but i never exaggerated their powewer becaue i had a very, very realistic view of the power of people. and i realize that corporations, for all ththeir power, they do't have a single vote, and that what members of congress wanted wwere votes. a and so people bee alert and ththey began to rereae that it wasn't always the nut behind the wheel in crashes and injuries on the highway, that the engineering sysystems of highways and vehicles were very critical in minimizing crashes and, if they occurred, minimizing their injuries, such asas a seatbelt, then the public interest would prevail. now, that served me pretty well because i had my feet on the ground and i knew i had a lot of work to do. i had to get the technical community behind what we were doing, i had to get it out to the media, i h had to hae contacts with senators and representatives who remembered where they came from and

. >>> caltech has -- caltrans has set up some meters and lights.y green from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 am. they will then start me to ring after one week. these signs -- start metering them after one week. these signs will show the situation. >>> the latest on the investigation into how this may be connected to another shooting near campus. >>> real working cameras are coming to all b.a.r.t. trains . >> reporter: -- b.a.r.t. trains. >>> police at uc berkeley are investigating a shooting involving a pellet gun or bb gun. they are trying to determine if it was connected to a second shooting just off campus. >> the shootings happened about 2 minutes apart. they were not very far apart from each other. this was right next to memorial stadium, the second shooting. we have more on that now. >> reporter: yellow caution tape surrounds the large black window that has been replaced after being shattered by pellets from what appears to be a bb gun. >> we heard repeated bullets, fired repeatedly, 6 or 7. >> reporter: this student from egypt says he was surprised by

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she had the famous physicist and president of caltech who were just standing beside her looking at her paper, so excited to learn if this was going to work or not. that's really incredible. that's something that i think your book, it really encapsulates both the book itself and what we are both speaking about about the forgotten stories of these women. she confirmed the success of the first american spacecraft, it's huge. it's surprising that it's largely been forgotten and i'm hopeful that perhaps your book will be a first step toward reingstatin place for these women in the space program. i wanted to speak briefly or i would like to hear from you about the computers creating a women's space. we talked a bit about the space program and the position of jpl within nasa. you mentioned that women in leadership created the space and in many ways rejected men who applied to be in the role in the 50s and 60s. it sounded kind of similar to other women's groups that came together later on to create women only spaces. i wonder if you've get in the sense that these women, what their intent was a

i mean tha not everybody is goio go to caltech. they will go to people who will be ups drivers.t's an honorable job why demand that of them? >> the question was abolishing the standards. i can't help -- it's not in the common core. i personally believe, look at the clay tablet 3000 years ago. there's something delightful about those things. look at the multiplication table. you generate a whole bunch of couples in the basic 10 by 10 multiplication table. triangle, optional standard. if we let go of the standards, i say we let go. i mean, do we want some commonality the kitchen should at least two grade eight mathematics and not about fundamentals or not? i don't know where that line is. my argument is i have no trouble with the content of what is typically deemed algebra to make if it is taught. i would say maybe general standards. >> one more question. >> i am a high school math teacher in the south bronx, and my biggest concern with the idea of not making higher level math mandatory is that there's already an achievement gap in this country, and my students are already having