he gave a speech at caltech after the cambodian invasion. that speech was very critical of president nixon, and my advice her was removed from a list of nominees to be a high level official at the national science foundation. the good news for me is that my advisor continued at caltech and subsequently there were a series challenges to many organizations, including all academic institutes missions across the country. today, we live in a time of controversy from rulings of the supreme court to divisions about the role of politics in. higher education policy. one of the strengths, i believe, of american higher education is a degree of autonomy. and i believe that we need to work to sustain higher education in america as the world's best. so. so those are a few person reflections about my time in my early twenties. proceeding through graduates school and then joining the massachusetts institute of technology as a junior professor. when i arrived at mit as an assistant professor in 1972, i heard about the occupation of the mit president's office

recientemente hemos formado una alianza con otros ocho colegios privados también en el estado, inclusive caltech harvey mudo occidental, pomona college, stanford, usc, scripps, muy conocidos, y bueno, esta alianza es simplemente, queremos traerle a las comunidades la invitación, el anuncio que nosotros también somos opciones, muchas veces hay una percepción que las universidades privadas son muy caras, que no tienen, que no son igual de accesibles, ¿verdad?, eh, y bueno, nosotros queremos venir a las comunidades, especialmente esos estudiantes en primera generación, que quizás no tienen los padres que han ido a la universidad, que conozcan primeramente las opciones que tenemos, los programas que ofrecemos, las carreras que ofrecemos, y que los consideren, porque estamos en un estado en donde tenemos un sistema educativo muy grande, muy fuerte, muy importante, el uc cal state, y también son muy buenas opciones, pero aparte, en este estado hay más de 80 universidades privadas que también pueden ofrecer oportunidad, inclusive becas para hacer el costo de la universidad posible, entonces esperamos q

and as you talk about, we're going to show some animation from caltech depicting it.ll, john, i don't want to ruin your weekend, but this is, in fact, a preview of what lies ahead for our little planet earth. a team of researchers at palomar observatory outside san diego were using a wide field camera called the zwicky transient facility, which looks at a big swath of the night sky looking for things like comments and asteroids. astronomer kingsley day at m.i.t. is going through data from 2020. there's so much data that they have a backlog. and he noticed a star about 12,000 light years away that grew a hundred times brighter over the course of a week. he thought maybe that was a binary star, which he studies quite a bit. two stars which kind of interact with each other and their brhtness changes as the gravity pushes and pulls. but the problem was the total amount of energy that was releasedy this event was way less than it would be if it was two stars. and so that meant by virtue of that, that it was probably a black hole swallowing up a planet. but it's not just an

now astronomers in the us at caltech and mit have observed a star, swallowing its own planet. it happened a solar system some 12000 light years from our own. as the 1st observation of its kind telescopes that monitor the whole night sky caught the brief end of the 10000000000 year old staff life. it swelled, becoming a red giant and then and a bright flash that last for several days. it consumed one of its own planets believed to be similar in size to jupiter. ok, sir lloyd day is a post doctoral fellow and astronomer at the massachusetts institute of technology . 2 inches from cambridge in massachusetts. it's great to have you with us. it really does sound like the most extraordinary and slight terrifying event. did you ever expect to see such a thing play out in real time? yes. so you know, the sound of the planets, this type of stuff you read about it in high school books. so honestly, finding one of these was really one of those, or you might know why it's the evidence for this long standing prediction. but if you look at the gas, you know, there are so many uncertainties

caltech carry out . officials confirm mercury toxic metal was found in the parking lot.e in martinez to tell us what we know so far? good morning, ali. good morning, dave . yeah, this is the amtrak station, the newer depot on marina vista in martinez. you can see from the yellow tape behind us in the barricades, the entrance to that newer boarding platform is closed off, and that's because of a hazardous material spill that happened in the parking lot here. you can still catch an amtrak train from martinez this morning. some of the representatives from amtrak are just directing passengers as they pull in to the old ferry depot, which is about a block and a half away from here, but all of this is because of that hazardous material found in the parking lot yesterday afternoon , contra costa county health officials confirmed it was about a pound of mercury that was collected and discovered in the parking lot yesterday. they don't know how it got there. but contra costa county firefighters did respond and so workers from the county and the epa came to gather and collect some