er books include the red notebook of the charles darwin's and charles darwin's notebooks 1836 to 1844. for more, visit umbc.edu and search her name. >> i'm constance carter, head of the science and technology division of the library of congress and today we're here in the theater of the library of congress' madison building. on this side of the table, we have the correspondence of charles darwin. he was born in 1809 and died in 1882. and here we have the first 16 volumes of his correspondence going up to 1868. we expect the volumes to end at probably 36. and i have some selected correspondence such as this charles darwin's letters edited by fred burkhart and i like this particular volume because it's dedicated to me here and inscribed to me. and it says for connie, for whom so many of us thank god. and my brother, who thinks i'm lower than dirt, saw this and has treated me like a queen ever since. and here we have a piece from 1873. when i worked on the correspondence, most of the time i was looking for letters to editors of biographical materials and one day they asked me to find if

and indeed they often fail >>reporter: it is charles darwin's theory of evolution all over again. the trading floor is an electronic jungleand only the strong and bold survive. >>: so would our financial landscape look any different today if more women instead of men were in charge? >>herbert: women are certainly more cautious than man. but there are certain situations where caution is a goodidea, of course. but you know, without risks there is no success. imagine lewis hamilton, the racing driver, driving around the track carefully. he undoubting will finish every race, but he will win none. he's got to take a risk. >>reporter for race car drivers risk is imperative... for icelandic bankers... risk resulted in the country's bankruptcy. to restore credibility the government placed two women as chief executives of the now nationalised financial institutions. heather mcgregor, a city head hunter says more women should take senior management positions to guarantee blue skies. >>mcgregor: the bank that unarguably has come out the best out of this, which is loyd's tsb, has been the ban

now, the title of my talk is the arc of ambition, charles darwin, geologists. the arcs rise and fall. and that's what i'm going to talk about today, the rise and fall of darwin's earliest grand ambition. his ambition to create a theoretical basis for the science of geology. his basic idea was that geology would turn out to be simple. that's what he said. geology will turn out simple. and the simplicity came in his mind from a balancing of forces between the rise of the earth's crust, elevation and its fall, subsidence. so he thought when geologists figured this out, rise and fall, they'd really understand geol y geology. the current foupgs -- foundation for plate tectonics it is quite simple. his theory in a strange way resonates with what turned out to be true. well, the story i'm going to tell today then is about darwin's first great ambition. we all know him mainly from his having achieved his second great ambition in evolution. so we'll have to set that aside for a moment and talk about his first great ambition. now, i think most of you know the outline of h

anticipated the two great heroes certainly, the rest of the world in the 19th century, one is charles darwin, and the other course is in economics. john winsome was the tax almost from whom darwin learned how to stuff birds. you never hear about winsome, but darwin was there and they said that is what they want to learn about birds and stuff and going to south america. re is weber, who before came to talk about deficit spending and the need for government to intervene when of course private was not nished or choose a guy who enables contributions and they call w i became an economic, and we know nothing about him. pa of the struggle, but how do we go at the state make them alive and embracthem as our own. [applae] >> thank you for that. >> all right. i am sorry, but our seson is over and i just like to urage you to do one thing. one commonality of all of us is the fact that we e booklovers. so i'm going to ask you to buy our books, go out there, walk in one part of the reet to the other, greet the authorq, thank the authors, and buy their books. thank you so much for coming. [applause] >> .

one is charles darwin and the other is lord and kings. john was the person from whom darwin learned how to stuff birds. you never hear about him. but he's the guy when darwin went to the university of edinburgh that's what led him to learn about birds and stuffing ing down to south america. here's weber before talked about deficit spending and the need for government to intervene when private spending had finished and here's a guy who said how i became an economic heretic and part of the struggle is not just to know how we know but how to go as alice walker says embrace them as our own. >> okay. thank you for that. i'm sorry but our session is over and i'd just like to encourage you to do one thing. one commonality of all of us is the fact that we are book lovers so i'm going to ask you to buy our books, go out there, walk from one part of the street to the other. greet the authors, thank the authors and buy their books. thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we conclude our encore

grand agency would have done in the early nineteenth century about funding the graduate student charles darwinanted to make a three year trip around world with no particular purpose in mind. i don't think he would have gotten his funds. nature is always the final arbiter of our ideas in science, and the ideas must be tested in the real world. we must never forget the virtual worlds of models are always hypothetical until the test is made. what can we do? our minds are on the economic, but the climate crisis and are likely to be more so. the recession may be bad and a source of human misery but it will force a closer look at the conduct of science. this may also make us look more closely at extravagant attempts to improve our carbon footprint and make us wonder if those frequent code images to kyoto and so on are really needed. they do nothing for the earth, nor does political pressure for renewable energy. which is like, rather, alternative -- is rarely a cure for serious disease. of course, we had better stop burning fossil fuel at an excessive rate and equally important, reduce the area of t

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