narrator: touring herculaneum and pompeii in the mid 19th century, novelist charles dickens found thetone cities of the dead alive with the power of art. reader: "paintings on the walls in the roofless chambers of both cities are as fresh as if they had been executed yesterday. -here are the subjects of still life, familiar classical stories or mythological fables, poets reading their productions to their friends... all restore the ancient cities in the fancy of their wandering visitor." narrator: the fascination with pompeii emerged in an 1825 opera by giovanni pacini called the last day of pompeii and more famously sir edward bulwer lytton's novel the last days of pompeii , published in 1834. in lytton's heavily romanticized account fictional characters experienced the last hours of the city's terror. nydia, the blind girl whose keen hearing led her companions to the sea and safety, was carved in marble by randolph rogers in 1860. it was followed by more than a hundred copies as pompeii fever spread throughout europe. lytton's stoic centurion who steadfastly refused to leave his pos

when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said,

when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water come

. >> in the 1800's, charles dickens wrote a novel about his trip to america called "martin chuzzelwit." he mentioned his exposure to newspapers. we know that the "new york times" is biased. we know that the "economist" is biased. "wall street journal" is now horribly bias. we kind of adjust our lenses here when you read online and you do not know the person is, it is difficult to know whether it is legitimate or not. newspapers eventually disappear and are no longer published in print, so they are just competing with everyone else. how do we establish -- how do we know -- how to newspapers establish credibility? i saw this news reporter who put a piece on youtube about gavin newsom just walking away. so how did these organizations establish credibility? how are people able to see the problems with bias that will never come up? there is also a problem with advertisers, backers. a millionaire putting $500,000 or $1 million into a newspaper, and he will expect something in return. he may not want his coverage to be negative. so there are all these things. i wondered if anybody had any ge

really wealthy people and everybody else i mean that's a clear yet take us back to the days that charles dickens wrote about him. what's it like being a senator who's devoted his service to taking on moneyed interests run for reelection in this post citizens united air well it's it's i mean i will not i will never whine or complain i consider privileged to want to get serve in the senate and second to to fight these people because they they want to do really bad things for our country and to our country but i i think it what i've seen is when these ads are all over the place they're up seventeen million in ohio now the the koch brothers are in jail needles and brokers in the same cast of characters but i'm also seeing a pretty amazing outpouring of progress as a lot of small contributions in terms of money but more than that a whole lot of people turning out to go to a small county and one hundred people are there on a wednesday afternoon kind of thing ready to fight back and i mean it is a choice would you rather have exxon or rich rather have these hundred people out of work and door to door w

narrator: touring herculaneum and pompeii in the mid 19th century, novelist charles dickens found thetone cities of the dead alive with the power of art. reader: "paintings on the walls in the roofless chambers of both cities are as fresh as if they had been executed yesterday. -here are the subjects of still life, familiar classical stories or mythological fables, poets reading their productions to their friends... all restore the ancient cities in the fancy of their wandering visitor." narrator: the fascination with pompeii emerged in an 1825 opera by giovanni pacini called the last day of pompeii and more famously sir edward bulwer lytton's novel the last days of pompeii , published in 1834. in lytton's heavily romanticized account fictional characters experienced the last hours of the city's terror. nydia, the blind girl whose keen hearing led her companions to the sea and safety, was carved in marble by randolph rogers in 1860. it was followed by more than a hundred copies as pompeii fever spread throughout europe. lytton's stoic centurion who steadfastly refused to leave his pos

professor dyson, i was reflecting on charles dickens last night and "a christmas carol" where he shhas skrage sc saying this, if they want to die, they better do this and decrease the surplus population. it seems that might be the kind of thing we would have heard at the donors dinner. >> yeah. this is a nightmare of a scenario for mr. romney because the real feelings he has, what he nurtures in his breast, what a man thinks or a woman away from the cameras where the truth is allowed to unfurl in ways that are not prohibited by political correctness, this guy opened his mouth to tell the truth about what he feels about the so-called unwashed masses or what sociologists talk about the deserving poor. he thinks these people are deserving of whatever they get, and guess what? it's not just the poor urchins who are urban dwellers, 47% captures a whole range of people. what's interesting and what will be provocative here is to see to what degree the 47% -- >> professor dyson, i have to intervene because unlike his performance over the issue of libya where he offered us a premature interject

charles dickens said when you go to the senate, it's a lovely room. if you drop something, make sure you don't reach for a pathetic pair of gloves. so the place was sort of a mass and it needed a little help and a little x and chin. this is the house of representatives, currently has most of you ensuring this room know, statuary hall. there is one good thing to say about the house of representatives. it was generally regarded in still is regarded today as an absolutely beautiful room. there was one really bad thing to say about the house of representatives and that was that nobody could hear anything. as you see here, the ceiling is curved and the way the room is structured, somebody's handing in the well here could be giving a speech in somebody out here could hear that person perfectly. somebody appear couldn't hear a single thing. it was all white noise. it was total bedlam and the house was known for that in hot and known for that for some time. and one of the stars of the house of representatives in 1850 was a tiny, tiny with congressmen who late

if you've read charles dickens diary from his travel to america are you serious about the pirated versions and his works in the united states. it is an unfortunate but familiar, but that is .1. .2 as it is a role of u.s. governmental policy and also something for corporate strategy to put pressure on the chinese to change these practices. for example, two weeks ago during a strategic and economic dialogue in beijing, which was overshadowed by that shine case, one of the deals the u.s. is pushing was a different property regime and more enforcement from chinese officials. so this is something with the outside world needs to keep pushing. here is a sign of progress or not depending how you feel. in china i have an actual genuine timex watch, but when i lived in china at $5 rolexes. a different between hong kong and mainland china is in mainland china they say here via in hong kong with his british inheritance, the hucksters have to say fake rolex, fake rolex that there's transparency and labeling. i think the corporations must be hypervigilant about this amounted to an aviation illustration

charles dickens was pretty good at it. [laughter] but chinese names are complex.ean, who here can recite the full name of the blind activist who was seeking refuge in the u.s. embassy in china? chen gang chang -- chen guangcheng. but even over there they've shortened it to cgc, you know, which looks like kfc. it looks like they're promoting, you know, fried chicken. [laughter] but anyway, so i thought, well, as i -- i thought i had best keep the names of the characters, you know, memorable to a western ear, and so i had, i named the president of china president fa, and then the evil head of the secret police was minister lo. and as i added characters, it occurred to me that all of their names were varian yairses on -- variations on do, re, mi, fa -- [laughter] so this was a bit of a challenge. there are a couple of riffs about sun xiu, there are a lot of quotes in here at no extra charge. [laughter] i came across a fascinating term, actually, in a book by henry kissinger who for his book on china chose a slightly less frisky title than mine. if you're henry kissin

charles dickens said when you go to the senate, it's a lovely room. but if you drop something, make sure you don't reach for it without a pair of gloves. and so the place was sort of a man's and it needed a little help and a little expansion. this is the house of representatives, currently as most of you i'm sure in this room know, scotch mary hall. there is one good thing to say about the house of representatives. it was generally regarded and still is regarded today as an absolutely beautiful room. there was one really bad thing to say about the house of representatives and that was that nobody could hear anything. as you see here, the ceiling is curved and the way the room is structured, somebody is standing in the way here to be giving a speech in somebody out here could hear perfectly. somebody up here couldn't hear a single thing. it was all white noise. this total bedlam in the house was known for that and had been known for that for some time. at one of the stars of the house of representatives in 1850 was a tiny, tiny congressman from georgia

he will come out as the charles dickens of our area. >> is the shining coming out soon? >> really? cow! really? all work and no play makes jack a very dull boy. >> the cash you brought up on monday while you guys were out was the disparity between the economy and the market might be growing and the rest of the year given some catching up, right? some fund manager trying to catch up with the central banks, doing what they do. possible? >> yes. this is the whole problem as -- monday was viewed, i believe, as a price break for managers that allowed them to come in on tuesday and buy stocks and you talk about the world surface stocks. the question in the day. >> that was a very strange. they look okay today in terms of trading and names like ensco, nob and rdc and rowan companies and you see it about 356. there's a huge surge in all of these three stocks individually and the theory of the trading floor is that there was analgo come into the close and you see that spike higher and a fall lower and if you piece it together, what happened in the credit market the day before and what happe

involved -- you know, if you write novelling you have to make up the names for characters and charles dickens was pretty good at it. i -- i -- but chips names are complex. who here can receipt the full name of the blind activist who was seeking refuge in the u.s. embassy in china? deng xiaoping but even over there now, when they pull up the posters they shorten it to cgc it looks like kfc. it looks like they're promoting fried chicken. .. >> a lot of sun xiu quotes in here, and they are included at no extra charge. [laughter] i came across a fascinating term, actually, in a book by henry kissinger who chose a slightly less frisky title than mine. [laughter] if you're henry kissinger, you can just call your book "on china." [laughter] they'll buy it. i have to dance like a french poodle on mine, you know? "they eat puppies, don't they?" but sun xiu coined this interesting term called shi. it's spelled s-h-i, and it's tricky to translate, but it means roughly the art of understanding matters in flux. so there is -- and shi happens. [laughter] get it? indeed, i am -- there is a lot of shi in thi