jeffrey lieberman who was here on our brain series and is at columbia university. thank you, pleasure. >> thank you, charlie. >> it was a pleasure to be here. >> rose: thank you. and to all of you out there, thank you very much for joining us. we will see you tomorrow night with analysis and consideration of what the president says in tucson. see you then.

columbia university researchers found this the case no matter age at the time of the child's birn. they caution more studies are needed to confirm the link. and this study is in today's pediatrics journal. >>> a massive telescope is rocky like earth but too hot for life as we know it. one side is about 2700 degrees fahrenheit because of the proximity to a star. and this is natalie batalia is part of a discovery team astronomers found other planets that are close gler mass but none this small. i have fallen in love with making bird houses. caw caw! [ director ]what is that? that's a horrible crow. here are some things that i'll make as little portals. honestly, i'd love to do this for the rest of my life so i've got to take care of my heart. for me, cheerios is a good place to start. [ male announcer ] got something you'll love to keep doing? take care of your heart. you can start with cheerios. the natural whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. brrrbb... makes you feel ageless. [ male announcer ] it's time. love your heart so you can do what you love. cheerios. [ bob ] squak.

and there is vonnegut out there at columbia university, you know, i'm sure it was a large crowd, because even to his dying day vonnegut would attract a large crowd. i have been told he was like a rock star coming in to his different speeches and large auditoriums, always filling the auditorium. so here we are in the art gallery portion of our library. i'd like to take you over here and show you a vonnegut quote that is signed, those given to us by his artistic collaborator. it says i don't know what it is about hoosiers, but wherever you go there is alwaysdoing somethit there. this quote was in the book cats cradle, and it's a very funny exchange the main character has with a fellow traveler on a plane, and a fellow traveler. so next we have possibly his most famous piece of artwork, the sphincter. vonnegut in his humor, he associated the asterisk with his anatomical feature. and we actually had used this asterisk in other pieces of art, including our timeline which you may have thought had stars in the sky. but they are actually vonnegut's asterisks in the sky. we also have life is no w

tu if i can ben amor is at columbia university and malika zeghal is at harvard. alan riding is here, he was the european cultural correspondent for the "new york times" for 12 years. previously he served as the "times" bureau chief in paris, madrid, rio de janeiro and mexico city. his new book is called "and the show went on: cultural life in nazi-occupied paris." i am pleased to have him on this program for the first time. welcome what did you finally conclude about how you define collaboration and how you define resistance? >> well, in the world of culture it was very difficult in a sense to resist. you have the choice of saying "i will do nothing. i will not publish, i will not perform, i will not create, i will simply boycott" shall we say. the problem was that a lot of people unless you were lucky you have no leave the country and continue working a lot of... surrealists came to new york, many of them, and they were able to continue somewhat here. but unless you were able to get out of the country you actually had to work. in many cases faurp dancer or a vio

paul lives on long island and commutes daily to manhattan, where he works at columbia university. paul learned he had usher syndrome while attending college when he was 19 years old. at this point in his life, he has only a pinhole of vision left and uses a cane to assist him with travel. with usher syndrome, your vision is always changing, especially as you get older. some of these changes will have a significant impact on your life. i call these changes hits. for example, in your teen years, you start to experience night blindness where you lose the ability to travel independently or safely at nighttime. narrator: lauren is 13 and, like others with usher syndrome, is experiencing early night blindness. often, this is exhibited by a child tripping or bumping into things or, in general, being viewed as clumsy. i did notice that what i thought was her balance wasn't where it should be and that she seemed to be having some trouble seeing peripherally, but what was happening again now is, the ophthalmologists, too, were not seeing what i was seeing and basically were just telling me,

siddhartha mukherjee is a cancer physician at the columbia university medical center and an assistant professor of medicine at columbia. his text on cancer has become one of the most talked about books on the subject in recent memory. the "new york times" best-seller is called, "the emporer of all maladies," a biography of cancer. dr. mukherjee, thank you for your work and an honor to have you. >> thank you for having me. tavis: i look forward to the day when your work will be irrelevant, upnecessary. >> i do, too. i tell people i want to be out of a job. tavis: that won't happen any time soon, though, unfortunately. >> unfortunately. tavis: why not? >> because cancer is many diseases and we're just beginning to understand what drives this family of diseases, and the second reason is that for many forms of cancer, the problem lies in the vulnerability of our cells. even in an ideal world we get rid of every known carcinogen, there would still be prevalence of cancer driven by accidental causes inside each one of our cells. tavis: when we say we're fighting cancer, we're fighting ourse

he is the professor of arab studies at columbia university. joining me by phone from tel aviv is aluf benn. a columnist in and editor at large at the israeli newspaper "ha'aretz." i'm pleased to have both of them back on this program. rashid, i begin with you. this... i just did a conversation down in washington with the former foreign minister zippy livni of israel and the prime minister of the palestinian authority. he has said that he's building up from the ground palestinian not idea but presence with institutions of government. so that by september of this year they will seek to establish a palestinian state and then go about the process of the negotiations over the specifics of borders. right of return. east jerusalem. what do you think of this idea? >> well, palestinian statehood is 62 years overdue. it should have happened at the time of the partition plan. a jewish state, an arab state. it's 44 years since the west bank and the gaza and jerusalem were occupied and we're still waiting for a peace process that is going absolutely nowher

it's one of the pleasures of being a columbia university is you get to be colleagues with the people who are essentially creating the discourse on the subject, rather than just sort of discussing the work of the people creating discourse. so here we have two brooks, books published this year. let me switch them. network nation by richard john of our faculty and master switch by tim wu of columbia law school factory. they run kind of somewhat related subjects, so another ways they're quite different books. and we're hoping that will get the two authors to disagree somewhat to make the evening more entertaining. i would say though, they agree about a few things. we'll try this out on umc if you agree about these things. they agree that neither is a technological determinant. that is in the general conversation about the internet in particular and telecommunications in general is a sense of, this telephone was invented in everything just natural frozen not. proof i'm a big internet is invented everything closer now. both authors in different ways would argue quite forcefully that the on

it's one of the pleasures of being at columbia university is you get to be be colleagues with people who are essentially creating the discourse on a subject rather than just sort of discussing the work of the people creating the discourse. so here we have two books both published this year, i should switch them. "network nation" by richard john of our faculty, and "the master switch," by tim wu of the columbia law school faculty. they're on kind of somewhat related subjects, although in other ways they're quite different books. and we're hoping that we'll get the two authors to disagree somewhat to make the evening more entertaining. i would say, though, they agree about a few things. i'll try this out on you and see if you agree that you agree about these things. they agree that neither is a technological determinant, that is in the general conversation about the internet in lahr and telecommunications in general -- in particular and tell communuations in general is a sense of, poof, the telephone is invented and everything flows from that, poof, the internet is invebted, and everyt

and the researchers at columbia university studied more than 700,000 pairs of siblings from californiaand one possible explanation is that following a pregnancy, women are more likely to have lower nutrient levels and higher stress levels. >>> all right, that's it for us at noon. coming up at 5:00 tonight, we're keeping an eye on a deadly crop duster plane crash in the delta.

columbia university research say that was true no matter the parents' age.hey say more study is needed for a birth spacing link. it accounts for 18% of births, a rising percentage due to mothers delays child birth. >> gas prices are taking another significant jump over the past three weeks. gas prices shown up an average of 9 cents a gallon to $3.08 nationwide. there is another change. the highest price in the country is no longer found in san francisco. chicago has the highest price at $3:35 a gallon. the lowest price, salt lake city where unleaded is just $2.73. >> verizon will announce tomorrow a version of the i-phone that's compatible with the cellphone system. steve jobs will attends an invitation only event in new york to unveil the long-awaited verizon compatible i-phone. verizon will go on sale thursday february 3rd. until now as you know the i-phone has been exclusive to at&t. users have complained about faulty at&t coverage especially large cities like san francisco. >> tablet computers were the big hit of the just-ended consumer electronics show

. >> rose: also columbia university professor tim we looks at technology companies. his book is called "the master switch." >> radio in the '20s, it was... anyone could have radio stations very normal. anymore the 1910s. so these industries, once there's this new invention tend to go through these incredible exciting open periods. this internet had the same thing this the last 20 years. we've had 20 years of anyone starts a company, becomes a megamillionaire. but what history shows is over time eventually what was once the young, exciting new media becomes increasingly consolidated, increasingly closed, dominated by monopolists or ole g.o.p.ly and the question is whether there's happening again. >> rose: we conclude with pulitzer prize winning biographer edmund morris. his third book at teddy rood veldt is called "colonel roosevelt." >> power became him, adulation became him, he loved celebrity. but he did even at that height of fame want to spend the rest of his life as a literary gentleman and retire to sag her hill. and the pathos, the tragedy of which i speak, of

he's glenn hubbard, dean at columbia university's graduate school of business and former chairman of the council of economic advisers under president george w. bush. >> last week, the u.s. house of representatives voted to repeal the patient protection and affordable care act, signed into law by president obama last march. given the president's strong defense of the health care law, the house action is theater, right? not necessarily. many economists have voiced concerns that the law will increase the nation's already runaway spending on health care, and will raise health insurance premiums for the typical family plan by about 10%. while the new law emphasized coverage, it largely ignored costs. and high and rising costs reduce coverage and health cares value for insured households. from a budget perspective, the congressional budget office estimates that the law's new health care entitlements will raise federal health care spending by $1 trillion over the next ten years. next time, the house could start by replacing the act with rules that will allow market incentives to demonstrate

you and columbia university were made public however columbia has since reversed their position but is this kind of intimidation and that's what it really is intimidation is that really the best way to go about this is asking people to close their eyes and pretend that the leak never happened really what america is resorting to well joining me to discuss it is christopher chambers georgetown university professor and author of the blog turns revenge chris thanks so much. being here but it just seems absolutely absurd to me and tell me if you think it's crazy idea that i think that the new york times actually probably put it the best way when they are referring to the obama administration telling federal workers that they can't look at them is shutting the barn door after the horse has left i mean these documents they've been leaked there are it is published online in every major newspaper it's silly i mean first of all i mean it's one of these weird issues where academic freedom civil liberties and journalism all seem to intersect in a year ago when you were interviewing julian assigns

i'm at york presbyterian at columbia university. ways now of being able to change them. i love surgery. you know, this is fun being across the hall from you, but there's something unique when you look somebody in the eyes and you say, "we're going to do something together. and i'm going to trust you to help me do this and i'm going to, you know, be here for you the entire time. and we'll make this happen." it's so real, so vivid, so soulful. i'd never give that up. >> jimmy: really? so you just got to get back in there. how many times do you do it? once a week? >> once a week, on thursdays. i leave you alone on thursdays. >> jimmy: man, oh, man, that's amazing. that's so cool that you do that. you're also doing a really cool thing. it's the 11 weeks to move it and lose it program. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's a weight loss thing that you're doing with your show, which i think is really cool, because it's free. >> let me talk about this for a second. we actually had 11 million page views at the beginning of the week already on this progra

your sister is studying at columbia university in new york city.n, like, the 1930's, '40s? >> my sister was the first... my eldest sister was the first student that went to america because of the japanese compensation. that money, you know. before my sister's generation, when you went to... chinese are regarded as either coolies or laundrymen. she was the first generation... you know, there is a joke, "knock, knock, there is a chinaman, no laundry tonight." "knock, knock." my sister's generation, "knock, knock, there is a chinese. are you doctor so-and-so?" so there is this joke, you know? >> hinojosa: but i want to take you to... because, you know, your life, again, it's an extraordinary drama. but part of the drama is that you leave, you and your brothers and sisters, you leave, and your mom and dad stay in china. and then china goes under the process of a revolution, and your parents are still there. your dad is still a huge star. but then the cultural revolution happens in 1966. you're already living on this side. and this is the part that's ex

a former faculty member at harvard and columbia university and the u.s. naval academy. the author of 11 previous books. the current one, which we are going to discuss tonight is called the frugal superpower -- "the frugal superpower". let's start with the first part of this title because it tells us two things. one is that we will not be without power altogether. we will have a pretty important role. but then the front part of it does not normally go with superpower, at least not in our history, as michael points out in his book. we get very used to spending whatever money it took to have the position that we had in the liabilities, the debt that we are all carrying out and the wars that we have fought and so on. but there are also some new liabilities coming forth. what caught my eye to a great extent was the retiring baby boomers place of a not insignificant role in your analysis. >> that is right, jim. thanks for having me on the stage with you again. it is always a pleasure. thanks to nyu for playing host to this event. the government already has a very substantial

this is born out in the study done by the harvard group and the columbia university legal team which showed that physicians in all residencies are just discouraged, number one, to be doctors. 28% regretted choosing medicine as a career, and that 81% viewed every patient they encountered as a potential lawsuit. i think this is a terrible state of affairs, so there's no question that the younger generation is profoundly affected in the career choices and practice locations. the context in which they practice. in other words, whasht they cut down their skill set to and what they offer their community in which they live. >> they can spend a lot of years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive a license to practice medicine, and the cost then of liability insurance and the risk if they have to make a claim against that insurance or more than one claim against that insurance to their future as a physician, what is that risk? >> i think the issue here is there are plenty of people that need good, medical care that aren't necessarily high risk. if you feel you can have a satisfactory

given to us by the "new york times," was taken after the gulf war, and there's vonnegut at columbia university, and, you know, i'm sure it was a long crowd and to his dying day, he attracted a large crowd. i have been told he was like a rock star coming into his different speeches in large auditoriums, always filling the auditoriums. here we are in the art gallery of portion of the library. i want to show you a vonnegut float that's signed and given to us by his artistic collaborate tore. i don't know what it is about hoosiers, but wherever you go there's always a hoosiers doing something very important there. this was from cat's cradle, and it was an important exchange that the character has with a fellow controversialer on a plane, and that fellow traveler gives this quote. next, we have possibly his most famous piece of artwork. vonnegut in his humor, he associated the asterisk with his future. we actually have used this asterisk in other pieces of our exhibits including our timeline, which you may have thought had stars in the sky, but they are actually vonnegut's asterisks in the sky. we

i'm a columbia university graduate. you know, i'm smart, i should be able to completely stand on my own two feet without my mother. >> narrator: ... at this stage of the game. >> still... i mean, i'm almost 40 years old-- why should my mother have to give me money? so, this is just... it's embarrassing. i can't even believe i'm admitting to it. >> yeah, that's the problem. >> it's so embarrassing. >> narrator: emma says she is now going back to business school in the hope that the new skills will help their small company. >> my mom still is in this illusion that she thinks i'm going back to school so that i could get a job, like get a real job kind of thing, like work for a company. and she's always talking about, "yes, you could get all the benefits." >> narrator: she doesn't realize? >> she doesn't... yeah, i think she's still... you know, she's still maybe of that mindset, the generation where you work for a company... she was working for a large... very large company and... >> yeah, my mother worked for a very large

this is born out in the study done by the harvard group and the columbia university legal team which showed that physicians in all residencies are just discouraged, number one, to be doctors. 28% regretted choosing medicine as a career, and that 81% viewed every patient they encountered as a potential lawsuit. i think this is a terrible state of affairs, so there's no question that the younger generation is profoundly affected in the career choices and practice locations. the context in which they practice. in other words, whasht they cut down their skill set to and what they offer their community in which they live. >> they can spend a lot of years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive a license to practice medicine, and the cost then of liability insurance and the risk if they have to make a claim against that insurance or more than one claim against that insurance to their future as a physician, what is that risk? >> i think the issue here is there are plenty of people that need ood, medical care that aren't necessarily high risk. if you feel you can have a satisfactory

he's an oncologist and cancer researcher at the columbia university medical center in new york city. in a new book called the emperor of all maladies, he writes a history of cancer. he tells the stories of people he's treated and those of leading researchers who dedicated their lives to a disease for which the doctor thinks may never hve a complete cure. we sat down with him recently in his lab. first of all, thanks very much for being with us today. >> thank you for having me. >> reporter: so why did you decide to write a book about the history of cancer? >> well, i really decided to write the book and started writing the book when i was in training in cancer medicine. i wrote the book really to answer a question that was raised by a patient. this was a woman whom i was treating for abdominal cancer. she at one point in time during her therapy, she said i'm willing to go on with what i'm battling but i need to know what it is. i need to know its history. she was not the only person. this question kept on coming over and over again in different forms. and the book is an attempt to an

undergraduate work at colgate university in upstate new york, and i'm pursuing my doctorate at columbia university. c-span: skipping the master's? guest: i actually have two master's degrees as part of the ph.d. program. c-span: and what are those in? guest: they are an ma and an mfel in international relations. c-span: when was the first time that you had any contact with richard nixon? guest: actually, i can get into how i originally wrote the letter to him. i was a junior at colgate and i was majoring in political science, and i was enrolled in a course on national security and foreign policy affairs. and that was taught by a very good, very conservative professor, and i consulted with this professor because i thought that i wanted to enter that area upon my graduation. so as i prepared to leave campus between my junior and senior years, he gave me several books to read, one of which was nixon's "1999: victory without war." and that book had such a tremendous impact on my thinking about very crucial foreign policy issues that i sat down and i wrote nixon a letter dealing with the issues that he

oral history of walter sachs, the son of samuel and i also went to the archives at boston university at columbia and learned a lot of information from that. it is an interesting and quite different story than the one i have told. does that answer your question? >> sorts of. [laughter] >> if there is no more questions we will acknowledge something that happened. in june has donated her book to the rotary club at our private library and i have a presentation. what of the things that the rotary does is to eliminate polio in the world and our polio plus program collects funds and we have been instrumental to eliminating polio from all of the country is in the world except for small countries we are still working on but in recognition of your speech today we will make a donation to the polio plus programs and here is a clap to commemorate. [applause] >> very special. thing keogh teeeleven. to find out more . . . rusco i have very clear sense of the pain we can inflict on another as human beings, but i also know that that is not the essence of our being and that we respond with what is horrific becaus

. >> >> , columbia university host a national leadership meeting for the "no labels" organization.ether americans of all political affiliations and immobilizes citizens against hyper-partisanship. the group plans to expand into all 435 congressional districts in 2011. in this session, speakers include newark, new jersey mayor corey brooks. one hour. r general david walker. this is one hour. >> >>

next, columbia university post a national leadership meeting for the no labels organization. the group is in new grass-roots movement that brings together leaders from many organizations. the official launch date occurred at this meeting and the group plans to expand into more districts in 2011. in this session speakers include newark, new jersey mayor corey booker, walker. this is one hour. david walker. this is one hour. >> i am started a movement with seven women and a tax machine -- and a fax machine. i amere, of course, because we are focusing on getting women into leadership in america. we would be able to do a lot more of the things we have been talking about if we have women who can work across these labels. that is why they are here. [applause] we have paid a lot of attention to this political area. in the last five years, we have been focused on that. we have been able to get 10,000 women to get into politics. they are out there and ready to go. this is the generation that could change this culture. half of this women are women of -- half of these women are women of

i spoke with columbia university few days ago and she discussed one of the difficulties in the culturein the drive over ambition about safety kamenetz is a very much "get this done agency -- nasa it is very much a "get this done agency." some early warnings were ignored. this happened in the challenger explosion. by the time columbia happened again, let the same concerns were raised that the culture had come back. i will not say it launched at all costs, but maybe perhaps to that listening to some of the safety concerns. nasa is trying to balance that with trying to find a rocket that will work cheaply and effectively. host: whether the future of manned space flight by nasa, particularly the wrote two weeks ago about the constellation program. nasa might waste $215 billion on cancelled programs. this was the headline in "the orlando sentinel." guest: not to sound like chicken little, but nasa may be facing its most of the go time in its history right now. they're looking to return the space shuttle by the end of this year. it has maybe two or three more missions depending on funding. i

history of walter sachs who was a son of samuel sachs and i also went to the archives at austin university in columbia and gleaned a lot of information from that. it is an interesting though quite different story than the one i have told. does that answer your question? sort of? anybody else? >> if there are no more questions then let me do a something here and acknowledge something to katherine. june has donated a book, her book, to the rotary club in our private library for rotary, and i have a little presentation. one of the things that polio -- good rotary does is try to eliminate polio in the world and our polio plus program collects funds. we had been instrumental in eliminating polio from all the countries in the world except about four. there are four countries we are still working on but in recognition of your speech today we are going to make a donation to the polio plus program and here is a little plaque to commemorate. >> very special. thank you area much. [applause] >> "the mendacity of hope" was published by palgrave million. to find out more visit u.s. macmillan.com. >> we are here the

and i also went the archives at boston university in columbia and gleaned a lot of information from that. it's an interesting, an interesting, though quite different story than the one i've told. does that answer your question? sort of? [laughter] if i left something out, you let me know. anybody else? >> okay. if there's no more questions, let me do a little something here and acknowledge something that happened. and june has donated a book, her book, to rotary club to go in our private library for rotary. and i have a little presentation. one of the things that polio -- that polio, that rotary does is try to eliminate pole row in the world -- polio in the world. and our polio plus program collects funds. we've been instrumental in eliminating polio from all the countries in the world except about four. there's four country we're still the working on. but in recognition of your speech today, we're going to make a donation to the polio plus program, and here's a little plaque to commemorate. >> oh, very special. thank you so much. [applause] >> when money was in fashion was published by

i spoke with columbia university few days ago and she discussed one of the difficulties in the culture. in the drive over ambition about safety kamenetz is a very much "get this done agency -- nasa it is very much a "get this done agency." some early warnings were ignored. this happened in the challenger explosion. by the time columbia happened again, let the same concerns were raised that the culture had come back. i will not say it launched at all costs, but maybe perhaps to that listening to some of the safety concerns. nasa is trying to balance that with trying to find a rocket that will work cheaply and effectively. host: whether the future of manned space flight by nasa, particularly the wrote two weeks ago about the constellation program. nasa might waste $215 billion on cancelled programs. this was the headline in "the orlando sentinel." guest: not to sound like chicken little, but nasa may be facing its most of the go time in its history right now. they're looking to return the space shuttle by the end of this year. it has maybe two or three more missions depending on funding.

policy advisory board of harvard, university, for directly and university, for that he holds a graduate degree in urban planning from columbia and the university of pennsylvania and architecture degree from hamilton university. so, welcome. this ought to be fun and interesting cattle. we are going to let the panelists get started but you'll have been sitting through this and you know like i know the president talks a lot about the deficit is of the main pillars of his planned and the other night the seat of the year did address. we saw the response from the republican party based on devotee of the response from the tea party, to the republican party based on the same thing. it's interesting to listen to everyone go back and forth about these because we all know that we have dug ourselves into a whole. we all know that the last really the eight years starting from 2000 but the wind up until now president obama inherited the trajectory we are on the we've gotten ourselves in a hole that is going to require all of us to do things we don't like to get out of. the latter is what are our values and priorities, who is it that is go