what does science tell us about our place in the cosmos? where do we fit in to the universe? in the first of a two-part series, we'll ask the authors of the view from the center of the universe, dr. joel primack and nancy ellen abrahams. colicated. intimidating. something otr people get too. but once you take the first step. you'll find there's nothing standing in your way. metlife. i can do this. >>> welcome to both of you. pleasure to see you. >> thank you. >> your book, the view from the center of the universe, the subtitle is, discovering our extraordinariy place in the cosmos, is a tour of the universe. it's ambitious and i think it's fulfilled. and it's great to have you here. >> delighted to be here. thank you very having us. >> the assumptions are that we know a lot more about the universe today than we did a couple decades ago. and that's true because of clos copy, correct? >> correct. >> we have the hubble, what are the other telescopes that enlighten us about the universe? >> there are a number of major observatories in space. in particular, there are two other gre

is certainly there but we'll have to see just how successful they can be ambitious plans for ross cosmos they're looking to put behind them the disappointments of the past eighteen months where we saw several key missions fail they want to put behind them they want to go out and reach for the stars but here is certainly far there's come to fruition they'll be a breakthrough thanks very much indeed for bringing us this here all are there. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world israel and palestinian militants have agreed a ceasefire after four days of deadly violence it was me eight of by cairo at least twenty five gazans have been killed and thirty five israelis wonder by rocket attacks the fighting was sparked by israel killing a high ranking palestinian militant leader last week gaza's have kept out of this firing which involved militant splinter groups that means a truce between israel and hamas is likely to be affected. a mom has been killed in a blaze at a shia mosque near brussels the building was attacked with a petrol bomb and the man died of smoke inha

on the program peter hello to you certainly sounding like an ambitious project well it is indeed cosmos the russian space agency laying out there their plan for the next eighteen years will take us up to the twenty thirty now we're going to see unmanned unmanned network of research facilities on the surface of mars now there will be there to gather as much information as they can and send it back to here to earth hopefully being one of the first steps towards. being able to set up a place on mars now what we saw leading the way in martian exploration with the the mars five hundred project they said that was a step towards the first step perhaps the establishment of a network of their facilities on the surface really is that the two next step to being able to explore the red planet another will also be missions to venus and to jupiter and we're hearing that we could see a monday mission to the moon so all of this by the year twenty thirty it's certainly very ambitious but certainly very exciting projects so peter what about the current missions though how do they actually fit into this n

but insistd that in it's broken state could the cosmos belong to those who lives within. the goddess grown found the universe under board games in a closet. she did not give it to her children. she did not have it fixed by her husband instead slipping away now and then from her family she delighted in the haphazard way it ran. the release in her life. >> the next one is entitled. explanation. twisted tree branches explain exactly themselves. the next is called, a simple story. his love was too simple. if he met a woman who imagined what it would it be like to be her husband. he learned she was already attached. if she did interest in him he would bring her fresh oranges. she'd leave him certain that no man could love truly to such scant evidence. his evidence was not meager he was not trying to judge her. his love was too simple and he belonged to her simply if her love was as simple as his. immigration. their final night together before she had to go back home, she clung to him as if he were a mighty sclif and between them and morning was an awful abyss. as they slept th

and specifically stocks like cosmo oil and nippon oil and other energy-related stocks. that's going to be a big story. the currency markets, as i said we're seeing a bit of shift into the yen. although not a massive move after the housing data in the u.s. and some growth concerns in china. and also following the trade surplus numbers we just had before the markts open here today. but you can see there euro/yen 110.09-14. dollar/yen 83.28-33. also commodity backed currencies such as the australian dollar have seen some assets shift out of those and into the dollar and the yen. and also following last month's bank of japan inflation goal which investors say may still keep the yen on a somewhat weakening trend. we'll keep track of that throughout the day. >> and ramin, more data expected out of the united states later today. >> yeah. definitely, again a focus on jobs. we have the weekly jobless claims numbers. and we have leading indicators. so we'll see that. a lot of expectations are for strong numbers coming out of the u.s. if they're not as strong as many economists ha

a blue that hums deeply a harmony of ferm ment denying stars shining inside the cosmos. forever blue where life dies and is reborn. an eternal blue that exists above the storm. a blue that doesn't suffer discord that would smile if it had a mouth. embrace if it was armed. comfort if it grew heart. instead it arcs a concert of blues hovering over the earth in an endless ocean of impossible quiet. thick with blue beyond blue. a blue that disappears when clutched in the fist, a blue invisible and solid. thank you very much. [applause] >> please, welcome camill. >> that was a great reading and you changed up my play list. >> start with a poem i read after i learned that the rate of valum prescriptions in baghdad sky rocketed after the u.s. entry into that space. the title of the poem and it is the words the probably roost which is bitter. biting, cutting, sharp. bitan. once, she was a fearest dark girl who's tongue skipped top of meeting. teeth, teeth top of mouth like double dutch with the word that ment her thoughts cutting circles through the day. no chance she'd be the o

millions going right through my hand and these neutral particles are from the cosmos, most of them are neutrinos, little teeny, teeny particles with guess how much charge, called neutrino? none, okay? they're smaller than neutrons. and those neutrinos are flooding the universe. and these neutrinos are going right through, guess who? us. you guys, not me, but, no, all of us. these neutrinos are going right through and right out the other side without making a hit. you know why? do you ever get the feeling some days that, you know, i just don't feel like i feel like i'm nothing? i'm nothing. i think i'm just nothing. do you ever get that feeling? guess what? i got news for you. you are nothing. compared to the something, there's more nothing, because the atoms that make you up are mostly-- talk about being spongy-- and we're all sponges, hon. and most--the little particles make up... take 133 million tons. that's several city blocks. scrunch all those atoms up, 133 million tons, scrunch them up until all these things here cave into one another. you got the size of a pea. so take the size

what's scaring them, cosmo? i'm scaring them. oh, you scared them? make them so they're not scared? hendrick: it's very important to keep the families informed about all the thinking skills the children are using in order to reassure them the children are really learning something. woman: i see one right here. find another one. woman: so if we made a bigger cage, we'd have to make something with cracks in it so he'd get air? child: yep. hendrick: for example, the teacher should point out how the children are learning mathematics by measuring the rabbit's growth and estimating how big a cage he's going to need. woman: so what would you make this cage out of-- the top part? child: um, metal. thin pieces of metal. i had a parent last year. i had had her child for two years, and i would say, "come into the classroom," you know. and she said, "well, they just play all day, you know. why should i just come to see them play?" and i said, "well, you know, you should come in and actually see how they play. they take turns. they share. they're learning so many

pharaoh's power and authority as a king stretched far beyond the boundaries of his country-- and into the cosmos itself. after death, he would escape the earthly bounds of his tomb, board a solar boat and sail into immortality. this vision became material in objects and images found in the tombs and temples as a way of pre-ordaining a central id: after perilous and carefully prescribed journey through the night, the king would become one with the sun god re. the king becomes associated with re in particular because of the idea that the sun is born every day out of the womb of the sky, and then comes into the world and goes into the body of the sky at night. and the king in his cycle, in his daily comings and goings, is seen to be like the sun. (narrator) the idea that the pharaoh would be reborn as the sun god re is described in paintings and hieroglyphs in countless royal tombs. it runs like a spine through the theology and philosophy of egypt for more than two thousand years. a clear development begins in the old kingdom in the third millennium before christ. there, at the time of the pyramids

meanwhile, cosmo oil sharply lowered its quota when it renewed its contract with iran in january. to make up for the cuts the whole salers are boosting imports from saudi arabia, the you nated arab emirates and other oil producers. if the middle east situation worsens japan has about half a year's worth stock for domestic use which it plans to reduce to ease market jitters. >>> let's get a check on how stocks are trading with ramin mellegard who is at the tokyo stock exchange. good morning. tokyo had a day off yesterday while the u.s. saw some of these developments in the issue of sanctions on iran. >> ai, very good morning to you. as you said there, the markets were closed yesterday, tuesday, but let's have a look at the opening levels here this wednesday morning for the nikkei and the topix. now, as you said, we're going to keep track of oil related stocks especially after the u.s. said it's going to exempt japan and ten other countries from sanctions against iran. crude oil prices have also fallen. we did check wti, west texas intermediate crude prices were down about 2.3%, its

he is repressing the series "cosmos." he has a book, "space chronicles: facing the ultimate frontier". good to have you on the program. let me start by asking the obvious question, what is the ultimate frontier? >> it is space. space, the ultimate frontier. when people thought of the frontier, it was where you were living and there was some edge beyond which no one had explored. and it took us -- a special kind of person, not everyone has the urge to do it, a special subset of the community that said, i want to know what is on the other side of the frontier. it could be the other side of a cliff face, a mountain, or a valley, a hill. some people go out and explore, not all come back. not all of them survive to come back. yet those who do survive and get to tell those stories, those adventures become epic stories in the culture of those who supported those acts of discovery. this has gone on in the history of our species ever since people left the cave. the final frontier now that all of earth as mapped is space, the ultim

"cosmo girl" featured a section that advised readers how to swap cds, upload songs and share your movie with a friend. a magaziand of course, there's office ". >> have any of you ever faced any ethical dilemmas in the workplace? >> anybody? this is a chance for you to say something without any repercussions. stanley? oscar. anybody else? >> sometimes i download pirated music on to my work computer. >> who hasn't? >> good, good. what else? >> i'd like to hear more about that. >> around the same time congress passed the digital millennium copy right act. the dmca created an administrative effort to send take down notice to take down copy righted material. there was a process, though complicated and rarely used for those had material legislately to make that argument and have their content restored. isps must register a copy right agent and comply plooi with takedown notices. skipping ten years ahead to 2008 and 2009, we saw congress pass the higher education opportunity act already referenced. among the requirements for colleges and universities are two concerning peer-to-peer file sharin

and all sorts of guys especially here in moscow check this out states as you walk around the cosmos like a concept store and so remember opens in nov twenty seventh and you see bar area and south all in one tasting. the store promotes healthy living self appreciation style in every possible way and the concept caters for men the management team are too aware that male muscovites are becoming more aware of the visual ticking clock just footballers play station is classic surgery nip and tuck to facials and grooming a law it's all ok in the popularity there's no escape. to the beauty parlor now i'm not the last but i like to try out a treatment or two why not. have a professional shape before so i take the chance on my back. but if you cancel not to cut the skin there we go. to shave is now finished very nice smooth and smells great now it's time for the finishing place last. whenever you think the world of appalling peaceful weather a simple spark saw on the whole hospital operation some takes a beating in plastic surgery on both billion dollar industries that are growing every year and m

we are all becoming citizens of the cosmos, which is what úrue spirituality would be. >> smith: but as, when something aatomatically is open to criticism, and so where over the years this has gone from being a little bit outside in the center of the mainstream, peoppe dismiss it aa new age claptrap. grounded in any reality, and it sounds great, but it's not practical for the average persoo. >> chhpra: it is practical, úecause you know, we're also discovering that the very reductionist model of science, which is very if you have pneumonia you need an antibiotic, and if you break your leg, you know, i think orthopedic surgerr would help better than meditation, but when we're looking at the big issues of our time.you know,,3 obesity, hypertension, carrio.coronary arrery disease, cardiovascular disease in general, inflammation, which is the background in many cancers, then the reductionist approach is no longer tenable. >> smith: or, or no longer adequate all by tself. >> chopra: by itself, yes. >> smith: by itself. you need this aaso. >> chopra: yes. in fact, you know, the last three year

went beyond the mere creation of sound that pleases the ear to a model of the outer reaches of the cosmos, where the stars, the sun, and the planets were thought to dance in harmony to the beat of an inaudible "music of the spheres." today we know that this mathematics of sound goes far beyond sound waves. we've discovered that there are many different kinds of waves -- waves that vibrate in purely mathematical worlds and waves that surround us in our world, some which we can perceive directly, and others that we can only detect with technology the greeks never could have imagined -- all unified by mathematics. captions by lns captioning portland, oregon www.lnscaptioning.com >> for information about this and other annenberg media programs, call... and visit us at... i'll get that one. must be careful. well, that's a nice picture. come on, anna. ok. announcer: foreclosure doesn't affect just you. it affects your whole family, too. if you've fallen behind on your mortgage, we can help. call 1-888-995-hope. because nothing is worse than doing nothing.

cosmos the russian space agency laying out there their plan for the next eighteen years will take us up to the twenty thirty now we're going to see unmanned unmanned network of research facilities on the surface of mars now there will be there to to gather as much information as they can and send it back to here to earth hopefully being one of the first steps towards. mankind being able to set up a base on mars another will also be missions to venus and to jupiter and we're hearing that we could see a monday mission to the moon well as far as the current missions go what we're going to see is the international space station scrapped the i assess has been on the go since the late ninety's it has funding up until twenty twenty however well it is going to be an old piece of kit really buying up time and it will lead replacing now what they're looking to replace it with of course is brand new technology a next generation of spacecraft unmanned spacecraft that will be able to travel further and retrieve more data than anything we have the moment now all of this of course costs money and r

the cosmo girl featured an article on "your fabulous life" that advised readers how to share your copyrighted music with a friend and vice versa. that's right. one of the biggest creators of intellectual property in the world was teaching teens how to pirate music. of course, there's "the office." >> have any of you ever faced any ethical dilemmas in the workplace? >> anybody? >> this is a chance for you to say something without any repurr cushions. stanley oscar, come on. anybody else? yeah. >> sometimes i download pirated music on to my work computer. >> who hasn't. good. good. what else? >> i'd like to hear more about that. >> around the same time congress passed digital millennium con by right act. the dmca created an administrative method to take down notices to internet service providers hosting copyright material. although dmca has distractors, they abouted properly to avoid a glut of copyright cases that would clog courts all over the country. there was a process, albeit a complicated one, for those who had material legitimately to make that argument and have their content restored to

some people would embrace magic as a term that means to pray, to work with the cosmos. others still has that connotation of kind of funny stuff in las vegas, so you wouldn't want to do it there. so i'm glad you brought that up; it's's a good question. sure. >> tom, what is your idea about a supreme being, that one god? >> yes, yes, we believe in one higher power. we call it the great spirit, gichi-manidoo, we call it. other people call it god, jesus, but we believe in one higher power. >> let me just follow up on that because it's an interesting question. with christianity and all its various forms being the dominant religion in this culture, do you feel comfortable with the christian symbolism, with the idea of god or the idea of jesus, or do you feel that that takes away from native american spirituality? >> pertaining to me, you mean? >> or just a general - >> no. i believe everybody has a right to practice and speak their own religion. i believe in harmony for all of us. i believe there is one higher power up there. >> yeah, and with many different - depending on wh

it's as if the world has to move from original chaos to cosmos or harmony, and everything you do is part of that alliance with god. you can't do it alone - there has to be the god side. but it won't happen unless we do it. so with every deed we do, every observance, lighting a candle, observing myths, visiting the sick - we call those mitzvoth, or good deeds - is part of fulfilling that covenant and building the kingdom. >> you see - hear that, rites of passage, identity and relationship, and also that quest for unity. now the buddhist or the hindu might meditate, but here in the jewish context, it's that relational thing - god, man, and women working together in harmony, to try to bring forth this kind of unity. and there's always something about every religion that just stands out. and whereas, the hindus might create beautiful temples, and let's say the roman catholics might create these magnificent cathedrals, where the jew creates is with words. it's with words - it comes from the torah, it comes from study, it comes from a constant dialogue. and that makes sense to me, because that

they have been exploring the cosmos from their observatoriy in chile -- observatory in chile.hey have been on the search. >>> san francisco's composting program is now giving back to the community. >> a greater city and more caring city, is city that will be greener and healthier. >> the birds were singing at the farm education center as mayor ed lee announced the milestone. he said the program is now produced a million tons of material from waste. they delivers much of that material to the farms. they turn it into rich soil. >> so we are able to grow several tons of organic produce next to the freeway because we take care of the soil. >> they will hold a thank you event on saturday for residents. the great give away is at four san francisco locations too, find out more visit www.ktvu.com. >>> we have a crew on the crowned in richmond collections new information on the officer involved shooting. we will show you the new video we just obtained that shows one of the suspects being placed under arrest and men on bikes is responsible for a string of thefts in oakland that happened

. >> cosmo. >> the more you add it up. i see. >> you hit it again.ve hours and 48 minutes you'll be sober. it calculates. and the reason, you know, you're saying will kids do it, yes, they will, because it's a game. and you keep in mind how much you're drinking. >> one last app. >> this kept a guy alive under rubble in haiti for 55 hours. amazing app by the american heart association for free. it has every type of injury and what to do. bleeding, all of it. >> fantastic. >> a great product as well. >> big problem with spring break, date rape drugs. the drink safe technology has two test packs that test for it. you take a drop from your drink -- >> put it on? >> put it on each test pad. and if the pad turns to dark blue, your drink has been tampered with. you need to get to a hospital. >> how long does it take? >> immediate. immediately. >> all right. >> we just have about a minute for everything. >> so all of this, if you're on a road trip, there's a thing if you're fatigued, it goes on your dashboard, it wakes, tells you to pull over. american adven

pharaoh's power and authority as a king stretched far beyond the boundaries of his country-- and into the cosmos itself. after death, he would escape the earthly bounds of his tomb, board a solar boat and sail into immortality. this vision beme material in objects and images found in the tombs and temples as a way of pre-ordaining a central idea: after a perilous and carefully prescribed journey through the night, the king would become one with the sun god re. the king becomes associated with re in particular because of the idea that the sun is born every day out of the womb of the sky, and then comes into the world and goes into the body of the sky at night. and the king in his cycle, in his daily comings and goings, is seen to be like the sun. (narrator) the idea that the pharaoh would be reborn as the sun god re is described in paintings and hieroglyphs in countless royal tombs. it runs like a spine through the theology and philosophy of egypt for more than two thousand years. a clear development begins in the old kingdom in the third millennium before christ. there, at the time of the pyrami

and of course we get tons of models at cosmo coming in all day dropping their trousers.tten a couple before. if you haven't read the previous two, could you pick this one up and -- >> you can jump in now. >> good. >> what about "cosmopolitan" magazine and you, what do you think of that? >> i think it's great. >> you got a lot of that kind of stuff in it. >> we know we've got a lot of guy readers. >> do you? >> yes. >> what do guys want from your magazine? >> they tell us their number one goal for reading it is that they want to please women. they want to know what makes us tick, they don't get us and what can they do to please us. >> so give me a tip on how to please my wife when i get home. >> tell her she's gorgeous, which i'm sure you do. listen to her. seduce her. >> okay. >> do you do that stuff anyway? >> yeah. you saw the video! >> i know. that was a hot video. by the way, one of our facebook fans, sara was just telling me in the commercial break, said all she wanted was for josh t n turner to read her the phone book. >> as long as it's not the new york city phone

mask we have what's called god "d", also known as itzam 'na, which was a principal deity of the maya cosmos. he is coming out of the mouth of a bird which is probably the celestial bird. and as we move into the upper register, we have another complex scene. basically, we have two snakes, and into the mouth of the one that's facing up is descending the representation of keene or the sun. reflecting, i think, also that we are on the west side of the building, and therefore this is the side where the sun descends into darkness at the end of every day. keach: so far, all the imagery uncovered on the building has some kind of religious message. the king is telling his subjects that he has special access to the supernatural world of gods and revered ancestors. archaeologists believe religion and the control of religious symbols was a major source of royal power. but this power lacked coercive force, like the aztecs used, to back it up. maya royal power relied heavily on faith, a faith that needed constant reinforcement. one way in which maya kings reinforced their connection with the gods was thr

fold for "cosmo" and next a poster boy for goldman sachs. >> i hope you didn't get lost leaving cambridge again today. >> there you go. one trying to hit him for being a little bit of a star and embracing stardom which we do notice every now and again and this harvard/cambridge hit. >> the way that republicans win this, if you look at the numbers here, scott brown should lose. the way that republicans win is to say to those south democrats, socially conservative, very fiscally liberal but long-term democrats that are conservatives. he has to win those. you do it by saying from harvard. >> maine is one. it's complicated. we'll get to that later. let's talk about republicans having to deal with primary challenges. we talked about orrin hatch. he looks to be in better shape that he's prepared for this fight and his twin here is dick lugar. both came in in 1976. if they win, lugar gets to be senate president. if republicans get control -- >> because it's the bigger state? >> you know this stuff. if lugar obviously if only one wins and that stuff. this is for the most senior post inside the se

cosmo. hey, let me get your thoughts on corning, symbol glw?> guys who can't shoot straight and can't get a handle on their own business. i got to tell you, don't buy. i want to go to jesse in kansas. one of my higher picks. jesse. >> caller: rock chalk boo-yah, go k.u., jim. i have my sleeves rolled up in your honor right now. >> thank you very much. it's a very handsome and becoming look. go ahead. >> caller: what's your take on lynn energy? >> i like it. i like it. i think the stock has had 7% yield. it's safe and a really well run company. i want to go to jackie, oh, boy, show me state, kansas people. jackie from missouri. jackie. >> caller: hi, jim. can i get your take on intuitive surgical, isrg? thank you. >> absolutely. i think isrg is going -- i lost a lot. my brackets were destroyed by missouri, i just want to say. it's a very solid story. multi-year growth. i continue to believe in it. >> buy, buy, buy. >> i think it goes higher. let's go to sorry in missouri. it broke my heart, as it did to you. let's go to jay in texas. >> caller:

there is cosmo's among americans about this and that's why, you know, you see a brave person like paul ryan come out with a plan to try to turn this around and is a big fire fight that has a long way to play out that everything does depend on the answer to that eventually. >> my question is just one of the things you say the president's speak too much deutsch and the social media that we all live and. what do you suggest they do to scale back on that and would that then cut into transparency which is also an issue? >> that is a great question. it would take considerable discipline, the discipline of general eisenhower to say i am going to speak less. except remember the eisenhower modern presidents are the one who are the most popular all the way through office and coming out of office. only ronald reagan comes close to it and it's probably not an accident that he was not in our face every day in promising as the moon. said it would take on a year and a disciplined. the other thing and this is the challenge for conservatives, a thought experiment you could envision mitt romney winning

. >> we discovered the cosmo through you gals for which we're forever thankful. >> i don't know if that'swo minds." >> thank you. >> kristin davis, everybody. "of two minds" will debut on lifetime march 10th. >>> and coming up -- maya -- george, you can help me -- she's >>> could attachment parenting be the next wave in child care? if this author has anything to do the answer is the emphatic yes. in the new book "beyond the sling" she sat down with juju chang. welcome back. very controversial. >> very controversy '. she's always taken a very unglitzy approach. as parents we're all willing to make huge sacrifices for kids. here's what she does. she doesn't have birth, date night or schooling by any sense. but the most controversial of parenting seems the most sweet and cuddling. it was her dead-on portrayal of a young bette midler in the movie "beaches" that put her on the map. as a teenager, she starred in her own hit tv show. "blossom." then went to ucla and had a ph.d. in neuroscience. it's safe to say she's not your tippal tv star. mayhim and her husband are raising 6-year-old miles an