. >> that's what galileo saw when he made his first telescope, the four moons of jupiter. >> reporterthis, high on a plateau nearby, are constructing telescopes that will be able to probe deeper into space than ever before. before we can look around there is the matter of blood pressure and blood oxygen level tests. we are at 10,000 feet here and will soon be ascending to 16,500 feet, altitude sickness can kill you. the good news, we checked out okay. so what is this place? this is the base camp for the highest observatory ever built. a wonderland of technology. made so by the sophistication of state of the art radio telescopes which are built in europe, japan and north america. shipped here and then reassembled. look at that. i mean they're physically, right. >> rotating it. >> yeah. >> reporter: and then they literally are by hand, rotating it around. >> 15,000-pound dish. >> reporter: and here's what a do. space is filled with things we can't see, radio waves, microwaves and gamma rays. the dishes really are antennae that can pick up the signals from nearly the edge of the universi

i blame galileo. what a jagoff. (laughter) i mean, for centuries we had a perfectly good explanation for the order of the universe. bible says the sun goes around the earth making us the center of the universe you know what? everyone was happy! for them numb nuts over here get the telescope for christmas, using his precious critical thinking skills and suddenly the earth goes around the sun, blah blah blah, now we have lesbians. (laughter) but folks... (applause) i'm here to tell you now the texas g.o.p. is on to you, critical thinking skills. they know that you "have the purpose of challenging the students' fixed beliefs." and a good teacher's job is to maintain whatever fixed beliefs a student has when they enter first grade. (laughter) frankly, folks, i am embarrassed that we conservatives did not think of this sooner! we are fighting a culture war here and we've been thinking too small. sure we've discredited the liberal activism of the '60s and the socialist policies of the new deal and wilsonian progressivism

i of the founding teacher of the galileo health academy. the year 2000 i started doing out of reach to the hospitals, trying to find some way of connecting student learning and with jobs and a community of. every place i went declined any partnership. the person in charge of volunteer services stepped up and said we would like to try to do something with you. we have been sending classes to the department every week, and it has grown to a two cloud flows every week year-ago we ha

it goes back to galileo again. 500 years ago or so, he put together a couple telescopes and said, guesshe earth is not the center of the universe. there is still a lot of things to learn out there. >> why do i feel like you're trying to sell me a telescope? i envy all the places you get to go. there is much more of harry's travels along way taste of what all this might reveal about our universe, and we have placed it on our website, landlocked as it is here on earth. >>> up next here this evening, do we really need to hear this? how it is that tennis turned from a quiet, sedate sport into a festival of grunting, and is it part of the game for good? >>> this is the high season for tennis people, the folks who like playing it and the fans who like watching it on tv. and watching it with the sound up is an entirely different experience than it was just a generation ago. it's because of grunting, that guttural, primal grunting as if the athlete is involved in a life or death struggle when, in fact, they're just swinging an incredibly lightweight racket as an oncoming, fuzzy ball. it's hard

true and why why they do you know it's a bit like the roman catholic church and their argument with galileo knowledge is bad for those who greedily want to hang on to power you know there's one man on earth now nelson mandela extraordinary he spent years and years in prison being deeply deeply persecuted he comes free he develops a situation where he becomes president of south africa then after his term is up he relinquishes power it's impossible isn't it almost now in the world. we think you know countries in south america as well as russia for people to be able to be profound enough to be mature enough to give up power. maybe that's where we ought to organize if we are going to continue notions of democracy to try and proselytize that essential truth so when somebody says power to the people he should meet education i think that you know it's an old old argument and it was talked about by rousseau and pascal you know before the french revolution but again you know you got to have to find out because in a sense that all maybe education is subjective anyway so if you're going to have an edu

. >> eliot: talk about--it's as though galileo said i'm wrong the earth is the center of the universeisavowed everything that he stood for for his entire career. >> casually. it reminded me when they said, yeah, i saw a flaw in my banking. he created the citigroup merger before it was legal. they ended up having to have an act of congress. >> eliot: people forget the citigroup travelers merger was done and by the way we'll get congress to pass a law to permit it. what we're doing now is i illegal but we own congress and they did what they were asked to do. >> eliot: you're the lawyer here, there was an exception saying that you're allowed to temporarily do this until we get the entire congress make this merger legal. it's an extraordinary circumstance where we change the entire landscape of the american financial system to make this merger legal. then a decade and a half later he said, we shouldn't this. >> eliot: oops, my bad shocking absolutely remarkable. you're the banking guru, but i want to talk politics for the seconds that we have left. what does it do for mitt romney who is d

producer put the research in -- >> bob: more evidence than galileo had. >> greg: right, right. >> dana remember is people who are caring for children and they don't have air conditioning, children can suffer. if you have an elderly neighbor or you know somebody, it's important to check on them. their bodies aren't able to deal with it as much. >> bob: great point. a number of people who die in heat waves are eld he elderly. 15 deaths associated with the storms in the east. coming up, bizarre and i mean bizarre details emerging about tom cruise and katie holmes marriage after the announcement they're getting divorced. details next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: katie holmes filed for divorce on friday from tom cruise. some media outlets are reporting on five-year marriage contract. what do you make of this? >> dana: i have no idea. there is this rumor of this contract you come and be married to tom cruise you will get $3 million a year for five years. people that are i guess in the know say it's not true. it is just sort of curious this is the third marriage. when they're 33 and they no longer w

gets a chapter and they talk about the authors write about the most famous ones, leonardo luther galileotc. but they have also chosen lesser likes, people who lived in compared up with security and personified their reawakening that is the renaissance. in each separate chapter there is a biography of one person and there are one or two illustrations of the person, painting a drawing or something from a book. there is a bibliography that provides suggestions for further reading. there are many different reasons why we chose this profession but it's a pretty safe bet that we all like to read. the paradigm for us is the book. author martin lang is a historian of the book. his expertise is the processes by which words are written and transmitted in a blaze of civilization ever guarded and abuse that transmission. for two and a half millennia he managed to have used the book and a manuscript or printed form to record, administer worship and educate he says. the book is more than a useful gadget. christianity, judaism and islam are centered around sacred books. governments derive power from wr