keach: of all the species on earth, only humankind can learn from the past.lessons for the future will come from our voyage through time ? will our new perspective on planet earth convince us at last that all human societies and all human actions are forever intertwined ? the view from above is sobering. stains from topsoil bleeding from the hills of madagascar color the indian ocean. plumes of smoke billow from man-made fires in mozambique. perhaps it is but the scale of our impact on earth that has changed. perhaps we have yet to learn that out of the past the mistakes of our ancestors do echo into the future. and if we listen closely, we may know they are speaking to us all. [ thunder ] captions by captionamerica, pittsburgh, pa. funding for this program was provided by...

humankind's ancient desire and capacity to exploit and make property of its fellow human beings. if we could have the pictures there. i brought a photo. this guy is so handsome, i figure it enhances my chances to finish at least fifth -- or fourth. i don't know if lee is going to show up today or not. and i know lee was i an gorgeous guy, too. but check him out. my subject, of course, is frederick douglass. he was born frederick augustus washington bailey on the holme hill farm along the tuckahoe river in talbot county on maryland's eastern shore in february 1818. a little more on that background in just a moment. in this year 1862, frederick douglass resides in rochester, new york, where he moved in 1847 after his return from a more than two-year sojourn in great britain. where he moved in part for security and safety for himself and his family, even though at that point, his legal freedom was purchased that very year by his british friends. he would no longer have to live as a fugitive slave. but rochester was to a degree an enclave of anti-slavery neighbors. he is in at this p

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based energy to a knowledge based energy like fusion we can begin a whole new set civilization for humankind our machine fits in a garage sized space and an actual generator could just sit in the neighborhoods garage or near the high voltage transmission system and the power in one thousand homes some would call this utopia the jersey scientists say the key problem is money huge and research seems to be funded by the government through nots up until a decade ago when investments were terminated the scientists say it's because their technology could put oil and gas companies out of business certainly there's a lot of suspicion in the fusion community. you know the government simply isn't funding this because there's too much interest in keeping the price of oil and gas and when and how are we going to make it happen is the question of politics and investments and right now no it isn't best thing it is because wars are more profitable as its oil wealth skepticism over man made fusion is widespread. in this group insists it's cracking the political not not the scientific one that is the main ch

here is a vision of one planet and one family of humankind. but the view from earth reminds us of a common human dilemma, the rise and fall of our many ways of life. here, among the ruins of ancient civilizations, archaeologists are retracing the steps in a long and shared human odyssey. across two worlds, the old and the new, they are discovering the independent spark of the human genius, the many times and places that we have created grand civilizations. ancient egypt. as early as the 18th century, scholars came here to marvel at and study the great relics of the ancient sun kings. laboring among the pyramids and temples of this old-world civilization, early archaeologists speculated that complex civilizations were created in the near east to spread far and wide. they thought the greek city states, the roman empire, and all the civilizations that followed were the inheritors of a single act of creation. but discoveries in the new world would provide a stunning challenge to this myopic vision of human history. in 1839, in the jungles of mesoa

the ability to learn things is the cheapest it has ever been in the history of humankind. >> that havein its profound contrast to the price that we're charging people to get quote an education. and so i think as people realize the distinction between the incredible ease with which we can learn and organize and solve problems, which is why we want people to have an education, and recognize that we have special interests in our government that be lobbying for tax subsidies for for profit colleges and non-profit colleges which benefit those institutions' profitability but do not provide learning and as you realize the entire system is set up for prestige which is money and then for tax subsidies, not for learning and you realize there's an entirely other universe of human beings working in the school you are at, in the schools you've been to, we've all been to schools where people's focus is learning and we invest more of our time in that. we'll spend less of our time with this nonsense and take advantage of the fact that these really expensive educations are going to render themselves ob

they are certainly religious scholars would argue and of course religious systems are created by humankind and oftentimes serve the entries not so much a religious tenet, but for those who run them as history in the catholic church as a producer did one. what about this sort of critics who would say, well, religion itself for institutional religion to quote the theologian inherently demonic including the church and oftentimes religious institutions serve as much as an adamant towards the capacity for transcendence or transformation, that the religious impulse that those journeys to describe articulates an audit audit the nonrational forces in life, beauty, grief, struggle for mortality all the things you've written about, that one has to make a sharp distinction between the institution and the religious impulse and in many cases may cover the war in yugoslavia, the religious institutions signed on for the crusades of ethnic cleansing knowing that they gave a kind of sacred authority to murder. >> guest: and anyway to underplay we have to accept the institutions can make things possible but

were certainly religious scholars who would argue and of course religious systems are created by humankind and often times serve the interests not so much of religious tenants, the fregosi ran them, the history of the catholic church is a pretty sordid one. what about those sort of critics who say, well, religion itself for institutional religion to quote the theologian inherently demonic including the church and oftentimes religious institutions serve as natchez and adamant towards the capacity for transcendence or transformation, that the religious impulse that goes your names to describe articulate an honor to nonrational forces in life, beauty, grace, struggle for own mortality, all the things you've written about, that one has to make a very sharp distinction between the institutions and the religious impulse. and in many cases and i covered the war in yugoslavia, the religious institutions signed on for the crusades of ethnic cleansing. they gave a kind of sacred authority. >> work, without wishing in any way to underplay the terrible role of institutions, we also have to accept inst

. >> never before in the history of humankind has it been possible for one person to rob 100 million people. >> reporter: nor has it been possible, says goodman, for anyone to hack into personal medical devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps connected to the internet. >> we are putting all these >> the thing that scares me the most after cybercrime is biocrime. we are putting all these little computers in our bodies. and what this means is our bodies are going to become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. >> reporter: a high-level consultant to the u.s. government and interpol, goodman advises on technology-based security threats worldwide. goodman is the faculty skeptic at singularity university, the futuristic california think tank, who rains on his colleagues utopian parade of to goodman, high octane high tech is a double edged sword. >> i think all of this technology will develop in really cool and interesting ways, and there'll be a lot of great things that happen. but i can tell you at the same time there will be some bad stuff as well. there are bad actors from both the

and bond got this idea that the time had come much as humankind was starting to launch people into space and push the boundaries of flight, that the same thing should be happening underwater, and we should be able to dive deeper, and we should be able to stay longer, and why has that not happened. let me explain. on page 16 here. so he's in the navy, he's running the medical research lab, and he's starting to circulate these ideas that conventional diving wisdom seems rather outdated, that we ought to be able to do better than this, that a diver might even be able to stay down indefinitely and even live on the seabed in some kind of shelter like an underwater version of the space station. this is what he was thinking. but this was thinking a bit ahead of its time. it was a little bit like talking about supersonic flight before that seemed feasible, and what bond was talking about was a type of diving now commonly known as saturation diving. and saturation diving is, in some ways to diving, what supersonic is to flying because with saturation diving you use methods that enable you to make

we offer to you our sacrifices upon the altar of freedom in an act of redemption for all of humankind with hope of harmony, compassion and tolerance. we stand before you today and ask this in your name and for your glory. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., april 25, 2012. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable kirsten gillibrand, a senator from the state of new york, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the senate is considering a motion to proceed to s. 1925, violence against women reauthorization act. republicans will control the first half-hour. the ma

life sciences and data we create technological capabilities that will be of tremendous benefit to humankindquire careful stewardship including development of appropriate regulations and policies, as was continued emphasis of a strong by risk management programs that emphasize biosafety, biosecurity and bioethics. in working through this issue we must find ways to mitigate risks, associate with the potential malicious use of durc while at the same time allowing for open and unfettered innovation via our nation scientists and laboratory. at the end of the day, the durc issue comes down to a risk-benefit evaluation of whether the balances in favor of sharing the information for the good of humankind for public health, medical or biotechnology advancement versus the potential for misuse. ultimately, the international life sciences community must appreciate the durc problem and internalize these concerns while developing and conducting research. in this regard, the h5n1 pavers have served as a necessary wakeup call for the life sciences community. thank you for giving us the opportunity to testi

the most successful and prosperous society in the history of humankind is fundamentally unfair.to correct that the president is engaging in class warfare. the buffet tax is going to save us from all of our problems. completely absurd. the president ought to lead on that front. his deficits are larger than some of bill clinton's budgets. we spent more in 3 1/2 years in deficits. megyn: we can argue about that another time. i want to stay on chris christie's point. the business about he doesn't remember a time in his lifetime when we have been less optimistic. do you agree with that? >> i don't agree with that. and i don't even think chris christie agrees with that. he's carrying mitt romney's water. i have seen chris christie be optimistic about the future of this country. now it's election time and he's trying to paint this scare everyone narrative. it's not going to work this time. they don't believe this rhetoric and we are moving forward as a nation. this economy is creating jobs. people are starting to get back to work. now we have to fix our deficit problem. i think the rif

ago that i thought we are on the losing end of the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of humankindthrough theft and piracy because of the attacks on our industrial base and our technological base from overseas for the purpose of industrial espionage and stealing intellectual property.

. >> never before in the history of humankind has it been possible for one person to rob 100 million people. >> reporter: nor has it been possible, says goodman, for anyone to hack into personal medical devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps connected to the internet. >> we are putting all these >> the thing that scares me the most after cybercrime is biocrime. we are putting all these little computers in our bodies. and what this means is our bodies are going to become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack. >> reporter: a high-level consultant to the u.s. government and interpol, goodman advises on technology-based security threats worldwide. goodman is the faculty skeptic at singularity university, the futuristic california think tank, who rains on his colleagues utopian parade of to goodman, high octane high tech is a double edged sword. >> i think all of this technology will develop in really cool and interesting ways, and there'll be a lot of great things that happen. but i can tell you at the same time there will be some bad stuff as well. there are bad actors from both the

sciences will undoubtedly create technological capabilities the will be of tremendous benefit to humankind as well as continued emphasis on strong bio risk-management programs and that emphasize by you see fi, biosecurity and bioethics. working through this issue we must find ways to mitigate risk associated with the potential malicious use one with the same time allowing for open unfettered innovation by the nation's scientists and laboratories. at the end of the day, the dirk issue comes down to the risk of benefit evaluation of whether the balance is in favor of sharing the information for the good of humankind, for public health, medical or biotechnology advancement versus the potential for misuse. ultimately the the international life sciences community must appreciate the problem and internalize these concerns while developing and conducting research. in this regard, the age five and one papers served as a necessary we could call for the life sciences community. thank you for giving us the opportunity to testify today and we look forward to questions. thanks, dr. gerstein. while we h

years ago that i felt we were on the losing and of the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of humankind through theft and piracy because of the attacks on our industrial base and art technological base from overseas for the purpose of industrial espionage and stealing intellectual property. since then general alexander uses virtually the same language. issuing a report that uses virtually the same language, mike mcconnell has used virtually the same language. this is a very big deal for us from the point of view of economic competitiveness and you have been an attorney general and in fact we were attorney general together by the u.s. attorney and in fact we were u.s. attorneys together. you have had a lot of experience with law enforcement also as governor and in your role as secretary of homeland security. i do not yet believe that we are resourced adequately in law enforcement to address that aspect of our cyberliability, and i hear from companies in all sorts of industries that, when they can get for instance via the ipod smack attention, they are very impressed with the capabilities