. >> coming up tonight, one .enriquez --juan enriquez then, at 8:00 30, live, a chance .or you to talk to mr. enriquez we will follow that with a look at the impact of the internet and other technology on the human brain and child development. next up, we will hear from juan enriquez, the founder of the life science project at the harvard university business school and the cfo. we mention a couple of ways for you to participate in a half hour or so. we will open up your fold lines .nd take your tweets use his name and we will search for those. we also posted a facebook question for you this evening on the deficit economy and scientific research funding. should we invest in scientific research funding. if you have questions for mr. enriquez, you can post those as well. a couple posts already. jeffrey says, replay teddy cruz speeches. what is the point, congress does not understand what that is? -- of that coming up again in about a half-hour. next up from earlier this month, juan enriquez spoke at the peterson fiscal summit and looked at the impact the .rowing deficit and debt we will s

use juan enriquez and we will post some of those. we have also posted a facebook question that deals with your thoughts the deficit and economy and scientific research funding. should we invest in scientific research funding. in particular, if you have questions for him, you can include those as well. a couple postings already. one from jeffrey who says -- is theid murphy, what point? ingres does not understand what that is. does not understand what that is. more of that in about half an hour along with their phone calls and tweets. from earlier this month, juan enriquez look at the peterson fiscal summit and looked at the impact the growing deficit and debt is having crowded investments into scientific research. we will show you his comments and then hear from you. ♪ >> good morning. let's go up to the first slide, please. all of you know the story of paul revere. the british are coming and people paid attention and that was a good thing. a modern paul revere looks like this. [laughter] he has been wandering around and saying, hey,

on twitter, you can use juan enriquez in your tweet.weet. >> there is a whole series of ways of building companies. the tax structure is one of the pieces. but the main piece of the whole thing is really important the government understands what it does and does not do well. the government funds basic research very well. if there is basic research at nih, basic research at nasa, basic research at the national academy of science, basic research at a whole series of organizations, that is fantastic. once the research starts becoming how do you apply this to business, governments do that very poorly. that is the point where you get investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and part of the magic of the u.s. is in the places where that bridge works, you get a lot of economic growth. let me give you an example of this. if you walk around m.i.t., the difference between that area of cambridge 30 years ago and that area today is night and day in terms of buildings, restaurants, art, museums, economic output. the same thing is true in silico

. >> coming up tonight, one .enriquez --juan enriquez then, at 8:00 30, live, a chance .or you to talkto mr. enriquez we will follow that with a look at the impact of the internet and other technology on the human brain and child development. next up, we will hear from juan enriquez, the founder of the life science project at the harvard university business school and the cfo. we mention a couple of ways for you to participate in a half hour or so. we will open up your fold lines and te

was alive call in with juan enriquez will take your questions and comments. it's all tonight beginning at 8:00 over on our companion network c-span. >> a new book detailing the work of mitt romney's 2012 presidential transition team was discussed wednesday at an event hosted by the partnership for public service in washington, d.c. transition chairman mike leavitt and executive director chris slidell talked about the lessons learned and the work behind the scenes their team was doing to prepare for a potential victory i mitt romney in the 20 to presidential campaign. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. good morning, and it's much bigger. i'm the president of the partnership for public service. for the co not only with a partnership we are a nonpartisan nonprofit organization tried to make our federal government better. and there is to my mind a more important topic than the one we have to discuss this morning, presidential transitions. and i am deeply honored to have the opportunity to host the book release the retrospective and lessons learned fr

our guest is juan enriquez, founder of the harvard business school's life sciences project.at 8 p.m. eastern we will begin with a look at his remarks from a recent fiscal summit where he spoke about the urgency of addressing the nation's growing debt and how it's impacting investments in science. here's a preview. >> let's pull ourselves out of the business of discussing the fiscal deficit and start talking of things which are really important which are the long-term trends. because right now the fiscal debate is taking all the options out of the picture either on the side or you're on this site. you have all kinds of fights about stuff, which is reasonable compromises that have not

. >> juan enriquez, joining us this evening from newton, massachusetts. thanks for spending time with us. >> thank you so much. >> the conversation continues on line with our facebook question about the deficit and the growth of scientific research. you can go to facebook.com/cspan to post your comments and questions. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> hello, everyone. welcome. this is your brain on the internet. today is monday, april 8, and it is just after 3:00 p.m. my name is alan carmichael. i work with the boulder weekly. i would ask you to please check your cellphone and make sure it is turned off. we want to be sure that all cell phones are turned off at this time. thanks for coming. i will briefly introduce our panelists and we will get underway. to my left is michael, he is a writer and philosopher. he has written many books and published in lots of amazing magazines. further down is thomas hardaway, a u.s. army veteran of 31 years. he now works as a child and adole

enriquez,is juan founder of the life sciences project. tenconomy. bio >> let's pull ourselves out of the business of discussing the fiscal deficit and talk about things that are important, which are the long-term trials. right now the fiscal debate is taking up all the oxygen in the room. you are either on the side or on the side. you have all kinds of fights about stuff which are reasonable compromises that have not happened. when you do that, what ends up happening is you don't understand the truly important transitions taking place because you are focused all day, all the time, just on this. the bigmight be missing picture. here is what the big picture looks like. humans are the only species on earth to transmit data consistently to their kids across time. so maybe a dog learns commands, maybe a parent learns words, maybe we all have songs, but there is not an animal on earth that rights on cave walls. it is up to human beings. why is it so important to write on cave walls? is is how we have a baby, this is how we fish, this is how we dress. this