what teachers do you have that minerva?ur founding dean was dean of social science at harvard and chairman of psychology and he was recruited from stanford. we recruited him from stanford. our dean of arts and humanities is dan levinson. he was the author of several books. you have tremendous faculty that come to minerva because we can reinvent education from scratch. the idea that these are supposed to teach you these concepts but when you look at their curriculum there is not any place where those ideas are actually taught. >> i mentioned a full year of harvard running anywhere from $50,000 on up to pending on some extras. how do you arrive at the $28,000 price tag? >> for us one aspect is , something we cannot do something about which his room and word. we do not know how to ring those costs down dramatically. on tuition that is where we relook at education. this is -- all of our classes are capped at under 20 students, they are personalized to the students in the class, and they are taught by the professors, no ta's. ev

me now to discuss his findings in a recently published or part investigation into the subsets of minerva and its damning implications such a pleasure to have you on set to be easily so talking really briefly about what this program consists of and how long it's been implemented so the program the minute program starts in two thousand and eight. it is a specific program certainly not the first one to go in program to try to mobilize social science but the specific programs like two thousand and eight since then they funded dozens of universities around the world the sensual thread you know it's one of the different projects is effectively tracking the next threats on the horizon in the new age of sea so looking at impacts of climate change the economic crisis you know energy depletion and how these things could affect. different regions different territories and affects us national interests and of course what's also you know what could happen in the homeland and the real focus is really on looking at insurgencies civil unrest where things could kickoff you know something like ferguson fo

you need to be very specific in what are those threats but the problem is is that consistently the minerva guy is talking about people as high as the administrator who gave me a statement about it all the way through to the actual research of the universities who were doing the research none of them could substantiate why they had these blood definitions and boundaries one of the poor taste i looked. you know as being one of the naval postgraduate school and it's you know blurs the boundaries between so-called peaceful nonviolent activists and what is described as supporters of political violence and then so you know peaceful activist because they support radical cause is seen as a potential support for political violence and then that opens the door to seeing them as potential terrorists potentially involved in any kind of disruptive activity so even the definition of what is terrorism what is a threat has also been watered down we've got like department of homeland security fusion so. says corporations and. f.b.i. d.h.s.s. actually mining social media and in one case that i looked at in

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science and prepare for a global civil breakdown earlier nephi's came on the show to discuss the minerva initiative and abby first asked him about one particular study that set out to discover why the protesters don't become terrorists. recently the study was supposed to be focused on looking at what are what are the things that kind of stop peaceful surveillance who support so-called radical causes to quote the project what was stops them from getting involved in kind of crossing that line and becoming involved in some part of terrorist activity or some kind of political violence so the idea was that what they would do is is analyze normal every day kind of social movements peaceful n.g.o.s to try and understand what is the what is it that stops them from becoming involved in political violence but what was really interesting and disturbing about the project is that even though they kind of said that that was the point of the research when they actually cuts ago rise to these activists that they were studying they specifically categorized peaceful activists as supporters of political vi

in two thousand and eight the department of defense launched the minerva research initiative a multi million dollar program to quote improve the d.o.d.'s basic understanding of the social cultural behavioral and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the u.s. but according to journalist if he's a med at the pentagon is working with major u.s. universities to militarize social science and prepare for a global civil breakdown earlier nephi's came on the show to discuss the minerva initiative and abby first asked him about one particular study that set out to discover why the protesters don't become terrorists so it was really the study was supposed to be focused on looking at what are what are the things that kind of stop peace service who support so-called radical causes to quote the project what was stops them from getting involved in kind of crossing that line and becoming involved in some part of terrorists activity or some kind of political violence so the idea was that what they would do is is analyze normal every day kind of social movements

project minerva, totally different way of teaching.. >> they are non-profits, too. with no incentives. go ahead. >> you are right. they are basically a lot of student -- a lot of states are looking at new models. they are talking about creating a new doctor, an assistant physician. so, they have got to come up with creative waysecause the traditional four-year degree isn't working for everybody. and it's not necessarily a good investment. >> you were the loan duck on this one. >> i think mike is right. it's about economic growth. you will not have people complaining about the cost of a college degree. harvard and yale getting a d? that's pretty bad. you guys have been great. so smart and terrific. get ready to let your money work for you. that's nex don't go away. >> welcomeack. we're back with the all american labor day stock. >> elizabeth, what could be more all american than a railroad. it's leasing more cars at higher rates for longer period of times. >> bruce, do you like this one? >> i do. a lot of the companies that are making m

and picasso. [ record scratches ] but how about minerva... eliomar... or jenny?, so they're not as famous as these artists, but they do share something in common. like them, their work has been on display at the world-renowned guggenheim museum of art. >> i feel honored. >> i find it pretty amazing, and i'm kind of surprised that my artwork would be here in the same building as other famous artists -- artists like picasso and many others. >> it's all thanks to a program called "learning through art." >> guggenheim began the program in the early '70s, when the arts were being cut from the new york city public schools. many of the schools don't have art at all, and so this would be the only art program that these students have in their elementary-school years. >> i think they get the chance to be artists and work with a real, live artist who comes into their school and brings in lots of wonderful materials that real artists use. >> towards the end of the school year, a big party is held at the museum. some of the student artists, family, and friends are on hand to

we will have in the case of minerva a good example of seminars being conducted probably as well as theynts in physical proximity to their professors. >> why do the students live there then? if you're doing everything online, why not live wherever your home is and do it online. what's the difference here? >> i believe if you have the students together, you have many of the aspects of the university that are preserved. some of the social aspects that people remember the university for. they still have that but won't have to have professors who are willing to live in particular cities and they will be able to have a much lighter footprint than a university. >> you'll also be able to have ideas, you know, people talking and debating and being able to, you know -- >> there's no doubt that there are a lot of college educations that happens in colleges and universities. some of them are the ones that deal with books and classes and some of them deal with socialization. like people moving into adulthood in a social setting, that seems important. i'm curious whether there's an ideology here, rig

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thank you ben nelson, founder and chairman of the minerva project. we'll be back with more "consider this" after this. traffic labor on us bases... management stealing wages... exploited children put to work... >> how many of you get up at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning to go out to the fields? don't miss our award winning series fault lines labor day marathon only on al jazeera america c david hayman is a successful biog grapher for 30 years. he's profile jackie onasize is liz taylor and joe and marilyn was published in july. according to my next guest, his books are not worthy for another reason. they are littered with fabrications and made-up stories that sells books and has no basis in the truth. let's bring in ka couple of guests. he wrote the upcoming cover story. entitled "pulp fiction", david, according to you news week piece this guy has made up things for a long time. you wrote about his fabrications in 1993. i didn't know about the story, how did he get away with it. >> it's an important question. in 1983 he wrote a book about barbara hutto

bienvenida, minerva. >> feliz de estar aquÍ contigo otra vez.ejar hasta que llegue a este punto. >> ¿cÓmo podemos aprovechar el chocolate? >> para otros postres, tÚ puedes sumergir fresas. esto es lo mÁs clásico. entonces, tambiÉn lo puedes vertir directamente dentro de un envase de fondue. tiene su propia velita, tiene su palillito. >> desde que llegÓ esto al estudio, dije yo quiero uno. >> desde bizcochos, marshmallows. ¿sabes con quÉ sabe bien rico? con bacon. >> ¿la tocineta baÑada en chocolate. quÉ maravilla. >> tenemos frutas de todas las clases. lo lindo es... de lo que te sobre, taza y media de chocolate. tÚ vas a coger una taza o una lata de leche condensada, caliÉntala primero para que entonces se pueda integrar mÁs fácil en el chocolate. lo viertes, lo vas mezclando poco a poco. una vez que entonces se mezcle poco a poco, ahÍ lo que te sobre lo vas a poner en un platito y dentro de la nevera para que se endurezca. vas a tomar entonces de estos scoops de helado y entonces vas a raspar asÍ un poquito y vas a hacer bolitas de chocolate.