. >> reporter: even if nonbiological or artificial intelligence created in places like mit is not asclose to "singularity" or matching human intelligence, as kurzweil believes, it's close enough that scientists and ethicists are now saying we need to take a serious look at its ramifications. professor christian brugger is a bioethicist at st. john vianney theological seminary in denver. brugger disagrees with kurzweil that humans can ever come close to perfection with technology. >> i don't think that the technology is the problem. what i have concerns about is the philosophy that stands behind it, the idea that somehow we are going to be able to overcome human limitation or we're going to overcome death. >> reporter: what troubles brugger the most is the notion that technology will one day replace god. >> if we start to think about technology as a kind of savior, is it going to overcome our misguided ambitions? is it going to overcome those kinds of prejudices that cause us to hate our neighbor? to many of us who follow a religion, we'd say that god would help us to overcome those t

professor lindzen has for thirty five years been the professor of atmospheric and planetary sciences at mit dr roy says there remains that there isn't isn't any of the measurement of analysis of measuring claimed otherwise satellites and these therefore are leading scientists publishing in leading peer reviewed journals and their conclusions by measurement are at odds with the models on which the united nations climate panel seeks unfortunately so heavily to rely in the end of the rule in science with a you like it or not is that measurement trumps models the models cannot tell us what's going to happen the measurements can't tell us what is actually happening what is actually happening is the radiation is getting out into space it's not staying down here it's there for current cause very much in the way of warming and that's the end of the story get used to it all right jason you want to say something go right ahead. absolutely well the vast majority of climate scientists would disagree with that climate science is based on thousands upon thousands of reports that all point to the fact tha

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mit graduate and admitted cal card counter has written a book called the house advantage.rming a blackjack club while at mit was made into a major motion picture called 21 starring kevin spacey in 2008 to. he is moving past the card can business and trying to make his mathematical mind to help corporations. to set this up it's very interesting. when you are m.i.t. he said i don't want to work nine to five i'm just too smart to i'm going to make it another way. >> i've looked at it with whatever situation would ever presented itself i had to act to amend the numbers of black jack presented itself. >> it's not illegal but when you go in there by the time your name gets around we don't want you. >> public to lose money did what some schmuck coming in and losing money. it like when anyone could turn the odds and to their favor. that's what we can do. >> ibm going back to far did anyone ever come up and say if you want to walk out of here you better go >> they tried to intimidate you violate your pursesee how you react when time in louisiana and was chased off and i talked abou

that is the same year fed research came out from mit and the university of chicago which found out job applicants with white names for 50% more likely to be called back. i am sure you read the study. -- i am sure he read the study, yet he still maintain this notion that we had in fact achieve that. he knows better, and i think over time the more you say that, the more you'll allow white americans who have already been senile and some black people -- already in the nile, you allow them to do that, and i think that is dangerous -- already in denial, you allow them to do that, and i think that is dangerous. tavis: how you convince white americans to address these issues when they feel they did their part by pulling the lever. i did my part. >> some of my best friends are black. really it is practical interest. look at the housing meltdown. here is what happens when you do not deal with racism. 15 years ago was the first time i started reading material about the predatory loans in black and brown neighborhoods. nobody wanted to talk about it 15 years ago. why? their attitude was, it is not

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrew mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some additional. have not. many tragic accidents in all groups things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andre is likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the price they might pay jake agrees. and just to remind you we've got many more stories on our website of course that auntie dot com everything to various guy sing columns and even face blog he's the local was on monday at the moment is the focal point you can do some kind of maybe out of the song and then pigs they discontinue in training will find out what he was punished for. and singing in the rain but spirits will bomb him down the first russian you see concert rocks in moscow for tens of thousands of fans but think the legendary irish

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science advances that one paper has arguably now been published and it's by professor richard lindzen of mit and his colleague young saying choice they have measured directly the relationship between changes in sea surface temperature down here and changes in the amount of outgoing radiation escaping to space up at the top of the atmosphere as measured by the earth radiation budget experiment satellites and what they have found is that the radiation is escaping to space very much as it always has it is therefore not staying down here it therefore can't be causing very much in the way of global warming and the result is that they've calculated that the global warming we'll get from a doubling of c o two concentration later this century will be under one celsius degree a similar conclusion has recently been come to by dr roy spencer and his colleagues in a paper just about to be published it just passed peer review analyzing the clouds and showing once again that there has been a prodigious exaggeration in the models and what we're now getting is an increasingly well in the literature based on

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adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured but. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andreas are likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price they might pay jake agrees r.t. . just remind you've got many more stories the website schools all the dot com we feature barry's guides their fashion columns and even some space blogs here's a quick people what's online for you the minute all russians think a skating rink rushing pope may be out of the salt she lympics although he's continuing training will find out what he was polish. and singing in the rain but spirits will fall from down the first russian u two calls that wrong with tens of thousands of fans bump

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some. have not been any tragic accidents in our group things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car for a roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos this practice has even attracted the attention of more widely known extreme sports stars live voyeur void in has been base jumping for six years no stranger to danger even this there they will feel tres surfing is a step too far but not because of the risk to themselves. well it's hooliganism because they risk hurting not only themselves but other people too in my sport base jumping if i jump from a building or a cliff and fall down then i won't harm anyone. does however sympathize that extreme sports are costly. so maybe face the train is search of a cheap thrill and it's also russia's and likely to cost so much in terms of jail time or fines with

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured but. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web. swirly uploaded videos really people like andrea surrogate are likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price they might pay jake agrees. now with the growth of globalization features of the american way of life of spread to other countries that's not just movies and pop culture it's also food along with hamburgers and coca-cola america's exporting on its major health problems obesity may find some of the images in this report disturbing. among all developed countries americans are the fattest in the world that's according to the world health organization where over sixty percent of the general population in the u.s. is ob

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andrea sergei likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price they might pay jake agrees r.t. . now traveling in style with us in our special report from russia's stop ripple region of sand on the northern reaches of the caucuses it's a region as diverse as russia itself make sure to watch our ports the day hot seat . just. brings you up to date with all the latest news on the back of the headlines at half past the hour and right now boston a member of the european parliament claims the e.u. is a disaster and that the u.k. should quit the union or he spoke in tabs with his lawyer

known as mega mit leave a gap of he is the man responsible for two deadly blasts in moscow a matter of the summer when two suicide bombers exploded themselves killing forty and injuring more than a hundred people interesting archives were as well discovered together with this man proving his links with al qaida and other international to reckon his ations as far as the analysts to say in the recent attack on the president's home village centroid as far as this recent activity by terror groups in the north caucasus is a response to the successes of the federal forces as if the militants want to demonstrate that they're still in force and their forces are not controlling the situation but as far as we can see most of the military operations against them flee to the militants death rina summary and what seems like a very tough battle ground there is russia winning the war on terror. well marina of course is too early to say that terry smith is deficient completely in russia but as far as president which are made aware of is emphasizing the government is not going to back down until terri

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andreas are likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price they might pay jake agrees. just remind me of gold so many stories along website for you all of dot com that we feature various guys function columns and even space blogs for the political view just at the minute or russia's figure skating rink if you shake a may. pigs although he is continuing to train so find out what he was punished for . and singing in the rain for fear it will fall from down the first russian homes the wrong moscow tens of thousands of fans walking to the legendary irish but. not content with very k

adrenaline junkies a lot of them have said have a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any true. you get accidents in a group things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this craziness whipped across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andre is likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next regardless of the price they pay jake agrees. just to remind you we've got many more stories on our website r t v dot com we feature various guys fashion columns and even space blogs but have a look at what's there for you on line right now russia's figure skating prince again you're producing call maybe out of the sochi olympics although he's continuing training find out what he was punished for. and the first russian u two concert has rocked moscow with tens of thousands of fans bopping to the legendary. all the pictures are dot com. well not content wi

adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andrea surrogate are likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price they might pay jake agrees. now you're up to date on all the latest news and i will back with the headlines at half past the hour right now joel batten a member of the european parliament claims the year is a design star of the u.k. should quit the union i spoke in depth with gore and the tonight. today i'm talking to gerald batten who's a member of the european parliament for london he's with the u.k. independence party which is a euro skeptic party and he's recently announced his intention to stand for leaders

i started mit, then decided i wanted to be a singer and went to new york's conservatory of music, my voice teacher left, so i left, then i ended up at brandeis, but went to tufts for summer school and it was a hodgepodge of an undergraduate education, but ended graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study both economics and music, which were the two big interests in my life. >> when did you decide you wanted to make a career out of dealing with all of this business of the arts? >> i really had that idea in my senior year at undergraduate school. i did a thesis, an economics thesis, about why opera companies should share productions, the sets and costumes of productions, which they weren't doing at the time, but which they now do very frequently and i did this thesis, which said this made economic sense. and i really got interested in the managerial side of the arts, but there really wasn't a career back then in arts management. it wasn't anything you could say i want to start here and then move my way up because it was a career that pe

>> i started at mit and then decided i wanted to be a singer and to the conservatory of music and my voice teacher left, so i left. i ended up at brandeis and then went to summer school. i ended up graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study economics and music which was the interest of my life. >> when did you decide you wanted to make a career of this business of the arts? >> i had the idea in undergraduate school. had a thesis on productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did this thesis which made economic sense. i got interested in the managerial site of the arts, but it was really not a career back in in arts management. it was not anything you could say that you wanted to start here and move your way up. it was a career that people fell into a rather than plan for. i did not start immediately in arts management. >> >> compare today as to when you were growing up, do we have more arts or less? >> over the past years, there has been an increase in ballet companies, theater companies and we have so many more than we had

prince son review says students at mit study the most.rvard has the best library and reid college halls the best teaches and the university of georgia is the top party school. the best college list goes on sale today. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king. >> time now 5:55. even though august has just begun, a department store in england has already opened its christmas department. always starts the season early but this is a first even for them. the store says it's responding to consumer demand as well as businesses or decorations for seasonal events. they're not the only outlet in the christmas spirit. e-bay has already made more than 100,000 christmas items for sale. >> following somebody on twitter turning somebody into a celebrity. steven holmes is the lone person kanye follows because he liked one of his comments. does this remind you when conan followed a student and turned her into an internet star. holmes said i feel pressured to say i'm using tweets because so many are following him because of kanye. he says i won't be s

it transits mits data by a satellite to researchers. aquarium has tagged 38 young great whites off the coast of los angeles, ventura and santa barbara counties over the past eight years. will it be beach weather and. >> well, we're used to the cool, foggy beaches here. that's what we're going to get today. temperatures bump up a little tomorrow but will they be as warm as advertised. >> also ahead why the girl scouts are closing camp even [ fema announcer ] this is a strawberry pop tart. but this is warm, fresh-baked strawberry toaster strudel. [ music ] see the difference? pillsbury toaster strudel, the one kids want to eat. ♪ whoa! do you know what our favorite part of shooting hoops is? 3...2...1... overtime! ♪ ♪ we're the kids in america ♪ oh, oh, oh and those germs can end up on your soap pump. fact: your soap pump can harbor hundreds of bacteria. introducing the new lysol no-touch hand soap system. it senses hands and dispenses soap that kills 99.9% of bacteria to help stop the spread of germs. plus, it's enriched with moisturizin

ted agentsson is professor of vision sign in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at mit where he focuses on topics in human and machine vision motion analysis. he is an expert in many things drug the gestalt theory of perception. he has a ph.d. in experimental psychology from the murts of michigan. nancy kanwisher is the professor of the institute at m.i.t. they have identified developer regions of the brain that plays roles in visual perceptionist specially in face recollect model. pawan sinha is so is yacht professor in neuroscience at m.i. tinchts where he leads the lab. he has done amazing work in india as a part of a project for children who suffered injury or disease to the eye. in answering these questions, once again my cohost, my guide, my professor is dr. eric kandel. he is as you know from our program a noted brain sign test. he's a noble laureate. he's affiliated with columbia, the howard hughes ion substitute has written a remarkable book about the search for memory and he is for this program a great friend. so i am pleased to have his wisdom and his direction gui

in a study released today, researchers from harvard and mit suggest genetic and biological links between cholesterol and coronary heart disease. the information suggests there are genetic differences to people and how their bodies manage cholesterol levels. a study of more than 100,000 people found 95 different genetic alterations, all of which play a role in how cholesterol is managed in our systems. the study appears in today's science journal, "nature." >>> here's an unusual story from atlanta which gives new meaning to being quick on your feet. a clever robbery victim used her toes to tap out a help message on her computer. the 39-year-old woman endured some of the most fright thing hours of her life when she woke up to find and armed man stacked over her bed. he tied her hands to the head board and held her at gunpoint over an hour before taking off in her car. >> then i started yelling for help and tried to struggle to get myself free. the way he had tied my wrists with shoe strings, it was tightening around my wrists and then around, i guess, 4:15 or so i realized that he had left

. >> jumping all the way from and i know you did a master's at mit, but jumping all the way to where you are today, 67 cities, 83,000 miles, meeting all of these groups, 11,000 people that you've found yourself in front of. what was this tour you just completed? and why? >> i did a tour starting about 15 months ago and i did this tour because there were so many arts organizations that were confused about how to handle the current economic recession and i was reading so many stories about arts organizations whose first response to this recession was to cut their programming, either to do less programming or to do less interesting or adventuresome programming. and i knew from my career, running very troubled organizations, that programming is what creates revenue and when you cut your programming, you cut your revenue not just for this year, but for future years as well. and so i thought it was important to discuss this publicly and so i went around the country to all 50 states and puerto rico and the district of columbia, went to 69 cities and had public forums discussing how do you h

scictss, 70s, a few mit -- 60s, 70s and a few 80s. >>> 7:10. we're following disturbing overnight news. find out why tensions could boil over at one of the world's biggest trouble spots. >>> and police have a very important warning for you drivers who are still holding your cell phone while you drive. >>> tensions have growing between south korea and north korea. north korea reportedly fired a missile. all of this comes after a series of meetings between south korea and the united states. >>> we're learning more about the killing of members of an international aid organization in afghanistan. alison burns joins us now with our washington, d.c. room with the latest on this. good morning alison. >> reporter: good morning, pam. this is new information. the head of the charity group that lost ten of its members of the massacre in afghanistan said he's still not sure why they were targeted by the taliban. ♪ >> reporter: while it's a devastating loss for the group, the group says it will keep working in afghanistan. six americans, two afghans, a brit

[applause] >> lads and gentlemen, here to present the badge of mit for is our next presenter, from a in oklahoma. >> it is an honor to stand here before you can see some of the people. i believe you are in a position of honor as well. you are to be honored for coming to this event. before i introduce and tell you about a great man, i would like to give you just a brief of what honor means to native american people. the word "honor" is a word that is like a precious stone. it is a sweet fragrance that blows from the north to the south. honor is a warrior that is able and capable of kping his word, keeping his promise oher promise. there is a word that our people sung on thetrail of tears. it's as always go forward, never go back -- it says always go forward, never go back. we sll never look back at the past. from this day on, we should look forward to the great awakening, the greek revival that we prayed for -- great revival that we prayed for. [cheers and applause] it is an honor to introduce one of our great black leaders, a covenant warrior of god, a peacemaker, one was able to kee

in industrial economics, he has taught at mit, chicago and its stanford. secretary of bread served in the carter and clinton administrations with carter on his national security council staff and with clinton as his un ambassador and van as the first woman to serve as secretary of state. a ph.d. in public law and government, she teaches at georgetown and chairs a global strategy investment firm. you have noticed no doubt that shultz worked for a republican president and albright for a democrat. we are balancing the ticket or at least trying to. >> you do not know something. there is a little club of former secretaries of state. >> i will start by assuming that you are both back in government and therefore back in power although that does not necessarily follow. >> what would be our overriding priority? what problem must use of today and how would you go about doing it? >> the first thing i would do is say to be effective for around the world, we must be strong at home. we must get our house in order. for decades, we have been spending more than we earn and

in industrial economics, he has taught at mit, chicago and its stanford. secretary of bread served in the carter and clinton administrations with carter on his national security council staff and with clinton as his un ambassador and van as the first woman to serve as secretary of state. a ph.d. in public law and government, she teaches at georgetown and chairs a global strategy investment firm. you have noticed no doubt that shultz worked for a republican president and albright for a democrat. we are balancing the ticket or at least trying to. >> you do not know something. there is a little club of former secretaries of state. >> i will start by assuming that you are both back in government and therefore back in power although that does not necessarily follow. >> what would be our overriding priority? what problem must use of today and how would you go about doing it? >> the first thing i would do is say to be effective for around the world, we must be strong at home. we must get our house in order. for decades, we have been spending more than we earn and

industrial economics, he has six served at mit and stanford.d clinton administrations. she was un ambassador and as the first woman to serve as secretary of state. a ph.d. in public law and government, she teaches at georgetown and chairs a global strategy investment firm. you have all noticed, no doubt, that she also worked for republican -- schultz work for a republican president and albright for a democratic president. we are trying to balance the ticket. something,t know there is a little club of former secretaries of state. >> i am going to start by assuming you are both back in government, and therefore back in power, but that is not necessarily so. what would be your absolute overriding priority? what would you get up in the morning thinking, this is a problem that i simply must solve today, and how would you go about doing it? >> the first thing i would do is say, to be effective around the world, we must be strong at home. we must get our house in order. for decades, we have been spending more than we earned, and it has gotten totally

simon johnson from mit sloan school of management, and joel naroff, the founder of naroff advisers. dr. bernard, welcome. please proceed. >> chairman conrad, ranking member gregg, and other members of the committee, i thank you for inviting me here to discuss the state of the u.s. economy, and with your permission, we will talk about what policymakers can do to improve it. first, a status report on the economy. as you noted, mr. chairman, we have emerged very slowly from the worst financial crisis since the decree -- since the great depression. this is scattered across the economic landscape and you know that some of the things that are important. i would add that one in four homeowners with a mortgage owes more than their house is worth. lenders are still hesitant to lend to or refinance many borrowers. and while the process of cleaning up balance sheets is well advanced, it is incomplete. steady progress is required to archer a sustainable recovery. gdp is still below its peak of three years ago. federal, state, and local budgets are strained, as you noted. jobs and hours gains ha

people thought they were going to get mit. all the sudden, we left this world where there were making these representations which were completely absurd and the federal government -- it was then made possible. that is why i asked the camera to be put out. >> now that that oil has stopped flowing, there have been some polls that show that the public has started losing interest. does that slows the momentum for a possible legislative response in the fall? >> that is why i had a hearing on thursday of this week. we have to ensure that just because the spill camera went away, there is a pressure to deal with the consequences of that spill. we want to make sure that does not go away. that is what i am committed to doing. i am going to ensure that from the congressional perspective, we keep the spotlight on this issue because bp's fondest wish is that their commercials on television, public attention to what is being going -- what is going on today. >> i want to ask about this moratorium on drilling. what do you want to see in terms

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his service year, he was on the house armed services committee and has a doctorate in physics from mit. i am fascinated to learn that he is a long-time open and swing the of certain styles himself as a very poor magician. but denied his call, we will ask him to do tricks for us. -- if we don't like his talk, who asked him to do tricks for us. >> i will begin at that the ideas are my own and not reflected on the university or the department of defense. after a few public speaking engagements i have come to the conclusion that i actually speak too much. notably in this case we're talking about the time of former deputy assistant secretaries and the chief scientist, so i should know better. therefore, i will ask for your patience in what will be a bit of a rather scripted presentation that i hope will contribute to a much livelier discussion later on. i want to begin by thanking the heritage foundation for the kind invitation. i also want tou underscore the events of in line with my most broad and my most urgent recommendation on the issue related to cyber domain. as mentioned, the averag