>> i'm doing research on the college of southern idaho. the college was created in 1965. i came here in 1969. the college and i grew up together. >> thank you so much, jim gentry. >> thank you for your time. >> you are watching 48 hours of nonfiction books. >> and now holly tucker provides an account of the first blood transfusions which took place in france in 1667 and the fallout of those experiments. >> we are going to get started very shortly. holly will get her computer plugged in and i will do the introduction while she is doing that. i would like to welcome you to the national museum of health and medicine science cabinet. we call it the medical museum science cafe. this is one of our outreach programs we are doing serving in conjunction with opening up a new building so if you are from silver spring we got a lot of people from this area or close by neighbors our museum is going to be on opening up in a new facility in silver spring, maryland, this fall. we are located at the medical center and the medical center is going to be closing now through september and so

i came to college of southern idaho in 1969, and while i was doing any dissertation at the university of utah, i dealt with corrographers describing regions in england. that made me aware of the rich possibilities of understanding local history in terms of geography and all the different components of local history. .. science writer james gleick discusses his latest work history of information beginning with the development of various alphabet's ending with what's expected next from the information age the author of chaos crackles the evolution how thoughts and knowledge have been passed from one to another throughout history. he talks with frank rose a contributing editor of wired magazine and the author of the art of emersion. >> host: james, thank you so much for joining us. >> guest: thank you for having us. >> host: i really enjoyed your book. it's been great fun to read. now, one thing i was sort of fascinated by the year 1948, clearly that was a year so to speak and studying the states for the world we live in today that was the world that the transistor was invented and canno

>> i'm presently doing some research on the history of the college of southern idaho. the college was created in 1965. i came here in 1969, so the college and i kind of grew up together. >> great. well, thank you so much, dr. gentry. >> thank you for your time. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. we're here at the university of chicago to talk with several of their professors about books they've written. we're going to show you some of those now. the name of the book is "democracy remix: black youth and the future of american politics" the author is university of chicago professor kathy cohen. professor cohen, is there an all yen nation -- alienation between black youth of today and the older black generations? >> well, i think that there is a generational divide, to say the least. um, we've heard it, for example, in the words of bill cosby who at times has ranted against parts of this generation for not doing, i think, what he perceives to be kind of the respectable, right thing to do to succeed in the society. there is a concern that we often hear from older member

in idaho, we have a very good example of a $4.4 million grant to the college of southern idaho in twin falls to fund the construction of the applied technology and innovations center. this is a new leed-certified facility. it will help the college meet the region's need for a higher skilled work force. they will learn to operate computer-driven manufacturing equipment and maintain alternative energy systems and the use of sound construction processes for these green buildings. this investment is part of a a $6.9 million project that will create 486 jobs. in indiana, e.d.a. provided provided $2.4 million. in kansas, $1.4 million to the city of hutchison. and i will go on with this in my remaining time that i will have later, but the point is this is a jobs bill and it's being hijacked by a through of amendments. and i see the handwriting on the wall. i have been here long enough to know what's going on. there is no cooperation. we have got everything from the snowe amendment to endangered species dealing with a spicken that somebody wants to take off the endangered species list. i mean,

manitoba, southern saskatchewan looking at the risk of tornadoes, also severe weather conditions across the northern plains as well, some hail reported here, some of that lingers in montana and idaho tonight, clearing up by friday finally and then that system heads towards eastern canada as we head into your friday, bringing severe weather into eastern canada, also the great lakes will experience thunderstorms as well. the west coast is going to be clearing up on friday, but by the afternoon, new system comes on through, this is going to be bringing some showers to northern california. 26 degrees in los angeles today. 25 in denver, it remains very hot down in the south, 33 degrees, a bit of a jump for chicago at 32 degrees. now for europe, high pressure system, very strong high pressure system dominating western and central europe today, that's going to be bringing bright spells of sunshine, so overall looking very warm and very sunny, all the way from scandinavia down towards spain and portugal. it looks like the west coast of norway will again be subject to wet and windy conditions and down towards the south for the mediterranean, a weak however, a very large low pressure system

important and may be my own southern roots in a small town, community is importance of the focus on community and how to develop community is interesting. >> you are not from idahotwin falls. what made you interested in writing this book? >> i completed