this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain h

i was not from southern utah. kind of an outsider in the area. i was curious about it. but i found shocked me. you know, it was just like driving up the mac. no place else in the country. when i talked to people about it, they just don't believe the someplace like that could exist here. without a doubt it was the most lawless town in this country. and it really piqued my interest. when a set of becoming involved and working cases as studded finding out about these atrocities, things that are supposed to happen in america. people being kicked out of their homes and told that they cannot come back and they cannot talk to their families. they cannot even visit their families. and then i was asked by a prominent baltimore attorney who worked on civil cases involving child abuse. and what i've found their was just unbelievable. i interviewed two young men who had grown up in their religion. one nephew. he had abused them, rape and sodomized them, between the ages of five and seven years old. that experience, to me, was what really turned the tide for me. that was the experie

red flag warnings from eastern arizona and southern parts of utah and colorado in through most of newevels of humidity for a second day in a row. the heat not helping either. childress, texas, 109 degrees and baking across new mexico and texas the past week with temps well over a hundred and dodge city, kansas, in the act as well with 104 there. northeast seeing a little bit of rainfall this morning with thunder and lightning that is rapidly moving off towards the north and east. philadelphia and d.c. are in the clear and the heat is going to continue across parts of the south and east as well with temperatures well into the 90s for it seems like two or three weeks now. try to stay cool and enjoy your weekend. >> you too. and hang out with the kittens. we have this video to show you about what happened when a curious kitten in reading, california, found himself stuck inside of a pipe. firefighters used a special pipe cutter and able to rescue the little guy gently pulling him out by the scruff of his neck. they have done a lot of animal rescues. look. there he is! stuck! they say that

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 cannot with t

i came to the college of southern idaho in 1969 and did my doctoral dissertation at the university of utah, gold with choreographers who described regions in england and that itself made me aware of the rich possibilities of understanding local history in terms of geography and all the different components of local history. wikipedia >> anything you are working on coming up next? >> 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 a

i came to the college of southern idaho in 1969, and while i did my doctoral dissertation at the university of utah, i dealt with choreographers who described regions in england. and that itself made me aware of the rich possibilities of understanding local history in terms of geography and all the different components of local history. >> and is there anything that you're working on coming up next? >> 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 ge