this stephen hawking's the latest to boycott israel over it so keep patients of palestine coldplay steviewonder and u two among thousands of public figures who refused to go to disport israel offering extra money for breaking the boy called religion keith spend the fourth of july singing at the nokia rina here in tel aviv that he went ahead to you knew for an audience is in peace and love music fans from palestine made a video of the quest for unity of the buying concert tickets they couldn't even speak to someone that is really walls and checkpoints within palestine territories phone calls didn't get anywhere even as a human i would like to come to your concert you can see with this the strange apartheid wall that is completely doubled and a wall of building that prevents us from being able to access go anywhere we are here imprisoned and a very big and which is the reality of the situation it's not about peace or something it's only about apartheid it's almost barghouti founding member of the campaign for the i couldn't make and cultural boycott of israel thanks very much for joining us

i meet the co-author, with stephen hawking, of the grand design, physicist leonard mlodinow. len argues that the nature of time - not the manipulations of god - explains the origin of the universe. when we ask how something begins we think about maybe something we see in the present and we trace it down to time to a point where before which it didn't exist. and that, so that's the beginning. that assumes that time is the way we learn about in school which is a linear a number like a number line and there's a zero and then there's beyond a zero. but modern physics tells us that time isn't really like that. the universe as we go back in time was smaller and smaller and smaller and we also know that as all the matter and energy gets squeezed into the smaller parts of the universe they start to affect each other through general relativity. because it tells you that matters affects other, it affects space and time, which affects matter. and, and then you have to start taking into account that time and space can get warped. and when you, when you get early enough in the universe -

pieces of it in fact there's some research being done right now with the well known scientist stephen hawking is in trying to have slate his memories i mean that's one research project the other one is when you mention with the f. m.r.i. there's also the one with the rats at mit looking at if we can imprint memories into rats and usually these memories are fearful memories i'd like to see them do some happiness memories actually so weak you mention of them inception i think that we will be able to manipulate memories to be sure just as we've been manipulating mind since maoist china or the. period of my manipulation but we want to do it in a healthy way coersion is never good no matter how we look at it that's what we kind of know and layman's term as brainwashing no yes absolutely correct create want to if we're going to hack we want to use the white hat that means protecting ourselves from being hacked by coercive individuals who want to steal something from a such as our memories but if we know how to hack ourselves then we'll be able to protect our own memories again this is a very fuzzy

. >> stephen: that is a red tailed hawk [bleep] you should know that. >> let's dot eagle, come on, man. >> stephen: eagles have little childreny. eagles-- (cheers and applause) eagles have a little anemic children, i wanted a bird that sounded like it was swinging some balls. you also, i got another question for you here, you also have something called end hunger network. >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: what is that? >> it's an organization i started about 30 years ago. and we were in cahoots with a wonderful organization called share our strength. >> stephen: uh-huh. >> i have been the national spokesperson for campaign of theirs called no kid hungry and that's all about ending childhood hung never our country sses so if somebody is hungry, how does it end hunger help them. >> well, we have got this great texting campaign, you know, most of these kids who are struggling with hunger get their nutrition from school, you know, in breakfast programs and lunch programs. but when school's out during the summer, they don't have that-- those meals available to them. but there's a texting program t