thoreau was a test with the george x., virgil's george x. and when you read it you are reading this beautiful, you know there is a version put out by yale which is yes a four year school. i am not allowed on the campus. there is a translation by the yale university press and its in the the american farm vernacular. it's beautiful and it's just you know the fire, the summer, the wood burns and sparks fly into the night sky and what more need we celebrate? that is what virgil says and that is so mundane. i love how washington scholars fight over it, he means more when he talks about the light of day. and it's if you need to need more than that. after a while eugene made any more than the lightest spring day. the almanac is something that every colonial had to have because they needed it. they lived in a time of cycles of title cycles and lunar cycles and these were the things that he used to navigate your life. one of the arguments is that we move from circles two lines. there is is an historian who wrote an amazing essay about circles two lin

[laughter] as, indeed, thoreau would have done the world a wonderful amount of good if he had stayed home. now, there is a modern equivalent of this which is when people, and i need to make it clear i know about this. when i started acquiring small children about seven years ago, only economists talk about acquiring small children. [laughter] i, too, moved to an area not far away from where or thoreau lived, and i started doing almost as much damage. and the reason why people in suburbs tend to do significantly more environmental damage is much longer car drives and much larger housing units. one way of thinking about this is if the great growing economies of india and china see their emission levels rise to the levels of the united states, global carbon levels go up 30 %. that's a huge difference. and whether or not you believe in global warming or you're just worried about the price of gas at the pump, we all have a lot to gain by china and india building up rather than out. and i think the most important thing for america to do in order to encourage that to happen is get its own u

i am an anarchist in henry david thoreau's sense of the word. i keep invoking him in this interview. he said the government that governs best is the one that governs least. and the least government you can have is no government. so i have that kind of what may be called by some utopian view, most libertarians i know if they were in power and they were

. >> so thoreau kept whether blogs and kept these logs about when the flowers bloomed, and his great project near the end of his life was great a calendar, an almanac of april 1, this have happened in our town. the water is that this level. and that's an almanac. and thoreau was obsessed with -- [inaudible] when you read it, you are reading this beautiful, there's a version put out by yale, a four-year school -- [talking over each other] >> i'm not allowed on campus. there's a translation, university press and its in the georgia, the american farm vernacular, and it's beautiful. and it's just, you know, fire in the summer, woodburn's, and sparks fly into the night sky, and what more need we celebrate? that's what virgil says. and that's so mundane, and to love washington scholars fighting over he must mean more. he must mean more when he talks about the light of day on the spring morning, you know? as if you need more than that but after a while you don't need anything more. so i thought this is a. the almanac is something that every colonial citizen must have. they needed it. they l

things are heating up between jennifer aniston and her fiance, justin thoreau in mexico. is rare glimpse of an intimate moment. >> they're not married yet are they? >> not yet. >> they were not alone on their getaway. we told you the other day jimmy kimmel and others were there. just having some fun in the sun. you were in mexico recently, weren't you? >> i was. >> he and leo. >> yeah, it wasn't exactly. >> he and leo in cabo. >> well, actually, leo is in sydney right now. he threw a wild yacht party over the weekend. he looks at ease surrounded by bikini-clad ladies. jonah hill looks a little bit out of his element. i'm sure he's not come plang too much there. >> okay. >> you just saw that movie, "django unchained." >> i did. it was good. i enjoyed it. bloody, but interesting. >>> the bikini pictures continue. the superstar tweeting that she's bumping and proud over the weekend. she's expecting her second child with eric johnson, her fiance. they're in hawaii on vacation with their 7-month-old daughter, maxwell drew. jessica's sister, ashlee, and nephew, bronx, were ther

ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau speak out against the war in pretty strong terms. now, i think if opposition to the war had remained limited to doing good, it would be interesting, but wouldn't really be that different from what happened in the war of 1812. what you see happiness over the course of the war, delinquent stamps being the only place it is the national antiwar movement. there are four main grounds on which americans oppose the war. the first one in this poster is on the grounds of morality that this was an unjust war that would bring national dishonor of the united states. congressman joshua giddings of ohio repeatedly warned the house of representatives that in order to be patriotic, people had to quote, descend from this aggressive unholy and unjust war and he said in the murder of mexicans upon their own soil for rapid and that the country can take no part either now or after. and giddings was rather strong in his opinion, but that was a kind of critique that you see certainly by march of 1847 with united states bombarded the town of veracruz, leadin

jennifer aniston and justin thoreau. the couple is sharing the sun with some famous friends.mel, was there on thursday. along with jimmy's fiancee. and wonder if this is a preview of their future wedding guest list. kimmel, already invited and part of his big day. she's slated to appear on his first show in its new 11:35 time slot on january 8th, right here on abc. >>> and a special thanks to all our "gma" viewers out there who helped us out for this next one by voting on goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! who rocks the best look in 2012? kate middleton. emma stone at the golden globes. or blake lively at the premiere. all up for vote online. and our viewers voted for -- drumroll, please. >> shocking. >> best red carpet look of 2012, miss kate middleton. kate middleton -- tops for that. she looks gorgeous. i mean. she can do no wrong. right? >> we have a lot of ties for first. >> indeed. >>> well, time, now, for a little pop quiz action. which superstar friend of kate winslet walked her down the aisle. >> taylor smith. >> good guess, josh. i think you're wrong. >> might be true

jennifer aniston and justin thoreau. they are getting a little r&r in mexico.sterday in "pop news." the couple is sharing the sun with some famous friends. our good friend, jimmy kimmel, was there on thursday. along with jimmy's fiancee. and wonder if this is a preview of their future wedding guest list. kimmel, already invited aniston to be part of his big day. she's slated to appear on his first show in its new 11:35 time slot on january 8th, right here on abc. >>> and finally, a special thanks to all our "gma" viewers out there who helped us out for this next one by voting on goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! we asked you who you think rocks the best look in 2012? kate middleton. at a london event, hosted by the british olympic association. emma stone at the golden globes. angelina jolie at the golden globes. or blake lively at the premiere. all up for vote online. and our viewers voted for -- drumroll, please. >> shocking. >> best red carpet look of 2012, miss kate middleton. kate middleton. well, that's blake. she looks pretty tops there. she looks gorgeous

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so i became interested in trying to look at this more broadly, and the thoreau foundation contacted me in 2007, and they were very interested in trying to get good, empirically-based research done, and together we commissioned a number of efforts to shake loose data from various institutions and to find social scientists who wanted to work on these problems. over time partly through that effort and partly through other independent efforts, a lot of mismatch research has been done, published in excellent journals. so we now know that science mismatch is a pervasive problem. although blacks are more like listen than similar whites to want to major in science and engineering when they go to college, they're much less likely to get what we call s.t.e.m. degrees if they receive a large preference. a study at the university of virginia found that if you take two blacks or two students of any color, one of whom receives a large presence, one whom momentum, the student who receives a preference has about a 0% larger -- 40% larger chance of dropping out on his way through. mismatch also accepts