we're the universe right here. this table is the universe. you are what the big bang is doing right there in your chair right now. we are all part testify. >> the big bang is continuing? >> yes, it goe on and on. you can think of it that way, yes. >> you have proof of that? that's a term logical issue whether or not we want to call it the big bang. we are direct descendants of the big bang and the universe is evolving and changing ever since then and it will continue to do that. the way the universe is now is not the way it was a few billion years ago and a few billion years before that it was quite different. >> so when you're teaching this in class as you do, your first objective is to remove the idea[ of statics. this is not a static situation. >> absoluteliy. it's a living situation and the universe itself is living because it's expanding. >> and changing. >> and changing. thus we have volcanoes and eruptions and techatologyic plates and so forth. >> on earth. >> the earth is a living planet. it's in a living universe. a universe is const

i'm surprised that you are reckoning the age the universe as long, hold is the universe? >> is it 13, 14 billion. >> i thought it was up to 15. let's say it's 15 billion years old. in terms geological computation, that is infancy, is it not? >> well, i think you are really hitting the right note here, the other question is how long do planets such as ours stay livable? you know, earth itself has about 500 million to a billion years before there is no chance animals here. >> so there is very little indication by reason of examination of planet earth that any intelligent exists. >> there is indication that intelligence exists because we exist. >> beyond in a. >> when we look back in time we don't see any others because we are ate first but i do agree with peter that microbial life is sure to be more common than intelligence. we don't pretend -- i think people who are interested in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence don't pretend to know the answer. what we say is the only way to address the question to do the search. >> what do you see ahead? >> what we would lik

moreover, the university monitors attendance.f students miss a class, the university gets in touch by phone or e-mail. the purpose is to assure the students that the university is watching over them. freshman shotaru yoshi says at first he had a hard time adjusting to university. the university staff member who meets yoshi once a week told him he should set small and attainable goals. yoshi says now he feels better about university life. >> translator: i was confused because the environment was so different. i was told to set goals. so now i'm working hard on bookkeeping. >> translator: it's very unfortunate that students drop out without realizing the importance of college education. we'd like our students to have dreams for their future and offer our support. >> the college says its support team has lowered the dropout rate. other schools are taking similar measures like offering classes with less than ten students and sending some to camp before they start college to prevent feeling isolated. >>> now let's take a look at the g

new york university? >> slow food university. >> there is actual slow food university? >> university of the gastroano, ma'amic sciences. they send students around the world to intern. >> is berkeley teaching any of these things? god for bid, stanford? [laughter]. >> all of the forestry programs. i mean, definitely, we have michael pollen at new york university. we have marian nesum. kelly brown teaching psychology. we have to connect in a way. we sort of imagine this event moving around the country. we'll continue to always have something in san francisco. we want to go to chicago, new york, and new orleans and really bring people to experience different parts of the country to pull us together of a slow food nation. >> because of time, i want to wrap this up. we don't have time to talk about the work you have done in edible schoolyards in new orleans. the slow food nation is going to happen in san francisco this labor weekend. how can people get involved, not only slow food nation, but with also get involved in this whole movement? i want to learn more, i have to know

absolutely not. >> we asked the university of phoenix's president, dr. bill pepicello why our hidden camera caught this same false promise. the same thing happens, a different recruiter, university of phoenix, if i come and pay all this money, can i teach? absolutely. 100%, 100%. >> well, no change in that particular instance. that's absolutely -- it's indefensible. it's unacceptable. and you know, we deal with those cases immediately. as they come up. >> he said they're investigating these cases. and taking steps to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> believe you me, no one here has not gone to school because of financial aid. >> and the government has been doing its own investigation into for-profit schools like the university of phoenix. >> a lot of people have student loans but the best thing about it, it's not like a car note where if you don't pay, they're going to come after you. >> in several cases, recruiters told undercover agents you're not penalized if you don't pay a federal student loan back. >> you look at, i owe $85,000 to the universit

m.i.t., cal tech, other major universities and they really want to work. it's not just the human space program. they also want to work on fixing humanity's problems and discovering the ultimate secrets of the universe. i don't have a shortage of people trying to get here. they're the best and brightest. they'll get to work on this. now, to be sure, some of them will leave. i've lost probably 30 or 40 people to companies like google in the last few years. it's interesting, a lot of them work over there for a while and so they can buy their house and get their porsche and then they come back and work for me. >> there's cachet to saying who do you work for? i work for nasa. >> there are a lot of google startups on the parade ground at ames there. you have an incubator with companies doing things that aren't space related at all. is that because you sort of are doing what the national labs did after the end of the cold war and is nasa's future a joint venture with private industry? >> absolutely. one of the other key parts of the president's program is that we

university tradition. of the solution be checking to make you the union reps from students i'm calling them in a time capsule. full of hopes and dreams. for five years. and . they wonder how many of these go back. to see what's happened. in the first two years of comps management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so. much time you look at the future business. but as all students know the fun and games can't last forever and the next day i went to take a look at the more serious side of university loyce with a fellow brit who's made his home. peter has been teaching here since two thousand and four legs and he's a senior lecturer at the faculty of foreign languages today's topic was all about how teaching and examination methods are about to change across europe. if you look at the long process we can see that every european country except. have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of russian highly cation next week thanks for your attention. this is going to be a first and pro

six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere which is. of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh off the around yeah especially here but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around . very nice people so this is the real rush for the. phrase often in my trips around russia and this really is a city full of characters i wanted to find more about tom six history there's one place here which deals with the city's time. stalin's great terror of the nineteenth literally thousands of people were imprisoned and killed in many of them lie buried amid the stones this park is now a memorial to them and i'm going to visit the first museum in russia a dedicated itself to covering the political repressions. this building was a jail for the k.g.b. predecessors the n.k.v.d. and even now sixty years after the last prisoner walked out of here it's still clawing and claustrophobic. more than fifteen thousand people post through these walls between one hundred twenty three and one hundred forty nine ten thou

norman francis is the longest tenured university president in the nation. in late august of 2005, the rising waters of the train would forever change his city, is university, and his life -- the rising waters of katrina would forever change his city, his university, and his life. it is summer, so it is peaceful around here. one cannot look at the surroundings and everything and think there was a storm that came through here five years ago. >> it is strange. we came back. there was 6 feet of water all along these buildings. this canal to the left overflowed. you cannot see the bridge that we're going to pass. tavis: this canal is in part responsible for so much of the water that hit the school? >> correct, and this broke further down by the lake. when the canal broke, the water that was supposed to be going into the lake went down and the like water came in. so that is the water that really started to flood this whole area. we talk about this catastrophe, but many people call it manmade, because the levees broke. not just flooded, but they broke, because the

a freshman from santa clara university... and a freshman from the university of pennsylvania...nd now here is the host of "jeopardy!"-- ex trebek! thank you, johnny. hi, everyone,

we are all ex cons, ph.d., and professors at different universities. because i'm a convicted felon, i should say i went to federal prison for nine years. >> [inaudible] i came to a public forum, which included a lot of attorneys, to try to rectify these matters. >> [inaudible] >> i am here. i will be outside for five minutes with this information. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. >> continue, dr. richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement. this is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind of brings me to the point i want to say. this morning, we were in the courtroom, and we have lawyers, public defenders talking about legal cases, talking about the roles they play. what i think has been lost here, and maybe even this gentleman kind of raised it, is what happens to these defendants? what happens when they go back into the court, into the lock up after they have pled guilty? about 95% of them plead guilty. you know that they are being forced to plead guilty. you a

here is our second group of semi-finalists-- a senior from the university of michigan... a senior from dartmouth college... and a junior from yale university... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. leah, this is "jeopardy!"-- not "so you think you can dance."

could offer it does years competition the teams in the moscow state technical university me managed to make it to town before many of the german schools in this quickly working to reconstruct and fine tune their automobile after its long trek across the continent everything's been carefully calculated in advance but that works wasted if you can't come to get. on the track. of the engineers it mummie changed about their design to improve over last year the main target has been shedding precious pounds from the car. to achieve this they build the frame out of lighter steel twenty thousand fifty kilograms over two thousand and nine in the engine they keep the same honda c.b.r. six hundred four motorbike four cylinder switched to a lighter single cylinder engine failed their cost efficiency evaluation. rebuilt their intake and exhaust systems from scratch and incorporated an additional control unit to optimize fuel combustion giving them a boost from forty to seventy five horsepower braking system uses the same pads and cylinders switch to discs from honda to home made to be more econom

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. this is no longer the story of rampant flooding in a faraway place halfway around the world. tonight, it's the story of a natural disaster so large, so staggering it threatens to destabilize the entire nation of pakistan -- a country with nuclear weapons in a dangerous part of the world. tonight, water covers about a fifth of pakistan, the length of the country from north to south, an area roughly equal in size to the state of florida. the rainwaters have been relentless this monsoon season and more of them are on the way. 20 million people have been affected by the flooding. 6 million are at risk right now of deadly disease. there's no way of knowing the number of dead. early estimates begin at 1,500. they will likely grow exponentially. we begin our reporting with nbc's stephanie gosk in pakistan. >> reporter: in pakistan, desperation. 19 days of monsoon rains turned into deadly floods, millions still don't have enough food or clean water. in the heartland today, angry protests at t

obviously, the universal stuff, i did not know anyone on the left to does not believe in universal health care, more money for jobs and schools, but you have to deal with a specificity. a lot of the stock is not even about what the government has to do. the truth is a lot of the stuff we can do to move forward equity we can do on our own. a lot of it is about the conversations we have in our home. a lot is what we do and do not have our teachers say in their schools. a lot is what employers have to do to step up and realize the role of racism continues to play and the subtle bias we all have internalized plays in evaluating how we see college applicants. if i am going to see this, i am going to try harder to make sure we do not act upon that. the problem is if we do not talk about the internal crises, you cannot check the behavior euan are not aware of. -- you are not aware of. tavis: assess for me how well black leaders are doing the dance with the president. and he is the president, but he is not a member of congress. he is not one of the naacp. he is not running the rainbow coalition.

nano seconds after the big bang the whole universe was in a very tiny place it was very hot and it was composed of many different things some of which we don't know what we can do with the l a c. is create conditions in a very small space that are like that first nano second and look at what nature was like right at the beginning of the universe that tells us more about what the universe is made of and how it's put together and in many ways we can't do that without making these experiments to recreate those conditions because mater is so cold now a thirteen billion years after the big bang so we have to do something to recreate that early early conditions to get access to see things that were there right at the creation the start of our universe evolving ok in line and also all right let's say what we just heard you know we can find out we can find out those things through these experiments so what yeah so what. well i mean first of all it's basic science and basic science has always been an imperative for human beings we always wonder to understand our own environment ourselves where

georgetown university, m.d. and georgetown university medical school, associate professor, ten years. george washington university, clinical professor of neurology, ten years. 14 books, including most recently mysteries of the mind. richd martin restak. >> dr. restak, you have had quite an extraordinary career. first of all, you taught at georgetown. >> yes. >> then you abandoned the jesuits or did they dump you? then you moved over to g.w. >> yes. >> do you still teach inta at georgetown? >> i'm in the faculty but spend most of my time at g.w. >> okay. i have that number, by the way, and england and wales, out of every millionth person born alive in 1880, only 223 could expect to be alive 100 years later. 1880. so that's 112 years from now. 110, about that. for those born in 1990, out of one million people, 8,710 can expect to be alive 100 years later, 40 times greater. infants born in 2025 can expect to live 100 years. >> well, we should have cancer and heart disease, the big killers, und better control by tha