and yale university. the nus invites first-class researchers from associated universities. it's also established student exchange courses, joint degree and double degree programs. in the two-year masters course, for example, students take an example at nus in the first year. then they have the option of finishing the degree at a partner university. singapore began actively recruiting international students ten years ago. it's part of government efforts to build up a highly skilled workforce and promote high-tech industries. various strategies are used to keep talented people in singapore. scholarships require students to work in the country after graduation. >> so therefore i expect this college to have a good number of foreign students. they will provide fresh perspectives, they will stimulate the learning process. we hope that after graduation some of them will strike roots here. >> we are now joined by akiyoshi yonezawa, an expert in the internationalization of higher education. professor, thank you ve

yeshiva university. the case said that faculty was like management, so they need not be recognized as a unit. public university campuses, unionization is one of the fastest-growing areas of organized labor right now in the country. you have a situation where the unions have recognized the manufacturing base is shrinking and the private union base is shrinking. so public-sector white-collar jobs are where the growth will happen. you saw some of this. people were little surprise during the fight about wisconsin a few months ago, to hear that there actually were unions of professors at the university of wisconsin. unions are generally something we think of asking for people who are in jobs where they can really be exploited, where maybe people are not as educated. and yet it is really growing in higher education. so that is one big difference. i think you are seeing the effects of that. unions at the bargaining table will mean less distinctions in terms of merit pay. pay will be based more on your level of

at some universities, it is lengthened. university of michigan, 10 years. you have to show why the university should keep you on permanently. what you do during that time -- the university of claims three things happen. what matters is your publication record, your teaching record, and your service to the university -- serving on committees. the call this the three legged stool of academia. this time coincides with other things going on in your life. people have pointed out that usually it is between 30 and 40, when women are may be wanting to have children and start families. this is when the most intense part of your career is going on and it is all or nothing. at the end of that clock, a committee of your own department members will look at your record and set up or down. >> your fellow professors? >> exactly. most of them in your own discipline. it is not a professor from another department. it is people you have been with for the last seven or eight years, sitting in secret judgment of you to decide whether you stay. >> secret? >> the proceedings are n

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 goes 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 isow 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 constan

how well russian universities compete with their foreign counterparts. hello again a welcome to spotlight. on r.t. i'll bring our vent today my guest in the studio is alan goodman russia is trying hard to modernize its education system and bring it up to international standards but some experts believe this would only harm the traditions of russian higher education they advocate russia going its own way so what about an outsider's view of where an average russian student stands against foreign counterparts here is the president and c.e.o. of the institute of international education alan good. even though russian specialists are valued around the world the russian higher education isn't popular with foreign students only three percent of students who go to study abroad choose a russian university this has become a serious concern for russian educators they want a bigger share in the international educational programs russian universities are educating their students in accordance with the european high education accords this tries to standardize the quali

and the universe that people like us could and had it but the universe upon universe.is is the inflationary multi verse and the nice thing about this approach is the idea that space underwent this rapid swelling nearly gone from the ripples of gravity that has been subject by some very interesting observation and tests. if the universe went through this rapid swelling nearly non, here's what would happen. little tiny quantum fluctuations in the universe would be stretched out by the rapid swelling in spirit out across the sky and demonology if i have a balloon with a fine tipped pen imagine my roel message on the surface of the balloon you couldn't actually see if it's too small but if i blow air into the balloon as it stretches, my message gets smeared out across the surface of the balloon and now you can see it. the tiny quantum jitters in the universe are like a little methods and that is when space under this rapid expansion that the message gets smeared across the sky a tiny temperature differences and the heat left over from the big bang is called the cosmic radi

and the universe that people like us could and had it but the universe upon universe. this is the inflationary multi verse and the nice thing about this approach is the idea that space underwent this rapid swelling nearly gone from the ripples of gravity that has been subject by some very interesting observation and tests. if the universe went through this rapid swelling nearly non, here's what would happen. little tiny quantum fluctuations in the universe would be stretched out by the rapid swelling in spirit out across the sky and demonology if i have a balloon with a fine tipped pen imagine my roel message on the surface of the balloon you couldn't actually see if it's too small but if i blow air into the balloon as it stretches, my message gets smeared out across the surface of the balloon and now you can see it. the tiny quantum jitters in the universe are like a little methods and that is when space under this rapid expansion that the message gets smeared across the sky a tiny temperature differences and the heat left over from the big bang is called the cosmic r

because your university teaching of math and superior to ours and everything you can you name. a couple of russian universities which you think should be should be among the ranks among the best in the world i deserve to be i think you'll see moscow state and st peter's third simply and before too long the twenty nine universities designated for research and. the government is investing in excellent i mean this new program i think that's going to that's going to change the way you mention math what are the areas which would you recommend for international students to come to russia where we have. good or maybe even better than others russia is famous for physics for nanoparticles research for optics in addition to the fact that you've got a rich culture that's given the world. dostoyevsky tolstoy the place of jericho so there are so many things here that people from other cultures interested in knowledge can learn but i think the real growth is going to be in the science and tech and math area and what are the russians mainly go to to study in the us what they mainly what what

and the universe that people like us could and had it but the universe upon universe. this is the inflationary multi verse and the nice thing about this approach is the idea that space underwent this rapid swelling nearly gone from the ripples of gravity that has been subject by some very interesting observation and tests. if the universe went through this rapid swelling nearly non, here's what would happen. little tiny quantum fluctuations in the universe would be stretched out by the rapid swelling in spirit out across the sky and demonology if i have a balloon with a fine tipped pen imagine my roel message on the surface of the balloon you couldn't actually see if it's too small but if i blow air into the balloon as it stretches, my message gets smeared out across the surface of the balloon and now you can see it. the tiny quantum jitters in the universe are like a little methods and that is when space under this rapid expansion that the message gets smeared across the sky a tiny temperature differences and the heat left over from the big bang is called the cosmic r

russian universities are educating their students in accordance with the european higher education accords this tries to standardize the quality of education throughout europe but for some russians that's not enough and a debate is underway on the future of higher education within the country. mr goodman welcome to the show and thank you just thank you very much for being with us thank you well first of all i wanted to ask you to comment on what pro. barrenness and recently the us president he said that that education and innovation will be the currency of the twenty first century and therefore i quote we will expand exchange programs and increase scholarships like the one that brought my father to america and well it's and that's what about to say could you explain this please well you know i understand about as far the better but what does it mean saying that the currency of the twenty first century it's how all of our societies fuel you know variation is how we better educate our people and that's how we prepare them for not only global citizenship but work in a global marketplace educa

the university staff believe a mood in the globalized world makes going abroad for a to cation been a true experience that point of view is shared by sponsor a u.s. student who is. doing a degree in russian studies and came to my school who some on the ground experience obviously for the study around the world and i think it gives a lot more perspective for somebody because you can be educated at a college and not really actually be educated if you can understand somebody else's point of view and going abroad and studying in different countries very different universities really gives you that opportunity spence's friend grigori was born in the you with ceasar grew up in the who was saying can you read the boast of a global educational experience an easy go to compare systems in their response of the planets united says system educational system is very individual you pick your courses you pick your glasses as far as joining goes this thing is more traditional i enjoy russian system more because it's more familiar to me and close to my heart while studying in most. of the school gooin

for it, is the basis of one of the main pillars of many universities which is university research.niversities exist to impart knowledge, to discover new knowledge. they are the reasons we have classrooms and laboratories. something is greater that is going on in the midst of this academic process. we began here -- hearing more about ourselves. we began hearing more about ourselves than even those around us. we began learning about ourselves. awareness of the world around us is an important part of personal growth and it often ocrs in the diverse setting of a college campus. now i grew up as the chancellor shared with you, in a small west texas community. it was called paint creek, and with the exception of one trip in 1964 when i left to go to the national boy scout jamboree, i sa philadelphia, new york and washington d.c.. otr than that one trip, that was the only world that i knew, that little place called paint creek. a little school out in the middle of this county, 60 miles from the closest place that had a post office. across the market road was a methodist church in a baptis

both directions of university are shut down at this point.s the latest from here in east palo alto. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> 6:52. there is a traffic backup that's expected this morning but this because of a freebie. >> this is a good traffic backup. where bay area drivers can fill up their tanks without forking over one penny. that's coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] everyday, your car does a lot for you. do something for it. show it some love. chevron with techron. care for your car. the investigation of a deady >>> welcome back. time now is 6:55. if you are just joining us, we have been following the investigation of a deadly police pursuit. it's down in east palo alto. >> it's causing some delays for commuters coming off the dumbarton bridge. let's go to elizabeth for the latest. >> chopper 5 is over the scene. there's a lot of police activity. it is a fatal accident investigation so those likely take a while. so no estimated time when they are going to get streets reopened but university avenue is shut down in

you cannot use university avenue to get through. people are being turned away and using city streets or using side streets. but i don't think that's a good idea really. i think you should stay on the dumbarton bridge and make a left on willow road and just go -- use willow as your alternate and not university. let's move along and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza because of an earlier crash that's gone. the traffic has been backed up all the way out to the may so it's heavily than it normally is. you need more time. give yourself extra time if you're trying to make that meeting or whatever on time. you need an extra 15 or 20 minutes this morning to add to your commute. and in contra costa county that motorcycle accident has cleared on highway 4. the traffic is also not that bad after the crash. it's always slow in antioch. 680 is okay from concord to walnut creek. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. very good morning to those of you stuck in the fog for the last three months, yesterday was good. today will be even better

one reason the university should have corporations for donations and u.c. president said he had dinner with the governor. he hopes the legislature and governor will pull through. if not the board could likely vote on these tuition hikes in november. >>> a new report estimates that the nation's foreclosure crisis will lead to a multibillion dollar drop of home values in oakland. homeowners will see their collecting i have home property values drop by $12 billion. the report says the value of a home by an average 22% when it goes into foreclosure. these are the areas that will be hardest hit. east oakland at the top. that area is expected to lose more than $700 million in property values after 5,000 foreclosures. >> nationwide the banks are handing out warnings for homeowners that have fallen behind home mortgages. they say initial foreclosures went up 34%. it's the biggest gain in four years? one of bay area's best known bakery's is shut down because an oven fire. the bakery is owned my thomas keller. fire first say they needed to knock down the flames. >> w

one reason the university should have corporations for donations and u.c. president said he had dinner with the governor. he hopes the legislature and governor will pull through. if not the board could likely vote on these tuition hikes in november. >>> a new report estimates that the nation's foreclosure crisis will lead to a multibillion dollar drop of home values in oakland. homeowners will see their collecting i have home property values drop by $12 billion. the report says the value of a home by an average 22% when it goes into foreclosure. these are the areas that will be hardest hit. east oakland at the top. that area is expected to lose more than $700 million in property values after 5,000 foreclosures. >> nationwide the banks are handing out warnings for homeowners that have fallen behind home mortgages. they say initial foreclosures went up 34%. it's the biggest gain in four years? one of bay area's best known bakery's is shut down because an oven fire. the bakery is owned my thomas keller. fire first say they needed to knock down the flames. >> w

universities should be ashamed. how could american universities be flaking for a catalog with not one american made item in it? turns out the average u.s. back to college shopper is expected to spend more than $800 this season. $46 billion in total. billion. if all that was spent on u.s.-made goods, economists say that could mean almost a half million new jobs. so, we went to smu. they said, until we pointed it out, they didn't even know the catalog company was selling exclusively foreign brands. they said they're locked into a contract with them right now, but as soon as it is up in two years, they promise they'll seek out a catalog that does sell u.s. products. and as we dug in, we learned a lot of universities are locked into similar deals. so we tracked down that catalog company, on campus marketing. they admitted they were embarrassed not a single item in their catalog was made in america. but would they be willing to make the switch to start selling american goods instead? yes, but with one big catch. the amer

in over 67 million dollars worth of revenue to a university that like most other public universities that had large football programs, are getting less and less dollars from the state coffer. so all of a sudden the board of regents are looking for new revenue streams and who do they turn to? they turn to the football team. so the football team has to do anything and everything it can, not only to try and win but also to try and win and bring in, bring in money that they often give back to the university it is a very, to my, a very unholdy alliance that we have right now between what is a revenue generating operation in collegiate letics, placed under the umbrella of a nonprofit institution of higher education, which to my knowledge doesn't have a mission statement that says when the national championship, produce all americans, that sort of thing. >> brown: meantime as we said, the games go on. >> absolutely, and i'll be watching them this weekend. >> brown: all right, kevin blackistone and chad mcevoy, apologies for the technical troubles. thanks a lot. >> lehrer: and to the analysi

there is a new miss universe this morning. >> miss universe 2011 is angola. >> pretty lady. 25-year-oldfirst miss universe from angola. she beat out 80 others for the title. >> her smile is her biggest weapon she says. >> she has a lot of other assets, too. >> what a cutie pie. >> i am just going to smile. >> that's your weapon of choice. >> you be the experts on football and we will be experts on this. >> smart man, frank. >> give us your secret weapon. >> my secret weapon is going to be the weather today, guys. it's going to be a beautiful one today. another mild day. temperatures even a little bit warmer in those inland spots than what we saw yesterday. then we're going to cool down for the rest of the work week. look at how cool we are by the end of the week. 79 in the warmer spots. high pressure building for the weekend. if you are headed to angels taking on the a's tonight it will be 64. partly sunny. game time 7:05. probably take a jacket with you if you are headed to the stadium. how are we doing traffic wise and. >> we had an earlier problem, but it's cleared to the shoulder. h

. >> rose: a university professor of art history and history at columbia university, a prolific writer, and keen observer of just about everything from a perfectly cooked egg to the politics of the moment. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: often some of the keenest observatioof us is from someone who is not always with us. >> well, you know, i feel moreith us, as it were than not that is truly the way i spend my time but it true to say pie passions are evenly divided. between the two but it does strike me with all my kind of american side of me, operating, we're an extraordinarily dangerous and difficult and worrying moment. because ver possly since the civil war, ctainly not since the new deal have two utterly and unreconcileable philosophies or ideologies of governmen really been, you know, in the boxing ring with each other. one of which, the one that gets the most press and the one which gets the headlines, e republican side. and certainly the most eloquent airing in right wing talk radio, wants to do nothing short of liquidating american g

he is bill lord of the universe. he is the master, the creator, the alpha and the omega, the beginning of the end. why in the world would we do anything less but settled? we should never settle. all of you are living in what i often call and tell our children, you are living in the decade of decision. some people say it is from 16-26 or 18-28. it is that decade of decision when you make the fundamental decisions o your life. , when you decide what is your relationship will be with an almighty god and when you make your decision on where you go to college, what your major will be, what you're like occupation will be, who your life mate will become a buying your first home, perhaps starting your family. you are in that decade of decision. that is why this topic is so relevant even to champions for christ. even as champions, we are tempted to settle. here again today, i am telling you, what ever you do, don't settle. because this mighty god that we serve as a vision so big that you are privileged to walk in it every day

all universities and businesses now are talking about social media. how to use it and in corporate it in education and business. but the phenomenon seems to be out of control. how do we understand it and how are we using it? >> there are information you can get from any different source online or you can actually pay for it. you can get free tools like google analytics or subscribe to places or get investment in social media. >> and we want to do research to find it's impact on academics. >> it belongs in akah deemia because everything belongs in academics. and for educators in the classroom, it's important that we leverage technology to help fulfill our mission because some things technology does well and other things it doesn't do as well and we need to -- and what we're doing now is to figure out the affordances of technology versus face-to-face interaction and then rebalance based on that. >> what we heard in our earlier report is that some people believe they can multi-task and learn at the same time. now their academics, in my department in jour

working tirelessly to ensure anyone who wants to go to university can. freeing part time students from up front fees for the first time. ensuring fairer repayments for all graduates. but we failed to properly explain those dilemmas. we failed to explain that there were no other easy options. and we have failed so far to show that the new system will be much, much better than people fear. so, lessons learned. but the most important thing now is to get out there and show that university is for everyone. we should all take a leaf out of simon hughes' book - who has been busting a gut as the government's advocate for access. travelling the country, explaining the new system and finding ways to get young people from all backgrounds to apply to university. simon didn't like the decision we made, and for reasons i respect. but rather than sitting back he has rolled up his sleeves and got on with making the new system work. simon, thank you. right now, our biggest concern is of course the economy. the recovery is fragile. every worker, every family knows that. t

previously taught at the university of chicago, university of texas, ohio state.omewhere like princeton or rafters. so his research and teaching focuses on financial institutions, capital markets, real-estate, finance, and investment. welcome them. and professor christopher sanders is a professor of real estate and co-director of the richard paul richmond center for business, law, and public policy at columbia business school. i would like to see your business card. must be a lot of room on your card. as research exposed many topics in real-estate and financial markets including real-estate cycles, credit markets, debt securitization, mortgages, and other topics and and advised policy makers in the past. afford to his testimony and expertise. thank you. as i said to the previous panel, we include your statements for the record. we ask you to synthesize a statement about five minutes or so so that we can have a discussion. with that welcome back and look forward to your testimony. >> thank you. the opportunity to be here and talk about ideas for refinancing and res

the university has to do the same thing. >> u.c. officials say it's because of cuts because of state funding they have to do this. they need the money to pay the bills and keep the system from slipping into mediocrity. that is the choice, increased tuition from 8-16% for the next five years or have an average university. the discussion will start at 10:45 this morning here at the campus on owen street here in san francisco. >>> we're learning a lot more about a convicted felon in san jose ready for having a stockpile of explosives, guns and ammunition in his home. police arrested a 6-3 mark sted lock of making criminal threats and illegally possessing explosive weapons. they blew up eight devices they found in his home and evacuated ten neighboring houses. they found 40 to 50 firearms with ammunition. his roommate said they were left over for 4th of july fireworks. >>> he knows that, he defend his right to bear arms regardless of what anybody else says. >> he has 15 prior convictions but for some reason he was not on a state list of

tuition at this public university is starting to look like a private university. it could cost up to $22,000 a year to attend the university at california. students got the last few round of tuition increases were bad and staged rowdy protests each time. it could mean a 16% increase each year for the next five years. officials say it sounds painful that they think it's a real benefit to look far ahead. at know what you are getting. there won't be any midyear surprises, tuition likes recently. students we talked to say it would be a tough blow to their budget. >>," my god. like it's already increased so much already since i've been here. >> i work when i'm not going to school and i don't have the money to pay for it. if it goes up any more, i don't know what i'll do. >>> they say the money is necessary because of state funding that keeps shrinking. they say it's this or u.c. because an average university. there are indications that they think there might be some protests. we have barricades and police officers are staged at the front door and here comes another off

the search is on for a suspect in a sexual assault at san jose state university.phanie chuang reports. >> reporter: good morning. we are here where it was actually pretty deserted yesterday on labor day but that's when a female student says she was sitting in front of the administration building at 9:30 yesterday morning and was approached by a man who offered her a cigarette. they started chatting and apparently he was able to convince her to go to the engineering building where she said he groped her and she did fight back and was able to break free. that's when she actually came this way, took off running around the corner at san fernando and 7th to that bus stop right there. that heads to capital and snell. so she jumped on the bus. she said he followed her, jumped on the bus, too. and they rode the entire line to the very end at capital and snell, that's when he realized that she was calling pd. this is 7 or 8 miles later. he jumped off the bus and ran off. police don't know where he is. they sent a message to san jose state students yesterday with a descript

. >>> university housing overbooked its residents. how students like living in a hotel. >>> sjsu ice president -- sjsu's president is still working on things. >> and hear about the fire that left a fraternity homeless. how the community is helping them. elcome >>> you're watching update news. >>> hello and welcome back to another semester of update news. i'm karina harvey. >> and i'm betty winn. thank you jr. joining us. people in dwight benson hall may be in studying in a hazard. there was a fire but now new information raises health concerns. kathy is live with more. >> reporter: i'm in from the of the highway where -- i'm in front of the school that includes the campus for the audio-visual systems. the fire broke out 3 weeks ago in equipment. it was confined to the room. no one was there at the time but it infiltrated the duct work. a speaker yesterday who was a fire chief said it may be a health risk. the interim chief is waiting for more information. >> as i know of right now, today, there's no problems to be known of because i h

university is closed.he way. -- we have un-- uncourtroomed reports this is the result of a high speed chase -- that intersection remains closed. to the bay bridge earlier accident past the toll plaza this is what will find backed up into the mcarthur maze damage done metering lights are on. approach from the maze traveling from 80 very slow traffic also 580 jammed getting into the toll plaza. once on the upper deck, a lot of company moving well into san francisco just may take you a while to get past the toll plaza. san mateo bridge looking good good alternate if you have to go that way taillights headed in the westbound direction towards foster city. abc2 news.com/traffic for the latest. >>> let's look outside from our roof cam, beautiful sunrise that is about to happen over the bay area as we look towards oakland. when you step outside we are in mid to upper 50s north bay valleys fairfield oakland fremont. everybody else low to mid 60s. monterey bay inland mid 50s from gilroy to 58 at monterey to near 60

universities -- at u.s. universities, how of the small pool of graduates, the majorities are for national students. randy mentioned the georgetown university study that projects jobs and education requirements in 2018. we will need 22 million new college degrees. but the country is on course to fall short of that number by at least 3 million. moreover, we're falling short in many of the field we need the most feared computer-related bachelor's degrees awarded in the u.s. dropped from 60,000 in 2004 to cut 38,000 in 2008. nor are these shortfalls limited to the bassos degree level. last year, only about 1600 computer science ph.d.'s graduated from u.s. universities. of these, some 60% were foreign nationals. as well, for instance turn 50% of the computer engineering degrees at the u.s. masters level. this is poor employment for recruitment. one of the stumbling blocks in this debate is that people often ask how you can talk about a shortfall of talent when the unemployment rate is hovering around 9%, and incr

universities -- at u.s. universities, how of the small pool of graduates, the majorities are for national students. randy mentioned the georgetown university study that projects jobs and education requirements in 2018. we will need 22 million new college degrees. but the country is on course to fall short of that number by at least 3 million. moreover, we're falling short in many of the field we need the most feared computer-related bachelor's degrees awarded in the u.s. dropped from 60,000 in 2004 to cut 38,000 in 2008. nor are these shortfalls limited to the bassos degree level. last year, only about 1600 computer science ph.d.'s graduated from u.s. universities. of these, some 60% were foreign nationals. as well, for instance turn 50% of the computer engineering degrees at the u.s. masters level. this is poor employment for recruitment. one of the stumbling blocks in this debate is that people often ask how you can talk about a shortfall of talent when the unemployment rate is hovering around 9%, and incr

they allowed a few universities and a few theological fact faculties, humboldt university was one of them. and they had to allow theological faculties because the majority of the people were catholic and reformed, and they had to comply with what was pushed on them. but subvertly they were keeping things going. my wife and i visited a theologian. their daughter was a 14-year-old, and she could never go to university because she was going to confirmation class. they couldn't suppress -- they couldn't suppress the act of worship, but they could keep everything else out. bonhoeffer's adapting to that, and he takes all the passages in scriptures or anywhere else in which jesus is the figure that impels you out into the world, and that's what could happen here. now, whether miller is himself a communist or not, it was approved by the communist authorities. then another sample -- i won't do more of them, but it'll show you a variety -- in south africa, this is bonhoeffer in south africa. we visited there the last year there was apartheid. a young leader in a movement that helped bring down

for it, is the basis of one of the main pillars of many universities which is university research.niversities exist to impart knowledge, to discover new knowledge. they are the reasons we have classrooms and laboratories. something is greater that is going on in the midst of this academic process. we began here -- hearing more about ourselves. we began hearing more about ourselves than even those around us. we began learning about ourselves. awareness of the world around us is an important part of personal growth and it often occurs in the diverse setting of a college campus. now i grew up as the chancellor shared with you, in a small west texas community. it was called paint creek, and with the exception of one trip in 1964 when i left to go to the national boy scout jamboree, i saw philadelphia, new york and washington d.c.. other than that one trip, that was the only world that i knew, that little place called paint creek. a little school out in the middle of this county, 60 miles from the closest place that had a post office. across the market road was a methodist church in a b

is something that emerges by the evolutionary process in the universe wherever in the universe brains or something functionally equivalent to brains evolve do you think it's conceivable that as the internet of the number of computers connected to it begins to approach. the numbers that are similar to the number of axioms and ganglions and synopses of the brain. that the internet itself may use and consciousness emerges from it the consciousness may emerge from the air . that is a fascinating science fiction speculation and before we laugh it away we should remember that that's pretty much what did happen in the evolution of brains because brains started off as very simple nervous systems and then the simple nervous systems got bigger and bigger and bigger more and more interconnected in complicated ways and that is what's happening to the internet and so i wouldn't absolutely rule out the possibility that sometime in the future something like the internet probably very different from the way the internet is now but something like the internet and global network of electronic connectio

take a look at this it's the moscow state university in sparrow hills which is in the southwest of the capital it's a great politician point overlooking the city but from there we're streaming the full display of the laser display and light display taking place in celebration of moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth birthday it's all online for you to r.t. dot com but let's bring you a few moments of it right now right here on our to your screen and just to let you know we see phoenix's fly across the start in the last few minutes or so as well as the entire building turned into a transformer and appear to fold up and itself it really has been an amazing spectacle it is in itself an amazing building and what we see. on it right now is something that hasn't been seen before because indeed this display is attempting to get into the guinness book of records now three million people afford to gather to watch this. no expense spared seven hundred million dollars. this is cost from an event. and you can't probably notice it right now but the weather is very good here in moscow and that's partl

chinese universities do not have these issues. english universities do not have these issues.e are spending this time on these matters. it definitely needs to be cleaned up. as i said, when these scandals break they can do tremendous harm to a university. host: back to the funds. south dakota, jim. you are on "washington journal." caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is -- host: jim? caller: the morning. my question is how much is the education of students being hurt by all of the emphasis being put on professional sports in colleges? we are not looking at academics anymore. we are looking more at sports all the time. would it not be a smarter thing to allow students to play sports if they do good in academics? guest: that should be the thrust of what college and university is all about. the n.c.a.a., and i applaud them, supported secretary arne that you dotiative not get a certain gpa that you do not play in the post-season tournament. i was a chemistry major at the university of maryland with a very difficult curriculum. i would come into practices late, but i d