positioning of my universe now that other top ten is universities. for that purpose is actually mainly target. mainly for universities and the governments not mainly for students but of course students parents though look at the rankings but last night of our initial per person. and can you talk about the popularity of this making system among who is it is a for for example students who before entering the university papers were or is a professor wants to get a job does he pay attention. again most. of our ranking is mostly used to buy universities and governments if less a for example the university looking for collaboration a strategic partnership with other universities they would look at the ranking for recruiting professors new ph d.'s they would look at the ranking so it's more like . reliable in a sense what are the criteria from your point of view of excellent higher education nowadays is the best it well i mean the best university is the university that prepares the best students the best graduates were the university the the best research w

we like to think of ourselves as ben franklin university, a university which is elite, but not of the disappeared were not an ivory tower. we believe in integrating two social impact of and economic for our city, for region and for the country in the world. >> host: by the way, since the original location? >> guest: now, we are in university city in west philadelphia. kind originally started in a very small downtown philadelphia and moved in university city, which we've helped make into a via brad arts and culture and economic club. >> host: once again, here is the book. it is "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it". amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is booktv on c-span 2. >> if you want to compare people come you got to first while persuade them that their soul is in dire danger, headed for the ultimate bond fire of the existence. and for that, you need to label them followers of the devil,. diabolical human beings. so they look to the devil and the titis -- a very complex religion well structured. they looked among th

the matter universe up here and the entire matter universe begins to accelerate.nd share a common language and a cannon ball running out of energy at the apogee, they begin to run up of the energy and begin to get attracted by -- close to the get to each other accelerate. that is it. gravity between the two universes' -- what does that apply, standard cosmology says it's the universe is going to end in 1 hundred trillion years, big bagel's theory says if the universe is going to end it is around the corner so pack your bags now because it is 1.6 billion years approximately depending on how you do the math. it is 1.6 billion years away. it will be after the mayan calendar ends. there is a trivial amount. one way or the other this is a theory that explains dark energy. will be accepted by the scientific community? we will see. one of the leading quantum gravity cosmologists says about a god problem, a fairly mathematical despite the fact that james burke, the guy behind the connections series says it is the most thrilling cliffhanger of a book he can ever remember r

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>> we are in the university city in which philadelphia. pennoyer originally started in what was then 83 sluve ball downtown city of philadelphia and moved to west philadelphia and what we call the university city which helped make into a very vibrant cultural. >> once again come here is the book. the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning undermines it. amy gutmann and dennis thompson are the co-authors. this is book tv on c-span2. >>> from book tv recent visit to providence rhode island author and to the surprise when a journalist michael stanton talks about his book the prince of providence the rise and fall of america's most nefarious -- notorious mayor. >> it's the story of the body anthony, the longest serving mayor in rhode island history. he was lovable and had transformed the city in providence through a city that was rated in the publications and he also presided over the breathtaking corruption over three different decades that ultimately landed in the present and he's a very colorful character. i called h

this half hour startling new research suggests a major similarity between the human brain and the universe could help explain one of the greatest phenomenons of the last hundred years i'll tell you about it in tonight's science and we all know whole foods for its wide range of organic foods and other environmentally conscious products but the chain store is serving up the heaping helping of fascism to explain in tonight's daily take. welcome to your take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a shout to zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four or so or first call or the night paul in oswego new york hey paul what's on your mind tonight. oh oh i think there is a really big connect you might do about the gun industry. that there is a huge shoemaking between conservative religious people and the gun industry and i think they're all going to go to export to god if you create want to carry it around the world as far as that goes between christian and muslim and other really didn't well so you're

that's the universal response. it totally happened to me as well.f the magic knowing that anything can happen at any time. right at this moment -- i'm g d good. i could have coughing or the power could go out or i could get tongue-tied. that brings us back to our favorite anchor. >> 40 years since the launch of apollo 17. hmong those remembering the flight, its commander. the commander who said he thought his voyage -- i beg your pardon. i will try that again. can we go back to the start of that. >> yeah. i like the way he handled it. ask the teleprompter to take it from the top. we talke

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we are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania philadelphia joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann and she is the co-author of this book "the spirit of compromise with government demands it and campaigning undermines it." president gutmann are we a completely compromising nation? >> we were created in compromise. a lot of people think of the revolutionary war which separate us from our mother country but if you recall historically speaking the founding fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution, they were as polarized as any set of americans had been throughout the country in history there were pro and antislavery compromised so yes, we were funded and compromised but today compromise has become more difficult than ever before. >> what do you mean when you talk about the uncompromised mindset? >> we live in the era that has been characterized as a permanent campaign where every day is election day, and campaigning in the elections take for uncompromising minds that you mobilize the base, deutsch rall endless amounts of money. the 24/7 news cycle covers

you often see them on university campuses. cranks tend to be older types, people in their 40s and 50s. often they are college professors, computer scientists, often people with a very technical frame of mind that are drawn to these intricate conspiracy series and they are often often men. one was david ray griffin, a very mild-mannered guy. they love the idea they are unraveling some huge puzzle. they will get to the the source of all the world's evil. >> it is just unbelievable jonathan and alex. >>> joining us right now just called in is eric o'lafferty, the daughter of dawn hochsprung, who was killed in the shooting. >> it is just kind of amusing to me on evidently. i was looking for a video online and i found a ten-minute youtube video about some actress that they were saying played my mom in the shootings and he was like photo shopping like an arm from the sunglass band on her head and saying the crease from her hair matched the actress's sunglass crease. my mom had short hair. she hadn't had long hair for more than a yea

a universal background check won't do anything, he says. but more than 40% of gun sales escape background checks thanks to gun shows and internet sales. senator chuck schumer explained the reality. >> why should someone going to a gun show have a different rule? there is no logic to it, none. i was there. i was the author of the brady bill. and that was something that we were forced 20 put in the bill, those of us who weren't for it, as a way to get the bill passed. but the last 15 years has proven it doesn't make sense. >> gun lobbyists created the background check loopholes, and they want to keep them in place. mark kelly is not going to put up with it. >> we will prevent gun crime. that is an absolute truth. it would have happened in tucson. my wife would not be sitting in this seat. she would not have been sitting here today if we had stronger background checks. >> baltimore police chief jim johnson destroyed lapierre's argument about the inconvenience of background checks. >> nearly 92% of the individuals that go in to try to do a back

i went to pearl high school, and i went to howard university. i graduated and went to the university of michigan. >> law school? >> first the history department write got a ph.d. then i went law school. i wanted to do legal history. those days you had to get both degrees. you couldn't get them at the same time. now you can. i had to do one then the other. then . >> did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> i came to howard, yes, i came on purpose. absolutely. >> why? >> i went to segregated schools in nashville growing up. pearl high was a segregated high from north high negroes as we were called in that day. i went howard and went when i went to michigan i was one of the first students who was black in the ph.d. program. when i got there. the head of graduate studies said to me, he was surprised to see me. i found out what they meant. he told me there was one time a negro came through here years ago. he didn't graduate. that's what he told me. [laughter] so i was there for the department. i was sent there by michael fess l howard who

>> it is often said that mathematics is a universal language. no matter where we are or who we are, regardless of culture, country, gender, race, or even religion, certain mathematical principles remain true. for example, 100 can always be reduced to its basic building blocks of 2's and 5's no matter what language it is that we speak every day. mathematics is indeed a language common to all of us on planet earth, and the most fundamental letters of its alphabet are called "the primes." these numbers have the very unique quality of being divisible by only themselves and one. they can't be factored any further, and as a result, they're often called the "atoms of arithmetic." prime numbers are so fundamental and mysterious that they've intrigued human mathematicians for thousands of years. are they so fundamental that other intelligent beings in the universe might know about them, too? in the 1960s, seti suggested that if there are other intelligent beings out there, they might share the language of mathematics with us. seti relied on the idea that

o pennsylvania, and director of the university supreme court clinic. what's your practical experience with the law? sunny was a federal prosecutor in new york city and i saw every kind of case. i saw people who were sorry for what they'd done and wanted a chance to make amends and the system didn't do anything to encourage it. i saw people angry and in denial and the system didn't confront them or make them fess up to what they'd done. i saw a lot of good well can meaning lawyers and professions who took it for granted ited a to be an assembly line but the defendants and jurors and victims were frustrated that they weren't listened to. >> host: how often were you approached for a plea bargain? >> guest: in every case. out of 100 cases, there were three jury trials and one person trial in a year, which -- one bh trial in a year which is typical. we can't do away with that system but at sentencing we can allow people to talk and focus on working and making restitution and apologizing. >> host: did you ever suggest that as a prosecutor. >> i did. the peop

it's a lot of fun. >> universal pictures...beginning. >> do you think there will be a "200 years of movie memories"? >> [ laughs ] i would hope so, yeah. i don't think i'll be around for that, but the great thing about this show is that we work with universal pictures. we have a great relationship with them. so, as new films come out, we'll be able to incorporate things that aren't in the show currently and keep the show relevant and current. >> even if you haven't seen all the movies, "100 years of movie memories" is

[ laughter ] doctor, thank you so much for joining me neil shubin, "the universe within."we'll be right back. [cheers and applause]

the university does not support this position. i am heart broken about the additional threats to these families at this time. >> now there's no word on what the university could or would do, anderson. he is a tenured professor, as you mentioned, and, in fact, the blog that he writes on is not in any way affiliated with the university. >> people are free to express themselves as they want. i think, you know, if he's a legitimate professor he should be able to defend his statements. >> in that sort of -- in that statement he gave which it's a nonapology, apology. the story of i'm sorry if i offended someone. one is left to inquire whether the sandy hook shooting ever took place, at least in the way law enforcement and the nation's news media have survived. then he suggests, there may have been, quote, trained actors working under state and federal authorities and in cooperation with the broadcast network talent. would they meet with government officials and have hired crisis actors who i've never heard of to go into newtown, someone

from harvard university and her ph d. in social personality psychology from stanford university her work in research on happiness has been honored with the john templeton foundation grant science of generosity grant templeton positive psychology prize and a million dollar grant from the national institute of mental health she's also the author of the critically acclaimed book the myths of happiness dr little mercy joins us now from our los angeles studio a little risky walk of the program. it's a pleasure to be here thank you thank you for joining us let's start out with just the simple stuff what is your definition of happiness well i use the definition that researchers use which is that happiness essentially has two components so the first component is the experience of positive emotions joy serenity curiosity affection and the second component is the feeling of you feel the feeling that your life is going well that you're progressing towards your life's goal so you really need both of those components to be a truly hap

university presses themselves are shrinking in number. commercial presses are now combining, and we may be facing only two or three commercial presses in the next few years. but that means for authors -- what that means for authors is that the days of auctioning books is over, the day of taking a controversial book that's turned down by those two or three major presses and may not find another press to publish them are increasingly near. my sharpest criticism for me as an academic is closer to home. it's to universities who with their libraries are in bed with google, who have without permission copied, digitized and stored my books along with millions of others which they have no legal right to do under the banner of fair use. and they've even started a program to distribute what they call orphan books until it was pointed out that these books are, of course, not only in copyright, but in some cases their authors are still alive. i'm speaking specifically here about the case that has resulted in the trust court case in which i am a plain

doesn't have to be a university, just postsecondary education. and/or you could use the money for housing. it would accumulate to about $54,000 a year which not coincidentally is what it would cost you for one year at penn or four years at a state-supported institution, and $54,000, interestingly enough, is a little bit more than 20% of the median selling price of a house in the united states. so it's the new g.i. bill for american children, 2012. it is not means tested. everybody gets it. it can be used for two things, and it would do two things, i think, that are important. one, although i can't tell children from 0-18, i can least reset the game at age 18. it's a restart. so with all the disadvantage that happened up until 18, at least at 18 you'd have the financial wherewithal to be a homeowner or at least start being a homeowner or to get advanced education. the second aspect of it, um, is to rebuild the middle class. i just don't see any social policies on the horizon. the election is over, we've heard everything that the candidates had to

i went to howard university. then i went to the university of michigan. first the history department where i got a ph.d. then i went to law school. in those days you had to get both degrees, but you could not get them at the same time. now you can't. now had to do one, then i had to do the other. >> did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> i came to howard. yes. i came on purpose. i went to segregated schools and national. negros as it were called in those days. that made sense. when i went to michigan i was one of the first to this who was black who was in the ph.d. program because when i got there the head of graduate studies said to me he was surprised to see me. i found out what that meant. he told me, there was one time they came. he did not graduate. so i was sent there by my professors at howard who wanted me to work with a particular professor there. >> who are your parents? >> my parents were poor folk. my father left a surly. one of those lost, stolen, or straight man. my mother raised this cause been sometime in an orphanage when i

and i'm a person, you know, i've been around a long time, i care about this university.rning. i love research but i'm a realist. >> reporter: uc administrators say developing more online courses would be a great opportunity to education more students. the university says it is looking to add about 150 online courses for freshmen and sophomores within the next three years. uc president mark yudof has said he's pledged to faculty that no layoffs will occur as a result of those online courses being added. the university says the courses offered would help ease the strain of an already crowded general education courses, some of them are very packed. but some students are cautious about this proposal. >> online education can be a tool for helping students learn but it's not a panacea itself and what we really need to do is direct more money into the classroom and away from executive salaries. >> reporter: so while one of the student regents who is one of the regents but he's still a student, he was rather cool to the idea of having more online courses, saying it would deprive

in syria at least eighty die in a double bombing at the university of aleppo the center of a battleground between government forces and rebels vying for control of the ancient city. fronts builds up what it calls an anti terror mission in increasing its presence and calling for foreign aid the critics say it's the nato allies causing the global spread of terrorism. and the germans prepared to stand up for their money as the e.u. central bank plans to centralize control of members cash to send it to troubled states. international news and comment online on the screen around the world this is. they promised a target here square and it's not looking too far from it gas has been used in warning shots were again heard outside pakistan's parliament where thousands of demanding immediate and sweeping changes leading the music charismatic an enigmatic cleric he said to be a favorite of the military among his in these photos demands are calls for broad government reform and a harsh crackdown on corruption in an apparent effort to modify the demonstrations pakistan's supreme court has ordered the a

a professor of biomedical engineering at the university of michigan.g found his way to my lab and i was just received a big research grant from darpa. i didn't know him well. he basically wouldn't leave. he wouldn't allow me to tell him no. and he kept saying -- i'm your guy, darrell. after a while, he just basically wore me down and i made a decision kind of on the spot, this guy has the spark. with that little opening, i was able to convince him that this was a good opportunity and actually it worked out really well. we had a number of crazy ideas that we would try. and they would always sort of end up in some type of a public indication. the newest idea we had was to come up with the $100 spike. the idea was can you take all the equipment that we had, that cost darrell like $40,000, and reduce it down to the most simplest thing that you could actually record a neuron for under $100. >> to really unlock the secrets of the brain, requires a state-of-the-art technology. there's a certain cost associated with that. they made the first one out of wood an

in addition to which the university is patting itself on the back. >> the university of chicago released a short statement a little while ago. the university of chicago takes this incident very seriously. officials are working to better understand and address what took place. as for the four that were arrested, they include a 17 year-old college high-school student. all four have been charged with criminal trespass. they will be in court on february 26th. one of the candidates for jesse jackson junior's old seat in congress is standing out, when it comes to banning assault weapons. debbie halvorson says she does not support a ban on semi- automatic firearms. she says the government needs to go after lawbreakers and enforce laws we already have on the books. halvorson is the only one of the 17 democratic candidates who has taken this position. a special primary for the second congressional district seat is february 26-th. a sheriff in milwaukee is giving out some controversial advice to residents in an emergency simply calling 911 and leading is no longer your best option. are you prepare

this is a miss snow universe.n russia, and these gals are out there scantily clad in negative 5.8 degrees fahrenheit n. bikinis. >> one girl said her teeth were chattering during this. i'm sure you can imagine that. >> why would they make them do this? why? why? why would you have to do this? if you're going to have them pose in bikinis, take them inside a warm room and build some snow and ice. >> well, if you want to be miss snow universe, you've got to be in touch with the snow in your universe. >> then wear a winter coat. have them pair a wintwear a win out in the freezing cold. >> the moment they slip on the fur coat hat to be a great moment. hey, nobody forced them to do miss snow universe. >> right nep could have opted out, beth. >>> it's one thing to make this your entire life. this is a teaser for project 365. basically, andy lewis and scott rogers are attempting to do something extreme every day of the year for 2013. that's basically averaging a base jump, a slack line a sky dive, every day for the entire

is it universal background checks? is an overreaction to the president's 23 executive orders. they really weren't much -- things like, you know, ordering studies into what causes gun violence. i mean these weren't like, you know, massive grabs for power. i think this rhetoric is sort of over done. jon: the president generally does frame his battles. he cast his opponents as the republicans in congress, when it's fair to say that he's got an awful lot of democratic opposition to some of these proposals as well. >> that's true. what is happening here is this goes back to individual district, and, look, the country may be wanting more control, or some action to make guns safer, but it's different by district. in inner cities whether you're a democrat or republican gun control is much more popular. you get out in the more rural states, more rural areas and there are democrats who hold some of those seats, you know, 60% or more own guns, are strong second amendment rights advocates and don't want anybody to impinge on the r

this is the miami university marching band.n an integral part of the spirit and pride of miami university and surrounding oxford, ohio and butler county. >> miami, ohio, will tell you, is close to my heart because my sister actually attended miami, ohio. a beautiful campus. one of the most beautiful i've ever been to. and their marching band is huge. i'm watching it head our way right now. >> 260 members. love the percussion. the band has performed in macy's thanksgiving day parades, carnegie hall. let's let them perform. ♪ >> they have won numerous honors and performing in the macy's day parade. numerous honors. ♪ >> the miami university marching band. from oxford, ohio. ♪ now advancing, the illinois state float celebrates the home state of president obama and the birthplace of first lady michelle obama. the land of lincoln float features american flags, the state flag, and a panorama of the capitol. the state seal adorns the front of the float. the float is approximately 20 feet long, 8 feet wide -- >> the south shore drill t

with us now is from the university of chicago, neil shubin author of "the universe within: discoveringhistory of rocks, planets and people." neil, i'm going to quote you to you and get you to unpack this for me. you write, we recycle hydrogen inside of us comes from the big bang. other elements come from stars and supernovae and will return when the elements get spread around the universe. not to sound zoolander about this but you're saying the big bang is inside me? explain that. >> yeah. we have -- you know, we are loaded with history and every organ, cell and gene of our bodies. we have over 3 billion dleer years of history of life and the planet and 13.7 billion years of history of the universe. the elements inside us, that which makes us, the stuff which we are began in the big bang and generated in the reactions of stars and in the explosions that spread that stuff around and create other elements. so the element that is are in our body elsewhere before they came to be us and after we die and pass they'll return to the universe and who knows where they might be? another planet or

online arizona state university the university of cincinnati and university of arkansas will become the first schools in the nation to offer free online classes to come with credits to the respective institutions this new program is a particularly big deal for our nation's undocumented immigrants who want to gain an education but can't do so legally as help more universities decided to join the program and offer top notch education for free to millions of americans. senator john mccain at a press conference yesterday mccain was asked about the upcoming hearings over the appointment of senator john kerry as secretary of state it was his reply. we will look forward to interrogating him and his hearing the next two or even more surely surely it will bring back for the only time waterboarding to get the truth out of making. sure and the use of it by american forces on our enemies is far from a laughing matter is incredibly offensive and ignorant comments are particularly surprising coming from a man who experienced firsthand the pain and suffering the torture is responsible for and the

from harvard university or ph d. in social personality psychology from stanford university and is the author of the critically acclaimed book the myths of happiness let's get back to it you mentioned just as we were about to hit the break there at the last in the last segment how you were suggesting that people write gratitude letters or thanks letters of knowledge thinks things like that i remember enough to remember when the boy scout . i don't mandate i guess it was was that you had to do a good deed every day and i remember finding this particularly difficult that the definition of a good deed and i think this changed probably in the sixty's or seventy's but i was you know boy scout the late fifty's early sixty's was. is something that you do the benefits another person and they never know that you did it. i'm curious your thoughts on how you know what we might have lost by just losing that boy scout and presumably girl scout you know ancient wisdom it seems to me. well i hope that we haven't lost it i mean there

he does not go to the university of arkansas, he goes to georgetown. and from georgetown he becomes the arkansas candidate for the rhodes fellowship and goes to oxford. he is an incredible success

so i keep telling him georgetown university. but ladies and gentlemen, the journey we began together in 2001, that is afghanistan and the united states. it was for a great cause. freeing civilians from terrorism and radicalism, little bitter rating afghanistan -- liberating afghanistan from an invasion and a rule by the taliban. the first one, in reverse order, the first one freeing afghanistan happened within a month and a half to two months. subbing squect of that afghanistan began its journey towards democracy, the rule of law, progress in all aspects of life. it went all right. it went reasonablely good under the circumstances. without a doubt with the help of the united states and our other allies around the world. the second part, freeing us all from terrorism and radicalism, didn't work as swiftly as we expected. there was bumps along the road and setbacks. now, the afghan people regardless where they stand recognize that afghanistan could not have made the progress that we have made in the past 10 years without the help