brice loose from the university of rhode island graduate school of oceanography is the chief scientist of several arctic research trips, but never with so many students. brice loose: we have entered into this era called the new arctic. that's what we refer, refer to it as, and the ice cover retreats for much longer of the year and ice cover is often much thinner and so we can venture in, we can stay longer, we can conduct more detailed examinations. we're here with- with these multi-faceted goals in mind. so we have groups studying chemistry, we have groups studying microbiology, we have groups focused on birds and mammals, and we have groups focusing on the physical oceanography. so we have the opportunity here to come in and characterize this area, which has gone through quite a tremendous change in the last 5 to 10 years. we can start to highlight the changes that may be taking place. [talking in background] all of that will keep us going seven days a week, 24-hours a day for this entire 18-day cruise, so that we can make the most of every single moment that the ship provides us. na

discuss that i am now and join by nikolai petro, professor of political science at the university of rhode island, and also all the tragedy of your praying. what the classical greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra is great to talk to you and thank you very much in advance for this rather unusual. i'm pretty intriguing. look at the ukranian conflict. well, i look forward to discussing it. now, given you a focus on the greek g to g, dns, a left me a quote. one more of them are sophocles quite certain that all men make mistakes with a good man yields to. when he knows that he's, course of action is wrong, repairs the evil, the only crime, according to sophocles, is pri, isn't what your book is all about. that this conflict essentially rose out of hubris, of hubris, of the political elite. which, by the way, asian greeks considered as one of the biggest things. yes, but not just this tragedy and not just this war. all wars arise out of hubris, which at the beginning and as i say, the middle to the end of the 20th century. we had a number of realist political thinkers,

welcome back to will the part with nikolai petro, professor of political science at the university of rhode island and author off the tragedy of ukraine. what classical greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra, before the break, we were talking about ok, ukraine's as this done, she'll need to find its own unique national identity, its own national south, and many russian thinkers, including i'm for your president. logic wouldn't argued that the choice that the ukrainian leadership has made so far pretty consciously is to you know, trying those off then take a limited facility that existed within the ukraine population against the soviets or right later against the russians and utilize it into a political mechanism of sort of unifying the country from within and attracting weston financing. i can understand cynical part of me can understand the sort of a political and that's, that's the key or utility of that. but in terms of military and defense strategy, wasn't that rack? last, what other country would tolerate that hostile state on its borders, especially when it's b

i petra, professor of political science at the university of rhode island, an author all the tragedy of here praying. what classical greek tragedy can teach us about conflict resolution. professor petra is great to talk to you and thank you very much in advance for this the rather unusual and pretty intriguing look at the ukranian conflict. well, thank you. i look forward to discussing it. now, given your focus on the greek g, 2, g, dns, a, let me quote one more of them, sophocles course certain that all men make mistakes with a good man yields to. when he knows that his course of action is wrong, repairs the evil, the only crime, according to sophocles, is pri, isn't. what's your book is all about that that this conflict essentially rose out of hubris, of hubris, of the political elite, which, by the way, asian greeks considered as one of the biggest things. yes. but not just this tragedy and not just this war. all wars arise out of hubris, which at the beginning and as i say, the middle to the end of the 20th century, we had a number of realist political thinkers, international rela

of astronomy and physics at yale university. and one of the principal investigators with harvard university's black hole initiative in the us state of rhode island. kimberly are canned a data visualization science communicator for nasa's chandra, x ray observatory. and in new york state j. hon cartel to pay an astrophysicist at the rochester institute of technology, where she studies the evolution and formation of galaxies. thank you so much for being with us beyond feeling very unaccomplished, after all those introductions. now i'm joking. so many interesting burning questions here, really, but let's start with the most fundamental. kimberly, what is a black hole? well, i think a black hole is a really cool thing and it's a really interesting thing and a thing of mystery. but in essence, i like to think of them as a dense compact object. his gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it, nothing, not even light can escape. and many of the black holes that we sort of know and love, i guess, or thought to be the result from the collapse of the very, very, very massive star as it sort of gets towards the end of it. stellar e

of inoculation as universal as possible? morgan publishes this. in april 1776, the rhode island colony opens inoculation hospitals there in 76, and they send the letter to congress, calling on them to inoculate the troops, but instead, washington doubles down on forbidding the practice. washington thought that inoculation was the cause of the epidemic. he thought the british were using it as a weapon against americans. he mistrusted doctors who were using it and he had reason to. one of his earliest his earliest surgeon general was a man named benjamin church, who turned out to be a spy for the british, though he just wasn't sure that it would work. he also wasn't sure it would work logistically. he thought the soldiers could keep and that they could get by with healthy diets and and good hygiene, good discipline. washington even applauded the jailing of an inoculation named azer betz, who you'll meet if you read my book and washington made it army policy to give quote the severest punishment to any soldier and circulating and to not only discharge any officer inoculating, but t

university. she has spent the last 15 years conducting research on pirates and wives in archives in london. washington. new york. rhode island and massachusetts. including, of course, massachusetts historical society. so i'm gavin kleespies i'm the director of programs, exhibitions and community partnerships for the massachusetts historical society. anyone who might be joining us for the first time, the mass historical society is the first historical society in america. we were founded in 1791 and for the past 230 years, we have been collecting and preserving, making accessible the history. massachusetts in america. we maintain a fabulous research which has a collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages. and these include the papers of mother soldiers, artists, activists as as three u.s. presidents. we make this collection available, the public, for free. and we also a wide variety of programs such as this evening's our program season is wrapping up for the year but we still have a couple programs left. next monday, we will host our film club and this one will be discussing the film. good will hunting, and we'll be joined by tim kraft, who is the form

of legal precedent, here is a portion from justice elena kagan. she was at a event earlier this fall at a university in rhode island. she talked about that. > what we are afraid of, the court has many decisions about story decided -- stare decisis. we started off with a sense of, a court not acting like a court. a court acting more like a political actor, a extension of the political process. when we see the composition of the court change and then the whole legal system being up for grabs and legal rules getting reversed here and there, that is what makes people worry. that is what ought to make people worry that something else is going on here other than applying legal principles fairly and consistently. but instead, it just doesn't look like law when the new judges appointed by a new president come in and start tossing out the old stuff. host: that was justice elena kagan. we are taking your calls about the supreme court. lewis, katona, new york is next. democrats line. caller: good morning. thank you for checking my call. i enjoy watching c-span. this has been a very interesting discussion. it is one i have thought about for a while. i

of legal precedent, here is a portion from justice elena kagan. she was at a event earlier this fall at a university in rhode island. she talked about that. p] >> what we are afraid of, the court has many decisions about story decided -- stare decisis. we started off with a sense of, a court not acting like a court. a court acting more like a political actor, a extension of the political process. when we see the composition of the court change and then the whole legal system being up for grabs and legal rules getting reversed here and there, that is what makes people worry. that is what ought to make people worry that something else is going on here other than applying legal principles fairly and consistently. but instead, it just doesn't look like law when the new judges appointed by a new president come in and start tossing out the old stuff. host: that was justice elena kagan. we are taking your calls about the supreme court. lewis, katona, new york is next. democrats line. caller: good morning. thank you for checking my call. i enjoy watching c-span. this has been a very interesting discussion. it is one i have thought about for a whil

rhode island welcome to mr. lawrence. mr. lawrence: seven out of eight of our bandmembers went to brown university. sen. whitehouse: that is impressive. what were your favorite venues? mr. lawrence: we mostly played at house parties on campus. that is where we got our start. we also played recently at that musical. sen. whitehouse: i am proud to have you in the middle of this. mr. lawrence: thank you. sen. whitehouse: you mentioned that when artists like you play live nation venues, you are also required to use ticketmaster and a live nation owned promoter. if that were not the expectation, what would the difference be for your band and your fans? mr. lawrence: if we had the ability to way different offers, we would be able to see more of in the apples to apples comparison. you are correct in saying when we pick a venue, it is a venue that is either the exclusive promoter or the owner of. there is no opportunity but to receive a deal we have no ability to negotiate from live nation. tickets have to be ticketed by ticketmaster. it would be great to find out if it was this ticketing company, it might be a