i was the sort of undeserved that in cambridge to did to kinds of history after we simplified. goodness, how time flies when one is having fun. where is andy, stand up and be counted? there you are. how long do i have? >> [inaudible] >> that sounds alarming. [inaudible] [laughter] door life will expire in three minutes. [laughter] i'm counting now, two minutes and 59 -- yes? >> [inaudible] >> 8:15. standing there, but skinny kid with the curly hair, get him. [laughter] interrupt our fun at your peril, buster. [laughter] there were two kind of history could do and they have pedigree both of them in the life of history itself, and all the way back. in the 19th century when history became the university department, the gloomiest of all phases, the great one was oxford founded by the great medical mehdi the list, no irony intended at all but he was horrified by what he thought of as the contamination of history by lucent literature. he had in mind egregious examples like charles kingsley becoming mysteriously of egregious professor in cambridge but he also had in mind since i've ju

in cambridge, i was having to teach. tuesday morning in 1967, i thought peter at villard in the morning and adlai stevenson in the afternoon. i was haunted by what they would have made of each other. they would not have gone for adlai stevenson. leaning out of the window, sweet old ladies came through in cambridge, and one said to the other, don't you just love history? it is so old. i appreciated this. it is old and young. this sort of cross fertilization in the present moment -- what one might do in those films, we are about to start shooting. there are follow-up films. if you don't find some of those words on that particular occasion, i very much doubt they will. before doing that, i worked for harold, this rather glorious days. a very reasonable roll. i work for at the occasional magazine, sometimes not. in a way, a good journalist in the first draft of history. i was lucky in life. goodness, how time flies. stand up and be counted. how long do i have? that sounds alarming. your life will expire in 3 minutes. two:59.

own bicycle avoid and traveled of that and became the first colonial accepted at the laboratory at cambridge university which would later become he would become the head. been much of science i find the example young men are ribbon make their great discovery sometimes when they're teenagers then spend the rest of their lives refining it. rutherford was the exception to the rule probably because possibly because he started a little later in life. because of where he came from. but between 1911 and 1932, rutherford and i stein -- einstein were the two best known scientist and the world. rutherford was the greatest of the experimenters with the possible exception of michael faraday and einstein was the greatest theorist of his generation and this century. they were friends and other bird had a great deal to do with getting einstein out of germany and into the united states which may have been a mistake on rutherford part but then a as part of the american public relations machine he did very well scions became einstein and rutherford reputation in the united states began to disappear. but in th

solicitor general elana kagan spoke in cambridge, mass., on june 3. she was the dean of harvard law school until earlier this year when she was confirmed the solicitor general. [applause] >> such a pleasure to be here. there's all this clutter around, so i'm going to clear it. ok. congratulations, everyone. it is a special join with me that i can come back and share with you again. i feel closely attached to this group. i said a few years ago, they as students and i esteem, we had begun together, and for a similar reason i feel very close and moved by this class because we are finishing together. u.s. students, and again, me as dean. so i will always think of you as my fellow graduates . i have a fabulous job right now. it is a tremendous job. so if i could just echo how important it is to love your job, it is really important to love your job, and i love my job. i have a three-part test. for whether a job is worth doing. everything has to come in three parts of your law professor, right? here's my test. the first is that the job challenges you intell

american history, with obsolete equipment and hands in the small winding corridors of the laboratory in cambridge, they were the first to split the atom before the -- before the americans were able to and the germans were able to and both of them were putting hundreds of times their resources into trying to do it. but with old equipment and three young men, rutherford split the atom in 1932. another reason i was interested in writing about him and will write about tim burners lee. he was the anti-edison. thomas edison invented for money. it was a business. it was america. rutherford was of the english school as later a young man named tim burnerslee who felt that all scientific publications should be open. that the way science -- rutherford never had a patent in his life. the way science advanced was by open dissemination of information because you could bet there's some kid in new zealand who would read this and figure out the next step. and that's the kind of science i wanted to write about. when rutherford died, he died rather early. in the late '30s, his bank account was 7,000 pounds. which w

cambridge, illinois, democrats line. caller: good morning. i have agreed criticism of your former guest, the congressman. i felt he overreacted to a caller. the caller made a connection between corpse and supporters of israel which i probably would not have made. a up the congressman overreacted to the caller. host: thank you. i have to let you go. we're going to the floor. i appreciate you calling. the house today takes up some appropriations actions. the also of homeland security out there this week. they passed war supplemental yesterday. it will move onto other appropriations bill. the senate is in session.

i did it with my kids but if anybody did it there are museums where rutherford talked and at cambridge. the amazing thing about them is that most of his experiments are about this size. they look like music boxes or something. the reasons he was a great teacher was not because he had great rhetorical skills but because he connected math with something that you saw work. the simplest example is the way friction is taught so math in the abstract is very difficult. i had not thought about the question but as part of the answer i feel for better or worse but i think for better is we do not have to train mathematicians as much anymore it in our society because they are being replaced by mathematicians from korea, india, up. i teach at usc down the road. and the engineering school and the mass and the biological sciences as well, are very, very heavily asian americans of that like many things in america, we have outsourced math. we know the people on wall street cannot account worth a. [laughter] >> living people verses dead people for lack of a better word you have any thoughts on that? ver

now you are described oxford and cam bridge you say you -- cambridge, you say you would be advocating in your own versatility. >> i probably get that from high school teaching and university teaching. what want, i think we are recallly culturally unevolved -- a strong term to use -- unless our kids know the story. i mean, i'm with you. unless our kids in high school and middle school -- all the time and effort spent in middle school about learning about learning, you know, sort of zits 101, really. what i think our children must know is the basic outline of the american and world historical stories which means chronology. it means chronology, narrative. it means information. it means not assuming that every single library can be got from wikipedia. so, i think that is sort of absolutely critical apresent tissueship beyond which one can fool around with cross-discipline anywhere interests in university. so i hope we're on the same side. >> since you go to cicero, et cetera, is there anything peculiar about your approach to history and art that makes you such a fantastic sparkling with

you know, i got tired -- i was raised in cambridge and i was given liberty by any doctor father to write scholarly history and i went to teach at oxford and there was a sense you were tied to an immemorial curriculum. never mind what you wanted to team. i was interested in crack pot things to do with cleanliness, feats tissues and strange and wacky things, and i remember standing up and proposing that the history on the history of the family, for example, and it was as though -- i remember being met with looks of rummy-eyed disbelief as though i uttered some unspeakable profanity. and then the next day i tried to kilnle the enthusiasm of one of any undergraduates in something very marginal, say the russian revolution, and i was meant with twinkle, which reminded me very much of what cousin gentleman's jasper says, treat the dawns like the village parseon and you won't be wrong. i wanted to sort of wipe the smile off their country gentlemen face and i wanted to be able to teach what wanted, and harvard hired me for a term, and the first thing that the department chairman at harvard -- i g

now would you did scribed oxford and cambridge, you seem to be advocating in your own versatility across -- >> something different from high school teaching and university teaching. i think what we really are culturally uninvolved, that's a very strong term to use, unless kids know the story. i mean, i'm with you that there are kids in high school and middle school, but what i mean again is all the time and effort spent in middle school about learning, about learning. you know, sort of zits one-to-on101.it means chronolog. it means chronology. it means a narrative. it means information. it means not assuming that everything reliable. it can be got from wikipedia. so i think that is the apprenticeship beyond which one can fool around fruitfully i think with disciplinary interests and universities. i hope we are on the same side. >> is there anything peculiar about your approach to history

and oedipus-- i showed my kids but if anybody did it, there rutherford museums where he taught and at cambridge, and the amazing thing about them is that most of the experiments are about this size. they look like music boxes or something, but and the reason he was a great t

harvard, and he is a research fellow in bonn, germany, and the national bureau of economic research in cambridge, massachusetts. his research focuses on productivity and expenditure growth in health care, racial disparities in health care and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. then we have dr. peter bach who is a physician at the memorial sloan kiterring cancer center. his work has focused particularly on improving the quality of care for african-american patients in medicare including cancer care. he previously served as senior adviser to the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services where among other things he oversaw the agency's cancer initiatives. folks, i am excited to have you here. this is an issue that is, that we've needed to have a fully flushed-out discussion on these issues for quite some time, and i'm glad you could make it here today. the next thing we have to take care of, we have to swear you in. so, please, raise your right hand. please swear or affirm that the information you have provided is true and accurate to the best of your kn

snow was also a student of rutherford's at cambridge and they were friends and there was going to the dinner at the house together of the head of the english department and snow was talking about how brilliant this man was and what he had written and interpreted. rutherford was extremely well read and said, yes i know he is but don't you sometimes wonder or wish that he knew what it would press a button at the front of the house a bell rings in the back. [laughter] >> with that our time is up. please chime in thanking the panel. [applause] >> for more information on the los angeles times vessel of books and visit l.a. times.com/extras/festival books. >> annelise and martin anderson used formerly classified documents to contended that ronald reagan believed the destruction of nuclear weapons was tantamount in achieving his goal to bring an end to the soviet union the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california hosted this event. it is 25 minutes. >> [applause] >> hello, i was just thinking in has now been about 34 years finally when i first met ronald reagan and we al

snowe was also a student of rutherford's at cambridge and they were friends and they were once going to a dinner at the house together of the head of the english department and snowe was talking about how brilliant this man was and what he had written, what he had interpreted and rutherford who was extremely well-read said, yes, i know he's brilliant but don't you sometimes wonder or wish that he knew why if we press a button at the front of the house, a bell rings in the back? [laughter] >> with that our time is up. please join me in thanking our panelists. [applause]