arrow_back

search

search

sort

next_plan

New majority Black voting district means ‘fair representation', Alabama voter says

expand_more

1 views2 years ago

thumb_upLike

thumb_downDislike

library_addSave

flagReport

NBC News check_circle

1K subscribers

A panel of federal judges chose a new map for the November election after the state refused to draw a second majority Black district in Alabama, despite an order from the Supreme Court. Priscilla Thompson explains how the battle over voting maps and redistricting could play a major role in determining which party controls the U.S. House. » Subscribe to NBC News: https://www.youtube.com/user/NBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621 Visit NBCNews.Com: https://www.nbcnews.com/ Find NBC News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NBCNews Follow NBC News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NBCNews Get more of NBC News delivered to your inbox: nbcnews.com/newsletters #Alabama #Black #Voting

1

vid:199985

Comments0

unfold_more

New fallout after Biden pardons son Hunter Biden as the Senate battles over Trump's picks

NBC News check_circle

185K views 1 year ago

President Biden to pardon son Hunter Biden

NBC News check_circle

252K views 1 year ago

Dentist charged with poisoning wife accused of plotting detective's murder

NBC News check_circle

1K views 1 year ago

Philadelphia youth pushing for firearm education in the city

NBC News check_circle

153 views 1 year ago

Watch: Chinese space rocket launches accidentally and crashes in flames

NBC News check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

keyboard_arrow_left

Alex Jones Show

Bannons War Room

navigate_next

Cairo Peace Summit 2023: World leaders meet in Egypt amid fears of a wider conflict | WION Pulse

WION check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

Scientists FINALLY Found The Gate To The Garden On The Side Of A Mountain!

Future Unity check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

Scientists FINALLY Found the Location Of Malaysian Flight 370!

Future Unity check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

Key Locations in the United States at High Risk of Significant Earthquakes: Decades of Crustal Data

Future Unity check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

New majority Black voting district means ‘fair representation', Alabama voter says

NBC News check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

New Evidence | Full Measure

Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson check_circle

1 views 6 years ago

Scientists FINALLY Found The Entrance To A Lost Civilization In Antarctica!

Future Unity check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

Advice to musicians: It's a jagged lifestyle | Tal Wilkenfeld and Lex Fridman

Lex Clips check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

President Biden Was Right To End The War In Afghanistan - 'Pod Save America'

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert check_circle

1 views 4 years ago

Where Does Genius Come From? | David Shenk | Big Think

Big Think check_circle

1 views 1 decade ago

,Where Does Genius Come From? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genes and environment don’t determine different quantities of our success (or failure). Instead, they operate together in surprising and complex ways. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Shenk: David Shenk is the national bestselling author of five previous books, including "The Forgetting," "Data Smog," and "The Immortal Game." He is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. His new book, "The Genius in All of Us," will be published by Doubleday in March 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: What is genius, and what does it mean to say we all have it? David Shenk: Well genius is an amorphous term to be sure and I actually try to stay away from it in the book. What I talk about in the book mostly is this idea of high achievement, so people becoming great at stuff, becoming really, really good at stuff. I don’t think it’s really important to make a dividing line to try to figure out you know when you’ve crossed over into genius. The point is gathering your resources, doing the best you can, pursuing whatever it is you love to do with an intensity and a resilience and a passion and just going as far as you can possibly go. Question: Why do you believe the “nature-nurture” distinction to be a false one? David Shenk: Sure, so this is a big part of my book and it has a long history. We’ve been living with this myth for about a hundred, hundred and fifty years, going back to the time of Darwin, although I’m not blaming Darwin for this. If the blame resides anywhere it’s really with Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton. We can get into that if you’d like, but so the idea is that we think that it’s nature versus nurture, that there is genes that have all this information that kind of want to push us in a certain direction and then there is the environment, which is nurture, which is obviously different and kind of an opposing force and it’s kind of either or and there are all these studies that are constantly trying to figure out well how much is nature and then add onto the nurture. You know is it 60% nature, 40% nurture depending on what trait you’re talking about? Well it turns out that genes don’t work that way. Genes don’t get you part of the way there you know to the point you’re born or the point shortly after that or before that. Genes are always interacting with the environment, so the new way to think about this is that it’s not nature plus nurture on nature versus nurture. If anything it’s nature interacting with nurture if you have to use those words, so one of the phrases that scientists are using now is G Times E, that is genetics times environment as opposed to G plus E. They call it an additive model. The additive model is well, you have so much inborn intelligence and then plus what you get in the environment. That would be the you know nature plus nurture. The new model is you can’t separate them. You just absolutely cannot separate the effects of genes from the effects of the environment, so all we can do of course is to identify the resources that we have in our environments and maximize them as best we can. Question: How does research with lab mice demonstrate the fallacy of the nature-nurture distinction? David Shenk: Right, so there have been some… The science that I’m describing in the book is really lots and lots of different pieces of science from different realms of science and if there is any contribution in this book it’s really putting them together. It’s bringing all these different disparate pieces together and it’s giving a voice and some phrasing and some metaphors to what scientists have been really trying to say for a long time and just haven’t quite… They know what they’re trying to say, of course. They understand the stuff, but they haven’t quite been able to interpret it well for the public. So one of the studies is… goes back to 1957 or ’58, where these two guys were looking at rats that had been genetically designed, genetically bred that is, to be intelligent, and in generation after generation they were incredibly intelligent in you know as seen in mazes and things like that. So then they wanted to see, well, what if you subject them to different environments, extreme environments like sensory deprivation kind of thing or extra treats and you know so called intellectual stimulation for rats if you can imagine what that is. Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/where-does-genius-come-from/

David Shenk's Favorite Geniuses | David Shenk | Big Think

Big Think check_circle

1 views 1 decade ago

,David Shenk's Favorite Geniuses New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- His book is called “The Genius in All of Us.” But do any men or women of brilliance hold special fascination for David Shenk? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Shenk: David Shenk is the national bestselling author of five previous books, including "The Forgetting," "Data Smog," and "The Immortal Game." He is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. His new book, "The Genius in All of Us," will be published by Doubleday in March 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: What interests you about genius as a subject? David Shenk: Yeah. I’ve always been interested in this question of what is the difference between people who are mediocre at something and the people who are great at something, and I think a lot of us are and it’s my good fortune as a writer to be able to follow my curiosities and I’ve done a lot of science writing, so I read a lot of science and I try to be the guy who is going to explain a scientific concept to the general public, so that’s just what I do in a lot of my work. What got me on the road to this book is that I noticed that there were a lot of different pieces of science kind of pointing in this certain direction, but no one had ever really put it together. There is this… You know there are all these people saying, well, blank slate is dead. We’re not all born the same and that’s obviously true, and then there’s all these people pointing out all these… all the power of genes, which is also obviously true, and there’s all this neat stuff about intelligence, which we’re learning more and more about, so I saw that all these different pieces of science could be woven together and tell a story that in newspapers and magazines and so far other books wasn’t being told. I think partly because they were from so many different eras of science and different arenas as well. Question: Do you have any “heroes” whose gifts you find particularly admirable or fascinating? David Shenk: Great question. My mind goes in a lot of different directions there. My writer heroes are people like John McPhee who and Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe and E.B. White who are able to… were able to take nonfiction to a whole new art, particularly John McPhee, who does a lot of science writing and does that trick of taking things that scientists understand, but aren’t quite able to articulate for the general public, and just thinks about them and pushes them in all these different metaphorical ways and comes up with stories so that he can put the stuff into a format that people would enjoy reading and find a way for non scientists to kind of put this knowledge in their own brains and then of course apply it to their own lives. Other heroes, I mean there are heroes in the book. Alfred Binet who came up, who invented the concept of IQ and developed the first IQ test before it was basically stolen by Lewis Terman and not really stolen, but adapted it in this kind of manipulative way so that by the time it got to America it was thought to be this test that revealed this innate intelligence whereas Alfred Binet actually invented the test to expose weaknesses in learning that were going on in young children and say, “Hey, what can we do about this?” This is before all the science that came out. This is more than a hundred years ago. His whole concept of intelligence was this set of skills and that if we come up with a good test to divine what people… what kids aren’t learning well we see their weaknesses, we can show that to the teachers and say, all right, let’s figure out how to build up these other skills as opposed to this school which then, dominated unfortunately intelligence for many decades, which is this idea of this innate endowment, which we now know to be false. Recorded on January 19, 2010 Interviewed by Austin Allen

Israel-Palestine war: 100,000 Indians to work in Israel; govt to hire Indian workforce? | WION

WION check_circle

1 views 2 years ago

Yale Professor Details Trump's Coronavirus Treatment

JRE Clips check_circle

1 views 5 years ago