the first bombs that killed the supreme leader that uh killed those other several dozen doves that he was meeting with? in the southwestern part of um of Iran.
I went to college initially to draw comics. And in southwestern Virginia where I'm from, there weren't any illustration programs. And so I went into a graphic design program.
And so for me the Bay Area feels a bit like a second home, even as I am adjusting to the new world of Arizona. Never been a Southwesterner before, but I've found that's an enjoyable place to live as well. So I'm going to talk to you about the book that I wrote that's pretty newly off the shelves.
Raquel has this great book, "Brown Neon," that we're going to be talking about today. "Brown Neon" is a meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.
So we got to thinking, well, Southwestern Bell doesn't work, so we changed the name to SBC. And people assumed that stood for Southwestern Bell Corporation, but in reality, it didn't stand for anything, Jim. It was just SBC.
Very good. So the opposite of robust cannot possibly be-- the opposite of fragile cannot possibly be robust. If I'm sending a package to southwestern Siberia, and it's a wedding, and you're sending a wedding gift-- so we have champagne flutes.
and if you have as these guys did uh years of research on uh endangered species in the southwestern Forest that they had accumulated during their time as Al Hooters uh you know more than the people that you're up against as they did and they won they won the case and not only
I'm your caretaker, Valentin. In Dax, in southwestern France, Valentin Chew is used to introducing himself every day to the same people. It's just part of the job.
This is Lascaux Cave. This is from a subterranean complex in the southwestern part of France. And in these caves, some of the first modern humans in Europe decorated these caverns with hundreds of pictures of animals and symbols and abstract shapes.
have a little lost our respect for venomous animals we tend to think of spiders as things that should be swatted and just PT away or for example we have in the southwestern us we have tournaments to kill thousands of rattlesnakes every year for no real
And then we acquired Pacific Bell. Well, then Southwestern didn't exactly fit, because Pacific Bell, which is California, is not Southwest. It's due west, right?
mother imparted this information I heard some curse words downstairs but not much else and then the next day my father who had been born in Louisiana Southwestern Louisiana had to go to my school and talk to my teacher about what she had said he
And how do I understand it? So I wrote this book that's based on a course that I teach at Southwestern University. The course is called Effective Thinking Through Creative Puzzle-Solving.
And so I figured it was time to write a cookbook about that. And so today's dish is actually a play on a classic Mexican or southwestern dish called carnitas, which you've all seen carnitas tacos everywhere. And most of the time its-- carnitas are cooked with a pork shoulder, which has tons of fat in it.
The average middle-class to upper-class family doesn't segregate between who goes to school, whether it's the male or the female child. And the south, especially the southwestern part of Nigeria, would have every child from middle class to upper class, averagely have a university education and at least attempt to build a career, one way or the other.
We're doing some really neat work in cochlear implants. So this is a project that we're working on with colleagues at UT Southwestern , specifically a fellow named Ken Lee. And so what you're looking at here, in the video that's playing in the top left, is a cochlear implant from a company like Cochlear.
I think he saying that every cotton labor camp carved out of the Southwestern woods used torture, used whipping as it central technology.
So I stopped doing it and just put it aside, always in the back of my mind. In the meantime, I moved from southwestern Virginia to Boston to go to BU for grad school. My wife moved our four kids to BU so that I could go to grad school.
That was Judge Green's ruling. Judge Green's ruling. And I was at Southwestern Bell, which was the smallest of those entities and took care of a few states in the Midwest-- Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas.
I wonder if you could maybe take us inside some of those conversations and meetings where you and your executive team were debating about the name change. I absolutely can. We started out as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which was pretty accurate. And then we acquired Pacific Bell.
it is so big that if you plunked it down on the southwestern United States it would blot out
the first bombs that killed the supreme leader that uh killed those other several dozen doves that he was meeting with? a circle here. Iran's oil is all in this uh southwestern part almost all of it is
Today, there's a memorial on the green pastures in southwestern Pennsylvania, and the White House and the United States capital stands spared from the destruction.
We have a DARPA grant that is focused on 3D printing some artificial tracheas with colleagues at UT Southwestern .
In another community, the Moapa Paiute are a tribe in the southwestern -- southeastern section of Nevada.
Because you can see that the whole central part of the United States actually looks a lot like the southwestern United States by 2100.
So let's zoom in, for example, to Southwestern US.
My wife moved our four kids to BU so that I could go to grad school. And just to recap about that town I grew up in, southwestern Virginia is beautiful, if you ever get a chance to go and see. Roanoke is called the star city of the South.
It's due west, right? So we got to thinking, well, Southwestern Bell doesn't work, so we changed the name to SBC. And people assumed that stood for Southwestern Bell Corporation, but in reality, it didn't stand for anything, Jim.
hotfoot and my father told me this story so it's 1952 3 years before the murder of emit till my father is 15 years old he's living in Southwestern Louisiana in a teeny tiny little town with two gas stations in it and when my father was
Jalen is known by, I would assume, pretty much all of you-- but Detroit native, high school at Detroit southwestern , a school boy basketball
For example, red week is Italian-American type dishes, and blue week is Mediterranean theme, and orange week is Mexican-Southwestern .
She's an ear, nose, and throat, head and neck surgeon at UT Southwestern .
And we'd love cochlear implant patients to be able to really appreciate sound, appreciate music. My wife, who's here in the back, Felicity, she's an ear, nose and throat head and neck surgeon at UT Southwestern . And so we're working with her and some of her bosses-- Ken Lee is one of them-- to really try to understand these self-wrapping atraumatic
in 2011. Stone is the 14th largest craft brewery in the United States and the largest American-owned brewery in the Southwestern United States--a position it achieved without advertising,
But the volunteer experience which was a month for us; we went to a farm in rural Southwestern
I tell the story in the book of a woman named Sue Yellowtail, who was a hydrologist studying a river in a remote canyon in southwestern