And so because we've got roasted carrots, we've got pickled carrots, which I'll go into in just a minute, and then we've got the carrot mochi, Stuart rode his bike down there and-- Can you smell this, by the way?
Authors seemed to have reputations I couldn't quite deconstruct. Stuart Woods dominated an entire shelf-- a monolith of contemporary letters?Ann Rule, master of criminal justice?
I was 23 years old. Stuart was working at the Bank of Boston.We hired a couple of contractors, and I set up our first office at the Statler Office Building in the Back Bay.
We had no free time at all. Stuart worked seven days a week.I worked six days a week, and the day off I was doing laundry and paying bills-- nothing fun.
the challenges are that remain, and what can be done in the future. Stuart is an amazing speaker, as you'll see in a few minutes, and also is proud to be a Ashoka fellow.Ashoka is a social entrepreneurship prize that's offered every year that comes with a certain amount of money to help that social entrepreneur achieve things.
Stuart : This book is genuinely a set of think pieces about aspects of the American dream.Can you tell a little bit about your own personal background how that shaped your thought patterns into this book.
And all of you should be front and center in that because you are inventing the new world. Stuart : Both in the Greatest Generation and in this book, you have as one of the themes that the early experience of the depression and then wartime -- pain and heroism.It was what sort of led in a very real way to the positive aspects of the 50s and 60s.
If I can change topics a little bit -- you were the only anchor in Berlin, I believe--, Tom: I think; yeah. Stuart : --the night the wall fell at one of those defining moments?Curious your thoughts about the multiple outbreaks of freedom that we've seen.
It's very dramatic. It's been exhilarating for someone of my age to be witness of that. Stuart : Now at least some of the more recent stories had very strong Twitter etc. aspects.Of course the fall of the Berlin wall was heavily televised.
We probably s ought to have some sites that are fact checking sites and places we can go to make sure that that's true or not true. Stuart : Have you any thoughts, following upon that if I may, this tension between integration/disintegrationof groups -- not everybody got to watch you every night with a reasonably authoritative news story.
I guess I feel that way as well. Stuart : I'll ask one or two more questions, if I may.People should be thinking about questions they'd like to ask.
I thought it was a very useful exercise to see how the country has changed. Stuart : One final question, if I may, before asking other people to line up if you would.The basic structure of this book is a series of chapters on various topics.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Thank you very much.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Ouch >>Tom: And Walter Cronkite in a setting like this -- wonderful man -- he was asked a couple questions.
So that's the promise. Stuart : And let me ask our colleagues back there to adjust accordingly please.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Please. Male #2: Umm -- do you see a relationship between the growing inequality
So that's the promise. Stuart : Matt. Matt: Well, the first thing you said was.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Louder. Matt: The first thing you said was how World War II was a tremendously important event.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Let me take one last one thank you.
So that's the promise. Stuart : Thank you very much Tom.
in Chicago, Eduardo Kac, who commissioned the lab to create her. Stuart Newman: When you start to genetically engineer animals as part of an artwork, I think that you're really beginning to cross a line that isn't necessary to cross.Bill: But animal rights groups say that Alba's artistic visibility may publicize her plight as a lab animal.
academic freedom, and he basically asked the class, "Where is the lawsuit?" Uh and then I gave a lecture myself on John Stuart Mill on Liberty, his defense of free speech. So, in a sense, you could say that the university helped me to create some good content for a class on contemporary
them on purpose um so the the concerns the questions we should be asking uh to quote Stuart Russell who's the author the co-author of one of the leading AI textbooks which many of you may have read uh the the concerns with AI are not about spooky mergent Consciousness the concerns with AI are about the ability to make high quality decisions which is exactly the thing we're trying to do
I mean, these things were completely unheard of. And Stuart was brilliant, a brilliant artist-- not so much a brilliant bass player, but a brilliant artist.
It was and trust. What what what I think we basically, you know, when when Edgar and Chris said, "I think we should work with Stuart Duncan." And I had never met Stuart until last year. And and my first thought was absolutely.
And if someone has information, those paintings could bring you a ton of money if you have the information and it turns out. So the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist is the largest art heist in US history, probably the largest-- other than Nazi looted art-- in the world. Today, it's valued at $500 million.
The idea that systems, beyond our control, should be designed to protect us might seem anodyne in this room. But to John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham and other philosophers like that on whom our legal system and its principles are often based-- that would have been anathema to them for the same reason that suicide stopped being illegal not so long ago.
is really irritating, because I didn't grow up with that. And I was telling Stuart about it.
This is one of my favorite pictures. It's Tom Stuart -Smith, who's a UK-based designer. And it's just such a beautiful picture, because it shows how a garden can blend into the landscape beyond without-- it just feels like it's
What's sort of the impulse behind that? Because with Stuart , you were trying to really communicate something sincere. Yeah. I've done really stupid comedy-- you know, Belushi as Liz Taylor choking on a chicken bone.
I remember we'd finally gotten interoffice email. I emailed Stuart . Just working on this proposal. I swear it will be done soon, and then we'll get out of here, because the contractions are starting.
It's what John Stuart Mill talked about actually back when, that an economy reaches a carrying capacity.
Because as Stuart said, it's really, aside from the great performances, the one thing that really makes the movie special.
The other is by Stuart Nicholson.
Josephine wrote to Stuart Lake and asked him to come to the funeral, which he did.
And then Stuart Dybek, this great Chicago writer, has this thing about the story Is always talking to you.
to this room. So thank you very much for all of that. Our speaker today is Stuart Cohen, who is the executive director of TransForm, which is a local nonprofit based out of Oakland that's been there since 1997. And their mission is to help promote and achieve better transportation and land use planning practices for all the
So John Stuart Mill said ask yourself if you are happy, and you shall cease to be so.
the pages of John Stuart Mill, who described banking collapses in the earlier part of the 19th century -- how they're caused, how they peak, and what happens afterwards, i.e. the
Our next question is from Stuart , and he asks, "Your story is amazing.
like a Beethoven did or a John Stuart Mill where their parents are drilling them in Latin and Greek and trying to turn them into prodigies,
My dad didn't graduate high school, so it was very important. And there was a guy who Stuart was a little model laughter who said that the higher power had put an apartment in his life one week.
And so I made a character who was very vulnerable and kind of at first blush an idiot, but to try to explain what recovery was. And so that's where Stuart Smalley was from. Yeah.
I sent Gil and Lonnie Netter and Stuart the email.
I'd banter back and forth with Stuart and we'd argue and fight and things like that.
spoke to a man called Stuart brand you may know him as the author of whole earth discipline and in referring to the
Right? And Stuart Russell's quote, "How do we retain power over entities more powerful than us forever?"
Absolutely. So, every week uh we read one classic text or couple pages from classic text. We read Aristotle one week, John Stuart Mill another week. So, Plato fits very well into that mix of classic text. So, in late 2025, the Texas A&M University System Regents adopted a policy that requires approval for
But part of the things that we talk about is what Stuart Mill calls experiments in living, which means that we can't really
Now, why would you think Ted Kennedy from Boston would want to make it a federal crime? How many people here have heard of the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist? There you go-- a couple of you.