and has written several previous titles on the topic including "Global Shanghai", "China's Brave New World and 20th-Century China". His latest title "China in the 21st Century" has been described as a guide through the thickets of China's history and the turbo driven landscape of its current affairs. Please join me in welcoming Jeff Wasserstrom to Google. Jeff: Thanks a lot for having me. Thanks for coming out. It's very fitting I think to speak
In Atlanta, I stand outside one of the glassed in rooms in the fifth floor intensive care unit at the Emory University Hospital. Inside, the dense thicket of electronic devices, a veritable forest of medical computing, crowds the room. A respirator, kidney machine, infusion machines pumping antibiotics and pain killing opiates, and gadgets monitoring heart rate, breathing,
So, what happens in the book is that a self-appointed alien delegation comes to earth to try to fix this terrible situation and they quickly establish that the only way they can do this is to reverse this complex thicket of laws and international treaties that literally go back centuries.
And of course, their attitude-- in particular, his attitude-- about copying underwent quite a transformation as Apple's size and influence grew. And that's the phrase that lawyers often use-- "patent thickets ." There's so many of them in each component, whatever it might be-- a mouse, a computer, the CPU--
so I'm literally talking about married couples. What do married couples fight about in the transition to parenthood? Well, it falls on gender lines, believe it or not. And to do that, we have to enter into a whole thicket of psychosocial versus genetic issues. There are many more social, cultural influences on gender specific behavior than there are genetic ones. In fact, I tend to map them. If you wanna see what I think are the social prejudices, there are social prejudices against females, there's social prejudices against
'The Invasive Fennel'. Once the sheep are removed, the fennel, the seeds you use in sausages and so on. This grew up into an enormous thicket . It's the size of this room, 20 feet high. And delicious piglets hid in the thickets and the Goldens and nothing to eat. What are they gonna eat? Now we get to the poster animal out of all of this. The dwarf island fox, which is four- to six- pounds, the size of a small cat, through the principles of modern biogeography which will either make an animal larger or smaller depending on its availability
first tablets in 1900. The language of the tablets was unknown, and the script used to write that language, well, that was a thicket of strange, beguiling symbols.
And of course, their attitude-- in particular, his attitude-- about copying underwent quite a transformation as Apple's size and influence grew. So if you were to try to do the equivalent in today's legal climate, you would run into a thicket of patents.
This is the Diller Von Furstenberg sun deck between 14th and 15th Street, looking out to the river. This is the Chelsea Grasslands moving north at the beginning of the 13th block straightaway that runs through West Chelsea, followed by the Chelsea Thicket , a more enclosed environment.
And I mean, it sounds like something Samuel Beckett would have come up with for a play. 'The Invasive Fennel'. Once the sheep are removed, the fennel, the seeds you use in sausages and so on. This grew up into an enormous thicket . It's the size of this room, 20 feet high. And delicious piglets hid in the thickets and the Goldens and nothing to eat. What are they gonna eat? Now we get to the poster animal out of all of this. The dwarf island fox,
And then also, he'd be pretty discriminating about who he would let show up too. It couldn't be the wrong kind of person. It had to be not only a good runner, but a good person. And it was this ridiculous sort of thicket of qualifications, which I couldn't see anybody who could qualify would bother showing up for this thing. But I was still intrigued.