Episodes – Page 40

President Obama’s 2016 Budget; The Vaccines Controversy

February 15, 2015 by

February 9th, 2015: Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello sit down with Edward Achorn of the Providence Journal to discuss President Obama’s proposed budget for 2016 and the latest iteration of the debate around vaccinations.

Chinese Hegemony in the South China Sea: White House Chronicle

December 7, 2014 by

December 7th, 2014 Linda and Llewellyn talk with Congressional adviser Barry Nolan on China’s hegemonic takeover of the South China Sea.

2015 in U.S.-Vietnam Relations: White House Chronicle

November 19, 2014 by

January 28, 2015: Lllewellyn and Linda sit down with Colin Jackson, Assistant Professor at Naval War College, to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the U.S. and Vietnam in the upcoming year.

Michael Dukakis on White House Chronicle

November 4, 2014 by

November 24th, 2014. In a special episode of White House Chronicle, Llewellyn talks with former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.

Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Llewellyn King

Jimmy Dean, the country musician, actor and entrepreneur, famously said: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” A new wind turbine from a California startup, Wind Harvest, takes Dean’s maxim to heart and applies it to wind power generation. It goes after untapped, […]

Farewell to the U.S. as the World’s Top Science Nation

Llewellyn King

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.” It is passion that keeps scientists going, dead end after dead end, until there is a breakthrough. It is passion that keeps them at the […]

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Llewellyn King

Europe is naked and afraid. That was the message at a recent meeting of the U.K. Section of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), at which I was an invited speaker. It preceded a stark warning just over a week later from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also speaking in London, who said the danger […]

A Commencement Address — Get Used to Rejections, We All Get Them Sometimes

Llewellyn King

It is school commencement season. So I am taking the liberty of sharing my column of May 10, 2024, which was first published by InsideSources, and later published by newspapers across the country. As so many commencement addresses haven’t been delivered yet this year, I thought I would share what I would have said to […]