Secretary of Commerce; On British Soil; St. Mary's | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
04 Sep 2024 (14 days ago)
Gina Raimondo's Background and Career
- Gina Raimondo, the current US Secretary of Commerce, previously served as the governor of Rhode Island.
- Raimondo was a venture capitalist before entering politics and becoming the first female governor of Rhode Island in 2014.
- President Biden appointed Raimondo as the Secretary of Commerce in 2020.
- Gina Raimondo's father worked in manufacturing and instilled in her the importance of a job.
- In 1983, the Bulova watch factory, where Raimondo's father worked, relocated its operations to China, resulting in job losses.
Investigation into Nazi Camps on British Soil
- Two Nazi concentration camps were established on British soil on the Channel Islands, approximately 80 miles from mainland Britain.
- The British government is currently conducting a review, led by Dr. Jilly Carr of Cambridge University, to determine a more accurate death toll of prisoners on the island of Alderney.
- Gary Font, whose father, Francisco Font, was imprisoned in Alderney, recounts his father witnessing the execution of a young Soviet boy by an SS guard for attempting to improve his footwear.
- Sir Eric Pickles, the UK's Envoy for Post Holocaust Issues, commissioned a review to investigate the deaths on Alderney during World War II.
- The British government is being criticized for not prosecuting German officers who worked on Alderney, despite evidence of war crimes.
- The British government is also being accused of trying to cover up the extent of atrocities on Alderney and other Channel Islands.
Groundbreaking Math Proof by High School Students
- Calsey Johnson and Naya Jackson, seniors at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, participated in a school-wide math contest that involved creating a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem.
- The students worked on the proof independently for two months, with Calsey Johnson focusing on a waffle cone-shaped geometric pattern and Naya Jackson utilizing a right triangle within a circle and a perpendicular bisector.
- Their proofs, which used trigonometry, were considered groundbreaking as they provided a solution previously thought impossible for 2,000 years, and were presented at an American Mathematical Society conference in Atlanta in March 2023, garnering international recognition.
- Caly and Naya are graduates of St. Mary's Academy and solved a complex math problem. Many people questioned their achievement because they are young African American women.
- St. Mary's Academy is a school with high expectations and strict rules where all students are expected to succeed and go to college.
- Caly and Naya do not plan to pursue careers in math despite their accomplishment. They have submitted their high school math proofs for review and continue to work on new proofs for the Pythagorean theorem.
Unidentified Speaker's Call to Action
- The majority (90%) of the world's most advanced semiconductor chips are manufactured in Taiwan.
- The speaker questions what someone would be willing to protect if they are not willing to protect "a place like this".
- The speaker encourages someone to "go to me" and then counts to three.
- The speaker states that they want a strong and proud America.