Hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a question . Do you have a question, sir . Thank you. Just a question about the Montgomery County Library System which is really important here. Since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, ive been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a drivers license, help many of them become citizens. And recently were talking about technology, i started broadcasting our meetings live on facebook live, and weve had thousands of people around the world watching the meetings from the Montgomery County library. Thank you. Gentleman in the back. I just wanted to say one of the best things about living in Montgomery County is the great Library System and the great Staff Members they have there. How with libraries offering an everexpanding variety
Identified the cartels. [inaudible conversations] autho. Dionne, annette gordonreed, Juan Williams anymore. But first up christian green talks about her book, something must be done about Prince Edward county. Booktv on cspan2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations]. If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It suppo
How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
Job and lots of other science riders do a great job of translating that really difficult science talk into understandable media. I was just wondering if you ever get the opportunity to talk to policymakers . you should understand what that means what does that human genome mean . What are the implications down the road then we can never real conversation so thank you for reminding us that we need to have the vocabulary. Last question i am from the czech republic. [laughter] seven record july and from india. [laughter] lets have a drink. In your opinion we can find the smaller particles and jeans . For example, genes that define happiness or spirituality . That is an interesting and complicated question and 50 years ago sunday with a that is the crazy question but 15 years later they are not so crazy. Farther genes for temperament and personality or, etc. . Almost always those are higher order principles that lie in intersections with the environment but some have qualities are some com
Those. Thank you all. [applause] i would like to thank all of you for your attention, fill out your evaluations and enjoy the rest of the festival, sonia shah and Karen Masterson will sign books. 48 hours of Nonfiction Book and doctors every weekend. Here are some featured programs this weekend. Wall street journal Political Columnist kimberlys trostle argues the left is utilizing tactics to usurp the political process in her book the intimidation game. Government abuse is unsighted. There are a couple reasons for that. I care about freespeech and the first amendment. I libertarian when it comes to this. I have no allegiance to one party or the other. I have written about the abuses on the left in my column on the wall street journal but i assumed i would find stuff on the right too. I didnt. On sunday, in depth with jeffrey toobin, will take your calls, text and email questions at 3 00 pm eastern, Mister Toobin will discuss his latest book, the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and