All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h
It so good at spreading from host to host and why is it in some hosts and not in others. Why is it not in any of us are fisher mammals. It is in some worms which come from a very Different Branch of the animal kingdom. Perhaps also interesting to us because those worms kill diseases and if you go back there you might be able to kill those diseases, thats a different story, but theres a lot of biology that we dont understand. Like why is it so good at jumping from host to host . Is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the population like i talked about with mosquitoes . Is it also because its so good at jumping horizontally from one host to another. Yes, these are all questions but theres actually a conference that happens every couple years or so. O. Its a very thriving area ofa lf research. So we have gone from cow poop to slime molds and fecal transplant and back again. Thank you all for coming. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversation] that was ed young talking abou
Washington journal continues. Screen is former congressman and former president ial candidate ron paul joining us from houston, texas, where he host the Ron Paul Liberty report. Yesterday, you compared the to the 9 11cks attacks, not because of the effort to kill large numbers of americans, but because of the response by politicians and federal officials. Explain that. Guest political people will take advantage of it and promote their agenda. When a gun was used immediately, people who do not like guns and want to control guns and sales of guns and antisecond amendment, they will jump on this and make some headway with that. The other side, who wants to stir up animosity against and what is going on in the middle east, they will use it as a justification to go over and increase both your activity over there. Those who believe that the real solution to all of the problem is more surveillance and more sacrifice of the fourth to make sure that government knows everything about everybody,
Untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. Hear her journey about writing this remarkable story that combines the rich intersection of the civil rights era, the space race, the cold war and the movement for gender equality. As an anthropologist with an admiration for history, i was curious about this date, september 8th. What happened with nasa on this date. So september 8th, 1967, the surveyor v launched. 1983, sat com vii launched. And today, september 8th, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book [laughter] Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] so a little bit on margot. I know many of you you know her, or went to school with her. Margot was raised right here in hampton, virginia. She graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist, independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of an englishlanguage monthly magazine with her husband, aaron, margot is the daughter of one of the first na
2001, where you were on that day, what you were thinking, and how do you think this country has fared since that day . Here are the numbers to call. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 2027488000. If you live out west, its 2027488001. And if not by phone, you can check in at social media, of twitter cspanwj is our handle. We look forward to hearing from you. Here are what the new york papers are saying today on the 9 11 anniversary. The editorial in the New York Post says that 15 years after the planes hit the twin towers, the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania, many wounds have healed, though some never will, particularly for those whose loved ones names are once again read today at ground zero, something well see later today. Yet, as many as a quarter of americans are too young to remember that day, slowly, but inevitably, its becoming history that most only know through books and video, not by having watched the news live. Yet remembering the attack and marking vital