We will get to as many as we can and if youre interested in purchasing the knowledge machine its available in most retailers. If youre a longtime follower of Library Programming either in person or online, you know that we lean heavily on the humanity. But tonight we turn our attention to the sciences with heavy dose of humanities. Our guest dr. Stevens, professor in new york his book the knowledge machine. The book begins with a simple question with a not at all simple answer. Why did it take 2,000 years after invention of philosophy and mathematic for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe, the answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Dr. Stevens thank you very much for joining us. Thanks very much. Great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and what im setting out to do. I wrote the book to answer two Big Questions that i had about science. One of those questions
We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap
Schultz, he talks about his book, issues on my mind. In the measures onio mind you talk when it comes to terrorism, we must think of moral involved if we must think of way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Means of more active defense and deterrence must be considered given the political support. If you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen, then we find out who did it and we try them in the u. S. Courts and end lease appeal they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrence but in the meantime terrorist act is taking place and terrorist act like 9 11 can kill a lot of people. If you know something is coming at you, stop it from happening. In other words, prevention. I think when i first said that in 1984 it was controversial but after 9 11 people said, of course, we should be trying to stop that from happening and so trying to prevent things is very important and we do it a great deal in the country. I think theres be
Cancellation of all large events. All of this is happening as were talking about thi in. Iously games but other the cdc, the coast guard and the state try to figure out where it can include se distancero the grand princess should come into port. The cdc and the state are considering a number of locations including San Francisco. However, where the ship will dock will be dependent on if the location can enact the proper cdc, state and local protocols and has the infrastructure to protect the entire community. The grand princess is in the spotlight after several passengers who were on the previous cruise were infected. One of they will, a 71yearold Placer County man, died from the virus. We have Team Coverage on the outbreak. Leslie brinkley spoke with passengers on the grand princess. And new details about it and Dustin Dorsey is checking on how vulnerable your pets may be. We begin with Leslie Brinkley who is live in San Francisco. Leslie . Reporter weve got communication going with se
Well take you to video and tell you exactly what happened on the way to fairfield from sfo. The bus actually broke down on the bay bridge. Before replacement bus came to pick them up and then they continued on to the airport. They finally made it to sfo at about 10 30 this morning. One man said he did it to keep his friends and family updated. He was medically cleared by the cdc and says his health is better than ever after two weeks at the military base. I truly feel a little more healthier than normal but i just go work out with whatever work out group they provide and theres always food. Is one of the 180 people medically cleared by the cdc yesterday. During that 14day quarantine. These evacuees got on this state chartered flight in wuhan. They were finally allowed to leave after the quarantine officially ended yesterday. One on february 7th from wuhan. Their quarantine will be lifted tomorrow. The other is a flight that landed on february 16th. Newly quarantined cruise ship passeng