Thank you for coming this is a Panel Discussion in which we will reveal our microbes are our puppet masters i should first start off by pointing out that viruses our microbes as wellir but we have ed yong a writer for the atlantic author of a new book teethree about micro biomes, i contain multitudesel and we have Science Writer from the New York Times and author of many books including up one a planet of viruses iam sophia shah author of pandemic and all of these books will be for sale by barnes noble and we will be signing them after that signing table letter h. So you can join us there. Is anyone here actually a microbiologist . So now we cant make anything up. [laughter] so it is an interesting time to talk about microbiology because it has been a paradigm shift in recentus years. Think back to the late 19th century we thought abouten microbes as the malevolent intruders to target with precision one surgical precision i call that microbial zeno phobia. And it makes sense back then
Question none of what happened in the trial would happen today. It does matter that question and this is the originating moment. This is the originating thing of 100 years really of injustice. Thank you all so much for listening. [applause] anyone to read a book as prose is 25 off and he will sign it for you right now. Think so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] that was Patrick Phillips with blood at the root that i will tell you a little bit about how we at Publishers Weekly choose their list of best books each year. There are eight of us in the reviews department and at the end of the year a pool of freelancers who do the reviews asked them what they think are the best books and in the course via we read as many of them as we can ourselves. One that i personally have read and really enjoyed as a textbook by ed yong i contain multitudes which is about the largely unexplored world of the microbiome. [inaudible conversations] thank you all f
President obama is in china for the asiapacific economic summit before heading to the g20 summit in brisbane, australia. Up next, discussion on u. S. Relations with china and what we can expect from the summit. This is 40 minutes. With president obama attending the asiapacific Economic Cooperation summit this week were joined at our desk by bonnie glasser. Remind us of the significance of he submit and what the president is trying to do. Guest president obama is attending the summit in beijing along with the leaders of 20 other economies, to talk about trade liberalization. This is an agenda of this organization that was created in 1989, to try and promote smoother investment and reduce tariffs on goods that are exchanged among all of these 21 economies. So, the president will attend this meeting, and then afterwards, he will have other meetings as well. He will talk to the heads of the other 11 nations that are negotiating the transpacific partner ship, new free trade agreement, very
National security legislation. People in the uk are told not to travel into or out of leicester, as the city returns to Strict Lockdown amid a rise in new infections. Its 100 days since lockdown began in england. Well be assessing how the uk is doing in handling the coronavirus and what lessons could have been learnt. And facebook launches a campaign to help curb the spread of misleading content after an advertising boycott by more than 100 global brands. First, china has released details of its controversial new security law for hong kong. We knew this was coming but details of the legislation were only published after it came into effect. We now know that the crimes of secession, terrorism and subversion will be punished with up to life in prison. Companies or groups which violate the law will be fined and could have their operations suspended. China is also setting up a National Security agency in hong kong. Beijing wants to avoid scenes like this last year, and has called the new l
Trebek give you credit do the judges give you credit for yosemite, when we know what you meant, but the pronunciation was just a little off . Yo, willie hey. Im amazed it isnt on a tshirt yet. How is the biden camp already not manufactured these, started to distribute these shirts . Yosemite is look, he tried, but it does highlight that we know that the president and his campaign have tried to point out that they suggest that joe biden maybe has lost a few miles on his fastball, that he did point out a gaffe here, a blunder there, a misstatement there. Moments like yesterday go to show you, thats sort of a risky strategy for this particular president , whose at times, relationship with pronunciation is, shall we say, shaky. Youre being very generous there. That was at the billsigning for the Great American outdoors act, a great bipartisan piece of legislation. Amazing, though, you can make it to 74 years old and not see the word yosemite written somewhere. But we digress and move on to