Curator as, ada as technical books. And this is Eugenia Cheng. This is made support from the Microsoft Corporation and with media sponsorship by kuw. First, Eugenia Cheng will speak for 35, to 45 minutes and move into the time for a question. If you have a question, please use the microphones on either side of the stage and make sure that your questions are concise and in question form. After the questions, eugenia will sign copies of her latest book beyond infinity, the outer limits of mathematics and books will be for sale and come back, april is packed. Seattle biology panel on the future of health. Paul hawken, ways to reverse warming. And theres so much to go on and you can find our programming at town hall seattle. Org and finally id like to thank the members and our audience tonight. Your contributions allow us to dynamic programming like this and its accessible to the city. Members, this is your town hall. Now its my pleasure to introduce to you our speaker this evening. Eugene
The university of niche in belgium. Sean kerry, manager of nasas Science Center at caltech in pasadena, california. Sarah seager professor of Planetary Science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of tech elegy in cambridge. And nicole louis astronomer at the states Science Institute in baltimore. And zach thomas can you start us off with what the big news of the day is . Thank you so much. Ive been associate administrator for the trek there for social science and i am in awe today about the depth and breadth of the science we do here. We are changing peoples lives every day and we stretch our imagination and we inspire every day. Im excited to announce that we have used our spritzer space telescope to determine the seven planets orbiting a nearby star about 40 light years away. As you can see in this illustration many of these planets are in the habitable where water can pool on the surface and in fact there could be water on any of these planets. For the first time we have found ma
System, help with brain size. She is interviewed by gina kolata. Medical reporter for the new york times. Sylvia, i really liked reading you book. So minute fun and fascinating. And why dont people understand this. Its been a problem for so long. Why is itstill a problem . And i like about your bark bus you have a lot another person stories, people struggling withate, yourself, scientists and i was drawn into the book from page one. Think almost everybody would relate to us. I thought maybe people like to hear what your book sounds like. So if you could read page one and start opened the anecdote. Guest thank you. This is my personal story about how i got a writing this book and the prologue. Its breezy friday even in fall in san diego. Was a biochemistry ph. D student out to din with friends after a full week of research, classes and teaching. I had had a strong interest in biology since grade school, particularly in how the body malfunctions and the we we treat it. The idea that tiny
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