Okay. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the seachange session at the 2017 texas book festival, the 22nd annual texas book festival. Its great to have you all here. I am dr. Spencer wells. Im a a geneticist and anthropologist, and sometimes author. For many years i was the explorer in residence for the National Geographic society, study how are species of pipe with the world and since 2015 i have lived here in austin. Im the founder and ceo of the consumer genomics firm in town, and coowner of a nightclub which is [applause] i would like to introduce our authors. We have juli berwald was an austinbased side letter, and editors contribute to publications such as the new york times, naked, National Geographic and slate. She is a phd in Ocean Science and university of Southern California and she lives here in austin shes the author of spineless which we will be talking about today. [applause] then we have Peter Wadhams who is the purpose of ocean physics and head of the Polar Ocean Physics Grou
You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. All weekend long American History tv is featuring greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro is home to where civil rights activist started the sit in movements, inspiring nonviolent protest throughout the south. Our Time Warner Cable partners worked with our staff, and we recently traveled to greensboro to discover the citys rich history. Learn more about greensboro all weekend here on American History tv. We are in greensboro, North Carolina at the military park, standing on the battlefield. During the revolutionary war the british had moved their campaign to the Southern Department and had captured georgia and South Carolina and tried to what they called restore the party, which meant they would conquer the land, and that is how they ended up here in the middle of North Carolina. It was march of 1871. General Nathanael Greene was pitted against the
Through late this afternoon into the evening and knock all that hot oppressive air out to sea and bring us nice falllike change. The Storm Prediction Center has this area right here under the gun. This is the best chance of seeing severe weather. It includes the Lehigh Valley and the poconos and areas to the north, upstate new york and new england. Heavy torrential downpours and strong, busty winds and cloud to ground lightning strikes. Most of the day is dry, a steam bath out there, sun and clouds, big storms developing tonight, and well talk about that and the falllike change in the forecast, eva when i come become in just a bit. Thank, chris, remember you can you keep track of the accuweather forecast and the Storm Tracker 6 live app with live weather for the region. A fire broke out at the fertile green horse farm in mullica township. The fire destroyed one barn and spread to the other one. Firefighters had a hard time because there are not many fire hydrants close by. Tanker truck
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