Welcome. [applause] i just realized we did not do a sound check. I love doing book events. We need to keep books alive but thanks to the Simon Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here and it is with our support to give a shout out and before we introduce our guests the amateur Astronomer Association of new york will be out. And will have the telescope out but the claim is the clouds will clear almost as we finish the last question. And we will do a little q a. I am sure you have heard of our guest. As a bestselling author in superb writer you said your son asked you what you were working on. He said nobody will read that. And of course galileos daughter was a popular book and more so to be knowledge with the Pulitzer Prize nomination is quite an honor. And with that Harvard College observatory. [applause] also as an assistant professor. And to the synchronicity and in their very different perspectives one as an artist do you mind being called a historian . I brought a terr
I just realized we did not do a sound check. I love doing book events. We need to keep books alive but thanks to the Simon Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here and it is with our support to give a shout out and before we introduce our guests the amateur Astronomer Association of new york will be out. And will have the telescope out but the claim is the clouds will clear almost as we finish the last question. And we will do a little q a. I am sure you have heard of our guest. As a bestselling author in superb writer you said your son asked you what you were working on. He said nobody will read that. And of course galileos daughter was a popular book and more so to be knowledge with the Pulitzer Prize nomination is quite an honor. And with that Harvard College observatory. [applause] also as an assistant professor. And to the synchronicity and in their very different perspectives one as an artist do you mind being called a historian . I brought a terrible thing. I did no
[applause] i just realized i dont know if we get a sound check. Its so good to see everyone here. I love doing book events because weve got to keep books alive. I want to thank the Simons Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here when we do live in the present date for private events that are science themed or inspired and its with their support we are able to do these. So a shout out to science. [applause] i want to mention before i introduce the guest of for the amateur Astronomers Association of new york will be out in the garden. Its going to be out in the cold garden tonight with telescopes to help us do this guys and the claim is the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question and also we will have a book signing for the glass universe so we will have a book signing over here and then we will do a little q a after the conversation. But we introduced the guests. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guest. I want to introduce david sobel of th
Astronomers at harvard and here is dana hello and welcome. [applause] i just realized i dont know if we get a sound check. Its so good to see everyone here. I love doing book events because weve got to keep books alive. I want to thank the Simons Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here when we do live in the present date for private events that are science themed or inspired and its with their support we are able to do these. So a shout out to science. [applause] i want to mention before i introduce the guest of for the amateur Astronomers Association of new york will be out in the garden. Its going to be out in the cold garden tonight with telescopes to help us do this guys and the claim is the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question and also we will have a book signing for the glass universe so we will have a book signing over here and then we will do a little q a after the conversation. But we introduced the guests. Im sure a lot of you hav
On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. It was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going