Latecomers and please make room for them as they rave. In fact, i think this marks more than 50 soldout programs since the start of 2017 here the Commonwealth Club. [applause] yeah. It is something to be proud of. Even after 114 years how old we are the Commonwealth Club still serves a very vital purpose, promoting nonpartisan public dialogue, bringing us together to speak civilly about issues that then to divide us. Sometimes like tonight, with humor. I want to thank our dedicated members, our donors, volunteers, all of you, who helped make this important work possible. Thank you. If youd like to do more for the club, take a look the poster on the all on your way out. A generous family of members the Commonwealth Club pledged a Million Dollars matching grants. All gifts made onsite will be matched twice. Meaning 5 decide turns into 15. 20 turns into 60. So this support will go to finish our Capital Campaign for the new billing which is new building which will be opened this year. Cont
Is book and read day section and ask questions afterwards to get your book signed we encourage call to pick up a book and support independent publishing. Before we begin the author of the New York Times best seller and a contributing editor for Rolling Stone please join me to welcome our author. [applause] thankyou everybody for coming i am speaking tonight with a heavy heart and i got news on the way here that Wayne Barrett has died this afternoon my first boss was a mentor to me and many other reporters he dedicated his life to routine out corruption in new york so it is a very sad day node journalist in america do more than wayne he was his first biographer part of me thinks he could not face tomorrow he has been ill for a long time vatican think it is good he took the election very hard. He represented the Old School Approach of his job that is rapidly disappearing i would tell the story when it was like to work for him. He would be assessed with the evil characters digging everyth
Is book and read day section and ask questions afterwards to get your book signed we encourage call to pick up a book and support independent publishing. Before we begin the author of the New York Times best seller and a contributing editor for Rolling Stone please join me to welcome our author. [applause] thankyou everybody for coming i am speaking tonight with a heavy heart and i got news on the way here that Wayne Barrett has died this afternoon my first boss was a mentor to me and many other reporters he dedicated his life to routine out corruption in new york so it is a very sad day node journalist in america do more than wayne he was his first biographer part of me thinks he could not face tomorrow he has been ill for a long time vatican think it is good he took the election very hard. He represented the Old School Approach of his job that is rapidly disappearing i would tell the story when it was like to work for him. He would be assessed with the evil characters digging everyth
Please, do not approach the panelists while in the building. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is ivan bates, and i will serve as the moderator for todays panel, black in america. One of the things thats very interesting here at the key school, we have the opportunity to look and listen to the schools leader. Once we sit down we understand his book, basically, is a definition of the racist ideas in america, and this book was ai book that he spent a great deal of time researching. Its a book that chronicles the entire story of the antiblack racist ideas and their power over the course of American History. Dr. Kendi has done this through a number of ways throughout his book in which he uses the life of five major americans. These were intellectuals throughout the time period of history. The first one is a puritan minister. He sits down and talks about that and how he looked at some of his ideas. The next individual in the book is an individual, thomas jefferson, talks about him as well
If we want to intervene early and have more robust interventions. Number two sometimes its not quite clear and number three its not capturing the agility. Its capturing how the brain is manifesting. So the potential of this is extremely well and to target not only the system but other parts of the brain and collective the responses with the eeg and brain waves is that you can apply to children from handheld babies all the way to whatever age. The same way in animal models. So were doing these studies. Its a really important thing because it is showing the physiological difference in autistic brains such as he said its a measurable with a tool as opposed to an expression of opinion asking questions. Thats one of the things that we have been wanting for a long time and autism, the development of biomarkers and i think that is a cool thing. So i have to thank all of you for coming. This is actually our only time because we are here in boston together with us talking together with you folk