And probably even pasadena. [laughing] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for the savings event. My name is kim sutton and and a host of tonight event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting powells. Com. When affirming Upcoming Events were looking for to is Tiffany Cross in conversation with about her new book say it lighter, black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As a plea for member to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we honor to welcome Leonard Mlodinow and rob paulsen. Leonard received his phd in theoretical physics from university of california at berkeley come wasnt alexander fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of telephone institute of technology. His previous books include bestsellers the grand design, and a briefer history of time both with Stephen Hawking can subliminal which was a winner of the li
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I am a astrophysicist and author of seven Popular Science books, the most recent of which is about galileo and the science denials. I lived in baltimore, and i currently am in baltimore at my home. You can see i imagine [inaudible] i have something that looks like that in every room of the house so it almost doesnt matter where i am. The book as i said is called galileo and the science deniers. This is a fresh biography of galileo, but at the same time with an eye on the science denial today which unfortunately we have quite a bit of so the idea is to study from this fascinating person who lived in the 17th century to see what lessons we can learn from that or what extent he already fought some battles that we have to find again today. So, you know when people hear i wrote a book about galileo, the natural question is how come i decided to write this book although there are already quite a few biographies on galileo. There were several reasons for this and they were all important at so