Mengele. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this broadcast. Im sorry that weve had a little delay. One of our speakers, David Goldman, has had trouble with his computer, and is so we are doing a little improvisation and workaround, so we will have him just on audio, and well see how that goes. But we hope that you can hear well enough if we do it this way. And let us know in the chat box if thats working for you. Just a warm hello to all of you. Im so happy to see that there are so many of you. My name is dorothea, im one of the openers of lab precipitate books, and i want to thank our speakers for being game to speak speak to switch to this new medium, new for all of us, i think, of live stream. We are presenting that tonight in partnership with our very good friends at the princetop public library. I think princeton. I think were all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment, but or there are so many books that can serve as antidotes, and this is certainly one of those