Welcome to the Virtual Event series. I am the manager here. I arrived at the bookstore, we have a special event, a couple things before we get started. If you have a question for adam please use the q and a button, i love audience interaction. Make this fun and engaging live stream, submit your questions at any point in the presentation and get to as many as possible. I encourage you to purchase adams book, how to argue with a racist, whatever genes do and dont tell us. If you purchase the book through us you also get a signed book from adam, check out the chat room, click on the link and purchase the book, if you are on facebook live, the town scholar. Now it is my pleasure to introduce doctor adam rutherford, geneticist, Science Writer and broadcaster who study genetics at University College london. He was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of childhood virus. He has written and presented many awardwinning series and programs for the bbc including inside sci
Context. What was happening during these two years and its importance today . Julie the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. The conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is soon killed and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. By 1914, they had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, he breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he has a series of military reverses against the current government. He goes from having an army that is about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating nor sleet in the bot
13 million and twenty five thousand tomans compared to the same period last year , which shows a 3 increase in production. 12 million 651 thousand tomans of steel have been produced in the country, according to the statistics of the iranian steel association. Total production of flat and Clean Products in five months of this year compared to the first five months of last year, it has increased by 4 and has reached 9,420,000 tomans. Among the natural products, the production of iron beams has increased by 28 , twentyeight percent and the production of rebar has increased by 14. 0 . In the first five months of this year, they produced 15 million six hundred and ninety four thousand tons, which according to the production of 14 million six hundred fifty three thousand tons in the first five months of 1401 , the production of this product increased by 71 percent. The windows of the Land Management unit will be introduced to the regulatory bodies and judicial bodies, the head of the secreta
The 8439th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is the frustration in the middle east including the palestinian issue. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with rule 37 of the provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of israel to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. I propose that the council and invite the observer to participate in the meeting with the accordance of the previous practice in this regard. There being no objections, it is so decided. The security counsel will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. Members of the council have before them document f 2017 f 2017 1060, the text of a draft resolution submitted by egypt. I now give the floor to those members of the council who wish to make statements before the vote. I give the floor to the representative of egypt. Mr. President the meeting of Security Council is held today to consider the draft of egypt on behalf of the arab g
The ocean is the british used to say who know a thing or two about naval the british say the oceans are one. They connect everywhere. So tonight as we talk about the oceans i invite you to think about 70 that water world that we inhabit today. What im going to do is very quickly im going to take 20 minutes and were going to walk through the ocean of the world and try to tie it together with the challenges we face and then what we ought to do about it. So lets start with the pacific ocean. This is a 1589 chart of the pacific by a a photographer bottom right you see who voyaged 5,000 miles, 10,000 years ago to inhabit the pacific. You know as i got ready to get underway with in san diego in my 500 i said to my crew the pacific is dangerous. We have to really be on our toes. [laughter] can you imagine getting in an a outrigger and sailing 5,000 miles . The polynesians did this. This is the largest of the ocean. The pacific you dont have to remember these numbers but pacific is 170 million