Aspen institute. I want to thank you for being here today for what will be a fascinating conversation. While the pandemic has prevented us from gathering in person on our aspen campus, were continuing to host informative and inspiring conversations between the leading health scientists, innovators. And today were hosting a fascinating and breakthrough conversation between lisa mosconi and Natalie Morales about dr. Mosconis new book the xx brain and research on womens brain health. Shes made it her lifes work to study the female brain and a road map for reducing their risk of dementia. If youre interested in a copy, well have a link in the chat, and for more information. I would recommend it, its fantastic. As we begin to dive into this, let me briefly and properly interrogatory dues our speakers. Lisa mosconi at real cornell medical college, the founder of the womens Brain Initiative and associate of the alzheimers clinic. Adjunct member of psychology at nyu school of medicine and ph.
But lots of other places too. So theres this aspect of language about whats knowledge of language thats inside your head, that you actually that every human being shares. But then theres also a separate nation about language, about how do you put it, what use do you put language . And those are 2 Different Things to different ways of looking at language. So if linguists can now think about the evolution of language, like what is language, or where is the language of all the ng . I mean, is it for them being divided into many different ones or will, would just all speak at rahman tongue one day, sooner rather than later. Right. When i say, i dont think i will arrive at some kind of limbo where theres just essentially one language that used by everyone. I think there you have to distinguish between, again 2 fundamental ways of looking at the evolution of language. So one way to think of it can, you can think of the evolution of, well, what was the initial origin of language. You know how
Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff
With riot police in warsaw as thousands rally to mark poland, independence. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned in mass graves. 15 lawmakers walked out after 4 of their colleagues were sacked under a new law, all banning representatives who are deemed to be threats to National Security. Im burnt off. Its good to have you with us. The European Commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 bank seen developed by germanys buying on tech. And the Us Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer. The e. U. Health minister announced that the easy was setting up a health union to improve the response and coordination of Member States in future health crises. A vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of coded 19 infections. The German Pharmaceutical Company buying on tech says that it could start shipping the vaccine to e. U. Countries by the end of this year. Hard to talk more about this. Im joined now by you to go to learn from the european parliaments
Well, one of the most controversial parts are there, this qualification is that beijing has taken and chosen an extraordinary path to achieve its 8. So if by making a decision and resolution in beijing itself, late levon the matter be resolved in a local level in hong kong. And there has been actually there is existing the can. Is them in hong kong to unseat a lawmaker . But now the resolution as simply and power as the whole whole noko and ministration to unseat anyone. They see this and they enjoy National Security. So thats why some of the legal experts and also politicians are physicians that are there saying that this is arbitrary rules. And thats why we hope stands course, that it could be anyone in the future to b. And c. To either governments and carry them, deny such accusations. And saying that this is totally constitutional and legal because the Nations Health legislature has the power to interpret and to our clarified the law. And given him her despite the fact that she act