Aware many of you have no idea who i am so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you and i know theres really big names at the festival and i feel honored to be among them so thanks for coming. Who am i to mark a few things around i write a column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times. At the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thanks baxter. And the second thing is i present bbc radio so im present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50things that made the modern economy. Ive presented a show for bbc radio for aboutnumbers and how we think about numbers and how numbers lead us astray. And sometimes help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis, a gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all aboutthings going wrong , sometimes in amusing ways and what we can learn from them. So in between all that, i tried to write a few bo
You will hear discussions but mou exclude in listening mode only. When your item come and up Public Comment is called those in person speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line if you are on your phone turn down your television and listening devices. Alternateively, you may submit comment in writing in the following ways e mail them to rules clerk victor. Young sfgov. Org and u. S. Postal service to our office in city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items axeded upon today will a pooeb peer on the board agenda september 26 unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you. We have one thing we will take out of order, id like to ask we have somebody from who is tune nothing remotely. Can we take item 3 out of order . Yes. We can. Great. Why call item 3. Item 3 a motion approving or rejecting the mayors nomination for appointment of hans baldauf to Historic Preservation commission ending december 31 of 26. This ha
Those in person will speak first then those on the phone line. Public comment number is streaming on the screen. You will hear discussions but mou exclude in listening mode only. When your item come and up Public Comment is called those in person speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line if you are on your phone turn down your television and listening devices. Alternateively, you may submit comment in writing in the following ways e mail them to rules clerk victor. Young sfgov. Org and u. S. Postal service to our office in city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items axeded upon today will a pooeb peer on the board agenda september 26 unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you. We have one thing we will take out of order, id like to ask we have somebody from who is tune nothing remotely. Can we take item 3 out of order . Yes. We can. Great. Why call item 3. Item 3 a motion approving or rejecting the mayors
The case is submitted. To an item book tv, Summer Reading pics starting at 8 00 p. M. , Patricia Bell scott and her book. Eleanor alert roosevelt and the struggle for social justice. Then when the west and shrill. Then simply bold, a mothers reckoning living in the aftermath of tragedy. At 11 00 p. M. Grunt, the curious science of human at war. All of this tonight on tv, prime time on cspan2 this week on q a, documentary filmmaker discusses her latest film about the late american businessman and pulliam therapist. Aviva kempner, why did you do a document on a man named julius . I was lucky enough 12 years ago to be at Marthas Vineyard to attend the lectured for religion at the state department. The title was blacks and jews. I thought i was going to a talk about the Civil Rights Era but i was very surprised to learn about julius and as soon as he talked about him the light bulb went off in my head because i make films about unbeknownst euros and he is the most under known that in some
The institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annex space that we are hosting at this evenings event and we do a lot like this at the part that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time inside the ivory tower and project them out into the world, so we aim to generate conversations between Bank University world and have a lot to say to one another and we do many events like this and urge you to get on the mailing list if youre not already a part of the community. So tonight is especially exciting to me for many reasons. One is that our distinguished guest tonight was hugely hopeful to me and my increasingly well known, operator when we were writing the book modern romance over the last couple of years we drew heavily from the foundation of her knowledge and she said so many things that were interesting to us but she told us a whole lot about conversation and technology and things to look out for. I will always remember one of the most am