Host good evening i am one of the founders to politics and prose. We have cspan here so we have moved, is like working back there pretty somebody is running towards microphone. We have just one microphone read to ask question so, if you need access to this mike, or microphone, you can go around back there. I would welcome davi david quam, is come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. It is the first time he has been here and hes in montana so i think that is why he has had written many books. Including some of the dodo which won a medal. Natural history writing. He has honorary degrees in Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as a professor of western american study read hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including esquire, literally stone stone. In the third of these awards, magazine wars, was for a National Geographic called was darwin wrong. National geographic map, he has a title
Back. I want to welcome david who has come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. This is the first time david has been to politics and prose he has written many books including the son of the dodo that won the medal history writing. The honorary degrees from corrado college and Montana State university where he served as the lawless state professor of western american studies. Hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles and a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the atlantic and Rolling Stone asserteathird of these were Fore National geographic story called was darwin wrong. Now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. He describes them as evolutionary biology and conservation but i hope that people have as much appreciation for his physical strength and stamina as you have for his writing talents. In his research he tracks Indiana Jones finals through jungles and rainforests that most of u
You can go around the back. I want to welcome David Quammen who has come this evening to talk about his new book spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic. Its the first time he has been to politics and prose. He has written many many books including the song of the dodo which won the donderos metal for history writing. David holds honorary degrees from Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as professor of western american studies. He has also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including a squire, the atlantic and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic story called what went wrong. National geographic now, he has the title contributing writer, that is with capital letters which requires him did you say three articles a year . Three articles a year for National Geographic, he describes this as field biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservation
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Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Breaking news. India says namaste to President Trump. Massive crowds greeted the president as he arrived for his first trip to the country since taking office. He touched down just hours ago in ahmad bad, which is the largest city in Prime Minister modis home state. Hes there to speak before a raucous crowd of over 100,000 people at the Worlds Largest cricket stadium. Nbcs carol lee joining us from new delhi with the latest. Carol, this trip seems to be about more pomp than policy. Reporter yeah, phillip, thats exactly right the president arrived here about two hours ago and its been nothing but a glitzy ceremony for him so far he was greeted at the airport by Prime Minister modi. There was a red carpet there were dancers and music and then he motorcaded to ahmadbad people were flooding the streets. There were tl were thousands of people they were cheering, waving american and indian flags. His first stop was at the spiritual sanctuary of Mahatma