Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your Television Provider i am doctor mario i am in astrophysicists and the author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called the science deniers, i live in baltimore and they currently am in baltimore at my home, as you can see i have something that looks like that in every room in the house, it almost does not matter where i film this. The book as i say is the science deniers, this is a fresh biography of galileo, at the same time with an eye on science denial today to unfortunately we have quite little. The idea is to study from the fascinating person who lived in the 17th century but to see what lessons we can learn from that or to what extent was some sense already fought battles that we have to fight again today, you know when people hear that i wrote the book, natural question is how comes i decided to write a book about galileo given that there are two biographies about him. There are seve
I am doctor mario, i am an astrophysicist and author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called galileo and the science deniers. I live in baltimore and i currently am in baltimore at my home. As you can see i can imagine them shelves books. Actually i have some things that look like that in every room in the house. To it almost does not matter where i am. So the book as i say is called galileo in the science deniers. This is a fresh biography of galileo. But at the same time with eye on science denial today which unfortunately we have the idea is to study from this fascinating person in the 17th century. But to see what lessons we can learn from that for you know to what extent there is some sense already fought some battles that we have to fight again today. So, when people hear i wrote a book about galileo and it next question how come i decided to write a book about galileo given their already quite a few biographies of galileo. There are several reasons. Th
Latest nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. As far as i can tell, we probably have i know leonard has readers from all over the world, he has readers until the united states, canada, mexico, haiti, jamaica, peru, caribbean, puerto rico, venezuela, guatemala, argentina and brazil, costa rica bermuda, san juan and probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you rob. Take you everyone for joining us for this evenings event my name is kim and im the host of tonights event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting the website one of our Upcoming Events is tiffany and conversation with ellie about the new book say it louder, black voters, white narrative and saving our democracy. That is next friday the 18th. As well please remember to follow us on twitter, facebook, and instagram, tonight we are honored to welcome Leo
Joining us are doctor Joseph Kvedar of the American Telemedicine Association and Harvard Medical School along with our desk reporter Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider. Doctor kay, how long is telemedicine been around and what has been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Its been around since some people say the early 1920s and there was a lovely picture in one of the magazines now Popular Science they had a different name for it but shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with the doctor on the other side. The concept has been around for a while and since the late 60s is when it got going and it puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when the push we told everyone in the u. S. That they had to stay in their home and we as clinicians had to take care of them so it blossomed overnight at that point. Host how can it be used today . Guest in a number of ways. I think the best uses, first of all, Mental Health is the num
Well polio be eradicated worldwide the World Health Organization declares a major victory against the virus in africa but its still crippling children in afghanistan and pakistan all the lessons to be learned in the battle to control the coronavirus pandemic this isnt. Hello welcome to the program im wrong come on how do you know used to paralyze and disfigured tens of thousands of children every year and some didnt survive but major strides have been made in eradicating the disease much of the world is now polio free including africa the continents last case of naturally occurring polio was reported in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago but the campaign in borno state to immunize every child was attacked by boko haram fighters who killed an abducted Health Workers some children can still be struck by a red phone a polio virus it mutates from the polio vaccine and can then cause an outbreak in communities which havent been immunized. Lets have a look at the global fight against polio the dis