Into the National Football league that has been flown into space. When i say beyond i mean 250 miles above the earth and beyond. He was a born in virginia. The foregoing onto the university of richmond. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1986. Who received his masters degree from the university of engineer. In the area of nondestructive testing creating optical fiber sensors for measuring damage. For the lockheed martin. It has logged more than 565 hours in space including two missions. Since then he was a pointed the have of nasa education and served as the cochair. A global collaboration and learning about space. When theyre not expiring the next generation he is pursuing his hobby as a photographer, musician and a writer. His new book cannot desmet dash mike came out last week. It is available in the children and teens department. I want to introduce leland melvin. Wow. This is my first book signing and im still blown away. I have always thought about maybe writing a book one da
Back against that trend. The lesson from history that we should reflect on tonight is that those who believe in the merits of an open International Order should fight for it when it is under challenge. And that is the context, in my mind, that we are debating this and related issues tonight. We are delighted again to present the Philippe Aghion lecture. This forum has become the leading forum for debate on the transatlantic relationship and how the transatlantic relationship tackles broader global issues like globalization. It is a special honor for us tonight to add another chapter to the series and pay tribute to aghions legacy and host to notable economic scholars and authors who will address the issue of how to make earth more equitable. Philippe aghion and heather boushey. I would also like to mention how fortunate we are and grateful i am to have our brookings colleague, david wessel, joining Hutchins Center on fiscal and Monetary Policy to moderate the discussion. To conclude, i
Back against that trend. The lesson from history that we should reflect on tonight is that those who believe in the merits of an open International Order should fight for it when it is under challenge. And that is the context, in my mind, that we are debating this and related issues tonight. We are delighted again to present the Philippe Aghion lecture. This forum has become the leading forum for debate on the transatlantic relationship and how the transatlantic relationship tackles broader global issues like globalization. It is a special honor for us tonight to add another chapter to the series and pay tribute to aghions legacy and host to notable economic scholars and authors who will address the issue of how to make earth more equitable. Philippe aghion and heather boushey. I would also like to mention how fortunate we are and grateful i am to have our brookings colleague, david wessel, joining Hutchins Center on fiscal and Monetary Policy to moderate the discussion. To conclude, i
About electric vehicles only. If we could accomplish the same goals with other technologies, then that out to be open to the marketplace and technologies can compete with one another to [inaudible conversations] achieve those goals. And the other comments on that question about what are the obstacles standing in the way, not electric cars but fuel cell, [inaudible conversations] anything other than gasoline or do you agree with what robert has said . A good baseline for that question, if any one of us or any other companies of competitors could figure that [inaudible conversations] solution out on a particular technology that a company can do very well in that market. We dont know. Thank you, guys. Thank you. We have taken electrification from a small handful one, to, three, 452 something over 60 all [inaudible conversations] competing for what has been pointed out to be 3 of the market. And the more volume would increase. It hasnt worked out that way. We are competing for the same 3 o
Those are commandandcontrol cities strong governments and Athletic Facilities and if that disease emerged in a province of the democratic republic of the congo, it has a lot of disadvantages and the disadvantages would have been probably very consequential or Something Like sars had come out at that time. Part of what makes us, the human population and our extension a force of riot damage very dry tinder waiting for a spark. I mentioned the case in malaysia, the fact that pigs were kept in these huge outdoor compounds and they were arranged in a particular way with fruit trees was part of what resulted in that spillover. The other thing is huge aggregations of wildlife also represent populations in which a bug can evolve. More abundantly a virus replicates the more it is likely to mutate and it is an rna virus it is a double helix dna virus, mutation rate will be particularly high and generate a lot of change, as it replicates itself and that is great for darwinian Natural Selection so