Cspan2. Every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening everyone and we are live. Im rita and on behalf of our bookstore i welcome you to our Virtual Event with [inaudible]. If you like to ask questions for the q a just ask a question button at the bottom of the screen. If you see any questions that seem interesting you can also vote for them and they will make their way to the very top of the list. If you are considering supporting our bookstore by purchasing a copy of our copy of todays featured book just click on the green below the viewers screen. You will be redirected to our website where you can complete your purchase. Our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow august 28 and you can learn more about that on a website as well as by following us on a crowd cast that said let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susa
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
Interesting you can vote for them and they will make their way to the top of the list. If youre considering supporting our book store by purchasing a copy of our of tonights featured book, click on the green publish button below the viewer screen. Youll be redirect to our website and you can complete your purchase and our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow, august 28th with john weiner and you learn more but our Upcoming Events on our website and on crowdcast. Let me introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan hough is a Research Seismologist at the Us Geological survey in pass dean nark caches served an editor and contributor for many journals and a contributing editor to geotimes magazine and has formerly served on the board of directors of Seismological Society of america and the Southern California earthquake center. And she is the author of five poocks including arc shaking science, what we know and dont know but earthquakes. Joining her tonight is henry fountain. Henry is
For more than a millennium ancient egypt was on lost while all but forgotten the remains of this civilization built on the banks of the nile lake barrett beneath the desert sand. To this day many have yet to come to light but archaeologists continue to uncover more of the egypt of the varos revealing a little more of its incredible history every day thanks to the latest Scientific Technology in physics genetics and computer imaging some riddles from the past and now being solved. One of the biggest mysteries of ancient egypt is the fate of queen after t. T. Whose name means the beautiful woman has come she was pharaoh aka not a principal wife and some say mother of one of the most famous pharaohs pluton comoving mommy has never conclusively been found so the search for her has become a holy grail for egyptologists and feeds the most contradictory theories. Of all. Falgout the despotic is actually a message across a big call that our search took to do that all the samples they studied s
The green purchase button below the viewer screen. You, learn mother about u upcoming Virtual Events on our website and on crowdcast. Let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan hough is a Research Seismologist at the u. S. Geological survey in pasadena, pennsylvania, an jett she serve on the boards of directors of Seismological Society of america and the Southern California earthquake center. She is the author of five books including earth shaking science. Joining he is henry fountain. He loves the innovationed need to overcome Climate Change if wrote about research fawning from across the world of science. He is the author othe great quake, a book but in the 1964 alaskan earthquake. Ill turn the screen over to our speaker is. Enjoy the talk. Wow. Thank you. Hi. Great to be here. I want to thank the book store and thenry for being here. Im really excited about this event. I live not far from volpemans although im living in a Virtual World like everyone else. But its long