Im Afshin Rattansi and youre watching going underground as the corona virus continues to engulf europe and as many across the u. K. Isolate themselves in their own homes on wednesdays show going underground well continue to bring you the news not covered by the Mainstream Media albeit with interviews recorded remotely but until then i made government advice seen by many as confusing and in some cases contradictory weve prepared this for todays program with a Global Pandemic weighing heavily on the mind of the only animal in the known universe aware of its own mortality humans we are the theoretical physicist who helped bring string theory in the multiverse into the public eye professor brian greene about what we can learn about our debts from the ever present cosmic chaos that could imminently destroy our reality plus why is one physics like magic why is human consciousness cosmically in comprehensible and his free will just a manmade construct in a reality based on probability all thi
Comment is closed. If you have an item not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission you may speak under general Public Comment in item 4. Please note if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. If you need assistance make the way to the closest area across the hall in the mens rest room. There is a speaker box. Press it and the city hall security will answer. They will assist you. We are on item 2. President s report. I will be brief. I like to read emails that talk about the parks. This is to the general manager. I wanted to say thank you. I love my Neighborhood Parks. The San Francisco park and Rec Department does a fantastic job. I love how there is a park nearby no matter what neighborhood. You have worked hard to make that happen. I know maintenance challenges are daunting you do an amazing job of keeping up. Every employee is helpful and professional if i am getting exercise or enjoying the lovely trees and flowers, your department mak
Guest my pleasure. Good morning. Host what are the lessons from the 1918 pandemic . Terrible, terrible time, which perhaps there seems to be more overlap now than we could have ever imagined, i think that there are some differences and there are some important similarities as well. I think we should really focus on the differences between whats going on now and 1918. Because 1918 did leave us with several lessons. Perhaps the most important one is understanding what it was that was killing people in 1918. Just to remind everybody, back in 1918, people had not yet discovered viruses. That would happen over the next couple of decades. And so there was this terrible disease that ended up killing between 50 million and 100 Million People worldwide, or 675,000 people in the u. S. , which in todays numbers, would be about three million deaths. And they did not know what it was that was killing them. The word influenza comes from a latin word, meaning influence. People thought that it was the
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