Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but not at all a simple answer. Why does it take 2,000 years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe. The answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Doctor strevens, thank you very much for joining us. It is great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and about what im setting out to do with it. So, i wrote this book to answer tw
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 228, the nays are 164. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition . Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Scalise i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for inquiring of the majority leader the schedule of next week. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scalise thank you. I also ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scalise with that, id be happy to yield to my friend, the gentleman from maryland, the majority leader of the house. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on monday the house will meet at 12 00 p. M. For legislative business. Members are vezzed that votes are expected are advised that votes are expected as early as 2 00 p. M. I want to repeat. That were going in at 12 00, votes can be as early as 2 00
Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says
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