Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our programming during the lunchtime hour. Celebrating the release of livewire if at any time click the link to purchase a chat of the book on the website. Women to submit to the q and a box which can be found at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question in the q and a. On to the main event doctor David Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist work at the National Nonprofit institute an adjunct assert. Best known for his work on time perception, his new book livewire also misled from anastasia to dreaming that revolutionized how we think he will discuss bio hackers human using echolocation in the present and future of ai im so here one excited to hear him talk today. The floor is all yours and then i will be back to moderate q and a. Thank you its a great pleasure to be here i have been to politics and prose in person. Im sorry i cannot be there this year b
Do a citizens guide. What did you mean by that . Guest i wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the law of epidemics with the year of co covid and beyond but that it would speak to an interested reader and not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists, and i thought my value added mighvalueaddedmight be to trane in the field to readers that are just fascinated we never thought about the past epidemics that we are certainly thinking about them now, particularly what can we learn from them and what do we know when its going to be over. But i want to begin if i can at the end of your book and then pivot back at the end of the interview to ask more about this question. You write america has two histories, one far more appealing in the months and years ahead americans will hold the power between them. Lets hold them and hope they make the right choice. Now im going to be asking more about what that choice is but for now, i just want to know
And donovan and reached from that was published early last month in june we will have an extended conversation up to 35 minutes and also a few slides here and there as needed with supplemental images and once were done with that wrap up with audience q a we will read some buyers and get the reading under the way. Miles the author of the national and International Bestseller the land of lost maps with the Chicago Tribune best book of the year. In this interlocutor is the true story of a New York Times notable book for nonfiction in the literary science award and the second book published early last month. But these men graduated from the university of michigan a few blocks away from the bookstore. Otherwise i would appreciate it if you wouldnt mind putting your reactions together for our reading. Thank you. Good to see you. So this is why your book is longer than mine and also teaching nonfiction here in chicago so its nice to see you here and i want to be clear to everyone and i will g
So, well call that partly cloudy right now. Temperatures today still a few 80s in our east bay valleys and most of us in the 70s and coast in the San Francisco in the 50s. Five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Still too warm for this time of year. Kumasi. Ill take it from there, thanks, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in most of the continental u. S. Ill take it from here. Lets take a live look right now at voters. They are lining up as you can see. This is in anderson county, south carolina. Another very crucial state. Voters in swing states will likely be deciding this election and because many of these states are several time zones ahead of us, well start to see the Election Results this afternoon. So, heres a look at some of the big ones that we will be tracking. The following times are pacific times. Polls in georgia and parts of florida close at 4 00 p. M. Our time and the Florida Panhandle and parts of michigan and pennsylvania it w
Watching to washington dc people pouring into the streets saturday to celebrate the victory of now president elect joe biden but now its time for the Incoming Administration to begin the hard work of dealing with a wide range of issues theyll be inheriting. From a surging pandemic to a fragile economy and a nation demanding racial justice. Its not going to be easy. Good morning. Everybody, thank you for joining us. It is sunday november 8th im Marty Gonzales will begin this morning with a look at how the new administration celebrated its historic win and what comes next, alexander le mon is live in wilmington delaware with that part of our coverage this morning. Hi alexandra. Good morning and it was a big celebration here at the chase center last night a celebration that president elect joe biden supporters waited for 4 days, but that fight and waited for for 32 years biden first ran for president in 1988. Joe biden addressed his supporters for the first time as the president elect of