And probably even pasadena. [laughing] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for the savings event. My name is kim sutton and and a host of tonight event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting powells. Com. When affirming Upcoming Events were looking for to is Tiffany Cross in conversation with about her new book say it lighter, black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As a plea for member to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we honor to welcome Leonard Mlodinow and rob paulsen. Leonard received his phd in theoretical physics from university of california at berkeley come wasnt alexander fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of telephone institute of technology. His previous books include bestsellers the grand design, and a briefer history of time both with Stephen Hawking can subliminal which was a winner of the li
Tsunamis deadly waves that have the power to destroy entire cities in a matter of moments. There was little Public Awareness about them until december 26th 2004. That was the day a gigantic tsunami in the indian ocean killed more than 230000 people images illustrating the pools of this natural phenomenon shocked the world. 7 years later in 2011 a Nuclear Power plant in fukushima japan exploded after being engulfed by an earthquake generated tsunami. Since these tragedies scientists rushed to the scene redoubling efforts to determine what causes these killer waves. Because that knowledge can save lives its clear that tsunamis can strike any region of the planet urbanize ation has made coastal communities even more vulnerable. Can Tsunami Research protects them. On friday september 28th 2018 an earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated an area of the bay of palu on the indonesian island of slow way sea. Within minutes 4000 people. Lost their lives 79000. 00 had to be evacuated how coul
Years ago. It was then that Irena Webster and Barbara Spencer dunn joined with the woman who became my first boss at the aspca. They had the vision to get right to support the works the Parks Service was doing to protect the africanamerican experience. Sadly, irena passed away at the start of this year, and i wanted to take a moment to talk about the preservation of the history to achieve black Voting Rights to remember my boss, my friend, and the true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make conservation and preservation organizations like npca more inclusive. For our panel today, people will understand that it is wideranging, multifaceted and current. Its still going on. What we want to do with this panel of experts and people who are my friends, folks that i admire, is to get their insights on this issue, but maybe in more specific and direct ways. We have one person, Josephine Bolling mccall, who actually lived through the struggle for Voting Rights. Well hear from josephine
Can tell we probably have, i know leonard has readers from all over the world. In fact he has readers from the United States and canada and mexico, hades, jamaica guatemala bolivia and brazil. And probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you rob. My pleasure. Select thank you everyone for joining us for this evenings event. My name is kim sutton. Im the host at tonights event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to encourage you to check out our lineup of upcoming virtual events. One of our many Upcoming Events very looking forward to is tiffani d croft in conversation about cross us to book, say it louder. Black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As well, please determine to follow us on twitter, facebook an instagram. Tonight, we are honored to welcome leonard saari, and rob paulson. Leonard received his phd and theoretical civics of the university of california at berkeley. Was an alexander fellow at the max planck institute. It wa
Witness says the crowds in the roads near the beach were caught totally off guard by the way no warning sounded here. Our Investigation Continues at the Tsunami Monitoring Center in the indonesian capital jakarta. This control tower monitors seismic activity across indonesia including the bay of palau. Seismologists here can detect any undersea earthquake in real time advanced algorithms allow them to simulate the formation of a tsunami and warn coastal communities before the 1st wave hits since its introduction in 2008 the system has issued 22 alerts saving countless lives why then did palu fail to receive a warning on september 28th 2018. In a scene he was the seismologist on judy that night. I guess that. The earthquake in palo registered a magnitude of 7 for 2 minutes then just afterward the magnitude rose to 7. 7. I instantly ran into the toss table where we simulate tsunamis yagami more dealings and i mean the center in jakarta registered an earthquake 80 kilometers north of palm