A few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. 9 were going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert baxter adams chair of history at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of a world more concrete real estate and the remaking of jim crows sout
The blue planet our world we tend to describe its beauty in terms of what we see and treat our site as our primary sense. But in recent Years New Research has pointed toward the importance of hearing of the sounds of our world and how we process them. Hearing it seems is more important than we thought. Some even believe its the key to our futures. Music is inbuilt within our d. N. A. Within our genes. Our society becomes faster and faster and faster they have to get information out of the environment they are a quickly the auditory channel is quicker than the visual channel. This big developments happening in technology at the moment and a lot of people soon thats all about the visual but if you dont get the sound right then your sensor motion completely disappears. So i walked to the right lane going to how people react to every day sounds so i go on about the normal day or kind of theres lots of sounds im not really paying attention to and i will be taking my is my brain will be taki
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Day. Challengers in elections, oversight and regulation. For those who didnt see me at the top of the day, im alex gibbons and run law policy at the law school and happy to be hosting you today. Many key areas of challenges, somebody was just saying that theyre feeling a little depressed and we need to try to get the energy up on this final panel of the day. Issues from the fragmenttation from political discourse and new pathways for misinformation, Voter Suppression to election security. This panel is going to add another challenge, the significant challenge that we face in election oversight and preparedness. But also, talk about the Solutions Space as well, which is quite simply what do we do . We have another phenomenal lineup to help answer these questions today. Sitting immediately to my left is the honorable ellen weintraub, the chair of the federal Elections Commission are, right, indeed. Well talk about that a little over the course of the panel, too. She has served as commiss