Series. These are made possible by more than 200 sponsors and more than 1000 local aa special thanks to the arizona daily star, university of arizona in tucson medical center. The festival three present expenses. Todays conversation is presented by western notion ab and sponsor of the National Experience pavilion at the tucson festival of books. To keep uptodate with the festival live events and sign up for the festival newsletter visit tucson festival books. Org. Joining me today is bryan walsh kebab ryan is. He signed the awardwinning egocentric blog and has reported for more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like stars, Global Warming at extension. He is the founder and editor of technology and science 10 his book is end times. Bryan, welcome, thank you for being with us. This book is about existential risks, risks which could illuminate all of humanity or enough of humanity survivors would not be able to rebuild society to what it is now. Hence end times. Lets
Discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event, so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl
Tonight. We begin this evening with a bay area teen that may be closing in on a potential treatment for covid19. It relies on our own immune systems, our own bodys ability to fight off infegs when invaded by a virus. Now a South San Francisco doctor says his work is taking the next step. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. In the race to find a cure for covid19, theres new hope from bay area scientists who have been working around the clock. Good to have big dreams, big dreams got us to the moon. Reporter you might recognize dr. Jacob glenville from the Netflix Docuseries pandemic. Hes the president and ceo of distributed bio, which is developing an antibody therapeutic to treat the Novel Coronavirus. If your loved one has to go to the hospital. We give them the therapy and instead of getting more sick, they get better rapidly and go home. The minute we have an antibody therapy we can end the crisis. Three independent laboratories including one at stanford yufr Stanford Univ
Stephanie sierra has been tracking this for weeks and she joins us with the latest. Stephanie . Congress has single out quantum corporation, a Data Storage Company based in san jose for refusing to return 10 million in federal funding. And as of today, its not looking likely that will happen. If there is anybody out there that misuses this program, we will find you. This is House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy nearly a month ago. The congressman urging big Public Companies to return federal funding intended for small businesses. You will not want the reputation that you will soon get if you take advantage. But it appears that warning doesnt cushion quantum. The data storage giant someone of five u. S. Companies singled out by a congressional select subcommittee that quantum return funds immediately and clearly pointed out the company that has a market value over 150 million doesnt meet the qualifications to be eligible for the help. It is possible that they will get in trouble. I spoke
Normal because members voted in eight separate groups to keep social distancing. Speaker nancy pelosi says the new funding should help more women and minorities, veterans, native americans and Rural Businesses along with hospitals. All of it in interest of Job Retention and first and foremost to address the key issue of health. However, Banking Industry groups say the 310 billion that was added to the paycheck protection act may already be spoken for. They say that money may go to businesses that were already in the pipeline. On wall street a rally faded after a report that gilly gets drug was ineffective as a treatment for covid19. The dow had been up 400 points and ended with a gain of 39 points the nasdaq was down a fraction and the s p lost a point. The Labor Department says another 4. 4 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The new claims bring the total u. S. Job losses to more than 26 million for the coronavirus shutdown. Here in california the four weeks total is