Weeks. And he was exposed to the virus as a passenger on the grand princess cruise ship. More information on this developing story as soon as we get it you can always get the latest on our website kron 4 dot com. Now the United States is now leading the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus and new hot spots are now emerging. The us Surgeon General says chicago detroit and new orleans are likely to see a surge in cases. Next week. And one of the hardest hit areas is new york. Governor andrew cuomo announced today that 519 people have now died in new is up from just 385 deaths hat that reported yestday. The governor says that that number will continue to rise and the peak is expected 3 weeks from now. What is the packs of the curve. It changes a little bit depending on the day to day to day day to day to day. But now were looking at about 21 days for a possible. Apaso we want to do everything we can to be ready for that increased capacity. That could hit us in 21 day
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.
Professor conways job is to point the conversation in any direction he wants and will take it from there in the discussion. I wanted to write human diversity for many reasons but at the center is this fact, we are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era. Advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human apolicies and economies. We are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce a apeople like me and dalton ought to be excited but a lot of social scientists are like, why . Because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of the orthodoxies scared stiff of biology. At the moment it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths, gender is a social construct, race is a social construct. Class is a function of privilege. I stated those tenets very boldly. If you go to University Campus and
Today. Great to see so many people out here, hungry for books. Toiling away in front of my moreter, dealing with electronics than live people. Of course im writing about history. The people im writing about our dead. Its nice to see live people. Engrossed in the kinds of things i and other writers here write about. I was fortunate to have grown up in a home that was filled with books. I grew up in yonkers, new york. A suburb of new york city, thousands of books, walls filled with books. As a little kid the sense of myks around me is one of most indelible memories of childhood. Remembering that is a tiny kid starting to climb i thought of the bookshelves which were floortoceiling as mountains i could climb up. My mother would find me five shelves up crying to get down again. Both my parents were fortunately great readers. My father was a self educated working guy. He installed boilers and heating systems. My mother on the other hand, had a degree in classics. She was a poet. A human rig
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