The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
The next pandemic. Hope early hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the years brizard by research scientists. Last year over 400 were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million so wanted to 80 may get as many as 60 people in the building. We live in Interesting Times when human population is growing. There are so many things happening on the planet where humans and her face in the Natural World and where it seems like pandemics can emerge.
Natural museum and has 145 objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the years brizard by research scientists. Last year over 400 were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million so wanted to 80 may get as many as 60 people in the building. We live in Interesting Times when human population is growing. There are so many things happening on the planet where humans and her face in the Natural World and where it seems like pandemics can emerge. Just a couple of examples. If we were to go to the other side the building into the sixth or you would walk into a collection that is 640,000 birds skins collected over the last years all around the
A stunning variety of organisms each striving to reproduce some of them dont even need a partner to produce offspring in others the father bears the young and it turns out that in sexual reproduction the conventional model of two genetic parents doesnt always hold true at least in plants. Here moms have one genetic mother and one genetic father the same generally goes for the rest of the animal world but new Research Shows that things can be different for plants it turns out that fail cress plants occasionally exhibit different numbers of chromosomes. Molecular biologist rita goes heart and her team at braman university suspected that they could have a mother and two fathers now the researchers have been able to prove it. Either before during the federalization process an excel can infuse with more than one sperm cell. We describe this red process as poly spermy whats special about plants is that the process of police isnt lethal but can actually lead to viable offspring confort. The u