Student athlete and someone who has worked on student athlete reforms issues for many years i have really enjoyed your books, i bought it as soon as it came out, it was great to be with you today. I guess the most obvious question after your career and covering so many areas like homeland security, pharmaceuticals, how how did you get into College Sports . Guest i have had an eclectic career have anti . I got into College Sports in a few ways. Like you, although not nearly at your level, i played sports in high school and college. I actually had a d1 athletic scholarship that mysteriously became an academic scholarship after i injured my back. So i always had an interest in sports. Then about 15 years ago i did a project about the inquirer where i looked and began to look at the business of College Sports. I guess that planted a seed in the back of my brain that at some point i would like to come back and just look at the influence of College Football because even then it was already h
Pharmaceuticals, how the world did you get into College Sports . Guest i have had an eclectic career havent i . So i got into College Sports in a few ways. Like you, although not nearly at your level, i played sports in high school and college. I actually had a d1 athletic scholarship that mysteriously became an academic scholarship after i injured my back. I was so i always had an interest in sports. About 15 years ago i did a project with the inquire where i get to look at the business of College Sports. I guess that planted a seed in the back of my brain that at some point i like to come back and just look at the influence of College Football. Even then it would already have an extra ordinary impact on the university. Then what happened was it continue to grow in the money continue to grow dramatically. The scale of the sport continue to grow. So long story short, i propose doing a project at the washington post. They did not want to do it. I proposed it as a book seven years ago. M
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Night, atord, monday nine eastern, live on cspan. Next, using genetics and forensics in crimes and in society at large. The 10th circuit bench and bar hosted a conference in colorado springs. They met for about three hours. Let me try the experiment with the microphone. Ok. Hows this . Great. Well, good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here with you today. I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to come to this very beautiful place. What i would like to talk with you about his morning about this morning as hank mentioned, we will start with a very basic review of dna, what is dna, how it works, why you , andd be interested in it focus on an important intersection between dna and the law, and that is forensic genetics and forensic applications. I will illustrate some of the points with case studies in which the na has been used inference of context. In which dna has used has been used in forensic context. Cells,almost all of our in the nucleus of the cell, we can f
Different between what happened perry mortem and what happened postmortem. We see more holes in the head. Everybody gets excited by the holes in the head. Are the gunshot wounds. Other kind of or torture. What we learn is that the army was using probes. They dont have Ground Penetrating radar to use. At the time they were using probes with ball bearings to find the graves. They were very good at it. You can test the sensitivity of the soil, smell the soil. It find them. It creates damage on the bone. Again, in these context being able to distinguish between antimortem injuries that tell us who that person was, what happened at the time of death and postmortem and distinguishing between those what they have been executed or relotion of grave. Thank you. [applause] [applause] we have time for questions. Please come forward to the microphones. I know, it the worlds most uplifting and optimistic presentation. Im sure there are a couple of questions. Thank you for the interesting presentati