Would have been too much water with just a little bit more water wed have had deeper oceans maybe tens of thousands of meters deeper and wed have had no land just one big ocean when it was no surface no interaction no possibility of environments favorable to life. We can wonder if the fact that earth had just the right amount of water to have 70 percent oceans continents and then interactions was what made life possible. The ponds of hydrothermal springs provide an ideal environment in which the chemistry of life can get started water heat and chemical elements rising from under the surface to air not creamy to primitive earth was definitely chemistry and a dirty Chemistry Lab where you have a ball with lots of components all mixed up with a lot of changing of parameters and condition its a mental book will take on the show. Several hundreds of millions of years the molecules mix together rearranging themselves in all possible combinations becoming ever more complex could this chemistr
Weschler. We will give her the word. But Lawrence Weschler as often his books have always had Something Interesting going on. I say this, he sort of in the singular way writes about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres some extra situations is welcome often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people. And this is a time with often it feels like a lot of the force of our work to try to make assaulting exactly alike and something conformed and conventional. Hes done this, the last time he was here in seattle was just a couple of years ago with a man most of what well known in the world of film, walter murch who but they kept in touch and for all this work is done as a film editor, one of the foremost, i mean, oscars and everything, is also an astrophysicist by heart. With sort of rogue theories in the book calls ways passing in the night was a dialogue about what he was doing. Hes done this in various ways and various times. Tonight he is he
Chief executives and leadership styles. Visit our website, cspan. Org the president to learn more about president and historical features and order your copy today whether wherever books and ebooks are sold. Good evening. Welcome and thank you all very much forbeing here tonight. We are delighted to have someone whos been here, here meaning this store but our original location good number of times, approaching 30 years now. And having Lawrence Weschler back and for him to come to seattle. For us it feels like having a member ofthe family back. He has a literal family in seattle so thats part of his seattle visit and hes an author too, Tony Weschler but Lawrence Weschler has often come, his books have always had Something Interesting going on and i say this, hes sort of in a singular way right about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres extraordinary situations as well but often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people and this is a time
Cspan. Org thepresident s, order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Can everybody hear me okay . We appreciate you supporting our event. I have a couple quick House Keeping announcements first. Silence your cell phones. If you would like to keep those on and that is fine but turn off your flash. We have 300 every year. We need to do that because if you come here you by your socks and greeting cards. Our guests will be speaking tonight, recorded by steve that cspan. After this, we will have an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available. If you would like to stick around, we can accommodate that but ask that you purchase the book downstairs, it is on the information desk. We are excited welcome back to the store, h. W. Brands, a professor who holds the senior chair, the New York Times bestselling author, it is interesting, you can buy 30 books that tells you something. Two of his books were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize winning biography and he is h
Australia starts to clean up from the bushfires. This as insurance claims keep rising. The total is approaching 1 billion u. S. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. It was another day of session highs. We saw the dow on a record high for a fifth consecutive session, closing up 2 10 of 1 . Of course, we had positive u. S. Earnings, the season kicking off, not to mention the pause in the china u. S. Trade war and the positive Economic Data with u. S. Housing surging in the previous much month. We had telecom and utilities leading the gains. We had the Energy Sector, oil losing ground for the second consecutive week, but keep your eyes on the oil prices. We did have geopolitical tensions in libya and iraq that could be moving crude. The nasdaq gained three tons of 1 . Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian market. Sophie asian docs are headed for a mixed start after a sevenweek advantage. Thats the longest winning streak in two years. Investors will be a