Were honored to be hosting this fascinating conversation with doctor lisa mosconi and Natalie Morales about her new book the xx brain the groundbreaking science empowering women to maximize Cognitive Health and prevent alzheimers disease and her research on Womens Brain Health. Shes made it her lifes story to study the female brain and her new book provides a roadmap for using the risk of dementia. If you dont have the book and youre interested in buying a copy we will put a link in the chat and find more information and i would certainly recommendit. So as we begin to dive into this conversation let me start with our wonderful speaker. Lisa mosconi is professor of neurosurgery neuroscience and radiology at Cornell Medical College where shes the founder of the womens Brain Initiative and associate director of the prevention clinic. Shes an adjunct faculty member at the department of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine and she holds a phd in neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. Her resea
What are you reading interviews at book tv. Org using the search bar at the top of the page. That evening, im the director of programming and marketing at the city library and before we get started i should mention if you have questions tonight you can leave those in the comments or in the chat box and we will get to as many as we can. And if youre interested in person purchasing the knowledge machine its available at retailers for your support, independent booksellers and we need you to support the most. If youre a long time follower of ourprogramming either in person or online , you know that we deal heavily in the humanities. Tonight we turn our attention to the sciences, albeit with a heavy dose of time. Our guest is michael strevens, he moved tothe United States in 1991. Professor at New York University he wrote the book the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science and it is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise read the
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
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Keeping rates on hold. It is 8 00 a. M. In dubai, 5 00 in london, and this is Bloomberg Markets middle eas. We are just under two hours away from the opening of the emirates markets. Dubai and abu dhabi. Lets run you how they last closed last week. Take a look at dubai, abu dhabi and qatar. You can see a mixed picture. Youre going to the earnings season. We have a couple of big bang results in abu dhabi. Also must recommend in dubai. We will see how this open. Elsewhere in the gulf, lots of optimism off the back of that makeup saudi funded sale. More about that later in the show. And over in egypt, up 1. 4 . We are waiting for a potential currency devaluation, has not happened yet. In israel, tel aviv stocks relatively unchanged. Looking at how markets closed in the u. S. , we have the s p 500 pretty much treading water, despite the middle of earnings season, and some pretty decent corporate results. The dow jones also in the middle of change. Nasdaq up one third of a percentage point.