Good morning. It s Monday on Morning Brew. We ll start with Robbie McRobbie s weekly, and highly official, rugby report. Can t think why, but there won t be a lot of local news today. There s plenty to look forward to though. At 10.40 we ll visit New York where it is the eve of July 4th, to see what (if any!) Independence Day plans our correspondent Tracy Quan has. In book club today she ll take us back to the 1920s to have another look at the compulsively readable Madam , by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debbie Applegate. At 12.10 we are going to Tampere in Finland, for a live report from the 2022 World Masters Athletic Championships. It s the first for three years, due to COVID-19. Hong Kong has a team of six masters athletes competing, and the medals are coming our way. Team Manager Colin Whittington will tell you all about it this afternoon on MB.
i m jim cornell, the president of the international science association and co-chair of the science and health book committee for the fourth annual tucson festival of books. my co-chair is daphne gilman who s here in the audience, and you ll see more of her good work if you go down to science city at the far end of the mall. we go beyond books, and we talk about science here. the, this is one of several, actually nine c-span programs to be broadcast live from this location plus live streams from somewhere else on the campus, and i want to give a warning to our c-span audience out there in video land, because we re going to be talking about blood and guts and murder and mayhem and sexual perversion, government malfeasance, medical malpractice. so you may think you ve tuned into a reality show or perhaps [laughter] a presidential primary debate [laughter] don t touch that dial. [laughter] you re on the right cable channel, and we re going to be talking about some serious sc
tucson festival of books. my co-chair is daphne gilman who s here in the audience, and you ll see more of her good work if you go down to science city at the far end of the mall. we go beyond books, and we talk about science here. the, this is one of several, actually nine c-span programs to be broadcast live from this location plus live streams from somewhere else on the campus, and i want to give a warning to our c-span audience out there in video land, because we re going to be talking about blood and guts and murder and mayhem and sexual perversion, government malfeasance, medical malpractice. so you may think you ve tuned into a reality show or perhaps [laughter] a presidential primary debate [laughter] don t touch that dial. [laughter] you re on the right cable channel, and we re going to be talking about some serious science with some serious authors. deborah blum, the author of the poisonous handbook, to my far left. douglas starr, killer of little shepherds.