Thats not going to last long, i dont think. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight the feeling is mutable. Plus, stephen welcomes dolly parton and musical guest Ty Dolla Sign featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome, one and all. To a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Were are exactly two weeks away from the election. So, if you havent decided who youre voting for yet, good luck escaping that abandoned mineshaft. Or stay down there til we have a vaccine its hard to explain. We really need a vaccine. Its a long story. As the election day barelies down on us like an outofcontrol manure spreading, one of the last chances to influence the race is thursdays president ial debate. We at the late show will be live, with indepth political analysis and extensive coverage of whatever flying creature happens to steal the show. My money is on a fruit ba
And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid
Back. I want to welcome david who has come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. This is the first time david has been to politics and prose he has written many books including the son of the dodo that won the medal history writing. The honorary degrees from corrado college and Montana State university where he served as the lawless state professor of western american studies. Hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles and a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the atlantic and Rolling Stone asserteathird of these were Fore National geographic story called was darwin wrong. Now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. He describes them as evolutionary biology and conservation but i hope that people have as much appreciation for his physical strength and stamina as you have for his writing talents. In his research he tracks Indiana Jones finals through jungles and rainforests that most of u
Rights movement. Some of these authors have appeared on book tv. And you can watch them online, abitibi. Org. And now on book tv, we would like to highlight some programs from our archives the focus on pandemics. All of the programs you are about to seek can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and using the search function which you will find at the top of the page. First, and 2000 on cspans book notes program, science journalists gina talked about the history of influenza, specifically the 1980 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Really never thought about the flu. If something they came around every year and people get second and they get better again. Never really court interest in it at all. Im a reporter for the New York Times that i wrote an article for the times, about it really miraculous discovery. It was a guy and Army Medical Center and he said supporting and technical journal called silence magazine they somehow managed to get lung tiss