Oceans our planet may become an inhabited with the stock taking action we may need to can fix julys the problem and the solution better thats what were here for how welcome to equal india im some that im. If youre standing in the middle of her fathers its quiet and peaceful. But if youre close to a construction site one jackhammer things 90 decibels of selves to go you know. Lets go one notch higher if youre near an airplane its engine will expose you to 120 decibels of some. Noise over 70 decibels for a prolonged period of time stops for damage i heard but what happens if the city you live in is a noisy city a city which is too loud for too little we spend a few days of delhi to find out. Driving on the roads of one of the most polluted and noisiest cities in the world it is not just an assault on nursing pads luck hes also a columnist for his years he has been driving his all the rich in indias capital city death for over 20 years tells us braving the coffin of traffic 190. 00 less h
Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
To tune into tomorrow today, the science show on d. W. Whether by smoke signals, by pony express or with optical devices, people have always felt the need to communicate over long distances, picturing so often used to carry messages to far away places. With the invention of the telegraph, the world began to be connected with electrical. Soon everyone had a receiver today information continues to flow at an ever faster rate. And it seems as though bad news travels fast just overall. How does that affect the way we react to the news . And what role does the media itself play . India, a Record Number of new coronavirus cases on sunday. Hundreds of elephants. Well, its being described as nonstop. Bad news is the world really in such a thoroughly terrible state for countries in the region. With, of course, the current coronavirus pandemic is indeed an extraordinary global crisis. But if you take a longer term view, you see there have been many positive trends. Infant mortality has never bee
Fundamental. Joining me are two of the most revolutionary food activists in the bay area and dare i say the nation. Outspoken mavericks in both their field. Saru jayaraman is the coeditor of the new book people taking on corporate food and winning. Shes leader of the Food Research center and founder of the Restaurant Opportunity Center and president of one fair wage. Our founder is the founder of its 49th year and the schoolyard project, now in its 25th year, a program that has ignited a network of some 7000 education projects around the world. Alice is also the author of 17 books including her upcoming manifesto about the power of food and a recipient of thenational medal of honor frompresident barack obama. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Alice, lets start withyou. If food is fundamental what is the prominent issue to you now . I think that we have a Silver Lining possibility. Because we do all eat. We all eat. And we have the possibility of eating with intention. We could buy our fo
Some of the stories that well be looking at today. Here about a simple environment cards example teams having a big effect in ghana. We will meet a scientist in germany looking to replant land devastated by the oil mining. And will soon be doing so in egypt are returning from war Sustainable Way of life. But we begin in rhonda where the prolonged use of illegal on regulated fishing gear has day to the collapse of fish stocks a number of lakes have been left severely understocked and that has they to an increase in money tradition among the local population prices on the local market are also raised and over the last 2. 00 decades and that trend is expected to continue if fish production is not stimulated so rhonda has embarked on a vast operation to restock its 24 lex we went to see how things are coming along. To wonder on the Eastern Shore of lake hugo it may look idyllic but the fishes of finding more and more difficult to scrape by lake is severely overfished his are some of the ne