Virtual event with susan hough and henry fountain. Before he began i do have some short guidelines. It would like to ask a question for the q a just use ask the question button at the bottom of the screen. Etc questions that seem interesting you can also vote for them and they will make their way to the very top of the list. If youre considering supporting a bookstore by purchasing a copy of, copy of tonight featured book click on the green purchase button directly below the viewers screen. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your purchase. Our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow august 28 with jon wiener and you can learn more about upcoming Virtual Event on a website as well as by following us on outcast. With that said let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan houseman is a Research Seismologist so i bet that at the u. S. Geological survey in pasadena, california. She served as an editor and contributor from many journals and is a contr
Thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the lake charles in Cameron Parish and the whole area. I know we were speaking earlier saying, there will probably have many weeks if not months of no power and having trouble with her water system. Even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. Anyway, we are here today with jack davis, will be in conversation with the author and jack is a professor of history specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. And also the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf the making of an american sea. The New York Times book review called this book a beautiful march to a neglected see. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize it was a New York Times notable book for 2017 and that several other this list that you including the washington post, npr and forbes. Jack, welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. My pleasure to be here. Im going to turn the floor over to jack
Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your Television Provider i am doctor mario i am in astrophysicists and the author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called the science deniers, i live in baltimore and they currently am in baltimore at my home, as you can see i have something that looks like that in every room in the house, it almost does not matter where i film this. The book as i say is the science deniers, this is a fresh biography of galileo, at the same time with an eye on science denial today to unfortunately we have quite little. The idea is to study from the fascinating person who lived in the 17th century but to see what lessons we can learn from that or to what extent was some sense already fought battles that we have to fight again today, you know when people hear that i wrote the book, natural question is how comes i decided to write a book about galileo given that there are two biographies about him. There are seve
Starting with one big picture question of all the enterprises affected by the pandemic yours has to be one fe. The most you are about mobility and people have not been mobile. What is the main discovery will surprise you are taken from this experience. We lost 80 percent in eight weeks. That was quite surprising. But maybe even more surprising isat what happened next. People, no matter the circumstances in the midst of epidemic still have a desire to travel. Didnt want to go to crowded hotels, they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live there somewhere getting homes from airbnb there is a fundamental desire to travel and connect and see the world i dont think anything can stop it let alone a pandemic especially if veyou do it responsibly but there is a strong will to see the world it has to be done in a much narrower context. Host airbnb is a new way to do something people have done for a long time to travel and lodging. Because there is a large structure of ar
Car. Im very pleased to introduce this event with martha s jones. I am excited to share with us book called vanguard. The Harvard Bookstore continues to bring authors in their work to the community. During the unprecedented times. Our event also appears on our website. It will conclude with some time for your questions. Click on the q a button at the bottom of the screen. I will be posting a link to push it purchase this book. Thank you for showing up and tuning in and support of our authors and incredible staff. If they do it we will do our best to resolve them quickly and we thank you for your patience and understanding. Im pleased to introduce tonights speaker. Martha s jones. As a professor of history at Johns Hopkins university. Her work has been recognized by the American Council of learning societies. She has held numerous fellowships. The university of pennsylvania law school. It has appeared in many museum expositions. With the National Portrait gallery. She has also been publ