L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pros. Ed humes has written 14 books, brian fagin has written more than 40. So lets start with jonathan waldman. This is his first book. Jonathan waldman [applause] [laughter] jonathan studied writing at dartmouth and at boston universitys Knight Center for science journalism. Hes written for outside, the washington post, the New York Times, mcsweenys, the utney reader. He has worked as a forklift dr
It comes out of your head. So i think actually he was raiding a really good point. When just to when i was writing he had so many girlfriends i could take my children anywhere because there was a girlfriend there to interview. Including the dirt road across my daughters writing camp in vermont. Thats another way to save. Give you a tip. So, i have to say, without sounding polly annish, i loved every moment. Maybe because it was my second job and i still had another fulltime job was very consuming, plus im one of five children people up here, but it was really fantastic. There were a lot of people alive, or are, who knew jonas salk so i did over 100 interview starting we people in this Grad School Class who were still alive, and although the archives gave me this enormous amount of material, and i read all of the scientific articles he wrote and everyone else wrote about polio and aids and influenza and all the other diseases he was involved in. Wasnt just involved in polio. The intervi
Martinez, cbs 2 news. It was a very different reaction to the same threat here in new york. It was business as usual today at nations largest Public School district. Cbs 2s dick brennan is here to explain. Reporter not always easy to explain, but we can tell you, how could two cities respond so differently to a similar close to identical email threat . Mayor de blasio called the email outlandish. Commissioner bratton said l. A. Overreacted. Sources say the email came from someone who claimed he was bullied as a student in schools on both coasts. The email says, 138 comrades would attack new york schools with Pressure Cooker bombs, nerve gas agents, machine pistols and machine guns. The email said, quote, the students at every school in the new York City School district will be massacred, mercilessly, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. We do have an investigation under way but its an investigation into a hoax. Reporter Police Commissioner bratton says the and l. A. Same but bra
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