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Service, and brought to you today by your television provider. [background sounds]. Host good evening everyone and we are ready to get started and thank you all for being here here. On behalf of townhall, and technical books, set up in cafe over here in a special guest tonight, i hope everyone in the room will get a chance to visit. And so excited to welcome you tonight are very special doubleheader giving you with you gina chang. And Amir Alexander. I am hoping many of you may be returning to our building the first time after a a few years. We have been remodeling the space and for many more of you, maybe this is the First Time Ever to townhall. Welcome, this is exactly the type of thing that we want to do. Im so pleased that we have these two fantastic authors to present to you tonight. We love all of our lecture programs. All of the political talks, arts programming that ....
The i want to start with the word trends, which has become, interestingly enough, id ology, really a western ideology at that one that is going all over the world. Now. The audiologist will do that, right . I mean, there was and still is nationalism. Thats an audiology, feminism, socialism, conservatism, those are all ideologies. But this new ideology that seems to have become fashionable, is creating a start to say the least, especially in places outside of the United States. From where many of you have been, maybe youre watching me right now. Of the argument goes Something Like this, and many of those places its biology versus identity. Biology is what or who we believe we are when we are born identity. Well, that becomes a little more opaque, right . Heres what i mean. When a baby is born, we have come to believe that it is either a boy or a girl. And thats what the doctor ....
Semester, these three duke with some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also to nights for him being filled by cspan, so during the question part of the forum, if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name and your question, another reason why we ask you to stitching is because we didnt do a write up of all of the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our website which is comp forum. Edu, and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius, which is another group at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different story than we initially thought would be here because jeff, he called me up a little past by because his daughter was puking, and as a aa father of two young kids myself i said please stay home. And so fortunately christina couch who writes a lot about technology and works with the forum is a bright journalist in her own right has agr ....
And so on. So the new plan, which has been vetted and i think everybody is quite happy with, now we have 1600 square feet of planting and overall the balance is activity space and potentially art space. The detail of that includes how sitting edge should occur to the planter, the shape of the planter to encourage certain areas of activity, and weve also dealt with the fence behind and the landscape on the fence. So as to have visibility and openness to the park for safety. Because were all on the same boat on that one. The planting plan had that and the latest piece that i think is very cool, we have been talking to the Chinese Cultural Center and the Historic Society on the site and is this is a board from some of the preliminary research on the site was a temple, which i actually have heard cursed the site until we did something correct there. It was an important ....
Headquarters facing out toward Spring Garden and broad street. Intersection there, but you can barely make out what you are looking at in the for grounds, because that sun is so bright and skewing with the shadow off there in the distance. But, lets go next to live Neighborhood Network shot. At the moment outside beach had a troll headquarters things nice and tranquil, definitely muggy, i wouldnt call this the greatest hair day simply because it is so muggy outside. We look at storm scan3, snapshot of it right at the top of 6 00. There is hint of wet weather off to the north and west of our area, but later today as we track this next cold front always general risk we see thundershower or thunderstorm, but specially travel farther off to the north, you might even see some locally stronger storms develop. Simply because it got more ties tour to work with, and sunshine to h ....