Okay. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the seachange session at the 2017 texas book festival, the 22nd annual texas book festival. Its great to have you all here. I am dr. Spencer wells. Im a a geneticist and anthropologist, and sometimes author. For many years i was the explorer in residence for the National Geographic society, study how are species of pipe with the world and since 2015 i have lived here in austin. Im the founder and ceo of the consumer genomics firm in town, and coowner of a nightclub which is [applause] i would like to introduce our authors. We have juli berwald was an austinbased side letter, and editors contribute to publications such as the new york times, naked, National Geographic and slate. She is a phd in Ocean Science and university of Southern California and she lives here in austin shes the author of spineless which we will be talking about today. [applause] then we have Peter Wadhams who is the purpose of ocean physics and head of the Polar Ocean Physics Grou
Good evening, everyone. And welcome im bill kelly, the andrew w. Melon director of the Research Library and mitt pleasure to welcome you here. We are fortunate to have professor Cathy Davidson with us this evening. The author after its important boehm, the new education, how to revolutionize the the university to prepare for a world in flux. She is a director of kuynys never program shep head a chair and professorship and was the Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books. The cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation, the developer, as you probe foreclosure of the fire fax web browser and underwriter of a Global Community of open Source Developers she was appoint by president obama to the National Council on the humanities, and was the 2016 rerecipient of the award for significant contributions to Higher Education. All of that you probably
David Cameron Holding marathon talks in brussels on how britain can stay in the european union. We begin in libya where u. S. Water planes have carried out airstrikes targeting fighters aligned with isil. Libyan Officials Say at least 40 people have been killed in the attacks west of capital, tripoli. A tunisian has been accused of organizing two attacks last year. Norah was one of the 40 killed. A former white house official spoke to us via skype from virginia. She said the consequences was those airstrikes could result in isil growing stronger. President obama vowed last week that if we were to uses military strikes in libya in the near future, he said last week it would only be if we had a very clear target. The administration here is very early this morning in washington saying that yes, in fact, the United States had a clear target, it was this individual. The reality is that people in the town of bringing out the bodies. There are now over 40 brought out and journalists can now v
Of 89. Two more months in a race against time to confirm the place at at rio olympics. Well talk with the sports minister later. First to libya where the United States has carried out airstrikes targeting fighters aligned with the socalled Islamic State in iraq and the levant. The libyan Officials Say that 40 people were killed in the attacks in and around west of the capital tripoli. The pentagon said that the operation hit an isil Training Camp and was aimed at killing a tunisian operative who is accused of organizing deadly attacks on a museum in tunis and a beach resort last year. This was something that weve had our eye on for some time. And specifically he was associated with this facility in particular. We saw that thiswe believe that they posed a threat. Al jazeeras roslind jordan joins us live now from washington, d. C. Roslind, have we learned any more about the target and the impact of these airstrikes . Well, according to peter cook, the pentagon sports person, theyre still
Campaig campaign. It has to be about what were going to build together a much needed victory as Hillary Clinton sweeps by Bernie Sanders. In washington dc a funeral for a powerful voice on the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia good evening. Thanks for joining us with our special coverage continuing here live from new york. It was a critical day in the race for the white house. Two elections with a lot on the line for both democrats and republicans. First out west in nevada, a desperately needed win for Hillary Clinton and in South Carolina a razor thin race to see who would come in second to front runner donald trump. Lets go ahead and take a look at the latest numbers coming in from South Carolina. They are almost done counting the final ballots there. Donald trump was the winner with 32 . But marco rubio and ted cruz virtually tied for second, but if you look beyond the percentage, you will see marco rubio leading by just over a thousand votes there. The big story also was jeb bush. Comi