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And law, National Nonprofit exits an adjunct professor at stanford. Hes best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, and neural law. Livewired his new book presents new standings in his lab, from dreaming to wearing devices that revolutionize how we think about the senses. He will discuss by packers, humans using echolocation and the present and future of ai. I am so excited to hear dr. Eagleman talk today. Welcome, david. The floor is all yours and i will be back in a bit to modera some q a. Great, thank you, beth. Its a great pleasure to be here. I have been to politics and prose in the past and so i couldnt be there this year but im pleased you can join me this way online today. I want to tell you a little bit give a brief oveiew about some of the main themes and ideas in the book and then we are going to take questions. Lets start with this question. How many of you have ever seen a baby zebra get born . So it can run in about 45 nutes. It wob
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers amy adams, author and journalist, adam davidson, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear in that case, lets get to the news President Trump announced last night that he was instructing his administration to begin cooperating with president elect joe bidens transition team. Wow id say, what took you so long . But ill be honest, this is way sooner than i thought. I figured youd hide out in the basement for the next four years like the family in parasite. Im just kidding that family has way more money than you thats right, President Trump is instructing his administration to begin cooperating with joe bidens transition team. If nothing else, itll be Good Practice for cooperating with law enforcement. Though im not sure if trump understands what cooperating with the transition means, because he told melania, go with
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
Emergency in what he says would be the defining task of the 21st century a new report on wednesday found 2020 is on track to be the 2nd hottest year on record. In. The United Nations has reached an agreement with if yo pia to allow aid into government controlled areas of the tea grier region for weeks the un has been warning of a possible humanitarian crisis due to the conflict between at its ababa antigua rebel forces tens of thousands of civilians of already fled the fighting into neighboring sudan. This is the news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram acted up the news of visit our website d w dot com. For. As the world enters what is predicted to be a long pandemic winter there is a deadly disconnect the euphoria over a Coronavirus Vaccine although no vaccine has been delivered yet see the u. K. And the exploding death toll from coburg 19 people losing their lives by the thousands see the United States 2 parallel tracks and there is no guarantee that the vaccines will end