Subcommittee on oversight. Were holding this hybrid hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965. Accordingly, im joined by members here in the hearing room as well as approximately ten members on the remote platform. Thats outstanding and i want to thank them for joining us. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind the members of a few procedures to help us navigate the terrain here. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted for those participating virtually to limit background noise. Pause for one moment. The committee will pause. We will pause for one moment. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves, unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members in the hearing room are reminded to keep your microphones muted when youre not recognized. Second, for the members participating virtually, you must have your cameras on at all time. If you need to step away from the proceeding
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
What the think about this . Should all states have less mandates . Should no state have mask mandates and risk more infections . Do you support or oppose must mandates . We will open up our regular lines. That means democrats, we want to hear from you at 2027488000. Beublicans, your line will 2027488001. Independents we want to hear from you at 2027488002. You can always text us at 2027488003, and were always reading on social media, on cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, the novel to bevirus is said hitting its second or third wave in the United States as more people are coming down with the disease. We are seeing around the country different states doing Different Things when it comes to the coronavirus. Aarp,now according to there are 34 states and the District Of Columbia who are mandating Face Coverings in public. We want to know whether you actually support this. We want to hear from you on this issue. We are going to go straight to our phone lines. E, wh
Poet and educator in seattle and the author of free poetry collections including 2012 room. Also the New Washington poet laureate 21222014 and currently serving on the board of jack straw a local studio. Here today talking about the apocalypse factory. Please join me to welcome steve olson. Thanks. As you know kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those are about hanford. And then she will we eat paul from her new book of poems entitled post romantic coming out in october from the university of washington press. So to make sure my slides will work i will project her words onto a screen. Banks. And to say before i read the poem how im pleased to be a part of this evening and its wonderful to celebrate the publication of this book not just because i have poems in it but they are not told us much as i think they should be and then to get the story out i have learned all kinds of things from it and out there for people to read. This is the poem and its called stories that w
This is an american city. A city that is not very large. It is not very large, not very old if is situated on the western part of the United States. In california. Its smam riverton. The woman in the car is dr. Dawson, one of the 15,000 residents. Today there will be no classes held here. This is election day. This classroom is one of the 130,000 places that american citizens will cast their votes today. This is the table where the voters names will be checked. A locked ballot box. And a polling booth. Here it is in the this space that the American Voters every ten years on the first tuesday after the first monday in november choose their national government. This is the election board. Each representing one of the Major Political parties. Mr. Schwartz is a republican. They have all known one another for years. First they removed the last traces of their campaign activities, their party buttons. Then they take the oath. I will defend the constitution of the United States of america. To