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Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. Several cities and brazil denouncing jay or bolsonaros overing of the pandemic as half a Million People in the country have been infected. Thank you for joining us. Six days after george floyd died in police cusustody, protests he broken out a across the united states. People are on the street demanding justice and change. Demomonstrators in numerous instances have been met with a heavyhanded response from the police. Curfews have been imposed across several cities. Like minneapolis, where on sunday a truck drove into a crowd of protesters before the driver was dragged out, beaten, and then arrested by police. Earlier on sunday, france 24 met with residents of minneapolis who were coming together to clean up after a night ofof protests. After another night of violence, residents woke up to scenes of devastation, making their neighborhood unrecognizable. I have been here many times. Yeah. It is very sad. Yeah. It is devastating. It is not just i
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Introduce this event with mario. Presenting his latest book galileo and the science deniers. Two nights in event is an installment or series, were so excited to continue to bark to bring the authors of the recently published books during these unprecedented times. You find announcements about Upcoming Events in the series that harvard. Com event. Com events science. He also signed up front email newsletter. And traditionally we have eight Science Research Public Lecture series. You can see previous talks the might fbn the series. This is going to conclude with questions. If you would like to ask the authors and think please go to the ask the questions button at the bottom of the screen when you consummate your question. Were going to get through as many as time will allow for. It also the bottom of the screen, you will see a button to purchase tonight featured book galileo and the science deniers. All sales through this like support the Harvard Bookstore. So huge thank you for your sup
A few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. 9 were going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert baxter adams chair of history at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of a world more concrete real estate and the remaking of jim crows sout