Good evening everyone, welcome and thank you for supporting your local independently owned bookstore. Cspan is filming so please make sure all funds on silent. I do and to let you know about a couple events have coming up this month, tomorrow night haley reading from her and ran his new novel. Tuesday Steven Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia also outside events and tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation and for jonathan his foreign talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai which is a human in jeopardy does not single engine signal we are on the doorstep or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains that if we need to advance our social intelligence to the next level, suggestive we are wise along the way we wont need to worry about a machine overload. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not, and what ai could be, if only we are ambitious and creative enough. He calls
In the wake of that, messy disturbance that brought all of that rain and thunderstorms yesterday. See you later, storm system, it is long gone at this point. We will clear out. Fortynine is current temperature at airport. Chill in the air certainly but that is still in the bad, it is about 10 plus degree milder then we would be bottoming out on at this day of the year but d to upper 40s. More northwesterly wind flow. Note that is wind direction on the arrow there, that is going to be more of the chilly wind that picks up with the course of time here today, sobrietier , granted but breezy high hits 62. Fiftynine at the shore. Cloud are breaking for sunshine across the board. It is brighter, also a really nice thursday coming, problem i, that is where it all end because we have yet another storm system. Not so much usher into april but i should say to round out the month of march,fau march, promises, meisha to go out like a lion just the way the month began, yes. So see u march, bye. Goo
Africanamerican communities and way to reform policing in those places. This event was hosted by the center for American Progress and runs about 1. 5 hours. Good morning. My name is winnie and im the executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress. Thank you for joining us for the important conversation about terminal Justice Reform. We are proud to be hosting it with the national network. The u. S. Is the worlds leader in incarceration with 2. 2 Million People currently in the nations jails and prisons. A 500 increase over the past 30 years. These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding at a rapidly expanding penal system despite increasing evidence that largescale incarceration is not the most effective means of achieving Public Safety. While acknowledging the need to continue working toward keeping our community safe, the impact of over criminalization and over incarceration resonates throughout our country. Between 70 and 100 million americ
All right, lets get started. Let me remind you to turn off the sound on your cell phones. This is our number 3263, denial in the face of fact. I asked for a science panel, i got an antiscience panel. [laughter] tom so im tom blumen thatll. Im the former chair of molecular and Development Biology here in boulder. I am the director of the institute for Downs Syndrome at the medical school. Let me briefly introduce the subject. I want you to imagine a world where they were accepted. Where nobody was deliberately underseeking to undermine these facts just because they stood to gain financially or because they seem at odds with their religious beliefs. Huge numbers of americans simply dont believe facts, people believing in the truth matter as lot not because it affects the truth but because whether or not we act based on truth or fiction matter as lot. This isnt a scientific issue. Its a political one. Todays panelists will address the thorny question of how to get people to believe facts
Technical tips for creating stem cells that can be turned into any kind of tissue. Chinas biggest political event of the year is under way in beijing. President xi jinping and his administration are meeting delegates of the countrys legislature, the National Peoples congress. Reform is high on the agenda, as the leadership aims for longterm stability. Were bringing you extensive coverage of the npc this week in our series china road to reform. Nhk worlds raja pradhan was at the opening of the npc and he joins us now live. Raja . Hi, gene. Chinese premier li keqiang opened the annual gathering of the political elite by outlining plans for the year ahead. He addressed npc delegates announcing an Economic Growth target of around 7. 5 . And premier li also addressed complaints about corruption, pollution, and the gap between rich and poor. Delegates from across china gathered at the great hall of the people to hear the governments accomplishments, and goals for the year ahead. This is li k