Secret puppet masters. I guess i should start out by pointing out that irises are microbes as well. It made sense to call this this is a young, a writer for the atlantic, author of a new book called multitudes of other microbiota microbes of our panel. Here is paul, a Science Writer for the New York Times and other many books including most recently, a planet of viruses. Im an author of a book called pandemic about how microbes cause academics and all of these folks are going to be for sale by barnes noble and will sign them after this session signing table h. I hope you can come join us for more discussion. First, before we start, i would like to ask is anyone here in microbiologist . Okay, weve got four. We cant make anything up. [laughter] i think its really interesting time to talk about microbiology because there is a paradigm shift in recent years. If think back to the late 19th century, we thought about microbes mostly as these intruders we have to target with physical physician
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