We are happy to be back here at symphony space. Welcome to all of our regulars. Anyone who is a first timer, this is an event series and we bring scientists of all discipline out of their labs and onto the public stages. Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big special thank you to the park dahlia, we have the bar to the back and left if you havent visited ye
Can you hear us out there . There we are. Welcome, im Dorian Devens and. By margaret mandelbaum. We are happy to be back here at symphony space. Welcome to all of our regulars. Anyone who is a first timer, this is an event series and we bring scientists of all discipline out of their labs and onto the public stages. Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big sp
You can go around the back. I want to welcome David Quammen who has come this evening to talk about his new book spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic. Its the first time he has been to politics and prose. He has written many many books including the song of the dodo which won the donderos metal for history writing. David holds honorary degrees from Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as professor of western american studies. He has also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including a squire, the atlantic and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic story called what went wrong. National geographic now, he has the title contributing writer, that is with capital letters which requires him did you say three articles a year . Three articles a year for National Geographic, he describes this as field biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservation
Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big special thank you to the park dahlia, we have the bar to the back and left if you havent visited yet. Theyve concocted our cocktail individual or however you say it. Its called the atlantis. Its a fabulous blue glowing drink. Its named for the Space Shuttles on which our speaker was a crewmember. And its very tasty. We