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Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but...

Deputy Campaign Manager announced two key members of the Pandemic Task force. For example launch the Coronavirus Task force. Tomorrow. Going to be led by a professor at ucsf. And the former Surgeon General of the united states. Both have been key medical advisers to bd throughout the pandemic. Theyll be joined by a team of top doctors from across lt country to form the task force. The coronavirus rampaging across the country. Were not in a good place. With 126,000 cases. Yesterday. Approaching w...

Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to...

Outbreaks. They are outbreaks in specific counties. In some cases, outbreaks in specific communities. Personnel,ged cdc hhs personnel. I didnt mention before, but three weeks ago when we were seeing similar activity in North Carolina and alabama, we sent personnel into those states. We have seen declining numbers beginning in both of those states. The important thing is not one side not onesizefitsall. The overall guidance to every american is to practice good hygiene, the measures we recommende...

We are tracking the increase and the rate of increase of new cases at the county level. We currently have 130 counties out of the 3100 in the u. S. In that category. This level shows you case positivity by the metros and the number of tests that have been done. This shows the change over time of test positivity and the largest metro where we have concerns. Phoenix, houston, dallas, san antonio, orlando, riverside, california and then to the bottom. This is how we continue to integrate data cases...

What i meant by its not working is were dealing with Community Spread as a substantial number of people getting infected do not know theyre infected. Theyre not symptomatic. Theyre asymptomatic individuals. The classic paradigm of identification and Contact Tracing is very difficult to make that work under those circumstances. You superimpose upon that the fact that even with identification, isolation and contact trace, often the dots are not connected. If you get on the phone and talk to people...

Postponed new in depth programs. We are showing highlights from past programs. First from november of 2018, author imani perry, author of several books including a history of the black National Anthem and breeze which is written as a letter to her son. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you see i wonder if people are irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity so that when i go into the second paragraph, ...

So that when i go into the second paragraph where im like what if we took this identity apart, those people would not sort of, have a different history or body. But it would be a different relationship to identity. I think as a consequence, we have a more humane relationship to each other. When i got leader into the first paragraph when im saying an individual can be a heaven. Certainly, both someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example...

That and i think its we its now understood that within our lifetimes practically no everybody is going to get their genome sequence i mean with your and my lifetime and already here in britain there are huge programs underway to sequence every kid who comes along and we can then use that information to say what kind of diseases they get as especially the possibility of. Of of really deleterious late life diseases such as all timers and so on which Breast Cancer most obviously which in principle ...

Human race manually. Oh. Well. Lets backtrack a little bit so mutants the book it wasnt really about engine us it was mostly about how we had changed actually about all the variety that humans show. When we look at each other some of it good some of it bad i mean and when i say bad i mean medically bad and so what the book is all about was what is all the variety tell us about how we as humans are constructed how the human body is starts out as a single cell in the multiplies into a walking talk...