A morning. I like to welcome you to word solid. My name is josh wheeler. I am the director of the Thomas Jefferson center the protection of free expression. The source of great pride for us at the Thomas Jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of the books. Often you only think of free speech when you think of speech we dont like. Then we hate actually. But we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the art. Science and everywhere. Besides that can only be achieved were free to explore any idea or subject. Thats why were proud to be a proud of this. Where else is there a better example of the height that can be reached by having free speech todays program but i have a bout of housekeeping notes. This is brought to you by the Virginia Foundation of the community. If you would silence your cell phone, if you want to tweet about the event you can do so at at virginia books 2017. They had
A morning. I like to welcome you to word solid. My name is josh wheeler. I am the director of the Thomas Jefferson center the protection of free expression. The source of great pride for us at the Thomas Jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of the books. Often you only think of free speech when you think of speech we dont like. Then we hate actually. But we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the art. Science and everywhere. Besides that can only be achieved were free to explore any idea or subject. Thats why were proud to be a proud of this. Where else is there a better example of the height that can be reached by having free speech todays program but i have a bout of housekeeping notes. This is brought to you by the Virginia Foundation of the community. If you would silence your cell phone, if you want to tweet about the event you can do so at at virginia books 2017. They had
It so good at spreading from host to host and why is it in some hosts and not in others. Why is it not in any of us are fisher mammals. It is in some worms which come from a very Different Branch of the animal kingdom. Perhaps also interesting to us because those worms kill diseases and if you go back there you might be able to kill those diseases, thats a different story, but theres a lot of biology that we dont understand. Like why is it so good at jumping from host to host . Is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the population like i talked about with mosquitoes . Is it also because its so good at jumping horizontally from one host to another. Yes, these are all questions but theres actually a conference that happens every couple years or so. O. Its a very thriving area ofa lf research. So we have gone from cow poop to slime molds and fecal transplant and back again. Thank you all for coming. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversation] that was ed young talking abou
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t