Imagine. It is wonderful to have you all here with us this evening at the museum and also to all of you at home who are watching via cspan. We have this evening a wonderful presentation by john browne and then followed by a discussion with professor daniel of rice university. Without further ado i will hand it over to john browne. Help me welcome mr. Browne to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me. As someone who served on the boards of several museums and galleries i have a deep appreciation for the role that institutions like this play in the local community and indeed in society more generally. As a window on the path and an explainer of the present and as a guide to the future they are indispensable resources which go above and beyond what you can read in books. Houston is fortunate to have this place and it is a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist and subsequently an engineer ive always sought
Exploitation. And the opposition hits out of the government for breaking their promise to protect renters from eviction ensuring the crisis ill be discussing this with a housing lawyer. Welcome to r. T. U. K. The government has implemented lockdown measures across the United Kingdom in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis but was no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing while r. T. U. Case it was dashed joyce for now with the latest hi there shot here so can you bring us up to speed well of course none of us have ever heard the message quite like here and that is because the Coronavirus Crisis is a situation that the United Kingdom has never faced in modern british history and that is why Boris Johnson the Prime Minister announced a National State of emergency just last night he initiated a knock down scenario he really felt he had no other choice but to do so and today weve heard from the ho
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the Houston Museum of Natural Science i am the director of Adult Education here at the museum we have the honor this evening to host mr. Brown on his discussion his new book make think imagine also here at the museum if youre watching through cspan. This evening we have a wonderful presentation and then followed by a discussion with professor minnis cini from Washington University so now i will handed over to laura brown help me to welcome john brown houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to spend some time here this week on the board of several museums and galleries i have a deepo appreciation for the role of institutions like this play in the local community and in society more generally. Into a window of the past and the failure of the present and a guide to the future those resources that go above and beyond what we read in books houston is fortunate to have this place and
Discussion with professor from Rice University welcome to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you for the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to someone who sits on the board of several museums i have a deep appreciation for the role of institutions that play in the local community as a window of the past and a guide to the future the indispensable resources i go above and beyond what you read in books. Houston is fortunate enough to have this place its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist i have always sought to maintain to be involved in cultural organizations and when i applied for scholarship at the university of cambridge i had to submit an essay about was completely different to my main area of study. And a piece about the architectures i can explain later to anyone who is interested what that actually means that my first bonus check and the more Senior Executive such as the Folger Shakespeare library in washington dc the British Museum tod
Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program the Italian Government has put about one quarter of its population in under quarantine in a bid to stop a rapidly expanding outbreak of the coronavirus Prime Minister giuseppe context signed a decree after midnight as a lockdown affects the region of lombardi and other northern provinces including venice and its Financial Capital its the most drastic measure yet taken in a european country to try to contain the virus and follow the example set by chinas initial response to the outbreak italy is the country with the most of infections in europe the number of confirmed cases jumped by 1200. 00 in just 24 hours bringing the total number of infections to nearly. 5900 the death toll has now passed 200. In order to limit the spread of the infection travel has been restricted in long body and 14 other provinces paypal are being asked to stay at home bars and restaurants are allowed to open but only from 9 am to 6 pm cinemas museums swimming pools and