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Back. I want to welcome david who has come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. This is the first time david has been to politics and prose he has written many books including the son of the dodo that won the medal history writing. The honorary degrees from corrado college and Montana State university where he served as the lawless state professor of western american studies. Hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles and a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the atlantic and Rolling Stone asserteathird of these were Fore National geographic story called was darwin wrong. Now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. He describes them as evolutionary biology and conser ....
Enough times. Weve heard them enough times, they werent true then and they arent true now. The majority of economists have always agreed that there was another approach the government could have taken, rather than austerity, and we always argued, and we were right, that austerity was a political choice, not an economic necessity. As recently as march, the Party Opposite ploughed on, saying there was no alternative. To look at them how was no alternative. To look at them now suddenly proclaiming an end to austerity after 125,000 excess deaths as a result, after 100 billion taken out of the economy, after the worst decade for wage growth since the 19th century, just because there may be what . An election round the corner. And after all that, after all that, to deliver what is a pathetic sum to spending departments who are on their knees at the moment. Itsjust adding insult to injury. A government not just callous and uncaring, but ....
Location in which they emit sound from their nose or mouth and listen for the echo that bounces back to create a map of their surroundings. Their oversized ears also help. Some have such sensitive hearing they can detect the sound of an insect landing on a leaf. It depends on the species. Some bats spend their lives alone. Others will mate for life. Some where he gets to mate with all of them. But they have their own sort of likings in mind. They will sometimes cheat with nearby males from other colonies. There is a whole soap opera going on with bats. Bat mothers are excellent mothers. Imagine having a baby that weighed a quarter of what you weigh and the baby holds on to the nipple with her teeth as she flies around. I weigh about 200 pounds. The equivalent if i took a 50pound weight and went for a run. It is incredible what the mothers do. Wow. That is a visual that will be with me for a while, dan. Lls 99. And then, even after multiple touches, keeps killing bacteria for 24 hours. ....
Bats are actually quite fascinating animals. The more you get to know them, the more fascinating they are. The more social creatures you see them become. And some of them are actually really beautiful. But bats do carry the viruses they carry and unfortunately, right now, it is very strange, weve probably got a bat virus thats killing people. Good evening. Im anderson cooper. When covid19 first surfaced at the end of 2019, scientists around the world wanted to know where it came from and how this deadly virus ended up in humans. Although the answers are not certain, it seems likely the coronavirus originated in bats. Bats are diverse and ancient creatures and theyve been on earth longer than we have. Despite that, there is still a lot we dont know. Tonight we take a look at this enigmatic animal and dig into the mystery of covid19. In the last 20 years some of the deadliest virus outbreaks have come from bats. Sars, marburg, ebola. So what is it about these creatures and the way they s ....