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[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone and welcome to politics and prose. My name is matthew zipf part of the events team. Each year we host close to 1,000 offer1,000authors across the the locations here at union market. If you would like a full list of the Upcoming Events please see the website, politicsprose. Com or you can pick up a copy of the calendar at the desk. Before the event tonight, i have a few short housekeeping items. First please silence your cell phone so they dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. When its time for the session after the presentation, ple...

Are talking about them you did a good job laying everything out through these different essays. You dedicated the book for teeth the. That is my sister, my older sister and one of the people, the original troublemaker. I wanted to be sure i acknowledged her and one of the people we always talk about in terms of when she and i go back and forth over the years talking about different subjects and all the books i have done i thought this was the most appropriate for her. Talk about your overall goal in the book. The goal was to reach an acknowledgment, to try to sort out where we were as a countr...

Its an honor to be able to sit down with Howard Bryant and his book is called full dissidence notes from an uneven Playing Field. How are you mr. Bryant . Guest its good to see you again. Host this is a very interesting book today the chance to really read through it here and i really couldnt put it down. You attend original essays and i think he really touched on a lot of different topics with the different worlds that exist and they think mainstream america arent aware of those two worlds even though we are talking about them and pointing things out you do a good job of laying everything out...

The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus there been one of the longest titles at hand, why did you write this . Guest it seemed something they would get sick and get better again. Iive never been interested at all. I wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. Theres a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he does Science Magazine and somehow managed to get some lung tissues from a soldier that died in 1918 and the next issue there were still fragments and when i interviewed him about his work, he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i w...

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 institutio...