What are you reading interviews at book tv. Org using the search bar at the top of the page. That evening, im the director of programming and marketing at the city library and before we get started i should mention if you have questions tonight you can leave those in the comments or in the chat box and we will get to as many as we can. And if youre interested in person purchasing the knowledge machine its available at retailers for your support, independent booksellers and we need you to support the most. If youre a long time follower of ourprogramming either in person or online , you know that we deal heavily in the humanities. Tonight we turn our attention to the sciences, albeit with a heavy dose of time. Our guest is michael strevens, he moved tothe United States in 1991. Professor at New York University he wrote the book the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science and it is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise read the
Then a month later, europe, italy, first hardest hit a mortality rate of 10 . The u. K. Among the hardest hit and sickest. The new coronavirus spreading through parts of china has hit the United States. Then the first case in america, washington state, President Trump orders all flights from china stopped. Borders closing. New york quickly becoming the epicenter of the outbreak. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Maria with Little Information known about the virus, the invisible enemy continues to inflict pain upon our nation and the entire world. A Global Pandemic seizing the world economy. Attempting to contain this virus, entire regions and economic sectors are shutting down. Maria then a Disinformation Campaign begins. Chinese websites controlled by the communist party publish made up stories about where the virus originated since january Chinese Media have been under tighter than usual government controls. Journalists have been arrested. Social media platforms have been scru
Next federal and state officials take part in voting ins security. We also hear from the head of security and cybersecurity agency. Its part of the billington cybersecurity form. Well good morning. And welcome to this most Important Panel called election cybersecurity safeguards during the pandemic. It is a great pleasure to introduce to you, this worldclass moderator and panel. Let me first introduce our moderator john de symone is the president of Cybersecurity Services at raytheon intelligence in space where he oversees the strategy and operations for global team of over 6000 employees. His teams are responsible for delivering cybersecurity solutions, Global Training and logistics. And Product Support services in support of Critical Missions for government agencies, businesses and nations. Within his Chris Washington chief Information Security officer at software the largest provider of technology in the u. S. Hes here to sheriffs with us all the improvements being done to Election
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The first president ial debate between president donald trump, and former Vice President joe biden. Tuesday september 29th in cleveland. Then they head to miami on the second event, october 15th. The third and final debate will take place thursday october 22nd in nashville tennessee. All the debates begin at 9 pm eastern, and you can watch them all live on cspan. You can also watch Live Streaming and on demand at cspan. Org. Or listen live with the free cspan radio app federal and state officials take part in the discussion on Voting Machines security. Ahead of the november elections, we also hear from the head of the cybersecurity on infrastructure security agency. Part of the recent burlington side with it good morning and welcome to this most Important Panel called election cybersecurity safeguards during the pandemic. It is a great pleasure to introduce to you this worldclass moderator and panel. We first introduce our moderator. Is the Vice President of Cybersecurity Services at r