What to watch and read today

On this day, three years ago at CU Boulder.

Today at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder

Today, on Friday, 9 April, I will join a panel at the Conference on World Affairs at Colorado University in Boulder. I wrote about this conference in last Monday's post. If you are interested in a debate about what "socialism" and "capitalism" mean today and which of the wide variety of economic and political systems work well, please join. As I wrote earlier: it is free and open to all.

It starts at 9 am MDT since Boulder is now in the Mountain Daylight Time zone. For instance, 11 am in New York, 4 pm in London, 5 pm in most of Europe, 8:30 pm in New Delhi, and 8 am in California.

Joining is easy: click this button:

And these are the speakers.

• Kathleen Ferrier, Former Member of Parliament, The Netherlands; Professor, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh

• Branko Milanovic, Stone Center Senior Scholar & Visiting Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Alexander Verbeek, Founder, Institute for Planetary Security

• Moderator: Jeffrey Zax, Professor of Economics at University of Colorado Boulder

And there is much more the rest of the day. You will find the full schedule here, just summing up briefly: 

11 am MDT: Policing in America: Now What?

Differing views on how to change law enforcement to end police violence against people of color

2 pm MDT: Keynote Address by Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Joe Neguse, U.S. Representative for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, will speak, and Jahla Hemphill will moderate the debate; she is a Student Activist for Students Demand Action & Black Lives Matter.

5 pm MDT: Fixing Spaceship Earth: Moving Toward Environmental Solutions

7 pm MDT: What Matters Most in the Search for Love: Stories of Love, Loss, and Resilience.

I hope you can join some of the events, and actively participate in the Q&A, that follows the short introductory statements.

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Sketch by Tom Lyon, April 9, 2018

On this day in 2018: This drawing is one of the many that Tom Lyon always makes during CWA debates. It is an iPhone shot from his drawing book of the 2018 conference (I am on there, hidden behind that microphone).

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Three news articles that I think you would like

1. Beast of five teeth: Chilean scientists unearth skunk that walked among dinosaurs.

2. A 3,000-Year-Old 'Lost City' May Be New Boon for Egypt Tourism.

3. Famous exoplanet appears to have come from somewhere else entirely.

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What I saw

I love to have tulips at home.

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That’s it for today. Wishing you all a beautiful Friday.