Category: Things I Read

Thunberg in Denver.

“We will instead tell them, if they won’t do it, we will,” the 16-year-old said to loud cheers on Friday. “The world is waking up and we are the change. The change is coming whether you like it or not.”

Thunberg spoke for several minutes to a crowd of several thousand at Civic Center Park near the state capitol building. The rally highlighted Colorado activists, like Madhvi Chittoor, 8, who has campaigned in the state against plastics.

Thunberg again scolded leaders for not doing enough to fight climate change and for ignoring science. Echoing a line from an angry speech at the United Nations last month that drew global attention, she said several times of leaders, “How dare they,” with some in the crowd repeating the line.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/if-they-dont-do-it-we-will-greta-thunberg-warns-climate-strikers-of-long-haul

2013, when we solved the #trolleyproblem: “Enough with the Trolley problem, already | Brad Ideas”

https://ideas.4brad.com/enough-trolley-problem-already

I don’t want to pretend that this isn’t an morbidly fascinating moral area, and it will indeed affect the law, liability and public perception. And at some distant future point, programmers will evaluate these scenarios in their efforts. What I reject is the suggestion that this is anywhere high on the list of important issues and questions. I think it’s high on the list of questions that are interesting for philosophical class debate, but that’s not the same as reality.

Is this #vegan ? Meat Grown in Space for the First Time Ever | Space

https://www.space.com/meat-grown-in-space-station-bioprinter-first.html

“In space, we don’t have 10,000 or 15,000 Liter (3962.58 Gallon) of water available to produce one Kg (2.205 Pound) of beef,” Didier Toubia, Co-Founder and CEO of Aleph Farms, said in the release. “This joint experiment marks a significant first step toward achieving our vision to ensure food security for generations to come, while preserving our natural resources.”

When you learn, your feeling may be misleading…

Reality update: Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom | PNAS … :

“We compared students’ self-reported perception of learning with their actual learning under controlled conditions in large-enrollment introductory college physics courses taught using 1) active instruction (following best practices in the discipline) and 2) passive instruction (lectures by experienced and highly rated instructors).“

Refugees: So Trump is allowed to do as Europe has been…

In Europe, we have the Schengen area and the Dublin III treaty with so-called “sichere Drittländer” (safe third-party countries). That’s why Italy, Spain and Greece are in such big trouble and why Erdogan became that powerful. Trump is following that path, I think…

Reality update: ‘Shoot them in the legs’: Trump reportedly floated ‘extreme’ measures to stop migrants | US news | The Guardian … :

“The supreme court also ruled to allow the Trump administration deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on their way to the US, blocking most Central American migrants fleeing violence and poverty who arrive at the southern border. In a dissenting opinion, justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor said that the policy “affects some of the most vulnerable people in the western hemisphere”.“