Sunday, August 30, 2020

buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter



What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/30/20


and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/





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Coronavirus Su 8/30/20 Black Lives Matter


Harvard University
@Harvard
COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1300197860978364416?s=20


For some college students, this school year begins in an unusual way: in quarantine in their dorm rooms
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.



Virus thrusts college presidents into hot seat
Traditionally, university presidents are behind-the-scene managers and fund-raising gurus, most often seen welcoming students in the fall and sending them off with their degrees during graduation ceremonies in the spring. But the pandemic has thrust them to the forefront and made them the public face of their institution’s decision on how to reopen for the fall.



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 





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Coronavirus Sa 8/29/20 Black Lives Matter 


GERMANY CORONA DEMO IN BERLIN 


Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.



How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak, a disaster that spread hundreds of miles
The town of Millinocket had not recorded a single case of coronavirus. One celebration would change all of that.



Pre-Historic |Research: The original Stonehenge served as a huge sound amplifier
Science
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000006618011.html




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 







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Coronavirus F 8/28/20 Black Lives Matter


‘Another world is possible.’ Ayanna Pressley calls for political change at March on Washington
Representative Ayanna Pressley expressed confidence in the ability of the recent racial justice movements to translate into lasting political change as she addressed the 2020 March on Washington on Friday.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/nation/another-world-is-possible-ayanna-pressley-calls-political-change-march-washington/



Gamification keeps the consumer engaged



Some weird games Finns like to play

LIFESTYLE
 
28 AUGUST 2020
Finland is known for its long, cold winters, its beautiful landscape and its extensive welfare system. Furthermore, low corruption, high-levels of trust and an exemplary education system has led to what many now refer to as the roots of Finnish contentment
It will come as no surprise that Finland has once again topped the UN's 2020 World Happiness Report. At this point, the shock will arrive once it does not feature at the top of the list. The UN World Happiness Report is based on a variety of factors, including autonomy, equality, life expectancy and mental health.



(Yoga picture ... another one in Nevada???)
Canyon Ranch spa in Lenox extends furloughs for more than 200 workers



( Great photo wading in the reflecting pool )
JENEÉ OSTERHELDT
From the King’s Dream to a call for America to get its knee off our necks: We March on Washington
We’ve been fighting this fight for generations. America has eaten our young while feeding off our labor. We can no longer be your buffet. We were there not just to fight for our lives, but to benefit from the balm that is radical togetherness. We need healing.







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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 





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Coronavirus Th 8/27/20 Black Lives Matter 


Anders Tegnell at Thursday's press conference.Photo: Amir Nabizadeh / TT
Tegnell: Critical situation for the infection gaining new momentum
 The state epidemiologist is most concerned about not detecting new local outbreaks quickly enough.



 "Teachers can become super spreaders" 


Geisel defends ban on demonstrations. And its controversial reason



Warns against Hong Kong activists receiving the Peace Prize. Promoted new theory about the origin of the coronavirus.



Federal-state summit on corona measures
Common ground used
The heads of government of the countries wrestle with the Chancellor for hours about common paths in the corona crisis. It's gotten complicated.  PASCAL BEUCKER



New reforms are taking place in Kazakhstan under the leadership of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev



Merkel agrees with countries on new corona regulations: No relaxation of the measures
Merkel einigt sich mit Ländern auf neue Corona-Regelungen: Keine Lockerungen der Maßnahmen



social change:
The unbearable indolence of being
The baby boomers determine the fate of the country, but sleep through the crises of the present, wrote ZEIT. Contradiction: Realism is better than revolution. 
A guest contribution by Armin Nassehi




Sea-Watch:
Banksy gives away refugee rescue ship
The street artist donated a ship for sea rescue to the German organization Sea-Watch - and painted it right away: pink, with a heart-shaped lifebuoy.




Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore: ‘We must take a stand’



Oregon’s marijuana sales continue to soar during coronavirus pandemic



 Smart LEGO storage is coming to IKEA: Here’s where to find other toy bins, boxes now



Lawyers, clergy urge Atlanta officials to drop 600 protesters’ charges


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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 





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Coronavirus W 8/26/20 Black Lives Matter 


Houston’s hospitals juggling hurricane prep with COVID care


Virtual schools spur real change in what Houston parents buy



This summer is a scientific revelation



"The thing is happening" - Corona skeptics want to travel to Berlin despite the ban



Hardly any infection in buses and trains - where Germans are infected with Corona



A total of 14 different places were raided in Sweden, prosecutors for DN state.



Photo: Maria Westholm
This is how it feels to "change body" with a friend 
 Psychology professor about the experiment: When the brain is deceived, the self-image is affected.



Prohibited corona demo:
New hardness
The ban on the corona demo in Berlin is correct. For epidemiological, but also for political reasons. Politicians should no longer be afraid of the right.
A comment by Christian Bangel



Black Lives Matter Protesters Shot At While Marching in Pennsylvania



CORONA SKEPTICS
Counter protests to the forbidden anti-corona demonstration in Berlin are allowed to take place
The police's decision to ban demonstrations against the corona policy in Berlin has led to controversy. The Berlin Senate Administration defends itself against the charge of having made a political decision. The counter-protests are still allowed. Right-wing extremists meanwhile incite the "storm on Berlin".
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DEUTSCHLAND CORONA-SKEPTIKER
Gegenproteste zu verbotener Anti-Corona-Demo in Berlin dürfen stattfinden
Die Entscheidung der Polizei, Demonstrationen gegen die Corona-Politik in Berlin zu verbieten, hat zu Kontroversen geführt. Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, eine politische Entscheidung getroffen zu haben. Die Gegenproteste bleiben weiterhin erlaubt. Rechtsextreme stacheln derweil zum „Sturm auf Berlin“ an.



Survey shows most office workers still won’t be coming back in January
It sure feels like this work-from-home thing is lasting a lot longer than we expected, right? Well, now we have some stats to back it up.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/26/business/survey-shows-most-office-workers-still-wont-be-coming-back-january/



The 2020 Massachusetts primary voter guide
This fall Massachusetts voters will select candidates for nine different congressional races and one Senate race. Here's what to know about the candidates.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/24/metro/voter-guide-2020-massachusetts-primaries/


The world
Major damage after Hurricane Laura - three dead




- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 







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Coronavirus Tu 8/25/20 Black Lives Matter


COVID-19 cluster in Mass. traced back to bachelorette party in R.I.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/25/nation/covid-19-cluster-mass-traced-back-bachelorette-party-ri/



Air travel
coronavirus |Is Helsinki-Vantaa leaking from the coronavirus again? Obsolete quarantine instructions distributed to passengers, compliance with the instructions is not monitored
Homeland
26.8. 6:04



Last year, yellow vests created chaos in the streets. Now a bandage rebellion is spreading to all of Europe.




HS: Foreign-language speakers over-represented in coronavirus cases in Uusimaa




Navalny exposes the hypocrisy of the Russian elite - making him an enemy of the state



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 







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Coronavirus M 8/24/20 Black Lives Matter 




Johanne (35) feared the darkness alone.  This is how she got rid of the fear, and got to enjoy the hiking life.
https://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i/lAp7AG/moerkredd-i-naturen-egentlig-er-det-urhjernen-som-proever-aa-hjelpe-de




CORONAVIRUS LIVE TICKER CORONAVIRUS: ALL CARDS AND NUMBERS
PANORAMA
DATES AND NUMBERS
R values ​​continue to drop below 1 for the second day in a row - RKI worried


MONEY
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
The EU discovers Bitcoin - and wants to tame it with bureaucracy


corona:
Returnees have to be quarantined again
Because the capacities of the laboratories are insufficient, there is no test obligation for vacationers from risk areas. Health ministers are instead relying on mandatory quarantine for travelers from risk areas. 



(What can't I translate this with Google Translate, I wonder?)
Baltic Sea????



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 






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buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-cymbalaria-what-ive-been.html


buttercup (R. circinatus): What I've been reading - 8/23/20 week - Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-circinatus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. cassubicifolius): What I've been reading - 8/16/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-cassubicifolius-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. carinthiacus): What I've been reading - 8/9/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-carinthiacus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. californicus): What I've been reading - 8/2/20 week -Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-californicus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. bullatus): What I've been reading - 7/26/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bullatus-what-ive-been.html


buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bulbosus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. austro-oreganus): What I've been reading - 7/12/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-austro-oreganus-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. auricomus): What I've been reading - 7/5/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-auricomus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. asiaticus): What I've been reading - 6/28/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-asiaticus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter



buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirus



buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirus


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirus










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SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020


What I've been watching

Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html







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