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  1. Oct 2022
    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      This theoretical study looks at individuals' strategies to acquire information before and after the introduction of pathogens into the system. The manuscript is well-written and gives a good summary of the previous literature. I enjoyed reading it and the authors present several interesting findings about the development of social movement strategies. The authors successfully present a model to look at the costs and benefits of sociality.

      I have a couple of major comments about the work in its current form that I think are very important for the authors to address. That said, I think this is a promising start and that with some revisions, this could be a valuable contribution to the literature on behavioral ecology.

      Before starting, I would like to be precise that, given the scope of the models and the number of parameter choices that were necessary, I am going to avoid criticisms of the decisions made when designing the models. However, there are a few assumptions I rather find problematic and would like to give proper attention to.

      The first regards social vs. personal information. Most of the model argumentation is based on the reliance on social information (considering four, but to me overlapping, social strategies that are somehow static and heritable) but in fact, individuals may oscillate between relying on their personal information and/or on social information -- which may depend on the availability of resources, population density, stochastic factors, among others (Dall et al. 2005 Trends Ecol. Evol., Duboscq et al. 2016 Frontiers in Psychology). In my opinion, ignoring the influence of personal and social information decreases the significance of this work. I am aware that the authors consider the detection of food present in the model, but this is considered to a much smaller extent (as seen in their weight on individual decisions) than the social information cues.

      Critically, it is also unclear how, if at all, the information and pathogen traits are related to each other. If a handler gets sick, how does this affect its foraging activity (does it stop foraging, slow its activities, or does it show signs of sickness)? Perhaps this model is attempting to explore the emergence of social movement strategies only, but how they disentangle an individual's sickness status and behavioral response is unclear.

      Very little is presented about the virulence of the pathogens and how they could affect the emergence of social strategies. The authors keep their main argumentation based on the introduction of novel pathogens (without distinctions on their pathogenicity), but a behavioral response is rather influenced by how fast individuals are infected and which are their chances of recovering. Besides, they consider that only one or two social interactions would be enough for pathogen transmission to occur.

      Another important component is that individuals do not die, and it seems that they always have a chance (even if it is small) to reproduce. So, how the authors consider unsuccessful strategies in the model outputs or how these social strategies would be potentially "dismissed" by natural selection are not considered.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      In this paper, Yang et al. seek to show the importance of the lncRNA VPS9D1-AS1 in the biology and pathology of colorectal cancer (CRC). Starting with the analysis of patient data, and proceeding to cellular and animal cancer models.

      Specifically, the authors report higher VPS9D1-AS1 levels in tumor tissues in two independent cohorts of CRC patients. There was a positive association between VPS9D1-AS1 levels and molecules involved in TGFb signaling, yet a negative association between VPS9D1-AS1 levels and levels of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells (and a negative correlation of these levels of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells and protein expression of molecules involved in TGFb signaling). Cell line studies revealed a positive feedback loop between VPS9D1-AS1 and TGFb signaling molecules, with a cell-intrinsic, pro-proliferative, and pro-survival effect of VPS9D1-AS1 on CRC cancer cells. VPS9D1-AS1 also controls the expression of several genes in the IFN pathway, in particular the ISGs IFI27 and OAS1. In addition, IFI27 and OAS1 expression are controlled by TGFb, TGFBR1, and SMAD1, and the promoter of OAS1 is targeted by SMAD4 (but also TGFb), which binds to it. VPS9D1-AS1 expression in tumor cells promotes PD1 expression and negatively affects IFNAR1 on T cells to reduce their effector functions. In vivo, MC38 CRC cells overexpressing VPS9D1-AS1 show increased tumor growth in mice, and animals with transgenic VPS9D1-AS1 expression in the intestine develop larger CRC lesions upon AOM/DSS treatment. Finally, in vivo targeting of VPS9D1-AS1 using anti-sense oligo reduced tumor size. The data indicate a series of intricate molecular and cellular interactions and suggest that VPS9D1-AS1 can help with patient stratification, improving prognostic prediction and allowing for personalized treatment.<br /> Taken together, there is a multitude of datasets and several complementary experiments using patient-derived samples, genetically engineered cell lines, and mouse models. Definitely, the paper includes many avenues of inquiry that cover the broad field of cancer molecular biology, biochemistry, and pathogenesis. However, this broad approach renders the paper difficult to follow at times and also leads to numerous typographical and interpretive (but, largely, not methodological), mistakes. In addition, the quality of some of the figures needs to be improved before they can be properly evaluated.

      In methodology, the authors are largely successful, and I would not recommend major changes to the work, other than to recommend a "focusing" of the manuscript objectives, or a paring of the data to better convey the desired story.

      The experiments presented herein, particularly those that test the efficacy of the lncRNA as cancer therapeutics are important for the field, and should be of high import to other cancer biologists.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      This study used electrophysiological data acquired from neurons in the dorsal raphe to model 5-HT output in response to extrinsic excitatory inputs based on the intrinsic properties of 5-HT neurons and local network connectivity with GABAergic neurons. Specifically, general and modified integrate-and-fire single cell models, together with local network models among 5-HT neurons and local GABAergic neurons providing feedforward inhibition (FFI), are used to simulate the firing output of 5-HT neurons in response to transient and prolonged depolarizations. The conclusions are as follows. 1) 5-HT neurons display prominent spike frequency adaptation, resulting from afterhyperpolarization potentials and change in firing threshold, and inactivating K current characteristic of A-type K current (I-A). These two features cause the rapid decline in firing responses at the onset of depolarizing input. 2) Heterogeneous FFI due to heterogeneous electrophysiological properties of local GABA neurons lead to divisive inhibition of 5HT neuron firing (i.e., change in the slope of input-output function) in the network model. 3) Using a ramp depolarization, the authors found that 5-HT neurons encode the temporal derivative of depolarization, i.e., the slope of ramp depolarization. This property can be ascribed to the prominent spike-frequency adaptation observed in 5-HT neurons. Overall, this study provides new insights into the control of 5-HT output by single cell and network mechanisms.

      The conclusions are well supported by combination of rigorous brain slice electrophysiological recordings of the two types of neurons in the dorsal raphe, i.e., 5-HT neurons and somatostatin-positive GABA neurons, which are identified by the usage of transgenic mice where these neurons are fluorescently labeled, and the application of single cell and network models.

      As the authors state, the most striking finding of this study is that 5-HT neurons encode temporal derivative of excitatory inputs, as it may relate to reinforcement learning models. Here, this feature is captured using a ramp depolarization and is solely modeled with intrinsic property of 5-HT neurons, i.e., spike-frequency adaptation. Instead of using a ramp depolarization, using repetitive brief depolarizations with changing intervals/frequency will be more informative. Further, incorporating the network model with FFI, in particular the delay in inhibition following excitation associated with FFI when same inputs (single and repetitive) feed into 5-HT neurons and GABA neurons, may be more relevant to the reinforcement learning algorithms (e.g., see Fig. 6a in J. Neurosci. 2008, 28: 9619-9631).

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      The authors examine the effects of depletion of an accessory subunit of the V-ATPase, ATP6AP2, using recombination of a floxed gene with osteocalcin promoter cre recombinase. Major findings are that defects and death in osteocytes occur, with mass spectrometry sequencing showing that matrix metalloproteinase, MMP14, which is involved in collagen remodeling in a number of other contexts, regulates bone matrix remodeling and osteocyte differentiation downstream of ATP6AP2. Further, ATP6AP2 depletion was counteracted in part by direct expression of MMP14 in ATP6AP2 depleted osteoblast-lineage cells.

      Major strengths of the work include a clear description of methods and most results, as well as a concise and clear discussion.<br /> - There is an extensive description of the bone with a detailed discussion of micro computed tomography and staining results.<br /> - Interesting findings include retention of woven bone, and labeling for secondary indicators including cleaved caspase 3, RunX2, and sclerostin.<br /> - Osteocyte tomato labeling of the ATP6AP2Ocn-cre animals is a very good confirmation of the histomorphometric analysis.<br /> - The KI67 labeling of proliferative cells is very interesting but should be introduced more clearly. Similarly, cleaved caspase 3 is very useful but a sentence stating why this was done would be useful for clarity.<br /> - Interaction of ATP6AP2 directly with MMP14 is very interesting and useful in wrapping up the paper.

      Weaknesses include:<br /> - When introducing assays, a brief description of why this is done would make the paper more accessible.<br /> - The reviewer would like to see a clearer description of the depletion of ATP6AP2 by cre-lox recombination.<br /> - Results showing calcein deposition, not on the surface of the cortical bone requires more data to strengthen this finding.<br /> - Retention of woven bone suggests a defect in resorption, but a clear description of the resorbed area is not seen.

      The reviewer is enthusiastic about the manuscript.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      The authors use microfluidic devices to follow single swimmers for long periods, measuring their movement in detail and allowing detailed statistics at a level that has never been possible before and machine learning.

      Its strength is the extraordinary detail and the doors opened by the quality of the resultant data. As such it makes a substantial contribution to a narrow field and adds slightly more subtly to an important field of full mathematically accessible descriptions of migration phenotypes.

      Its weakness is that these tools are not yet used for any particularly enlightening tests. The directed probability fluxes are interesting, but not surprising. The strength of this paper is in the method, the analysis, and the ability to generate rigorous datasets.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      Krehenwinkel et al. investigated the long-term temporal dynamics of arthropod communities using environmental DNA (eDNA) remained in archived leave samples. The authors first developed a method to recover arthropod eDNA from archived leave samples and carefully tested whether the developed method could reasonably reveal the dynamics of arthropod communities where the leave samples originated. Then, using the eDNA method, the authors analyzed 30-year-long well-archived tree leaf samples in Germany and reconstructed the long-term temporal dynamics of arthropod communities associated with the tree species. The reconstructed time series includes several thousand arthropod species belonging to 23 orders, and the authors found interesting patterns in the time series. Contrary to some previous studies, the authors did not find widespread temporal α-diversity (OTU richness and haplotype diversity) declines. Instead, β-diversity among study sites gradually decreased, suggesting that the arthropod communities are more spatially homogenized in recent years. Overall, the authors suggested that the temporal dynamics of arthropod communities may be complex and involve changes in α- and β-diversity and demonstrated the usefulness of their unique eDNA-based approach.

      Strengths:<br /> The authors' idea that using eDNA remained in archived leave samples is unique and potentially applicable to other systems. For example, different types of specimens archived in museums may be utilized for reconstructing long-term community dynamics of other organisms, which would be beneficial for understanding and predicting ecosystem dynamics.

      A great strength of this work is that the authors very carefully tested their method. For example, the authors tested the effects of powdered leaves input weights, sampling methods, storing methods, PCR primers, and days from last precipitation to sampling on the eDNA metabarcoding results. The results showed that the tested variables did not significantly impact the eDNA metabarcoding results, which convinced me that the proposed method reasonably recovers arthropod eDNA from the archived leaf samples. Furthermore, the authors developed a method that can separately quantify 18S DNA copy numbers of arthropods and plants, which enables the estimations of relative arthropod eDNA copy numbers. While most eDNA studies provide relative abundance only, the DNA copy numbers measured in this study provide valuable information on arthropod community dynamics.

      Overall, the authors' idea is excellent, and I believe that the developed eDNA methodology reasonably reconstructed the long-term temporal dynamics of the target organisms, which are major strengths of this study.

      Weaknesses:<br /> Although this work has major strengths in the eDNA experimental part, there are concerns in DNA sequence processing and statistical analyses.

      Statistical methods to analyze the temporal trend are too simplistic. The methods used in the study did not consider possible autocorrelation and other structures that the eDNA time series might have. It is well known that the applications of simple linear models to time series with autocorrelation structure incorrectly detect a "significant" temporal trend. For example, a linear model can often detect a significant trend even in a random walk time series.

      Also, there are some issues regarding the DNA sequence analysis and the subsequent use of the results. For example, read abundance was used in the statistical model, but the read abundance cannot be a proxy for species abundance/biomass. Because the total 18S DNA copy numbers of arthropods were quantified in the study, multiplying the sequence-based relative abundance by the total 18S DNA copy numbers may produce a better proxy of the abundance of arthropods, and the use of such a better proxy would be more appropriate here. In addition, a coverage-based rarefaction enables a more rigorous comparison of diversity (OTU diversity or haplotype diversity) than the read-based rarefaction does.

      These points may significantly impact the conclusions of this work.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      In this article, the authors leveraged patterns on the empirical genomic data and the power of simulations and statistical inferences and aimed to address a few biologically and culturally relevant questions about Cabo Verde population's admixture history during the TAST era. Specifically, the authors provided evidence on which specific African and European populations contributed to the population per island if the genetic admixture history parallels language evolution, and the best-fitting admixture scenario that answers questions on when and which continental populations admixed on which island, and how that influenced the island population dynamics since then.

      Strengths:

      1) This study sets a great example of studying population history through the lens of genetics and linguistics, jointly. Historically most of the genetic studies of population history either ignored the sociocultural aspects of the evidence or poorly (or wrongly) correlated that with genetic inference. This study identified components in language that are informative about cultural mixture (strictly African-origin words versus shared European-African words), and carefully examined the statistical correlation between genetic and linguistic variation that occurred through admixture, providing a complete picture of genetic and sociocultural transformation in the Cabo Verde islands during TAST.

      2) The statistical analyses are carefully designed and rigorously done. I especially appreciate the careful goodness-of-fit checking and parameter error rates estimation in the ABC part, making the inference results more convincing.

      Weaknesses

      1) Most of the methods in the main analyses here were previously developed (eg. MDS, MetHis, RF/NN-ABC). However, when being introduced and applied here, the authors didn't reinstate the necessary background (strength and weakness, limitations and usage) of these methods to make them justifiable over other methods. For example, why ADS-MDS is used here to examine the genetic relationship between Cabo Verde populations and other worldwide populations, rather than classic PCA and F-statistics?

      2) The senior author of this paper has an earlier published article (Verdu et al. 2017 Current Biology) on the same population, using a similar set of methods and drew similar conclusions on the source of genetic and linguistic variation in Cabo Verde. Although additional samples on island levels are added here and additional analyses on admixture history were performed, half of the main messages from this paper don't seem to provide new knowledge than what we already learned from the 2017 paper.

      3) Furthermore, there are a few essential factors that could confound different aspects of the major analyses in this article that I believe should be taken into account and discussed. Such factors include the demographic history of source populations prior to admixture, different scenarios of the recipient population size changes, differences in recombination rates across the genome and between African and European populations, etc.

      Overall, the paper is of interest to the field of human evolutionary genetics - that not only does it tell the story of a historically important population, but also the methodology behind this paper sets a great example for future research to study genetic and sociocultural transformations under the same framework.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      This work conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis between TG and a large number of disease traits in biobanks. They leverage the publicly available summary statistics from the European samples from the UK Biobank and FinnGen. A solid but routine standard summary-statistics based MR study is conducted. Several significant causal associations from TG to phenotypes are called by setting p-value cutoff with some Bonferroni correction. Sensitivity statistical analyses are conducted which generate largely consistent results. The research problem is important and relevant for public health as well we drug development. Overall this is a solid execution of current methods over appropriate data source and yields a convincing result. The interpretation of the results in discussion is also well-balanced.

      While the paper does have strengths in principle, a few technical weaknesses are observed.

      They used UK Biobank as the discovery and FinnGen as the replication. But the two cohorts are rather used symmetrically. Especially for the Tier 3 (NB), it seems to be an attempt of reusing the replication cohort as the discovery. I wonder if that would create additional multiple testing burden as a greater number of hypotheses are considered.

      The replication p-value cutoff is a bit statistically lenient. In a typical discovery-replication setting the two stages are conducted sequentially and replication should go through the Bonferroni adjustment on the number of significant signals from discovery that is tested in the replication. For example, in this case, in tier 2, the cutoff should be 0.05/39. This may make the association of leiomyoma of the uterus slightly non-significant though. Similar cutoff should be applied to tier 3 as well.

      The causal effect of TG to leiomyoma of the uterus is weak, as indicated by both the sub-significant in the replication and the non-significant of MR-PRESSO. Similarly, I would recommend more caution on the weak statistical rigor when interpreting Tier 2 and Tier 3 results.

      Another methodological choice that might need justification is the use of UKB TG GWAS loci (1,248 SNPs) are the instrument for FinnGen. This may create some subtle interference with the use of UKB as outcomes in the discovery analysis. It may be minor but some justification or at least some discussions of potential limitations should be mentioned. What about the alternative of using GLGC as instruments in replication?

      For disease outcomes (line 188), UKB European sample size is ~400,000 rather than ~500,000. Can the author clarify the sample size they used?

      It would be reassuring to the reader if the TG measurements were measured in a treatment-naïve manner.

      "Phenome-wide MR is a high-throughput extension of MR that, under specific assumptions, estimates the causal effects of an exposure on multiple outcomes simultaneously." - I guess it is more informative to mention the specific assumptions, at least briefly, in the introduction so it is easier for the reader to interpret the results.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

      In this new exciting manuscript, Möller and colleagues studied different behavioral patterns of human and non-human primate subjects in a transparent social coordination game. In the task, two subjects chose between two visible options, in which each subject preferred a different option. Critically, the reward level also varied based on a payoff matrix. Choosing the non-preferred options by both subjects resulted in the lowest rewards, whereas choosing the preferred options by both resulted in medium-sized rewards for both. However, when both subjects chose the same option (i.e., coordinated), which was preferred by one subject but not preferred by the other subject, both received the highest rewards, with the subject who indicated the preferred option receiving a higher reward than the other. Therefore, the optimal strategy would be a dynamic turn-taking strategy in which both subjects choose the same option while taking turns over time. The authors found that about half of the human pairs adopted the turn-taking strategy. On the other hand, monkeys performed the task mostly in a selfish manner - both monkeys tended to choose their preferred options. Interestingly, in the human-monkey pairing, the monkeys could learn the turn-taking patterns. Furthermore, a detailed examination showed that turn-taking patterns in humans indicated a prosocial strategy, while turn-taking patterns in monkeys reflected a competitive strategy, where a slow-responding monkey followed the option of the fast-responding monkey. Together, the results convincingly demonstrate very interesting similarities and differences between humans and monkeys in carrying out social coordination.

      Strength: This study provides convincing results with good sample size and rigorous data analyses. The transparent task design uniquely allowed the authors to examine the visual social aspects underlying social coordination. The direct comparison between human and monkey subjects, as well as examining human-monkey pairs were important and informative. Overall, the results provide novel insights into other studies in non-human primates that aim to understand the common social decision-making mechanism of both human and non-human primates.

      Weakness: In the situation when the human subjects were paired with monkey subjects, it was unclear what detailed aspects of this experience directly led to the increase in the turn-taking behavior in the monkey subjects. About half of the human subjects behaved more like the monkey subjects by not exhibiting the dynamic turn-taking behavior, yet the reasons behind this within-group difference were unclear.

    1. Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      The present studies by Foster and colleagues use mouse genetics to show that pyruvate kinase 1 and 2 (PKM1 and PKM2) regulate ATP-sensitive K+ channel activity (KATP channel) through mitochondrial PEP-dependent cytoplasmic ATP/ADP increases, leading to first phase insulin secretion. During the second phase of insulin secretion, when ATP hydrolysis is maximal, oxidative phosphorylation is engaged to sustain ATP/ADP ratios and KATP channel closure. As such, the work challenges the consensus view of KATP channel activity, which states that ATP derived from oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondrial matrix increases cytoplasmic ATP/ADP ratio, thus closing KATP channels and increasing Ca2+ fluxes.

      Strengths of the study include: 1) careful experimental design and execution; 2) use of comprehensive mouse genetics to pinpoint roles of PKM1, PKM2 and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 2 (which produces PEP from oxoaloacetic acid); and 3) multiple lines of corroboratory evidence that the PEP-PKM1/2 system influences KATP channel activity and downstream signaling, via changes in non-mitochondrial ATP/ADP.

      Weaknesses include: 1) lack of in vivo data to support a role of PKM1/PKM2 in determining glucose levels; and 2) over-reliance on mouse models, meaning that translational relevance to human biology is unclear.

      Nonetheless, on balance, the authors have achieved their aims of showing that PEP and PKM1/PKM2 are critical regulators of KATP channel activity, Ca2+ fluxes and insulin secretion.

      Overall, this is a potentially important study, which updates the textbook view of KATP-channel regulation, the major signaling mechanism through which pancreatic beta cells couple blood glucose levels to insulin release.

  2. Sep 2022
    1. The frequency factor determines the maximum rate of collisions, is a function of particle size, concentration and the rate of diffusion. The steric factor accounts for orientation, in that not all collisions have the correct orientation to result in a reaction, (see video 14.6.214.6.2\PageIndex{2}). The rule of thumb is that the more symmetric a molecule the larger the steric factor (a value of 1 means there is no effect, and the pre-exponential is determined by the collision frequency) and the more complicated a molecule, the smaller the steric factor (which is less than one), because only a fraction of the collisions have the correct orientation.
    1. In the article, "The New Normative: Queer Politics in The Outs," author John Sherman, a freelance writer from Brooklyn, implores reader's to give credit to show's casually- revolutionary representation of queer characters. Sherman indicates to reader's that this is a rarely great representation for its time (2012) because it gives gay characters a non-stereotypical story line. It allows it's characters to be people who just happen to be gay. In just the pilot episode, it's not hard to see this truth. With the first four queer male characters being introduced, they all have different characteristics, priorities, and dynamics with eachother that don't center around their gayness. This gives a depth to the queer character being represented without relying on the fact that their gay to do so. I think that the positive reaction to this show bodes very well for the style of queer representation being presented and will hopefully inspire more writing and content making of this kind which non-chalently gives a voice gay to story lines in a relatable- human way instead of a stereotypical and tokenising way.

      I believe that Shitt's Creek also does this fairly well. Although I've only seen a couple episodes myself- I saw the character of David as a complete person and story line not defined by his gayness or partner choices although it is an obvious part of his identity.

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      Comparaciones part 2

    1. Filter gives me the impression of inclusion... so if I filter by fruits, I expect to see apples, oranges, and bananas. Instead, this is more like filter out fruits... remove all the fruits, and you're left with the rest. Filter in/out are both viable. One means to include everything that matches a condition, and the other is to exclude everything that does not match a condition. And I don't think we can have just one.
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  3. Aug 2022
      • When considering the work of social reproduction in the University, I suggest we focus our attention to two interrelated and crucial sites: the reproduction of the University itself, and the reproduction of the subject (the student-self).
      • Mapping social reproduction in the University uncovers the racism and patriarchy at work. As the neoliberal university seeks to market its diversity and multiculturalism, it requires those diverse bodies to do the work of reproducing the university as such.
    1. What strategies and processes do collaborators need for success?

      You need a space to gather, make sense of, and share your answers as they develop.

  4. Jul 2022
    1. Hayek worried they would never let go

      Once the government has control of the economy, will they ever let go?

    1. 5.1 Recognize that 1) the biggest threat to good decision making is harmful emotions, and 2) decision making is a two-step process (first learning and then deciding).

      5.1 Recognize that 1) the biggest threat to good decision making is harmful emotions, and 2) decision making is a two-step process (first learning and then deciding).

    2. 2 Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life

      2 Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life

    1. D2M allows for the direct streaming of multimedia content to phones. The technology’s theory is that it can be used to directly broadcast information geared toward citizens, as well as to combat fake news, send out emergency warnings, and aid in disaster management, among other things. In addition, live sports, news, and other content can be broadcast on mobile devices. Furthermore, there should be zero internet data usage while the material streams without any buffering at all. Furthermore, there should be zero internet data usage while the material streams without any buffering at all.

      Definition DIrect 2 Mobile

    1. so let's suppose let's suppose your listeners are with me and you know we kind of agree like okay yes transformation's necessary and uh again i want to emphasize i'm not talking about reform i'm not talking 00:58:59 about a softer better capitalism i'm not talking about you know improved voter registration or like any of those things i'm talking about de novo starting over from scratch what might be 00:59:13 best and if it turns out that the old systems were better than anything that humanity can come up with well then you know that's the answer but i can't imagine that's true because the old systems were never designed in any kind of 00:59:25 you know thoughtful science driven [Music] you know process to to to test to explore and to come up with fitness like what is the you know we don't even have a fitness for our current society 00:59:39 much less of fitness for societal designs i mean we have the gdp but that's a terrible terrible limited fitness metric 00:59:51 okay so suppose you're with me suppose we're we're on board we we want to do this de novo design thing where do we start what's the what's what where do we even get off the 01:00:03 ground on this and i suggest that the way to do it is through first address worldview from world view once we understand what the world view is 01:00:15 what a reasonable useful world view will be for this project then then purpose derives worldview begets purpose once you understand what it is you want 01:00:28 what you value what do you value once you understand what you value then you can say well i value a and therefore the purpose is to 01:00:39 have a manifest in society for example so once you have purpose then you can think about what metrics how would you measure whether are you so 01:00:53 here's a new design is it fit for purpose does it do does it fulfill its purpose you know that's the question and then metrics go with some kind of fitness evaluation 01:01:05 and then finally last of all of those would be the design okay we know what we know what we value we know what this thing is supposed to do we know what the purpose is we know that attractor is supposed to you know plow the ground or something we 01:01:18 know what this is supposed to do we know how to measure success and uh now finally then let's talk about design what are the what are the you know the specifics and mechanics and 01:01:31 how does that happen and the the series is really kind of laid out this way the first paper really talks about world view and purpose the second paper talks about the you know the more the mechanics of things 01:01:44 like viability how would you make this thing viable things like that and then the very last paper that's titled the subtitle design okay so uh that's how we uh and 01:01:56 and maybe i will just mention here that i put metrics before design because we might have some ideas uh getting back to that preference factor we might have some ideas like we would like people not to die at 01:02:08 30 you know we'd like people to mostly live to a ripe old age and have you know enough water water to drink and food to eat and all that kind of stuff so uh you know what kind of design once 01:02:20 now that we have metrics to measure that kind of stuff longevity and nutrition and things what kind of designs would help us to reach those targets you know so that's one reason why design 01:02:31 why metrics comes before design okay

      Process flow: Worldview, purpose, metric and finally design

      Paper 1: Worldview and purpose Paper 2: practical implementation Paper 3: Design

  5. Jun 2022
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      What is this?

    1. Referencing Intersections and Dialectics, McNally identifies in liberalism what he calls "social Newtonianism." In this theoretical framework, "things—be they entities, processes, or relations—can thus only be understood as utterly discrete atomic bits whose identities exclude the co-constituting effects of others," a critique which he applies doubly to liberalism and strains of intersectional theory. (McNally, 97) In a much less radical sense, we can understand social Newtonianism to be constitutive of the faux-progressivism of the neoliberal university, in which Contemporary DEI is an entrenched set of discourses. The production of social atomism amongst the working class is essential to ruling class ideology, and by extension managerial rationality. Managerial rationalities within the university are thus accepting of a watered-down form of intersectionality--one that leans into social Newtonianism and discourages class analysis. For this reason, among others, SRT provides resources to combat institutional discourse on race, gender and inequality.

    2. One understanding of social reproduction is that it isabout two separate spaces and two separate processes of production: theeconomic and the social—often understood as the workplace and home.In this understanding, the worker produces surplus value at work andhence is part of the production of the total wealth of society. At the end ofthe workday, because the worker is “free” under capitalism, capital mustrelinquish control over the process of regeneration of the worker andhence the reproduction of the workforce. The corpus of social relationsinvolving regeneration—birth, death, social communication, and soon—is most commonly referred to in scholarly as well as policy literatureas care or social care

      In the residential university, the economic and social life of the student are collapsed. In this sense, the labor of being surveilled and the production of human capital through all social processes inherent to regimes of managerial rationality, is panoptical, totalizing.

    3. The volume is premised upon the understanding that “in capitalistsocieties the majority of people subsist by combining paid employmentand unpaid domestic labor to maintain themselves . . . [hence] thisversion of social reproduction analyzes the ways in which both laborsare part of the same socio-economic process.”

      Part 2 aims to supplement the economic questions addressed in Part 1 to fully account for the vast unpaid and uncompensated labor that constitutes the labor process within the university. A proper analysis of labor in the university, and Contemporary DEI's role in facilitating it is to understand the socio-economic productive and reproductive forces that produce student, faculty and administrative subjectivity.

    4. apitalism, however, acknowledgesproductive labor for the market as the sole form of legitimate “work,”while the tremendous amount of familial as well as communitarian workthat goes on to sustain and reproduce the worker, or more specificallyher labor power, is naturalized into nonexistence.

      In the racialized and gendered capitalism that produces DEI, embodying diversity and similar forms of labor are made invisible as such.

  6. May 2022
    1. Matt Taibbi asked his subscribers in April. Since they were “now functionally my editor,” he was seeking their advice on potential reporting projects. One suggestion — that he write about Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo — swiftly gave way to a long debate among readers over whether race was biological.

      There's something here that's akin to the idea of bikeshedding? Online communities flock to the low lying ideas upon which they can proffer an opinion and play at the idea of debate. If they really cared, wouldn't they instead delve into the research and topics themselves? Do they really want Taibbi's specific take? Do they want or need his opinion on the topic? What do they really want?

      Compare and cross reference this with the ideas presented by Ibram X. Kendi's article There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory.

      Are people looking for the social equivalent of a simple "system one" conversation or are they ready, willing, and able to delve into a "system two" presentation?

      Compare this also with the modern day version of the Sunday morning news (analysis) shows? They would seem to be interested in substantive policy and debate, but they also require a lot of prior context to participate. In essence, most speakers don't actually engage, but spew out talking points instead and rely on gut reactions and fear, uncertainty and doubt to make their presentations. What happened to the actual discourse? Has there been a shift in how these shows work and present since the rise of the Hard Copy sensationalist presentation? Is the competition for eyeballs weakening these analysis shows?

      How might this all relate to low level mansplaining as well? What are men really trying to communicate in demonstrating this behavior? What do they gain in the long run? What is the evolutionary benefit?

      All these topics seem related somehow within the spectrum of communication and what people look for and choose in what and how they consume content.

    1. En la dimensión intelectual, la emergencia del paradigma cognitivo es consecuente con la nueva concepción de una ciencia, resultante del agotamiento del modelo de racionalidad moderno y la negación de su propuesta por parte de las Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Éstas reconstruyen los pilares teórico-conceptuales y establecen nuevos principios: a) la relatividad, al demostrar que la simultaneidad de los acontecimientos distantes no puede ser verificada empíricamente sino sólo definida; b) el cuestionamiento de la objetividad de la ciencia y el rigor de las mediciones con la mecánica cuántica; c) la impugnación del vehículo formal en que se expresa la medición, al demostrar que el rigor de la Matemática se basa en un criterio de selectividad; y d) la introducción de la incertidumbre y el principio del orden a través de las fluctuaciones (Santos 1988), de influencia reformadora en las Ciencias Sociales.

      2.. el surgimiento del paradigma cognitivo

  7. Apr 2022
    1. 🇺🇦 Meaghan Kall. (2022, January 27). NEW: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Vaccine effectiveness (symptomatic infection) data for BA.2 {Omicron’s more infectious sister} NO difference in VE between Omicron (BA.1) and BA.2 Possibly even higher VE for BA.2 but estimates overlap See full thread 🧵 from @freja_kirsebom https://t.co/bJ7uCn2cGV [Tweet]. @kallmemeg. https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1486821549458001927

    1. Tom Wenseleers. (2022, January 23). @HarrySpoelstra @trvrb @CorneliusRoemer @JosetteSchoenma BA.2 has a growth rate advantage over BA.1 of ca 0.11/day. That’s quite sizeable. If it would have the same short generation time as BA.1 of 2.2 days it would imply a ca.1.3x higher transmissibility, due to higher contagiousness or immune escape. Https://t.co/X8TcWJ4pXQ [Tweet]. @TWenseleers. https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1485375883066101763

    1. Amy Maxmen, PhD. (2020, August 26). 🙄The CDC’s only substantial communication with the public in the pandemic is through its MMW Reports. But the irrelevant & erroneous 1st line of this latest report suggests political meddling to me. (The WHO doesn’t declare pandemics. They declare PHEICs, which they did Jan 30) https://t.co/Y1NlHbQIYQ [Tweet]. @amymaxmen. https://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/1298660729080356864

    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 3). As debate on ‘saving the economy versus saving lives’ marches on, it’s worth noting that this type of contrast actually has a name in fallacy research: Https://t.co/N8U4ABWTuh it’s also worth noting that there is now a substantial number of research articles on the topic. 1/n [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1323603017179013130

    1. Miguel Hernán. (2021, February 15). To all who claim that there’s no evidence that #SARSCoV2 is transmitted in bars: If the risk of transmitting #SARSCoV2 is provenly greater in crowded indoor places, why should bars be magically protected? Burden of the proof is on bar’s owners, not on scientists @BillHanage [Tweet]. @_MiguelHernan. https://twitter.com/_MiguelHernan/status/1361463022187864066

    1. Moritz Gerstung. (2021, November 1). An update on currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants in England beyond AY.4.2. Based on data released weekly to http://covid19.sanger.ac.uk we’ve been monitoring the speed of spread of currently 232 lineages. It’s a very dynamic situation and at times hard to stay on top. 🧵 [Tweet]. @MoritzGerstung. https://twitter.com/MoritzGerstung/status/1455136551407689734

    1. Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD. (2022, February 7). 1: BA.2 some evidence that it’s even more transmissible than the original omicron which is more transmissible than delta, and so forth. If it takes hold like it did in Denmark it will slow the descent of original omicron here [Tweet]. @PeterHotez. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1490669166176702466

    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2022, March 8). RT @DrEricDing: ⚠️UPDATE—#BA2 is now 11.6% in US, up from 8.3% last week. It’s definitely increasing, as warned. #COVID19 still dropping, b… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1501248333876240385

    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2022, March 19). RT @Kit_Yates_Maths: I know this tweet is aimed at the US, but it would be great if the message about BA.2 would sink in in the UK too! [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1505210192287481857

    1. Alastair Grant. (2022, March 9). Based on the spike gene target data from TaqPath, BA.2 made up 82% of COVID cases in England on 6th March—It has now almost taken over We know that BA.2 has higher transmission than Omicron and there are a number of examples from Denmark of BA.2 reinfection shortly after BA.1 https://t.co/rEyud8osY1 [Tweet]. @AlastairGrant4. https://twitter.com/AlastairGrant4/status/1501606060033028099

    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 23). RT @LauraMiers: BA.2’s growth advantage over BA.1 is jarring. Meanwhile, we are operating under the assumption that “Omicron will end the p… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1485519516914302980

    1. Prof. Christina Pagel 🇺🇦. (2022, March 8). What could be causing it? Likely combo of: 1—Dominant BA.2 causing more infections (we await ONS!) 2—Reduction in masks, self-isolation & testing enabling more infections 3—Waning boosters in older people esp I worry that we will be stuck at high levels for long time. 2/2 https://t.co/xZ2SLFNVkS [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1501250081693048838

  8. Mar 2022
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    1. oot doctoring and knocking and kicking acted as related sources ofempowerment

      empowerment

    2. tricknology

      .

    3. However, when fighting from some physical disadvantage or when defendingoneself from a white oppressor, the ideal was to strike a butting-style headblow and finish the fight before it even developed.

      disadvantage

    4. style worked from an opening stance in which “each contestant placed onehand on his opponent’s shoulder at or near the collar line, and with the otherhe clutched his opponent’s arm directly above the elbow.”20 This style alsoincluded groundwork and became popular in America because it gave theadvantage to skill rather than size and allowed for contests between individu-als of different sizes

      collar-and-elbow, Irish wrestling, advantage

    5. Similarly, the unarmed martial arts were living traditions that could spreadin the Americas even when only a few practitioners were introduced to aregion. As these arts had served as a base of support in difficult times in Africa,under the exceedingly horrific experience of racial slavery in the Americas evenlone martial arts masters may have been called upon to serve their new com-munities as sources of defensive leadership. These arts did not die with suchmasters but were effectively passed on horizontally (to peers rather than exclu-sively to progeny) even to those whose patrimony came from areas of Africaother than Biafra and southern Angola.

      .

    6. could leave their cultural mark on the future generations of thegeneral bonded population.

      .

    7. the enslaved community in a given region of the Americas, these populationscould at times call upon elements of their collective military traditions

      .

    8. the combination of trading patterns and pref-erences of European planters in the Americas for laborers of specific Africanethnicities tended to lump together large numbers of captive Africans from cer-tain areas into particular colonies in the Americas.

      how the enslaved kept their honor, history, martial arts

    9. Biafran-derived war dances and closed soci-eties continued to act as vehicles for paramilitary actions in the Americas

      .

    10. remembered the martial traditions that could be calledupon in times of need

      .

    1. The historic books of the Bible were written by a “Yahweh only party” and are thus keenly critical of the worship of other gods in Judah. Still, it is clear from their description that polytheism was the norm in the First Temple period. It was only during King Josiah’s reform that the "Yahweh only party" really took control and began pushing other gods out of Judean minds.

      Polytheism was the cultural norm during the First Temple period. It wasn't until the reforms of King Josiah described in 2 Kings in the second half of the 7th century BCE that other Semitic gods were actively removed from the Temple and parts of culture in favor of Yahweh.

    2. The Bible also recounts that the ancient Hebrews worshipped a god named Moloch, who was associated with the Ammonites and with child sacrifice. This worship too was stamped out by Josiah in the same reform (e.g. 2 Kings 23:10).
    3. Yet the ancient Hebrews clearly adored them just like the other West Semites did. Ezekiel (8:16) recounts seeing people worshiping the sun in the Temple. We can infer this because the bible specifically condemns their worship, and we are told that Josiah took actions to stomp out the cult in the late First Temple period, the second half of the 7th century B.C.E. These actions included removing cult objects from the Temple itself (2 Kings 23:11).
    4. Mot, the personification of death, is described in several passages as a deity. In Job 18:13 he is said to have a son, and in Habakkuk 2:5 we are told he opens his mouth wide and swallows souls.

      Mot, one of the other sons of El, is described as a deity who has a son in Job 18:13 and as one who opens his mouth wide and swallows souls in Habakkuk 2:5.

    1. nach § 122 Abs. 1

      § 122 Bekanntgabe des Verwaltungsakts

      (1) Ein Verwaltungsakt ist demjenigen Beteiligten bekannt zu geben, für den er bestimmt ist oder der von ihm betroffen wird. § 34 Abs. 2 ist entsprechend anzuwenden. Der Verwaltungsakt kann auch gegenüber einem Bevollmächtigten bekannt gegeben werden. Er soll dem Bevollmächtigten bekannt gegeben werden, wenn der Finanzbehörde eine schriftliche oder eine nach amtlich vorgeschriebenem Datensatz elektronisch übermittelte Empfangsvollmacht vorliegt, solange dem Bevollmächtigten nicht eine Zurückweisung nach § 80 Absatz 7 bekannt gegeben worden ist.

  10. Feb 2022
    1. That is, the first thing he asked of this particular object was not “How should it look?” but “What must it do?” and to that extent all good typography is modernist.

      Typography is not about how it should look but rather how it can convey the message.

    2. because everything about it is calculated to reveal rather than to hide the beautiful thing that it was meant to contain.

      I like this statement because when it comes to typography it is meant to reveal the beauty behind the design.

    3. that the most important thing about printing is that it conveys thought, ideas, images, from one mind to other minds.

      It's true that if you can transfer your thought and ideas in your design, your audience would be able to understand your message.

    4. maudlin experiments

      self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.

    5. impudent

      Not showing due respect for another person or being impertinent

    6. When a goblet has a base that looks too small for security, it does not matter how cleverly it is weighted; you feel nervous lest it should tip over. There are ways of setting lines of type that may work well enough, and yet keep the reader subconsciously worried by the fear of “doubling” lines, reading three words as one, and so forth.

      The writer seems to to talking about the reader of a design becoming overwelmed by the text in a design when they look at it if there is to much causing the message of the design to be lost or not focused on in the design.

    1. Su, Y., Yuan, D., Chen, D. G., Ng, R. H., Wang, K., Choi, J., Li, S., Hong, S., Zhang, R., Xie, J., Kornilov, S. A., Scherler, K., Pavlovitch-Bedzyk, A. J., Dong, S., Lausted, C., Lee, I., Fallen, S., Dai, C. L., Baloni, P., … Heath, J. R. (2022). Multiple Early Factors Anticipate Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae. Cell, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.014

  11. Jan 2022
    1. Attending class means doing the work required rather than coming to campus this spring. Much of the learning in this course happens through your doing the writing and reading assignments each week,

      I will be coming to class EVERYDAY

    1. des espaces menacés par les effets du changement climatique

      Arg2: Le réchauffement climatique est une menace pour les EM

      • La pollution plastique Consommation = 8M tonnes déchets / an => Formation d'une "soupe de plastique" / "continent de plastique" Risque pour biodiversité marine, espèces ingèrent le plastique

      • Les marées noires constituent un risque pour les EM 2010: Explosion de la plateforme "Deepwater" = marée noire sur les côtes de la Louisiane = EU conflits d'usage entre compagnies pétrolière, pêcheurs et employés du tourisme .

    2. La lutte contre la piraterie maritime

      Arg2: les EM sont confrontés à de la piraterie maritime à laquelle les Etats tentent de faire face

      • Opération de lutte contre la piraterie 2008: Eunavfor = Opération ATALANTE / Golfe d'Aden : Somalie. Soutient bases militaires = Djibouti => Dissuasion => Répression
    3. Des frontières maritimes non figées

      Arg 2: Les frontières maritimes ne sont pas figées

      • ZEE = modèle théorique difficilement applicable contentieux entre pays cotiers: Cour Internationale de Justice (1945), Cour permanente d'arbitrage (1899) EX: Fixation ZEE, Ghana - Côte d'Ivoire (2013)

      • ZEE : demande prolongation Demande extension du plateau continental

    4. Les ressources halieutiques Ŕ doc 1 p. 62 sur l’exploitation des ressources halieutiques

      Arg2: les ressources halieutiques constituent un enjeu économique majeur

      • La pêche et l'aquaculture subviennent aux besoins énergétiques et protéiniques de la population 1950 - auj = production halieutique*8 1950 - 2016 = 19M tonnes - 170M tonnes (dont 150M pour conso° humaine directe) 1980 - 2016 = 4,5M - 80M de tonnes prod° aquaculture

      • les ressources halieutiques sont exportées 27% prod° halieutique = int 143 Milliards $ = CA

      • des intérêts économiques vitaux pour les Etats 60M travailleurs = secteur de la pêche situations précaire = 95% des pêcheurs vivent en Afrique ou en Asie

    5. Argument 2 : La maritimisation renforce la littoralisation et le rôle des façades maritimes

      Arg2: Maritimisation = littoralissation + importance facades maritimes littoralisation: 60% pop in moins 60km côtes (3,6 Milliards hab) 14/16 aires urbaines

      **Secteurs économiques 1st = pêche 2nd = ZIP (Port de Pirée, Port de Marsaxlokk à Malte), accesibilité, entreprises de raffinages et sidérurgiques = matières premières Services = tourisme, aménités, héliotropisme, haliotropisme => stations balnéaires

      Rôle des ports: HUB dans le processus de M°

      • grande capacité portes conteneurs (1st = Shanghai Yangshan, St Expuéry par CMA CGM) MAIS nécessitent port adaptés (ports en eaux profondes de Kribi, espaces de stockage, portd de transbordement, plateformes intermodales: Port de Rotterdam)

      Rôle façades maritimes = lieu de concentration CMM Northern Range: Have - Hambourg Cote Est des EU: Nord de Boston - Miami Cote ouest des EU: Puget Sound - Californie Asie de l'Est et Japon: Tokyo - Singapour

    1. Instead of render props, we use Svelte's slot props: // React version <Listbox.Button> {({open, disabled} => /* Something using open and disabled */)} </Listbox.Button> <!--- Svelte version ---> <ListboxButton let:open let:disabled> <!--- Something using open and disabled ---> </ListboxButton>
    1. The state and the making of gender

      Week 2 Reading

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  12. Dec 2021
    1. Im using sway in Surface too and it work pretty well after some tweaks. This is what I have:Squeekboard, for onscreen keyboardWaybar with some custom buttons: (close window, layout mode, resize window, open squeekboard)I have the surface window key opening nwggrid (app launcher)The power key opens wlogout (nice power menu)For gesture control, you can use lisgd, it works reasonably well.I have some other scripts and apps but these are the main ones.
    1. When archaeologistsundertake balanced appraisals of hunter-gatherer burials from thePalaeolithic, they find high frequencies of health-related disabilities –but also surprisingly high levels of care until the time of death (andbeyond, since some of these funerals were remarkably lavish).16
      1. Formicola, Vincenzo. 2007. ‘From the Sungir children to the Romito dwarf: aspects of the Upper Palaeolithic funerary landscape.’ Current Anthropology 48: 446–53.

      It will require some investigation, but on it's face this reference to Formicola seems to be about a small number of cases and doesn't point to or back up their claim about high frequencies of societal care and support. Where is their evidence within the archaeological record.

    2. Romito 2 is the 10,000-year-old burial of a male with a raregenetic disorder (acromesomelic dysplasia): a severe type ofdwarfism, which in life would have rendered him both anomalous inhis community and unable to participate in the kind of high-altitudehunting that was necessary for their survival. Studies of hispathology show that, despite generally poor levels of health andnutrition, that same community of hunter-gatherers still took pains tosupport this individual through infancy and into early adulthood,granting him the same share of meat as everyone else, andultimately according him a careful, sheltered burial.15
      1. Tilley, Lorna. 2015. ‘Accommodating difference in the prehistoric past: revisiting the case of Romito 2 from a bioarchaeology of care perspective.’ International Journal of Paleopathology 8: 64–74.

      In a case like this what might have been the reasons for keeping and helping such an individual?

      In an oral society, it's possible that despite his potential physical disabilities for hunting that he may have been an above-average store of knowledge from a memory perspective, thus making him potentially even more valuable to his society.

    3. But ifall we’re doing is cherry-picking, we could just as easily have chosenthe much earlier burial known to archaeologists as Romito 2 (afterthe Calabrian rock-shelter where it was found). Let’s take a momentto consider what it would mean if we did this.

      Keep in mind here that these are only singular examples they're talking about amongst millions of data points that we don't have.

    1. violencia de género

      «Todo acto de violencia sexista que tiene como resultado posible o real un daño físico, sexual o psíquico, incluidas las amenazas, la coerción o la privación arbitraria de libertad, ya sea que ocurra en la vida pública o en la privada».

  13. Nov 2021
    1. El factor tiempo de trabajo está también muy relacionado con la variabilidad de la presión de inyección, ya que a medida que incrementa el tiempo de operación de un motor, se incrementa el desgaste de las piezas, siendo agravado el sistema de alimentación por la variación de la calidad del combustible

      También depende del factor de cuanto uso se le ha dado a ese motor, no solo por el incremento de desgaste significa que va a bajar su calidad.

    1. painted an American flag on his bare chest, but painted it upside down.

      It was over the fact that there was a burning of the Flag not a painting on his chest

    1. Eliminating Covid-19 seemed theoretically possible, because the original 2002 SARS virus ultimately disappeared.

      Eliminating SARS-CoV-2 was deemed plausible, because SARS-CoV-1 had been eliminated.

    1. Epstein and Walker, p194

      This is only a citation from our textbook (which is still wrong, the brief can be found on p. 394). The proper legal citation is 536 U.S. 639 (2002).

  14. Oct 2021
    1. which might disappoint its most important designs

      What is meant by "most important designs"? Is it meant that the state governments are supposed to depend on the federal government and not vice versa? If so, that seems to go against the core contractual aspect of federalism.

    2. every argument which would sustain the right of the General Government to tax banks chartered by the States, will equally sustain the right of the States to tax banks chartered by the General Government.

      Is this relationship between State, banks, and General Government rooted in reciprocity or mutual responsiblity?

    3. CONFIDENCE.

      Is this something that is actively being said? If so, is this something that was yelled a little but louder? Or was this only written and capitalized for effect.

    4. incompatible with the language of the Constitution.

      How exactly is the necessity of resorting to mean which it cannot control not compatible with the language outlined in the Constitution?

    5. It is true, they assembled in their several States—and where else should they have assembled?

      When assembling in their states, did they form permanent locations to meet or was it a random?

    6. The people of all the States have created the General Government,

      A lot of what we've read up to this point make it seem like the Supreme Court acts as a kind of voice for the Constitution, that it would interpret and enforce the objectives of it. It's never felt like a branch that was representative of the people. Does the Supreme Court ever act or treat itself as representative of the people, or does it more view itself as a representation of the Constitution?

    7. The Constitution of our country, in its most interesting and vital parts, is to be considered, the conflicting powers of the Government of the Union and of its members, as marked in that Constitution, are to be discussed, and an opinion given which may essentially influence the great operations of the Government....

      Does Marshall regularly define the scope of the case like this at the start of his decisions? I don't recall anything similar in Marbury v Madison.

    8. the Bank of the United States is a law made in pursuance of the Constitution, and is a part of the supreme law of the land....

      What does this mean? so the bank of the united states is inherently also the supreme law of the land?

    9. may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public.

      I am lost here. Is this referring to the idea that if the constitution had every subdivision of rules stated that it would not be embraced by human kind and that it would never be understood by the public? Because wouldn't a constitution with accurate details be the most accepted to the public?

    10. quieting the excessive jealousies

      Is here referring to the jealousies of the states to the federal government or the federal government to the states? Who in this scenario is the jealous party leading to the creation of the 10th amendment?

    11. Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves.

      At the end of this where it states 'deduced from the nature of the objects themselves' - the objects themselves are the individual states and people in those states, correct? So if there was no mention of the laws regarding bank taxes of states in the constitution, but the grand power of the law is saved for the people, which influence the government, makes me wonder- was this creation of Maryland's bank and bank tax, at all ever voted on by the people? Or was it 'secretly' created and decided by the government of the state alone?

    12. the power of establishing a branch in the State of Maryland might be properly exercised by the bank itself,

      This section confuses me. Is Marshall saying here that not only can the government create a national bank, but they can delegate powers to this bank for it to exercise? Or is it saying that the State of Maryland, where the bank will be established, is to delegate powers to this national bank?

    13. That the power to tax involves the power to destroy;

      Definitely seems like a major quote. Is he basically saying that this would give state governments the power to destroy the federal government?

    14. burden,

      This word choice seems dangerous in how vague it is. A lot of actions that a state might take could be defined as "burdening" a law enacted by Congress. Who decides what is a burden? I wonder if there have been cases that have happened since that argue over whether a state action is a "burden" to a national government function? Or if this part of Marshall's argument has ever been used as precedent for the federal government to stifle state power?

    15. This, then, is not a case of confidence, and we must consider it is as it really is.

      I feel like I've been lost in this paragraph. I'm not entirely sure what is trying to be said here?

    1. Vietnam War, President Truman issued an executive order commanding the secretary of commerce to seize the nation's steel mills and keep them in operation

      incorrect: the book version states: "President Harry S. Truman was not about to let a strike hit the steel industry. The nation was engaged in a war in Korea, and steel production was necessary to produce weapons and other military equipment."

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    1. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

      When deciding a case, how is being able to disregard the constitution part of judicial duty? Isn't that the backbone for making laws in this country? It the court's duty to determine if the laws are constitutional or not.

  15. Sep 2021
    1. The secretary of state, being a person holding an office under the authority of the United States, is precisely within the letter of the description; and if this court is not authorized to issue a writ of mandamus to such an officer,

      I am a little lost in this area. Why is Madison the name on this case and not Jefferson? Is this sentence explaining that? I don't quite understand they way this is phrased.

    2. appellate jurisdiction may be exercised in a variety of forms

      What does that mean appellate can be exercised in a variety of forms? Is this referring to the different types of lower courts that hears under this type of jurisdiction?

    3. practical and real omnipotence

      As a Federalist, Marshall knows that many of the people reading this opinion will be Anti-Federalists. I'd love if my classmates would weigh in: Do you think he is using the exaggerated language of "omnipotence" to appeal to the Anti-Federalist fear of concentrated power? Do we think Marshall is speaking from a totally neutral judicial stance here, or do aggrandized depictions like these hint that he is letting his political bias shine through?

    4. If then the courts are to regard the constitution; and the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature; the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.

      What would make the constitution not superior if put in the situation of conflict? From my understanding the Constitution is going to be more superior or hold more weight

    5. If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peace with foreign powers, induced a provision that the supreme court should take original jurisdiction in cases which might be supposed to affect them; yet the clause would have proceeded no further than to provide for such cases, if no further restriction on the powers of congress had been intended.

      What exactly is this stating? I this suggesting that the courts don't have any jurisdiction over foreign powers, and only take cases that are related to their branch?

    6. The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme, and can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent.

      I know that the peaceful transfer of power between one administration to another is a big deal in the United States and a coveted tradition. Does this case have anything to do with that precedent? Obviously this has to do with judgeship and not the presidency, but refusing to deliver the commissions in the last days of office certainly screams sore loser. So other than establishing judicial review within the courts maybe this case had other effects on the tradition of American politics?

    7. If this obloquy is to be cast on the jurisprudence of our country, it must arise from the peculiar character of the case....

      This whole phrase is just completely in one ear and out the other for me. Would anybody be able to explain what this means? It is just a fancy way for getting into the opinion on the case?

    8. appointment conferred on him a legal right to the office for the space of five years.

      When mentioning Mr. Marbury's commission, they state that he is given a five year term. Were judicial appointments not lifetime appointments within the early years of the court system? Was the term five years for each appointee?

    9. Affirmative words are often, in their operation, negative of other objects than those affirmed; and in this case, a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them or they have no operation at all.

      I am confused on what affirmative words are. What do they have to do with this case? If anything, shouldn't there need to be positive affirmation words towards the case? If it is only negative, then wouldn't that be the opposite of having no operation at all?

    10. That it thus reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions -- a written constitution -- would of itself be sufficient, in America, where written constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction.

      At this point, Marshall has invoked the idea of and principle behind written constitutions generally about 5 times. I don't take issue with his argument, but is there a reason he acts as if the principle behind a constitution is so well understood but does not invoke specific examples from somewhere else? Did he think this was not helpful for a young United States in defining the scope of its own laws? Or did he not have a useful example of a written constitution from another nation to cite?

    11. To enable this court then to issue a mandamus, it must be shown to be an exercise of appellate jurisdiction, or to be necessary to enable them to exercise appellate jurisdiction.

      I think I'm lost at this point? I'm not entirely sure what point they are trying to make, and there are far too many large words in the previous paragraph for me to be able to make sense of what is happening in this section. I certainly feel lost.

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    1. Stephen G. Breyer

      I believe Justice Breyer is part of the majority. Similar to Justice Alito, he gives Layton several hypotheticals. Layton's argument toward these hypotheticals show discrimination by not giving benefits, such as policemen, to a church simply because it is religious. Justice Breyer also sounds annoyed and short with Layton.

    2. Elena Kagan

      I believe Justice Kagan is the second dissenter. She seems to side against Cortman as she argues that the States should have some flexibility in their choices. She questions what would happen if one church received benefits while a different church didn't. Cortman goes on to say that the program is religion blind, but its seemed to me that she was not agreeing with anything he said.

    3. and there is a point where you can accommodate religion,

      I am a little confused with Cortman's argument. If the court favors religion, then theres an Establishment Clause problem, but if the court attacks religion, then theres a Free Exercise Clause problem. How can these things be balanced out? When is it appropriate to accommodate religion? What are other examples of the court accommodating religion?

    4. World Vision brief,

      What is the World Vision Brief? Is this apart of the amicus brief? Im confused and already not familiar about what exactly an amicus brief is.

    5. Neil Gorsuch

      I think justice Gorsuch is another one of the majority voters here. He seems very secure on the basis of religious discrimination as opposed to the questions of sotomayor and kagan who seemed to recognize it as a possible issue with the inclusion of other religions. He already seems convinced that it was a case of discrimination against the church.

    6. For example, in that case, we have independent decisionmaking, which has been key to many of this Court's decisions.

      Layton is in majority rule for the church funding the playground by his statement of independent decision making. He specifically says its in the hands of the state.

    7. But there's -- there's government coercion when you say there's a public benefit, and the only way you could receive that public benefit is if you do not exercise your religion.

      I understand the idea that public benefit from the government and religious states should not mix. Are there other examples of government coercion to public benefit you could provide as examples?

    8. we don't want to, as a country -- well, the vast majority of States, to fund houses of worship.

      I also read this as a sign of a dissenting justice. I believe Sotomayor is a dissenting justice because she strictly says the state does not fund places of worship. She goes on to say that if the state is free from places of worship, then funding it would affect free exercise.

    9. Elena Kagan

      I think this is a great point brought up by justice Kagan. It ties back to one of my questions I left earlier. She seems to think that there may be a risk of favoritism and a violation of that establishment clause that Cortman keeps talking about but going the other way. And again Cortman doesn't do a good job answering that question, in fact in this example he sidesteps it all together and simply says the system is set up to not discriminate and be "religion blind" Although that sounds great, the problem is discriminatory people wont be "religion blind" which is something she seems to realize.

    10. And so on one side you have the Establishment Clause.

      I looked up the establishment clause and it is essentially a clause put within the fifth amendment that prohibits congress from establishing religion. To me it seems like funding a religion is a very good way to establish it so I'm not sure exactly what his point is here. Unless he is suggesting that all religious schools recieve the same public benefits/funding. And unfortunately I have a hard time believing that certain states would ever fund anything other than christianity if it was left to a state level decision.

    11. Okay?

      Based on Justice Breyer's tone in this section, which seems to indicate annoyance with the respondant, I'm going to conclude that he was one of the Justices who voted with the majority. While it is possible that his tone is merely a tool to probe the strength of Layton's legal argument, it sounds more like he has already made up his mind and is growing impatient with having to hear Layton's case.

    12. I know your white light is on.

      Do any of my fellow students know what Justice Kagan is referring to here? Is Cortman's "white light" perhaps a five-minute warning light, since we are reaching the 25-minute mark, and each party gets 30 minutes? Or perhaps it just means "it's time to wrap it up?"

    13. That's a history that's even longer than the Locke history.

      Although I wasn't feeling sure beforehand, this moment from Justice Sotomayor fortified my notion that she was the second dissenting Justice in this case. Just as Ginsberg did, she chose to utilize the Stare Decisis method of decision making, and asserts here that the older a legal precedent that has been set is, the more firmly it holds as an establishment of proper interpretation of law. This solififies her argument that follows, that as a country we should not fund religious places of worship.

    14. Because the kind of examples Your Honor is giving are examples where the -- the benefits are universal. They are not selective, which they are here; they are universal. So we start on the endorsement side.

      This is a very good point that I feel like is ignored. I have to wonder why this was not expanded on further - both by Layton himself or one of the justices.

    15. how Missouri interprets the term "church" in its constitution?

      This question by Justice Alito made me realize that each state may have its own definition of "church". If this is to be one of the deciding factors of this particular case, and a case of the same material opens up in a different state, would the Supreme Court use Trinity Lutheran v. Comer to decide in a similar manner? Or would they have to judge with no stare decisis because of the different terms within the different state constitutions?

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    1. Refusing to stand convicted on the teacher's charges of laziness, I'd spend four hours a night on my homework,working even longer whenever we were assigned an essay. I suppose I could have gotten by with less, but I wasdetermined to create some sort of an identity for myself. We'd have one of those "complete the sentence"exercises, and I'd fool with the thing for hours, invariably settling on something like, "A quick run around thelake? I'd love to. Just give me a minute to strap on my wooden leg." The teacher, through word and action,conveyed the message that, if this was my idea of an identity, she wanted nothing to do with it.

      trying really hard to make himself stand out. spending alot of time on his work maybe going above and beyond. its all for nothing though teacher doesn't seem amused

    2. When called upon, I delivered an effortless list of things I detest: blood sausage, intestinal pâté, brain pudding.I'd learned these words the hard way. Having given it some thought, I then declared my love for IBM typewriters,the French word for "bruise," and my electric oor waxer. It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounceIBM and afford the wrong gender to both the oor waxer and the typewriter. Her reaction led me to believe thatthese mistakes were capital crimes in the country of France.

      he thought he was doing well until he mispronounced ibm and learns that it was a mistake he shouldn't of made because of how the teacher was ridiculing every single student he was confused as to why the teacher was referring to objects as genders it just didn't make sense to him

    3. While the optimist struggled to defend herself, I scrambled to think of an answer to what had obviously becomea trick question. How often are you asked what you love in this world? More important, how often are you askedand then publicly ridiculed for your answer? I recalled my mother, ushed with wine, pounding the table lateone night, saying, "Love? I love a good steak cooked rare. I love my cat, and I love . . ." My sisters and I leanedforward, waiting to hear our names. "Tums," our mother said. "I love Tums.

      he realized at this moment he was screwed becasue of the teachers attitude towards everyone. he was reminded of his childhood and how he felt towards his mother.

    4. The second Anna learned from the rst and claimed to love sunshine and detest lies. It sounded like a translationof one of those Playmate of the Month data sheets, the answers always written in the same loopy handwriting:"Turn-ons: Mom's famous ve-alarm chili! Turnoffs: Insincerity and guys who come on too strong!!!

      very cliche he probably felt like she was boring

    5. Oh, really," the teacher said. "How very interesting. I thought that everyone loved the mosquito, but here, infront of all the world, you claim to detest him. How is it that we've been blessed with someone as unique andoriginal as you? Tell us, please."

      very sarcastic towards the student

    6. 've moved to Paris in order to learn the language. My school is the Alliance Française, and on the rst day ofclass, I arrived early, watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. Vacations wererecounted, and questions were raised concerning mutual friends with names like Kang and Vlatnya. Regardlessof their nationalities, everyone spoke what sounded to me like excellent French. Some accents were better thanothers, but the students exhibited an ease and condence I found intimidating. As an added discomfort, theywere all young, attractive, and well dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after afashion show

      hes feeling nervous apparently and is aware of his surroundings and kind of feels out of place.

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    1. The main idea comes at the beginning, the bodyparagraphs support the main idea, and the conclusion wraps up the whole thing

      This is good to know and remember so you know what to look for when reading something. i have to make sure to have these 3 components when writing any kind of essay.