Offizielle Positionen der EU zur COP16

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/03/cop16-ends-in-disarry-and-indecision-despite-biodiversity-breakthroughs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/31/eu-emissions-fall-by-8-in-steep-reduction-reminiscent-of-covid-shutdown

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/trends-and-projections-in-europe-2024

We are results of our media and environments. We take it in and it becomes part of us.

Erstmals wurde genau erfasst, welcher Teil der von Waldbränden betroffenen Gebiete sich auf die menschlich verursachte Erhitzung zurückführen lässt. Er wächst seit 20 Jahren deutlich an. Insgesamt kompensieren die auf die Erhitzung zurückgehenden Waldbrände den Rückgang an Bränden durch Entwaldung. Der von Menschen verursachte – und für die Berechnung von Schadensansprüchen relevante – Anteil der CO2-Emissione ist damit deutlich höher als bisher angenommen https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-change-almost-wipes-out-decline-in-global-area-burned-by-wildfires/

Der neue Bericht der Europäischen Umweltbehörde zum Wasser stellt fest, dass sich nur 37% der Oberflächengewässer in einem guten oder sehr guten Zustand befinden. Vor allem die Landwirtschft belastet die Gewässer durch Pestizide und Dünger. Die globale Erhitzung führt außer zu mehr Überschwemmungen zu zunehmendem Wasserstress durch Dürren. Die Qualität der Gewässer verschlechtere sich. Europa sei auf dem Weg, seine Ziele beim Schutz der Wasserversorgung zu vefehlen https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000240721/europas-wasserversorgung-laut-eu-agentur-vor-gro223en-herausforderungen

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/state-of-water

for - question - Study on 2024 Trump win on polycrisis - Cascade Institute - why is there such a small analysis on the environment and especially planetary tipping points whilst climate clock is ticking?

Der Flugtourismus hat.inzwischen das Niveau vor der Covid-Krise übertroffen. Das Wachstum des Tourismus gehört zu den wichtigsten Treibern der Klimakrise. Die Branche reagiert darauf mit Ignoranz, Greenwashing und dem Verweis auf falsche Lösungen wie CO₂-Kompensatio und Biofuels. Hintergrundartikel mit Verweisen auf weitere Informationen.https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/sep/06/flight-shame-climate-impact-tourism-boom-covid-environment-net-zero

2024 werden 6% mehr Menschen auf Kreuzfahrtschiffen unterwegs sein als vor der Pandemie. Neue Studie von Transport & Environment zum Wachstum dieses besonders energieintensiven Teils der Tourismusindustrie. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/07/cruisezilla-passenger-ships-have-doubled-in-size-since-2000-campaigners-warn

for - neuroscience - optimal working environment - varies with brain state - different phases during the day - engagement - inspiration - concentration - communication - relaxation

https://web.archive.org/web/20240715081505/https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/fluege-klimaneutral-100.html

• daily targets
• point systems
• leaderboards

• primary reinforcer - natural desire
• conditioned reinforcer - we learned to desire on top of a primary reinforcer

conditioned reinforcer are more effective (click > food)

1) immediate response/feedback 2) reward randomly instead of consistent 3) the click has become a reward too, not just the food

Seit 1970 ist der Bestand an Fischen, die zu wandernde Arten gehören, um 80% gesunken, wie ein neuer Bericht zur Aktualisierung des Living Planet Index zeigt. Verantwortlich ist vor allem die Zerstörung von Fluss- und anderen Wasserökosystemen durch Staudämme, Bergwerke und Schadstoffe. Der Populationsrückgang ist weltweit am deutlichsten ist der in Südamerika und der Karibik. Ein Viertel der Süßwasser Fischarten ist vom Aussterben bedroht.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/living-planet-index-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-decline-dams-weirs-mining-water-abstraction-pollution-threat-aoe

llms important to students - used to having 24/7 access to course materials, assignments, grades

for - individual / collective gestalt - gene centrism - paradigm shift - adjacency - mistake of 20th century biology - reductionism - separating organism from environment - individual / collective gestalt, individual / environment gestalt - quote - mistake of 20th century biology - Ray Noble - key insight - mistake of 20th century biology- Ray Noble

quote - mistake of 20th century biology - Ray Noble - (see below)

• I think one of the other mistakes that have been made in biology of the 20th century
  • was to treat organisms as if they existed within an environment that was sort of like some nebulous box as it were
  • and you could study the organism by taking it out
  • and you study it in isolation
• It's the beginning of reductionism in a sense because
  • you taken it away from the environment but the organism has an intimate relationship with the environment
• It's feeding both
  • to the environment and
  • from the environment
• What is that environment?
  • That environment in large part is
    • other organisms of the same species but
    • other organisms of different species
• and it's in a continuous bubble of change
• It's like a cauldron of change
• So the big question for life is
  • how do you maintain yourself in this cauldron of change?
• You cannot do it by standing still
• You have to respond to it
  • so it's not surprising therefore that you find that you know organisms have mechanisms for responding to those changes

adjacency - mistake of 20th century biology - between - reductionism - separating organism from environment - individual / collective gestalt, - individual / environment gestalt - adjacency relationship - The mistake that 20th century biology has made is in - ascribing too much power to the gene, and - minimizing the role of epigenetics - Focusing the majority of attention and resources on the genes of the organism, and - defocusing attention on the organisms (epigenetic) interactions with the environment, including both - biotic elements and - abiotic elements - It's not the case that the genes are the major determinant factor and the epigenetics play a minor role - It IS the case that epigenetics play an equally important role in transmitting and assimilating features into the genome - The individual organism is intertwingled with its environment and with other living organisms - The individual / collective gestalt and the individual / environment gestalt is the appropriate unit of study

Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die COP28 mit dem Emissions Peak für Treibhausgase zusammenfallen könnte. Um das 1,5°-Ziel zu erreichen, müssten allerdings die Emissionen bis 2030 um die Hälfte sinken. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/nov/29/cop28-what-could-climate-conference-achieve

Die steigende europäische Nachfrage nach Erdgas wird einer Studie von Global witness zufolge bis 2033 Investitionen von 223 Milliarden Dollar hervorrufen. Die von Europa ausgelösten Gesamtinvestitionen in Erdgas werden bis dahin eine Billion Dollar ausmachen. https://ecopolitic.com.ua/en/news/popit-na-gaz-v-ies-sprichinit-novi-investicii-u-vikopne-palivo-na-223-milyardiv-doslidzhennya-2/

Bürgerinitiativen und NGOs klagen – u.a. wegen der Auswirkungen auf marine Ökosysteme – gegen eine geplante Gasbohr-Plattform in der Nähe der Nordseeinsel Borkum. Das Unternehmen One Dyas will dort 4,5-13 Milliarden Kubikmeter Erdgas fördern. Dadurch würden bis zu 65 Millionen Tonnen CO₂ emittiert. https://taz.de/Klage-gegen-Bohrprojekt-in-der-Nordsee/!5959459/

Die Pläne der Kohle-, Öl- und gasproduzierenden Staaten zur Ausweitung der Förderung würden 2030 zu 460% mehr Kohle, 83% mehr Gas und 29% mehr Ölproduktion führen, als mit dem Pariser Abkommen vereinbar ist. Der aktuelle Production Gap Report der Vereinten Nationen konzentriert sich auf die 20 stärksten Verschmutzer-Staaten, deren Pläne fast durchgängig in radikalem Widerspruch zum Pariser Abkommen stehen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report

Report: https://productiongap.org/

Die G7 Staaten haben sich beim Treffen ihrer Energieminister in Turin darauf geeinigt, ab 2035 keinen Strom mehr aus Kohlekraftwerken zu produzieren – es sei denn, es werde Carbon Capture and Storage verwendet. Länder, die auf Kohlestrom angewiesen seien, werden nicht zum Verzicht auf Kohle aufgefordert. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/g7-agree-to-end-use-of-unabated-coal-power-plants-by-2035

Eine Gruppe von NGOs hat ein Konzept für eine Klimaschaden-Steuer ausgearbeitet, zu der Öl- und Gasgesellschaften ausgehend vom von ihnen verursachten CO2-Ausstoß herangezogen würden. Würde die Steuer in den OECD-Ländern mit 5$ pro Kilotonne CO2 beginnen und sich jährlich um weitere 5$ erhöhen, stünden 2030 jährlich 900 Milliarden $ vor allem für den Loss and Damage Fund zur Verfügung, der bei der COP28 beschlossen wurde.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/29/taxing-big-fossil-fuel-firms-raise-billions-climate-finance

Bericht: https://www.greenpeace.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CDT_guide_2024_embargoed_version.pdf

Die Europäische Umweltagentur hat ihren ersten Klimarisiko-Bericht veröffentlicht. Von 36 Risiken erfordern 21 sofortiges Handeln, acht mit besonderer Dringlichkeit. Insgesamt sei Europa bei weitem nicht ausreichend auf die Risiken der globalen Erhitzung vorbereitet, die in Südeuropa am bedrohlichsten seien. Europa ist der von der Erhitzung am stärksten betroffene Kontinent. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000211032/eu-muss-sich-auf-katastrophale-folgen-des-klimawandels-vorbereiten

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment

Die Europäische Kommission plant, die Treibhausgas-Emissionen bis 2040 um 90% im Vergleich zu 1990 zu reduzieren. Dabei soll CCS eine große Rolle spielen. Der Plan ist eine Empfehlung für die nächste Kommission. Aufgrund der Proteste von Landwirt:innen wurden einige der vorgesehenen Regelungen, etwa zu Methan und Lachgas, in letzter Minute zurückgenommen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/06/eu-lays-out-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-emissions-by-90-by-2040

Mehr dazu: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22EU%20emission%20goals%202040%22

2022 haben Kreuzfahrtschiffe in Europa mehr Stickoxide ausgestoßen als der gesamte Autoverkehr Punkt der CO2 Fußabdruck einer Kreuzfahrt ist höher als bei einer vergleichbar weiten Flugreise mit hotelaufenthalt Punkt die Republica informiert über die katastrophalen Emissionen von Kreuzfahrtschiffen. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2024/01/29/news/navi_crociera_inquinamento_ambiente-422001318/

Sep 14, 2023

Abstract

Cardboard has a high recycling rate in the US. But it can't be reused forever, so the massive paper companies that make it also consume millions of trees each year.

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/12/27/news/ambiente_governo_ritardi-421757794/?rss

• for: open source - built environment

Ein neuer Bericht der europäischen Kommission sagt aus, dass die EU dreimal so schnell dekarbonisieren muss wie bisher, um das Ziel zu erreichen, die Emissionen bis 2030 um 55% zu reduzieren. Den Zahlen der European Environment Agency zufolge reicht der gegenwärtige Kurs nur für eine Reduzierung um 43%. Ein Haupthindernis sind die enorm hohen fossilen Subventionen. Die Selbstverpflichtungen von EU-Staaten vor der COP28 treffen z.T. verspätet ein, und die vorliegenden sind einem Bericht des Climate Action Network zufolge sehr unzureichend. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/eu-must-cut-emissions-three-times-more-quickly-report-says

State of the Energy Union: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-10/COM_2023_650_1_EN_ACT_part1_v10.pdf CAN-Bericht: https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2023/10/NECPs_Assessment-Report_October2023.pdf

• for: climate change - false binary, jobs vs environment, example, example climate change - false binary, climate departure, leverage point

• example: false environmental binary

  • activists need to better communicate the false binary that climate denialists keep using to pull the wool over people's eyes.
  • jobs vs environment ignores the short term threat of environmental degradation
  • this is where participatory climate departure can show the threat in a visceral, concrete way that is far more compelling you the average person than any intellectual attempt to explain the differences example - climate change - false binary

Vor allem der Druck Frankreichs und Italiens hat eine Verschärfung der europäischen Abgasnormen für die Automobilindustrie verhindert, wie sie die Europäische Kommission geplant hatte. Damit soll die europäische Industrie vor allem angesichts der Konkurrenz bei Elektroautos aus den USA und China geschützt werden. In der EU ist Luftverschmutzung im Jahr für 70 000 Todesfälle mitverantwortlich, 98% der Stadtbewohner:innen sind zu hohen Feinstaubmengen ausgesetzt. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/pollution/pendant-que-macron-parle-environnement-la-france-empeche-lue-dabaisser-les-normes-de-pollution-des-voitures-20230926_GDIL5OWTEVDUXMIAN2467ZMDEU/

07:00 circumstances making a person hard; not getting picked up by his mom, but standing up himself

Bei der COP15 für Biodiversität wurde eine globaler Fond für den Schutz der Biodiversität beschlossen. Er wurde jetzt bei einem Treffen der Global Environment Facility tatsächlich eingerichtet, ist aber unterfinanziert. Bisher haben nur Kanada und Großbritannien Zahlungen zugesagt. Ohne den Fond können die auf der COP15 beschlossenen Biodiversitäts-Ziele nicht erreicht werden. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/developed-countries-contributions-global-nature-fund-canada-uk

eDNA sampling is dna sampled from the environment, not from organisms. Can be sampled from air. Do I know of eDNA citizen science projects?

Seit 2020 haben die 20 ärmsten Länder 50 Milliarden Dollar Schldenan die G20-Staaten zurückgezahlt. Diese Beträge stehen für Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung der oft besonders vulnerablen Länder nicht zur Verfügung. Bei einem Trffen der G20-Finanzminister*innen wurden keine Fortschritte bei der Entschuldung der ärmsten Länder erreicht. https://taz.de/Schuldenkrise-im-Globalen-Sueden/!5945035/

All contractual liability transfers should be banned.

Read-Eval-Print Loop and is a software programming environment that allows developers to interactively execute their code

Designing new learning technology is not always the best solution without paying attention to its learning environment.

Auch die liberation berichtet über die Studie zu den Möglichkeiten, die innereuropäische Luftfahrt auf grünem Wasserstoff umzustellen Punkt die Gesamtkosten würden bei 300 Milliarden Euro liegen, und mit der Umstellung müsste sofort begonnen werden, damit dieser Teil der Luftfahrt bis 2050 die karbonisiert ist. In jedem Fall muss die Luftfahrt deutlich reduziert werden damit genug Energie für eine co2-freibetriebene flotte zur Verfügung steht. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/lavion-a-hydrogene-vert-une-solution-serieuse-mais-des-limites-nombreuses-20230529_UPDSTKKUABD5JMI5NIRICSWMQY/

Die Po-Ebene gehört zu zu den Regionen mit der schlechtesten Luft in Europa. Hauptursache sind fossile Brennstoffe. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/04/28/news/smog_allarme_ue_bambini_pianura_padana_inquinamento-397995224/

Die World Weather Attribution Group hat in einer Studie nachgewiesen, dass die große Dürre an Horn von Afrika ein Ergebnis der Erhitzung der Erde durch Treibhausgase ist. Von der Dürre sind 50 Millionen Menschen direkt und weitere 100 Millionen indirekt betroffen. Ohne die Erhöhung der Temperaturen hätten dieselben Regenverhältnisse nicht zu einer Dürre geführt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/27/human-driven-climate-crisis-fuelling-horn-of-africa-drought-study

Informationsreicher Artikel des Guardian über eine neue Anlage von #ExxonMobil zum chemischen Recycling von Plastik im texanischen Baytown-Komplex. Viele Basis-Informationen zu dieser umweltschädlichen Technik und ihrer Verwendung durch die Ölindustrie, um von der wachsenden Produktion von Single Use-Plastik abzulenken. Anlagen zum chemischen Recycling werden vor allem in räumlicher Nähe von Communities, die bereits extrem und der Verschmutzung durch Plastik und Abgase leiden Chemisches Recycling gehört auch zu den Geschäftsfeldern der #OMV-Tochter #Borealis. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/10/exxon-advanced-recycling-plastic-environment

Siehe Zusammenfassung: https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/249617/80710936082515396

• Adaptations are designed
• to solve specific adaptive challenges
• that arose in ancestral environments.

Assuming the facts are correct and complete here, it's surprisingly naive of Thunberg to take this view. One unknown is whether the displaced villagers were suitably compensated for being evicted. Still, taking 8 years off the deadline to end coal use - that's a pretty massive win and could set the stage for even more in the future.

https://microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2022/12/09/started-reading-edge.html

This looks fantastic. I had just bookmarked @richardcarter's On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk earlier this week. Apparently serendipity is pulling this genre of books to me this week.

Information Environment

https://zirk.us/@shengokai/109440759945863989

If the individuals in an environment don't understand or perceive the affordances available to them, can the interactions between them and the environment make it seem as if the environment possesses agency?

cross reference: James J. Gibson book The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (1966)

People often indicate that social media "causes" outcomes among groups of people who use it. Eg: Social media (via algorithmic suggestions of fringe content) causes people to become radicalized.

In my case, I was trying to debug which asdf not finding asdf, in a minimal shell.

I had checked bash-5.1$ echo $PATH|grep asdf /home/tyler/.asdf/bin

but ```

The PATH environment variable

env | /bin/grep PATH `` being empty was the key discovery here. Must have forgotten theexport`.

Devising ML Metrics

https://replit.com/

https://www.loom.com/share/a05f636661cb41628b9cb7061bd749ae

Synopsis: Maggie Delano looks at some of the affordances supplied by Tana (compared to Roam Research) in terms of providing better block-based user interface for note type creation, search, and filtering.

These sorts of tools and programmable note implementations remind me of Beatrice Webb's idea of scientific note taking or using her note cards like a database to sort and search for data to analyze it and create new results and insight.

It would seem that many of these note taking tools like Roam and Tana are using blocks and sub blocks as a means of defining atomic notes or database-like data in a way in which sub-blocks are linked to or "filed underneath" their parent blocks. In reality it would seem that they're still using a broadly defined index card type system as used in the late 1800s/early 1900s to implement a set up that otherwise would be a traditional database in the Microsoft Excel or MySQL sort of fashion, the major difference being that the user interface is cognitively easier to understand for most people.

These allow people to take a form of structured textual notes to which might be attached other smaller data or meta data chunks that can be easily searched, sorted, and filtered to allow for quicker or easier use.

Ostensibly from a mathematical (or set theoretic and even topological) point of view there should be a variety of one-to-one and onto relationships (some might even extend these to "links") between these sorts of notes and database representations such that one should be able to implement their note taking system in Excel or MySQL and do all of these sorts of things.

Cascading Idea Sheets or Cascading Idea Relationships

One might analogize these sorts of note taking interfaces to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). While there is the perennial question about whether or not CSS is a programming language, if we presume that it is (and it is), then we can apply the same sorts of class, id, and inheritance structures to our notes and their meta data. Thus one could have an incredibly atomic word, phrase, or even number(s) which inherits a set of semantic relationships to those ideas which it sits below. These links and relationships then more clearly define and contextualize them with respect to other similar ideas that may be situated outside of or adjacent to them. Once one has done this then there is a variety of Boolean operations which might be applied to various similar sets and classes of ideas.

If one wanted to go an additional level of abstraction further, then one could apply the ideas of category theory to one's notes to generate new ideas and structures. This may allow using abstractions in one field of academic research to others much further afield.

The user interface then becomes the key differentiator when bringing these ideas to the masses. Developers and designers should be endeavoring to allow the power of complex searches, sorts, and filtering while minimizing the sorts of advanced search queries that an average person would be expected to execute for themselves while also allowing some reasonable flexibility in the sorts of ways that users might (most easily for them) add data and meta data to their ideas.

Jupyter programmable notebooks are of this sort, but do they have the same sort of hierarchical "card" type (or atomic note type) implementation?

A great example of the lag that large, complex systems exhibit when responding to significant input changes.

Lag is something that humans are woefully weak at recognizing and understanding. This, and other systems concepts are what we need to add to the curriculum at all levels of education, to change this very significant shortcoming of "common knowledge".

Then why is the rice itself "pressing the lawsuit?"

What would be the potential effects to the surrounding area and the people living in it?

Nature is a physical thing. It does have a conscience, a psyche, or whatever you'd like to call it. It cannot argue for itself in a court of law. Why would the proceeds go to nature and not to the indigenous folk that land was stolen from?

Corporations, schools, and law firms all have people in them affected by law. Rice is significantly different from a company.

What does the rice win? Money? What's it going to do, spend it on jewelry?

Everything ever created has social rules and associations, even things as natural as color.

When did blue start to be considered a "male" color?

That's interesting. I've always though of blue as the universally loved color, for all of civilization.

Why use a pigment so toxic? It seems that the cons outweigh the pros in this situation.

Why was a color so politically controversial?

I wonder how the sunlight affected a clear liquid this way?

This is a statistic I have heard for years and years as a soccer player. To extent it seems to be "true": for example, a team I used to play against called the Mustangs wore red, and they were consistently one of the top teams inn the league. However, another team called the Islanders who also wore red consistently ranked near the bottom. I believe this is a myth, somewhat of a placebo effect.

Is there any way to prevent squirrels from chewing on wires or even having access to them at all?

Why wasn't overpopulation an original concern? A few dozen growing to 5000 in a few years seems to be a tipoff.

Predators vs. prey? Eliminating "threats"

Interesting how humans pick and choose which species are worth our protection.

It makes sense but somehow I never would have thought that squirrels were brought into the city by humans.

How did they wind up in urban society?

They are such a regular part of life that they go unquestioned. They become a part of the background and we grow accustomed to their behavior, so it doesn't occur to us to look closer in to it.

Livan, G., Pappalardo, G., & Mantegna, R. N. (2021). Quantifying the relationship between specialisation and reputation in an online platform. ArXiv:2111.07144 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07144

“Person in the Middle” name for virtual environment actors

It refers to the person at the center of the technology fulfilling the physical aspects of the virtual world — the person in the motion capture suit.

I have read and heard so many times about the exclusion of the actual players and citizens of this world that climate crisis is affecting the most. Their concerns and their issues that reflect the knowledge of the environment and how the natural system is changing as a result of over-fishing and over production.

climate and environment change (CEC)

Artificial Light pollution endangering moth species

Living with COVID-19: How the virus could turn into the common cold, or something far worse. (2022, January 9). The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/09/living-with-covid-19-how-the-virus-could-turn-into-the-common-cold-or-something-far-worse

Horita, Y., & Yamazaki, M. (2022). Generalized and behavioral trust: Correlation with nominating close friends in a social network. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xu8k3

Pauer, S., Rutjens, B., & Harreveld, F. van. (2022). Trust is good, control is better: The role of trust and personal control in response to risk. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dvb5x

Nursing professionals are facing with severe sleep problems during the covid 19 pandemic time. Nurses were asked to work in an environment that had a more increased level of risk than ever before. Depression and anxiety from the workplace could affect the confidence of healthcare workers in themselves as well as general trust in the healthcare system. This will lead to their turnover intention which may undermine the efforts of the governments to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The rising concern may change the working schedules of healthcare workers, offering more occupational healthcare support.

Grüning, D. J., Panizza, F., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2022). The importance of informative interventions in a wicked environment. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/azsbn

Arogbodo, M. (2022). Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Online Security Behavior within the UK Educational Industry. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5qgk

The online information environment | Royal Society. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/online-information-environment/

"Environment means that aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences."

Krueger, P., Callaway, F., Gul, S., Griffiths, T., & Lieder, F. (2022). Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mg7dn

This is a fascinating thesis to follow up on. How about digital distractions and addictions to the internet and social media?

We'll need some harder science to follow up on it than this piece.

Similar ideas here: Stephen Downes (2015). Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment. Invited talk, Guadalajara, Mexico. https://www.slideshare.net/Downes/design-elements-in-a-personal-learning-environment-52303224

What makes an 'online course' different to an 'online learning community'?

We all think in different ways, so a good system for learning should enable every learner to structure their learning environment uniquely.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/

Evangelical Christians have been held together more by political orientation and sociology than they have by a common theology. This has set them up for a schism which has been exacerbated by Donald J. Trump, COVID-19, and social changes.

Similar to Kurt's quote, "We go to church to see and be seen", too many churches are focused on entertainment and being an ongoing institution that they aren't focusing on their core mission. This is causing problems in their overall identity.

Time at church and in religious study is limited, but cable news, social media, and other distractions are always on and end up winning out.

People are more likely to change their church because of politics than to change their politics because of church.

The dichotomy of maleness and femaleness compound the cultural issues of the evangelical church.

Southernization of the Church

Pastors leaving the profession due to issues with a hostile work environment. Some leaving because parishioners are organizing and demanding they be fired.

Peter Wehner looks at the rifts that are appearing in the Christian evangelical movement in America, some are issues that have been building for a while, while others are exaggerated by Donald J. Trump, the coronavirus, the culture wars, political news, political beliefs, and and hypocrisy.

PISA 2018 students reporting having a quiet place to study at home

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