<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Here is the link to today's SH recording:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/c7daf8deb4ad6a66757ace1d03dfc8955a53ad966a8732b9c2605ee003a6e322">https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/c7daf8deb4ad6a66757ace1d03dfc8955a53ad966a8732b9c2605ee003a6e322</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond,serif" size="4">Gary Berg-Cross Ph.D.  </font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif" size="4">Consultant</font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif" size="4">Potomac, MD</font></div><div><font face="garamond,serif" size="4">240-426-0770</font></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">For civic society w</span>e must improve the quality of our conversations—our political, academic, and civic conversations.<br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Like some terms in EnvO</span> “good conversation” is easier to identify than to define.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:48 AM Kai Blumberg <<a href="mailto:kblumberg@email.arizona.edu">kblumberg@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ruth and Chris mungall have also brought up some good discussion points about the envo ice hierarchy, you can see the discussion here: <a href="https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/1034" target="_blank">https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/1034</a>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Ruth and I would also like to raise this today. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Kai<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 8:39 AM Gary Berg-Cross <<a href="mailto:gbergcross@gmail.com" target="_blank">gbergcross@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p style="text-align:center"><font color="red"><strong>External Email</strong><br></font></p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Work priorities for the session are again up to the group, although we made significant progress on the Cryo Speadsheet and have an understanding on how to use the   </font></span><font size="4"><a href="https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-3002-3" target="_blank">ROBOT Tool for Automating Ontology Workflows</a></font></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail_default"></span>Our template is at: </span></font></div></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xt3BHNz-pP2ggJq_asPPcuKuGEAKtbT3MU2wFLTnCmQ/edit#gid=0" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xt3BHNz-pP2ggJq_asPPcuKuGEAKtbT3MU2wFLTnCmQ/edit#gid=0</a></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padd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><font size="4" face="garamond,serif">Consultant</font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond,serif">Potomac, MD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond,serif">240-426-0770</font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.25rem">Peter Turchin, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, follows Tainter in positing a single, transhistorical mechanism leading to collapse, though he is far more willing than Tainter to voice specific — and occasionally alarmist — predictions. In Turchin’s case the key is the loss of “social resilience,” a society’s ability to cooperate and act collectively for common goals. By that measure, Turchin judges that the United States was collapsing well before Covid-19 hit. For the last 40 years, he argues, the population has been growing poorer and more unhealthy as elites accumulate more and more wealth and institutional legitimacy founders. “The United States is basically eating itself from the inside out,” he says.</span><br></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Inequality and “popular immiseration” have left the country extremely vulnerable to external shocks like the pandemic, and to internal triggers like the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. He does not hesitate to predict that we can expect to experience far more of the kind of unrest we’ve seen this summer, “not just this year but in the years ahead, because the underlying conditions are only getting worse.”</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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