Adulting is also about understanding how history and science fit together, just as circles and triangles fit together, and impact us today. This and last year’s Covid-19 pandemic is not so different from the 1918-1920 wrongly-named Spanish Flu pandemic.
1.) What do you think is the level of importance of history, vs. science, and how might both help, if you think they do, with Adulting?
2.) Share your thoughts with us, and why you think them, and
3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
4.) Feel free to answer the exit ticket questions in the comments, or pose any other questions you may have about the lesson, if you wish.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
This is the continuation of our fictional letter (reviewing each film and episode of Babylon 5) that I receive each week from Ranger Mayann.
Here is her 17th report:
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Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa, Greetings from Tuzanor:
In this report, in your Earth year 2258, it is just past the middle of the second year of operation of the station. The Anla’Shok have used part of the official Minbari ambassadorial archives, some of which were salvaged from the fires during the Civil War, for this report.
An Honored Seeker from your world came to the station in search of a cup known to you Humans as the Grail. So much conflicting mythology seems to swirl around this object that it is very difficult for a Minbari to grasp the significance of the object itself, but the search that it represents was well understood by Satai Delenn, who welcomed your Seeker in her role as ambassador from our planet, to Babylon 5. I am pleased to report that this Seeker, derided though he was by you, his fellow Humans, found a worthy successor, as he was on the point of death, allowing him to Go to The Sea in tranquility.
From the city of Tuzanor, on Minbar
Earth year 2278,
Anla’Shok Mayann
–
Addendum to Ranger Mayann’s report, by Shira: Excellent ending: Aldus dies, but his search, and his order, continues. Thus, his essence lives on.
And Sinclair’s character arc, from Garibaldi’s ‘blaze of glory’ talk to Delenn’s “then, you do not know yourself…seeking” talk, we now start to see a bit of what the Commander might be seeking. Stay tuned for next season…
Oh, yeah, and:
this is a great episode for Lt. Commander Ivanova quotes, and for showing her perspective on perspective!
“…somebody’s got to have some damn perspective around here.
See Ranger Mayann’s report from last week on questions and context…
-Shira Destinie
Action Items:
1.) Share your thoughts on the many possible forms of seeking.
2.) Share your thoughts on how we Human Beings might start to build a more fully inclusive society for all of us, and how this episode of Babylon 5 could help that process.
3.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses these thoughts.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
-one can add Stayed on Freedom’s Call via this GoodReads button: , Please leave a review, if you can make a bit of time, on the GoodReads page.
This is the continuation of our fictional letter (reviewing each film and episode of Babylon 5) that I receive each week from Ranger Mayann.
Here is her 16th report:
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Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa, Greetings from Tuzanor:
In this report, in your Earth year 2258, it is just past the middle of the second year of operation of the station. The Anla’Shok has no official records related to the private life of Lt. Commander Ivanova at this point in the station’s history, although the title fight related to the Sho Rin Gior and Walker Smith of Earth is, of course, a matter of interstellar record. While the two incidents which I have been asked about are undoubtedly important as individual experiences for both Humans, they are considered private, and thus not a matter for discussion, nor reporting. Nevertheless, we Minbari consider rituals of this nature to be sacred. Leave-taking rituals, such as sitting Shiva, and terror-facing rituals, like that of The Sands of Blood, as they call the arena of the Mutai. Our Religious and Warrior castes both have many rituals, some like these two. All rituals serve a purpose.
From the city of Tuzanor, on Minbar
Earth year 2278,
Anla’Shok Mayann
–
Addendum to Ranger Mayann’s report, by Shira: What the Rangers did not report on was one of the very few and very best examples of religion being dealt with extremely well in science fiction television, and I always cry my eyes out at the end as Ivanova says Kaddish (the Mourner’s Prayer), after so much resisting. As Walker Smith needed Gior to show him where his heart was, so Susan needed her Uncle Yossi, R. Koslov, to show her where her heart was.
Before that, though, she shares an anecdote about her father, for whom she has finally being persuaded to sit Shiva, which provides a fascinating glimpse into what she was like as a growing and inquisitive young teenager. With, I must add, some rather exquisite language!
“…out of diapers.
… and I’d been out of diapers for many years, but the quality of his writing had yet to rise above the contents of those garments!”
Beautiful retort!
This is a fundamental episode for the Lt. Commander, as we see more of why she is so private, how she tends to deal with things. We’ll see her strength really start to shine in the next year or so, sadly, being polished like a diamond after the pressure of years in a coal pit. And we see a bit about Garibaldi, and more about the often uncomfortable relationships between Earth and the other worlds in the galaxy. This episode in particular feels like Earth standing in as a proxy for critique of the US regarding our relations with developing countries, especially.
This episode has always been a very uncomfortable one for me, but still a very fulfilling one, oddly enough.
See Ranger Mayann’s report from last week on questions and context…
To see all of her reports as an on-going PDF version: B5EpsThr10.
-Shira Destinie
Action Items:
1.) Share your thoughts on the many possible forms of physical vs. emotional (or spiritual) self-defense, and the difference, and then:
2.) Share your thoughts on how we Human Beings might start to build a more fully inclusive society for all of us, and how this episode of Babylon 5 could help that process.
3.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses these thoughts.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
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Scheduling tasks by breaking large projects into smaller chunks, using a spreadsheet to organize your project from 0 to Finished, and supporting our public infrastructure is all part of Adulting Education for our modern society as an adult in any democratic nation.
1.) How would you find out what the three branches of the US government are, besides looking at the PDF of the lesson plan from today? Any primary sources, and from where?
2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,
3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
Making charts, working through complex lower mathematics, and writing about it in a journal all hone the skills of problem-solving and critical thinking, skills as essential for being a competent citizen in our modern society (with public infrastructure that needs support) as of being an adult in any democratic nation.
1.) Sourcing information: What sources might help you find the relationship between exponents and radicals? Any primary sources, and from where?
2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,
3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
Health care, as a look at New Zealand, Canada, or any European Union country will attest, is a crucial part of the infrastructure of any democratic nation. So, universal health care is not so very radical an idea, unlike exponents, which are indeed, quite radical. In the inverse.
1.) Sourcing information: What sources might help you find the relationship between exponents and radicals? Any primary sources, and from where?
2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,
3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure & #StopSmoking for CCOVID-19:
1. #PublicLibraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare, and
4. good #publictransport Read, Write -one can add Stayed on Freedom’s Call via this GoodReads button:,
Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
This is the continuation of our fictional letter (reviewing each film and episode of Babylon 5) that I receive each week from Ranger Mayann.
Here is her 12th report:
—
Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa, Greetings from Tuzanor:
In this report, in your Earth year 2258, it is the second year of operation of the station. This incident shows that we Minbari also had much to learn…
A pair of parents working to honor their beliefs, asking each of the ambassadors to intervene to protect their child from what their sacred texts forbid. A doctor working to save a child’s life over the objections and beliefs of those parents.
One of our informers mentioned a rumor that the following had been said by Ambassador Kosh:
“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
Satai Delenn pointed out that for us, matters of the soul are private, and thus relayed the sad decision by our Gray Council that she was forbidden to intervene, since no one can prove which party’s belief is correct. True, logically, yet still lacking in wisdom, as did that old Council. Our new Gray Council is wiser.
And Garibaldi:
“Sure is for people with nothing on the line.”
Surprising that Mr. Garibaldi, in this case, might have shown more wisdom than one of our Gray Council.
And once again, Sinclair shows the wisdom of who he will become, as he points out that our beliefs give our lives meaning.
Ivanova here shows us her skill in battle, and her wisdom to know when to do battle, even when it requires temporarily ignoring previous orders, in order to obey the higher order.
Both displayed a start of that wisdom which made a crucial difference in the great war, still to come in your time.
And your doctor learned a difficult lesson: the beliefs of a patient can never be treated as mere delusion but seen as valid.
From the city of Tuzanor, on Minbar
Earth year 2278,
Anla’Shok Mayann
–
Addendum to Ranger Mayann’s report, or lack thereof for this week, by Shira: This episode has some good character development, and a theme still, sadly, very much relevant to current events.
Saving life? Where does the right of individual belief end and the duty to save life take over?
This is basically the Jehovah’s Witness episode for one life, intertwined with a subplot of Ivanova sent to save many lives, after offering to knit a sweater or something.
Yet, Sinclair is right:
“What we hold sacred gives our lives meaning.”
Sinclair is also right in that sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t change anything, but it has to be done anyway, and that what makes us human is that we care.
G’kar is brutally blunt from a strategic point of view, where Londo wears a more pleasant face as he presents the economic point of view. Both are eclipsed by the near hypocrisy of the Minbari reply: near, because they sincerely believe that no religion can be proven to be right or wrong, yet still hypocritical because a refusal to take a stand is a refusal to act, and remains wrong.
I love the juxtaposition of the individual boy, dead, and the little boy, alive, from the starliner (Asimov!!) rescued by Ivanova from certain death, at the very close-shave risk of her own life.
And I keep asking myself, is this the episode where G’Kar becomes the Cassandra of Babylon 5? (“explain, Lucy!” -he openly explains the fact that strategic value sets a limit on what help the vulnerable will or will not receive, foreshadowing the help that his own world, not deemed to be of sufficient strategic value, will not receive, shortly…).
See Ranger Mayann’s 11th report (episode 9), from last week on death, in context.
To see all of her reports as an on-going PDF version: B5EpsThr7…)
-Shira
Action Items:
1.) Share your thoughts on the rights of a parent to ruin or even effectively end the life of a child, versus society’s duty to protect children, if you will.
2.) Share your thoughts on how we Human Beings might start to build a more fully inclusive society for all of us, and how this episode of Babylon 5 could help that process.
3.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses these thoughts.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure & #StopSmoking for CCOVID-19: 1. #PublicLibraries, 2. #ProBono legal aid and Education, 3. #UniversalHealthCare, and 4. good #publictransport Read, Write -one can add Stayed on Freedom’s Call via this GoodReads button:
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free copies at: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Please leave a review, if you can, on the GoodReads page.
The common good, or the general welfare, requires every Adult to understand the basics of statistics, as part of on-going self education (aka Adulting Education), to help our society become more fully inclusive for all of us.
To apply the concepts of mean, median and mode, as a review topic while those readers who may be using this series of posts begin final preparations for taking the 5 subject exams (or those subject exams which they have not yet taken, since the HiSET allows each of the subject tests to be taken at different times, which was most recommended when I taught Adult Education), we look at a fun topic: Pandas!
Since averages and populations always run toward health statistics, please take a spare moment, when you have time, to look up some health statistics in your area, if you will.
Today’s reading discusses populations, median vs. mean (aka average), and Pandas…
“ Let’s look at the population. To calculate the mean we should add all countries’ population values to each other and then divide this sum by the number of countries in our dataset. Fortunately, Pandas can do it for us. …”
Science: see the reading above and the Action Item questions below, please…
Please see the Lesson plan for Day 66’s Exit Tickets
Action Items:
1.) Who was this article written by, and for what audience, and how do we know that the author’s facts are correct?
2.) Please tell us where the information for today’s reading comes from, how you know that the sources are reliable, and who funded the initial (or first-hand source) data,
3.) Feel free to answer the exit ticket questions in the comments, or pose any other questions you may have about the lesson, if you wish.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
Terms change over time. So do laws. Thus, the importance of a free and continuously self-updating public consumer legal local education system for all Americans must not be underestimated.
So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, with a fully inclusive system of free continuing financial education which includes updates on debt and tax laws for all of us (by state and/or locality…), and build the needed empathy to make that happen?
I believe that attention to terminology may provide part of an answer. I noted that, a few years ago, on page eight of my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:
“
*Notes:
This book will use the terms Colored, Negro, Black, and African-American interchangeably, depending on the time frame under discussion.
This refers to the terms which were in use during the periods in question.
Also, the term Community Cooperation will be defined here as institutional groups, such as religious and community-based organizations, which bring people in the aggregate together to cooperate or act together collectively, rather than simply on the individual level.
Page 8″
So, it turns out that this note refers to words that we no longer use, for the most part, today. The sources I looked up used those terms, as they were often written during different time periods, but some authors seem to be using only the phrase African-Americans, these days, even when referring back to times when that phrase was not yet in use. Some more reviews would help me decide that specific.
1.) What are your thoughts on the importance of everyone having access to free and on-going legal and financial information, especially in the context of this pandemic and medical debts that many people have incurred as a result, and the next pandemic to come?
2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.
3.) Share your thoughts on how continuing empathy-building cooperation might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking, and inclusive health care, and
4.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
Stayed on Freedom’s Call (free: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…) includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
We use health care related words every day, but do we see how those words are related to the mathematics and to the concepts that we must remember, or relearn, from our science basics? Noting the relationships and patterns between various interacting concepts are important for every Adult in a republic, where we each have a responsibility to understand public health care issues, and to help protect one another.
Today’s reading starts looking at chemical reactions, and the concept of half-life of a reaction, which is a linear relationship to the starting point of the reaction:
“The half-life of a reaction, t1/2, is the amount of time needed for a reactant concentration to decrease by half compared to its initial concentration. Its application is used in chemistry and medicine to predict the concentration of a substance over time. The concepts of half life plays a key role in the administration of drugs into the target, especially in the elimination phase, where half life is used to determine how quickly a drug decrease in the target after it has been absorbed in the unit of time (sec, minute, day,etc.) or elimination rate constant ke (minute-1, hour-1, day-1,etc.). It is important to note that the half-life is varied between different type of reactions. The following section will go over different type of reaction, as well as how its half-life reaction are derived. …”
Health science: dose absorption and rate of change…
Please see the Lesson plan for Day 60’s Exit Tickets
Action Items:
1.) Did you see a familiar graph on the reading page?
2.) Please tell us where the information for today’s reading comes from, how you know that the sources are reliable, and who funded them,
3.) Feel free to answer the exit ticket questions in the comments, or pose any other questions you may have about the lesson, if you wish.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
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