Yes.
Raise high the pancake flag.
For we will defend, to the death, the right of the people to eat pancakes.
Let no liberal elite tread on our god given pancakes.
For with butter and syrup we are one nation, under pancakes, united with knife and fork.

More:

Here are the two papers, linked to in this article.

Great reads !!!

https://share.counter.social/s/49416a

And

https://share.counter.social/s/9c11e9

#CoSoCulture

"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."

"Another part of this I can’t stop thinking about is how our lack of a social safety net is putting women’s health and relationships at risk. So much of the public conversation has focused on the women who are dropping out of the workforce. Those stories are important, but to me they signal the centrality of capitalism in all of our public concerns."

By Anne Helen Petersen

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/other-countries-have-social-safety

#CoSoGoodNews

What a Simple Haiku Can Do for a Friendship.

“I get a glimmer as to what she’s feeling right then, and it also gives me a way to share how I’m feeling with her.”

I find haiku hard.

But for you, I will try it.

Expectations: low.

—Judy’s first haiku

By Julie Beck

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/11/these-friends-write-haiku-every-day-during-pandemic/617078/

#CoSoCovid

Daily Deaths

Nov. 13 = 1,416
Nov. 12 = 1,186
Nov. 11 = 1,456
Nov. 10 = 1,484
Nov. 09 = 649
Nov. 08 = 542

We are going in the wrong direction.

#CoSoPhysics

To Watch:

Understanding Quantum Mechanics #8: The Tunnel Effect

"Have you heard that quantum mechanics is impossible to understand? You know what, that’s what I was told, too, when I was a student. But twenty years later, I think the reason so many people believe one cannot understand quantum mechanics is because they are constantly being told they can’t understand it."

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/understanding-quantum-mechanics-8.html

#CoSoMusic

Sound Track for this Saturday.

Dexter Gordon - Montmartre (Copenhagen, 1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNpfkMLACg

#CoSoPoliticalScience

Here's why conservatives and liberals differ on COVID-19.

"Conservatives might at least in part be less likely to wear masks because they don't feel as threatened by the virus itself,

If they talked about the virus as having a motive, as being a palpable enemy that is seeking to attack humans, says Zane, maybe you get greater buy-in from the start on the part of conservatives."

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-liberals-differ-covid-.html

Paper:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/711838

#CoSoPhilosophy

The subjective turn.

"Today, most of us feel strongly that we have the right to make the important decisions concerning our lives as individuals. These are conceived as personal choices that individuals have the right to make for themselves. While this idea is entirely intuitive to us today, it’s not absolute but rather socially and historically conditioned. The ancients had a very different understanding of such things."

By Jon Stewart

https://aeon.co/essays/hegel-and-the-history-of-human-nature

New blog post:

The Disease of Delegitimization

https://corlin3.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/the-disease-of-delegitimization/

#CoSoPolitics

Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

"While Joe Biden will be America’s next president, the 2020 election demonstrated that the basic building blocks of our electorate are evolving. What were 20th-century political anchors of meaning, working-class or white-collar, are increasingly flimsy labels that obscure critical political tensions and splits."

By Albena Azmanova

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/why-2020-was-the-precarity-election.html

#CoSoTerrorism

Al Qaeda’s No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran.

Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one, Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel, has publicly acknowledged the killing.

(New York Times, so behind paywall)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html

Update:
We just broke through yesterday’s death tolls.

Deaths since midnight = 1,368

(over 200 in Texas alone)

#CoSoCovid

Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine:
The refrigeration problem no one is talking about.

The use of this molecule in a vaccine poses a distribution logistical problem: how to keep the shot viable. That’s because these vaccine candidates have to be kept ultra cold, minus-112-degrees-Fahrenheit cold.

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/29/covid-vaccine-cold-temperatures-storage-requirements/

And

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/keeping-coronavirus-vaccines-at-subzero-temperatures-during-distribution

#CoSoTech

This week, Inrupt announced the availability of the commercial-grade Enterprise Solid Server.

The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily powerful. Your data lives in a pod that is controlled by you. ...

https://inrupt.com/enterprise-server-release

and

https://inrupt.com/products/enterprise-solid-server/

#CoSoCovid

Your daily reminder.

As of: November 13, 2020, 21:22 GMT

United States

Coronavirus Cases: = 11,021,049
Total Deaths: = 249,549
Deaths since midnight = 965
Deaths Yesterday = 1,189

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/