Three videos from Al Jazeera, a Gun Violence Prevention Working Group Public Hearing, and the PBS News Hour
11 a.m., June 19, 2022
This Sunday we will watch and discuss 3 short videos on attempts to regulate guns in the U.S.
Gun Control in America presents the history of gun culture and the attempts to regulate it. You can view this 10-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rb5yPW_LtE.
# Gun Control — No matter what your opinion, you need to see this is a citizen’s input at a public hearing on gun violence prevention gives arguments against government regulation of guns. You can view this 10-minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZo4hbGJjVI.
# How Texas gun owners feel about background checks, red flag laws is a PBS News Hour presentation. You can view this 10-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-afcRIqcVNw.
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A video of a talk by “Timeline – World History Documentaries”
11 a.m., June 12, 2022
This Sunday we will watch and discuss a 2017 video describing the discovery and the analysis of bones from our first bipedal ancestors.
You can view this 49-minute video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJybfmbrOCE.
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This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video from January 6 2022, the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on congress. In this 1-hour interview, Hakeem Jefferson will talk about the attack’s impact on American Politics, violence, and election legitimacy, and the ongoing crisis of democracy.
Dr. Hakeem Jefferson is an assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. He focuses a majority of his research specifically on understanding the political views of Black Americans.
You can view this 1-hour video at https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events. (Scroll down to Featured Past Events. It’s the center talk.)
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McWhorter characterizes himself as a cranky liberal Democrat, and says he disagrees with many of the tenets of the Civil Rights orthodoxy. He discusses these disagreements in this interview.
You can view this 26:46 minute interview at www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-line/video/john-mcwhorter-6jyifa/
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According to many experts, we have fewer than 10 years to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions if we want to stay below 1.5 degrees C of global temperature rise. Achieving this goal seems highly unlikely. We do know that the Earth cools for about 2 years after every major volcanic eruption. This effect has caused famines in Europe. We know now that volcanos inject millions of tons of sulfur into the Stratosphere which reflects sunlight back into space. Some people have proposed injecting particles in the Stratosphere to cool the earth. Suds Jain has been working for almost 10 years on a different scheme to make Marine boundary Layer clouds brighter by spraying purified seawater into the air. He considers these schemes as purely insurance policies to avoid catastrophic effects of global heating. He advocates for research but not deployment as he prefers first Herculean efforts to eliminate fossil fuel use. He will also discuss other GeoEngineering schemes to capture CO2 from the air and sequester it.
Background Info: NOVA episode on GeoEngineering: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/can-we-cool-the-planet/
Bio Sudhanshu “Suds” Jain designed integrated circuits for 25 years. In 2008 he decided that the impending Climate crisis was far more important than designing the next switch chip for computer networking and he “retired” from Broadcom Corporation to become a “professional volunteer”. He also coached a FIRST Lego League team for 5 years and he cofounded the high school FTC robotics team at Wilcox High School and has coached it for the past 8 years. He currently serves on the Santa Clara City Council.
He’s active with Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates for a Carbon Tax with 100% revenue recycling (dividends to consumers). He’s taught a weekly “Climate Change Science” class to middle school students at Discovery Charter School since 2011. He has been working with Silver Lining Marine Cloud Brightening team since 2012. Sudhanshu holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT.
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