OFC Meeting 20

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12 Nov 2019:

"Free-for-All" Discussions

Feel free to add your thoughts here!

You might want to revisit our previous "free-for-alls" to harvest some ideas.

AGENDA ITEMS

• Philip: I suggest we discuss the proposition that Canada does not have to worry about our ecological footprint (e.g. from food consumed in Canada and carbon emissions) or sustainability because our population is not large (only 0.5% of the world’s total population).
• Jess suggests having a look at Balanced Ballot for Berkeley and the whole idea of Negative Votes. Perhaps one of these meetings should be devoted to "Voting in the Future"?
• Oct 7: Canadian physicist Jim Peebles shares Nobel prize in Physics for his work in physical cosmology. Here's a great interview!
• You might be interested in a recent Scientific American article on Incentivizing Bad Science (by which they mean, as is so often the case, Medical Science). See also my suggested remedy: [1]. Perhaps we might also have a session on Science in the Future!
• Re nuclear power, see the influential pop song POWER.

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MINUTES

There was some discussion about QUANTITACY, Zero Tolerance and Radiation Hazards (for which there is also a presentation version). This segued into the usual far-reaching politico-philosophical discussions, including the Climate Crisis. Jess and Doug had to leave early, just after some discussion of the new medical database/pharmaceutical-dispensing project recently announced by a consortium of Amazon, Google and others: see the article in the Guardian.