Go ahead and tell us about yourself. Oh yes, my name is Christopher, I'm a YouTuber, that means that I do videos, I do YouTube videos on tutorials, I'm using, you know, programming, using computers and stuff like that. Would you consider yourself a professional? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm a professional programmer. Have you worked on any software projects before? No, I've never worked on any big projects. Well, who was Linus Fortella when he created Linux and nobody, would you say he was an amateur? Out of all the open licenses, yeah, the GPL is my favorite. I just feel like it gives and preserves the freedom of the user most. Can you tell us about people who violate the GPL? Yes, violators of the GPL that does happen and it's sad when it does happen because, you know, a programmer's out there, you know, giving it their all, they're spending years growing neckbeards and sitting in their parent's basement just typing in code, you know, they're giving blood to their code and literally I've seen guys hurt their fingers while typing and they're bleeding and it's just, it's saddening when someone violates the GPL because these coders, you know, they work for recognition and they choose to release this code in a way that benefits everybody and then people go and just violate the GPL and, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just give me a minute, give me a minute, yeah, so sometimes, sometimes it's hard to catch people violating the GPL but other times there are these people who do it and they just flaunt it out there in your face like this Brian Lunduk guy, his YouTube videos, he's just out there and he's taking this code that's under the GPL and he's using it and at no point does he contribute the code to the GPL as he, there's a requirement in the GPL, it clearly states that when your code is under the GPL and it's distributed, it should be distributed with the code, with the license, with the GPL license and this Brian Lunduk guy is selling T-shirts that have part of the kernel code in it which is under the GPL and nowhere on the shirts does he at all reference anything about the GPL, he has the entire back of the shirt, he could put the GPL on the back of the shirt, it's only a couple of pages long, he could have taken that code, the license and printed it on the back of the shirt but he just is out there selling these shirts to people, we're now walking around with GPL license code out there for everybody to see but nowhere does it reference the GPL, this is a clear violation of the GPL and yes I do think action should be taken and I don't know why the kernel developers aren't taking action against this Brian Lunduk guy, it's just a clear violation that could easily be remedied, it's not hard to abide by the GPL code, there's just a few things you need to do and making it clear that the code is under the GPL and providing that license are some of those requirements and he's just refusing to do that and people are out there paying and buying these shirts and they don't even know any better, they don't realize that what they're buying is breaking the law, it's violating the GPL and I just think it's horrible, I think it's disgusting. Who's your favorite programmer or hacker of all time? Oh my favorite hacker of all time? Oh definitely Linus. Linus Torvald. No no, not Torvald's, Lieberman, Linus Lieberman for sure. Obviously this video was meant as a joke, there's, there are very few YouTubers that I watch that are Linux users that do videos on Linux, Arthur Reader is a great one with the two videos he puts out a year, but a lot of the videos about Linux, I don't enjoy them just talking about Linux and a lot of them just, you know, for me, I use Linux for everything, I use it for my video editing and I don't just do these videos, I do wedding videos and other types of videos and stuff like that and I find that a lot of the people on YouTube don't use Linux software for everything, they'll have maps and other Windows machines and I just don't respect that, so it's very rare that I watch YouTubers that are Linux users, there are a few out there, but one that you've, a lot of you probably watch him is Brian Lunduk, he's very popular, he's been around for a while these days and the Linux sucks presentations and I've seen him before but I've never really watched his videos because I just don't go looking for Linux YouTubers that much, but, you know, about two months ago I started watching his videos and I had just been binge watching them and he's really great and so I just wanted to kind of do this joke video and I'll let you guys know to go watch him, you know, he doesn't really do tutorials like I do but he talks about Linux and tech stuff and computer stuff but in an interesting way, I don't know, I just enjoy his videos so I thought I would say go over and watch his videos, I agree with, you know, 90% of what he says, I completely disagree with his feelings on JavaScript, but hey, you can't agree with people, you know, 100% of the time, but just because I've been enjoying his videos so much, I want to take a video, take a moment and let you guys know that if you're going to watch, you know, some Linux users on YouTube, Brian Lunduk is definitely a guy you should go check out and for me to come out and say that, like I said, Arthur Reader does good videos, but he only puts out one or two a year and there's one or two others, maybe I should go through my list, but it's like the guys that I like, like Arthur Reader, they do very few videos so it's hard for me to go, hey, go watch these guys, but Brian Lunduk's doing five a week when he's not sick right now and I look forward to them all the time and they're also longer videos. A lot of times when I'm on YouTube and I see videos and they're more than 10 or 15 minutes, I'm like, I don't really have time to watch this. His videos are like a half an hour or an hour sometimes more and I look forward to watching them at double speed, so I'm really only watching them for a half an hour, but do go check them out. Also, the code that I had on the screen when I was typing was actually the PS code from the busybox project, I just want to mention that because it is GPL code and I don't want to violate the GPL by having that in my video and not referencing the GPL at least.  In fact, he's one of the main reasons I got into programming, so I do thank you for watching and as always I hope that you visit my website, filmsycrist.com, that's Chris the K. There's a link in the description, my Patreon page there as well, if you enjoy my videos, definitely gonna be coming up with more tutorials, shelf tutorials coming up soon. Thank you for watching, I hope that you have a great day. Would I consider myself an elite hacker? Yes, I would.


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Chapter 9, Part 2 of Widershins. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Fanny. Widershins by Oliver Onions. Hick Jaceit. A Tale of Artistic Conscience. 4. The first check I experienced in the hitherto so easy flow of the life came at the chapter that dealt with Andriovsky's attitude towards professionalism in art. He was inflexible on this point. There ought not to be professional artists. When it was pointed out that his position involved the premium upon the rich amateur, he merely replied that riches had nothing to do with the question, and that the starver in the garret was not excused for his poverty's sake from the observance of the implacable conditions. He spoke literally of the need to create, usually in the French term, and he was inclined to regard the imposition of this need on a man rather as a curse laid upon him than as a privilege and a pleasure. But I must not enlarge upon this further than to observe that this portion of his life which I was approaching coincided in point of time with that period of my own life at which I had been confronted with the alternative of starving for art's sake or becoming rich by supplying a clamorous trade demand. It came this check I have spoken of one night as I was in the very middle of a sentence. And though I have cajoled my brain since seeking how best I can describe it, I am reduced to the simple statement that it was as arresting as sharp, actual and impossible to resist as if my hand had been seized and pinned down in its passage across the paper. I can even see again the fragment of the sentence I had written and the mere contemplation of a betrayal so essential, then came that abrupt and remarkable stop. It was such an experience as I had formerly known only nightmare. I sat there looking blankly and stupidly at my own hand, and not only was my hand arrested, but my brain also had completely ceased to work. For the life of me, I could not recall the conclusion of the sentence I had planned a moment before. I looked at my hand and looked again, and as I looked, I remembered something I had been reading only a few days before, a profoundly unsettling description of an experiment in bottle suggestion. The experiment had consisted of the placing of a hand up on a table and the laying upon it the conjuration that the will not withstanding, it should not move. And as I watched my own hand, pale on the paper in the pearly light, I knew that by some consent to the nullification of the will that did not proceed from the self, I was accustomed to regard as my own, that injunction was already placed upon it. My conscious and deliberate will was powerless. I could only sit there and wait until whatever inhibition had arrested my writing hand but permitted to move forward again. It must have been several minutes before such a tingling of the nerves as announces that the blood is once more returning to a cramped member warned me that I was about to be released. Where really I awaited my moment. Then I plucked my hand to myself again with a suddenness that caused a little blot of ink to spurt from my fountain pen onto the surface of the paper. I drew a deep breath. I was free again. And with a freedom came a resolve that whatever portion of myself had been responsible for this prank should not repeat it if I could possibly prevent it. But scarcely had I come, as I may say, and not without the little gush of alarm now that it was over to myself when I was struck by a thought.  It fetched me out of my chair and set me striding across a library to a lower shelf in the farthest corner. This shelf was the shelf on which I kept my letter files. I stooped and ran my fingers along the backs of the dusty row. I drew out the file for 1900 and brought it back to my writing table. My contracts I owed to say reposed in a deed box at my agent's office. But my files contained in the form of my agent's letters a sufficient record of my business transactions. I opened the file concertina-wise and turned to the section lettered R. I drew out the correspondence that related to the sale of the first series of the Martin-Renard's. As I did so, I glanced at the movable calendar on my table. The date was January 20th. The file contained no letters for January of any significance whatever. The thought that had half formed in my brain immediately became nonsense. I replaced the letters in their compartments and took the file back to its shelf again. For some minutes I paced the library resolutely. Then I decided I would work no more that night. When I gathered together my papers I was careful to place that with the half-finished sentence on the top so that with the first resting of my eyes upon it on the morrow my memory might happily be refreshed. I tried again to finish that sentence on the morrow. With certain modifications that I need not particularize here my experience was the same as on the previous night. It was the same when I made the attempt on the day after that. At ten o'clock of the night of the fourth day I completed the sentence without difficulty. I just sat down in my chair and wrote it. With equal ease I finished the chapter on professional artists. It was not likely that Scoffield would have refrained from telling much of our little difference on our last meeting. And within a week of the date I have just mentioned I learned that she knew all about it. And that the circumstances of my learning this were in a high degree unusual I will relate them with such clearness as I am able. I ought first to say, however, that the selection of the drawings that were to illustrate the book having been made, the drawings for which my own text was to serve as commentary would be the better expression, the superintendence of their production had been left to Scoffield. Mashka and I passed the proofs in consultation. The blocks were almost ready. And the reason for they call that evening was to consider the possibility of having all ready for production in the early spring. A possibility which was contingent on the state of advancement of my own share of the book. That evening I had experienced my second check. I omitted those that had immediately succeeded the first one as resembling that one so closely in the manner they're coming. It had not come by any means so completely and definitely as a former one but it had sufficed to make my progress both mentally and mechanically so sluggish and struggling a performance that for the time being I had given up the attempt and was once more regarding with a sort of perturbed stupor in my hand that held the pen. Andriovsky's portrait stood in its usual place on the chair at the end of my writing table but I had eyes for nothing but that refractory hand of mine. Now it is true that during the past weeks I had studied Andriovsky's portrait thoroughly enough to be able to call up the vivid mental image of it at will but that did not entirely account for the changed aspect with which it now presented itself to that uncomprehended sense within us that makes of these shadows such startling realities. Flushing and lifelike as was the presentation on the canvas mind you I was not looking at it but all the time at my own hand it was dead paint by comparison with that mental image which I saw if I may so use a term of which custom has restricted the meaning to one kind of seeing as plainly as I ever saw Andriovsky in his life. I know now that it was by virtue of that essential essence that bound us heart and brain and soul together that I so saw him, eyes glittering, head sardonically wagging fine mouth shaping phrases of insight and irony. And the strange thing was that I could not have located this soul living image by confining it to any portion of the space within the four walls of my library. It was before me, behind me, within my head, about me, was me invading and possessing the me that sat at the table. At one moment the eyes mockingly invited me to go on with my work the next a frown had seated itself on that massive pylon of his forehead and then suddenly his continents changed entirely. A wave of horror broke over me. He was suddenly as I had seen him that last time in the hamstered home sitting up on his pillow, looking into my eyes with that terrible look of profanity and familiarity and asking me who I was. Harrison, ha ha, you shall very soon know that I know you if. It is back by the accidents of our limited experience that sounds are loud or soft to that inner ear of us. These words were at one and the same time a dreadful thunder and a voice interstellarly inaccessible and withdrawn. They too were before, behind, without and within and incorporated, I know not how else to express it, with these words were other words in the English I knew in the Hebrew in which he had quoted them from the sacred books of his people in no language say that essential communication of which languages are but the inessential husk and medium. Words that told me that though I took the wings of the morning and fled into the uttermost parts of the earth, yeah, though I made my bed in hell, I could not escape him. He had kept his word. I did know that he knew who and what I was. I cannot tell whether my lips actually shaped the question that even in that moment burst from me, but form informs it is then true that all things are bad aspects of one thing. Yes, in death, the voice seemed to reply. My next words I know were actually spoken aloud. Then tell me, tell me, do you not wish me to write it? Suddenly I leapt out of my chair with a gulping cry. A voice had spoken. Of course we wish you to write it. For an instant of time my vision seemed to fold on itself like smoke. Then it was gone. The face into which I was wildly staring was moshkas and behind her stood Scofield. They had been announced, but I had heard nothing of it. Were you thinking of not writing it? She demanded well Scofield scowled at me. No, no, I stammered as I got up and tardily placed them chairs. Scofield did not speak, but she did not remove his eyes from me. Somehow I could not meet them. Well, she said, Jack had already told me that you seemed in two minds about it. That's what we've called about to know definitely what it is you propose to do. I saw that she had had also called it necessary to quarrel. I began to recover a little. Did you tell her that I demanded of Scofield? If you did, you misinterpreted me. In my house he ignored the fact that I was in the room. He replied to moshka. I understood Mr. Harrison to say definitely and in those words that if I didn't like the way in which she was writing Michael's life I might write and publish one myself, he said. I did say that I admitted, but I never said that whatever you did I should not go on with mine. Yours cried moshka. What right have you in my brother's life? I quickly told her. I have the right to write my recollections of him and subject to certain provisions of the law to base anything on them I think fit, I replied. But she cried aghast. There can't be two lives. It's news to me that two were contemplated I returned. The point is that I can get mine published and you can't. Scofield's harsh voice sounded suddenly but again to moshka not to me. You might remind Mr. Harrison that others have capabilities in business besides himself. Beyond a doubt our sales will be comparatively small but they'll be to such as have not made the great refusal. Think of it I almost laughed. All been trying it I inquired. He made no reply. Well those who have made the refusal have at least had something to refuse I said mildly. Then realizing that this was mere quarreling I returned to the point. Anyhow there's no question of refusing to write the life. I admit that during the last fortnight I've met with certain difficulties but the task isn't so easy as perhaps it looks. I'm making progress. I suppose she said hesitatingly after a pause that you don't care to show it as far as it is written. For a moment I also hesitated. I thought I saw where she was. Next to that Lancashire Jackanabes there was division between us and I had pretty well made up my mind not only that she thought himself quite capable of writing Andropovsky's life himself but that he had actually made an attempt in that direction. They had come in the suspicion that I was throwing them over and though that suspicion was removed Moshka wished if there was any throwing over to be done to do it herself. In a word she wanted to compare me with Schofield. To see that as far as it is written I repeated slowly well you may, that is you Michael's sister may but on the conditions that you neither show it to anybody else nor speak of it to anybody else. Oh she said and only on those conditions, only on those conditions. I saw a quick glance between them. Shall we tell him it seemed to say including the man Michael's sister is going to marry she said abruptly. My attitude was deeply apologetic but including anybody whom so ever I answered. Then she said rising we won't bother but will you at least let us know soon when we may expect your text? I will let you know I replied slowly one week from today. On that assurance they left and when they had gone I crossed once more to the lower shelf that contained my letter files. I turned up the file for 1900 once more during the visit I had had an idea. I ran through the letters and then replaced them. Yes I ought to be able to let them know within the week. Five Against the day when I myself shall come to die there are in the pigeonholes of the newspaper libraries certain biographical records that deal roughly with the outward facts of my life. And these supplemented by documents I shall place in the hands of my executors will tell the story of how I eloped at a bound into wealth and fame with a publication of the cases of Martin Renard. I will sit down as much of that story as has its bearing on my present tale. Martin Renard was not immediately accepted by the first editor to whom it was offered. It does not suffice that in order to be popular a thing shall be merely good or bad. It must be bad or good in a particular way.  Since it becomes me ill to quarrel with a way in which any man earns his money I content myself with merely stating the fact.  I was little better off than Andrew Opsky at his very worst. I had read the first of the Martin Renards to him by the way. The gigantic outburst of mirth with which he had received it had not encouraged me to read him a second. I wrote the others in secret. I wrote the things in the spring and summer of 1900 and by the last day of September I was confident that I had at last sold them except by a flagrant breach of faith the editor in whose desk the repose could hardly decline them as it subsequently happened I have now nothing but gratitude for him that he did after all decline them for I had a duplicate copy on offer in another quarter. He declined them I say and I was free to possess my soul again among my reeds, debts and pawn shops. But four days later I received the alternative offer it was from the falchion the falchion as you may remember has since run no less than five complete series of Martin Renards. It bought both sides that is to say both British and American serial rights. Of the 12 Martin Renards I had written my wise agent had offered the falchion six only. On his advice I accepted the offer. Instantaneously with the publication of those six stories came my success. In two continents I was home home in the hearts of the public. I had my small check it was not much more than a hundred pounds but wait said my agent let's see what we can do with the other six. Precisely what he did with them only he and I know but I don't mind my saying that three thousand pounds did not buy my first serial rights then came second and third rights and after them the book rights British American and colonial that came the translation rights. In French my creation is of course as in English Martin Renard. In German he is Martin Fuchs and by a similar process you can put him my translators have put him into Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian and three-fourths of the tongues of Europe. And this was the first series only. It was only with the second series that the full splendor of my success appeared. My very imitators grew rich. My agent's income from his comparatively small percentage on my royalties was handsome and he chuckled and made me wait for the dramatic rights and the day when the touring companies should get to business. I had got there and I remember sadly enough now my first resolution when the day came when I was able to survey the situation with anything approaching calm. It was enough for the rest of my days I need not no poverty again. Then forward I need not unless I chose do any but worthy work. Martin Renard had set his purpose handsomely and I intended to have nothing more to do with him. Then came that dazzling offer for the second series. I accepted it. I accepted the third likewise and I have told you about the fourth. I have tried to kill Martin Renard. He was killing me. I have in the pages of the fortune actually killed him but I have had to resuscitate him. I cannot escape from him. I am not setting down one word more of this than bears directly on my tale of Andriovsky's life. For those days when my whole future had hung in the balance were the very days covered by that portion of Andriovsky's life at which I had now arrived. I had reached and was hesitating at our point of divergence. Those checks and releases which I had at first found so unaccountable corresponded with the vicissitudes of the Martin Renard negotiations. The actual dates did not of course coincide. I had quickly discovered the falsity of that scent. Neither did the intervals between them with the exception of those few days in which I had been unable to complete that half written sentence the few days immediately prior to my parallel acceptance by the fortune. But by that other reckoning of time of mental and spiritual experience they tell it exactly. The gambling chances of five years ago meant present stumblings and holdings. The breach of faith of an editor long since meant a present respite and another week should bring me to that point of my so strangely redeplicated experience that allowing for the furious mental rate at which I was now living would make another note with that other point in the more slowly lived past that had marked my acceptance of the offer for the second half dozen of the Martin Renard's. It had been on this hazardous calculation that I had made my promise to Mashka. I passed that week in a state of constantly increasing apprehension. True, I worked at the life, even assiduously but it was plain sailing, mere cataloguing of certain Vanderovsky's works a chapter I had deliberately planned to enhance the value of the penultimate and final chapters. These were the real crux of the life. These were what I was reserving myself for. These were to show that only his body was dead and that his spirit still lived and his work was still being done wherever a man could be found whose soul burned within him with the same divine ardour. But I was now realizing day by day, hour by hour, more clearly what I was incurring. I was paying nothing less than my own artistic domination. Self-contempt indeed, I had been this long time but I was now making the world a party to the sentence that crowning of Vanderovsky involved my own annihilation. His life would be my hic chasted and yet I was prepared, nay, resolved to write it. I had started and I would go forward. I would not be spewed with a lukewarm out of the mouth of that spirit from which proceeds all that is bright and pure and true. The vehemence with which I had rejected its divine bidding should at least be correspondent with my adoration of it. The sniveling claims of the scoffals I spurned. If as they urged an artist must leave, he must leave royally or stab with a tight mouth. No complaining. And one other claim I urged in the teeth of this spirit which if it was a human spirit at all it could not disregard. Those pitch and hold obituaries of mine will proclaim to the world one and all the virtues of my public life. In spite of my royal earnings I am not a rich man. I have accepted wealth without accepting the personal responsibility for it. Sick men and women in more than one hospital lie in words provided by Martin Renard and myself. And I am not dishonored in my institution at Poplar. Those vagrant wanderings with Andriovsky have enabled me to know the poor and those who help the poor. My personal labors in the administration of the institute are great. For outside of my military routine I leave little to subordinate. I have declined honors offered to me for my services to literature and I have never encouraged the youth of parts or lacking them to make of literature a profession and so on and so forth. All this and more you will read when the day comes and I don't doubt the fortune will publish my memoir and morning Borders. But to resume I have finished the chapter I have mentioned. Moshka and Hefienzi kept punctiliously away. Then, before sitting down to the penultimate chapter I permitted myself the relaxation of a day in the country. I can't tell you precisely where I went. I only know it was somewhere in the Buckingham share and that ordering the car to await me a dozen miles farther on I set out to walk. Nor can I tell you what I saw during that walk. I don't think I saw anything. There was a red wintry disc of a sun I remember and a land gray with rhyme. And that is all. I was entirely occupied with the attempt I was about to make. I think that even then I had the sense of doom, for I know not how otherwise I should have found myself several times making little husbandings of my force as if conscious that I should need it all, for I was determined as never in my life have I been determined to write that life. And I intended not to wait to be challenged, but to challenge. I met the car returning in search of me and I dined at a restaurant, went home to bed and slept dreamlessly. On the morrow I deliberately refrained from work until the evening. My challenge to Andriovsky as he represented should be boldly delivered at the very gates of their own hour. Not until half past eight with a curtain strong, the doors locked and orders given that on no account whatever was I to be disturbed did I switch on the pearly light, place Andriovsky's porter in its own accustomed place and draw my chair up to my writing table. 6. But before I could resume the life at the point at which I had left it I felt that there were certain preliminaries to be settled. It was not that I wished to sound apparently with any view of coming to terms. I had determined what the terms were to be as a boxer who leaps from his corner the moment the signal is given astounding with suddenness his less prompt antagonist so I should be ready when the moment came. But I wished the issue to be defined I did not propose to submit the whole of my manhood to the trial. I was merely a setting my right to speak of certain things which if one chose to exaggerate the importance by a too narrow and exclusive consideration of them I might conceivably be thought to have betrayed. I drew a sheet of paper towards me and formally made out my claim. It occupied not more than a dozen lines and its nature has already been sufficiently indicated. I put my pen down again linked back in my chair and waited. I waited but nothing happened. It seemed that if this was my attempt to justify myself the plea was certainly not disallowed. But neither had I any sign that it was allowed and presently it occurred to me that possibly I had couched it in terms too general. Perhaps a more particular claim would meet with a different reception. During the earlier stages of the book's progress I had many times deliberated on the desirability of a preface that should state succinctly what I considered to be my qualifications for the task. Though I had finally decided against any such statement the form of the preface might nevertheless serve for the present occasion. I took another sheet of paper headed it preface and began once more to write. I covered the page. I covered a second and halfway down the third I judged my statement to be sufficient. Again I laid down my pen, linked back and waited. The preface also produced no result whatsoever. Again I considered and then I saw more clearly. It came to me that both in the first statement and in the preface I was merely talking to myself. I was convincing myself and losing both time and strength in doing so. The power with which I sought to come to grips was treating my vaporings with hideous regard. To be snapped thus by headquarters would never, never do. Then I saw more clearly still. It seemed that my right to challenge was denied. I was not an adversary with the rights and honors of an adversary. But a transgressor whose transgression had already several times been sharply visited and would be visited once more the moment it was repeated. I might in a sense please myself whether I brought myself into court. But once there I was not the arena in the box but the arena in the dock. And I rebelled totally. Did I sit there ready for the struggle only to be told that there could be no struggle? Did that vengeful angel of the arts ignore my very existence? By ye and me I swore that he should take notice of me. Once before immortal had wrestled the whole night with an angel and though he had been worsted it had not been before he had compared the angel to reveal himself. And so would I. Challenge, title to challenge, tentatives, preliminaries I suddenly cast them all aside. We would have it indeed not in further words. I opened the drawer, took out the whole of the life so far written and began to read. I wanted to grasp once more the plan of it in its entirety. Page after page I read on with deepening attention. Quickly I ran through half of it. Then I began to concentrate myself still more closely. There would come a point at which I would flush with the stream of it again. Again feel the force of its current. I felt myself drawn nearer to that point. When I should reach it I would go ahead without a pause. I read to the end of Chapter 15 the last completed chapter. Then instantly I took my pen and wrote Chapter 16 I felt the change at the very first word. I will not reverse any ground I have covered before. If I have not already made clear my former sensations of the petrification of hand and brain I despair of being able to do so any better now. Suffice it that once more I felt that inhibition and that once more I was aware of the ubiquitous presence of the image of the dead artist. Once more I heard those voices nearer as thunder and yet interstellarly remote crying that solemn warning that though I took of the morning made my bed in hell or cried aloud upon the darkness to cover me there was one spirit from which I could not hope to escape. I felt the slight crawling of my flesh and my bones as I listened but there was now a difference on the former occasion to hear again those last horrible words of his you shall very soon know I know who you are if had been the signal for the total unnerving of me and for that uncontrollable cry don't you then want me to ride it but now I intended to ride it if I could in order that I may tell him so I was now seeking him out in what height or depth I knew not at what peril to myself I cared not I cared not since I now felt that I could not continue to live unless I pressed to the utter most attempt and I must repeat and repeat again and yet repeat that that our Andriovsky was imminent about me in the whole of me in the last vibrant cell of me in all my thoughts from my consciousness that I was sitting there at my own writing table to my conception of God himself it may seem strange whether it does so or not will depend on the kind of man you yourself are that as long as I was content to recognize this imminence of Andriovsky's enlarged and liberated spirit and not to dispute with it I found nothing but mildness and benignity in my hazardous experience more I felt that in that clear region to which in my intensified state of consciousness I was lifted I was able to move I must trust you to understand the word arrived without restraint nay with an amplitude and freedom of movement past sitting down as long as I was satisfied to possess my soul essence the state itself was inimical neither to my safety nor to my sanity I was conscious of it as a transposition into another register of the scale of life and as in this life we move in ignorance and safety only by accepting the hair balance of stupendous forces so now I felt that my safety depended on my observation of the conditions that govern that region of light and clarity and law of clarity and law saving the terms of the great abstractions I may not speak of it and that is well nigh equal to saying that I may not speak of it at all the hand that would have written of it lay I never for one moment cease to be conscious heavy a stone on a writing table in some spot quite accidental in my new sense of locality the tongue that would have spoken of it seemed to slumber half and I knew that both dumbness and stillness were proper their opposites would have convicted me the flat and death the comparison must be allowed of intrusion into some place of beauty and serenity for which the soilier of my birth disqualified me for beauty and serenity austerity and benignity and peace were the conditions of that place to other places belonged the wingy and robed and starry golden things that made the heavens of other lives and that which I had shared with Andriovsky here white and shapely truth alone reigned none questioned for all new none seen for seen was already judged and punished in its committal none demonstrated for all things were evident and those eager to justify themselves were permitted no farther than the threshold and it was to justify to challenge to maintain a right that I was there I was there to wrestle if needs be with the angel of that place to vanquish him or to compare him to reveal himself I had not been summoned I had thrust myself there unbeaten there was a moment in which I noticed that my writing table was a little more than ordinarily removed from me but very little not more than if I had been looking over the shoulder of another writer at it and I saw my chapter heading at the site of it something of the egotism that had prompted me to write had stood in me again everywhere was Andriovsky's calm face priest and the angel himself and I became conscious that I was trying to write the phrase I also became conscious that I was being pitifully warned not to do so suddenly my whole being was flooded with a frightful pang of pain it was not local it was no more to be located than the other immanences of which I have spoken it was pain pure essential dissociated and with the coming of it that fair place had grown suddenly horrible and black and I knew that the shock came of my own resistance and that it would cease to afflict me the moment I ceased to resist I did cease instantly the pain passed but as with the knife is plucked from a wound so only with it's passing did I shriek aloud for I know not how many minutes I said in stupefaction then as with earthly pains that I aged with the passing of accidental time the memory of it softened a little blunderingly and only half consciously I cast about to my dispersed force for already I was conscious of it there still remained one claim that even in thought I had not advanced I would where I permitted still write that life but since it was decreed so I would no longer urge that in writing it I justified myself so I might bad write it I would embrace my own portion the portion of doom yeah though it should be a pressing of the searing iron to my lips I would embrace it my name should not appear for the mere sake of the man I had loved I would write it in self-score and abasement humbly craving to be denied oh let me but do for love of you what a sinful man can I grunt a moment later I had against driven to do so so do we all when we think that out of a poor human love we can alter the laws by which our state exists and with such a hideous anguish as was again mine are revisited and I knew now what that anguish was it was a twining of body from spirit that is called the bitterness of death for not all of the body are the pangs of that severance with that terrible sword of impersonal pain the god of peace makes sorrowful war that peace may come again with its flame he reached the bastions of heaven when Satan made assault only on the gorgon image of that pain in the shield may weak man look and its blaze and dial had permeated with deadly nearness the everywhere where I was oh not for love not even for love broke the agonized question from me the next moment I had ceased and ceased forever to resist instantaneously the terrible flashing of that sword became no more than the play of lightning one sees far away in the wild cloud fields on the peaceful summer's twilight I felt the gentle and overpowering sleep coming over me and as it folded me about I saw the last look of my eyes my own figure busily writing at the table had I then prevailed had pain so purged to me that I was permitted to finish my task and had my tortured cry not even for love being heard I did not know I came to myself to find that my head had fallen on my desk the light still shone within its pearly shade and in the pen number of its shadow the portrait of Andriovsky occupied its custom place about me where my papers and my pen lay where it had fallen from my hand at first I did not look at my papers I merely saw that the upper most of them was written on but presently I took a tap and looked at it stupidly then with no memory at all of how I had come to write what was upon it I put it down again it was indeed a completion but it was not of Andriovsky's life that it was the completion as you may or may not know Andriovsky's life is written by his friend John Scoffield I had been allowed to write but it was my own condemnation that in sadness and obedience in the absence of wrath but also in the absence of mercy I had written by the law I had broken I was broken in my turn it was a draft of the fifth series of the cases of Martin Renard not for love not even for love end of chapter 9 part 2 recording by Fanny Thessaloniki-Griss End of Withershins by Oliver Onions


good afternoon pastor david yes it is john i just want to make sure this is recording good want to welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor david unfiltered and you know today pastor is it's tuesday we try to stay current we try to stay updated on current events so for those who are tuning in today you'll hear this unfiltered mostly towards the current events and then on thursdays when we get together and in chit chat it's a biblical based and church more centered on the church today pastor you know i've been hearing across the news that uh that our administration is pushing the vaccine card and identification in almost everything i mean to go to the gym you need an id to uh idea or a vaccine card all these restaurants a number of different things where they're mandated mandatory shown you their vaccine card and an identification and now it seems like our administration is really laxed about voting that you don't need an id and that are the president came out and was even comparing some of the republicans to bull Connor and and actually he was he was actually comparing democrats democrats that's right we it's kind of combining the two yes he was good yeah that's right but we see this kind of this double standard you know uh we see our administration pushing for the vaccine and the and and the mandate all that and when it comes to voting and there just seems to be a double standard i want to get your feedback on this yeah yeah this will be a short answer because i'm obviously not a political pundit by any means but yeah i find it kind of odd i find it odd because in the midst of the summer of riots that we had not that long ago there were quite a number of cities that were under attack right and and so much violence that took place in all and and yet we have we have vice president as well as president and others who are saying that what they're calling the insurrection insurrection on january 6 they they put it in the same category so right from the beginning the attempt to to apparently not deal with the reality of what this nation is going through and then to kind of pivot to take our attention away from those kinds of things and then to put our attention on issues related to the suppression quote unquote of voters rights and and this specter of racism i believe is being used to take our attention or the attention of of the uh average american away from the situation we find ourselves in as a nation with the southern border and and the fentanyl that's coming in and the trafficking of children and and all of those things it seems to me pretty obvious that our attention is being diverted from the incredible inflation that is taking place even now and and the dissatisfaction of the average voter concerning the way the government is handling the covid crisis and and the things that relate to that and so i find it interesting that we have seen a pivoting from the issues that people actually do care about and then intention being given to things like a supposed suppression of voter rights uh we were talking just a little while ago about this particular uh restaurant that that will um um deliver tacos you know we happen to like tacos right and so uh so i looked up this particular establishment that sells tacos and i thought well maybe they can maybe they can deliver a few to us right why not right and and so i looked at the page and the page said that they will not send us any tacos if we don't have a a major credit card and a photo identification uh so i have to have a major credit card and a photo id to get tacos from this taco place but i don't need anything like that to go and cast a vote i don't even have in some places i don't even have to be a citizen of the united states to find my vote being counted and see so yeah there's a um there is a uh a major problem i would say john related to uh the direction this this this nation is going and the obvious fact that i do not believe for a single moment that there is a suppression of voters rights i don't believe that and i don't think the average person does either i think what we have is a smoke screen i believe what we have is a boogeyman that has been set up and that boogeyman has orange hair and that's why it's working see they the companies like cnn and others are losing up to 90 percent of viewership because they don't have a boogeyman to to keep people afraid of and up to 90 percent of viewership is is lost on cnn right now that they're not letting you know that but the craziness of the things that they say requires to have uh some straw man that they can attack constantly and see that that trump hasn't been in office for a year they don't have anything to rattle against anymore so they make things up or they blame or whatever it's what they're doing and uh and so now the the boogeyman and it's been that way for a while now is racism and so how do you solve racism is racism going to be solved by by legislation by passing laws that say you cannot dislike people i i believe what we have is selective racism i also believe what we're seeing is a uh diminishing of what actually does constitute true racism and a utilization of a word that is actually emptying it of its content by by whitewashing so many people um as being white supremacists or whatever and that's what's really taking place and i think the average american knows that you know i i'm a mexican american just because i'm light skinned doesn't mean that that that isn't my heritage that's who i am you know and i have my own cultural biases i have my own cultural things that i like and things that i don't like we all have a right to that and when they're sinful i have to turn those things over to the lord so i can be the man he wants me to be but we all have our preferences we have we all have our cultural things that we like i mean just now we're talking about tacos not that people watching who aren't mexican don't like them i think everybody in california in one way or another must like a taco i mean they they must but what we do is we create a fiction we create something to to to say this is bad this is bad and these people are all bad because they believe this and that's what's taking place right now so when it comes to voting i'll just close with the thought when it comes to voting i am a hundred percent behind showing id i believe that whether you're black or brown or white yellow red whatever you want to be we all have forms of id you can't get on a plane without an id you can't go from the united states to a foreign country without a passport or a form of id and to say that one particular group of people are incapable of having an id is racist it's racist and and yet beautiful for some reason don't understand that and we just celebrated the memorial of martin luther king jr who a man i admired tremendously you know man who that when i think the sacrifice this man made um i i actually tear up because i think that he he was a very courageous man who did what he did in the name of the lord as he was seeking for the little black children little white children to be able to actually be united in a nation that had had had matured past hatred so i'm i'm again i'm i'm a mexican and i'm a mexican american i i don't i don't run around saying the things i've experienced but i have i've experienced it as every minority in one form or another has endured you know the the the the things that have been said the attitudes that have been expressed towards me because of my culture but you know what um the answer to that isn't going to be me getting angry um the answer to that is is changed hearts and that's why i i that's why i preach a gospel of transformation so that we can be one in jesus christ and so yes i believe that we need to be sensitive to the the fact that racism is being used right now as a a straw man to take our attention off of the failures of the administration this present administration there's never been an administration that doesn't have failures but this particular administration uh has really shown itself for what it is and so we need to pray for our nation we need to be aware of what's going on but we also need to realize that we have the power of the vote and we should utilize it amen well pastor thank you so much for uh sharing this it's you know it's it's obvious and and um it's like the Dracula or that costume that that you do you tell your church about you come one time and once more candy comes again but now they're just uh it's it's just everything so revealed it's open it's open yes and so well church family thank you for tuning in pastor thank you for taking the time and uh with unfiltered we do want to invite you our church family to our wednesday evening services which is tomorrow pastors taking us through the book of Ephesians yep and we'll also be celebrating communion yes it'll be our first communion it'll be the first communion of the year yes and so want to invite you guys to come out and join us and then we have our sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 and then we have our superbowl breakfast coming up that's going to be february 5th at 8 30 you can purchase tickets online or you can actually go to the gazebo we'd love to see you there pastor thank you again for your time and church family god bless you and we'll see you soon


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All right, so we've got us an old schoolhouse here built in 1880 Let's go in here and take a look see what's going on supposedly he just keeps cycling on and off. How's it going good? So he said it was acting a little funny Sure, this is definitely an older cool building It's completely empty. So there's not much in here to hold heat Now I was given some of the low-down and how things work here You got all your registers above the windows up there and it kind of go all the way around It's a spider trunk line basically all the way around the corners Now this is quite unique. They're gonna bring in duck work to pull the return off the ground which I worked on this place long before being here and it used to work with a simple pulse furnace As far as I know just fine, but we have state-of-the-art fancy Control system as you can see it's 15 degrees outside It's set for 70 degrees and it's 64 degrees in here. Let's go see what's going on I got up there and kind of poked my head I had to bring in my eight foot ladder to get down the door Then they've got the straight thing. I didn't feel like bringing some other big ladder over Let's go ahead and go over here and See what's going on You can see here the old original ceiling You got trunk line there just kind of spider webs to all different branches of the Building here's a return Every old building has to have internet Those things an old beast, but man 1880. That's pretty neat. Man those are some big. Look at that tendon joint That is really cool It's calling for heat At least it's grounded I guess Not seeing any blinks on the lights at least from here anyhow My gas pressure looks kind of low. Is this a two-stage? Nope There goes the fan. Fan's coming on Solar was changed November It turned off again. Never flashed anything Let's see if we can double check a few things here on this. Make sure we're not getting water in the Pressure switch hose or nothing It's this thing. I'd rather see it drain back to the bay Let me collect your box here. I don't think that's it Flame sensor runs golden red, which I'd never been a fan of when that happens Yep, there it goes again. I'm gonna jump this thing out I know you're not supposed to run these in super super cold weather Like you're not supposed to turn the house down super cold Because then your return air is way way too low Something's a little kooky here Looked at the thermostat. It seems to be calling consistently Some of it looks like it's important language. I'm not real sure what that says They might speak Dutch or something. I don't know Hit that it's like, huh? Uh-huh So I don't understand how that's interior exterior. I mean those are in English, but the hell's the rest of it. I ain't sure Oh, Chinese. Oh, that's so easy to switch all your Languages, why would you leave that as an option? I don't seem very smart Looks like you got Russian. That makes it a little easier now. Look at it. Use button and screen to operate it Look at that. It's so much simpler. It's not turning off down here. Let's go ahead and jump it out upstairs and see what's going on I'm not sure why the installers ran this way over here then back over to there Other than they probably didn't have the right size pipe, but it really makes it hell to get into this freaking control system Got an on and off switch there Probably going to get rid of this store switch so that I can work on it with the door off That'd be a lot easier. Just kind of curious if the motor's running slower than it should be going. That's why I'm checking this It's ready for 10. It's right at 10 So we don't have a problem with that. I'd like to know why it's shutting off though because It does not blank a code Of any sort. So what we're probably going to do is jump this thing With the jumper and see if it continually stays running You got your current sensing relay here for the controls. They verify that the blower is on And uh, short of that. It's just you know, a regular thermostat going to clean up that flame sensor Not real thrilled with the way that looks. It's kind of crusty looking My usual product process is make sure the blower capacitor is fine Make sure your flame sensors clean condensate traps if it had one Make sure the pressure switches are draining back because I mean, I've had all those problems so many times over the years Making sure that it's grounded Kind of going through all these same things every time. It's you know, a double check of these every time I like to make sure what time delay we have for off temperature is. Looks like it's set for about 120 Seconds or so That should be fine, especially as cold as it is in here. Those are some of the things I always check no matter what So get looking at this. You can see the wires have gotten pretty warm That crimp on there pulled off that Rollout switch there's got a little warm Carrier has a Tennessee to run their burners really hot on the corners I wonder if it's under firing possibly the burners just seem really low What I'm going to do is get this wire possibly moved away from this here so that it can be Held out and away from the burners more instead of the radiant heat going right up to it They do have this insulated piece up on top here That's probably trapping more heat in Either way it should be built for that, but Generally you don't insulate the top of the furnace like that. I'm assuming There's a reason they did that possibly. I don't know if they were trying to keep the heat in well Originally, this was a 90 percenter um, and then you know That obviously got changed to an 80 which we don't normally recommend running a 90 up in the attic when it's uh, cold weather like this not usually the greatest idea I got the flame sensor cleaned up get that wire on there reposition that so it's not Over top of those slits that are in the metal there brought the flame sensor out the front Find that peculiar that it's doing what it's doing. It should be giving you a code Otherwise, it's got to be the control dropping out The control here or the control that's running it. So let's take a peek see what we get So before we go jumping it out, I'm gonna watch it and see if it drops voltage out to the control Feel whether or not we can uh Feel any heat radiating back more than normal, which I'm sure we've got some pry up on top here, but Doesn't feel too bad in there A little disturbance with the blowers off what do you expect? I'm pulling a little colder air in because I'm up here in the attic area, but Don't think it's going to be that big of a deal Just makes it easier to get to the wires to see what's going on Otherwise, I'm going to have to trim into their stuff and they probably aren't going to like that I'm going to make use of my min max feature there. I've got my Chumper's going to my leads. Just gonna watch it for a bit and see if it drops out. It was doing it usually Every so many minutes should take long doing it. Let's just watch and see what happens It may not do it at all It could be a flame-sense issue and then maybe it only trips out so many times The port finally goes into a hard lock out But it should have gave me something It's been running now for Five and a half six and a half minutes hasn't dropped out once I got checking the codes on this 14 is what it would be if it drops out enough times To actually get to a flame failure So to kind of mimic the flame failure, let's go ahead and pull the flame sensor wire off. There we go Should drop out I don't make sense It's not tripping out. So it never blinked So it's not flame failure. So why is it running now and it didn't before then? So see how I kind of decided to do that wanted to make sure That was just plain because I figured well, maybe it was just a stupid flame sensor issue All right, we got the door back on there. It's running fine so far. We restarted the stop watch I'm going to go grab a thermometer to get in the return of supply and see if we got a Normal rise across this thing. They're already running on a blue speed, which is a Medium medium highest area See where we're at on that. So right now it's kind of confusing Because like I said, didn't have any codes when it shut down It was almost like the controller was shutting off and then coming back on which You got all this fancy stuff in here when you really could get away with just a basic thermostat Yeah, people forget to turn them on turn them off. But you know that stuff is not cheap I'm surprised. We're not seeing anything coming out. It's like 15 degrees out here Definitely not the most energy efficient building in the world front doors are not insulated literally normal doors and you're not Have a hard time Heat this thing. That's for sure You've got cold infiltration on every wall in here Well, it's everywhere along the corners I mean, oh my goodness. Yeah, it's like then you got your outlets there 42 degrees coming through the outlet And here's a big here's a nice spot here This here is the coldest sections 45 degrees And you know, yeah that with the The windows here that I mean I can I mean it's coming through good and cold there.   It's the same principle. They don't have a fan on it. It just got cold walls Yeah, so the door's running 36 degrees You got 73 degrees coming back. Okay, so we're at 118 so Let's say 73 is what it is. So 83 93 103 113 So 45 degree rise. We're right in that ballpark We're not tripping limit And even if we're tripping limit it should Be blinking a light when it shuts off.  It did it when I got up here. It was it was just off It was starting over again There's the temperature rise. It's good up to 50 degrees to 80 degrees so we're well in range of that it's not tripping the limit Everything looks hunky to worry there Definitely not convenient on this stupid wiring to jump it. So I'm gonna jump that sucker from out here That'll that'll make the control guys happy and fuzzy inside What we ended up doing is stripping the wire back a little bit Got r and w jumped Let's watch it for a bit and see what's going on. I mean, it's It's reason why I'm doing this is because that control board there is not blinking anything. It's not Acting like there's any safety devices opening and that's why I'm thinking it's the control stuff Everybody believes the controls and half the time it's not it but in this instance here It does seem like it is The fact is still going to remain that this building is not energy efficient It's running this living butt off trying to keep up The furnace is a 89,000 out and 110,000 in We got the furnace jumped so far six minutes six minutes new drop out yet All the controls and stuff is coming back to this little gizmo That's kind of got everything built into it. I mean you got your fan sensing wire you've got Your supply air temperature sensor and I think that's your internet and there's the thermostat wires I was kind of curious if we were having issues With possibly the wires maybe not being real tight Do not see Any wires that were scout They all look like they're tucked under there properly nothing's Pulling out Everything looks fine there. What I ended up doing and I don't think this is going to do anything I put an isolation relay in there An isolation relay basically Makes the r and w close It's something we had to do long ago with digital thermostats But after having a little discussion with the control guys It was brought to my attention that this thermostat's been changed two or three times with different manufacturing brands Because of the setup of the wireless deal here The usual one that we would use is Cost prohibitive So say at least we're making do with this thing There's another thing that I was not told about and that has to do with the discharge sensor This thing may have its own logic circuitry that's shutting it down because it's getting over 125 degrees You've supposedly these are compensated for direct radiant heat Which is right there. So what we're going to do is we're going to wait and see if it drops out with the isolation relay Which I think it's going to That's case. I'm going to yank the discharge sensor out And let it dangle because what's happening is the discharge sensor thinks the system's overheating And a normal system where it's 70 degrees in the house 125 wouldn't be so bad, you know They came out with some pre Set things that doesn't sound like they're adjustable, which once again, I'm not a controls guy Wasn't even aware this thermostat existed All I know is is a generic regular thermostat would do a fairly decent job But that doesn't give them the options that they want then also Combine that with the duct work that is so properly Distributed all the way around the building The airflow sucks so that a heat stays on the ceiling It comes over recirculates into the furnace and causes it to trip limit Which is why they're running the fans down there That's also why they've got boxes to do a temporary check there to see whether or not we can get the heat off the floor My feeling is should have came in and pounded it with you know, a couple bigger registers Got some airflow circulated around the building. It'd be nice. There was something down there to hold the heat in the building too Empty buildings don't hold heat very well Or worst-case scenario put too many splits in and call it a day Or just don't use the building in the middle of winter when it's you know, 10 degrees out It's just not energy efficient. Um, it's a neat building beautiful old building history But this design here, I guess has been in for a long time And although the furnace is newer the original furnace had the same problems All these little details were left out of the discussion with me I was able to hear it click which is kind of nice We were right in there at about 112 so this thing must think 125 is too much If you think about if it was 70 in the building 80 90 100 there's three put 25 onto that That's 40 50 55. You're kind of in your right area problem is it's false and um We can move this down further into Uh supply down below Um at this point Yeah, I don't know I did hear the relay kick on almost immediately after we went ahead and repositioned it down here Which For temporary purposes that should be fine Should work better Still doesn't make up for the building losing heat like it's doing But it's just going to set there for now. That's a lot better than it Cycling the furnace off every couple of minutes Uh, I just tripped again At this point that needs re repositioned the building's 62 in here. It's constantly shutting off You've got all that heat just coming across the scene. I can feel all the heat right here What I ended up doing was pulling that sensor back out of there Move it over to the return Got it mounted down there That should at least allow it to keep running Return you'll at least be able to see that the room temperature is coming up in temperature It'll obviously be warmer than what the wall stat over there is So you will at least be able to see more of an immediate change. It's not right But neither is the way that thermostats programmed. I have no information on it. The control guys do that At least I've done as much as I can do. So anyhow, that's going to wrap this one up We got it running. Just uh, that's as much as I can do for today Looking back when I checked the voltage first thing to see whether or not it was dropping out from the thermostat call It never dropped out but it was 30 degrees in the attic And when checking that you're sucking that cold air in there The temperature rise would have been lower. So it would have never gotten to that 125 area or whatever it's set at Who knows never seen that thermostat in my life It's something we don't usually use one of the control guys used it because it was a special instance what we needed But that's the reason why it ran and why it took a little longer not knowing what you know Was going on there didn't help a whole lot Not being told that there was multiple issues going on over and over that we've had multiple different trips out there If there was an easy way to actually measure voltage to see if it was dropping out That would have been the fastest easiest way to have done it But there wasn't When I jumped it it jumped and it ran the whole time and that was a pretty good clear indication that it was a thermostat Or a controls issue But there's so many other issues there The duckwork issue the velocity of the airflow The temperature rise, you know all those things if the cardboard water heater boxes weren't on there It would have been tripping limit All right. Well, that's enough of that one. Let's see what else we can get into


A warm welcome to this session on improving science literacy and thank you for joining us. My name is Fabiola Gianotti. I'm a particle physicist and currently I'm the head of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics based in Geneva in Switzerland. Over the past year science has been in the spotlight as never before and it's rassuring to see science center stage with governments listening to scientists before taking decision and before implementing measures and distinguish scientists, virologists, immunologists, epidemiologists on the front pages. But a sustainable world requires science to remain center stage at all times also outside periods of crisis and public understanding and engagement and cities and stress play an essential role to achieve this goal. So how can we improve science literacy? How can we empower citizens to navigate the huge amount of information they are bombarded with and make sense of what they hear and read? How should we scientists improve on communicating science? And what is the responsibility of research institutions, science communicators, publishers, academia and education? So we will try to address this another question with our distinguished panelists list. Let me introduce them. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, you are a mathematician and currently the president of the European Research Council. Good morning Jean-Pierre.  Good morning, Magdalena. Good morning. Shoul Tsuji, you are a psychologist and an assistant professor and principal investigator at the University of Tokyo. You are also a WEF young scientist 2020. You are currently in Paris, so it's morning also for you. Good morning, Shoul. So welcome to all of you. Let me start with you, Magdalena. Can you please tell us? Can you please help clarify what do you mean by science literacy? Thank you, Fabiola. Thank you for this opportunity. So let me say first that for me as editor-in-chief of a 150-year-old multidisciplinary science journal with a mission to communicate science to the research community but also to a wider public, this is a very important issue. I think it's helpful to think about science literacy as encompassing three aspects. Perhaps the most obvious one, the one that most will think of first is the knowledge or familiarity of the basic science facts. This is about understanding the world we live in, how we interact with it, and understanding our bodies and physiology, etc. Second, equally important, is the understanding of the scientific method that science is progressive, that scientists change their position, their opinion as new information comes to light. And of course the current pandemic has been a great illustration of it, especially in its early days when modeling of the pandemic was evolving based on real-world data. And some uninformed commentators inappropriately dismissed scientific advice because of this and therefore doubting the experts and their expertise. And of course understanding how scientists draw the conclusion equips everyone with the ability to do the same. For example assess if information they're receiving is likely to be true or not. And then the third aspect of science literacy is the appreciation how science influences every walk of real life, how relevant it is, regardless of who or where we are. And this week at this virtual Davos meeting, we've had so many examples regarding sustainable energy, food systems, and many others, and you yourself referred to sustainability in the opening remarks. And none of these approaches in my view will work without the buy-in from the wider society. And for that we require science literacy with all these three elements. Thank you very much. That was very clear and also very comprehensive. So the next point and I would like to ask Jean-Pierre to start a discussion on this. Why is science literacy important? Particularly in the COVID context but not only. And what would a future of improved science literacy look like? Well thank you for bringing this up. I'm very pleased to speak after Magdalena because she very clearly eloquently showed that there is not just the scientific results which are important but also the scientific method. And I think in particular at this very moment some of the features of the scientific methods really make the need for science literacy even higher. Just one thing which is very important for science to work is really the method used in for example checking facts, in challenging facts but in a way in which you just provide the tools to really establish the facts very safely. And to do that of course requires time and therefore a time like a COVID where you want things to happen as quickly as possible because the challenge is huge. Actually it's for scientists a very difficult time because we need time to check things and the tendency to jump on results is of course something which could actually affect the solidity of the scientific facts. So this is one element. The other element which also has to do with our way of absorbing new things is that the number of achievements of science are absorbed by people at a fantastic speed and from that point of view for example we are talking about viruses. Viruses operate at the nanoscale which wins one billionth of a meter. So you imagine it's like going from one individual to the whole population of the world. So that's the scale and so really people have absorbed the idea of going to the nanoscale as something obvious. Of course it's not obvious. It requires huge new developments in science, huge new developments in technology and making this technology available worldwide. So for the future if we want to make progress on this that is having people really appreciating the fantastic achievements of science really we need the education everywhere to confront people not just with scientific facts but at the same time with the scientific method so that they can appropriate and really value how much all these things are all the things which have been achieved and basically all the concepts we are using today as obvious things for example the concept of energy it took centuries to develop it. The concept of microbes the concept of viruses there are things which of course didn't exist a century and a half ago and so you had to create them develop tools to explore them. So this is where science literacy makes a difference because people put both value but also have the personal experience if they are confronted early enough with the scientific method to really all these things. Thank you Jean-Pierre. So we see now this element emerging that scientific literacy not just facts and results outcome of science but also involving the citizens earlier on also in the development of the process and in the scientific method and understanding what doing science really means. So let me let me continue with you show because cities have a different level of engagement with science so where do we want to get to in terms of science literacy do we have a kind of target goal what or just as much as possible. Yes so Amatelina and Jean-Pierre have very well pointed out the importance of science literacy and that education might be the the way to to get there and I guess in order to answer your question it's important to think about where do these different levels of engagement actually come from and I guess two main factors are the the the importance of relevant assigned to science by people right so you can say the effective domain some people actually are not interested at all in science or even have negative attitudes towards science that we have observed a lot during this pandemic and the other domain would be the cognitive domain so even if you're interested in science you might perceive that you don't have the tools to actually understand science and I guess I guess education should address these two factors so for first elucidate a positive interest into science and then the tools in order to actually be able to engage with it and I guess there's a few things we need to keep in mind when we want to implement these things there are factors that can influence how much people or what attitude people have on these two domains so one could be intercultural or within society differences for instance we have seen that countries have different engagements different levels of trust maybe in what the government says and so if you have a very trusty society you might actually that might lead to less interest in in science literacy right on the other hand there might be religious belief etc that that that yeah that serve a negative attitude towards science and on the cognitive domain so how much do you think you can understand about science when we teach it we should be aware of some general cognitive biases that people might have I think one thing that we have seen a lot is for instance the confirmation bias people like to search for the information that they already like or know so this is why for instance if someone says oh 100 people have died from the vaccine then people like this information if they're against vaccines and do not consider the control group that 100 people might have died in general during this time etc so I guess yeah I would say where we want to get of course as much science literacy as possible and I guess we have to raise interest and a positive attitude give people the tools to evaluate science yeah this is what you might answer thank you so and thank you also for mentioning trust which is a very important component actually I would like to mention that Jean-Pierre Magdalena and I are members of the Global Future Council of the WEF on scientific collaboration and trust is one of the main topics that we are addressing now how we are going to increase improved trust and increase trust among citizens and therefore also the support to the science so because I yes yes good one point since we are discussing specifically citizens in the context of science literacy and so show already alluded to this I think one way to increase or dovetails with scientific literacy is that engagement of citizens members of the general public in science itself I think sometimes and certainly in the past we talked about science as something being apart from the general society and only benefiting the fruits of the scientific endeavor would benefit the society I think it's instructive and and constructive to think about it as science being very much part and parcel of society and so the more literacy we have the easier it will be to engage the widest possible public in the scientific activity and therefore that engagement will also feedback to increase scientific literacy I think it's useful to think about it in that context as well absolutely and there are initiatives like folding at home where the citizen can the young people or also the senior people can offer their computing resources to scientists for instance doing research on the on the vaccine and so they are part of the adventure they are part of the of the fight against the pandemic on the front line and I obviously all of you are important players in your respective fields you are you are reference people in what more to do so can we can we see how your respective fields can contribute to boosting scientific literacy so for instance Jean-Pierre what is the role of of science founders like the ERC in this context well thank you for raising this because I'm actually this is something on which the European Research Council the ERC has really been working in a sense the way we function is we try to empower scientists we trust them we ask them to submit their most ambitious project but one thing we wanted to also help them is to share what they have been doing and with the wider public so one project for example we have financed is what we call ERC comics which means web comics which tell the stories of some research work done by the the scientists what I really find amazing about this project is that the people who designed the comics and the scientists continued to work even after the end of the project it shows that there was really also this linkage between science and art which also was meaningful but another thing we have also created are special awards for the public engagement with research which really means again that we encourage and actually we value then we awarded some distinctions to some of the scientists who really showed the remarkable capacity in in doing this engagement and we did that in various ways I mean the awards have a various dimension one has to do with the media another one has to do really with the events organized with the public and others have to do with the kind of documents of all kinds that people produce so in a sense we felt our responsibility was again in the spirit of bottom-up approach that is really initiative left to the scientists to encourage them to really do these efforts because we really consider that this sharing and the as broad as possible is absolutely necessary but we still feel in the in in our case that the scientists should be the actors and sometimes they have to join forces with people who are more professional of communication like artists but in some cases we know they also mobilized many many young people in connection with schools in connection with various activities involving younger people also with in mind the need to motivate the next generation to really be find the science a possible life for them in the sense that is they it's also we see this as a good way of preparing the next generation that is having more people considering like doing research and dedicating their life to science is worthwhile so speaking of younger generation so you are a young scientist but also so you are you are you are familiar with science and also with with social media and modern ways of communicating so what role do scientists play in improving improving science literacy and and and how do a social media platform like twitter many others help in this endeavor yeah i'm so glad that john tia mentioned comics because indeed during the pandemic a group of young researchers including me has launched a comic website to tell people how they can increase language acquisition success during the lockdown etc we also thought that comics are really really accessible format for that and yeah i think as he also pointed out i think scientists should perceive themselves as actors who have the responsibility to to disseminate and communicate science and i think it's a really good thing that that agencies and institutions push for this a little bit and also give us more and more tools because i think one big problem is often not the willingness but our capacity to do so because indeed it is very hard to communicate complex relationships and science in an understandable and not misleading way so i think we definitely need this support to be trained on science communication to indeed work together with artists or science communicators to do that well but yeah i'm really happy that this is happening more and more and i think on our side we need to be very aware of our responsibility to do so and really actively involve with these opportunities and as a social media i guess as with many other things it's both an opportunity and a threat right so it is a great way to disseminate content because we can circumvent hierarchy in a sense right so if we create fun content then even if we're not nature people might read it because it's fun it's engaging but of course this also means that the quality mark is not stamped on it so that means that people can also disseminate content that is not true not accurate so i guess and another flip side is of course that you might be preaching to the choir which we also have seen a lot with this bigger divide in the information flow you get through social media that we can't really control ourselves right what we get in our feed so i do think that it is a great way to create good content where you can reach people with but that other players have to help society in order to make social media a more equal and informed platform high quality journalism has to be supported of course because people get more and more used to free content online and maybe less and less critical of where this is actually coming from very good so last but not least science publishers and news outlets mandelina can you tell us a bit about how those stakeholders can help us improve science literacy mandelina you are muted we can't hear you great thank you very much um so indeed actually it's it's really interesting to hear Jean Pierre and show talk about this from from their perspective and i think you know all too often we can fall into this trap of thinking that somehow what we're discussing now is the domain of education and then this in turn is the domain of the education systems or schools and universities and so on but i think we have to look beyond and consider that we have a collective responsibility when it comes to education and science literacy and and Jean Pierre for example talked about the responsibility that researchers have which which i also very strongly support but of course this responsibility most emphatically extends to to publishers and general news outlets and so so nature the the journal i edit from its very outset back in um 1869 has had a dual mission first to serve and work with the scientific community and of course to disseminate their research but also and equally importantly to bring these findings before the wider general public and so we take full advantage of our journalism in its many forms um our accessible overviews and other types of content in which scientific findings are then placed in a wider context and therefore made more accessible and importantly we continuously think about different formats with which to engage different audiences and you know show for example specifically spoke about social media which we also use to this end but we also have podcasts and videos on our youtube channel and we know that we reach different audiences that what we would otherwise not reach through our written content and you know let me give you a very current example so a while ago we set up a daily newsletter called nature briefing which is designed to deliver a basic science update on a daily basis delivered by email and this has really come into its own during the pandemic in fact we dedicated specific section of the newsletter to covered 19 and the latest information and we've seen the subscribers to this completely free newsletter grow enormously and a large constituency in this subscriber poll is what we would hear in the context of this discussion uh described as the general public and so um and importantly in everything we do and now I'm going back to that definition I gave at the very beginning um we continue to highlight these three aspects of science literacy so the knowledge itself the method and then the relevance of science um in in general and so I guess in in a broader context now now looking to um other publishers other other news media um I would like to take this opportunity to to put out a plea um if I may to all these information outlets um to report responsibly in in a balanced manner and to offer the platform to researchers themselves and so I'm now I'm really echoing what John Pierre said earlier we know from from various surveys that scientists the profession of a scientist is among the most trusted professions actually despite all the doubts and and all the um concerns we have about uh fake news but since scientists as a profession is most trusted or very highly trusted it makes therefore every sense to allow them to communicate directly to the wider public and therefore engage with them thank you Madeline you mentioned education and I would like to conclude the session with with asking all of you very quickly we don't have much time so please one minute for answer how do we need to improve the education system to improve science literacy I believe that every human being should receive some level of scientific education regardless of what people are going to do in their professional lives so how do we do that Jean Pierre I think for me you know that the key people are of course the teachers and it's extremely important in society that teachers are well trained and we say even well retrained because things are changing very quickly these days they are aware and using the most efficient tools but also their consideration in society is extremely important because they are the ones who can really transmit the information but also give people the confidence that what they have been receiving is really solid and because I think the main challenge of fake news to if we want to challenge fake news is really to make train people to recognize what is an established fact from just a fantasy and from this point of view the school should prepare the children for that and the people who do that are the teachers so value the teachers and train them properly very well Magdalena do you want to add anything on the on the science education so I would build on this and actually say that we need all of us we need to support the teachers and the formal education system so education doesn't end the minute us our younger selves and our children leave the school building but I think what I would also add is to be really effective in education we need to think how we educate so it has to be sensitive to the culture to the social setting in which we're teaching especially when we teach science sometimes as I say we may think that science is somehow apart from society we're much more effective if we are more sensitive and and appropriately target our teaching with respect to societal and cultural circumstances sure do you want to add on on this topic yeah maybe I'll add on to the the content indeed of the science education and I guess I would perceive that we learn much more about facts about science than about the process and about the critical thinking so I guess this is something that might need to change a little bit in curriculums and yeah I guess just to to critically evaluate the the methods behind the statistics how we actually do statistics I think there is not a lot of space in curricula for that and I think also students if I talk to them they really would profit from practically relevant examples and actually practical exercises go into your city and count if you count 10 people or if you count 100 people which one is more representative right like things like that I guess could could could could could help towards this goal thank you very much so we are approaching the the end of the session and it's time to me to to wrap up we had a very interesting discussion and several important points were raised starting with the the fact that science literacy and communication are not just about the scientific results the facts the data but also about the scientific method and process and the relevance of science also it was pointed out that too often we tend to forget how much our life has changed thanks to the extraordinary accomplishment of science and the giant step forward that science makes from decade to decade we take this for granted but it's actually the results of great ingenuity huge efforts and and and painstaking work and we also we also heard that we should not rush science requires requires patience and of course when we are in the middle of a crisis like the the current pandemic we have to strike the right balance between of course producing results vaccines or other other drugs as soon as possible but on the other hand also going through the solid and sound scientific method we we we heard about trust it's very important that citizens improve increase their trust in in in science we also heard that the difference stakeholders from from science research institutions to publish have really taken many steps have taken many steps during the pandemic to approach the citizens to to science we we heard about educations and the importance of education in particular starting with teachers so support the teachers and empower the teachers and value their work and we heard also that that the information that outlets publish out there should report in a responsible responsible way