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Open topic discussion: SCOTUS decision Bostock v. Clayton County (17-1618), changing social norms, information dissemination algorithms, censorship

This video introduces a podcast series (a Zoom conversation, broadcast live to YouTube) focused on the creation of a new science of computational politics. That science emerges from the creation of a high-information-flow network of rich communities. In a rich community, information drawn from (optimally) a full range of experience about the world by members united in a common worldview is parallel processed in communities that become richer through growth in ordered causal contact with the world as they progress. As Alasdair MacIntyre has taught us, the incommensurable differences that emerge between such communities can be overcome through information exchange that preserves such causal contact, with the historical record of such encounters between rival traditions constituting a new source of data for a new master science. This new science fills the role of Aristotelian politics, but enriched by all that we have since learned about the sciences generally and about computational science most recently. Because such a science aims at a fully integrated theoretical and practical account of the world, it requires not only new forms of communication among disciplines, but more fundamentally new forms of social arrangements where the emerging implications of thus-far-successful world views are lived out in communities whose understanding and values these worldviews express. This discussion will take a medium-resolution pass at this whole new direction for human self-understanding and organization, including how to begin leveraging available technologies for setting up a high-information-flow network of rich communities and begin to generate data from it.

Economic changes in Indiana driving educational reform is the focus of this year's 13th annual Collaborating for STEM Education, Research and Commercialization Forum, held March 21 at the University of Notre Dame. (Full agenda at https://tinyurl.com/NDSTEMforumXIIIagenda.) Tom Loughran from ND Physics introduces the Forum; Indiana Governor's Workforce Cabinet Executive Director PJ McGrew provides an overview of GWC history, near future and recently-approved strategic plan.

A discussion of social and technological infrastructure emergng to respond to increasingly recognized economic interdependencies. South Bend's City of Lifelong Learning Initiative--now known as Bendable--spearheaded by the Drucker Institute, is featured, presented by DI's Lex Dennis. Saint Joseph County Public Library, Bendable's hosting partner, is also represented.

A discussion of online education for K-12 institutions under health restrictions imposed by COVID 19. Industry, IN State policy, and regional K-12 administrative perspectives offered in a "building the plane while you fly it" real-time discussion of challenges and opportunities posed by the current health crisis.