Highlights: Madison joins 34 other cities as part of an amicus brief challenging the President’s travel ban. On Monday, Landmarks Commission gets an informational presentation on the Judge Doyle Square parking facility and new mixed use development adjacent to three Madison Landmarks. Also on Monday, Engineering is holding the second Public Information Meeting on the Starkweather creek phosphorus treatment proposal at the Voit farm.

Millions of children were staring at laptops rather than learning in a classroom. Biden said: “This is a national emergency. President Trump doesn’t have a real plan for opening schools safely. Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people’s lives to save many others? Research on moral dilemmas in psychology, experimental philosophy and neuropsychology has shown that respondents judge utilitarian personal moral actions (footbridge dilemma) as less appropriate than equivalent utilitarian impersonal moral actions (trolley dilemma). Our novel findings show an effect of psychological accessibility (driven by partial contextual information; Kahneman, 2003) on utilitarian moral behavior and response time for rational choices. Enhanced accessibility of utilitarian outcomes through comprehensive information about moral actions and consequences boosted utility maximization in moral choices, with rational choices taking less time.

It was the year of labels on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and even TikTok. Ahead of the November 3 US presidential vote, the companies promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including baseless charges of fraud and candidates’ premature declarations of victory. And the most visible part of this was the bevy of labels applied to tweets, posts, photos, and videos..

The Toronto based fund is patterned on a British initiative, the 2.5 billion ($3.8 billion) Business Growth Fund that was launched in 2011 and has since taken stakes in more than 220 small companies, making it Britain’s most active venture capital investor. Mr. Rossolatos spent time this spring at the British fund, and plans to adapt one of its initiatives for the Canadian market, a “talent network” that informally ties together business owners with seasoned entrepreneurs, financiers and experienced managers..

Please join me for a neighborhood meeting where we will hear about Stone House Development’s development proposal for 134 S. Fair Oaks Avenue, currently Fair Oaks Nursery. Stone House proposes to demolish the existing buildings with the exception of the brick building, which would be restored for future commercial use, and construct a new five story apartment building with approximately 90 units.