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June 11, 2013, 10:42 am

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More on Islamophobia, Orientalism, Nonharming vis-a-vis nontheist F/friends and Quakers, and Academia (after this post from 28 May 2013) ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/bactrian-camel-in-terms-of-islamophobia.html ...

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Hi nontheist Friends,

I just added these very clear and engaging interviews and speeches from Malcolm X ... "Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65)" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AmuYqjRyg ... to the 'Black Studies' wiki subject at WUaS ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Studies ... Malcolm X probably galvanized clearly, and defined in multiply ways, ongoing issues in American Islamophobia - remarkably (complicated by questions of race and legacies of slavery). Islam was a road to, and vision of, freedom for Blacks in the U.S. for Malcolm X.

His articulateness, clear reasoning, responses to white interviewers, and his sometimes militant, black nationalism, seem to merge very closely with his theistic and Muslim thinking. At times he espoused complete separation from white society, especially for Black, believing, American Muslims, in the name of a Muslim God, Muhammad.

His religion seemed to give him such strength and ability to connect with other black Muslims, and white, progressive sympathizers, as well ... all of which is very fascinating.

As NtFs, how to listen to, and learn from, his clear message (of 50 years' ago), instead of reacting against it, and tuning it out, out of American Islamophobia?

NtFs, in our occasional independence orientation from the RSOF/Quakers (for example, most recently possibly, in publishing NtF's 'truths' in a Friendly manner), might learn a lot from Malcolm X's clear expressions of freedom, in the context of a hostile and racist society, which has perhaps possibly changed for the better in these intervening years, perhaps both in terms of less racism, as well as possibly less Islamophobia in U.S. society.

Regards,

Scott

Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AmuYqjRyg

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Scott, let's remember who killed Malcolm X.

Nontheist Friends,

With an interest in nontheistic Friendly/Quaker nonharming/nonviolence, and understanding the roots of conflict in a Quaker sense, per your previous comment in this thread, Mike, about people in Iraq killing each other:

With the American War in Iraq beginning about 10 years ago (in 2003) - I think possibly 650,000 Iraqis died and possibly 8,000 Americans, - probably partially initiated over American oil interests in the region. One could postulate that this American War in Iraq also had roots in Islamophobia, contributing to today's chaos in Baghdad. (In the American War in Vietnam - another form of Orientalism? - nearly 60,000 Americans died and 2-3 million Vietnamese died, I have read). How to bring NtF/Quaker understandings to end wars?

Interesting to see how Malcolm X is represented in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X - in terms of his own death and his father's.

It's interesting to see how Islamophobia is represented in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia.

It's interesting too to see how Orientalism is represented in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism.

I continue in my 'out of the box' NtF thinking, in an evolutionary biological sense, to come to questions of how humans can learn Bonobos' thinking (with no known fatalities) and move away from - unlearn - common chimp thinking (which do war and violence among themselves), and in terms of Islamophobia and Orientalism, especially.

Far too many Americans and people of other countries (who might fall under the umbrella of Orientalism / people of the Orient) are dying in these tragic wars, and their aftermaths.

NtF compassion for those who died on my part? Quaker ... Yes ... And how to learn Friendly nonviolent approaches to ending war and conflict? I don't know exactly how MLK Jr looked at Malcolm X's militant Islamic black nationalist thinking, but here's the Martin Luther King, Jr wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. - where we all might teach and learn about MLK Jr.'s nonviolence, especially vis-a-vis questions of American racism - and in the charged 1960s.

With F/friendly greetings,

Scott

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Should nontheist Friends be interested in exploring questions of Islamophobia in an academic manner, here below is an upcoming, related conference this December in Paris, which recently came into my worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com email inbox from UC Berkeley, and which - some of this - I may post to my blog, as well.

With F/friendly nontheistic greetings,

Scott

Call for Papers

Paris, France International IslamophobiaConference

The Epistemic, Racial, Cultural and Structural Exclusionary Measures in France and Europe

CFP Deadline: September 2, 2013Conference Date: December 13-14, 2013

UC Berkeley IRDP (Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project)
and CADIS (Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques), Paris

Invite Scholars and Researchers to Submit Paper Proposals:

The Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and Gender is hosting an international conference on Islamophobia to be held in Paris, France on December 13-15, 2013. Islamophobia has become one of the most pervasive forms of racism and discrimination in the world today. It is used in the West to police communities of color, to invade countries, to construct the patriarchal racial inferiority of Muslim women, to discriminate against populations in the labor market or to simply make them the target of the “war against terrorism.” But the problem has broader dimensions when we consider issues such as political, cultural, religious and epistemic Islamophobia. In Western Europe, Islamophobia is on the rise. France is among the countries where Islamophobia acquires complex and multi-layered dimensions. The obsession of the French state with French Muslims is expressed by continuous passing of laws to regulate the behavior and even the forms of dressing of Muslims, in particular, Muslim women. The latest in the list of legal measures directed at Muslims in France is the attempt of the François Hollande administration to extend the law against the use of the veil in public schools to workplaces, day care workers, etc. Even Muslim mothers using veils are forbidden from entering public schools where their children study. The time is right for an international conference in Paris, France to examine the problematic Islamophobicdiscourses in France and Western Europe and the curtailment of Muslim legal status as religious, ethnic and racial minorities. We are calling specialists, academics and activists to submit papers.

Please send a title, a 300 word abstract and a short one paragraph biography by September 2nd, 2013, to hatemb@berkeley.edu

This is a moderated list for the Center for Race and Gender; all messages are subject to approval.

To unsubscribe or subscribe go to: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/options/centerrg-list@lists.berkeley.edu

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Here are the WUaS, Arabic language -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language -

and the Persian language -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language -

wiki, subject pages, with many MIT OCW courses in Persian.

And here's the Middle East wiki, subject page with links, with the current, beginning, country pages there ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_East#World_University_and_School_Links.

Each WUaS, language and country, wiki page will become a university or school in those Middle Eastern languages and nation states.

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And here are WUaS's beginning languages (for all 7,105 +) and Nation States' (204+ countries) wiki, subject pages, each of which will become a C.C. WUaS school or university in those languages:

Languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States.

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June 12, 2013, 8:48 am

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Hi G, G, and D,

Looking forward to seeing you in Portland, Oregon, at the ReedFayre reunion from this Thursday, June 13th, to Sunday, June 16th, or so.

Will you be there, D? (Having traveled with Steve Jobs to India for many months in the mid-1970s, and worked on a recent film about him, you know some of the Reed College Steve Jobs' networks better than most people I think :).

G and I are planning to meet in person, if possible, with Reed President John Kroger (and perhaps with you G or D?) and eventually to talk about Reed and World University and School collaborations, ( per these main points - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/vaquita-wuas-collaboration-with-reed.html - which I've also posted below).

One main goal of mine vis-a-vis World University and School is to explore networking with Reed and Reedies over time.

G, G and D: could you please introduce us to well-to-do Reedies who might become part of a WUaS financial team, at this ReedFayre, and over time? Are there any Reedies you would suggest meeting D, if you aren't going?

In what ways can WUaS build on the Steve Jobs' legacy and his 'networks' - long-term Reedie investors in Apple, for example? - vis-a-vis Reed College during this visit?

Perhaps we can get also some good video of us for developing WUaS outreach while at Reed (of places we know Steve Jobs to have hung out, for example).

Per our conversation, G, can you please sign us and World University and School up for the Paideia-like panel?

Let's scale MIT OCW-centric World University and School large.

See you soon ... Portland is sweet in the Spring :)

Best regards,
Scott

Dear G,

I called Reed President John Kroger's office today in Portland, Oregon, to inquire about meeting with him this Friday with you (per our conversation about developing a Reed strategy in WUaS's business meeting on Saturday and before) for 10 minutes or so to talk about Reed and World University and School collaborations, (per these main points - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/vaquita-wuas-collaboration-with-reed.html).

I left a message inquiring about our meeting together with him on their machine, mentioning some of the points in this blog entry above, as well as your name.

Their email address is - @reed.edu - if you'd like to follow up with an email (before or after their reply), also per our previous conversations, and I'll let you know when and what I hear back from them.

I hope part of our potential meeting with President Kroger and other Reedies over the ReedFayre Reunion can lead to monies.

And can WUaS build on the Steve Jobs legacy and 'networks' vis-a-vis Reed College?

See you Thursday at the airport in Portland!

Best regards,
Scott

Hi G,

The Reed President's Office may well not call back, - this being a busy time for them. And perhaps we should plan on meeting John Kroger together in a more ad hoc fashion during one of the days at ReedFayre, until we hear from them.

It also might make sense to set up a WUaS 'Paideia' (open teaching and learning) panel time - per the Reed email about this - independently of any call back from them. Per a Reed 'Paideia' panel, my Android smartphone, and with its holder, takes video, (stationary - and even does group video conferencing in a G+ Hangout if helpful - postable here - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch) which could be helpful for WUaS outreach to the Reed Community and "Across the Universe."

Hoping too to make a brief, video introduction to WUaS for 11th grader, prospective overachieving students interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric undergraduate education here soon - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - which I just cleaned up a little recently.

Regards,
Scott

Here are some items at the top of my WUaS Reed agenda (as well as for a Paideia-like event):

- open a long-term WUaS collaboration with Reed

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - especially at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities - and these, particular - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia (where G grew up), for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- Reedie donors for hiring Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin

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June 13, 2013, 8:18 am

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Dear J,

Great to telephone with you today at your Bank in SF. You'll find the following and much more at World University and School's Business Plan here:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan.

Mission of WUaS

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.

- Why World University and School and WUaS’s team?

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison.

- Why should we believe WUaS? (i.e. what is your track record).

World University and School just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process in May 2014.

WUaS incorporated in 2010 as an educational organization in California, and received federal, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status in 2011, and has approximately 580 wiki, subject pages. Accreditation, first in California and with BPPE and WASC senior is a three stage process, where WUaS must graduate its first undergraduate class before receiving full accreditation in 2018. WUaS has a long track record of institutionalizing as an online, startup, MIT OCW-centric university, and long term goals and plans.

- Financial analysis.

A.
WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors.

WUaS plans to raise funds from governments, universities, philanthropic foundations, and companies as well as individuals.

B.
WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

WUaS also is planning on-the-ground bookstores at some point in the future, perhaps near Apple Computer stores in cosmopolitan cities of learning around the globe.

C.
WUaS is also planning an online, academic publishing house, both of books and journals, in multiple disciplines in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

Besides contacting Pacific Community Ventures, as you suggested, can you possibly please suggest any

- Directors of foundations, or foundations, or related per Financial Analysis item A;

- Sources of financial resources for building an online Bookstore / Computer store, eventually in all languages and countries, per Financial Analysis item B;

- Similarly, sources of financial resources for building WUaS's online, academic Publishing House, both books and journals.

I'm including 3 F/friends from San Francisco Friends' Meeting in this email, since you're SFFM's banker and WUaS is Quaker-informed: D, A (SFFM's Treasurer) and J (a skilled grant writer).

Might we possibly set up a meeting in person? (Unfortunately, I won't be at Meeting this upcoming Sunday, - I'm heading to a Reed College reunion, partly to do WUaS outreach).

I look forward to your further thoughts about this, per our conversation.

World University and School seeks to become the Creative Commons' licensed (so, free) MIT / Harvard of the Internet in all 7,105 languages and 204 countries, with free, university degrees in many languages.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Scott

Scott MacLeod
Founder & President

http://scottmacleod.com

--
World University and School
(like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare)

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, educational organization.

P.O. Box 442,
(86 Ridgecrest Road),
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worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
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Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card:
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June 14, 2013, 9:08 am

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Reed College's ReedFayre Reunion ...

In what ways can World University and School plan to become the Oxford and Cambridge of the Internet, 800 years into the future, in addition to becoming the MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford of the Internet, - and, on the wiki side, for open, people-to-people teaching, in all languages (7,413+) and countries (204+)?

Being at this ReedFayre 2 years after Reed's 100th anniversary provides much to think about in this regard.

In addition to WUaS's financial needs, and growing its endowment - Cambridge and Oxford in Britain and Harvard and MIT in the United States are at the pinnacle of academia, for example, in terms of their compensation packages to faculty, I think, and Harvard has the largest University endowment in the world - WUaS can plan in the following ways in seeking overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries.

WUaS planning for 800 years

- STEM-centricity - science, technology, engineering and mathematics focus - to begin, especially information technologically

- seek overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries, and build, worldwide community around this, like the great universities above have

- WUaS can focus explicitly on making its formidable, MIT-centric academics enjoyable, and studying and measuring this, in terms of 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi), as well as flourishing (eudaimonia), among many other ways; for its prospective, undergraduate students many of whom come from the U.S., Reed College, which draws nationally (with about 3,000 applicants, and they just waived their admission's fee), offers formidable academics in reaching out to students, and has begun to focus on questions of student enjoyment in its admission's discourse

- With WUaS's 200+, planned, Law Schools in 200 + countries, under one umbrella, WUaS will be able to develop legal innovation in terms of intellectual property law, international law, environmental law, corporate law, maritime law ... indeed in all aspects of the law, and begin to measure and study this as well. WUaS will also be able to develop presidents / managers / clerks (in a Quaker sense) in all 200 countries' universities/schools, and in so many other ways

- Similarly, with WUaS's 200+, planned, online, Medical Schools in 200 + countries, under one umbrella, and online hospitals, the data accumulation potential over 800 years, for example, is remarkable, as is the possibility to offer online, free, creative commons' medical education and care to poor and underserved parts of the world, such as Africa

- And similarly, with WUaS's 200+ countries, its planned, online, MIT-centric, Ph.D. degrees will generate a remarkable interlingual conversation, which implications 800 years ahead are difficult to plan for

- Plan to “Do Good, Do Great, Do Care, - Information Technologically” (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/04/red-howler-monkey-googles-do-no-evil.html)

- In addition, WUaS, in seeking to become the Oxbridge, MIT and Harvard of the Internet can seek to become the 'UP,' career-wise and in terms of excellence, for aspiring faculty, students, researchers, lawyers, medical doctors, staff, poets and musicians, and so many others.

- more later

Reed College has a large community of great students and of mature faculty and academics, and is also seeking to build Reed's endowment (currently at about 450 million U.S. dollars), and improve its academics further, as well as build its communities. World University and School can learn a lot from Reed in developing its online community.

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Languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

Admissions at World University and School Links
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links

World University Medical School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Law School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

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June 15, 2013, 9:19 am

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Big, green, iridescent forests
speak to me in Oregon, ~
and blue skies and gray clouds
color everything,
with wild, different light.

Timbering industry lumbers on,
as I drive north to Stumptown,
not yet in a solar car,
to Reed's ReedFayre,
a reunion in Portland,
which is growing big
with people.

Reed's canyon -
that green water-valley in the middle, full of life -
this campus's natural focus these days,
old friends,
a gentler, Oregon ethos,
in modernity,
are welcomingly familiar,
and I speak quietly here to folks
of World University and School,
influenced as it is,
in its knowledge generation focus, especially,
by Reed.

I wander down
on a tour
into the depths of its library,
to the calligraphic Lloyd Reynolds' collection,
and learn of a book,
full of Beat poets and writing-art,
"LJR: Stained the Water Clear a Festschrift for Lloyd J Reynolds,"
a long time Reed professor,
who didn't teach Steve Jobs calligraphy -
that was Father Palladino -
before Jobs dropped out,
turned on,
moved back to the Bay,
to found Apple with Woz,
in a garage ...
a Lloyd Reynolds' weathergram,
10 words or less calligraphed about nature,
preferably cut from an old, brown, paper bag,
dangling from a tree outside the library,
which didn't say,

'Big, green, iridescent forests

speak to me in Oregon.'

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June 16, 2013, 11:58 am

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finding relaxation response eliciting salutary and beneficial for years ...

a kissing of the inner bodymind,

and an easing and attunement anew,

and also in the context of Quaker Meeting (and just today at Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, after a long time not at this Quaker Meeting, on Sunday), in an nontheistically f/Friendly, manner, as well as in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool {the warm water in lotus pose eases me into meditation deeply} ... and I've been wondering how to move beyond a daily relaxation response meditation, in a variety of ways, but especially in terms of eliciting an easing loving bliss, and often, into ways of flourishing (eudaimonia) ...

... many wonderful neurophysiologies ...

How to explore these neurophysiologies further, especially in the context of evolutionary biology, for example, as well as in visionary ways?

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Is doing the relaxation response daily for me a kind of individual culture generation?

I wondered this morning while doing the relaxation response - having missed a morning eliciting the relaxation response, then done it the next day, then missed it yesterday, both times without thinking about missing it, - whether I was in a way generating culture, in my own way, with it, and being back in Reed's familiar culture or ethos (with its aspects of student counterculture), meant this familiar culture (being immersed in it by living on campus) made doing the relaxation response daily not happen (and that my doing it daily was indeed a form of culture generation). ... interesting observation and connection, I also thought, and I suppose so ... How to begin to articulate culture and biology, in this respect, further, I wonder?

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Relaxation Response ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response

Meditation ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Meditation

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... talked today again with a Director at Reed College (thank you!) about a Reed / World University and School collaboration conversation (after talking with the recent, past, Reed College President Colin Diver about this for an hour about 2 years ago on the way to the Rainbow Gathering in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington) ...

I'm curious how WUaS might collaborate further with Reed College flourishingly to become the MIT / Harvard, as well as Oxbridge of the Internet, - in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries ...

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Here, again, are some items at the top of my WUaS - Reed agenda:

- open a long-term WUaS conversation with Reed

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - especially at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities - and these, particular - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia (where G grew up), for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- hire Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/indian-peafowl-looking-forward-to.html)

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See, too ...

"Mantled Howler Monkey: Reed College's ReedFayre Reunion ... In what ways can WUaS plan to become the Oxford and Cambridge of the Internet, 800 years into the future, in addition to becoming the MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford of the Internet, and, on the wiki side, for open, people-to-people teaching, in all languages (7,413+) and countries (204+)?, This ReedFayre provides much to think about in this regard, Harvard has the biggest endowment in the world for an university, WUaS can plan in the following ways in seeking overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries, STEM-centricity, Overachievers, Law, Medicine, Community, "Do Good, Do Great, Do Care - Information Technologically"" ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/mantled-howler-monkey-reed-colleges.html

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Woodland caribou: Drove through Yakama Nation lands in Washington state yesterday, also drove through Snoqualmie native american lands today, Yakama's Sahaptin language, Snoqualmie peoples' Lushootseed language, Both languages are not yet wiki-schools at WUaS's Languages' page (planned for all 7,105+), Flourishing languages {All} and a universal translator? Yes :), http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Native_American_Languages

June 18, 2013, 12:09 pm

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≪ Previous: Western Gray Wolf: Curious how to collaborate further with Reed College flourishingly to become the MIT / Harvard, as well as Oxbridge of the Internet, - in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries

... drove through Yakama Nation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakama_Nation) lands in Washington state yesterday, looping through the town of Toppenish, which has a great many large murals on many of its buildings in its downtown, with many scenes of cattle days, as well as a lot of Yakama and Latino peoples in them.

(Here are some other Yakama blog posts of mine from a few years' ago ... ).

I'm curious about developing flourishingly the Yakima language - the Sahaptin language - university and school -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahaptin_language -

and which isn't begun yet.

I also drove through Snoqualmie native american lands today, crossing the Pacific Crest Trail, which I hiked to from Canada in 1 1/2 months, in 1982, I think), and stopped at the The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum - http://www.snoqualmievalleymuseum.org/ - which opened vistas into the place and history.

The Snoqualmie peoples spoke the Lushootseed language -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushootseed_language -

which is not posted on WUaS's language page yet ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Native American Languages at WUaS:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Native_American_Languages

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Flourishing languages {All} and a universal translator? Yes :) -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator -

with an invitation to wiki edit, add, learn and teach ...

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African Spurred Tortoise: Mali, in Africa, wiki (editable), subject page, "US Anthropologist in Mali Becomes Sought-After Blogger," Languages of Mali, African Languages at WUaS

June 19, 2013, 9:59 am

≫ Next: Ocelot: Drove through the Umatilla peoples' lands, and also Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today, Created two new, Native American languages' wiki, Subject pages - in both Sahaptin and Chinook, for open teaching and learning, each of which will become a school. Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.

≪ Previous: Woodland caribou: Drove through Yakama Nation lands in Washington state yesterday, also drove through Snoqualmie native american lands today, Yakama's Sahaptin language, Snoqualmie peoples' Lushootseed language, Both languages are not yet wiki-schools at WUaS's Languages' page (planned for all 7,105+), Flourishing languages {All} and a universal translator? Yes :), http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Native_American_Languages

Mali, in Africa, wiki (editable), subject page, as beginnings of an online school/university, in English, and in languages in Mali, to come ... at Nation States at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ... with an invitation to folks to begin this page ...

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"US Anthropologist in Mali Becomes Sought-After Blogger"
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/US-Anthropologist-in-Mali-Becomes-Sought-After-Blogger-146884205.html

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Languages of Mali:

French language at WUaS:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language

Bambara (not yet at WUaS):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambara_language (in Wikipedia)

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WUaS's Languages -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

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African Languages at WUaS

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages

African Languages's links at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages#World_University_and_School_Links

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Ocelot: Drove through the Umatilla peoples' lands, and also Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today, Created two new, Native American languages' wiki, Subject pages - in both Sahaptin and Chinook, for open teaching and learning, each of which will become a school. Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.

June 21, 2013, 7:03 pm

≫ Next: Lemurs: New, African languages, wiki Subject page at WUaS, "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families," "Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages, Ethnologue's Africa page, What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity!, All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to Africans to build them.

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... drove through the Umatilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_people) peoples' lands today (on Interstate 84 in Oregon) and learned they are a Sahaptin language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahaptin_language) speaking group, originally.

So I created a new Sahaptin language, wiki, Subject page at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sahaptin_language.

Anyone can teach a course or what they'd like to YouTube, for example, as well as add resources.

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And here are likes other Native American language resources at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Native_American_Languages#World_University_and_School_Links

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I also drove through Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs_Indian_Reservation -

and learned they speak the Chinook language - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon - which is a pidgin ("Like the Grand Ronde Agency in western Oregon, the Warm Springs Reservation is one of the last holdouts in the U.S. of speakers of the Chinook Jargon because of its utility as an inter-tribal language. The forms of the Jargon used by elders in Warm Springs vary considerably from the heavily-creolized form at Grand Ronde. Kiksht, Numu and Ichishkiin Snwit languages are taught in the Warm Springs Reservation schools").

So I created a Chinook language, wiki, Subject page at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chinook_language -

for open teaching and learning, and which will become a school.

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Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.

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See, too, another post from two days ago (June 18, 2013) about two, other, new, Native American languages at WUaS -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/woodland-caribou-drove-through-yakama.html

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Lemurs: New, African languages, wiki Subject page at WUaS, "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families," "Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages, Ethnologue's Africa page, What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity!, All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to Africans to build them.

June 22, 2013, 11:28 am

≫ Next: Pongo abelii: Planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses - A) Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses, B) Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead, C) Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world, Wearable Electronics at WUaS, (See the Oculus Rift and this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading), (WUaS Solar Car as Innovation, too?), Would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS

≪ Previous: Ocelot: Drove through the Umatilla peoples' lands, and also Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today, Created two new, Native American languages' wiki, Subject pages - in both Sahaptin and Chinook, for open teaching and learning, each of which will become a school. Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.

New, African languages' wiki, Subject page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages - and -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages#World_University_and_School_Links.

From Wikipedia (Languages of Africa), I learned that "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families: Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel Nilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad (disputed validity) Niger–Congo (Bantu) covers West, Central, and Southeast Africa Khoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana Austronesian on Madagascar. Indo-European on the southern tip of the continent"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa

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"Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages -

http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics

Ethnologue's Africa page, not wiki -

http://www.ethnologue.com/page/africa

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What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity! :)

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All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to native speakers and Africans especially to build them online.

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Pongo abelii: Planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses - A) Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses, B) Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead, C) Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world, Wearable Electronics at WUaS, (See the Oculus Rift and this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading), (WUaS Solar Car as Innovation, too?), Would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS

June 23, 2013, 9:57 am

≫ Next: Maned wolf: Wikidata and World University and School

≪ Previous: Lemurs: New, African languages, wiki Subject page at WUaS, "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families," "Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages, Ethnologue's Africa page, What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity!, All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to Africans to build them.

In thinking about/planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses, or a pair of Cyber-Glasses, as ethnographic field site, and for people with disabilities like a f/Friend of mine who has ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease, I’m curious to include the following:

Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses

- Ability to visit and view the Harbin warm pool/ pool area inside, for example, REI Glacier Glasses

- With realistic and fantastic avatars

- Partly scripted

- Partly in interactive real life video - think OpenSim and Second Life, for example, but not cartoonesque

- Speakers near the ears

- For relaxation response meditation in warm water in one's bathtub, for example, significantly

- Designed for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, if possible

- As developing virtual world 'classroom' or 'learning space' in digital glasses at World University and School

Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead

- Sensors all around the glasses where they connect to the head

- Think http://brainfingers.com or "Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves" or the Oculus Rift (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=EKhp4H3DUwE)

- Reads brainwave, minute eye movement, and electrical activity signals to interact with computer screen

- Also eventually send signals into the brain

- Design for fluid communications for people with ALS, for example, and without words or gestures
- For example, to interweave narratives, musical motifs, imagery, ideation with a friend
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world

- To provide data for a massive interactive real time real life virtual world, (but not at Harbin)

- so that data from around the world, on terra firma, in the atmosphere and under the oceans can be gathered and digitized with these glasses

- and aggregated in a massive, interactive, real life, virtual world that WUaS also constructs, that also includes plans to model the universe +

- scalable to 4 x 4 panels of 60 inch screens, such as in the MIT Media Lab, as well as in the glasses themselves and in other ways

Design for people like my friend (A.S.) and Stephen Hawkings and others with ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease, for fluent brain-computer communications when one’s nervous system fails, for example, with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – also referred to as motor neurone disease.

Perhaps spin off a WUaS company for these, and keep a 20 year development horizon in mind.

I see developing these Harbin Bubble Glasses as ethnographic field site for the second volume in my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book project (which I had planned for the first volume, but which was sadly stolen with a knapsack with a first virtual Harbin in OpenSim, as well as a first, very different manuscript in June 2009; I've recently completed the 9 draft chapters of my first volume in my Harbin book project).

Wearable Electronics at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wearable_Electronics

(See this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading -

http://mashable.com/2013/05/01/google-glass-video-demos/)

Similarly WUaS may eventually invite faculty at WUaS to develop a solar car (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Vehicle and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Vehicle#World_University_and_School_Links - (with Nissan, for example?)), with a

20 year horizon in mind.

... would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis), whom I just saw today in Lake County, California, at a Quaker Meeting.

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Maned wolf: Wikidata and World University and School

June 24, 2013, 12:38 pm

≫ Next: Northern Spotted Owl: Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation, Reed College and WUaS Media, A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate, student applicants, if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

≪ Previous: Pongo abelii: Planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses - A) Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses, B) Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead, C) Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world, Wearable Electronics at WUaS, (See the Oculus Rift and this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading), (WUaS Solar Car as Innovation, too?), Would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS

Dear Wikidatans,

Thanks for this email thread.

I'd like to float a proposal for this ecosystem of Wikidatas vis-a-vis World University and School, (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), with our plans for a wiki school or online, Creative Commons' licensed university (with free, online, C.C., MIT-centric, university degrees planned) in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries. C.C. WUaS hopes to engage Wikidata, as well.

I've begun a link on the WUaS, wiki, Subjects' page called "Wikidata databases and ecosystem," - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - which can easily become an extensible, wiki, subject page itself (using a modified version of Wikidata with the WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in all languages and countries, to link all the (small number of) Wikidatas that emerge. (Check out this extensible, WUaS, wiki SUBJECT TEMPLATE, since it has many of the possible categories mentioned above in this email thread).

Here is the beginning, Languages' wiki page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - eventually to link all languages, each as a school or university.

And here is the beginning Nation States' wiki page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - eventually to link all nation states, each as a school or university.

The wiki, extensible, WUaS all-languages' (7,105 per "Ethnologue") and all-nation states' (204 per "The Olympics") approach has the merit of potentially including all emergent Wikidatas in all languages (for an universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator), and in all nation states for legal questions, in a way that fully supports the amazing interlingual Wikidata (which is planned for Wikipedia's 285 languages +), and also, - since many/most of these Wikidatas may be data about generative shared knowledge - will therefore fit well with World University and School which is for open, free, wiki, people-to-people teaching and learning.

Best regards,
Scott

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Northern Spotted Owl: Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation, Reed College and WUaS Media, A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate, student applicants, if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

June 25, 2013, 7:24 am

≫ Next: Orange-spotted Emerald Dragonfly: Many, new, WUaS, Bagpiping, wiki pages, as well as a Celtic Music page with links, and Celtic instrument pages, Added Gordon Walker at the Glennfiddich 2008 to the new GHB page, And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages, Music Playing Spaces online in Google + group video Hangouts, Toward a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages}

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Dear J,

It was nice to talk with you earlier today.

Here's a little about WUaS per your request for information: World University and School is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, and is planning Creative Commons' licensed (so free), online, accredited MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in English first, and eventually in many languages and countries; I'm posting below the WUaS Admissions' page with links to the degrees+ WUaS plans to offer, beginning with a Ph.D. (2015), Law (2016), and M.D. (2017), and about which WUaS is interested in exploring a long-term collaboration with Reed. While World University and School is course-centric, WUaS is also planning wiki schools in all 7,105 + languages and 204+ countries, each a wiki, Subject page to begin, for open, people-to-people teaching and learning.

WUaS Admissions' page with links -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links .

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School -

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School -

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School -

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme -

And here's a helpful overview blog entry from WUaS's blog -

"Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Earth as 'classroom'"-
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html .

I met with former Reed President Colin Diver for an hour in his office in Elliott about 2 or 3 years ago to talk about WUaS; he gave me a copy of Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen's "Disruptive Innovation" at the end of our talk. And I've inquired about the possibility of meeting with Reed President John Kroger in the upcoming future to talk also about Reed College and World University and School collaborations, especially vis-a-vis WUaS's online graduate programs.

A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate student applicants, - perhaps with a current goal of 5,000, up from the present 3,000 applicants, and an eventual goal of 50,000 applicants, which is significantly more than Harvard College's 34,000 applicant pool - if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

WUaS would like to become the MIT / Harvard of the Internet and in all languages and countries.

And WUaS just got the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process.

I look forward to meeting you as a Reed Trustee at 4 in San Francisco, vis-a-vis our developing Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation.

Best regards,
Scott

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Reed College and WUaS Media -

I'm very glad to have gotten this entry in the recent "Metamorphosis" edition of the Reed Magazine (June 2013) ... which I've posted here below in its entirety. Here's the note:

1985: Scott MacLeod sends readers an invitation to engage startup World University and School, worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University, "which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), at which people can openly teach and learn what they'd like. WUaS is inviting Reedies to develop the many pages of WUaS, and in many languages, much like Wikipedia. "While WUAS will always be a wiki (editable web pages), WUaS is MIT OCW-centric, and planning to offer free, online, MIT-centric, Creative Commons-licensed, bachelor, PhD, IB, law, MD degrees and beginning with a first, matriculating bachelor's degree class in 2014, but expanding soon, then, into the six United Nations' languages and some lingua francas of Africa." Scott says that WUaS plans eventually to hire interns, as it becomes financially operational, to develop much of WUaS, but is searching now for volunteers. See questions, ideas, and observations to worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com.

And here's how I'm citing this note:

Reed Magazine. 2013. 1985: Scott MacLeod sends readers an invitation to engage startup World University and School, worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University, "which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), at which people can openly teach and learn what they'd like. Class Notes, p. 49, June. ("Metamorphosis" issue). Portland, OR: Reed Magazine.

And here are some other recent WUaS mentions in Reed College media:

Reed on the Road 2013: Campaign Edition (as the third response)

Scott MacLeod says:
February 18, 2013 at 12:15 pm

http://blogs.reed.edu/riffin_griffin/2013/02/reed-on-the-road-2013/

Scott '85 suggests interning at World University and School (wiki/startup)
http://beta.reedswitchboard.com/posts/663-scott--85-suggests-interning-at-world-university-and-school--wiki-startup

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Orange-spotted Emerald Dragonfly: Many, new, WUaS, Bagpiping, wiki pages, as well as a Celtic Music page with links, and Celtic instrument pages, Added Gordon Walker at the Glennfiddich 2008 to the new GHB page, And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages, Music Playing Spaces online in Google + group video Hangouts, Toward a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages}

June 26, 2013, 8:50 am

≫ Next: Yew trees: "WHO IS LAW FOR?," Magna Carta, Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then, Added her blog entry to WUaS's Law, wiki, subject, WUaS's beginning Law School, planned for all countries, under one umbrella, In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

≪ Previous: Northern Spotted Owl: Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation, Reed College and WUaS Media, A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate, student applicants, if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

Two, new, Bagpiping, wiki pages today -

Great Highland Bagpipe -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe -

(which I've separated from the long-time, WUaS, Bagpipe Tutorials' page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials#World_University_and_School_Links)

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes -

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Greetings from the SF Bay Area. Very nice to meet you in Bend, Oregon, recently. I enjoyed the music you played in the session on the Uilleann pipes a lot.

I was looking up "The Last Piper" or "A Solo Piper" Highland Bagpipe recording by Gordon Walker which you mentioned but didn't find the title I recalled you saying. Gordon Walker's recordings listed on Wikipedia are here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Walker_(piper). What's the name of the recording again, please? (I found it in iTunes, actually with 4 pipers on the recording - "The Last Piper
Stuart Shedden, Roddy McLeod, Gordon Walker & Angus McColl" (2003)).

Here are some relevant World University and School wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning re Piping plus ...

Uilleann pipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Uilleann_pipes (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

Bagpipe Tutorials -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Piobaireachd -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Celtic Music -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

(see, too, this Celtic Music page's links' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music#World_University_and_School_Links)

Tin Whistle

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tin_Whistle

And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages.

Please share these with your fellow musicians, perhaps by forwarding them this email, for example. A little like Wikipedia, WUaS is all about 'teaching to (or learning from) a page', 'editing a page' or starting a new page, so please invite your co-music makers to engage this ... toward a kind of musical flourishing (in addition to free, MIT OCW-centric, online university degrees).

Let's explore an online Music Playing Space at some point in a Google + group video Hangout. (Do you have a G+ profile page? And which of these gmail addresses are yours?) I'll mention to Lynne at HoB that I met you at some point.

Best regards,
Scott

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And alphabetically ...

Bagpipe Tutorials -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Bagpipe Tutorials' page with links -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials#World_University_and_School_Links)

Celtic Music -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

(see, too, this Celtic Music page's links' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music#World_University_and_School_Links)

Great Highland Bagpipe -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe -

Piobaireachd -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes -

Tin Whistle

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tin_Whistle

Uilleann pipes -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Uilleann_pipes (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

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STV Scotland : Glenfiddich Piping Championship - Gordon Walker MSR (2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=yme4_Igm7lc

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WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages.

... for a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages} ...

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Yew trees: "WHO IS LAW FOR?," Magna Carta, Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then, Added her blog entry to WUaS's Law, wiki, subject, WUaS's beginning Law School, planned for all countries, under one umbrella, In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

June 27, 2013, 1:52 pm

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≪ Previous: Orange-spotted Emerald Dragonfly: Many, new, WUaS, Bagpiping, wiki pages, as well as a Celtic Music page with links, and Celtic instrument pages, Added Gordon Walker at the Glennfiddich 2008 to the new GHB page, And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages, Music Playing Spaces online in Google + group video Hangouts, Toward a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages}

Magna Carta

Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, - http://ideasnowandthen.blogspot.co.uk/ - has much about law in medieval times and now.

She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then.

She begins this blog entry:

"One of the most famous clauses of Magna Carta states that law is there for everyone – ‘to no one will we deny right or justice’. But we all know that everyone doesn’t mean everyone. Who was excluded? Quite simply, the charter only included freemen – and huge numbers In England in 1215 were technically unfree and therefore ineligible for the supposed guarantees and protections offered by law…."

Hi Hannah,

Thanks for your edifying blog entries.

Skoda, Hannah. 2013. WHO IS LAW FOR?. June 26. Oxford, UK: Now and Then Blog.

I've added this entry - http://ideasnowandthen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/who-is-law-for-one-of-most-famous.html - to the 'Law,' wiki Subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law - at World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), and which is planning, online, Creative Commons' licensed, (so free), MIT-centric, university degrees (bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D.) in many countries and languages, including Law Schools in all 204+ nation states (per the "Olympics"), and in their main languages. (Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison).

Here's the beginning, online, Law School at WUaS, in English ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School ... In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

Would you like to start a Medieval History, wiki, subject at WUaS, in English (and perhaps in German eventually, too) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and help focus it over time? We could then add this whole blog. :)

(I saw your posting about this in academia.edu - http://oxford.academia.edu/HannahSkoda).

Best regards,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

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Amazonian Manatee: For prospective students (11th graders?) to World University and School - New Video Introduction, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at WUaS

June 28, 2013, 1:01 pm

≫ Next: West Indian Manatee: Dear Students and Parents interested in WUaS and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees, Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about World University and School next week (probably on Tu, 4/2 or W, 4/3, in the evening C.T.)

≪ Previous: Yew trees: "WHO IS LAW FOR?," Magna Carta, Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then, Added her blog entry to WUaS's Law, wiki, subject, WUaS's beginning Law School, planned for all countries, under one umbrella, In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

New, video introduction to prospective students (11th graders) to World University and School, with Sherri Maurin and Scott MacLeod ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk

FGC WUaS Friendly outreach in Colorado

World University and School Friendly outreach to Friends' General Conference participants in Greeley, Colorado

Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Related degree-program links at Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, educational organization.

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See, too, the World University and School blog -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/for-prospective-students-11th-graders.html.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), wiki page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions

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West Indian Manatee: Dear Students and Parents interested in WUaS and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees, Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about World University and School next week (probably on Tu, 4/2 or W, 4/3, in the evening C.T.)

June 29, 2013, 2:00 pm

≫ Next: Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog: Glad to see this upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on Creating a Law School e-Curriculum with Oliver Goodenough, World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella, California already has 12 online law schools, See BRIAN BURNSED's US News article - "Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar"

≪ Previous: Amazonian Manatee: For prospective students (11th graders?) to World University and School - New Video Introduction, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at WUaS

Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about MIT OCW-centric World University and School next week, probably on Tuesday, July 2nd or Wednesday, July 3rd, in the evening around 5pm Central Time (with exact time to be posted here later).

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Dear Students and Parents interested in World University and School and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees,

Here are the Admissions' page at WUaS as well as related, upcoming, degree-program links on the Admissions' page at WUaS:

Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Related degree-program links at Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links

Here are some WUaS outreach things for prospective students to do:

- Please send your contact information to World University and School, -worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - if you are interested in applying to WUaS this autumn 2013.

- Watch this new, outreach VIDEO

"FGC WUaS F/friendly outreach in Colorado, FAQs" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk - Yea !!!

- Stay tuned to the WUaS Youtube channel with this above video - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - and with new WUaS channel art!

Two, WUaS, informational flyer PDFs are attached.

For planning purposes, students would be taking 32 of these MIT OCW courses over 4 years -

MIT OCW audio and video -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ (check out an individual course) - engaging the interactive

Conference Method -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning -

in something like Google + group video Hangouts -
https://plus.google.com/hangouts -

for a free, online, accrediting, MIT OCW-centric, bachelor's degree.

Students will purchase their own books and computers, and probably be living at home, in the neighborhoods where they went to high school.

WUaS FAQs are here online - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions - and they are printable from this page, if small.

With friendly greetings,
Scott MacLeod

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Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog: Glad to see this upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on Creating a Law School e-Curriculum with Oliver Goodenough, World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella, California already has 12 online law schools, See BRIAN BURNSED's US News article - "Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar"

June 30, 2013, 8:50 am

≫ Next: Silverback gorilla: Genes and Memes, Memes of learning and caring, The meme of conversation, Musical conversations as memes that lead to flourishing

≪ Previous: West Indian Manatee: Dear Students and Parents interested in WUaS and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees, Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about World University and School next week (probably on Tu, 4/2 or W, 4/3, in the evening C.T.)

Glad to see this open, upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on

Creating a Law School e-Curriculum

with Oliver Goodenough
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8386

I hope WUaS might engage fully such Harvard (and MIT) resources as they emerge to benefit people around the world.

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World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

(See, too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law at WUaS).

California, the state in which WUaS is incorporated, has 12 online law schools (none of these are ABA approved, but anyone can sit the California Bar exam, regardless of such approval, as I understand it), at present, and WUaS would like to develop another online MIT OCW/Harvard-centric law school, and eventually accredit in all 204 countries in the world, in main languages in those countries, beginning with the 6 United Nations' languages.

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California already has 12 online law schools -

BURNSED, BRIAN. 2012. [ http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2011/03/23/online-law-schools-have-yet-to-pass-the-bar Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar: Many argue that fully online programs aren't the path to a traditional legal career]. June 20. (updated from March 23, 2011). USNews.

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/lawtons-wrinkled-ground-frog-glad-to.html)

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Even in the Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org) I couldn't find a picture of Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog (Platymantis lawtoni), so the above photo is a Platymantis but not lawtoni.

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Silverback gorilla: Genes and Memes, Memes of learning and caring, The meme of conversation, Musical conversations as memes that lead to flourishing

July 1, 2013, 10:50 am

≫ Next: Iranian Cheetah: Solar Car Resources at WUaS and at other Universities, et al., "Dedicated to Iranian students of the southern provinces who sink more and more into poverty while living in oil rich regions ... ", Beginning of an online, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric, wiki, Iranian university and school, MIT OCW courses in Persian, WUaS Broadband Development as part of mission

≪ Previous: Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog: Glad to see this upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on Creating a Law School e-Curriculum with Oliver Goodenough, World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella, California already has 12 online law schools, See BRIAN BURNSED's US News article - "Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar"

Some broad musings about genes and memes:

Genes seek to replicate themselves - for over 3.5 billion years - and now there are 3-100 million species on earth (see, for example, "The Encyclopedia of Life," at eol.org).

A meme, as a 'replicating cultural unit' (my definition), is a word Richard Dawkins coined in his book "The Selfish Gene" (1976) to characterize sociocultural phenomena that aren't genetic, - so the sociocultural side of life (in my interpretation). "Richard Dawkins initially defined meme as a noun that "conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation"^[6]" (from this Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Concept). Dawkins gave the examples of a novel, or a summer dress, as memes.

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Sociocultural Anthropology, in my reading, hasn't engaged the concept of meme, significantly, whatsoever.

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And memes (like genes) can be both arbitrary and, at the same time, so significant for individuals, or human bodyminds here.

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In the context of this genetic-memetic broad view, and in this complex world of modernity, globalization and the information age - and with nontheistically F/friendly inclinations - I'm curious about cultivating memes that have historically made the world a better place, and especially the 'conversation' meme.

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I see conversations (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conservation) in many spheres of life, including in this WUaS, wiki subject, for example, facilitating a conversation about an

Ocean and Climate Management Plan
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan.

In 'real world' senses,

the Nation State
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States),

Law
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law),

the United Nations
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations),

and the Internet
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Studies),

all Languages (7,105+)
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), as well as, especially,

Language
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language), for example,

are all fascinating memes worth cultivating, and learning about, to help contribute to a better world, in my view.

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And I see the remarkable possibilities for conversation {STEM-centric} especially in a conversation involving online MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in some languages and countries at WUaS, and as wiki schools in all languages and countries.

See, in English, so far, for example, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and where it's possible for you or anyone to wiki-create new subjects, and eventually in all languages and countries.

Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 285 languages, and we all wrote it.

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But I also appreciate the conversation, and related flourishings, that emerge in music,

{hence the all-languages, all-instruments' wiki

Music School at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School} -

and, for me, which also emerge when I, for example, listen to the

Grateful Dead
{http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/grateful_Dead}, or

Raga
{http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Raga} music, but in many, musical spheres.

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That we can GENERATE such musical conversations, when and as we want, which then lead to flourishing are remarkably fascinating memes, in my experience.

These memes of musical conversation seem metaphorically worth exploring the significance of, and in a variety of ways, internationally, too, as ways of generating connecting and understanding and caring between peoples.

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And the species of the earth continue to replicate themselves, in what's a very old process, which somehow seems worth celebrating, as a different kind of genetic, conversational meme.

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