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Parachute plant (Ceropegia): METHODOLOGY, as I recall, for potentially even finding or creating a JOB or CAREER you really love - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love - in the book by Dick Bolles'"What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" (1970 - 10 Speed Press, Berkeley, CA) * * * Just searched on "which US universities have highest faculty and staff job satisfaction / happiness?" Found: Chronicle for Higher Education: "Great Colleges to Work For 2018" * * * Here's Reed's new president, Audrey Bilger, from Reed College FAR photos - and me (also President - of World Univ & Sch) ... (I might wear a a blue blazer to an event like this sometime, and re World University and School, rather than hippy beads and Birkenstocks, but who knows? :) * * * Am curious too how not only to create 2.2 million careers at World Univ & Sch, but also how this might emerge for Reedies and others on the virtual / digital side in a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth, in addition to online free-to-students' degrees, and also staff positions at World University and School, for example. Thinking ~200 countries' main languages, and 7111 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.

Previous: Andes: Reed College - thank you for your interest in the RCA - Reed Career Alliance - podcast project! - Post Career Counseling video interviews here? * * * related wiki subject pages at WUaS, in various stages of development which might be helpful to the RCA: "Finding / Creating a Job You Really Love" wiki subject ... * * * Outgrowing God, with an Oxford theology atheist student interviewer - much NtF relevance . . . Thanks Alex @CosmicSkeptic who's an atheist studying theology at Oxford, for your fascinating & excellent "Outgrowing God" interview https://youtu.be/tsLEf1Uwb5o w @RichardDawkins * * * [Modern Quakerism] New comment on The Quaker song Walk in the Light * * * Am curious how such high-achieving Iranian students could begin Iran World University & School in Farsi from Iran? * * * I just updated my CV to make my teaching experience at UC Berkeley in 2000 & 2001, & at UC Santa Barbara from 2001-2003, clearer. CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm @WorldUnivAndSch @HarbinBook Cal Anthropology talks in video/slides: http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
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Brainstorming-wise, moving Dick Bolles'"What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" book (50th edition? - http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/ - see these current 10 commandments - http://www.parachutebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/parachute-1200x1200-1.jpg) into machine learning / AI / a great computer program could be so helpful to so many! It's both the book's focus on methodology, i.e. what you've enjoyed doing/working on in the past, with a kind of personal, playful-even, and while not hand holding, yet an engaged conversation approach, that makes the book stellar. It also provides a beginning METHODOLOGY, as I recall, for potentially even finding or creating a JOB or CAREER you really love - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love (the only such methodology I know of).


First written in 1970, and published in 1972 by the innovative Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, California ... it seems to me to embody a kind of people-centric, reader-has-agency, freedom-for-the-people approach to job seeking, and re finance questions especially - and building on human networking thinking!



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Hi Amy,
(Reed College)

I blogged a little about this here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/andes-reed-college-thank-you-for-your.html?m=0 - brainstorming-wise, and with an impressive British interview of Richard Dawkins about his new book by Alex @CosmicSkeptic, an atheist studying theology at Oxford; my appreciation for smart interviews grows, culturally informed. This interview by Alex O'Connor of Dawkins could even inform Alex's career significantly for the better.  They're both kind of philosophers, interestingly.

I also think Hugh Porter's interview of President Audrey Bilger is a good example of an interview style that would work for Reedie viewers, for example - https://youtu.be/FjxSqc2CCQg.

With regards to what we talked about after the 2nd Reed College FAR alumni careers's meeting on 14 September - ie brainstorming-wise moving Dick Bolles'"What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" book (50th edition? - http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/ - see these current 10 commandments - http://www.parachutebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/parachute-1200x1200-1.jpg) into machine learning / AI / a great computer program, it's both the book's focus on methodology what you've enjoyed doing / working on in the past  with a kind of personal, playful-even, and while not hand holding, yet an engaged conversation approach that makes the book stellar. It also provides a beginning METHODOLOGY, as I recall, for potentially even finding creating you really love - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love.

Am curious too how such a book - "What Color ... ?" - might be focused in a machine learning program - innovation-wise - for Reedie graduates - both those going on for Ph.D.s and those taking other career paths? But even as, brainstorming-wise, an approach to help Reedies with careers without turning "What Color ... " into a computer program conceptually - and perhaps in conjunction with World Univ & Sch - this book could help advance Reed through developing a methodologically sound approach to careers for Reedies (building on what exists already at Reed for this). 

Given a kind of exploration of Reed-World Univ & Sch possible collaborations for advancing Reed (re FAR) here, I wonder too about how all the wiki subjects I shared with you recently could be turned into Reedie opportunities to begin growing their careers. And how, if WUaS were to begin to get funding to grow, how such a project manager at Reed re World Univ & Sch might even emerge? I'd be curious about your thoughts in these regards as well? 

Greetings to Audrey and Hugh as well. 

Best regards, Scott


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See, too:

Andes: Career thinking at World Univ & Sch - and re WUaS wiki pages for open teaching & learning, Reed College - thank you for your interest in the RCA - Reed Career Alliance - podcast project! - Post Career Counseling video interviews here? * * * related wiki subject pages at WUaS, in various stages of development which might be helpful to the RCA: "Finding / Creating a Job You Really Love" wiki subject ... * * * Outgrowing God, with an Oxford theology atheist student interviewer - much NtF relevance . . . Thanks Alex @CosmicSkeptic who's an atheist studying theology at Oxford, for your fascinating & excellent "Outgrowing God" interview https://youtu.be/tsLEf1Uwb5o w @RichardDawkins * * * [Modern Quakerism] New comment on The Quaker song Walk in the Light * * * Am curious how such high-achieving Iranian students could begin Iran World University & School in Farsi from Iran? * * * I just updated my CV to make my teaching experience at UC Berkeley in 2000 & 2001, & at UC Santa Barbara from 2001-2003, clearer. CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm @WorldUnivAndSch @HarbinBook Cal Anthropology talks in video/slides: http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/andes-reed-college-thank-you-for-your.html


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Info WorldUniversity
10:58 AM (32 minutes ago)
to Larry Viehland


Dear Larry,

Am wondering even if Amy Hesse (Biology '03) at Reed College, who emailed me Wednesday invited me to further Reed FAR engagement (Forum for Advancing Reed), could become a kind of Project Manager at World University and School at Reed.

Given a kind of exploration of Reed-World Univ & Sch possible collaborations for advancing Reed (re FAR) here, I wonder too about how all the wiki subjects I shared with her recently - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/andes-reed-college-thank-you-for-your.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/parachute-plant-ceropegia-methodology.html - could be turned into Reedie opportunities to begin growing their careers. And how, if WUaS were to begin to get funding to grow, how would Amy as such a project manager at Reed re World Univ & Sch grow?

I'd be curious about your thoughts in these regards as well? How would the quid pro quo or this for that work out in the community of Reed, and newly Reed and WUaS? (By way of comparison, how does the 'this for that' work out within MIT circles - and say perhaps with Harvard, or possibly edX - or other online startup educational accrediting schools ?)

Sincerely, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/MIT





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Just searched on "which US universities have highest faculty and staff job satisfaction / happiness?"

Found:
Chronicle for Higher Education:
"Great Colleges to Work For 2018"
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/greatcolleges18
(https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/greatcolleges18)

DATA

Great Colleges to Work For 2018

JULY 15, 2018
The annual Great Colleges to Work For survey, based on responses from more than 53,000 people at 253 institutions, was administered and compiled by ModernThink LLC for The Chronicle. All survey-related content in this issue, including college presidents’ statements about what makes their institution a great place to work, was provided by ModernThink, which drew institutional data from the colleges and the U.S. Department of Education. For more details on the winners, including average salaries and turnover rates, get copies of the full report here.



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In wondering about this last night, and re highest achieving colleges, as well as Quaker colleges, the only one on this above list that crossed my mind was the University of Washington. I wonder about Earlham College as being a great place to work some decades ago especially. And it's interesting to me that the words 'community' and 'Christian' re colleges come up so much in this list.

Why are not more highest achieving colleges on this list I wonder?



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Hi M,

Some photos just came through from the Reed FAR gathering -

Not sure you can seem them, but here's Reed's new president, Audrey Bilger, me and Ken Lindsay, a friend from the late 70s early '80s

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-gsWQ3pq/A

And
President Audrey Bilger, and me (also President - of World Univ & Sch)
https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-L4t4Bnp/A

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-86gHZpm/A

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-vZDFHwZ/A

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-gqTZJtQ/A

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-Q9ZBcBP/A

https://reedcollege.smugmug.com/Alumni/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed/Forum-for-Advancing-Reed-2019-September-1315-2019/i-Dt66X43/A

I might wear a a blue blazer to an event like this sometime, and re World University and School, rather than hippy beads and Birkenstocks, but who knows? :)

Love, Scott



- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 




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Am curious too how not only to create 2.2 million careers at World Univ & Sch, but also how this might emerge for Reedies and others on the virtual / digital side in a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth, in addition to online free-to-students' degrees, and also staff positions at World University and School, for example. Thinking ~200 countries' main languages, and 7111 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. 


























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Rocky Mountain National Park: re ONLINE Law Schs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School #OnlineLegalEd2019 @johnpmayer See 9/21/19 Minutes @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress re WUaS California & Oregon Law Schs + 48 states AND Law Schools in ~206 countries' languages @sgkmacleod * * * Whistleblowing Letter of Inquiry to the Stanford faculty senate (thread beginning July 25, 2019)

Next: Rosa acicularis: 'Walk in the Light' song (Quaker song, and re culture?), Ethnomusicological history of "Walk in the Light," but it could make for interesting research - and re questions of cultures esp. And thru time. Ethnomusicological reseach at Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and Britain Yearly Meeting in London. Part of this could involve performance - how technically to sing it beautifully, re innovation - and online .. and to further WUaS online libraries too * * * Online Psychoanalysis? Innovations in theory? * * * A World Univ & Sch School of Psychoanalysis with a focus on communication, as well as re Lacan, John Money, a humans as primates-focus, an evolutionary biology focus, brain science focus, re Castells' emotion and cognition ... and esp. language-wise? ... and NEWLY with a theoretical focus on 'information technology' (ie words and language) exchange re culture (re anthropology) and identity? * * * Just wanted to remind you if you'd like the opportunity to center down in online Quaker Meeting (any time!), here's one * * * Wild Yogi interview with Angela and Victor - Their teaching style is playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal :)
Previous: Parachute plant (Ceropegia): METHODOLOGY, as I recall, for potentially even finding or creating a JOB or CAREER you really love - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love - in the book by Dick Bolles'"What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" (1970 - 10 Speed Press, Berkeley, CA) * * * Just searched on "which US universities have highest faculty and staff job satisfaction / happiness?" Found: Chronicle for Higher Education: "Great Colleges to Work For 2018" * * * Here's Reed's new president, Audrey Bilger, from Reed College FAR photos - and me (also President - of World Univ & Sch) ... (I might wear a a blue blazer to an event like this sometime, and re World University and School, rather than hippy beads and Birkenstocks, but who knows? :) * * * Am curious too how not only to create 2.2 million careers at World Univ & Sch, but also how this might emerge for Reedies and others on the virtual / digital side in a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth, in addition to online free-to-students' degrees, and also staff positions at World University and School, for example. Thinking ~200 countries' main languages, and 7111 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.
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Glad John P. Mayer, Executive Director at Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction,
 is and has been thinking about online legal education too.
https://twitter.com/johnpmayer?lang=en
Exec Dir of @CALIorg (http://cali.org) - Legal Ed/Tech/Access 2 Justice (@a2jauthor - http://a2j.org)/free law ebooks (http://elangdell.cali.org)
https://www.cali.org/user/138
CALI conference is happening now: https://www.law.du.edu/online-learning-conference - https://www.cali.org/content/online-hybrid-learning-pedagogy-toward-defining-best-practices-legal-education
See, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Computer-Assisted_Legal_Instruction -


John P. Mayer
@johnpmayer
#OnlineLegalEd2019

- unbundled legal education
- not every needs/wants to be lawyer
- everyone needs legal ed
- badges, microcredentials, etc
- global, alum networks that are part of the law school teaching
- "democratized legal ed"
- embracing the working professional



https://twitter.com/johnpmayer/status/1177986301636689920


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John P. Mayer
@johnpmayer
2h #OnlineLegalEd2019

One possible future? 2030

- all ABA restrictions on distance learning eliminated
- live, interactive classes anywhere you are
- small carbon footprint :-)
- national licensure of lawyers
- gov financing of loans gone gone gone...


https://twitter.com/johnpmayer/status/1177983521790386176


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You Retweeted
John P. Mayer
@johnpmayer
#OnlineLegalEd2019

- project management, behavior science informs all curricula
- national, distributed legal clinics
- curriculum design informed by analytics of what good legal learning is
- academic success integrated into doctrinal teaching
- "tailored" legal education ..


https://twitter.com/johnpmayer/status/1177985538571161600



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See Minute 3 from 9/21/19 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html re ONLINE Law Schs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School #OnlineLegalEd2019 @johnpmayer  @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress re WUaS California & Oregon Law Schs +48 AND Law Schools in ~206 countries' languages @sgkmacleod
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/minutes-for-21-september-2019-world.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177990881917325313
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1177991068404502529
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1177992376532422658
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1177992572804857856
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1177992764358742016
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1178026111126523904



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re ONLINE Law Schs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School #OnlineLegalEd2019 @johnpmayer See 9/21/19 Minutes @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress re WUaS California & Oregon Law Schs + 48 states AND Law Schools in ~206 countries' languages @sgkmacleod
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/minutes-for-21-september-2019-world.html - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177989962160984070


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#OnlineLegalEd2019 @johnpmayer See 9/21/19 Minutes @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress re California & Oregon Law Schs at WUaS + 48 states more + ONLINE Law Schools in 206 countries' languages @sgkmacleod re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School>
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/minutes-for-21-september-2019-world.html - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177988989652881408


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Glad for @WorldUnivAndSch to have attended a Reed College panel in Portland, Oregon, on 14 September 2019 with Oregon Supreme Court Justice Chris Garrett - https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/garrett-oregon-supreme-court.html - https://web.archive.org/web/20190808215418/https://www.reed.edu/advancing-reed/schedule.html (@scottmacleod @sgkmacleod) re WUaS Law Schools  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School ~



https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1077375147718426626



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World University and School Minutes for 9/21/2019:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/minutes-for-21-september-2019-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html


(Agenda and News:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/agenda-news-for-21-sep-2019-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html)





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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Sep 27, 4:40 PM (19 hours ago)
to Scott, Michael, Barbara, stearns, Jim, Edward, Richard, kmoler, Hank, Roland, jtcampb, Robert, John, Larry

Dear Professor and Chairman Stearns of the - https://facultysenate.stanford.edu - and Professors Moler, Greely, Campbell, Vogl, Harrington, Viehland, Chairman Hennessy, and McConnell and van Schewick, (https://facultysenate.stanford.edu/past-senates/48th-faculty-senate),

I'm emailing you Professor Stearns, as Chairman of Stanford faculty senate, having not heard back from other Professors above since the first email in this thread on July 25, 2019 re requesting an ethics' investigation into Stanford Libraries, Research, and Academics.

I continue to receive numerous invitations to Stanford public events, so am writing to inquire how the ethics' investigation I've humbly requested may be proceeding. re the many questions I've raised (mostly in this thread).

Since someone (a S.Z.???), who said he was from a local (not Stanford) CA police department, stopped and read me a letter the last time I was invited to, and attended, a Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health (CDH, of which Stanford Chairman of Medicine, Bob Harrington MD above is or has been its Executive Director until recently) event in person, - but this person didn't show a badge or ID - I'm writing to inquire in particular about the legality of this. I also told this person I had inquired several times with the Stanford faculty senate about an unfolding ethics' investigation.

In World University & School's official affiliation with Stanford Medicine CDH, the emails I've received from Stanford vice provost and librarian, M.K. - banning me from the Stanford campus for no reason (and from the Stanford Libraries too - and similarly the Stanford Archaeology Department's 'ban' to me before this, with threat too of calling the Santa Clara police) seem particularly detrimental to Stanford. What might Stanford Libraries and Archaeology be trying to hide? Something to do with the sex trade, I wonder? (Having seen only little indications of this, this is a question - given the 'strength,' spuriousness and unjustness of communications I've received, from M. K, I. H., and A.V. as well, suggesting that there could be something to hide. There could be many other reasons for such spurious and unjust communications from these Stanford employees in particular, about which I don't have knowledge as well). How about asking them what's going on? I'd think that opening Stanford talks to the public would be one way of Stanford controlling for this kind of thing, or related unethical or even illegal activities at Stanford.

So I'm writing to address these ongoing and months-old ethics' inquiry questions to you Chairman Stearns, - in not hearing back from the Stanford faculty senate committee members and Stanford Law/Medicine faculty above thus far. And Chairman Hennessy above, as Stanford President Emeritus for 16 years, with possible experience in related questions, may not be able to say anything potentially either.

As president of MIT OCW-centric World University and School, now officially in Google for Nonprofits, WUaS seeks to build further positive and mutually beneficial collaborations with great Stanford. And as the president of World University and School, I'm wondering too what the Stanford process is for addressing such questions. I noticed that the first Stanford faculty senate committee meeting may be on 10/10/19, and wonder if this would be the best way to address both my somewhat growing list of ethics' questions and some legal questions too, but if there are any related issues on Stanford's campus re potential inferences above, whether the Stanford faculty senate would also be the place to address these questions - for the potential betterment of Stanford Academics and Research - and develop a strategy for dealing with these possibilities both ethically and legally?

Chairman Stearns, if you would like to, Professor Larry Viehland above, Chairman of World University and School's both wings, is a MIT alumnus, like yourself, and might be able to answer any questions you might have from the perspective of World University and School / the WUaS Press/WUaS Corporation (and you can see his name here, for example, re MIT OCW WUaS - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/minutes-for-21-september-2019-world.html - planned in ~200 countries' official languages as major online universities, as well as in 7,111 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. World Univ & Sch is also planning to facilitate developing a realistic virtual earth/universe for everything, at the cellular and atomic levels too - think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Translate with individual and species avatar bots, including, conceptually, CRISPR Cas9 into something like Google Street View - as both STEM field sites for researchers around the world, as well as classrooms).

In the meantime, would it be possible please to begin attending again Stanford public talks and events with your protection/ok? (I've been emailing both the Chair of World University and School, and some other friends about MIT's Rafael Reif's handling with his changing story of the craziness that lead to MIT Media Lab Executive Director Joi Ito resigning recently, and don't think it would be in Stanford's interest to have something similar unfold as detrimentally (to victims of the sex trade) and unethically and illegally, as what is developing at MIT now. Students are calling for MIT President Rafael Reif's resignation, for example).

I wonder too if it would be very much in Stanford's interests to launch a full police investigation into Stanford Libraries and Archaeology and other Stanford departments in these regards.

Thank you so much. And I hope to hear from you soon about continuing to attend public Stanford talks.

Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod





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Scott MacLeod
1:02 PM (7 minutes ago)
to Larry

Dear Larry,

I just updated the World Univ & Sch Grants.gov password again.

I'm hopeful monies could come from Grants.gov / NSF eventually.

I also added my email to you, Chairman Stearns, and Stanford faculty senate here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/rocky-mountain-national-park-re-online.html - from yesterday, 27 September, 2019.

Sincerely, Scott




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.





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See Minute 3 from 9/21/19 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html re ONLINE Law Schs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School #OnlineLegalEd2019 @johnpmayer  @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress re WUaS California & Oregon+48 AND Law Schools in ~206 countries' languages @sgkmacleod & TODAY's POST
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/rocky-mountain-national-park-re-online.html ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1178035045178601472


























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Rosa acicularis: 'Walk in the Light' song (Quaker song, and re culture?), Ethnomusicological history of "Walk in the Light," but it could make for interesting research - and re questions of cultures esp. And thru time. Ethnomusicological reseach at Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and Britain Yearly Meeting in London. Part of this could involve performance - how technically to sing it beautifully, re innovation - and online .. and to further WUaS online libraries too * * * Online Psychoanalysis? Innovations in theory? * * * A World Univ & Sch School of Psychoanalysis with a focus on communication, as well as re Lacan, John Money, a humans as primates-focus, an evolutionary biology focus, brain science focus, re Castells' emotion and cognition ... and esp. language-wise? ... and NEWLY with a theoretical focus on 'information technology' (ie words and language) exchange re culture (re anthropology) and identity? * * * Just wanted to remind you if you'd like the opportunity to center down in online Quaker Meeting (any time!), here's one * * * Wild Yogi interview with Angela and Victor - Their teaching style is playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal :)

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Hi M,

Came across these 'Walk in the Light' song words from the culture of Quakerism - http://quakerismtoday.blogspot.com/2008/10/quaker-song-walk-in-light.html?m=1 - raising some intercultural Quaker questions for me, - possibly from a few centuries ago.

Am in touch a bit with Amy Hesse '03-Biology re her invitation to me to join a Reed Career Alliance video call on Thursday, but without her following up.

Am curious how she as a 37yo-something Assistant Alumni Director, and a Reed alumna, might know of some 28yo-something MD Reedies in the SF Bay Area, for ex., possibly interested in beginning a family, and might even arrange an introduction ...


Just texted this to Ed in these regards as well -

"Hello Ed, How's your weekend going? Met 3 interesting UC Berkeley Cal students the other day ... similar connecting potential in another context perchance ... one was connecting positively with me, with her friends encouragement, language-wise ... with backgrounds in a distant developing country, ... appreciated the connecting impetus coming from one ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ ... could happen too through blog ... How's your week shaping up as well? cheers, Scott"

Seeking a friend, and putting it out there, and good to have attended the Reed FAR meetings in these regards re your 'Odds and Ends' thread, Ma!




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Sep 28, 2019, 7:49 PM (14 hours ago)
to Janie

Hi Ma,

I don't know the ethnomusicological history of "Walk in the Light," but it could make for interesting research - and re questions of cultures esp. And thru time. Ethnomusicological research at Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre near Birmingham, and Britain Yearly Meeting in London. Part of this could involve performance - how technically to sing it beautifully, re innovation - and online .. and to further WUaS online libraries too.

I first explore Walk in the Light here recently https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/andes-reed-college-thank-you-for-your.html?m=0 and re a Turkish re-Tweet from IBM's and MIT's Jim Spohrer.

Am seeking to learn how further to play Scottish Small Pipes movingly for my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' album too (thinking Yo Yo Ma's Bach Cello Suites here ...) interesting learning questions ... rewriting the practicing word once again.

Will share some WUaS wiki school's about these questions later. But you'll find these subjects -

SSP

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Quakers

Practicing

Music school

- here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
:)

Time to bagpipe a little this evening, after printing the SCD sheet music for Monday evening.

Love, Scott




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Scott MacLeod
Thu, May 16, 1:23 PM
to Janie

Hi Ma,

Nice to talk again yesterday evening. Shared this with Ed the other evening after we had talked when I was at Stanford:

Nice to talk earlier. What's the name of the Atul Gawande article on computing and medicine you mentioned? Is this it?

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
By Atul Gawande November 5, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers


And found these in these regards -

Psychoanalytic - Friendly Universities/Programs
http://www.psymeet.com/psymeet/psaSchools.html
(by http://faculty.csuci.edu/kevin.volkan/)

List of schools of psychoanalysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_of_psychoanalysis

- interesting.



Coming back to 'Communication in the family re family identification (identity?) is something I find helpful - but not always easy. (And ... A California School of Psychoanalysis with a focus on communication, as well as re Lacan, John Money, a humans as primates-focus, an evolutionary biology focus, brain science focus, re Castells' emotion and cognition ... and esp. language-wise?),'

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/11/dusky-leaf-monkey-dont-appear-to-be.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html

Am curious too how to plan for improving on existing psychiatry departments in US universities' medical schools, and at Kaiser Permanente, and in each of all ~200 countries' medical schools, (and maybe even as Stanford Medicine builds a new psychiatric wing, about which I heard some residents give presentations a few weeks ago).

Am curious how online psychiatry, psychotherapy, and esp. psychoanalysis, could be made better ... and even eventually with seemingly 'sentient' avatar bots ... If someone were seeing a Yale-trained psychiatrist in Marin County a couple of times a year - not psychoanalytically trained - in what ways could such very well-trained and smart MD psychiatrists get access further to online psychoanalytic training, and also help develop related theorizing of online psychoanalysis (eventually in multiple languages) with regards to existing opportunities for psychoanalytic training. An additional two years of psychoanalytic study for certificate, plus two years, 4-5 times per week of being a training analysand online? How could outcomes be measured - re people learning about their own unconscious minds (a goal of psychoanalysis) - and psychoanalysis quality improved especially?

Love, Scott


major critiques of Freudian schools of psychoanalysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis

Critique of Psychoanalysis
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/PersonalityWeb/Ch8CritiquePsychoanalysis.htm

Psychoanalysis: Freud's Revolutionary Approach to Human Personality
http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/beystehner.html




major critiques of Lacanian schools of psychoanalysis

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacanianism

https://literariness.org/2016/04/17/lacanian-psychoanalysis/

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/articles/lacanian_psychoanalysis.htm




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8:10 AM (1 hour ago)
to Janie

Hi Ma,

How have your last two long days gone? How are you and how's the weather?

Circling around to this thread from mid-May, am curious how to move beyond even Lacanian psychoanalysis re this helpful overview - https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychotherapy/jacques-lacan-best-and-least-known-psychoanalyst - and perhaps with ideas from John Money PhD re online effective measurable psychoanalysis (?), given human individuality, perhaps eventually with AI and machine learning ... and even in a virtual Harbin Hot Springs, depending ...

Appreciating that Friends Hospital (1813) is behaviorally oriented but recognize this only goes so far and might not address issues relevant to someone seeking psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

Just emailed Carl and Larry:

"Some of the schools (first as wiki subjects) WUaS will begin to develop with time include accrediting and licensing Medicine and Law schools in many languages, including

Psychiatry with ...
Psychoanalysis: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychoanalysis

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

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

Psychiatry: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychiatry
(Old links)

Seeking to begin the licensing process with BPPE for Bachelor and PhD degrees, which precede medicine and law - planned in all countries' main languages. WUaS is exploring building out of/collaborating with Friends Hospital (1813) in Philadelphia -

For example, see -

"In what ways could Friends' Hospital, the oldest private psychiatric hospital in the nation (1813) https://friendshospital.com/programs-and-services/, best inform ONLINE World University & School Psychiatry https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry& in ~200 countries' languages? And Is Friends' Hospital still Quaker?"

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/water-striders-eurekalert-mit.html?m=0 - and re my whistleblowing at SFFM with regards to issues with kids, and bringing law and psychiatry to the Meeting."

But psychoanalysis+ given human subjectivity (and theorizing) seems both like it could help people - the only thing that might when other modalities don't - and also deeply problematic for a variety of reasons .... Hmmm

Yet I appreciate the thinking that (Lacanian psychoanalyst MD) George, and Brig, explored in these regards themselves, and for the benefit of their kids who seem happy and in good careers.

Hmmm ... glad we've been thinking along these lines and in medical schools too re psychoanalysis nevertheless. And there's probably already a successful (and also not so) history of practicing psychoanalysis online to build from.

I think thinking about the mind and bodymind is the way to go though.

Love, Scott


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NtFs, non-theist Quakers, atheist Friends, friends, 

Appreciating too the sense of goodness in this far-reaching interview, and re Alex @CosmicSkeptic :) - https://youtu.be/tsLEf1Uwb5o

Just wanted to remind you if you'd like the opportunity to center down in online Quaker Meeting (any time!), here's one - http://quakerworship.org/enter.asp - and while I posted about a number of these online Quaker Meetings years ago to this NtF list (including holding some NtF non-theist Friends' Quaker Silent Meetings, NtFs have so far chosen not to organize NtF Quaker Meeting online or on-the-ground as a group). 

NtFriendly Cheers, Scott
Blogging today much about Quakers, as well as exploring developing and facilitating online psychoanalysis at World University and School  



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Hi Linda, 

What do you think of this Wild Yogi interview with Angela and Victor? 

Interview with Angela Farmer & Victor Van Kooten https://wildyogi.info/en/issue/interview-angela-farmer-and-victor-van-kooten-unique-way… Based on the island of Lesvos in Greece, #AngelaandVictorsYoga have been teaching together since they met more than 25 years ago. Their teaching style is playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal :)


Appreciating much their playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal approaches to Yoga :)

And partly inspired by A&V, I explore Yoga in new ways - http://scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - and riffing-wise as well. 

Where do you head with some of these ' Yogic "reading"& "self-study"''mainstays' ... ? And re, innovation-wise:

In what ways could a #RealisticVirtualHarbin best become a site for Yogic "reading"& "self-study" re Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations http://scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html…? Am curious too to explore too Yoga Robotics 
#AngelaAndVictorsYoga robots?


Did you at one time teach workshops in the Napa valley area of northern California? Harbin Hot Springs is just over the little Mt. St. Helena mountain range from Napa Valley in the next county over, Lake County. 

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Cashew (Anacardium occidentale): Avatar Bot Medical Records in Wikidata in Tunisia re UBI TOO -:strategy, brainstorming, medicine and Google stake in Wikidata/Wikibase re 7.5 billion people as Wikidata Q-item #s'

Next: Andean cock-of-the-rock: 'Wisdom & Education,' by Eric L Dodson. Just happened on his philosophy too: 'Heidegger in 12 Minutes' and 'Nietzsche in 12 Minutes,' which were interesting Wiki-See related @WorldUnivAndSch wiki subjects /Education and /Philosophy ... Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson: 10. Kindness, compassion & generosity 9. Appreciation and gratitude 8. The ability to hold things loosely 7. Balance 6. Playfulness, humor and laughter 5. Spontaneity and creativity 4. Adventure, verve and passion 3. Curiosity and openness 2. Inhabiting the moment fully 1. Panoramic awareness and holism .... Only a few of the above are related 'labels' in this blog: care, humor, creativity, consciousness, now ... Am wondering how Eric's above indicators of wisdom would inform psychotherapy even * * * New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project on Scottish Small Pipes as exploration actually & @WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI . . . & possibly re my @scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album * * * UC Berkeley Hearst Museum's Mind-Altering Anthro exhibit
Previous: Rosa acicularis: 'Walk in the Light' song (Quaker song, and re culture?), Ethnomusicological history of "Walk in the Light," but it could make for interesting research - and re questions of cultures esp. And thru time. Ethnomusicological reseach at Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and Britain Yearly Meeting in London. Part of this could involve performance - how technically to sing it beautifully, re innovation - and online .. and to further WUaS online libraries too * * * Online Psychoanalysis? Innovations in theory? * * * A World Univ & Sch School of Psychoanalysis with a focus on communication, as well as re Lacan, John Money, a humans as primates-focus, an evolutionary biology focus, brain science focus, re Castells' emotion and cognition ... and esp. language-wise? ... and NEWLY with a theoretical focus on 'information technology' (ie words and language) exchange re culture (re anthropology) and identity? * * * Just wanted to remind you if you'd like the opportunity to center down in online Quaker Meeting (any time!), here's one * * * Wild Yogi interview with Angela and Victor - Their teaching style is playful, emotionally freeing and deeply personal :)
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to HoucemeddineSebastiangerard.meijssen@gmail.comMagnusMarkuskidehen@openlinksw.comDennyLydiaLarryPeterKatherineStephenLéa
Thanks, Houcemeddine (Monsieur or سيد او سيدي) & Sebastian, Peter, Denny, Wikdiatans and All again,

This email is a strategy, brainstorming, medicine and Google stake in Wikidata/Wikibase re 7.5 billion people as Wikidata Q-item #s' email, in response to some of your recent emails.

Brainstorming-wise, and taking a medical charting by MDs with Wikidata for psychiatry approach, and for 7.5 billion people on planet for psychiatry too - AND with planning for voice, and per wiki World Univ & Sch's recent laying "claim to create 7.5 Billion Wikidata Q's" email, how would this work with avatar bot electronic medical records?

Conceptually, here are some Avatar bots images re medicine - 'topbot' ...


https://web.archive.org/web/20170831212017/https://www.topbots.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ai_healthcare_challenges_800x350.jpg (with this image and one more heart in avatar bot image from MIT here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/oregon-coast-wuas-avatarbotelectronicme.html). This first image contains a whole human avatar bot, a world map plus many other components of possible avatar bot electronic medical records - scaled large. (And brainstorming-wise, I'm also thinking in terms of Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization / health care provider with 1000s of MDs in the US in many US states as standards for charting for psychiatry in digital age as precedent in these regards).

So, for example, take epilepsy as a psychiatric condition, how would a psychiatrist MD medically chart epilepsy findings one medical appointment after another for a single patient over time? So, for example, here's an image of the 'frontal lobe epilepsy' -

https://web.archive.org/web/20181105175551/http://epilepsyu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/frontal-lobe.png. And say this is an image of a patient's brain at the cellular (or the atomic) level. Potentially this image could be added to the above 'topbot' avatar bot (with its Wikidata Q-item number) with a date and in relation to that epileptic patient's other brain imaging thus far over time, and in video too - and potentially many MDs over time could add this to this patient's avatar bot electronic medical record as well. Wikidata could play a significant role in this scenario, by helping structure the data for labeling and retrieving data about what kind of epilepsy this image shows, and this patient has - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9917-epilepsy-types-and-their-symptoms (see too https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Epilepsy_and_psychiatric_disorders and https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/epilepsy-and-its-management-in-relation-to-psychiatry-2376-0281-1000121.php?aid=32022). So a hypothetical Tunisian psychiatrist could in this patient avatar bot electronic medical records as Wikidata Q-ttems' charting example create records in either French or Arabic (or any other of the ~300 languages in Wikipedia).

And furthermore, a Wikidata query by a Tunisian psychiatrist doctor MD or researcher scientist looking at related cases of eplepsy in Tunisia, for example, could ask Wikidata-wise "how many patients in Tunisia in 2010 had 'Frontal Lobe epilepsy'?" along with "where in Tunisia did these epileptic seizures take place?" - and along with psychiatry-wise "Are there ways to further localize and identify in this image specific parts of the brain in the frontal lobe where the seizure occurs together with behavior questions and with medication and treatment questions?"  I think this would shape a new approach to Wikidata Bioinformatics. Brainstorming-wise further, in what ways could Wikidata / you / World University and School's Research and Tunisia Medical School at WUaS begin to do pilot studies in Tunisia with say 10,000 patients in one hospital over one year, some of whom had epileptic seizures with good imaging and data about these - each patient a Wikidata Q-item - as well as (what other aspects of the epilepsy data in Wikidata ie treatment, medication etc)? Google's TensorFlow could be used to analyze and especially learn via machine learning from these data via Wikidata.

Moving on from avatar bot electronic medical records re Wikidata and the above example, to Google's stake in Wikidata/Wikipedia re WUaS's claim 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item #, and UBI experiments, it was good to see in a recent Twitter post by John Palfrey (former Harvard Law Professor, and former Head of Phillips Academy Andover High School - and now newly President of the MacArthur Foundation based in Chicago, who's parents are both Harvard MDs), that Google protocols are coming under AntiTrust (anti-monopoly legal rulings in the US) scrutiny from the House of Representatives -

https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1178312201993629696 . If Google's protocols become the way UBI experiments are explored (to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks) - each person of 7.5 billion people on planet earth a Wikidata Q-item - first in the USA then in many other countries with different legal systems, this would significantly affect Wikidata's / Wikimedia's strategy in new ways. Please remember that CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 but that they're not yet interoperable, and that WUaS seeks to create Wikidata Q-item numbers for speakers in each of all 7,111 known living languages - each a wiki school at WUaS for open teaching and learning - and also for all 7.5 billion people, each a wiki teacher or learner at WUaS, in these regards.

So re Google's stake in Wikidata / Wikipedia further, and in that World Univ & Sch is both in Wikidata as well as in Google Education, I'm going to seek to add some of the above avatar bot images above to our new Google for Nonprofits' pages - g.page/world-university-and-school and g.page/world-university-and-school?share - and in seeking for WUaS to further develop with Wikidata Q-item numbers and re our unfolding WUaS Medical Schools and online teaching Hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care. Brainstorming-wise, in what ways Houcemeddine and Sebastion and All re Wikidata and DBPedia and FreeBase might we further explore creating 10,000 avatar bot electronic medical records for 10,000 Tunisians each a Wikidata Q-item to explore developing this further? And in this pilot study vein too how might we start creating Wikidata queries on these 10,000 avatar bot electronic medical records for 10,000 Tunisians each a Wikidata Q-item re epilepsy, for example?

I touch on these Wikidata Q-items for each of all 7.5 billion people - in 3 ways to begin - in World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from 21 September 2019 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html and  https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/agenda-news-for-21-sep-2019-world-univ.html

Thanks for your direct responses, Houcemeddine and Sebastian!

All the best, Scott

If Google's protocols become the way #UBIexperiments are explored (to distribute a #SingleCryptocurrency backed by % of ~200 countries' central banks) - all 7.5 billion people on planet earth a Wikidata Q-item at WUaS - these legal developments would reshape Internet finance law



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Andean cock-of-the-rock: 'Wisdom & Education,' by Eric L Dodson. Just happened on his philosophy too: 'Heidegger in 12 Minutes' and 'Nietzsche in 12 Minutes,' which were interesting Wiki-See related @WorldUnivAndSch wiki subjects /Education and /Philosophy ... Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson: 10. Kindness, compassion & generosity 9. Appreciation and gratitude 8. The ability to hold things loosely 7. Balance 6. Playfulness, humor and laughter 5. Spontaneity and creativity 4. Adventure, verve and passion 3. Curiosity and openness 2. Inhabiting the moment fully 1. Panoramic awareness and holism .... Only a few of the above are related 'labels' in this blog: care, humor, creativity, consciousness, now ... Am wondering how Eric's above indicators of wisdom would inform psychotherapy even * * * New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project on Scottish Small Pipes as exploration actually & @WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI . . . & possibly re my @scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album * * * UC Berkeley Hearst Museum's Mind-Altering Anthro exhibit

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Wisdom & Education https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU by Eric L Dodson. Just happened on his philosophy videos: Heidegger-https://youtu.be/A04RhtR0imY Nietzsche-https://youtu.be/S4baePsCT_E which were interesting. Wiki-See related @WorldUnivAndSch wiki subjects: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Educationhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1179146267823226880


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'Wisdom & Education' by Eric L Dodson

https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU


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'Heidegger In Twelve Minutes'

https://youtu.be/A04RhtR0imY


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'Nietzsche in 12 Minutes'

https://youtu.be/S4baePsCT_E


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Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson:


10. Kindness, compassion & generosity

9. Appreciation and gratitude

8. The ability to hold things loosely

7. Balance

6. Playfulness, humor and laughter

5. Spontaneity and creativity

4. Adventure, verve and passion

3. Curiosity and openness

2. Inhabiting the moment fully

1. Panoramic awareness and holism



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Only a few of the above are related 'labels' in this blog:

care, humor, creativity, consciousness, now,

see: hippy labels too


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(may head back through this blog to add new 'wisdom' label to a few other posts)


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Am wondering how Eric's above indicators of wisdom would inform psychotherapy even, and as a psychologist, he's taught both group and individual therapy in the late 1980s in Pittsburgh, PA (- see below).



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I found these fascinating and profound as well, and communications' wise ...

My Intellectual and Spiritual Journey: The Accidental Professor



https://youtu.be/Zc-xpbR5a_I

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What I've Learned from Teaching
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https://youtu.be/XA_nJGzddOY


(Appreciating his intrinsic engagement thinking, and his thinking philosophically in general; it's interesting to me that he's identifies as a hippy re the late 1970s - and that he closes these last 2 videos with "Peace Out" ... and that he's from  / studied in NY, PA, and Delaware ... )



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New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach - Scottish Small Pipes - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes @WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/western-meadowlark-world-univ-sch-live.html?m=0… & http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html?m=0… & possibly re my @scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1179060219860508673

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1179059080943435776


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Western Meadowlark: World Univ & Sch Live Hangout on Air, News, Updates 3/25/19 * * * Ethnologue's living languages' number jumped to 7,111 (from 7097) in recent weeks * * * EXCITED to explore #BachDoodle where you can compose your own Bach-inspired tune w/ first ever AI-powered #GoogleDoodle with Scottish Smallpipes' Music on A & D chanters * * * Am curious when the robots our kids make will begin to teach us - & now in multiple languages with Scratch 3.0, & eventually in voice. Searched on 'Lego robots teaching people'

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/western-meadowlark-world-univ-sch-live.html?m=0


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Common bluebell: Ongoing envisioning of upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here, Rhythmically, Scottish piping music-wise, here's great GHB piper Alasdair Gillies here playing Cabar Feidh in 4 different ways ... "Cabar Feidh - March, CabarFeidh - Strathspey, Cabar Feidh - Reel, Cabar Feidh – Jig," Grateful Dead and bagpipes, and here are two tunes "Wharf Rat" and "St. Stephen/The Eleven (Aoxomoxoa outtakes)" I like a lot (re Jori Chisholm and Bobby Weir), Re "Honey in the Bag" CD ideas see these two recent blog entries A) "The sugar bag bee: " - (with more about introducing folk rock element into this), B) "Gobies: " - (with the beginning tune list and much more), Re Google's viral Bach Doodle re artificial intelligence A.I. and Bach, Thnx, Bruce for: 'Analyzing the Bach Harmonizer Doodle' video

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html?m=0




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Dear Ed, Jane (Ma), and Larry,

Very nice to go to this UC Berkeley Anthropology Museum exhibit in Kroeber Hall with you recently, Ed - to see the
Hearst Museum's Mind-Altering Anthropology exhibit
-  https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/exhibit/pleasure-poison-prescription-prayer-worlds-mind-altering-substances/ - and to share a meal at Blue Sky Hotel House of Curries (on Durant) afterward.


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Re wisdom, Ma, your observations "to let go" and some of these questions even, have just blogged about Prof / Philosopher Eric L. Dodson today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html - who has a Ph.D. from Duquesne University (in psychology), and seems wise, - and thinks about wisdom from his own reasoning. His 8th indicator of being wise in his "Wisdom and Education" video is:

8. The ability to hold things loosely

Am curious if he knew George Alexander MD (family friend and Lacanian psychiatrist), since ERic's thinking seems to reflect conversation philosophically with George. Eric seems to have lived in Pittsburgh from 1989-1996 when he took a teaching position in the south. Do you recall having met him, by any chance? You might enjoy his 3 videos in this blog post, as well as the piping ideas.

Thank you!

Sending love, Scott



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Interesting that while at Duquesne Eric Dodson taught courses in therapy, both individual and group from 1989-1991 - https://www.westga.edu/share/documents/vitae/vita_000165.pdf?updated=2019-08-09%2014:23:17 ...

Am wondering what kind of therapy theoretically he taught, since there are so so many kinds, and no I'll call this 'general theory of the mind' re psychiatry, for example, let along cognitive and brain science e.g. re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/. And did he learn from George in these regards too? Who knows? :)

Here's some Bach playing I'd like to emulate somehow newly on Scottish Small Pipes -

https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U (which I've sent you before) - and which is a far cry from

https://youtu.be/TthrgctJJ0U ... :)

Love, Scott



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Pistachio: How - how - to move toward more beautiful piping re learning, and how to learn too how to engage with practicing in new ways? * * * Bagpiping over the internet and for learning with Finlay MacDonald in Glasgow, Scotland * * * Seeking how to engage some of Eric Dodson's ideas here in "What I've Learned from Teaching" - to the psychology of practicing a musical instrument and playing the Scottish small pipes ... ... and with regard too to YO YO MA's and Wynton Marsalis's Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument * * * Seeking how to explore intrinsic engagement in learning to love practicing here re a kind of faith and caring ... :)

Previous: Andean cock-of-the-rock: 'Wisdom & Education,' by Eric L Dodson. Just happened on his philosophy too: 'Heidegger in 12 Minutes' and 'Nietzsche in 12 Minutes,' which were interesting Wiki-See related @WorldUnivAndSch wiki subjects /Education and /Philosophy ... Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson: 10. Kindness, compassion & generosity 9. Appreciation and gratitude 8. The ability to hold things loosely 7. Balance 6. Playfulness, humor and laughter 5. Spontaneity and creativity 4. Adventure, verve and passion 3. Curiosity and openness 2. Inhabiting the moment fully 1. Panoramic awareness and holism .... Only a few of the above are related 'labels' in this blog: care, humor, creativity, consciousness, now ... Am wondering how Eric's above indicators of wisdom would inform psychotherapy even * * * New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project on Scottish Small Pipes as exploration actually & @WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI . . . & possibly re my @scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album * * * UC Berkeley Hearst Museum's Mind-Altering Anthro exhibit
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How - how - to move toward more beautiful piping re learning, and how to learn too how to engage with practicing in new ways?

I think these guidelines are helpful in these regards re envisioning and seeking out private instruction http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (and there are others I've written for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology like practicing a musical instrument - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm) ... but I think I'm going to explore writing some re learning to love practicing an instrument on top of these two.


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Am taking Skype piping lessons presently with Finlay MacDonald, Head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow (which merged in 2018 with The College of Piping in Glasgow) ... partly toward my "Honey in the Bag" album in 2020, with 3 chanters - A, D, B flat - and may seek to have my lesson before meeting with you on Thursday. Am curious to talk with him about how to
focus my piping with Open Band (where almost all of the sheet music is not in the A chanter's range - allowing opportunities to be creative however:).

Seeking too to get the D-E 'Combo Drone,' the 4th drone on SSP, working well and find how to make most beautiful piping music with it as well.



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Hi Finlay,

Yes! Wednesday 9 October sounds good. I'll confirm the day before (given wi-fi changes in process where I live). Can we explore penciling in lessons Wednesdays at 4? Congratulations on lecturing at the University of Glasgow. 

Am focusing on how to learn to make my piping more beautiful with perhaps Kathryn Tickells''out of the box''beautiful' (and creative -

https://twitter.com/kathryntickell/status/1178322779407572994) piping as one example.

Re item 10 here:

10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.

http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm

I'm listening to and learning from you (circling round back to item 1 here too). Thanks, and see you on Wednesday in a week!

Re creativity, here's a new piping project of mine -

ScottMacLeod
@scottmacleod
Oct 1
New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach -  Scottish Small Pipes - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
@WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/western-meadowlark-world-univ-sch-live.html?m=0& http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html?m=0& possibly re my
@scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1179060219860508673

And re this new beginning Bach project in the 2nd half of my blog post from yesterday, I compare some beautiful Bach lute by Hopkinson Smith (who went to Harvard, but lives in Switzerland) with a GHB piper playing a little Bach -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html - with lots of room for exploration, especially potentially with Bach Google Doodle AI with machine learning!




Cheers, Scott


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Returning to Eric L. Dodson's videos (I first explored yesterday in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html - and which are all really great!)


What I've Learned from Teaching



https://youtu.be/XA_nJGzddOY



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Seeking how to engage some of Eric Dodson's ideas here in "What I've Learned from Teaching" - https://youtu.be/XA_nJGzddOY - to the psychology of practicing a musical instrument and playing the Scottish small pipes ... and with regard too to YO YO MA's and Wynton Marsalis's Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (an ongoing exploration in this blog)

Intrinsic engagement at 2:45

Keep things in perspective at 5:35 (existential humility) in learning / teaching

Faith at 11:00 minutes - that

Caring at 11:45

What endures in learning? at 12:00 ... caring ...


Thanks for being in the storm of life with Eric and in the teaching and learning connection.


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Seeking how to explore intrinsic engagement in learning to love practicing here re a kind of faith and caring ... :)






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Chestnut: Epilepsy (with images) - Psychiatry for epilepsy for example - "topbot" image re Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records to @WorldUnivAndSch in Google Search * * * Thanks @bourdakos1 WILD TensorFlow machine learning!> Seeking to see how these would POPULATE #RealisticVirtualEarth for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital eg at #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~

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Hi Houcemeddine, Sebastian, Romaine, Magnus and Wikdiatans All, 

Just added your helpful Wikidata Twitter post -

https://twitter.com/Csisc1994/status/1179003508042997760 - to this Wikidata-related blog post to - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/strategy-brainstorming-medicine-and.html - re "Avatar Bot Medical Records in Wikidata in Tunisia re UBI TOO -:strategy, brainstorming, medicine and Google stake in Wikidata/Wikibase re 7.5 billion people as Wikidata Q-item #s'" from 30 September."

Also added the great "topbot" image re
Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records to @WorldUnivAndSch in Google Search -
https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887&lpsid=2127012144976135659&source=sh/x/localposts&lsig=AB86z5UKvyB_fA34X-70Oeg_FWoc#lpstate=pid:2127012144976135659 - in planning for online https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School with online Teaching Hospitals for online clinical care #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords each a #WikidataQitem # for 7.5 billion

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1178832632789864448

What would be next steps to exploring creating 10,000 Wikidata Q-item numbers for 10,000 Tunisians - and re too 'You at World University' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (planning for 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item number eventually) - re creating even 'avatar bot electronic medical records' for both online clinical care in online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - and making WUaS's Miraheze MediaWiki as "front end" interoperable with our "back end" of Wikidata/Wikibase? 

And re Google's stake in Wikidata / Wikipedia - and re Tensor Flow for medicine - in what ways could we include these great TensorFlow tracking developments, brainstorming-wise, and even at the cellular level, for psychiatry for epilepsy for example - 

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1179525825432932353
https://twitter.com/bourdakos1/status/1125436388026060801


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Thanks
@bourdakos1
 WILD TensorFlow machine learning!> https://twitter.com/bourdakos1/status/1125436388026060801… - https://twitter.com/bourdakos1/status/1179074084346515456… - Seeking to see how these would POPULATE #RealisticVirtualEarth for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital eg at #RealisticVirtualHarbin
@HarbinBook
 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1179527259192881154
https://twitter.com/bourdakos1/status/1179074084346515456

- into a realistic virtual earth for medicine (am thinking Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow / Translate +)?

Thanks, Scott








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Tea (Camellia sinensis): Bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - one after the other - to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming'"Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit) * * * American Revolution - Boston Tea Party ship * * * Selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book in the Harbin Hot Springs' bookstore itself?

Next: Camellia japonica: Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales?
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barbsalisbury@ ...
Thu, Oct 3, 12:31 PM (19 hours ago)
to me

Nice visit with interesting conversations and walk , Scott.  So glad I can get out a bit and meet a few friends now.  I hope our musical discussions were stimulating towards your cd goals.  You have some interesting ideas.  Good luck with it.  Hope to see you some Monday night soon.


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Oct 3, 2019, 12:36 PM (19 hours ago)
to Barbara
Thanks too so much the chocky, Barbara! ;) And great to talk about many different related musical ideas. Glad you're out and about and that your back is improving. (I'm having a party in Canyon 94516 on Saturday the 19th to which you're very welcome). More about beauty and music anon.

Warm regards,
Scott


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Barbara,

Eric Dodson on 10 indicators of wisdom -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html.


Liking Eric Dodson's 10 signposts of wisdom (at 21 minutes):


Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson:


10. Kindness, compassion & generosity

9. Appreciation and gratitude

8. The ability to hold things loosely

7. Balance

6. Playfulness, humor and laughter

5. Spontaneity and creativity

4. Adventure, verve and passion

3. Curiosity and openness

2. Inhabiting the moment fully

1. Panoramic awareness and holism

(in his "Wisdom and Education" video - https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU)

What do you think? You might enjoy his videos to get a sense of where
he's coming from.

Cheers, Scott


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Hi Barbara,

Nice to visit today.

When I mentioned that my tutor at the University of Edinburgh, Gary West, in ~2004 in making his beautiful CD 'The Islay Ball' (around 2001) said something like - it was the only thing that gave him meaning, ... and that Edinburgh has a lot of alienation or anomie in my experience in 2003-2004, I mean by anomie this:

"Anomie, also spelled anomy, in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals." (Brittanica.com)


There's a different ethos there than what gave rise in the 1960s and early 1970s to Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span and Rolling Stones, Cream ... (and Angela and Victor in a sense too - Angela and Mick Jagger sharing some things in common). (And the ethos of the 1960s was still a little in the air in Edinburgh, Scotland, when I lived there my first full year in 1976-77, or '77-78, studying at Fettes College in the 1st year 6th form, a kind of junior year abroad from high school).

Ethos, beauty and wisdom of 2019-2020? ... what have we in Berzerkeley, one of the birthplaces of the Grateful Dead in that time too in the SF Bay Area?

And how to think of ethos in giving rise to music - consciously ?

Eric Dodson is hippy minded, plays rock guitar, is philosophical, and very conscious (embodying aspects of panoramic awareness and holism in the way he talks) ... and is a professor. I learn from him.

Seeking to bring a kind of panoramic awareness to my Honey in the Bag album on Scottish Small Pipes too (possibly with some influences of the 1960s and 70s even ... hmm ... how?) ... am finding beauty and wisdom in this :) check out this 'consciousness' label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0 - and related posts. (Alasdair Fraser is of the 1960s and this time touches his music too:).

I guess Kathryn Tickell playing borderpipes too comes closest for me of pipers I know to infusing her music with the spirit of the 1960s & 70s. Check out this blog post as well http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pistachio-how-how-to-move-toward-more.html?m=0 and it's 'bagpiping' label too.

Cheers, Scott

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In what wAys could one bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness?m=0 - one after the other, to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming'"Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit).

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Barbara,
Methinks the '60s - and Berkeley too - were revolutionary ... you were there ... had revolutionary ideas in the air .... how to be-ing (bring) this spirit into the creation of my Scottish small pipes' cd? And is my actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic book in this vein? :)
Naked HarbiEthnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by 
Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology



Ants and Koh were asking about the Twitter feed photo of this Boston Tea Party ship -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1151451898194681856
 - which photo I took this past summer 2019, and I replied, perhaps with the beginnings of a song to be accompanied on Scottish Small Pipes:


The Boston Tea Party ship
Is a symbol now
Of freedom from oppression
By the English whose crown was
Taxing tea they were selling
To young Americans -
Exorbitant outrageous taxes,
With no political representation -
In that monarchy.
What of democracy?

Taxation without representation
Is wrong Americans cried,
And they doth protested.
The British red coats, these
Mercenary turncoat toadies
Of an unjust regime, a monarchy,
sought to repress further these early
Citizens-to-be of a nation,
The United States' Americans.

So Americans-to-be went onto
This ship, the Beaver,
and 2 other ships too,
Dartmouth and Eleanor
In Boston harbor in 1773,
Right about where the Beaver floats now
And threw this tea,
these British owned chests of tea
Into the sea, and spoiled it,
and its profits for the crown,
Proclaiming taxation without representation is wrong, -
With their actions, their activist freedom-seeking actions.
(https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party)

Further struggle broke out,
Further futile British attempts at controlling the
Freedom-seekers from oppression.
Red coat mercenary British soldiers
With arms, & martial law, seeking
to put down these
Young AMericans.

A war broke out,
and the tea party was its beginning.
A revolution broke out, and Americans cried:
One if by land - a lantern in Old North Church signaling British red coats on the road raid marauding
Two if by sea, - 2 lights in the Church, signaling those heinous red coats arriving by sea.
The young Americans
Could have thrown these red coats into the sea too, like the tea.
This knowledge, signaling, and v thinking, helped set us free.

So a freedom seeking struggle grew,
And Americans eventually won, -
The British turned tail, went back over the sea,
And my ancestor, actually, General Benjamin Lincoln,
2nd in command to George Washington,
accepted their sword of surrender
At Yorktown VA in 1781
(https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/remembering-the-other-important-lincoln-in-american-history/)
And in 1787, Lincoln won Shay's Rebellion in MA leading to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln)

This in a nutshell - will do some further fact checking - is the significance of the Boston Tea Party ship, the Beaver in the photo in my Twitter feed, and which replica of that very revolutionary symbol of a ship I pass by every summer near South Station in Boston Massachusetts on my way to Cuttyhunk Island (where my family has a home), via New Bedford, a home of Herman Melville. But that is another tale of this nation and its growth - once set free - free from the yoke of British oppression - the crown - which indeed bound the embryo of a nation since Jamestown VA in 1602s and Plymouth MA in the 1620 with Pilgrims on the Manpower (http://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/new-england-1620-1692/)

Turn this poem-let into a folk song of revolution to be? An anthem? A ballad? We'll see ... folk rock perchance ... sung with Scottish small pipes ... c'est possible ... (the French were young Americans' allies in our early growth, with their ideals too of throwing off the yoke of the aristocracy in 1789 their revolution).

To be revisited idea-wise :)

Boston Tea Party ship I think does not sail ... but people go aboard it - a vessel on the sea, and symbol of democracy -  to re-live this birth of a democratic freedom - & re the heinous taxation without representation  :) ... a call for freedom! 

Much more in blog post today to come :)

Cheers, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/1960s






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Boston Tea Party ship (Beaver)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1151451898194681856


Scott, Takeshi, Tarun

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1165042456317980672


Hi Ants and Koh, and All,

Happy Birthday, Ants! And thanks for the nice invitation! Will let you know on the 15th (since I have a couple of balls in the air).

I'd also like to invite you and All to another birthday party for you on Saturday the 19th chez moi (in Canyon 94516).

There's a picture of Tarun, Takeshi and myself from the last party chez moi, next to the picture of the Boston Tea party ship here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch (and above) - currently on the main WUaS Twitter feed. (Are you both still in the Bay Area?:)

Happy upcoming birthday, Ants!

Cheers,
Scott


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Ants
Oct 3, 2019, 9:13 PM (11 hours ago)
to me, Koh

Thanks very much - I think we can make it on the 19th. If you can manage the 15th you'll be most welcome! Boston Tea Party ship? Does it go on tour or is it moored at its historic fixed location? (I'm clearly ignorant on the matter). Because of the maritime theme and the presence of ancient ships (I recall a mention of the local Balclutha) it reminds me of our quest for fireworks the night before I went into labour (the 4th of July) - good job we managed a wee outing on the final day of having only one child! Well technically sprog2 was born on the 6th of July but it was just after midnight - nine minutes after midnight, after I'd gone into labour on the 5th. So you witnessed the very last gasp of the one-child scenario and the beginning of bi-sprogular configuration!


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Scott MacLeod
Oct 3, 2019, 11:15 PM (9 hours ago)
to Antonia, Koh

Happy Birthday!

The Boston Tea Party ship
Is a symbol now
Of freedom from oppression
By the English whose crown was
Taxing tea they were selling
To young Americans -
Exorbitant outrageous taxes,
With no political representation -
In that monarchy.
What of democracy?

Taxation without representation
Is wrong Americans cried,
And they doth protested.
The British red coats, these
Mercenary turncoat toadies
Of an unjust regime, a monarchy,
sought to repress further these early
Citizens-to-be of a nation,
The United States' Americans.

So Americans-to-be went onto
This ship, the Beaver,
and 2 other ships too,
Dartmouth and Eleanor
In Boston harbor in 1773,
Right about where the Beaver floats now
And threw this tea,
these British owned chests of tea
Into the sea, and spoiled it,
and its profits for the crown,
Proclaiming taxation without representation is wrong, -
With their actions, their activist freedom-seeking actions.
(https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party)

Further struggle broke out,
Further futile British attempts at controlling the
Freedom-seekers from oppression.
Red coat mercenary British soldiers
With arms, & martial law, seeking
to put down these
Young AMericans,

A war broke out,
and the tea party was its beginning.
A revolution broke out, and Americans cried:
One if by land - a lantern in Old North Church signaling British red coats on the road raid marauding
Two if by sea, - 2 lights in the Church, signalling those heinous red coats arriving by sea.
The young Americans
Could have thrown these red coats into the sea too, like the tea.
This knowledge, signalling, and v thinking, helped set us free.

So a freedom seeking struggle grew,
And Americans eventually won, -
The British turned tail, went back over the sea,
And my ancestor, actually, General Benjamin Lincoln,
2nd in command to George Washington,
accepted their sword of surrender
At Yorktown VA in 1781
(https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/remembering-the-other-important-lincoln-in-american-history/)
And in 1787, Lincoln won Shay's Rebellion in MA leading to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln)

This in a nutshell - will do some further fact checking - is the significance of the Boston Tea Party ship, the Beaver in the photo in my Twitter feed, and which replica of that very revolutionary symbol of a ship I pass by every summer near South Station in Boston Massachusetts on my way to Cuttyhunk Island (where my family has a home), via New Bedford, a home of Herman Melville. But that is another tale of this nation and its growth - once set free - free from the yoke of British oppression - the crown - which indeed bound the embryo of a nation since Jamestown VA in 1602s and Plymouth MA in the 1620 with Pilgrims on the Manpower (http://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/new-england-1620-1692/)

Turn this poem-let into a folk song of revolution to be? An anthem? A ballad? We'll see ... folk rock perchance ... sung with Scottish small pipes ... c'est possible ... (the French were young Americans' allies in our early growth, with their ideals too of throwing off the yoke of the aristocracy in 1789 their revolution).

To be revisited idea-wise :)

Boston Tea Party ship I think does not sail ... but people go aboard it - a vessel on the sea, and symbol of democracy -  to re-live this birth of a democratic freedom - & re the heinous taxation without representation  :) ... a call for freedom!




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Ants
12:40 AM (8 hours ago)
to me, Koh

Indeed, we were of course aware of the general story of the Boston Tea Party, but we didn't know there was a physical ship to be seen in our time! Also of course we didn't know that one of your ancestors was involved. Most intriguing! We hope to see you at the other party, which isn't Bostonian but may involve tea and will certainly involve liberty unless the neighbours call the police on us for disturbing the peace.


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Scott MacLeod
7:21 AM (1 hour ago)
to Antonia, Koh

Was myself born in Lexington, that most revolutionary city, in 1960, at its 12/31 close, a revolutionary US decade itself, the  battle of Lexington taking place in 1775 -

"What happened at the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord)

- well, physically in Cambridge, MA, in Mt. Auburn hospital, and am not sure whether my parents brought me home to Lexington where they lived on 12/31/60 or 1/1/61 or soon thereafter. My US passport says Lexington as place of birth.

Why is 1776 considered the us birthday?
"We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776)."
(https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/fourth-of-july/)

Why was the Boston Tea Party important?
"The Boston Tea Party was a raid that took place in the Boston Harbor in 1773 during which American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. This event was important because it fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America."
(https://study.com/academy/lesson/why-was-the-boston-tea-party-important-lesson-for-kids.html)

Circling around to the ship the Beaver, which began this tale, Americans-to-be made tea in the sea of the British crown's profits ... in the name of the revolutionary cry that taxation without representation is NOT democratic, - and proceeded to create a constitutional democracy, the longest continuous one in the world in 2019.

And after the Boston tea party on Beaver, Eleanor and Dartmouth ships in 1773, to the 4th of July in 1776, Americans returned to their farms, - and now could vote, and choose their governments - of the people, by the people and for the people :)

Scott

And how will Scotland proceed with the English in the 2020s re freedom and democracy? To be seen ... in the voting in part, as well as in the writing.




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10:14 am, Thursday, October 3, 2019


Hi Deirdre,

Thanks for your call from Harbin Hot Springs at 707-295-6698 this morning, Deirdre. I can't call you back, but let's email. Am including Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric here, in case your email address isn't correct. What is the best email address to communicate with you, Deirdre? Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric, - what please is Deirdre's email address?

Namaste, Scott


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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Oct 3, 5:49 PM (14 hours ago)

to deirdre, Scott, Sunheart, sajjad, Eric, bcc: Barbara

Hi Deirdre,

Thanks again for you call today.

Am wondering if I could possibly explore selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book -

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - through the Harbin book store. It retails for 64.95, and Sunheart is central in it (and Sajjad suggested self-publishing it), and years ago I was in touch with Eric in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, which also plays a role in my book re developing a virtual Harbin in VR.

Best,
Scott
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Camellia japonica: Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales?

Next: Townsend's big-eared bat: Is it possible to get a Realistic Virtual Harbin for field notes too up and working by the time my "To the Dance or to the Pools - Virtually! ... " book comes out this autumn * * * Wow, Susan MacDougall, thnx - "Getting back to writing fieldnotes" * * * Teaching a course about Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy 'in the field' - and with regard to creating a Realistic Virtual Harbin re my ... "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... at Harbin Hot Springs itself * * * 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming Scottish small piping album tune questions ... i) why are Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites (PBS Sony https://youtu.be/CTQvAFk0E6Q) so beautiful, but virtuosic Pablo Casals playing of same pieces (https://youtu.be/ePPMrX4YtkM) less beautiful?, And ii) why are Hopkinson Smith's Bach lute pieces (https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U) so beautiful, and what can I learn and adapt for SSP album?
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Hi Deirdre, 

Thanks for your call from Harbin Hot Springs at 707-295-6698 this morning, Deirdre. I can't call you back, but let's email. Am including Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric here, in case your email address isn't correct. What is the best email address to communicate with you, Deirdre? Sunheart, Sajjad and Eric, - what please is Deirdre's email address?

Namaste, Scott



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Scott MacLeod helianth@gmail.com

Oct 3, 2019, 5:49 PM (2 days ago)
to deirdreScottSunheartsajjadEric, bcc: Barbara
Hi Deirdre,

Thanks again for you call today. 

Am wondering if I could possibly explore selling my Naked Harbin Ethnography: book - 
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                   
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - through the Harbin book store. It retails for 64.95, and Sunheart is central in it (and Sajjad suggested self-publishing it), and years ago I was in touch with Eric in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, which also plays a role in my book re developing a virtual Harbin in VR. 

Best, 
Scott


-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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deirdre@harbin.org

Fri, Oct 4, 4:11 PM (20 hours ago)
to mesajjad
Hi Scott, 

I’m sorry we couldn’t speak on the phone in person.  Currently, we do not have the room in our front office to sell any books.  It will be a number of years before we rebuild our facilities.  

Best Regards, 

Deirdre Davis
Managing  Director
Harbin Hot Springs
Heart Consciousness Church
PO Box 782
Middletown, CA 95461
707-295-6698
Fax 707-987-0616



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Hi Deirdre, (and Sajjad),

Thanks for your email, and thanks again for your call from Harbin. If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - 




Or a bookstore on wheels -




- then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now.

For example, my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold. (The 60%/40% split for booksellers is standard, where retailers - like Harbin in this hypothetical case - would make 40% but where retailers also pay for shipping and handling and other related non-wholesaler/distributor/publisher costs which split the 60%). 


And my other two books of poetry - also Harbin-centric - could sell well in such a Harbin Bookstore on Wheels: 

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
which lists for $9.99
(would bring in about $4.00 per copy sold to Harbin)

Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry 
which lists for $5.50
(would bring in about $2.20 per copy sold to Harbin)


And I'm planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: 

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality"


(All these books are published in the NEW Academic Press at World University and School as well - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned with machine translation in all 7111 known living languages).

Best Regards, Scott




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World Univ & Sch may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :)

Am excited this idea for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular.

Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel?

How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways (deliveries, package service?) - in addition to book sales?











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Townsend's big-eared bat: Is it possible to get a Realistic Virtual Harbin for field notes too up and working by the time my "To the Dance or to the Pools - Virtually! ... " book comes out this autumn * * * Wow, Susan MacDougall, thnx - "Getting back to writing fieldnotes" * * * Teaching a course about Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy 'in the field' - and with regard to creating a Realistic Virtual Harbin re my ... "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... at Harbin Hot Springs itself * * * 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming Scottish small piping album tune questions ... i) why are Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites (PBS Sony https://youtu.be/CTQvAFk0E6Q) so beautiful, but virtuosic Pablo Casals playing of same pieces (https://youtu.be/ePPMrX4YtkM) less beautiful?, And ii) why are Hopkinson Smith's Bach lute pieces (https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U) so beautiful, and what can I learn and adapt for SSP album?

Previous: Camellia japonica: Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales?
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Wow, Susan MacDougall, thnx

https://twitter.com/macdougallsm/status/1180132213553319943 Am excited how field notes will emerge in #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarth via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps ~Notes in Sidebar

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1180207587309977600
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1180208766739857408
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1180208934637846528


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Wow, Susan, thnx https://twitter.com/macdougallsm/status/1180132213553319943 Am excited how #FieldNotes will emerge in #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarth via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps~Notes in Sidebar

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1074367545841311745

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In 7k WIKI languages too Susan, thnx https://twitter.com/macdougallsm/status/1180132213553319943… Am excited how #fieldnotes will emerge in #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarth via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy… StreetView with TIME SLIDER, Maps ~Notes in Sidebar

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1180221351400890373

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AND for PUBLISHING even?

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Now is it possible to get a Realistic Virtual Harbin for field notes too up and working by the time my "To the Dance or to the Pools - Virtually! ... " book comes out this autumn, and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? (A, thinking Google Street View with time slider further ... )



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hippie | ˈhipē | (also hippy)
noun
(especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. (Apple dictionary)


A hippie is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie


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Hi Deirdre, Thnx for your call from Harbin Hot Springs at 707-295-6698 recently & then your email: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/camellia-japonica-your-call-from-harbin.html& https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-camellia-sinensis-bring-eric.html Harbin Bookstore in Hippy Van? Sell my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" @HarbinBook @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1180933473353121792
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1180932900218388487
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1180933281069486080
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1180933658615545856
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1180934453947813888


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I'm an anthropologist who studies Harbin Hot Springs and re information technology -
@HarbinBook
 ~ #ActualVirtual ~ #PhysicalDigital ~ #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~ http://scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html Visit Harbin here: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1174540502617612289



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Re recent 19 Oct '19 party invitation I sent out, am glad to have heard back from Deirdre, a MD-managing director at Harbin Hot Springs, re my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography. 

Here's my blog post with her email from 10/5/19 - 

Camellia japonica: Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/camellia-japonica-your-call-from-harbin.html?m=0 - and more. See 10/4/19's blog post for her letter and much more. 

This could potentially lead to beginning to sell my ... "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... at Harbin Hot Springs itself ...

and perhaps lead to heading up to Harbin again for ethnographic fieldwork to further develop my Harbin project, including teaching a course about Harbin and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy 'in the field' - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=0 - and with regard to creating a Realistic Virtual Harbin as well. 

Cheers, Scott





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Hi Ma,

Piped a little before bed yesterday evening. Lesson on Wednesday with Finlay - and seeking to focus this query-wise possibly with


A) 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming Scottish small piping album tune questions,


B) D and B flat chanters-wise questions, and drone tuning-wise, esp. new B flat chanter  - and re album too,


C) Combo E-D drone and CoP Blue Book Vol 3 - and which tunes therein work with A chanter with A-E-A drone chord AND D chanter and D-A-D drone chord ? ... maybe with recordings before Wednesday (but not B flat chanter with Combo drone yet)


D)
i) why are Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites 
so beautiful,


but virtuosic Pablo Casals playing of same pieces 
less beautiful; And


ii) why are Hopkinson Smith's Bach lute pieces 
(https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U) so beautiful, and what can I learn and adapt for SSP album?


E) previous questions from emails


May head to the Pacific ocean north of Stinson beach to explore today ...


Glad to have heard back from Jim Spohrer and Nelson Graburn ('craven' typed out in gmail with AI) yesterday RSVPing ('RAMPing' typed out in gmail with AI) they can't come to 19 Oct party but I think they're both on board and thinking about World Univ & Sch (Nelson in China).

What are you up to today? And how are you? May seek to turn this US revolutionary poem-let here - 

Tea (Camellia sinensis): Bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - one after the other - to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming'"Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit) * * * American Revolution - Boston Tea Party ship * * * Selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book in the Harbin Hot Springs' bookstore itself?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-camellia-sinensis-bring-eric.html?m=0 (appreciating too the wisdom in Eric Dodson's videos here)- I wrote on Friday (including a bit of our family history) into a ballad to be sung with SSP bagpipes on album ... it's that creative questioning that in part can lead for me to making rote practicing of sane tunes interesting. :) ... as well as ongoing related creative projects.

Love, Scott








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Tea tree: World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT * * * Could be beginning of #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital STEM research & #RealRealTime Music School with Jamming * * * Added this photo to the virtual Harbin gatehouse, but what would 'writing field notes' and adding Google SketchUp Drawings to Google Street View with time slider look like? * * * What does Google's access look like in China?

Previous: Townsend's big-eared bat: Is it possible to get a Realistic Virtual Harbin for field notes too up and working by the time my "To the Dance or to the Pools - Virtually! ... " book comes out this autumn * * * Wow, Susan MacDougall, thnx - "Getting back to writing fieldnotes" * * * Teaching a course about Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy 'in the field' - and with regard to creating a Realistic Virtual Harbin re my ... "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... at Harbin Hot Springs itself * * * 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming Scottish small piping album tune questions ... i) why are Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites (PBS Sony https://youtu.be/CTQvAFk0E6Q) so beautiful, but virtuosic Pablo Casals playing of same pieces (https://youtu.be/ePPMrX4YtkM) less beautiful?, And ii) why are Hopkinson Smith's Bach lute pieces (https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U) so beautiful, and what can I learn and adapt for SSP album?
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World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT >https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w>NEWLY in LightStream >https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch> #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA info @ worlduniversityandschool.org Seeking 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181354840389124099



World Univ & Sch 7 Oct 2019 Q & A and News - again


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World Univ & Sch Mondays Hangout Q & A News 10am PT NEWLY in LightStream > https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ?>info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.org #RealisticVirtualEarth
Seeking 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181297086622392321



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Could be beginning of #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital STEM research & #RealRealTime Music School with Jamming "Truck drivers..." #VR @gigadgets_ #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #IoT #5G #Automotive #AR https://twitter.com/Paula_Piccard/status/1181146999300792320~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181264872442449925




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Added this photo to the virtual Harbin gatehouse, but what would 'writing field notes' and adding Google SketchUp Drawings to Google Street View with time slider look like?

'writing field notes' See: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-tree-world-univ-sch-monday-hangouts.html @macdougallsm #AnthroTwitter
Added photo TO #VirtualHarbin gatehouse http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (https://twitter.com/HarbinBook http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) > https://google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 ~ but neither #fieldnotes, nor Google #SketchupDrawings yet


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181361686566989825
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181361243128397826


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For example, I added to the virtual Harbin gatehouse ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ~ this photo ...


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 ~

but not yet either field notes, or Google Sketchup drawings ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp ... via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy!

(from, and see too, especially ... h

Townsend's big-eared bat: Is it possible to get a Realistic Virtual Harbin for field notes too up and working by the time my "To the Dance or to the Pools - Virtually! ... " book comes out this autumn * * * Wow, Susan MacDougall, thnx - "Getting back to writing fieldnotes" * * * Teaching a course about Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy 'in the field' - and with regard to creating a Realistic Virtual Harbin re my ... "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ... at Harbin Hot Springs itself * * * 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming Scottish small piping album tune questions ... i) why are Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites (PBS Sony https://youtu.be/CTQvAFk0E6Q) so beautiful, but virtuosic Pablo Casals playing of same pieces (https://youtu.be/ePPMrX4YtkM) less beautiful?, And ii) why are Hopkinson Smith's Bach lute pieces (https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U) so beautiful, and what can I learn and adapt for SSP album?

ttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/townsends-big-eared-bat-teaching-course.html ... ) ... and then .... 


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'writing field notes. Wow, this stuff is serious!!' ~@macdougallsm :I added this photo TO #VirtualHarbin gatehouse in Google StreetView http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttp://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ~ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 ~ but neither #fieldnotes, nor Google #SketchupDrawings yet



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181342045375324160


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'writing field notes. Wow, this stuff is serious!!' ~
@macdougallsm :I added this photo TO #VirtualHarbin gatehouse in SV http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttp://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ~ https://google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 ~ but neither #fieldnotes,nor Google #SketchupDrawings yet

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181342045375324160
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181345560759918592
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1181345808920133633
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181345986603446272
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1181346630051590145
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181347430215766018


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For publishing too in 7k Languages? 'writing field notes'
@macdougallsm Added this photo> #VirtualHarbin gatehouse in StreetView http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttp://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ~ https://google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 ~ but neither #fieldnotes,nor Google #SketchupDrawings yet

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1181346933958250498
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1181346648699465729
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181347534662328323
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1181347741366013952
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181348030991065089


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For publishing too in 7k Langs @WUaSPress? 'writing field notes'
@macdougallsm Added photo> #VirtualHarbin gatehouse in SV http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttp://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ~ https://google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,109y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 but neither #fieldnotes,nor Google #SketchupDrawings yet

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181348249191374848




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Nelson, and All,

What does Google's access look like? I've heard new algorithms were written somewhat recently for certain Google Searches, but Google's platform with TensorFlow machine learning AI software+ is potentially so advantageous both commercially, as well as knowledge-wise and Chinese-languages' wise (and for example, in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin and in a #RealisticVirtualUniverse for space exploration at the cellular and atomic levels too), that I'm curious if the Chinese will throw the baby of internet=autonomy (per this far-reaching Manuel Castells' video

 - https://youtu.be/0lfPg_5iaGQ - given in the Library of Congress) out with the bath water?

And would the Chinese also want a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki university and schools at World University and School in Traditional Chinese - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - as well as wiki schools in Mandarin - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) - and in all other Chinese languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - "Linguists believe that there are 297 living languages in China today" - and even with a China law school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS) and medical school - all online, and free-to-students?

We can perhaps explore such questions on October 19th as well - or about any subject you enjoy (wiki teaching and learning-wise as well!) :) (Please bring a Chinese friend or two if the opportunity arises to this 19 Oct party as well!)

All the best,
Scott



Just Tweeted:
What does Google's access look like in China? I've heard new algorithms were written recently for certain Google Searches, but Google's platform with TensorFlow machine learning AI software+ is potentially so advantageous many ways #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181336445539078144 ~



















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Amanita flavoconia: Hypothesis: this mother-dog is having a "flow the psychology of optimal experience" ... how would one test this experimentally, .... "incredible" mother videos * * * Re Q5. What ideas do you have for purpose-oriented projects in Scratch? #scratchinpractice . . . whither #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics * * * How might one tell or know whether this Lego robot is coded with Scratch drag and drop programming language or not?

Next: Bioluminescent spiders: > DIY Genetics ... In Google Translate's 100 /Wikidata's ~300 languages, how best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools > #RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #ActualVirtual . . . DIY Gene Editing from Home? * * * Thanks so much, Finlay, for our piping lesson 'conversation'! ... B flat chanter tuning, simplicity, beauty, lyrically, rhythm, 'riff canntaireachd' with light music (and metronome, recording, combination drone tuning) * * * EEmail, and your call from Harbin Hot Springs. Brainstorming-wise, just Google searched on "bookmobile library converted to bookstore" ... and found these great creations * * * Party in Canyon 94516 on 10/19 . . . Online World Universities and Schools seek to become the Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Oxbridges of the internet - inspiring and in their excellence and knowledge-generation - and we may talk about this as well at the party on 10/19. And Nelson, re your initial email RSVP, great to see that Minzu University of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minzu_University_of_China - is in Beijing - and is ethnic-minorities' focused!
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Hypothesis: this mother-dog is having a "flow the psychology of optimal experience" ... how would one test this experimentally.

To experimentation -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation - and possibly newly on the web (and even in a realistic virtual earth with species eventually, somehow?)

It's also a fascinating example of interspecies' communications ...
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Interspecies_Communications


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Hi Sandy and Ma,

Happy birthday again, Sandy! - Looks like those Swiss Toberlone chocolate bars arrived per what I read on smartphone - enjoy!

This from John Cleese of Monty Python fame (and brilliant, as well as a clown!:)

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1181299546187583490


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She's a very clever Mom. 💞🤗🤗



https://twitter.com/TheFigensezgin/status/1180937071613087751



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And in a related "incredible" Mom video -

https://twitter.com/TheFigensezgin/status/1181262468875726850 - also from Figen which was retweeted by Cleese.

I appreciate in the first Cleese / Figen video that the mom-canine not only seems to analyze accurately where the ball is in the very fast shell game - and re her puppies - but also seems to want to continue to play this thinking game (which seems to include as stakes her pups ... ) 'Truly incredible' - per Cleese? :)

Is the reward in the mom-dog's continuing to play of the interesting shell game? :)

Just some thinking-mom-ming videos. Other Tweet videos from Figen I just noticed are interesting as well. :) But Cleese is an Englishman, and Figen is Turkish ... neither are Swiss ... (am a sociocultural anthropologist here, with an interest in how identity shapes thinking even, and Cleese 'takes the piss' out of the Brits, as a remarkable wit  :))

Love, Scott



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Re Q5. What ideas do you have for purpose-oriented projects in Scratch? #scratchinpractice https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1181610238622887936 ~ https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ whither #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1074327831281262592
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181654067568754688
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1181655224328445952
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1181655468642463744
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1181656216101146625
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181656778729115649



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LEGO Education
@LEGO_Education
The pumpkins are being carved, the haunted houses are being explored & the ghosts are arriving which means it's time to get into the #Halloween spirit! Can your students build and code a creepy-crawly out of LEGO that would scare their classmates? #LEGOconfidence #HappyHalloween



https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1181660724608819200



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How might one tell or know whether this Lego robot is coded with Scratch drag and drop programming language or not?


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How to tell if this Lego robot is coded with Scratch drag and drop programming language or not?
https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1181660724608819200 #scratchinpractice #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics &
Hypothesis: this mother-dog is in flow?
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/amanita-flavoconia-incredible-mother.html ~



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181702386068287488
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181702062024736768
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1181702825501290496
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181703418181611520
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1181703701477507072
























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Bioluminescent spiders: > DIY Genetics ... In Google Translate's 100 /Wikidata's ~300 languages, how best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools > #RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #ActualVirtual . . . DIY Gene Editing from Home? * * * Thanks so much, Finlay, for our piping lesson 'conversation'! ... B flat chanter tuning, simplicity, beauty, lyrically, rhythm, 'riff canntaireachd' with light music (and metronome, recording, combination drone tuning) * * * EEmail, and your call from Harbin Hot Springs. Brainstorming-wise, just Google searched on "bookmobile library converted to bookstore" ... and found these great creations * * * Party in Canyon 94516 on 10/19 . . . Online World Universities and Schools seek to become the Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Oxbridges of the internet - inspiring and in their excellence and knowledge-generation - and we may talk about this as well at the party on 10/19. And Nelson, re your initial email RSVP, great to see that Minzu University of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minzu_University_of_China - is in Beijing - and is ethnic-minorities' focused!

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> DIY Genetics ...


(Has Sandy been making bioluminescent spiders again ...

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182416543436558337 ? ... over in virtual Switzerland :)

Love, Scott
Check out these beautiful bioluminescent spiders in nature - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bioluminescent-spiders-in-google.html ... haven't figured out how to do this at home yet but ... am working on it ... :))


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In Google Translate's 100 /Wikidata's ~300 languages, how best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344 > #RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for University lab #ActualVirtual ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1182002786503778304
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182003248305074177
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182004479748497408
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182006369597001728
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1182013365243088896



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How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344>#RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working in real University labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #biodesign #DIYbio?

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182005123234484224
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182005465468657664
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182006256489259008
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1182013264214937600



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DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344>#RealisticVirtualEarth >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working in University labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182006836553113600
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182012370081603584
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1182012584163082240
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1182013059461611520
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182013815308705792



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DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344>#RealisticVirtualHarbin >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working from HOME labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182015776133267456
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182016420768387072
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182017103131336704



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Available to participate in a Google My Business user study?

Scott MacLeod
10:12 AM (10 hours ago)
to vwhatley, Larry

Hi Vanessa (at Google),

Thanks for this invitation. I'm writing to communicate in the midst of this "Google My Business user study" with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World University and School's unique situation. WUaS has 2 wings, and is planning to be in all ~200 countries and in all 7111 known living languages. See our description in the participation application:

'MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School plans to offer online licensing / accrediting university and high school degrees in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools in 7111 known living languages, and is a 501 c 3 nonprofit educational institution. The WUaS Corporation / Press is a parallel for-profit general stock company legal entity, an educational services company which also plans to be in 7,111 living languages and 200 countries' official languages.'

World Univ & Sch is also exploring facilitating a single cryptocurrency in some of these ~200 countries backed in some way by their central banks - and potentially distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments - perhaps, conceptually, via the 'Mine Pi' cryptocurrency idea. See, for example, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html (and accessible in the UBI label in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI). The Pi cryptocurrency was created by a couple of Stanford Ph.D.s and I've emailed them already about some of this, but haven't heard back yet. I'm also a bit in communication with Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy and Director of AI Peter Norvig about some of this. (Am including Larry Viehland, chair of World Univ & Sch's 501 c 3, and acting chair of the WUaS Corporation, a for profit general stock company - the 2 legal entities that make up WUaS). And I'm also a little in communication with Stanford Professor Julia Bidadanure - https://philosophy.stanford.edu/news/juliana-bidadanures-stanford-lab-explores-experiments-universal-basic-income - about UBI questions. Looking forward to further communication with time - and how to best communicate further about all of this? Thank you.

All the Best, Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress




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Hello, Ma!

Lesson with Finlay this morning from Scotland at 8am PT ... think it's the conversation idea-generator that interests me here ... may seek to consolidate my blog posts with related lesson ideas so I can run through a series of questions in a focused way in terms of "How does this work or how can I play this" :)

What's beauty in piping for Finlay?

New B flat chanter tuning on drones ?

Combo drone on A chanter with A-E-A chord, and which of the 15 tunes in CoP Blue Book work and which don't and why?

Etc ...

On with my book of poetry here from the Claremont Berkeley Public Library ... and also to see starting at about minute 25 Susan Gilbert Harvey's DVD which I'm enjoying a lot ...

Curious too if I can start teaching Yoga from home online, Angela and Victor inspired and re WUaS in Google too ... For example, see these recent Tweets newly with Google Maps:

Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, Molyvos on the isle of Lesvos, in Greece, AND the current physical location of ONLINE
@WorldUnivAndSch #GoogleMaps - https://goo.gl/maps/wJDomooFQ6hmwtjf9 - #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga (@scottmacleod)~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181735062162665473
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1181734875885260801


What do you have ahead of you this week?

Scott



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Scott MacLeod
9:30 AM (10 hours ago)
to Janie

Hi Ma,

Good to connect with Finlay in lesson this morning. Glad Roddy MacLeod got back to me for about the 1st time with his NPC email address. Perhaps we'll connect further re piping at World University and School with time (and even re jobs).

How are you? Am curious how to build in ethics further with World Univ & Sch's developments, and re questions of process (given Harvard, Oxbridge, Yale, MIT's, Haverford's, Swarthmore's, Stanford's centuries' old experiences ... and beyond questions of law .... so into culture ... and re aspects of freedom re 'morality' or ethics or caring too ... in the information age, and possibly Scotland, USA and country by country-wise in many languages). More about questions about the 'perfect' idea, or related, later perhaps. Freedom is an interesting idea here ... in all of this. :) Hoping you have a great week, Ma!

Love, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping -



Check out these re further connecting:

Finlay:
Thanks so much, Finlay, for our piping lesson 'conversation'! ... B flat chanter tuning, simplicity, beauty, lyrically, rhythm, 'riff canntaireachd' with light music (and metronome, recording, combination drone tuning). Appreciating the connection focus as well. All the best, Scott


Roddy, Finlay and Roddy MacLeod , rmacleod@thepipingcentre.co.uk Finlay MacDonald , info@thepipingcentre.co.uk, NPC Shop ... 

Will do, thanks, Roddy!

Good to be in communication. (Am curious to explore with time further thinking about World University and School's piping wiki subject pages).

I enjoyed the lesson with Finlay.

All the best, Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

Accessible from 'Bagpipe Tutorials' in the "Links" section, in the main Subjects' wiki page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

- worlduniversityandschool.org (search on 'Subjects')




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On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM <deirdre@harbin.org> wrote:
Hi Scott,

I’m sorry we couldn’t speak on the phone in person.  Currently, we do not have the room in our front office to sell any books.  It will be a number of years before we rebuild our facilities. 

Best Regards,

Deirdre Davis
Managing  Director
Harbin Hot Springs
Heart Consciousness Church
PO Box 782
Middletown, CA 95461
707-295-6698
Fax 707-987-0616



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Scott MacLeod

12:53 PM (7 hours ago)
to deirdreSunheartericBarbarameAlexaScottsajjad
Hi Deirdre and All, 

Thanks again so much for your email, and your call from Harbin Hot Springs.

Brainstorming-wise, just Google searched on "bookmobile library converted to bookstore" ... and found these great creations: https://travelaway.me/quirky-mobile-libraries-and-bookstores/ ... Brainstorming-wise too, could Harbin bring in another ~$50,000 / year by creating one of these, and building on the bookstore in the Harbin office pre-2015, beginning when HCC got one of these working? 

And re ... 




Or a bookstore on wheels -






- then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now.

For example, my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold. (The 60%/40% split for booksellers is standard, where retailers - like Harbin in this hypothetical case - would make 40% but where retailers also pay for shipping and handling and other related non-wholesaler/distributor/publisher costs which split the 60%). 

And my other two books of poetry - also Harbin-centric - could sell well in such a Harbin Bookstore on Wheels: 

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
which lists for $9.99
(would bring in about $4.00 per copy sold to Harbin)

Haiku~ish: and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry 
which lists for $5.50
(would bring in about $2.20 per copy sold to Harbin)

And I'm planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: 
"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality"

(All these books are published in the NEW Academic Press at World University and School as well - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned with machine translation in all 7111 known living languages). 



I don't know of any school buses to turn into a bookstore presently, but it's a great creative, artistic and remunerative project that would build on Harbin's previous bookstore. And netting ~$50,000 per year would probably depend on what books Harbin sold in this, for one, as well as how big the 'Hippy Van bookstore' was, and what the Harbin waters did as well. Thanks again for your communications, Deirdre.




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Scott MacLeod
2:03 PM (6 hours ago)
to Roland, Scott, Olivia, ddehling, Mary, Nelson, Scott, Patti, Koh, Vadan, Andrea, Jim, takeshi2, Tarun, Alden, Barbara, Byron, Alex, Bede, Bruce, Marianne, Tom, Bill, Salina, Jonathan, Jonathan, lovell, Dominic, Dominic, Lindsay, Ed, Valerie, Gantt, Heather, David, Linda, Scot, Antonia, Byron, Peter, katherine, Juliet, Dean, edX, Patti, David

Hi Roland and Mary, Cindy & Byron, Alden and Marianne, (Jonathan & Ellen, Jim who have already RSVPed) and All,

Stanford, Harvard, Yale and MIT F/friends and family ... Roland and Mary, I'm writing to invite you all to a party on Saturday the 19th in the highlands of the East Bay hills - in Canyon 94516 - and you're welcome to bring a tag-along friend to the party too! (It's potluck again!) And we may explore various and sundry creativities as well. (More about creativity here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/creativity). Ridgecrest & Redwood Hwy, Canyon, CA 94516 seems to be a stable URL now in Google Maps / Street View - so it's good for directions, and the house is behind the U-shaped shed at this intersection.

See some of you here party-wise in Canyon 94516 on Saturday October 19th, say an hour before sunset? ... so say 5:50 pm or sometime thereafter!

Still exploring ways to hold this party virtually too - re ongoing Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital explorations ... :)

Online World Universities and Schools seek to become the Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Oxbridges of the internet - inspiring and in their excellence and knowledge-generation - and we may talk about this as well at the party on 10/19. And Nelson, re your initial email RSVP, great to see that Minzu University of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minzu_University_of_China - is in Beijing - and is ethnic-minorities' focused! Am curious how Beijing and China will emerge in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth - a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages - and even for the Chinese space program -  (in which I think there's a woman from China; see too this - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182036532707749888 - and other Tweets below) - which is fertile grounds for international cooperation in so many ways.

See some of you on 19.10.19!

With best regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod -
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -


Am curious how Beijing & China will emerge in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth & re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages & even for the Chinese space program:

Abigail Harrison | Aspiring Astronaut
@AstronautAbby
Congrats
@astro_luca
 👏👏👏
Quote Tweet

Intl. Space Station
@Space_Station · Oct 2, 2019
Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin handed over station command during a ceremony today to @Astro_Luca. Watch Ovchinin return to Earth on Thursday with @AstroHague and @Astro_Hazzaa live on @NASA TV. #AskNASA | https://nasa.gov/live

Undock: 3:36am ET Thursday
Landing: 7am ET




https://twitter.com/AstronautAbby/status/1179574826815688705

https://twitter.com/AstronautAbby/status/1179574826815688705 (in which I think there's an astronaut from China): Fertile grounds for international cooperation!

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182036532707749888


International cooperation & even re Chinese / USA space programs? ! Am curious how Beijing & China & USA will emerge in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM & https://twitter.com/AstronautAbby/status/1179574826815688705 with astronaut from China

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182037575143321600

Lego Robotics & re Actual-Virtual ?

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181702062024736768

























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Termite Cathedrals (& networks in nature): Brilliant stuff (as they might say in Edinburgh) - Cosmic Sceptic Atheist Alex at Oxford: DISGUSTING Things From My Theology Degree * * * Communications . . . and Manuel Castells'"Communications' Power" (2nd edition, 2009 / 2013) .... power's out in Canyon 94516, both electricity and internet * * * What is Wisdom? ~ Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom .... Lao Tzu's "Tao te Ching" ... ?Patanjali's Yoga Sutras??? ... (?Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations???) ... A.I. Wisdom?

Next: Pinus strobus near water: Great to see first explcit #PhysicalDigital focus: "The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study"re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth in the medical journal Lancet * * * Physical-Digital NEWLY and into Actual-Virtual both re science and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, and re a Realistic Virtual Earth * * * Stanford faculty senate may have met yesterday, and I've been seeking to begin a fairly serious ethics' investigation there ... WUaS log jam in a lake of 12 years of no harvesting may open and that World Univ & Sch will become financially operational ... How to move from laws to a culture re dealing with issues that harm people ... and then to freedom or a flourishing culture and re Taoism * * * Circling around to: > DIY Genetics ... How might World University and School help facilitate best going from the virtual or CRISPR into a 3D virtual world for editing ... to the actual, as in actual bioengineering of species, and even eventually from home, but also in universities? Virtual > Actual or Digital > Physical ... AND > Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital for robotic surgery and tele-robotic surgery ... and in a realistic virtual earth as well
Previous: Bioluminescent spiders: > DIY Genetics ... In Google Translate's 100 /Wikidata's ~300 languages, how best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools > #RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #ActualVirtual . . . DIY Gene Editing from Home? * * * Thanks so much, Finlay, for our piping lesson 'conversation'! ... B flat chanter tuning, simplicity, beauty, lyrically, rhythm, 'riff canntaireachd' with light music (and metronome, recording, combination drone tuning) * * * EEmail, and your call from Harbin Hot Springs. Brainstorming-wise, just Google searched on "bookmobile library converted to bookstore" ... and found these great creations * * * Party in Canyon 94516 on 10/19 . . . Online World Universities and Schools seek to become the Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Oxbridges of the internet - inspiring and in their excellence and knowledge-generation - and we may talk about this as well at the party on 10/19. And Nelson, re your initial email RSVP, great to see that Minzu University of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minzu_University_of_China - is in Beijing - and is ethnic-minorities' focused!
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[NTF-talk] Cosmic Sceptic Atheist Alex at Oxford: DISGUSTING Things From My Theology Degree

Scott MacLeod
3:21 PM (7 minutes ago)

to nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

Non-theist Friends, NtFs  -

Brilliant stuff (as they might say in Edinburgh, where I studied as a high school student at Fettes College, and attended chapel every morning, and 'Collection" or prayers every evening as well:):

Here's Cosmic Sceptic Atheist Alex at Oxford: "DISGUSTING Things From My Theology Degree" -

https://youtu.be/VvcOfUrHS5U ... seems very relevant to Quakers / Friends and now NtF/ Nontheist Friends' emergence historically too somehow ...

(Am a religion major from Reed College, and I find myself listening to the Grateful Dead - https://archive.org/details/gd1971-04-28.126262.sbd.boswell.smith.flac16/gd1971-04-28s1t04.flac -  as I listen to Alex, concurrently, a kind of remix :)

May also head over from Religion to Philosophy or even NtF Philosophy. Am finding Eric Dodson's thinking fascinating in these regards; see his "Wisdom and Education" -

'Wisdom & Education' by Eric L Dodson

https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU

Wallace Watson (Duquesne Professor Emeritus) or Rosemary Coffey - do you happen to know Eric Dodson by any chance? (Was he by any chance involved with Pittsburgh Friends' Meeting)? He lived in Pittsburgh PA and was a Duquesne University graduate student from about 1987-1996 (Have blogged a bit about Eric Dodson's philosophy and psychology here too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html) ... Very brilliant stuff too :)

May head up to Harbin Hot Springs / Heart Consciousness Church virtually too here -

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1181347534662328323
 ... and re all of the above! :)

Friendly cheers, Scott
@scottmacleod - check out the Twitter feed re DIY Genetics Engineering ...

... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182416543436558337 ...
DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344>#RealisticVirtualHarbin >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working from HOME labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?


- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)


See Alex J. O'Connors'
12 Arguments Evolutionists Should NEVER use! (Apparently)

https://youtu.be/t0H9JzW9Sz8



--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.




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Scott MacLeod
12:00 PM (1 hour ago)
to Janie

Hi Ma,

Just checked in with Barbara Salisbury re power outage, and am re-sending text message below ... How are you?

Hi Ma, Electrical power and internet are out in Canyon per a text from T-Mobile recently yesterday saying they were working with / cooperating with PG&E and SCE (and Contra Costa County government official too), then I just caught a glimpse of internet possibly working again, with power stll off. Caught a warm shower earlier with the passive solar water tank still warm from yesterday, had a soft-boiled egg because gas still works, but lit the stove with a lighter, but microwave oven doesn't work. Bagpiped a little with metronome on battery powered keyboard, learning that my piano's speakers were newly malfunctioning. Then reading Castells' brilliant 'Communication Power' (2nd ed.) I got new insights into how reading empowers / can be 'power' too - particularly the pages 103-105 on the way the internet developed without authority playing a role (I teach about this, but gained new knowledge). Also after sitting first thing, did big Yoga standing poses - good day for these, and beneficial too in many ways. Wifi on smartphone seems to have gone off again (10:35am PT) as I write this text.... so waiting for power - both electrical and internet to come on. Phone may still work, and may charge phone's battery driving in ~53mpg? car soon. Just a little bit of a power inventory on a Thursday morning in Canyon 94516, northern California. (Gets me thinking further about earthquake preparedness too re my kit for this. Probably will look further into getting more batteries). 'Power' too is still off for World Univ & Sch re no monies ...  seeking for this to change ... (and re work - possibly creating 2.2 million jobs in 200 countries & 7111 living languages) ...  maybe lack of power for WUaS will change with my recent ethics' writings :)  .. speaking truth to power to use a f/Friendly Quaker phrase? Culturally (sub-culture) too. Writing a way here :) ... Departed Canyon to charge phone in car, and am out at the 5 way intersection of Skyline Blvd, Shepherd's Canyon AND Manzanita  ...where internet is working

(((then a fire truck drove by with blazing lights, and a left blinker

and then a car did a screaming full circle with smoke coming from its tires, and someone - Asian I think - standing up through the sun roof in the car with smartphone video-ing the full circle, and propelled by the Gs into one corner of the sun-roof)))



Good to have heard from Byron MD that he can't come to my 19.10.19 party ...

" Hi Scott,

Thanks for the party invite.  We’ll be back east at that time.

Best wishes, and have fun!

Byron, Cindy"


My reply:

Hi Byron and Cindy,

We will miss you at the party!

Best wishes, and happy travels!
Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College (See too the 'Stanford' label! :)-
Best wishes, and happy travels, Svott


Byron's very smart, a MD, an old friend, a UCSF head of research, and he grew up in Piedmont in SF Bay Area, and he's a neighbor.

Hope I find a wonderful partner soon-ish, and as nice somehow as my house-let in Canyon.

But like Byron, I may be back east - to raise a family:)

Internet appears to be working away from Canyon, and car is charging phone. STANFORD law codex session online at 1:30.

Have a good week, Ma!

Love, Scott


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All these institutions re power structure in northern California are fascinating sociologically re communications' power ...


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Hi Ma, 

Following up from the 5 way intersection at Skyline Blvd, Shepherd's Canyon and Manzanita (where lot's has happened before including d.t. and some kids doing about 5 fulll circles with screaming tires a year or two ago ... with me there ... am not clear what role GPS might play in all of this) 

... and then a fire truck drove by with blazing lights, and a left blinker on ... 

and then a car did a screaming full circle with smoke coming from its tires, and someone - Asian I think - standing up through the sun roof in the car with smartphone video-ing the full circle, and propelled by the Gs into one corner of the sun-roof)))


and with further big ideas ... :)

Love, Scott



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Hi Ma, 

Thanks for your email.

I texted my first email to Barbara in this thread earlier ... and she replied about 30 minutes ago ...

"No power outage here yet.  Possibly tonight though.  Resting my back after osteopathic treatment."

... and I replied ...

Sitting in Claremont public library and someone was reading front page of SF Chronicle across from me with big headlines, something like SF Bay Area STRUGGLING with power outage hmm. Get well soon, Barbara !  :)

And then the Mac Store in Berkeley called me out of the blue, about the same time my Safari browser was shut down, and a new little program popped up in my "Force Quit" dialog box which I have open to shut down Safari browser regularly because it's not working well these days, in not loading Twitter or Youtube after a spell (may be Apple up to its old conflictual tricks ...)

Will see what's up in Canyon ... may be a region by region outage ... partly to integrate the communications, electrical, internet, government interactions ... who knows ...

... while at the same time these ;'powers that be' navigating criminal behavior re even the sex trade too ... who knows? (Am hypothesizing here ... )

And may work on my book of poetry further here in the Berkeley Public Library in case the power and Internet are off in Canyon still

Love, Scott

PS
I have a head lamp in the car, just in case ... and a lighter to light the gas stove ... and hope the water will be warm in the morning again ...

Love, Scott




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Am gathering some collections of ideas I find wise:


Some wisdom?: ...

Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom .... See minute 21 in "Wisdom and Education" ...

https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU

Lao Tzu's "Tao te Ching" - http://classics.mit.edu/Lao/taote.html

?Patanjali's Yoga Sutras??? - https://www.ashtangayoga.info/philosophy/source-texts-and-mantra/yoga-sutra/ and https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm

(?Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations??? - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html)

A.I. Wisdom? - https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-wisdom-hierarchy-from-signals-to-artificial-intelligence-and-beyond

MIT CSAIL - There's some related computer science / information technologies' wisdom in:

MIT CSAIL
@MIT_CSAIL
Explaining programming to a 6-year-old:

1. You have something you want to do.

2. You write code to do it.

3. The code doesn't work.

4. You fix the mistakes.

5. When the program works, you realize your idea was wrong.

6. You fix the idea.

7. Goto 2.

#MondayMotivation



https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1181249576533200899



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Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson:


10. Kindness, compassion & generosity

9. Appreciation and gratitude

8. The ability to hold things loosely

7. Balance

6. Playfulness, humor and laughter

5. Spontaneity and creativity

4. Adventure, verve and passion

3. Curiosity and openness

2. Inhabiting the moment fully

1. Panoramic awareness and holism


(in his "Wisdom and Education" video - https://youtu.be/hBa7rGQXupU)



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Taoism ~ Tao te Ching -

10 Life-Transforming Themes (with supporting passages):
  1. TAO
  2. CENTEREDNESS
  3. NO SELF
  4. LOOK INSIDE
  5. DESIRE NON-DESIRE
  6. NOT-KNOWING MIND
  7. NON-ACTION ACTION
  8. NON-RESISTANCE, NON-JUDGMENT, & NON-ATTACHMENT
  9. CONTENTMENT & SIMPLICITY
  10. PARADOXES
https://www.sloww.co/tao-te-ching/



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THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT SUTRAS

1. Atha yoga anushasam (Chapter 1, v.l)
Now the discipline of yoga (is being presented)
2. Yoga citta vritti nirodhah (Chapter 1, v. 2)
"Yoga is the resolution of the agitations of the mind.

3. Tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam (Chapter 1, v.3)
Then the seer abides in it own nature

4. abhyasa vairagyabhyam tan nirodhah (Chapter 1, v. 12)
By practice and detachment these can be stopped.

5. maitri karuna mudita upeksanam sukha duhkha punya apunya visayanam bhavanatas citta prasadanam
(Chapter 1, v. 33).
Mind becomes purified by cultivation of feelings of amity, compassion, goodwill and indifference respectively towards happy, miserable, virtuous and sinful creatures.
6. yatha abhimata dhyanadva (Chapter 1, v. 39)
Or by contemplating on whatsoever thing one may like (the mind becomes stabilized)

7. Tapas svadhyaya isvara pranidanah kriya yogah (Chapter II, v. I)
Self-discipline, self-study and devotion are yoga in the form of action.


8. Avidya asmita raga dvesa abhinivesah panca klesah (Chapter 11, v. 3)
Ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and fear of death and the five afflictions.
9. Yama niyama asana pranayama pratyahara dharana dhyana samadhayo’ stavangani (Chapter 11, v. 29)
The practice of restraint, observances, posture, breath control, withdrawal from the senses, concentration, meditation and samadhi are the eight-fold path of yoga.

10. samtosad anuttamah sukhalabhah (Chapter II, v. 42)
From contentment unsurpassed happiness is obtained

https://www.judithhansonlasater.com/writing/2014/11/20/tb7p1jhvohw7l9s03w3e6wxxtooy4p



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i ...
Yoga is the inner releasing action {relaxation response} of the bodymind/brain for we language-using human primates


ii ...
~ Practice Angela & Victor Yoga bodymind explorations 

http://www.angela-victor.com ~

including inner movements playfully, and Underground Yoga {which will hopefully move online with interactive yoga avatarbots beyond videos} ~ See, too, Angela's Feminine Unfolding ~

~ Play and learn from these inner releasing actions & listen inside to what comes up 

~ Care with compassion, ~ and enjoyably travel to hot springs for meditation in warm pools ... 
{I'm thinking here of meditating in the warm pool of Harbin Hot Springs} ...
or meditate at home in your bath tub {in a virtual Harbin eventually}, and open your awareness/find benefit in daily travel like walking


... http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html



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"The wisdom hierarchy: From signals to artificial intelligence and beyond
A framework for moving from data to wisdom."

e.g.
Data: All the error logs from that system.

Information: An organized report about the error codes.

Knowledge: The ability to read a specific error report, understand it, and possibly fix the problem.

Wisdom: An understanding of how different and seemingly unrelated errors are actually connected symptoms of a larger, underlying problem.






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What is Wisdom? Philosophy and Psychology of Wisdom - Part 1

https://youtu.be/7j8h8v-j9kY





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would like to add these labels too but ran out of space ...
Yoga, philosophy, hippies, Internet, Angela and Victor's Yoga, Primates, Language, medicine, Cal Berkeley, care, Psychology, Information Technologies, machine learning re AI? ...







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...


Pinus strobus near water: Great to see first explcit #PhysicalDigital focus: "The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study"re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth in the medical journal Lancet * * * Physical-Digital NEWLY and into Actual-Virtual both re science and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, and re a Realistic Virtual Earth * * * Stanford faculty senate may have met yesterday, and I've been seeking to begin a fairly serious ethics' investigation there ... WUaS log jam in a lake of 12 years of no harvesting may open and that World Univ & Sch will become financially operational ... How to move from laws to a culture re dealing with issues that harm people ... and then to freedom or a flourishing culture and re Taoism * * * Circling around to: > DIY Genetics ... How might World University and School help facilitate best going from the virtual or CRISPR into a 3D virtual world for editing ... to the actual, as in actual bioengineering of species, and even eventually from home, but also in universities? Virtual > Actual or Digital > Physical ... AND > Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital for robotic surgery and tele-robotic surgery ... and in a realistic virtual earth as well

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Great to see 1st #PhysicalDigital focus: "The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study"re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth Thnx https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1182414666816991238!

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182709857213747201


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Great to see high quality implementation science with digital technology.
@dukeforge
 The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study

https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1182414666816991238



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Great to see first explcit #PhysicalDigital focus: "The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study"re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth Thnx https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1182414666816991238!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182708629436157952
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1182708412414484480
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1182708769559498752
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182709857213747201



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Physical-Digital NEWLY, & into Actual-Virtual both re SCIENCE & #ClinicalTrials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)& #ActualVirtual#PhysicalDigital@HarbinBook Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy& in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth: THNX https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1182414666816991238~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182761798333652992




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Hi Ma and Sandy, 

Good afternoon. As I work on my A) next blog post today, my B) next book of poetry (Harbin-centric too), and play for my C) upcoming Scottish small pipes' album in 2020 - and wait for World Univ & Sch to become financially operational - I found myself yesterday beginning to gather together ideas about wisdom which I've found somehow both freeing, possibly positive, connecting and smart too both culturally and intellectually, and added them here: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/termite-cathedrals-networks-in-nature.html. Added a new 'wisdom' label in my blog recently too. Where do you both head re the idea wisdom (possibly written in words)? 

And humorously, in which there can be a kind of wisdom as well, I added "Has Sandy been making bioluminescent spiders again ..." ... over in virtual Switzerland :) ...  to the top here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bioluminescent-spiders-in-google.html - too. 
Have been getting a chuckle out of it ... and when might we be going to explore making bioluminescent spiders together virtually, Sandy? 

Stanford faculty senate may have met yesterday, and I've been seeking to begin a fairly serious ethics' investigation there, which I texted about to Ma recently -
"Hi Ma,

How are you? I have a fairly serious ethics' and legality inquiry and investigation in to the Stanford faculty senate which I'm waiting to hear back about, as you may have read. These process questions will also inform World Univ & Sch process for related questions - so something to  learn from for WUaS - and maybe in moving toward justice, fairness and law. I'm not an appreciator of the sex trade,  for example. Sending love, Scott" 

So as I wait to hear back, am wondering and hoping that a kind of WUaS log jam in a lake of 12 years of no harvesting may open and that World Univ & Sch will become financially operational. How to move from laws to a culture re dealing with issues that harm people ... and then to freedom or a flourishing culture and re Taoism, I wonder?

Am reminded of Lao Tzu's "Tao te Ching" a book I'm inspired by, and wisdom-wise too, re law into culture:
57

Fifty-seven
...
The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
The sharper men's weapons,
The more trouble in the land.
The more ingenious and clever men are,
The more strange things happen.
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.

Therefore the sage says:
I take no action and people are reformed.
I enjoy peace and people become honest.
I do nothing and people become rich.
I have no desires and people return to the good and simple life.
(https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html)

So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ...  something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world ... a kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :)

For you?

Love, Scott
--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 




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Circling around to:

> DIY Genetics ...

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bioluminescent-spiders-in-google.html -


> Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital ...

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/camellia-japonica-your-call-from-harbin.html -



* * *

How might World University and School help facilitate best going from the virtual or CRISPR into a 3D virtual world for editing ... to the actual, as in actual bioengineering of species, and even eventually from home, but also in universities?

Virtual > Actual or Digital > Physical ...



> DIY Genetics

DIY Gene Editing from Home? How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344>#RealisticVirtualHarbin >#GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working from HOME labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182016420768387072



> DIY Genetics ...

Bioluminescent spiders: > DIY Genetics ... In Google Translate's 100 /Wikidata's ~300 languages, how best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools > #RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #ActualVirtual . . . DIY Gene Editing from Home? * * * Thanks so much, Finlay, for our piping lesson 'conversation'! ... B flat chanter tuning, simplicity, beauty, lyrically, rhythm, 'riff canntaireachd' with light music (and metronome, recording, combination drone tuning) * * * EEmail, and your call from Harbin Hot Springs. Brainstorming-wise, just Google searched on "bookmobile library converted to bookstore" ... and found these great creations * * * Party in Canyon 94516 on 10/19 . . . Online World Universities and Schools seek to become the Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and Oxbridges of the internet - inspiring and in their excellence and knowledge-generation - and we may talk about this as well at the party on 10/19. And Nelson, re your initial email RSVP, great to see that Minzu University of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minzu_University_of_China - is in Beijing - and is ethnic-minorities' focused!


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bioluminescent-spiders-in-google.html -



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Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital for robotic surgery and tele-robotic surgery? ... and in a realistic virtual earth as well



Friday, October 11, 2019

Am excited too in not only how a @WorldUnivAndSch fleet of ambulance vans re https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560 could become not only mobile hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital but also esp for robotics & surgery or #TeleRoboticSurgery #5G #5GAmbulance & in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182725283675164673



Am excited too in not only how a related WUaS fleet of ambulance vans could become not only mobile hospitals, but also especially for robotics and surgery or tele-robotic surgery #5G #5GAmbulance and more in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery re https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560 ~


Albert Gassó
@Albert_Gasso
Ambulance #5G #5GAmbulance presented yesterday, it can change traffic light on the way to the hospital https://twitter.com/tic/status/1100666849853825024 …



https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560


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Am excited too in not only how a @WorldUnivAndSch fleet of ambulance vans re https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560 could become not only mobile hospitals, https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital but also esp for robotics & surgery or tele-robotic surgery #5G #5GAmbulance & in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182724790370496513



Am excited too in not only how a @WorldUnivAndSch fleet of ambulance vans re https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560 could become not only mobile hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital but also esp for robotics & surgery or #TeleRoboticSurgery #5G #5GAmbulance & in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182725283675164673



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Am excited too in not only how a @WorldUnivAndSch fleet of ambulance vans re https://twitter.com/Albert_Gasso/status/1100672146668482560 could become not only mobile hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital but also esp for robotics & surgery or #TeleRoboticSurgery #5G #5GAmbulance & in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182725283675164673
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1182724790370496513



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Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital ...

Camellia japonica: > Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital ... Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales? 


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/camellia-japonica-your-call-from-harbin.html -



























. . . 



Chimera (genetics): Searched on "virtual lab genetic engineering" * * * the 'Vacanti Mouse' - and about genetic engineering which changes cell structure and function, for example, to add antennae to wings in flies (on this scale) * * * Am interested esp. in age reversal, and via genetic engineering reversal, in general, and for longevity especially too * * * 'Eustachian tube dysfunction' genetic therapy too * * * George Church's "Swiss army knife" metaphor for genetic engineering

Previous: Pinus strobus near water: Great to see first explcit #PhysicalDigital focus: "The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study"re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth in the medical journal Lancet * * * Physical-Digital NEWLY and into Actual-Virtual both re science and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, and re a Realistic Virtual Earth * * * Stanford faculty senate may have met yesterday, and I've been seeking to begin a fairly serious ethics' investigation there ... WUaS log jam in a lake of 12 years of no harvesting may open and that World Univ & Sch will become financially operational ... How to move from laws to a culture re dealing with issues that harm people ... and then to freedom or a flourishing culture and re Taoism * * * Circling around to: > DIY Genetics ... How might World University and School help facilitate best going from the virtual or CRISPR into a 3D virtual world for editing ... to the actual, as in actual bioengineering of species, and even eventually from home, but also in universities? Virtual > Actual or Digital > Physical ... AND > Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital for robotic surgery and tele-robotic surgery ... and in a realistic virtual earth as well
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Dear Dick, Erica, Byron, Cindy, Ed (all MDs), and All,
https://eye.hms.harvard.edu/richardrobb
https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/74233
http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/departments/ophthalmology/meet-the-team


How are you doing, Dick? I hope this finds you all well. 

A little further brainstorming about genetic engineering for 'eustachian tube dysfunction." I found this fascinating Vacanti mouse recently - 


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Vacanti_mouse.jpg - here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse. Did you happen to know even Charles Vacanti, Dick or Erica, since he was at Harvard Medical School too? 

I'm wondering in what ways genetic engineering could 'restructure' my eustachian tube dysfunction (if this is an accurate diagnosis) eventually, and along the lines of learning from the above Vacanti mouse genetic engineering-wise. I have in mind also George Church's "Swiss army knife" metaphor for genetic engineering and on the scales of the Vacanti mouse, as well as my eustachian tube dysfunction - 

https://twitter.com/harvardmed/status/1163834701108396032 (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/linnea-visit-virtual-harbin-hot-springs.html) - in these regards, and genetic engineering without limits too; will seek to blog soon about this in the 'genes' label.

Warm regards, Scott



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Dear Dick, Erica, Byron, Cindy, Ed, MDs all, (and Janie),

Blogged a bit about this - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/chimera-genetics-searched-on-virtual.html.

Am interested esp. in age reversal, and via genetic engineering reversal, in general, and for longevity especially too.

And how would one reverse engineer the effects of a stroke in addition to "eustachian tube dysfunction," for example, and especially in a realistic virtual earth for STEM? Am thinking here further Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth at the cellular and atomic levels, and with species and TensorFlow and especially integrated with CRISPR gene editing technologies) - and for further exploration of the actual-virtual, physical-digital for which I have some active #Hashtags in Twitter in these regards, eg see, -

Physical-Digital NEWLY, & into Actual-Virtual both re SCIENCE & #ClinicalTrials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)… & #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital @HarbinBook Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy… & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth: THNX https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1182414666816991238 …~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1182761798333652992
- where I'm glad Dr. Rob Califf at Duke recently posted this Lancet paper and a scientific paper with Digital-Physical in its title. I haven't seen this before and Rob is a former FDA commissioner.

Sincerely, Scott


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Dear Scott,
I'm no help on eustation tubes. I did know a J. Vacanti, not Charles. Sorry. Best wishes. Dick
Sent from my iPhone


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Dear Dick, (and Erica))

Thanks for your email. How is your recovery proceeding, and are you up to talking on the phone, perhaps next weekend?

Am curious even how to explore 'reverse engineer' C & J Vacanti's? 'Vacanti mouse' (from late 1990s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse) in a realistic virtual earth - am thinking Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth at the cellular and atomic levels, and combined with CRISPR gene editing technologies - to understand and learn further principles about how that cow cartilage developed into an ear on the mouse, re further innovative thinking.

With very best wishes, Scott






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Hi Ed,

Nice to talk, and thnx for your call ... resending (since text messaging doesn't seem to be working) ... Hi Ed (and Val), I'm writing to send you a special invitation to party here in Canyon on 19/10/19 sometime after 5:50. It would be really nice to see you.

And pending FDA approval, re the Eustachian Tube Dysfunction genetic engineering brainstorming - which your KP colleague Dr. De Leon and my physician, might be interested in too.

Fond regards, Scott



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Congrats on your work anniversary, Gerd Moe-Behrens! 
https://hackyourphd.org/2014/03/interview-gerd-moe-behrens-leukippos-synthetic-biology-lab-in-the-cloud/?lang=en
http://www.leukippos.org/Leukippos_Institute/Leukippos_Institute_News.html

While not quite your field of Synthetic Biology perhaps of - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology - am curious what you think about genetic engineering re the 'Vacanti Mouse' - and about genetic engineering which changes cell structure and function, for example, to add antennae to wings in flies (on this scale) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/chimera-genetics-searched-on-virtual.html 

Best regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


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See too re virtual laboratory for genetics:

Gerd Moe-Behrens'
Leukippos a Synthetic Biology Lab in the Cloud - Intro Coding Together



https://youtu.be/jDtxL7n148Y


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Scott MacLeod  8:40 AM
Congrats on your work anniversary, Gerd! While not quite your field of Synthetic Biology perhaps - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology - am curious what you think about genetic engineering re the 'Vacanti Mouse' - and about genetic engineering which changes cell structure and function, for example, to add antennae to wings in flies (on this scale) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/chimera-genetics-searched-on-virtual.html Best regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


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TODAY 14 Oct 2019 (in LinkedIn)
Gerd Moe-Behrens, PhD sent the following messages at 4:34 AM

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Gerd Moe-Behrens, PhD  4:34 AM
Thanks

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Gerd Moe-Behrens, PhD
Gerd Moe-Behrens, PhD  4:36 AM
Such experiment needs a careful ethical evaluation. We should not do everything what is technical possible. Chimeras and crossing the species barrier should be an ethical no no.


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Scott:
Am following too Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely in some of these ethical questions - https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU - and there appears to be a new Stanford journal for ethics here. See too Greely's Tweet in blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/chimera-genetics-searched-on-virtual.html. Am curious too how such genetic engineering developments will emerge in a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels - and for CRISPR. Appreciating your knowledge here, Gerd. Best regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


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Gerd:
Thanks for the great link. As I wrote in my  biosafety paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00005/fullcontainment is key for biosecurity. Thus we hopefully will never get a virtual earth.



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Thanks as well. I think how the realistic virtual earth / universe develops will be fascinating - and for ethics too - and Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow / Translate with avatar bots - with group-building Second Life but not cartoon-esque - is already its beginning ... along with 1000s of other digital virtual worlds and related STEM simulations. Cheers, Scott




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Searched on "virtual lab genetic engineering"

https://amino.bio/pages/vbioengineer

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https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/


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GREAT interactivity for LEARNING genetic engineering -


http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/dl/free/0078802849/383937/BL_22.html (try this in Safari where enabling Adobe Flash is possible)


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https://www.labster.com/simulations/molecular-cloning/




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Searched on
genetic engineering which changes cell structure and function eg "to add antennae to wings in flies" -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_mouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_insect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism


https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/therapy/procedures

https://www.esgct.eu/useful-information/gene-and-cell-therapy-glossary.aspx


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_genetic_engineering

https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/science/summary/transgenic/transgenic-animals-have-genes-from-other-species-inserted

https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/uoh_genetic_lesson01

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_targeting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Jaenisch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgene


Searched too on -
'Eustachian tube dysfunction' genetic therapy too



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George Church's "Swiss army knife" metaphor for genetic engineering ...


And here's Harvard Genetics' Professor George Church on gene editing:


Harvard Medical School

@harvardmed
HMS geneticist George Church is on a quest to read and write DNA without limits, to be able to address diagnostics and therapeutics for a range of diseases #ScienceMatters



https://twitter.com/harvardmed/status/1163834701108396032

(accessible too from this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/linnea-visit-virtual-harbin-hot-springs.html - and see, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/calluna-heather-where-to-find-virtual.html).



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Ethics and genetics:

Hank Greely
Germline editing

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1182855960202641409

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In the opening article in the latest issue of @CRISPRjournal, SLS Professor @HankGreelyLSJU argues that germline editing is not inherently bad or unethical, but the technology is unlikely to be particularly useful: http://bit.ly/33lZVf8





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See, too:

How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://twitter.com/ramymik/status/1181696994403897344… >#RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working in real University labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #biodesign #DIYbio?



https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1182013264214937600







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New Zealand's southern alps: World Univ & Sch's Q&A, News and Conversation tomorrow 14 Oct at 1700 UTC - in LightStream * * * Outgrowing God, with an Oxford theology atheist student interviewer - much NtF relevance * * * Gaming - Digital - Peter - MIT OCW * * * IB Diplomas at World University & School emerging from MIT OCW High School - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ ?

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NtFs, nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com, Nontheist Friends, Atheist Quakers, friends, 


Brilliant Mind-expanding material again - re morality and meaning and law and pleasure! - again from @CosmicSkeptic ... 

Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) 

Do Human Rights Actually Exist?


I see much, much relevance in this "Do Human Rights Actually Exist?" (Human rights are/have been a key issue for Quakers for centuries) for the SF Quaker Meeting, I'd suggest as well. 


And I recently came across this in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, main newspaper ... with possibly interesting relevance for atheists in the text:

"After court ruling, state House to resume faith-based prayer

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives will resume opening its sessions with faith-based prayers, more than a month after a federal appeals court said the practice comports with the U.S. Constitution.

Republican Speaker Mike Turzai of Allegheny County announced those plans on Thursday, after a federal district court judge ended an injunction.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 in August that a prohibition against atheists and other nonbelievers giving the opening invocation didn’t violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause.

Mr. Turzai’s office says he hasn’t selected the person who will give the next invocation, when the House returns Oct. 21.

Since the guest chaplain policy was blocked, Mr. Turzai has been assigning the invocation to House members".


Why is the Pennsylvania House of Representatives resuming opening its sessions with faith-based prayers - especially given the US Separation of Church and State? I've shared this article in Friends' Journal from 2008 by long-time Pittsburgh resident George L. Alexander MD before - https://www.friendsjournal.org/separation-church-and-state/ - but I appreciate George's reasoning focus on the following: 


What is the historical background of the First Amendment, which established the separation—what was it meant to achieve, and why? How can we understand the current struggle over the “wall of separation”? Is there a way to ameliorate this conflict? And how do Friends relate to the separation?


It seems both Alex O'Connor and George Alexander take far-reaching reasoning approaches to new developments in religion and legal questions in very edifying ways. And it seems like 'outgrowing God' and especially developing new language like 'nontheist f/Friends' offer potential F/friendly openings for the future idea-wise. I may add some of the above to the Philosophy of Language wiki subject page at NtFriendly-informed World University and School with time - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Language.

Nontheistically Friendly regards, Scott

P.S. 
I plan to hold World Univ & Sch's Q&A, News and Conversation tomorrow 14 Oct at 1700 UTC - in LightStream, if you'd like to talk. 

And would you like to join in in the upcoming CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's open Monthly Business Meeting, on Saturday, 19.10.19 at 1600 UTC (9am Pacific Time)?

Regards, Scott


P.S. 
What do you think of @CosmicSkeptic Atheist Alex's thinking? ... 

Brilliant stuff again from @CosmicSkeptic Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) https://youtu.be/jv-daraEJu8 To Philosophy https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy & possibly #NontheistQuakers / #AtheistFriends - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) ~ @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1183198577167716352


World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT meets M Oct 14 '19 Email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org to join in>https://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch > #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA WUaS is seeking our 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1183425760482086912




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Dear Universitians, 

I plan to hold World Univ & Sch's Q&A, News and Conversation tomorrow 14 Oct at 1700 UTC - in LightStream, if you'd like to talk. (Thanks to Peter Bothe in Bremen, for helping to locate this next LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube, in these regards especially - and re building relationships and communication!)

And would you like to join in in the upcoming CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's open Monthly Business Meeting, on Saturday, 19.10.19 at 1600 UTC (9am Pacific Time)?

Julian, you continue to be the named CEO of the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation as WUaS continues to seek to become financially operational - and first on the 501 c 3 World University and School side.

Regards, Scott

P.S. 
What do you think of @CosmicSkeptic Atheist Alex's thinking? ... 
Brilliant stuff again from @CosmicSkeptic Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) https://youtu.be/jv-daraEJu8 To Philosophy https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy & possibly #NontheistQuakers / #AtheistFriends - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) ~ @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1183198577167716352


World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT meets M Oct 14 '19 Email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org to join in>https://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch > #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA WUaS is seeking our 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1183425760482086912






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Gaming - Digital - Peter - MIT OCW

Scott MacLeod
1:07 PM (6 hours ago)
to Peter

Peter,

Mehr unten and re was Andrew Hadyn Grant gesagt hat ... ("when 'blocked' go around", which I learned at the University of California, Santa Barbara as graduate student, is given so much new meaning with the distributed internet / Web and networking technologies :).

Vielen Dank, Peter @Peter_Bothe Ich habe dieses Video ueber Tableopia's The Manor Mystery gefunden https://youtu.be/GIUmFgKe2U0 Hier ist @WorldUnivAndSch's 'Gaming-Digital' wiki subject https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Gaming_-_Digital mit ein par Kursen von MIT & muss 'updaten' mit https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/ ~

Hier sind die MIT Faculty intros - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/instructor-insights/meet-the-instructors/ davon auch.

Instructor Introduction: Philip Tan

Phillip Tan spielt Starcraft jeden Abend vor der schlaft 'to calm down' - interessant ...

https://youtu.be/RY0X1oEQbb0
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/instructor-insights/meet-the-instructors/instructor-introduction-philip-tan/ ...

Hast du Starcraft gespielt? Er ist Strategie game.


Wirst du Game deacon / instructor am World University and School werden?



Hier ist Rik Eberhardt

https://youtu.be/HpACiptk990
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/instructor-insights/meet-the-instructors/instructor-introduction-richard-eberhardt/ er hat interesse in Anthropology um 8 Minutes und er denkt Menschen haben lange 'connected' durch Rituelle des Games um 9:35 Minuten... interessante!



Veilleicht koennen diese 4 MIT Instructoren Virtual Harbin bauen als Game, aber auch fuer wissenschaftliche Forschung !




Alle vier Instructoren sind sehr interessant:

Instructor Introduction: Sara Verrilli


https://youtu.be/bhk8Wtgpb1w
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative
-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/instructor-insights/meet-the-instructors/instructor-introduction-sara-verrilli/


... und ...

Instructor Introduction: Andrew Haydn Grant


https://youtu.be/8TPJUR378f0
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/cms-611j-creating-video-games-fall-2014/instructor-insights/meet-the-instructors/instructor-introduction-andrew-haydn-grant/ -



'Um Gottes Willen,' wie Sie in Bayern sagen! :)



Alle diese vier MIT Digital Games' Instructoren haben viele Erfahrungen in Industrie, und nicht alle haben Ph.D.s, glaube ich. Sie sind auch alle gescheit



Peter, 10:57 AM
If you come to the game goto Skype-ID: klubtalk . I will then add you to the TABLETOPKLUB



Searched on 'klubtalk' found "KLUBTALK' with nothing there, said 'Hi' in it ... next?



It also looks like I'm already a 'member' of "KLUBTALK" - which now only has my one "Hi" in the chat stream and nothing else



I think I share this vision of Bernhard Drax - and for a kind of Mystery Manor showing now -  https://twitter.com/draxtor/status/1183080447904870400 - and exp. in terms of entering into a live realistic virtual earth to play even such games as TableTopia's The NEW Mystery Manor ... and even then in a Realistic Virtual Earth, Peter :) Viel Spass!



Habe ich nicht von Dir gehoert, Peter!



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Having listened to the last instructor Andrew Grant

I decided to check out Lego Lord of the Rings gaming -

Found:


LEGO The Lord of the Rings A cartoony action-adventure video game set in the Tolkien universe Source: https://lego-the-lord-of-the-rings.jaleco.com/ and http://fullgameload.blogspot.com/2014/01/free-download-lego-lord-of-rings-games.html

But herein lies a tale perchance -

"Yes, Lego Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are no longer for sale online:
The answer is a simple one"

https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/6/18170661/lego-lord-of-the-rings-lego-the-hobbit-removed-steam-ps4-xbox-live



https://lego-the-lord-of-the-rings.en.softonic.com/mac

LEGO Lord of the Rings - All Cutscenes

https://youtu.be/m_CvoG3nY3Q

Found also per Andrew Grant -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Batman:_The_Videogame



Am interested in these games too for Lego Robotics and with Scratch programming languages, and as my kids come along too ... and re Actual-Virtual Physical-Digital questions in particular!



Alles Gute, Scott



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Peter Bothe

Sun, Oct 13, 1:15 AM (1 day ago)
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Hallo Scott,

der Link zum YouTube Video hat nichts mit Tabletopia zu tun. Tabletopia ist eine virtuelle Plattform auf der du fertige Brett- und Kartenspiele oder deine eigenen Spiele mit anderen online spielen kannst. Für Spiele, die du selber entwickeltst, stellt Tabletopia Würfel, einfache Kartenspiel-Sets, Spielsteine, virtuelle Spieltische und vieles mehr kostenlos zur Verfügung. Du kannst auch deine eigenen Spielbretter, Spielsteine usw. hochladen.

Wir haben gestern mit Georgy und Florin mein neues Spiel ausprobiert und ich habe es gleichzeitig auch über Lightstream gestreamt. Lightstream hat eine sehr gute Audioqualität, Screen Share ist manchmal ein bisschen eigenwillig und auch die Videoqualität ist auch OK. Mittlereweile klappt es auch mit dem Umschalten zwischen den Szenen. Ich habe fast  1 Stunde gestreamt und die gesamte Aufnahme war durchgegehend von guter Qualität. Einzigster negativer Punkt bei Lightstream ist, dass du aufpassen musst nicht mehrere Audioquellen für das Mikrofon zu verwenden. Manchmal benutzt Lightstream Studio mehr als eine Mikrofonquelle und dann erzeugt dieses natürlich einen verzerrtes Audio (Echo u.ä.).

Schönes Wochenende,

Peter


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Komisch, Peter,

Wenn ich nach "TableTopia's Mystery Manor" in Google Search suche, finde ich und nichts anders als - https://youtu.be/GIUmFgKe2U0 ... Gibt es ein Youtube oder Video fuer Deine TableTopia? Hier ist die Blogpost ueber MIT OCW Video Games, und zum Teil, TableTopia - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/new-zealands-southern-alps-world-univ.html.

Schöne Woche,
Scott

Und hier sind die WUaS LightStreams von heute - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pinus-longaeva-bristlecone-pine-world.html ... Danke wieder!



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Hi M,

It may have been good, Ma, to have missed Shady Side Academy 'Homecoming' this year, and Bartley Griffith's installation as incoming President ... re getting his feet on the ground. He could be a helpful WUaS ally and even with regard to online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in many countries and languages, emerging from MIT OCW High School -  https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ - since 2007! 

I don't think I've ever attended a SSA Homecoming ...

What are you up to this week?

L, Scott



















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Alps

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mountains_of_New_Zealand

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Pinus longaeva (Bristlecone pine): World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT >NEWLY in LightStream * * * Re: Scots' history (was: A doll party tea! :) . . . Have whistle-blown further to the Stanford faculty senate * * * Preparation for my upcoming bagpiping "Honey in the Bag" album on Scottish Small Pipes ... My upcoming poetry book is coming along ... "To the Dance or to the Pools? ~ Virtually ..." as well * * * Inspiring book by Isabella Tree : "Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm"

Next: Primate sociality: The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs * * * Reed College Jan Mieszkowski "Here Come the Prose Police Why academic writing gets a bad rap" and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy * * * A kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :) ... So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ... something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world * * * Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here, as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech * * * Just added World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school as WUaS builds out here
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https://youtu.be/QS2BGE3y2fI


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World Univ & Sch 14 Oct 2019 Q & A and News - 12 items (30.35)



https://youtu.be/B4Ae7pwAT24



https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch


Minutes from 21 September 2019 for World University and School, and the WUaS Corporation -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html




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Here are the announcements:

World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT >

https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w>NEWLY in LightStream > https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch> #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.org Seeking 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1181354840389124099


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World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT meets M Oct 14 '19 Email info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join in> https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch> #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA WUaS is seeking our 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1183425760482086912




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Scott MacLeod
Sun, Oct 13, 1:04 PM (23 hours ago)
to Scott, Henry, John, Nelson, Dean, Peter, Abigail, David, David, Gary, Greg, Hugh, Jewel, Jonathan, Lillian, Linda, Janie, Sandy, Susan, Thomas, Larry, Wilson, chalmers, Robert, Hank, mcfaul, George, Frederick, Tammie, Bruce, Patti, Heather, Barbara, Tym, Donald, robert.byrne, Kurt, edsmythmd, Sid, Mainak, Mainak, Roland

Hi Scots' Dolls' Tea Party friends (Scots' history (was: A doll party tea! :)), Professor Hennessy, Scots, Gaels, Celts, and Seafarers,

Open Band - to open online ...

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1171460986571644929 ? Am curious how to open the Scottish Country Dancing Open Band (Berkeley) to online music making, and from tablets or similar in front of each musician, such that musicians around the world, for example, in Australia or New Zealand, could all play together - and for dancers dancing in Berkeley (eventually). Steps toward this may happen with 5G and within the Alphabet / Google infrastructure - in combination even with developing tele-robotic surgery, for example. Both would emerge for learning too (and at World University and School's Music Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - and Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School and /Hospital in all ~200 countries' official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - each a major online MIT OCW-centric university - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States).

Have whistle-blown further to the Stanford faculty senate - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/rocky-mountain-national-park-re-online.html?m=0 (wherein you'll find a most recent email in these regards at bottom) - and am hoping Stanford doesn't go down the MIT President Rafael Reid route who had signed off on receiving big monies re that tragedy of victims; Am hoping too for WUaS to begin again collaborating more fully with Stanford Medicine and Law ... I included again Stanford Emeritus President John Hennessy, now Chairman of Alphabet, Larry Viehland, Chairman of WUaS, Stanford faculty and 2 other Chairs there.

Am calling for a fairly serious legal and ethical investigation into Stanford - a full police inquiry - and have sent a series of related emails to the Stanford faculty senate in these regards, and most recently to the chairman of the Stanford faculty senate, but have not yet heard back from them.

How best to invite Scottish students, high school graduates, to matriculate at World University and School for free-to-students' online MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees over 4 years  - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - in 2020?

As Aye, and warm regards, Scott
Please come to the World Univ & Sch open Monthly Business Meeting this upcoming Saturday 19 Oct '19 at 9am PT if interested. You'll find the Minutes from last month's Monthly Business Meeting here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/kangchenjunga-mountains-india-minutes.html - with Stanford faculty senate ethics' inquiry in Minute 10.

And these WUaS Monday Hangouts Q & A News for conversation are beginning again, if interested:
World Univ & Sch Monday Hangouts Q & A News 10am PT meets M Oct 14 '19 Email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org to join in > https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch> #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA WUaS is seeking our 2nd online class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1183425760482086912  ...



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Dear M,


In preparation for my upcoming bagpiping 

"Honey in the Bag" 

album on Scottish Small Pipes, good to play again this evening 6/8s with metronome - Cabar Feidh as jig, and Archie MacNab too ... which in particular were challenging with beat - so will begin with them tomorrow ... metronome is helpful ... listening to Hopkinson Smith play Bach on lute ... 
J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute
I hear a remarkable rhythm suggesting silent metronome ... and remarkable cascades of rhythm too ... sometimes wildly beautiful.


My upcoming poetry book is coming along ...

"To the Dance or to the Pools? ~ Virtually ..."

... made progress and with index too, but am seeking to write a few more poems to make further explicit the e title 



Are you making music these days ?

Quiet yet beautiful here on the ridge in Canyon ...

Waiting to hear back from Reed re internship job descriptions for World Univ & Sch which I sent them about 10 days ago.

Seeking a ~28 yo spouse-partner-mom-to-be ...

L, Scott



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Hi M,

Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely just retweeted Stewart Brand's recommendation of this inspiring book by Isabella Tree called "Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm" -

https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1183404039578341376 ... (Stewart is author of "The Next Whole Earth Catalog' fame and is a MIT Media Lab idea contributor).

Here's a video by the author Isabella Tree about this - https://youtu.be/4cug0KcTnXI - and in the first minute or so, she observes how her family inherited their house - which looks like a castle - and farm, from her husband Charlie Burrell's grandparents. Sussex, England. Wilding is kind of a hippy idea too, but in the context of England in 2019, it involves old ideas of British-ness ... about which it's worth thinking. I hear echoes of Angela Farmer in this Isabella's thinking and video as well. And I'm curious too how this idea is possibly / would possibly play out in Lake County and around Harbin.

It's a 'back to the land' vision in SW England, that your brother Ted Brown also engaged ... and which comes out of the 1960s in remarkable new directions and with much deep thinking too, as I see this. (This will be an Xmas present for you - and not a surprise :) - so please don't go out and get it from the library or bookstore:) Looks like an inspiring read.

(Here's a Guardian article about it as well - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/28/wilding-isabella-tree-review-farm-return-nature).

Have you heard about it? What do you think? How will the idea too of WILDING play out in an unfolding realistic virtual earth?

L, Scott



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Primate sociality: The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs * * * Reed College Jan Mieszkowski "Here Come the Prose Police Why academic writing gets a bad rap" and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy * * * A kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :) ... So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ... something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world * * * Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here, as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech * * * Just added World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school as WUaS builds out here

Next: Chang'e MOON (Chinese Lunar Exploration Program): Song dynasty species in Chinese landscape paintings - Taoist * * * Scratch drag & drop programming language (Swahili) is multi-lingual & also works wi Lego Robotics' WeDo2 & MindStorms EV3 but not yet in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego wi Brick Street View in Google Street View * * * In what ways could World Univ & Sch with the "Mine Pi" digital currency best facilitate a #SingleCryptoCurrency in some % of all ~200 countries' languages distributed via #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments to all 7.5 billion people each a #WikidataQitem by hitting LIGHTNING BUTTON? * * * We were talking about these disastrous nuclear accidents - LEVEL 5-Three Mile Island (1979), LEVEL 7-Chernobyl (1986), LEVEL 7-Fukushima (2011) - yesterday evening * * * Am curious how PHASING OUT nuclear power may emerge in a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels too - thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER ...
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World University & School on #Google https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617 … Here's the beginning of the World University and School High School in English - planning online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme … - in many countries https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ … - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School … ~




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184209377198104576


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The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184209377198104576 ~ @WorldUnivAndSch on #Google https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617 Here are the beginnings in English of https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme in many countries based on https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1184272295541399552
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184273389000646658




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So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ...  something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world ... a kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :)

For you? 


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pinus-strobus-near-water-great-to-see.html




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Here Come the Prose Police
Why academic writing
gets a bad rap.


Nick Ogonosky for The Chronicle

October 11, 2019

By JAN MIESZKOWSKI
Reed College Professor of German



philosophy of writing?

ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

and the visual

The visual ?

metaphorically as writing with new approaches to a visual syntax? ...


The implicit message of a well-written sentence is not “this is the form an insightful claim must take,” but “this is a form that an insightful claim might take, although hardly the only one, much less necessarily the best one.” ... poetry?

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191011-In-Praise-of-Bad-Academic-Writing?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg6es9ZrpEChRT6BlZQTadkx9lnP_FvLJP5rRQvwxuV2LMnljMlA4N1NmVVd1OER0cERILTBlZWVuYVpUcmNpUWcxcjZVZ3pLSmo2TQ&fbclid=IwAR2CEfSjexA18PJ0UyeVvIh73Jgw-buFgwT8AF3WWo-gPDFSenI-heYFGVs





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Hi Ma, Ed and David,

Never thought about it this way, but re "tying the knot," perhaps the bowline knot is a good example, and re how David and I used to teach this even in the CYC even: "the rabbit goes up the hole, around the tree, and back down the hole again" ... but didn't think about it in new ways until just now. And Ma, I just found that Stanford Professor Scotty MacLennan, who is also a UU minister, and of Doonesbury fame, where he's the minister the Rev Scott Sloan, and I'm guessing that McLennan and the MacLeods overlapped in New Haven / Hamden CT as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_McLennan - and who is also a lawyer, ... and is a Unitarian Universalist Christian (see the article), - the meaning of which may have changed since the 1970s in California - and is still teaching at Stanford. Had never heard of UU Christians before reading this. Have you?


You can see Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here -
Steve Jobs's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://youtu.be/eHzAtxW3TzY - as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think, too, also a former Stanford president, across the aisle from McLennan, later in Steve Jobs' 2005 speech) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech in its entirety at the end of this video. It's a fascinating video too for ideas for me for World Univ & Sch and also mentions Reed College. A lot of Steve Jobs' thinking emerges from the 1960s (and he looks like a hippy in a couple of the items above) ... and Jobs closes this speech by mentioning The Whole Earth Catalog, which I had just emailed you about yesterday (and posted here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pinus-longaeva-bristlecone-pine-world.html) in my blog post from yesterday (including my mentioning of whistle-blowing at Stanford).  There's something questionable in my mind about how Jobs died, and it's interesting to see no one sitting next to John Hennessy on the Stanford graduation podium in the beginning of this speech possibly in these regards as well. Am glad I'm over here in Canyon in some ways re all this Silicon Valley history; am curious if he might even have been a kind of casualty of SV struggles within the 3 monotheistic backgrounds, since Jobs' father was Syrian. Would indeed be sad, tragic even ... and yet further open inter-cultural communications even between these 3 traditions, 15 years after Jobs' death, and 50 years or so after the 1960s.


I also just posted my weekly World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school, and it looks like possibly in 2016 with smoke in the air, although it may be before this during another fire - am not sure how to do the digital archaeology to find the date provenance of these photos, which probably exists) and writeup:

https://posts.gle/BgwjR

https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617

"Here's the beginning of the World University and School High School in English - planning online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in many countries and languages, based on MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ - since 2007! ... and which will feed into The College at World Univ & Sch ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ..."

I went ahead then to repost this on Twitter, and then unusually to FB, also messaging Reedie friend Candace Schaffer Lieber with this WUaS high school and college post, - and soon thereafter my computer shut down! Interesting to see what can be done remotely. I pressed the restart button, booted up again, and am making another new backup, having made a backup yesterday, and not needed it. Why and how? I don't know, but possibly hypothetically, because FB is watching its Google competition, ... (where WUaS is developing ... and re where WUaS too is planning to explore facilitating a single cryptocurrency in some number of ~200 countries and backed by their central banks - each a Wikidata Q-item where WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, planning for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, and distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments; FB is holding an event it appears in Stanford Law, the opening event of Stanford Law Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange, about which I texted you yesterday evening; see below ...).


Here's my text message from last night, M 14 Oct '19:
"Am reminded again, Ma, of the Scots' song "I'll take the high road and you take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" .. and just as an invitation from Stamford Law Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange arrived on my smartphone high up on beautiful Skyline Drive minutes ago. I probably won't go to this at this point - there may be some low goings ons at Stanford re this -  but it's one of the places where I first met Alphabet chairman and former Stanford President John Hennessy, in September 2018. Nice tune:) how are you? :) "

But I may register for this nevertheless ... since I met Hennessy at a panel where Stanford Law Prof. Joe Grundfest was speaking, and he's doing this first panel of the season again this year as well ... (https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2019/11/7/november-morning-session) ...

May have been good, Ma, too, to have missed SSA Homecoming this year, and Bartley Griffith's installation as incoming President ... re getting his feet on the ground. He could be a helpful WUaS ally and even with regard to online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in many countries and languages, based on MIT OCW -  https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/- since 2007! This text message to you from the other day was the basis of my WUaS Google My Business' post today, actually. 

Could Scotty McLennan, with his many Boston roots, be the minister who might even marry me on Cuttyhunk? Could be worth exploring if and when I meet a partner / spouse / mom-to-be ... Steve Jobs' speed is interesting in these regards too. Am an appreciator of John Hennessy who has great knowledge and perspective on all of these SV and Stanford history, and its successes as well, knowing the cast of decision-makers probably pretty well, since he's been at Stanford since around 1977. Laureen Powell Jobs is beautiful :) ... but am interested in cultural flourishings, (in addition to entrepreneurial flourishings which Silicon Valley and Stanford have so remarkably created).

Warm regards, Scott



















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Chang'e MOON (Chinese Lunar Exploration Program): Song dynasty species in Chinese landscape paintings - Taoist * * * Scratch drag & drop programming language (Swahili) is multi-lingual & also works wi Lego Robotics' WeDo2 & MindStorms EV3 but not yet in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego wi Brick Street View in Google Street View * * * In what ways could World Univ & Sch with the "Mine Pi" digital currency best facilitate a #SingleCryptoCurrency in some % of all ~200 countries' languages distributed via #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments to all 7.5 billion people each a #WikidataQitem by hitting LIGHTNING BUTTON? * * * We were talking about these disastrous nuclear accidents - LEVEL 5-Three Mile Island (1979), LEVEL 7-Chernobyl (1986), LEVEL 7-Fukushima (2011) - yesterday evening * * * Am curious how PHASING OUT nuclear power may emerge in a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels too - thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER ...

Previous: Primate sociality: The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs * * * Reed College Jan Mieszkowski "Here Come the Prose Police Why academic writing gets a bad rap" and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy * * * A kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :) ... So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ... something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world * * * Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here, as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech * * * Just added World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school as WUaS builds out here
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Scratch drag & drop programming language https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1184516873209163776 (Swahili) is multi-lingual & also works wi Lego Robotics' WeDo2 & MindStorms EV3 https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1184559875654901762 but not yet in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego wi Brick Street View in Google Street View



https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184574941376630784
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184566128820940800
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184575556500647938
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1184576504908304384
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184590525841727493



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In what ways could World Univ & Sch with the "Mine Pi" digital currency best facilitate a #SingleCryptoCurrency in some % of all ~200 countries' languages distributed via #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments to all 7.5 billion people each a #WikidataQitem by hitting LIGHTNING BUTTON?



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184573452105072640
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184574773105291264
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184575645935788032
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1184576321063510016
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184589615640076289
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1184589440355880961


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Re the 'Mine Pi' LIGHTNING BUTTON, see too:

Aquatic plant: Mine Pi - from FAQs ... "What is Pi? Pi is a new cryptocurrency for and by everyday people that you can “mine” (or earn) from your phone" ... This is how it works, and even re above hypothetical Stockton, California, UBI recipients receiving their basic income experiment in the form of a cryptocurrency like Mine Pi ... "hit the lightning button" ... * * * Per what we discussed (single cryptocurrency backed by some number of countries' central banks distributed via UBI experiments planning conceptually for all 7.5 billion people on planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number), a student in the first matriculating class at MIT OCW-centric World University and School just emailed me the following invitation to Mine Pi, a new cryptocurrency one can mine . . . How would questions of law in Oregon, and Washington (where your licensed to practice law), for example, eventually play out? And in Poland and Russia too? And in the US? * * * WIKIDATA - Dear Denny Vrandecic, Hearty congratulations on your new role at Google. Am excited too that Wikimedia and Google are growing collaborations via this great development. And thanks so much for founding Wikidata! . . . brainstorming-wise, a Wikidata Q-item for each of all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, in 3 ways: 1) Facilitating a single cryptocurrency with blockchain, distributed potentially via Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (partly to alleviate poverty) 2) 'Avatar bot electronic medical records' for all 7.5 billion people. 3) Free-to-students' highest quality universal education with online major MIT OCW_centric universities in ~200 countries' main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching in each of all 7,111 known living languages


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Hi Chunyu, and Koh/Ants, and Jodi,

Nice to talk with you yesterday evening at Ants' birthday party.

Could you please share these articles with Masha, Chunyu? We were talking about these disastrous nuclear accidents - LEVEL 5-Three Mile Island (1979), LEVEL 7-Chernobyl (1986), LEVEL 7-Fukushima (2011) - yesterday evening, and I mis-named Fukushima. After this fairly recent triple core nuclear meltdown in 2011, I talked on the phone with a friend Eckhard Krueger, a physicist and Quaker in the Munich Germany area, with whose family I lived for 2.5 months in 1982, after studying at the University of Munich in 1981-1982 for 10.5 months), and who, with a group of concerned scientists in Germany, after the Chernobyl disastrous nuclear accident occurred in 1986 (Level 7), together bought a very expensive piece of equipment to measure the nuclear fallout from Chernobyl, Russia, in Bavaria, Germany, and published a scientific paper about this hazardous material, and as a consequence was blacklisted from his job at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany, and had to begin his own energy consulting firm. This scientific action to measure and publish was based on conscientious objection in many ways. 

Here are some links about this:






> https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/eight-years-after-fukushimas-meltdown-the-land-is-recovering-but-public-trust-has-not/2019/02/19/0bb29756-255d-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html 

And with regard to the first of these accidents, TMI in 1979 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_health_effects

- my father, Gordon K MacLeod MD, who was the Secretary of Health for the state of Pennsylvania at the time and installed only 12 days before the accident occurred in March of 1979 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod - significantly and publicly criticized the Thornburgh administration (Governor of Pennsylvania at the time) for lack of iodine and physicians on the PA nuclear engineering planning committee (similar to way the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission had physicians): "He criticized Pennsylvania's preparedness, in the event of a nuclear accident, at the time for not having potassium iodide in stock, which protects the thyroid gland in the event of radiation exposure, as well as for not having any physicians on Pennsylvania's equivalent of the nuclear regulatory commission."

And he resigned soon after the accident and returned to his professor-ship position at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a professor of Public Health. 

Best, Scott
I may blog about this today, and with the 'conscientious objection' label - 


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Attributed to Ma Yuan - GENTLEMAN VIEWING THE MOON - Google Art Project:


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Attributed_to_Ma_Yuan_-_GENTLEMAN_VIEWING_THE_MOON_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg







http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/4sub9/entry-5479.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Yuan_(painter)




"Three laughs at Tiger Brook", a Song dynasty (12th century) painting portraying three men representing ConfucianismTaoism (Daoism), and Buddhism laughing together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China

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