Friendly greetings in this time of novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

Roland V, Eckhard, Liesel, Roland K, and Arne, Chris and Robin Mohr (head of FWCC), Alex Harguth (in Munich, also in law), and All,

Received some email bounce-backs from the Kruegers' email addresses. Robin M, Alex, can you by any chance help me find some email addresses/contact info for the each of the Quakers' Eckhard, Liesel, Roland and Arne Krueger in the Munich Germany area, please?

My current hypothesis and line of thinking/inquiry/writing regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) developments is that is this a major fire drill on a worldwide scale in new time of bio-weapons' preparedness??? (and with some 'policing' even subtexts ... and re language like this - https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1240349327844728833?s=20 - and re language like '2) even somehow reversing the global illegal sex trade (???)' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html)

And am reminded of the book by Raymond Briggs "When the Wind Blows" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489946.When_the_Wind_Blows ... which "Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book which depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly BRITISH couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way" - which the Kruegers (Eckhard) and I delighted in in 1981-1982, and with regards to the meme ('replicating cultural unit') side of the current novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) 'pan'-demic / pandemic in the media, and in many of ~200 countries ('pan'-demic regarding humans being primates).

Again, Friendly greetings from the SF Bay Area! How are you?

I'm emailing you to connect again in this time of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) (and even bio-weapons).

It was so great to talk with you, Eckhard (as a physicist with much nuclear expertise and knowledge, like my father, GKM MD, was a nuclear expert too, & regarding Three Mile Island as the secretary of Health in PA responding to this nuclear catastrophe in 1979), on the phone, (in Germany near Munich) when Fukushima occurred in 2011 a few times (where I was in the SF Bay Area).

It had been decades since we met and became friends in the Munich Quaker Meeting in 1981-1982, when I was studying at Ludwig Maximillian Universitaet in collaboration with a Reed College study abroad program for a year, after which I lived with you for 2.5 months, my living first in Studentenstadt on the English Gardens, for 10.5 months, (and then with you, Eckhard, Liesel, Roland and Arne in your home in Garching, north of Munich. And what, Eckhard, Liesel, Roland and Arne, are your Gmail addresses/similar long term emails (yahoo, hotmail, etc), and Skype contact information)? My Gmail address is sgkmacleod@gmail.com (and related sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) and Skype is scottm100. (Roland Vogl, Eckhard, and the Kruegers - do you know each other from your Austria <> Bavaria proximity, and similar social concerns for the world? Roland is a Stanford Law Professor, and director of Stanford Law CodeX there regarding online Legal Technologies). And Mary and Chris and Robin are all Quaker heads, ('leaders' in a sense), on the west and east coasts of the USA.

Alles Gute, Scott

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For your perusal,
... in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 9 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ...

Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~

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Thanks for posting this, @stephaniemlee. I was quite annoyed at CNN's portrayal of a scofflaw Bay Area. Outdoor activities are a legal exception to the order and, probably, on balance, quite good for people's physical & MENTAL health, if pursued safely. I've been walking. A lot.

Thanks for posting this, @stephaniemlee. I was quite annoyed at CNN's portrayal of a scofflaw Bay Area. Outdoor activities are a legal exception to the order and, probably, on balance, quite good for people's physical & MENTAL health, if pursued safely. I've been walking. A lot. https://t.co/qZHTD1vph6
— Hank Greely (@HankGreelyLSJU) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1240349327844728833?s=20

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Adam and Craig (friends from Reed College in early 1980s)!

Happy New Year 2020 - and Happy Equinox - with the New Year beginning with this Equinox (on Th 19 March) ... A Desiderata poem focus in 2020: https://mwkworks.com/desiderata.html (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/antarctica-mcmurdo-bay-merry-christmas.html)?

Am reminded in these regards of Angela and Victor's 'Who Are We Anyway?' web page - https://angela-victor.com/content/who-are-we-anyway - and Yogini Angela's poem or teaching therein - "Who Are We: Angela?" https://angela-victor.com/angela-farmer - which also seems identity related ... (and hand written, but then digitally put on this web page). Here's Angela's poem:

Who am I
whispered the wind
as it blew through my hair?

Who am I
sang the sea
as a wave like a snake
curled over the beach

This is I
croaked the rock
but I'll be gone by tomorrow

And the sun grew hotter
as I tumbled through my breath
and fell
into darkness, into nothing . . .
into space
is this who I am?

A new breath began

(image of beach, rock and sun)

For me Yoga is a journey each day
down into my underworld
not knowing
what I shall find . . . . .

It is a 'kind of death'
to meet those places in my body
that still feel pain
that still hold fear
from long forgotten times . . .

Then with quiet and gentle acceptance of these
little parts of me, the sad or hidden parts,
the lonely or ugly parts . . .
seeds of release are planted
and the outcome is a gift
that inspires my teaching,
enriches my life (image).

I feel such joy when I see a student
finding courage to enter her or his own
inner-underworld in their own unique
way. They discover their own creativity in breath
and movement as deep places un-ravel
and the power and beauty that brings to them.

In this process, the terms "teacher' and
"student" dissolve and we enter an
awareness of
innocence and gratitude.

Appreciating here the hand written aspect of Angela's poem - https://angela-victor.com/angela-farmer ...

How are you both?

Warm regards, Scotty

- Scott MacLeod

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And here's my New Year's letter - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html (and my Christmas letter is below, and here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/antarctica-mcmurdo-bay-merry-christmas.html :)

Are you both in the state of Washington ?

Cheers,
Scott

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Hi Craig and Adam,

For your perusal,

XO, Scott

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Scott -

Interesting! I hope you are doing well. Here’s an article from today’s Guardian that follows my own thinking about the subject, pretty much!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Adam Hewitt

4636 Lakeway Drive

Bellingham WA 98229

360-201-8903

'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?

John Vidal
Wed 18 Mar 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe

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Likewise, and re the Guardian article's focus on Africa too, - since Africa seems to have been very under-reported on re novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2). I think we're living in a time of great learning about and knowledge gains in virology, genetics, and similar. Am hoping this can emerge in a single realistic virtual earth for genetics (and everything) at the cellular and molecular levels too, at World University and School. Adam, what's you Skype, in this time of the novel corona meme?

Warm regards, Scott

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

...

Here's the beginning of a new :) story:

2020 was the year I began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in a digital mask, and actually in the back of the lenses of my glacier glasses. It was on the ridge road, also a fire road, near where I live in Canyon 94516, and all because of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) actually. I don't know how many times I walked back and forth on that ~ 2 mile long road, but I must have hiked all of the whirling John Muir Trail in the high Sierra in March that year, and some of the PCT near Tahoe. Amazing - and even though the snow pack was pretty light this year at 10,000 feet. :)

Warm regards, Scott
:)

(I shared this story yesterday with a number of good friends ... many from Reed College, when I hiked much of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2 seasons in 1980 and 1982, I'd think)

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Hi Tym and David and Pin,

What are your focuses these days re novel corona virus ? And how are you?

Here's the beginning of a new story:

2020 was the year I began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in a digital mask, and actually in the back of the lenses of my glacier glasses. It was on the ridge road, also a fire road, near where I live in Canyon 94516, and all because of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) actually. I don't know how many times I walked back and forth on that ~ 2 mile long road, but I must have hiked all of the whirlIng John Muir Trail in the high Sierra in March that year, and some of the PCT near Tahoe. Amazing - since the snow pack was pretty heavy this year at 10,000 feet. :)

Warm regards, Scott

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Timothy Lenderking

10:44 AM (4 hours ago)

to David, Pin, me

Hey Scott,

Most of the focus for me on Corona, after getting my daughters back to DC and safely ensconced (one from Maine, one from San Francisco), is tracking the spread of the virus in the Persian Gulf among the countries I work on at the State Department; preparing to move some of our people out who prefer to return to the United States (the vast majority do not, as covid rates are generally lower and slower in the Gulf, with only one death reported so far in any country, and that country is Bahrain, than in the US); where our teams have access to very good medical care in countries like the UAE; and where the authoritarian governments are, as in China, shutting things down very aggressively and effectively -- airports, beaches, mosques, and holy sites. Closer to home, we are, at the State Department, mostly teleworking at this point. I have one assistant in the office with me, five floors away, and there are very few people in my immediate vicinity, and no one comes into my office, despite the sweeping views of the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Air Force Memorial, National Airport, and the Anacostia River (David will recall all of this quite vividly; David, I drive past your old house in Cleveland Park all the time).

My 86-year-old father Bill is still alive and kicking, and I do spend time with him and with my stepmother, Susan, who also live in Cleveland Park and who are great company on a regular basis, as well as very generous purveyors of wine.

I am not sure I understood your hike on the PCT with a digital mask, but it sounds interesting. Can you please explain?

Hugs, Tym

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HI Tym, (and David and Pin),

Very nice to hear from you, and about what you're doing from your role as an ambassador in the US State Department, in a sense, even, in this time of novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) .

Have added Nanette van Nes's (an old friend from Holland, whom I know from Cuttyhunk) and my recent Telegram conversation here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html - for the benefit of others, and re kids too. And I'm hoping she is well in a 'big city' in Western Europe! ... more thoughts today about this possible 'fire drill worldwide in a time of bio-weapons???' - here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html ...

How's the tracking going in the Middle East for both the NOVEL corona virus (novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) ) ... as well as KNOWN corona viruses going ... and on what I.T. platforms (I'm assuming)? I'm making this hypothetical distinction, but don't THINK the media, or medicine/public health, can or have made this distinction very well at all (giving testing in all ~200 countries in different languages, and different approaches to tracking).

Here are 3 recent articles on tracking Corona virus via A NEW Google website (probably RELATED to its Project Baseline), and for machine learning, etc. -

"U.S. officials announced a new #coronavirus testing approach that will start with a website created by Google. If a person is symptomatic, they will be referred to “drive thru” clinics, and test results will post to the website."

> https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1238558346384465921?s=20

> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/technology/coronavirus-testing-website-google.html

> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/politics/trump-google-coronavirus.html

(I wonder if I might seek to introduce you to Robert Harrington MD, chair of Stanford Medicine, and Rob Califf MD, former FDA commissioner, Duke Professor, and head of Google's Project Baseline at Duke, and Peter Norvig, Director of Google AI - where Stanford and Duke are the 2 universities involved in an initial 10,000 person Project Baseline study, which has probably lead to subsequent Project Baseline studies. Might I, and you as well, Pin (Sid Mazumdar in HHS)? ). And MIT OCW-centric World University and School is seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people on planet each a Wikidata PIN #, in ~200 countries, and in all 7111 known living languages, and for Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records - in these novel corona virus regards potentially too.

The idea in the story :) I shared (below):

is even to be able to hike the PCT in Google Street View with time slider from home in a digital mask on an elliptical machine (or treadmill) for stress reduction and exercise in these challenging novel coronavirus times. (Search on 'treadmill' here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/ceres-dwarf-planet-thanks-astroedlu-for.html - and here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/anagallis-arvensis-tour-us-national.html - for example, and indead to walk all over earth in a digital mask in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth in something like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / MAPS /Earth / Tensorflow / Translate and with avatar bots+)

Hugs, Scott

Virtual World 'label' in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20world -

Here's the beginning of a new story:

2020 was the year I began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in a digital mask, and actually in the back of the lenses of my glacier glasses. It was on the ridge road, also a fire road, near where I live in Canyon 94516, and all because of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) actually. I don't know how many times I walked back and forth on that ~ 2 mile long road, but I must have hiked all of the whirlIng John Muir Trail in the high Sierra in March that year, and some of the PCT near Tahoe. Amazing - since the snow pack was pretty heavy this year at 10,000 feet. :)

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Tym, David, Pin,

The number of known living languages has recently risen to 7,117 (from 7,111) per The Ethnologue - https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/how-many-languages - and since the last time I checked (as linguists continue to hash out these questions, I'd think!).

:) Hugs, Scott

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From Stanford Law Prof. Hank Greely ...

Interesting but I don't have a clue. I don't have experience with that kind of exercise equipment. Sounds like of like Peloton (sp?) for hikers/walkers. Wonder if something like that exists - it must? The Pacific Coast Trail from the comforts of your home! Maybe w/a sound track!

Interesting but I don't have a clue. I don't have experience with that kind of exercise equipment. Sounds like of like Peloton (sp?) for hikers/walkers. Wonder if something like that exists - it must? The Pacific Coast Trail from the comforts of your home! Maybe w/a sound track!
— Hank Greely (@HankGreelyLSJU) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1240391957924339713

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Hi Sandy and Ma,

Very nice to get your text just now, Sandy, - and in response to my amusing story in text yesterday :) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/writing ... and thanks for your thinking with regards to the NOVEL coronavirus.

Have added Nanette van Nes's (an old friend from Holland, whom I know from Cuttyhunk) and my recent Telegram conversation here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html - for the benefit of others, and re kids too. And I'm hoping she is well in a 'big city' in Western Europe! ... more thoughts today about this possible 'fire drill worldwide in a time of bio-weapons???' - here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html ... Do you remember, or did you meet, Sandy or Ma, Nanette - in the late 1980s, I think (and a family friend of the Lovells) ...

Am curious about even the 'policing' aspect possibly of the illegal global sex trade in all ~200 countries, and with regards to the NOVEL coronavirus meme as 'replicating cultural unit' (and even regarding the law, in all ~200 countries' languages, and in all 50 US states ... I don't know if people are flocking to Nevada and the Netherlands, with regards to their legalization of seamier aspects of the sex industry ... do you?). See, too, this Tweet from Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely with a focus too on biosciences, and regarding scofflaw language in the SF Bay Area (where issues of the illegal sex trade may be horrific, for example) ...

"Interesting but I don't have a clue. I don't have experience with that kind of exercise equipment. Sounds like of like Peloton (sp?) for hikers/walkers. Wonder if something like that exists - it must? The Pacific Coast Trail from the comforts of your home! Maybe w/a sound track!" ..
https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1240391957924339713

Have added much of this here to my second blog post today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html - and check out the 'law enforcement' label in my blog here too, - esp. recent blog posts (i.e. not Rainbow Gathering older posts:)! Curious to think through further what might be happening during this NOVEL #CoronaVirus pandemic or 'PAN-demic' (where pan could refer to Pan Troglodytes and Pan Paniscus, and regarding humans as primates too! :)

See, too, here Tym Lenderking's email to me, David Thurston and Pin Mazumdar earlier today, - and regarding bringing his kids (2 girls) home from SF and Maine, in this time of NOVEL coronavirus ... (Tym is an ambassador, in a sense, in the US State Department, and focused on the Middle East).

Story which I texted both of you yesterday is at the top of this blog post ... :)

Love, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html ...

"Hi Scott, just laying low and avoiding most contact. Doing some work in Freeport house. Probably going to be a tough year for Tourism in Maine and everywhere else. Hopefully the human toll will be minimal. Leadership is abysmal, and will make things worse. It's going to be an interesting few months going forward. Got Ma settled in Longwood, sort of. Think it is good she sold 319 when she did. Strange times. Thanks for the phone Mount. Cheers!" - Sandy

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Tym, David and Pin,

Two blog posts today, all about this - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html ...

And in hiking the PCT, potentially in a digital mask on an elliptical or treadmill machine from home (or on the Canyon 94516 ~2 mile ridge road near me), we'd be able to do this with partners, for example, I in Canyon 94516 with Kai Weber in NorCal, thanks to the coding of the digital masks, and so the process would be social:

Kai (Reedie Kai Weber in (far north) NorCal) -
Now that sounds good! Too bad I'm in school or I'd go with ya

Scott -
We can hike together in digital masks from where we are - on the PCT (or will be able to) Kai! ... will have to code for this in the back of our glacier glasses :)

Kai -
Lol!!!

Scott -
:)

See, too, my email to my mother and brother, Sandy, just now ... :)

Hugs, Scott

And much in a related vein:

#Furthur: @HankGreelyLSJU @stephaniemlee how could we best hike the #PCT in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider from home in a digital mask on treadmill in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking in #NovelCoronavirus times > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
@HarbinBook ?

#Furthur: @HankGreelyLSJU @stephaniemlee how could we best hike the #PCT in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider from home in a digital mask on treadmill in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking in #NovelCoronavirus times > https://t.co/QnMhCwpSKL https://t.co/ebFHO9NClg @HarbinBook ?
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1240414496746647552?s=20

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How could we best soak in 1 #HarbinWarmPool in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider from home in digital mask in 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth #furthur @HankGreelyLSJU @stephaniemlee #NovelCoronavirus https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html @HarbinBook ?

How could we best soak in 1 #HarbinWarmPool in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider from home in digital mask in 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth #furthur @HankGreelyLSJU @stephaniemlee #NovelCoronavirus https://t.co/F80GPVbsNe https://t.co/E30KngUzVw @HarbinBook ? https://t.co/sOAd74YzHw
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1240409853782151168?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1240410131445059585?s=20

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Hi Sandy and Ma,

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Tym, Pin, and David,

Further, this is the Hank Greely and Stephanie Lee 'scofflaw' language in the SF Bay Area I was referring to:

Thanks for posting this, @stephaniemlee. I was quite annoyed at CNN's portrayal of a scofflaw Bay Area. Outdoor activities are a legal exception to the order and, probably, on balance, quite good for people's physical & MENTAL health, if pursued safely. I've been walking. A lot.

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1240349327844728833?s=20

Am wondering if some of this language and related could be used in the illegal sex trade, in SF law contexts for example, and even re sexual misconduct with children / paraphilia / the illicit sex trade/industry ... etc.

And it sounds like Hank Greely is walking a lot - for health reasons beyond stress (and he's GREAT and a bit overweight too, and communicating amazingly on Twitter from a Stanford Law thinking perspective +++ and he's knowledgeable about biosciences legally, eg genetics).

Am hoping all the genetics research that will come out of this NOVEL coronavirus pandemic, with the recent US federal $8.3 billion dollars in recent funding, will go to aging reversal research as well ... and that we all remain in good health potentially beyond 122 years of age (the upper documented limit that I know of).

Regards, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html

(both in the 'law enforcement' label in my blog)

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Sierra Snow Depth ...

https://www.fs.fed.us/r5/webmaps/SierraSnowDepth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)

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And thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find the February 2020 financial reports for A) World University and School, and for the B) WUaS Corporation, attached.

Join us for a virtual WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Saturday at 9:00 AM PT (via Google Meet)
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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1240700258658607104?s=20

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for March 21, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-21-2020-wuas-open-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/dryas-octopetala-march-21-2020-wuas.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on April 18, 2020.

Sincerely, Scott
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- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

World University and School

Agenda & News -

World Univ & Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital (medical schools), with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), and a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home. Online education in Virtual Reality is expanding dramatically due to this novel coronavirus COVID-19.

This autumn, CC-4 MIT OCW-centric The College at World University and School seeks to matriculate ~2000 online undergraduate students for free-to-students' degrees. Students would be studying something like MIT OCW into MITx courses, conceptually like - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - in The College at World University and School ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - and eventually via the Socratic method (and similar) in tutorials or group video conferencing and per The Conference Method online ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning.

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Glad to learn that the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto choir is exploring heading online, for example, and in these regards too:

Here are 185 singers in -

"Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque'"

https://youtu.be/D7o7BrlbaDs

In one version of Eric Whitacre's virtual choral explorations, the singers also 'embrace the lag' - and are all dancing together in a sense by waving handkerchiefs (or hands) in synchrony virtually in group video as they sing. In another version, for a serious piece, singers recorded individually their parts, and emailed them in, and a sound engineer (Scott Holder may have been his name) synthesized them digitally into a single beautiful piece.

Am glad with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch that MIT, Harvard, Stanford and so many other great universities, are all taking their classes online! It's an amazing opportunity for WUaS to study and learn best online teaching and learning practices - culturally even - and in so many ways!

Look around for online music-making opportunities - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - as well as open highest quality learning possibilities, and WIKI-ADD these resources, or teach yourself to YouTube, for ex., to World University and School in any musical subject (or other subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - which can be an academic one, a creative one, or a new subject you create!)

Musical regards, Scott

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir

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The World University and School newspaper continues to post DAILY to https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch. Here's today's (and am not actually sure who its editor is, and think it's a human, rather than a 'bot') :

" The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335157?edition_id=4a21c500-6a4b-11ea-b9b3-002590a5ba2d Thanks to
@JJtheTutor @MrValencia24 @scottmacleod
#realisticvirtualharbin #realisticvirtualearth "

The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://t.co/MCTQShwIvd Thanks to @JJtheTutor @MrValencia24 @scottmacleod #realisticvirtualharbin #realisticvirtualearth
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240814569058193410?s=20

I hope Stanford LAW CodeX (in Zoom) will be the precursor to WUaS law schools in each of all ~200 countries' languages. Here's the Twitter announcement for the open Stanford Law CodeX meeting today, Th March 19, 2020 at 1:30 pm PT > https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1240303769344065537?s=20 - if you might be interested.

And here are 8 of the beginning WUaS online law schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

Thanks to Larry Viehland, for the WUaS monthly financial reports for Saturday's open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting at 9am PT, hour-long (and on 3rd Saturdays).

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, Greece, has expressed great interest, in looking for a next assignment, in developing Greek World University and School, in the Greek language:

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Greece

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Greek

In communication with Petros, WUaS first is seeking ~50-100 highest achieving English-speaking Greek students this autumn for free-to-students' undergraduate Bachelor's degrees, that are MIT OCW-centric, and then to translate and similar MIT OCW into the Greek language for free-to-students' online degrees: Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and high school I.B. And, again, students would be studying something like MIT OCW into MITx courses, conceptually like - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ . WUaS seeks to develop similarly in all ~200 countries' official main languages, and become a major online academic employer.

Petros Kalligas in Athens, Greece, and I are planning to LiveStream this Monday, March 23, 2020 at 10 am PT from - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live (and thanks to Peter Bothe for helping with LiveStreams). This Monday's LiveStream will be accessible from - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - immediately after the event.

WUaS LiveStream channel #2

Thanks, Peter, for your skillful and fast creation of a second new WUaS Livestream channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ /live (associated with a 2nd LightStream platform channel for broadcasting too) - and with WUaS's Google for Education platform associated with your new email address there - livestream@worlduniversityandschool.org !

We'll explore in open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting in about 1 hour about your idea, Peter, of using it for the WUaS Corp too, in addition to the idea of dedicating it to WUaS languages, or countries.

Please follow this channel so we can get a custom URL, all!

book sales in WUaS Press - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

Larry, two WUaS Press books have sold this week in the Academic Press at WUaS, and let's figure out how to begin to account for them on the WUaS Corp monthly report.

Project Baseline testing of COVD-19

Exciting: Rob Califf MD, former FDA commissioner and Duke Professor and head of Google's / Verily's Project Baseline (with Stanford and Duke), Tweeted yesterday - https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 .

WUaS News and Q&A on Monday March 23, 2020 (see Agenda and News too) -

Petros, let's plan to meet in Google Meet on Monday for the WUaS News and Q&A at 10 am PT for a LiveStream to https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live - (and not in LightStream which also LiveStreams to https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live)..

Am exploring if the Unitarian Universalist Church CHOIR of Palo Alto wants to sing in Google Meet in WUaS Google for Education in this time of COVID-19 and 'sheltering at home' - and if they might, they could begin another WUaS Music livestream channel and regarding the roadmap to real-real time music making (as well as real-real time telerobotic surgery in the online WUaS Medical Schools / Teaching Hospitals).

Thanks, Peter, for making this foray into using WUaS Google for Education!

MAIN WUaS livestream channel -

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch /live - associated with worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (as umbrella account and for the IMPRESSIVE G Suite for Education / Google for Education which WUaS is in for free).

WUaS Press / WUaS Corp

As World University and School matriculates online students, the WUaS Corp will develop its online <> on-the-ground bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores / hospital technologies' stores, as well as code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet (also in exploring facilitating a single digital currency distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - to alleviate poverty).

The Academic Press is continuing to publish books - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and seeks to grow into all 7,117 known living languages (up from 7,111 living languages recently) and with machine translation.

Again, the WUaS Corporation, having just filed the SI-550 in California, as a for-profit general stock company legal entity, and is seeking 4 further Board members for a remarkable opportunity to grow into ~200 countries' and 7,117 known living languages regarding: "14 planned WUaS revenue streams, Business plan update" - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - starting with an academic press and online-on-the-ground bookstores/ computer stores/ robotics' stores/ hospital technology stores+

World University and School seeks to build on a socially responsible INDEX approach to investing, our endowment, to index mutual funds themselves, and in all ~200 countries' official languages -

The average return for the US stock market's S&P 500 is about 10% per year over 10 years (& over decades) See https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/performance/vfinx which says it's returned 12.49% as of 2/29/20 (see too Social Index Fund https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFTSX and https://friendsfiduciary.org/our-funds/quaker-index ) > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Index_Investing & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Investing_-_Socially_Responsible ~

The average return for the US stock market's S&P 500 is about 10% /year over 10 years (& over decades) See https://t.co/LzClG5xvVE which says it's returned 12.49% as of 2/29/20 (see too Social Index Fund https://t.co/V9I5O9YPte) >https://t.co/dselA32WbI& https://t.co/FMHtM4gIeA~
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1240075508785614848?s=20

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World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for March 21, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-21-2020-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/dryas-octopetala-march-21-2020-wuas.html

- 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.

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

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ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs / realistic virtual earth, for actual< >virtual and physical< >digital ethnographic projects

[Medianthro] digital / online ethnography - collecting and sharing resources

Hi Philipp, and MediaAnthro,

Thanks so much for this, in this time of 'sheltering at home' here too in northern California, due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic. I hope all of you are doing well too.

Brainstorming-wise, and in terms of a new approach to digital ethnographic method with resources, visit the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate in Google Street View here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) and add resources to Google Street View. For example, I added a photo you'll see here of the Harbin Gate House some years ago. But you could eventually add text in the sidebar, in addition to video (currently, I think). Harbin Hot Springs is my actual< >virtual, physical< >digital ethnographic field site, about which this book is about - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook. One could practice ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy anywhere in the world, and potentially in Google Street View too. Avatars will come, and realistic avatars too re Neons, or artificial humans, as one example of many. And I hope we'll all, as anthropologists, be able to visit virtual Harbin Hot Springs itself, as it grows, soak in the pools there from home, and practice participant observation by 'wiki'-adding to a single realistic 'virtual world' / earth and as anthropological interpretation of 'peoples' ('ethno'), as avatar bots too, (which is one view of ethnographic practice per Cerwonka and Malkki), via writing ('graphy'). I'm calling this new anthropological method 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy,' but haven't yet written an academic paper about this. Am thinking, conceptually, in terms of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Translate with avatar bots, of humans and other species, and which, like Second Life, is group buildable and has avatars which communicate, but am heading toward realism (and for the practice of medicine at WUaS too).

Here's the 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' reference I've added to the resources' lists you shared (but am not quite sure how to cite this):

MacLeod, Scott GK. (2020). Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. See, too: MacLeod, “Naked Harbin Ethnography” - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html. (Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn). http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. Berkeley, CA: Academic Press at World University and School.

And here's a related book I've added to these resources' lists:
MacLeod, Scott GK. (2016). Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin. (Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn). http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. Berkeley, CA: Academic Press at World University and School.

Also, as the founder of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, here are some related wiki subject pages in English (so far) for open teaching and learning, and with much MIT OpenCourseWare anthropology, and which will be too in Wikidata's ~300 languages eventually (since WUaS donated itself to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development, and received the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017, but they're not yet interoperable):

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethnography

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Visual_Anthropology

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethnomusicology

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethnographic_Film

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethnographic_Fiction

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

(WUaS is seeking even to develop Archaeological robotics first with Lego Robotics' kits in Google Street View with Brick Street View - where 'brick' here refers to a Lego brick - as these develop for archaeology ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Archaeology - in a single realistic virtual earth for archaeology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology?src=hashtag_click and you'll find an image here -

Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://t.co/4xn3jpS377 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235357771744169985?s=20. And MIT itself doesn't have an archaeology department, and regarding digital archaeology).

As we shelter in, am seeking for all of us to be able to visit Harbin Hot Springs virtually and soak, as well as walk all over the earth in a Google Street View digital mask, as a kind of tourism even, and potentially to practice ethnography as well. (The idea in this humorous very brief story here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html - is even to be able to hike the PCT in Google Street View with time slider from home in a digital mask on an elliptical machine (or treadmill) for stress reduction and exercise in these challenging novel coronavirus times. (Search on 'treadmill' here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/ceres-dwarf-planet-thanks-astroedlu-for.html - and here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/anagallis-arvensis-tour-us-national.html - for example, and indead to walk all over earth in a digital mask in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth in something like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / MAPS /Earth / Tensorflow / Translate and with avatar bots+)).

Have added these resources to -

Resources on online ethnography
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OrVaVQi_UPA54eUX8u-mVbUZpUHsNxG5VCfGDRF-Hu0/edit?usp=sharing

LSE Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List SHARED DOC - March 2020
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RaFQdQFdijQs6eQ_UlZRBuF30oD80uvisDyJXFjwuzw/edit?usp=sharing

Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy
https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

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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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[Medianthro] Online teaching

to Mark, Philipp, d.h.slater, medianthro

In addition to planning to build out a #RealisticVirtualHarbin and #RealisticVirtualEarth for anthropology (see:

The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://t.co/MCTQShwIvd Thanks to @JJtheTutor @MrValencia24 @scottmacleod #realisticvirtualharbin #realisticvirtualearth
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240814569058193410?s=20 - which is WUaS's daily MIT OCW Daily Newspaper in Paper.li which also lists the MIT OCW licensing clarifications) in something like Google Street View with time slider for classes, MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also in Google for Education / G Suite for Education (and welcomes you to become a 'Universitian' to have access to this great Google platform with Google Meet video conferencing which livestreams to Youtube recordings). Perhaps you can also develop World Univ & Sch in your native language and its country - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each to become a major online university.

To give you an idea of how you could use WUaS Google for Education, here's an example of 'WUaS LiveStream channel #2' thanks to Peter Bothe in Germany (for his skillful and fast creation of a second new WUaS Livestream channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ /live associated with a 2nd LightStream platform channel for broadcasting too) - and with WUaS's Google for Education platform associated with his new email address there - livestream@worlduniversityandschool.org ! And thanks to Peter Bothe for making this foray into using WUaS Google for Education!

In addition, WUaS is licensing with CA's BPPE to offer online MIT OCW-centric free-to-students' online Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English (and with time to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. and I.B high school degrees online, and eventually in each of ~200 countries' official / main languages), much in Google for Education with MIT OCW in its 4 languages, in Wikidata structured knowledge database in its Wikipedia's 300 languages, and for home degrees.

These are some of the ways World Univ & Sch and I are developing online teaching. (See, too http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html). Seminar (via conference method of teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning) and livestream talks/lectures (with video, group text - so 2-3 channels of communications) are modalities too.

Sincerely, Scott

MAIN WUaS livestream channel -
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch /live - associated with worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (as umbrella account and for the IMPRESSIVE G Suite for Education / Google for Education which WUaS is in for free).

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for March 21, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-21-2020-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/dryas-octopetala-march-21-2020-wuas.html

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
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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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Harvard's 369th commencement will be online this year thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic

Alden, Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann,

Harvard's 369th commencement will be online this year thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic - "Harvard postpones commencement amid coronavirus pandemic, plans online event May 28"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/nation/harvard-holding-online-commencement-may-28-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/. What an amazing opportunity for the big academic project I'm working on to learn from - e.g. how to do online graduations - and potentially even collaborate with Harvard and MIT in these regards, with all this online creativity and productivity as they both take all of their classes online. What a windfall for learning from!

Here's Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's "Thoughts on the Pandemic" - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html.

And the Pew Research Center - "U.S. public sees multiple threats from the coronavirus – and concerns are growing" - https://mailchi.mp/pewresearch.org/americans-see-multiple-threats-from-the-coronavirus?e=4188253c1e I think the picture speaks louder than words.

And is this the beginning of online hospitals in Google's / Verily's Project Baseline with information technologies ? ....

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening -
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20
https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital!

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 21, 2020

Sunday, March 22, 2020

California COVID-19 risk screening and testing

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We are working to rapidly expand testing in every way that we can; please check back soon as we add more testing sites and may expand eligibility criteria.

Currently offering COVID-19 testing in California:

Santa Clara County, CA
San Mateo County, CA
Within 50 miles of the city of Riverside, CA

https://projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/

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Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening -
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20
https://projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
@WorldUnivAndSch 's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital!

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241228650831171585?s=20

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Working with the governor's office to screen for Covid 19. @verilylifesci

Working with the governor's office to screen for Covid 19. @verilylifesci https://t.co/efLLeVY3AO
— Robert M Califf (@califf001) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20

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The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci

The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://t.co/yUzyw2lk3n and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci.
— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20

NEW: As a wave of at-home tests for coronavirus are coming on the market, federal regulators issued stern guidance saying that *none of them* has yet been officially approved for use. (1/3)

NEW: As a wave of at-home tests for coronavirus are coming on the market, federal regulators issued stern guidance saying that *none of them* has yet been officially approved for use. (1/3) https://t.co/m9uJfVN3UE
— Erin Brodwin⚡ (@erbrod) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/erbrod/status/1241475234894467073?s=20

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Hospital at World University and School >
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital

(Again,
Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening -
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20…
https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20…
https://projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital!

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241228650831171585?s=20)

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Plan for testing for all biological agents, viral & bacterial (re fire drill in time of biological weapons)? Sequence whole GENOME in drive-thru test centers? All 320 million Americans, from home >#AvatarBotElectornicMedicalRecords in #ProjectBaseline >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ?

Plan for testing for all biological agents, viral & bacterial (re fire drill in time of biological weapons)? Sequence whole GENOME in drive-thru test centers? All 320 million Americans, from home >#AvatarBotElectornicMedicalRecords in #ProjectBaseline>https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241537848538349568?s=20

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Sequence whole GENOME in drive-thru test centers? All 320 million Americans, & from home too? https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
https://twitter.com/erbrod/status/1241475234894467073?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241228650831171585?s=20 re all viruses+ #AvatarBotElectornicMedicalRecords in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital>#RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

Sequence whole GENOME in drive-thru test centers? All 320 million Americans, & from home too? https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/VFQpDDDqIn https://t.co/FhGcoWsciD re all viruses+ #AvatarBotElectornicMedicalRecords in https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz>#RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241538951116017665?s=20

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Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 >https://twitter.com/erbrod/status/1241475234894467073?s=20
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital @WorldUnivAndSch?

Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw
>https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM>https://t.co/VFQpDDDqIn
>https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz @WorldUnivAndSch? https://t.co/5yqTxbJVfn
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241816822568980480?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241818042876579845?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1241817813993455617?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241818664648601600?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1241819171505070085?s=20

Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://t.co/T7BV77ufBJ
>https://t.co/k3eYzQNqRC>https://t.co/LKnYXPhpca
>https://t.co/3jZ7NxR213 @WorldUnivAndSch?
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1241821298663116800?s=20

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“14 types of COVID-19 testing kits from China have received EU CE approval to export. Zero approved by FDA as of 18 March”

Who knew? So called “socialist” countries are better at efficient bureaucracy than “regulation-slashing Republicans” in US.

“14 types of COVID-19 testing kits from China have received EU CE approval to export. Zero approved by FDA as of 18 March”

Who knew? So called “socialist” countries are better at efficient bureaucracy than “regulation-slashing Republicans” in US. https://t.co/ENsoYE7R4i
— Lessig (@lessig) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1241805888761081856?s=20

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Internet MEDIA is reshaping SOCIETY in ~200 countries due to 1) novel #coronavirus MEME (replicating cultural unit) & 2) #COVID19 (SARS CoV2) GENEs - & new SPACE is opening too for @WorldUnivAndSch's matriculating students & WIKIs >COVID19 (SARS CoV2) GENES' TEST from computers?

Internet MEDIA is reshaping SOCIETY in ~200 countries due to 1) novel #coronavirus MEME (replicating cultural unit) & 2) #COVID19 (SARS CoV2) GENEs - & new SPACE is opening too for @WorldUnivAndSch's matriculating students & WIKIs >COVID19 (SARS CoV2) GENES' TEST from computers? https://t.co/j3FvBASCY5
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241765123804393472?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1241765583810527234?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241766025936302081?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241769555598299137?s=20

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Will US federal law come to play a much bigger role in California than it has, & regarding the novel #coronavirus pandemic, testing for #Covid19 genes, & WITH a Google #ProjectBaseline Covid19 SCREENING App https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/> http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html?m=0 eg re scofflaws too?

Will US federal law come to play a much bigger role in California than it has, & regarding the novel #coronavirus pandemic, testing for #Covid19 genes, & WITH a Google #ProjectBaseline Covid19 SCREENING App https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2> https://t.co/Ixo5rB3x3T eg re scofflaws too?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241861141296373760?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1241862165105004544?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241862585969868800?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241864492876619776?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1241866529542533121?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1241866096606457857?s=20

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

See: Illustration of a quandong by Olive Pink

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

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World University and School

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World Univ&Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241883624661606400?s=20

In the 3/21/20 WUaS monthly business meeting, and in talking with Larry Viehland, the chair of the Board at World University and School and a MIT alumnus, he said 'yeah' this would happen -

Students would be studying something like MIT OCW into MITx courses, conceptually like - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - in The College at World University and School ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - and eventually via the Socratic method (and similar) in tutorials or group video conferencing and per The Conference Method online ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning.

- and that WUaS would seek to begin licensing with CA's BPPE in mid-May, potentially.

WUaS offered basically the use of a Free 250 place choir hall to the UU choir of Palo Alto, in WUaS G Suite for Education, but WUaS still isn't able to livestream from its Google Meet to YouTube. This may be beginnings of many virtual choirs, as well as online music schools for real, real time music-making (with a Google road map for this), and potentially also for real real time tele robotic surgery in WUaS's online teaching hospitals and medical schools in ~200 countries' official and main languages.

World Univ & Sch's -
"The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily" (https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335157#/ - for example - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240814569058193410?s=20) - continues automatically to post daily to WUaS Twitter - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - the following licensing and endorsement clarifications, in addition to some educational 'news':

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free

You'll find these also at worlduniversityandschool.org -

"(Licensing (CA's BPPE) & Accrediting (WASC) ...

MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )"

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World Univ & Sch continues to attend the open Stanford LAW CodeX (in Zoom) on Thursdays - e.g. https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1240303769344065537?s=20 - if you might be interested, and is seeking for it to become the precursor to WUaS law schools in each of all ~200 countries' languages.

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WUaS for World Univ & Sch continues to email monthly financial reports for Saturday's open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting at 9am PT, hour-long (on 3rd Saturdays); please ask to join this email list at info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to receive these.

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WUaS first is seeking ~50-100 highest achieving English-speaking Greek students this autumn for free-to-students' undergraduate Bachelor's degrees, that are MIT OCW-centric, and then to translate and similar MIT OCW into the Greek language for free-to-students' online degrees: Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and high school I.B. And, again, students would be studying something like MIT OCW into MITx courses, conceptually like - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/

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Petros Kalligas in Athens, Greece, and I are planning to LiveStream this Monday, March 23, 2020 at 10 am PT re:

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, Greece, has expressed great interest, in looking for a next assignment, in developing Greece World University and School, in the Greek language:

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Greece

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Greek

either to https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live
or to test the new WUaS LiveStream - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live

Stay tuned on Twitter - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

Could this Google's Verily's Project Baseline

Project Baseline testing of COVD-19

So, WUaS Tweeted -
Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening -
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20
https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241816822568980480?s=20

... be the beginnings of WUaS coding for matriculating students in all ~200 countries, and speakers of all 7,117 languages, and regarding planning even for WUaS reimbursement, for example, in all 58 counties in California, 67 counties in Pennsylvania, for matriculated students, and online hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ... and for 'Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records' planned for 7.5 billion people - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectornicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click - see - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241538951116017665?s=20 ?

WUaSCorporation, WUaSPress

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As World University and School matriculates online students, the WUaS Corp will develop its online <> on-the-ground bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores / hospital technologies' stores, as well as code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet (also in exploring facilitating a single digital currency distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - to alleviate poverty).

B

C

D

E
WUaS Press will begin to transfer a percentage of booksales to the WUaS Press

WUaS continues to email monthly financial reports for Saturday's open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting at 9am PT, hour-long (on 3rd Saturdays); please ask to join this email list at info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to receive these.

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Dryas octopetala: March 21, 2020 WUaS open Monthly Business Meeting - Agenda & News

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/dryas-octopetala-march-21-2020-wuas.html
(- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-21-2020-wuas-open-monthly.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowshoe_hare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammals_of_Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)

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World Univ & Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home

World Univ&Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241883624661606400

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Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News

https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o

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Thanks to Petros for our 42 minutes' conversation & regarding Greece @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Greece (planned in Greek)
Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News
https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o
All the best,
Scott
-https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch… -
-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -

Thanks to Petros for our 45 minutes' conversation & regarding Greece @WorldUnivAndSch https://t.co/8iywLOUBUz
Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News https://t.co/tVlieKL9Ti
All the best,
Scott
-https://t.co/Ga7kahzZU5 -
-https://t.co/k7eWS61Keo -
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242147645352599552

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WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 3/23/20 at 10a PT Topic: Greece World Univ and Sch with special guest Petros Kalligas! in Athens > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Greece @WorldUnivAndSch email info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~ #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 3/23/20 at 10a PT Topic: Greece World Univ and Sch with special guest Petros Kalligas! in Athens > https://t.co/8iywLOUBUz @WorldUnivAndSch email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~ #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241958962737475584

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Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20>https://twitter.com/erbrod/status/1241475234894467073?s=20
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital @WorldUnivAndSch?

Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw
>https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM>https://t.co/VFQpDDDqIn
>https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz @WorldUnivAndSch? https://t.co/5yqTxbJVfn
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

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"New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits" March 23, 2020

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/new-coronavirus-surveillance-program-launched-in-seattle-based-on-home-test-kits/

>#ProjectBaseline >https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 for clinical trials for speakers in 7k languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)> #ReaisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

"New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits" March 23, 2020https://t.co/WSPkYsjaeu
>#ProjectBaseline>https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw for clinical trials for speakers in 7k languages too - https://t.co/48K86jwyEL> #ReaisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242197294478323717?s=20

New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits 3/23/20

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/new-coronavirus-surveillance-program-launched-in-seattle-based-on-home-test-kits/

>#ProjectBaseline >https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 for clinical trials for speakers in 7k langs too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)>#AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B people?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242197696879808513?s=20

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Harvard University

@Harvard · Mar 22

How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast COVID-19 spreads and a number of other variables. A new searchable map is helping leaders make informed decisions by visualizing best- and worst-case capacity scenarios by region over time.

How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast COVID-19 spreads and a number of other variables. A new searchable map is helping leaders make informed decisions by visualizing best- and worst-case capacity scenarios by region over time. https://t.co/FDss7fBJJw
— Harvard University (@Harvard) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1241891162182557696?s=20

Since there's a risk due to #COVID19 of running out of hospital beds nationally per Harvard https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1241891162182557696?s=20 in what ways could the USA turn people's beds at home into hospital beds for overflow, & is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241818664648601600?s=20 ?

Since there's a risk due to #COVID19 of running out of hospital beds nationally per Harvard https://t.co/XdR8S6Qn0v in what ways could the USA turn people's beds at home into hospital beds for overflow, & is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yethttps://t.co/0n90UTER2H ? https://t.co/cbnPeyI6aH
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241895872511631363?s=20

Again ...

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening -

https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20

https://projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/

in Santa Clara County

San Mateo County

@WorldUnivAndSch 's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital!

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241228650831171585?s=20

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... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 14 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Mount Oeta - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html
Desert Quandong - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html

High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~

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

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

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Open Band (Berkeley) @TheOpenBand Mar 22
Dancing at HOME
https://bostonglobe.com/2020/03/22/nation/how-clubquarantine-party-that-brought-together-thousands-across-world-including-michelle-obama-oprah-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-gave-us-reason-dance-again/ How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing
@WorldUnivAndSch ?

Dancing at HOME https://t.co/BC3p01tL3h How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh& music-making https://t.co/Th9NYKGtS0 to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://t.co/jralgPlavK @WorldUnivAndSch?
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241772453296136192?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241774446114795520?s=20

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WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free

https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo

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WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
>https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo
(you can stand up and join in) Want to begin #MusicMaking like this in #VirtualChoir? Singing & Dancing together with Movement from HOME Invite: @WorldUnivAndSch offers the use of Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
>https://t.co/SeXAI0UhcP
(you can stand up and join in) Want to begin #MusicMaking like this in #VirtualChoir? Singing & Dancing together with Movement from HOME Invite: @WorldUnivAndSch offers the use of Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1242622996310675456?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1242623369054281728?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242624987275472897?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242625312187240449?s=20

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WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Freedom Land II. I'm On My Way III. Oh Freedom, Come by Here

https://youtu.be/S7XiUxsOoHM

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Beautiful, Robert, and Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto!

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo

I'd like to re-extend my invitation to the use of Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite - now with movement (for wellbeing) thanks to WITNESS - and with this Tweet too:

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
>https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo
(you can stand up and join in) Want to begin #MusicMaking like this in #VirtualChoir? Singing & Dancing together with Movement from HOME Invite: @WorldUnivAndSch offers the use of Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1242622996310675456?s=20https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1242623369054281728?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242624987275472897?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242625312187240449?s=20

Also, check out this very beautiful related piece, also with Melanie LaMore:
WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Freedom Land II. I'm On My Way III. Oh Freedom, Come by Here

https://youtu.be/S7XiUxsOoHM

Friendly greetings, Scott

Blog post about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/centaurea-jacea-brownray-knapweed.html ~

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Scott MacLeod helianth@gmail.com

3:11 PM (3 hours ago)

to Non-theist, nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

Interesting, and thanks for

- https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/24/news-from-humanists-uk/ and

- https://humanism.org.uk/2020/03/20/message-from-the-chief-executive/

In addition to thinking about the the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic), below, and continuing to meditate first thing in the morning (relaxation response-wise, which I think happens de facto in (NtF and Ntf too) Friendly Quaker silent Meeting), am amazed by how many greatest American universities (eg MIT, Harvard, Stanford - and possibly Haverford and Swarthmore) are closing on-the-ground, and opening in far-reaching ways online for ongoing networking, idea-sharing, connecting and being together, as well as teaching and learning. (And MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to both collaborate, as well as put a major online university on your computer screen in front of you, with major university libraries, museums (all), and even music schools, with online music-making opportunities). Zoom, Skype, Google Meet all seem to be platforms in which people are coming together socially, for friendship, and for idea-sharing.

Non-theist Friendly greetings, Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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to Planning, Mary, Non-theist, nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

Trevor, Tim, Andrew, David Boulton, NFNs, Humanists, NtFs, and All,

Would you like to hold the Nontheist Friends' Meeting at the end of March that you've canceled instead in WUaS's Google for Education, so much in Google Meet?

- https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/24/news-from-humanists-uk/ and
- https://humanism.org.uk/2020/03/20/message-from-the-chief-executive/

World University and School recently offered in a sense a 250 place online choir hall to the Unitarian Universalist Church choir of Palo Alto to explore singing together, as real, real time internet-speed grows and develops. See, for example, the recent WUaS Minutes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/snowshoe-hare-minutes-for-march-21.html. And this would be the idea for your Humanist or NFN Meetings as well. (And this would also involve inviting your engineers to help develop this from within World Univ & Sch's Google for Education / G Suite for Education).

Friendly regards,
Scott

Friends, NtFs, Atheist Quakers, Agnostic friends, and All,

If an online virtual choir, with UUs, emerges, I'd like to invite you all to sing and dance regarding - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/centaurea-jacea-brownray-knapweed.html ~ and in a Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite - now with movement (for wellbeing) thanks to WITNESS.

Hear, too -

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Free Free Free
> https://youtu.be/rIoOaLRwedo(you can stand up and join in) Want to begin #MusicMaking like this in #VirtualChoir? Singing & Dancing together with Movement from HOME Invite: @WorldUnivAndSch offers the use of Free 250 place choir hall in G Suite

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1242622996310675456?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1242623369054281728?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242624987275472897?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242625312187240449?s=20

Also, check out this very beautiful related piece, also with Melanie DeMore:

WITNESS Stomp & Sing: Freedom Land II. I'm On My Way III. Oh Freedom, Come by Here
https://youtu.be/S7XiUxsOoHM

Friendly regards, Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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

...

7.5 billion hospital beds from home?

Thanks, Craig, for your 'stay well' email ...

Project Baseline (from Google, Stanford, Duke Med) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart a path to health. And WUaS seeks to turn Project Baseline into online hospitals for all 7.5 billion people, - and with online MDs!

Turned this into some Tweets ...

Project Baseline (Google, Stanford & Duke Medicine) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart paths to health, & WUaS seeks to turn #ProjectBaseline into online hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital for all 7.5 bill. people & with online MDs!

Project Baseline (Google, Stanford & Duke Medicine) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart paths to health, & WUaS seeks to turn #ProjectBaseline into online hospitals https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz for all 7.5 bill. people & with online MDs!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242612202604920832?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242612881822085120?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1242613215227330560?s=20

Would be great - and how long until - we'll be able to test ourselves for COVID-19 on our smart phones (like at a hospital) and transmit this information to Project Baseline ... and into our Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Record (for all 7.5 billion people) which we have legal control over as well.

Cheers, Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine
May add some of this further to Mount Oeta blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scott MacLeod
9:10 AM (18 minutes ago)
to Dick, Lucy, Janie, Alden, Ann

Alden, Dick, Ma, Lucy, Ann,

How are you all in this barrage of "coronavirus" memes (the word being imitated by nearly infinite numbers of writers in online media, and threatening disease and sickness)? And what does November 2020 hold for less of this barrage?

I found this article about Sweden to be another helpful antidote, and am appreciative of a number of lines of reasoning in these regards:

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com)
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben

It concludes (translated from German):
"Why do kindergartens and primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? Why is there no contact block like in Germany? Tegnell answers these recurring questions almost always the same: the epidemiological benefit of school closures in the case of the coronavirus is doubtful. Neither in Italy nor in China have schools proved to be hotspots for the virus to spread.

According to studies by the World Health Organization WHO in China, there has not been a single documentable case in which an adult has infected a child. Then why should you keep tens of thousands of healthy children at home? Especially since a lot of parents who work in important jobs to fight crises could no longer go to work? Tegnell's credo: "All measures that we take must be feasible over a longer period of time." Otherwise, the population will lose acceptance of the entire corona strategy."

I created some Tweets in these regards -

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com) https://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden ~

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://t.co/x8UJy5QFxM) https://t.co/8hwIzjGiJE Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://t.co/ThvT4DTGUG~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242825476789243910?s=20

Out of the coronavirus #COVID-19 pandemic, we appear to have gotten 24,000 searchable related AI academic papers per MIT, a significant generation of thinking.

And this PBS NewsHour yesterday - March 24, 2020

https://youtu.be/0INsb8HiN4I

... suggests that Hubei, China, the epicenter of the genetic COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) event, is now a model for hope in returning to a semblance of normalcy. Also, there was some mention too of $1,200 / month re B.S. in this - which sounds like it could be the beginnings of Universal Basic Income experiments.

And both Harvard and MIT are holding their graduation ceremonies on the internet which are amazing openings for MIT OCW-centric World University and School -

"Harvard postpones commencement amid coronavirus pandemic, plans online event May 28"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/nation/harvard-holding-online-commencement-may-28-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

"MIT, Emerson to hold online graduation ceremonies"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/24/metro/mit-emerson-hold-online-graduation-ceremonies/

... and may make possible protecting youth and students in new ways - that is with online education, and somehow culturally. But hopefully too excellent new kinds of university and high school degree education will emerge, in addition to wiki-education for open teaching and learning. How to help facilitate this to flourish in a flowering of new ways, and much regarding conversation?

Am thinking that the culture and identity and language of Sweden in this coronavirus pandemic is a kind of bastion regarding mainstream internet media, and am wondering in what ways World University and School in all ~200 countries' main languages can create similar online 'places' of sanity (ie less fear in the air) or semblances of 'cultural' normalcy, or absence of war mentality, - and uniquely emerging from each of these cultures online. Without knowing German, and reading the German papers, I wouldn't have otherwise found this article about Sweden - which expresses too a kind of alternative, that is, countering the culture of the mainstream internet media as counterculture (regarding novel coronavirus as memes ... in contrast to the novel coronavirusCOVID19 SARS Cov2 epidemic genes) ??? In what ways could CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School generate culture anew, - and in the way Harvard, MIT and Stanford generate knowledge-generation help-the-world culture on-the-ground, I wonder?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? How are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :)

Scotty
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/09/bottlenose-dolphin-jacques-lacan-md-and.html (with Jaques Lacan MD and George Vaillant MD, which I found again in these 'Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations' I wrote a few years ago - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ) ... and again how best to visit Harbin Hot Springs virtually? :)

... actual-vIrtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field work, and the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth for everything, and soaking, visiting, meditating (relaxation response) in the Harbin warm pool, especially.

Harbin gatehouse in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg
~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~

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

...

Hi Ma (Janie), and All,

Thanks for the humor, and the realism too!

From a British Tweet:

Plane with 5 passengers on board: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, The Pope, and a 10-year-old schoolboy. The plane is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says, “I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and am needed to sort out the problems of the World!” — takes one and jumps. Boris says, “I’m needed to sort out Britain.” He takes one and jumps The Pope says, “I need one, as the world needs the Catholic Church.” He takes one and jumps. Angela says to the 10-yr-old: “You can have the last parachute. I’ve lived my life, yours is only just starting.” The 10-yr-old replies: “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.”

In the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws - and I'm hoping it's mostly a kind of 'fire drill'), ... and while we're all sheltering at home (in case of emergency??? - in a time of increasingly sophisticated biological weapons???) want to learn the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language ? Here are two MIT Scratch programmers, Eric Schilling and Zoe Bentley sharing how it works -

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - in a great tutorial (accessible from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html), and here's Zoe Bentley from a related interactive livestream today - "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" ...

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... The next live "Create-Along" Scratch get-together online happens next Thursday, and stay tuned to the Scratch Team's Twitter eg

📣Join our "Create-Along" livestream today at 1pm ET to work on your own interactive greeting card with @Scratch!

We'll share tips, answer your questions, and help you all get started creating! #ScratchAtHome

The event will run from 1:00-2:00pm ET at https://t.co/4mIJwXIHBs
— Scratch Team (@scratch) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1243193791487643648?s=20 - for when.

Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ...

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com) https://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden ~

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://t.co/NGKXvkwdsL) https://t.co/QRvyPFmcSs Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://t.co/z1CRm7uHxF~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20

Wash your hands, and practice social distancing in this 'in case of emergency' ??? :)

Scott

Humor 'label' in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/humor -

With my mother encouraging me to keep a journal in this time of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic,

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

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M,

How are you doing in these contemporary "coronavirus" meme (or 'ideas') spheres? Am glad you're safe at home. After sending my longish email to you, Dick, Lucy, Ann and Alden this morning - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html (see 2nd part) - am seeking to send out the nearly complete minutes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/snowshoe-hare-minutes-for-march-21.html - for big project, and then may head out for groceries.

I wonder what climate scientists would say about comparative cooling of the earth in the month of March 2020 - and going back regarding different historical data sets? Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars, and which was thought out beforehand in these regards? Per you observation to keep a journal, my blog posts in these regards are growing - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes - with some thoughts about all of this :) (I have the sense that China is open for business even after this genetic novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) epidemic triggering event - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-is-misinterpreting-wuhans-coronavirus-progressand-drawing-the-wrong-lessons-11585074966 (did Henry C help create this?) - and the US is seeking to be open for business too, but 'how' is changing, and just changed (what does the data say?); And the way the US gets business information in China via journalists, and for investments (and vice versa), is also changing - as is probably how students study not only in China and the US reciprocally, but also in India, Europe, Africa, south America, etc.). And how have climate simulations change in recent months, I wonder - and also regarding the idea of creating a single realistic virtual earth (see below)?

A number of interesting Tweets by what could be from ZB today ... eg

It's a great time to let someone know you're thinking of them❤️

Remix our "Animate a Name" activity to create an interactive greeting card and bring your words to life #ScratchAtHome

Get started with activity: https://t.co/Avf97vMTrU

Check out examples:https://t.co/LL8dpQhLib pic.twitter.com/5BdEq3wm7p
— Scratch Team (@scratch) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1242820796344606727?s=20 ... :)

And as I look at and think about the beautiful pictures on my Google Smart TV that pass by, both of nature and intense large cities (all very interesting patterns), I see a number of the aurora borealis, and one looks like a tiny community in Alaska (I think) on a body of water (probably ocean) at dusk with the community alit and borealis above a mountain range behind; this gives me a new perspective on community ... These Google Smart TV photos offer perspective on life too in interesting other ways, and make me appreciate where I live in Canyon for its beauty. If ZB and I were to connect further, and she were somehow to explore moving out here, my landlord's taking care of the place could have much merit - offering freedom. Perhaps the Alaskan community, and Canyon's too, are kinds of native communities with all their historical knottedness which Angela Farmer touches on here -

https://youtu.be/qQWieQ2s2eM (aka 'Underground Yoga' here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html) but am keeping both the Desiderata in mind with regard to my big project, as well as a kind of good ethics, and possibly philosophically as well. Great ethics even ... Some of the other images are underwater, and of turtles and seals swimming too ... am wondering when all of these great images will emerge in an interactive single realistic virtual earth and for science, as well as exploration, and creation. :)

With the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin, it could be great to turn the pool Sioux and Tim and I found - HERE IT IS ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/camellia-japonica-photos-of-seemingly.html - about 1/2 mile from here into a WARM pool, and bring a digital mask up there - as if to visit Harbin - and still get a nice little walk up there (but I have no idea how it would be managed socially, or even whether nascent robots could eventually make it nice:).

See, too, from 2009 ... :))
Deep Canyon: into the pools, into the vision vessel, releasing
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/deep-canyon-into-pools-into-vision.html

What are you up to today? And how are you weathering the media? Hoping you're doing well, and creating great new possibilities creatively and exploration-wise too in your new home! (As I read further in Castells'"Communication Power" currently much about the US elections in 2004 and 2008 regarding media, am appreciative of the perspective they offer on the current race).

Love, Scott
Beginning here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html - you'll find 14 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! - Zoë
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
#ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics

Einar Öberg @inear

Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE!
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #WeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?

Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE! https://t.co/ggfANMi7ua& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #WeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics& #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? https://t.co/L56h3Knchx
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20

Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!

Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?

Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_https://t.co/Ci9mg9N8jU& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics& #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego? https://t.co/R0fwa0DCpI
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 26, 2020

ONLINE Home #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming& #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://t.co/fl7ouags1O
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://t.co/7LyAScBcgy
Google Research Football https://t.co/TrxInjoFd8 https://t.co/86cGWYmzdj -
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) February 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1223738618264481793?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1223738898909499392?s=20

Google Research Football

https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc

Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #ScottishCountryDancing?

Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ& Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #WeDo2 #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics & #ScottishCountryDancing ?
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243292658761486341?s=20
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009?s=20

Zoë: Regarding great Create-Along LIVE! @zoebentley_https://t.co/1411VOLmF3& Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics & future of jobs,''state-of-the-art & projections' Qs, how to focus on #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics& #ScottishCountryDancing?
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243292290862338048?s=20

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Hi Bruce, UUCPA and All,

Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir >https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20 for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir>https://t.co/T2N4RwJKPx for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://t.co/qqO8jkgp2M @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~ https://t.co/gMn6QCgxan
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1243302422010679296?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243307591762993154?s=20

It may involve some innovative musical direction - especially music-wise.

Cheers, Scott
(Re free 250 place choir hall in Google Meet - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir ? WUaS's Google Meet doesn't yet livestream to Youtube, FYI - but I'd think the Google Roadmap to real, real time music-making would be one of the best).

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Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir >https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20 for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir @TheOpenBand in #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

Here is some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir>https://t.co/Ca0TFvFnct for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist https://t.co/9mRd9Ic7ia @TheOpenBand in #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarlanCoben/status/1243285164249296897?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243307712516993026?s=20

http://serc.carleton.edu/images/genomics/units/wild_cabbage.png

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea

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

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

...

Learn to program together online (for free) with Scratch on Thursdays from MIT's Scratch Team:

Good, first "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" on Thursday, March 26, 2020 ... with Zoë Bentley

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Thank you for this first
"Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!"

And thanks for this "Thank you," Scratch Team ... !

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Explore a wide variety of #ScratchAtHome activities, all in one place, at http://bit.ly/scratch-at-home 🎉

Create an interactive card, turn your home into a virtual playground, or simply get started with @Scratch and @ScratchJr! What will you create this weekend?

Explore a wide variety of #ScratchAtHome activities, all in one place, at https://t.co/qt0YIQSsOv🎉

Create an interactive card, turn your home into a virtual playground, or simply get started with @Scratch and @ScratchJr! What will you create this weekend? pic.twitter.com/PqvLGwTYua
— Scratch Team (@scratch) March 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1243614570452844544?s=20

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oleracea (Wild cabbage): Humor - “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.” * * Learning programming socially and together in "Create-Along LIVE!" - in the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws) - the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language * Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ... "The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" * * * Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars * * * Some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html ~

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"Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" ...

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

... The next live "Create-Along" Scratch get-together online happens next Thursday, and stay tuned to the Scratch Team's Twitter

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Clothes and water, for ex. - fluid things - aren't easy to model in an interactive realistic virtual Harbin, realistic virtual Earth ... and especially with machine learning and natural language processing. Thanks, Robert Zembowicz:

Clothes reviews analysis with NLP - Part 1#NLProc #MachineLearning #DataScience via @TDataScience https://towardsdatascience.com/clothes-reviews-analysis-with-nlp-part-1-bfb8a3a2c4bd…

Clothes reviews analysis with NLP - Part 1#NLProc #MachineLearning #DataScience via @TDataScience https://t.co/5ZB5SSx9Sr
— Robert Zembowicz (@rzembo) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1241754762942517248

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In #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth with #MachineLearning, think #GoogleStreetView> http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg with #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, #TensorFlow what would the #HarbinDressingRoom near the #HarbinWarmPool look like with clothing https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1241754762942517248?s=20 ?

In #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth with #MachineLearning, think #GoogleStreetView>https://t.co/dHWQmnrQPY with #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, #TensorFlow what would the #HarbinDressingRoom near the #HarbinWarmPool look like with clothing https://t.co/snPbgDzVcD ?
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243591413276635136?s=20

In #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth with #MachineLearning, think #GoogleStreetView>https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD with #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, #TensorFlow what would the #HarbinDressingRoom near the #HarbinWarmPool look like with clothing https://t.co/ZnXka7apBv ?
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1243589061714923520?s=20

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Am thinking #GoogleStreetView >http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg with #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, #TensorFlow, and Second Life, conceptually ...

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A Skype film is being made of this! ...

W I K I ' S 2 5 T H B I R T H D A Y S I L V E R A N N I V E R S A R Y M A R C H 2 5 , 1 9 9 5

Ward Cunningham ward@c2.com

Wed, Mar 25, 12:40 PM (2 days ago)

to me

W I K I ' S 2 5 T H B I R T H D A Y
S I L V E R A N N I V E R S A R Y
M A R C H 2 5 , 1 9 9 5

Mark Dilley has helped me pull together
this mailing list of wiki pioneers who
might have a few words to add to our
permanent record. David Bovill and his
film making colleagues will apply their
remote skills to what you have to offer.

Pre Party: 1:30 to 2:00 pm
Open Invite: 2:00 to 3:00 pm
Pacific Daylight Time

https://zoom.us/j/6819268068

Thank you, Ward Cunningham

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Thanks so much for your wiki birthday today, Ward, and nice to meet you!

A transcript from the text chat is below. And here's

A brief history of wiki MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch in a few links, 3 being wiki -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects -

https://ocw.mit.edu/ -
https://worlduniversity.fandom.com/wiki/World_University
http://globaluniversity.pbworks.com/w/page/14747230/FrontPage
…

Best regards, Scott

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

+1 what Evan's saying

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

I was programming in Java, built NexistWiki in 2002 which was a wiki as a topic map

From Bill Seitz to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/TheBrain

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

I was programming in HyperCard

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

I got into wiki not as a coder but as someone interested in hypertext. Remember FAQ-O-Matic? (still exists) But I was learning Perl around that time as well.

Had done some HyperCard to

too

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:02 PM)

when I started with wiki, i was into Perl (after coming from assembly language, APL, C, Pascal...). Socialtext was in Perl.

From mike hales to Everyone: (02:03 PM)

Strange attractor sounds good

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:05 PM)

FAQ-O-Matic - allows visitors to edit http://faqomatic.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1.html

lol

Christopher Alexander wrote of "the quality that has no name" which also seemsrelevanthere

From Me to Everyone: (02:06 PM)

Hi Everyone - Have been appreciating Ward’s wiki thinking for a long time, and blogged with Ward in it back in April 2019 even - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/petunia-40-musical-aphilo-scott-macleod.html -

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:07 PM)

Ward is like a good Zen teacher, showing people an interesting small object, and asking illuminative questions.

From Sunir Shah to Everyone: (02:07 PM)

Hey everyone! It’s nice to see you all again! I reopened MeatballWiki.org 2 months ago to see if I can salvage it.

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:07 PM)

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:07 PM)

+1 to everything everyone is writing here

From mike hales to Everyone: (02:08 PM)

One of the things about Ward is he’s a designer rather than a mere code maker - so it’s the whole system of code + device + (‘user’) person/s, and what the whole system is able to do?

From Me to Everyone: (02:09 PM)

(Hi Pete - fellow Reedie here :)

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:13 PM)

I have an opposite experience of coming to wiki than folks have related. For me, it was like a fish being put into war, it all seemed intuitively obvious, and that people should just work together that way.

From Pete Forsyth to Me: (Privately) (02:13 PM)

Hi Scott! Nice to see you!

From Me to Pete Forsyth: (Privately) (02:14 PM)

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:14 PM)

Yes - or at least ti was what I was looking for and trying to create with the communities I was with.

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:14 PM)

war -> water - yes!

From Pete Forsyth to Everyone: (02:15 PM)

@Pete K Yes, that's more or less what I was trying to say -- that's the "feeling" I experienced. The rest of what I said was more hindsight/analysis.

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:15 PM)

:-)

APL ftw. I learned programming in APL and BASIC at the same time, on an actual Teletype, with paper tape for storage.

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:16 PM)

Ward mentioned Perl being a good system tool, which is true. I also think of it as a good text manipulation language, as a natural way to work with plain text.

From Me to Everyone: (02:16 PM)

HI Eugene!

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:17 PM)

APL was my first too I think!

Is he part of Holochain?

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:21 PM)

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:22 PM)

yet ;-)

From Me to Everyone: (02:22 PM)

Inspired by wiki - thanks, Ward! - am creating a WIKI CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric group of online universities in all ~200 countries’ official languages, and am planning online wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages, building out of Wikidata / Wikibase (Wikipedia’s structured knowledge database in ~300 languages) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages …

From Eugene Kim to Everyone: (02:22 PM)

Hi Scott!

From Me to Everyone: (02:22 PM)

From Eugene Kim to Everyone: (02:23 PM)

Friends, it was so great to see all of you. I’m sorry I have to jump off, but I’m glad I was able to jump on and at least see so many friends and to celebrate wiki’s 25th. (Wow!) Please, be safe, take care, and would love to hear from all of you.

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:23 PM)

Hi Scott - would be good to contact you and your community for the documentary we are making. We start the project form this community and reach out to collaborate on its construction.

From Eugene Kim to Everyone: (02:23 PM)

And thank you Ward for gifting this upon us, as you have so many things.

My email is eekim@fasterthan20.com. Bye all!

From Me to Everyone: (02:24 PM)

Good, David - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - is one way … what would you suggest. Thanks, Eugene!

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:24 PM)

Autopoesis - cf Brandon WilliamsCraig,"Peace is conflict done well."

From Phoebe Ayers to Everyone: (02:24 PM)

hey everyone! :)

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:25 PM)

Phoebe!!

From Me to Everyone: (02:25 PM)

Hi Phoebe!

From Justin Anthony Knapp (koavf) to Everyone: (02:25 PM)

Hi. Just got invited by Ward via Mark Dilley. I'm actually on another meeting now so I'm muting here until I'm free. Even if I can't join, it's nice to have the invite.

From Marc-Antoine Parent to Everyone: (02:26 PM)

autopoiesis: a self-creating system, according to Varela, is always working on defining its own boundary... applied it to both cognition and, interestingly, immunity.

From mike hales to Everyone: (02:29 PM)

Vernacular - there’s a key notion? In Alexander, in wiki?

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:30 PM)

Just to finish the patterns set, here's a pattern language of group dynamics: https://groupworksdeck.org/

From Ross Mayfield to Everyone: (02:30 PM)

happy birthday wiki!

From Me to Everyone: (02:30 PM)

Happy birthday, Wiki!

From Diego Iñiguez to Everyone: (02:31 PM)

[file: (null)]

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:31 PM)

[file: /Users/RedLotus/Downloads/wiki wiki.mp4]

Two different resolutions :)

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:32 PM)

You go to preferences and then Virtual background

From Dil Green to Everyone: (02:33 PM)

it doesn’t want to open an mp4

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:33 PM)

Green screen

From Bill Seitz to Everyone: (02:34 PM)

Could also be that you need a newer version of zoom

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:35 PM)

or a newer computer -- Zoom says my CPU is too old :-)

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:35 PM)

yep mine too

From Dil Green to Everyone: (02:35 PM)

or do I need a gif?

From Trevor Hilder to Everyone: (02:36 PM)

Can’t select an mp4 either.

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:36 PM)

wagn now known as Decko

From Alex Shkor to Everyone: (02:36 PM)

If it says you CPU is too old - just update zoom and it will work - worked for me

From Sunir Shah to Everyone: (02:37 PM)

I have to go take the kids outside. It was nice to see everyone. Happy birthday, Wiki. :)

From Bill Seitz to Everyone: (02:38 PM)

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

From Ross Mayfield to Everyone: (02:39 PM)

open space lineage: jerry m. -> FooCamp -> Barcamp ->

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:39 PM)

openspaceworld.org - a wiki, of course

Harrison owen.

From Ross Mayfield to Everyone: (02:40 PM)

yes

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:40 PM)

I don’t think jerry was involved in Recent Changes Camp. I didn’t meet him until much later

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:40 PM)

Some of the early RCC folks were influenced by Jerry, though.

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

for many of us, open space and wiki seemed like the same core perspective applied in person and online

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

Totally agree John

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

Shout out to Ross creating Wiki Wednesday, too.

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

https://hypercard.org/

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

I met jerry via ppl I met at rcc (and barcamp)

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:41 PM)

Yes - I think there is an important future merging the two more closely - the physical and the online in the spirit o fwiki

From Dil Green to Everyone: (02:43 PM)

That’s it - that ability to point to something as yet undocumented - that’s the link to pattern language - because in a complex system there are unending strange attractors that have not yet been documented

From Eric Dobbs to Everyone: (02:45 PM)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham_with_Hypercard_stack.jpg

From Bill Seitz to Everyone: (02:45 PM)

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/BeyondCyberpunk

From Ross Mayfield to Everyone: (02:52 PM)

need to drop off in 5

From Lion to Everyone: (02:52 PM)

"How do we re-establish our social connections online again?"

It is kind of ironic that this is the question I am asking right now, since, -- don't we know how?

But strangely we do not know how. So I am wondering what it is.

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:52 PM)

Thanks for coming Ross

From Mark Dilley to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

From John Sechrest to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

Would love to find a way to connect more with this group.

From Ross Mayfield to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

From Bill Seitz to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

irc? :)

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

From Andrew Lih to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

hi Ross!

From Richard/Pharos to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

From Peter Kaminski to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

there's a RecentChanges slack -- send me an email to get in: kaminski@istori.com

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

Hi John. You might be the most recent person I have seen of this group!

From Alex Schroeder to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

there is #wiki on Freenode...

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:53 PM)

I use jackpark@topicquests.org

From Me to Everyone: (02:54 PM)

A brief history of wiki MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch in a few links, 3 being wiki -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - https://ocw.mit.edu/ -
https://worlduniversity.fandom.com/wiki/World_University
http://globaluniversity.pbworks.com/w/page/14747230/FrontPage
…

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:54 PM)

Yes - we have a Telegram group, and then there is the Fedwiki Riot channel https://riot.im/app/#/room/#fedwiki:matrix.org

From Lion to Everyone: (02:54 PM)

Hah! And I was thinking we needed a Discord..! (Not saying we do.)

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:54 PM)

My latest “wiki” is online at http://www.topicquests.net:4000/

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:54 PM)

Ross, did get a chance to speak up

From John Sechrest to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

What wiki page will these links end up on?

From Richard/Pharos to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

I want to invite folks to check out the most wiki of wikis, a new experimental wiki farm on WMF cloud server: https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/

From Phoebe Ayers to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

sockpuppets at Wikimania 2008. Still looking for the RCC photos. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania2008-sockpuppets.jpg

From Me to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development in 2015 and got WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017, but they’re not yet interoperable - info@worlduniversityandschool.org -

From David Bovill to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

Here is an invite - https://riot.im/app/#/room/#fedwiki:matrix.org

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:55 PM)

heres an archive link (there must be more recent ones) of old wiki on open space https://web.archive.org/web/20041018234457/http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/

From Eric Dobbs to Everyone: (02:56 PM)

http://fed.wiki.org/frequently-asked-questions.html

From Jack Park to Everyone: (02:56 PM)

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~bart/

From Jean Russell to Everyone: (02:57 PM)

+1 Ross on quick response

From mike hales to Everyone: (02:57 PM)

mh.federated.wiki will get you to my stuff - in progress ;-)

From Phoebe Ayers to Everyone: (02:58 PM)

bye ross, so good to see you

From Eric Dobbs to Everyone: (02:58 PM)

The fed.wiki.org FAQ has links to a matrix.org chat room where we discuss federated wiki and other interesting subject as they come up

From John Abbe to Everyone: (02:58 PM)

yes! stocks happen on Google docs now :-p

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~bart/

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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Info WorldUniversity
Mar 25, 2020, 3:30 PM (2 days ago)

to eekim, kaminski, jackpark, me, Ward

Again, Ward,

Thanks so much for your wiki birthday today, and great to meet all of you!

A transcript from the text of your wiki birthday chat is below. And here's

A brief history of wiki CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch in a few links, 3 being wiki -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects -
https://ocw.mit.edu/ -
https://worlduniversity.fandom.com/wiki/World_University
http://globaluniversity.pbworks.com/w/page/14747230/FrontPage
…

Best regards, Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/

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Petunia 40: Musical-Aphilo (Scott MacLeod) G+ posts

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/petunia-40-musical-aphilo-scott-macleod.html -

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How best to apply WIKI processes to virtual worlds, and regarding ethnography - and with the Scratch programming language?

I'm calling this ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, for STEM fields too, in a single realistic virtual earth!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run_River_(Oregon)

...

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ...

Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics George Church on adding genes:
How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for the message you sent this afternoon. Sounds like you were on a beautiful walk and found lots of other like-minded souls doing the same thing.

Another day here: weather got better as the day went on. Drove into Pgh. and had a chilly picnic lunch with Kathie Logan on a table in Frick park. By sitting at either end of the table and on opposite sides, we achieved 6’ of distance. Saw Maryann, my real estate person, who was also walking in the park. She reminded me how lucky I was to sell when I did; she said the market is completely flat for house sales, and even after she sold one recently, the inspectors were not allowed in; therefore the sale of that house is in limbo. She also told me that the Ayoobs -- house just beyond the Epple’s -- had looked at Frances’ house but Gina decided it would require too much work.

Kathie and I walked about a mile in the park and then I headed home with a drive by of 319 Juniata Court. It looks empty and forlorn. I couldn’t tell if the new owners had moved in or not. So glad I don’t have to worry about that wet basement any more.

Did some weeding in my garden here. I think those of us who have garden areas to work are very lucky. Safe place to be and fun to grow things - practical too.

Sent you a video of a man imitating Trump (Trump impersonator - https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1242852430582341639). He got him perfectly, don’t you think? Hilarious, I thought.

I’m off to bed. Please stay safe.

Love, Ma

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Thanks for the news, Ma!

Your new home sounds super! (Message I sent this afternoon is below as well). Just got a parsley start recently to begin my garden in a box again, - and may try to fence it in in far corner or porch, with picnic table on its side as 3rd barrier, and then figure out a 4th side. What kind of critters got my veggies last year? And I don't want to invest too much gardening time and energy for when I'm away on Cuttyhunk! More later.

L, Scott

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ... Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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

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Hi Ma,

Thanks much for your email, and am appreciative of a kind of new thinking in your email here. Walk was nice yesterday. Thanks too for the news of your neighbors and 319 Juniata Court, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (the house I lived in in my high school years from 1974-1979). Perhaps it is mentioning your neighbors and 319 that are new (and mentioning something from my email to you!) - and their ongoing connection and neighborliness into the future. Are we making progress? Too bad 319 looked forlorn - your daily thinking about it made it beautiful, - and now your new home is beautiful. Yay!

Re living past 122 years of age, - and questions of 'radical act' about the coronavirus 'meme' pandemic, am wondering too whether a kind of both work stoppage, and work start-age (in the making of ventilators, regarding Ford and other car companies in Michigan - PBS NewsHour F March 27 2020 ... https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/march-27-2020-pbs-newshour-full-episode) - masks, gowns, and digital tools for viral epidemics such as being able to take blood tests from smart phones? ... and developing this also in an actual<>virtual way in a single realistic virtual earth?), could be occurring. Am glad in this time of "national emergency" that the race to build armaments doesn't seem to be occurring in order to keep the economy going, for example. t imitation was funny in many ways, - and was skillful satire too in a sense (imitator reminded me of someone who could be a Larry V relative even). And t is now considering quarantining/locking down all of NY - what is going on, and if this is primarily a question of memes (words such as coronavirus ), and not gene replication? ... And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking?

Am hoping again that the coronavirus meme is a fire drill, and in case of emergency, but wondering too how it could very very significantly lessen sex offs and perps, and lessen making victims of kids (and re my email to you, Caleb and Brig re the SF Quaker Meeting and 'factories' even, very loosely and on a very small scale speculatively??? :(( ), for example ... and in the long run, society-wise especially! There seems to be a window of opportunity for a culture of transformation in some of these regards, but not sure what the thinking would be. California law and culture ??? Too many scofflaws or outlaws, or harmers perhaps?, but CA isn't also following the Nevada route that I know of, but I do wonder what about illegalities that happen under the radar here in CA, and how that is 'policed' as well, for example. Could this national emergency" also be a social justice policing opportunity even. For example, in Massachusetts, legalized recreational cannabis stores have to close, but medicinal marijuana stores can remain open. ... interesting regarding distinctions in policing and law etc. See:
"Mass. marijuana leaders protest Baker’s order to stop recreational sales during ‘stay-at-home’ advisory: Medical marijuana operations and liquor stores to remain open" ...
By Felicia Gans and Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated March 23, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/23/marijuana/mass-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-not-recreational-can-stay-open-during-stay-at-home-advisory/

And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too?

And all regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too (a refrain here:) ...

... Am wondering about the Robb's and regarding a Brookline connection here?

Wondering too how to effectively fence off my garden in a box to grow without getting veggies getting chomped, and re what critters. And if we do live beyond the upper limit of 122 yo, it's great to have great family and friends, and community - and you do, I think, in Pgh per this email - and regarding ways of connecting too in ongoing ways! :)

Sending love, Scott

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

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Still low risk of catching #coronavirus in Sweden, says Public Health Agency (Tegnell) https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7421538 -https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20 The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben -https://biography.omicsonline.org/sweden/public-health-agency-of-sweden/anders-tegnell-133486 -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Biology -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243780698328027141?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243780019987419138?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243780303929241601?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244005308634001409?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244005601748770821?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244005824789266432?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://t.co/bW1LY7diN5) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244005308634001409?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244005601748770821?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244005824789266432?s=20

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Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronavirus ....

Mandrill: Current hypothesis and line of thinking/inquiry regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) developments is that is this a major fire drill on a worldwide scale in new time of bio-weapons' preparedness??? (and with some 'policing' even subtexts ...) * * * Friendly (Quaker) greetings in this time of novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) * * * For your reading interest ? ... ... in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 11 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ...

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html -

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oleracea (Wild cabbage): Humor - “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.” * * Learning programming socially and together in "Create-Along LIVE!" - in the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws) - the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language * Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ... "The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" * * * Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars * * * Some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html -

See, too:

Non-theist Friendly greetings, Scott

... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 17 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html

oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html

golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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

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

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Hi Ay,

Greetings! And thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree. To respond to your questions: . . . CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World Univ & Sch is planning to offer first Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English, as we begin licensing with the state of California's BPPE, and then accredit probably with WASC Senior (which also accredits Stanford, UC Berkeley, and many other universities on the west coast and some internationally). Regarding your . . . . . . . . . You'll find our 6 initial planned majors here - worlduniversityandschool.org - and I could see a General Science (GSci) major having an astronomy focus, based on https://ocw.mit.edu/ (search on 'astronomy' courses). Conceptually, students would be studying MIT OCW into MITx courses - "MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/" - and because of MIT OCW's CC-4 licensing (which also WUaS to a) share, b) adapt but c), non-commercially), the degrees would be online tuition-free. (WUaS is planning to seek reimbursement from departments of Education, such as at the state, county or federal level, and along the lines of what it might cost to attend MIT or Stanford). Classes will be online potentially on the edX platform, in group video, and even in a realistic virtual universe for STEM (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow + and which we'll all be able to help build out as well). See - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click ...

Regarding your . . . . . . ... To say much of this another way, World Univ & Sch is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class this autumn 2020 as we license /accredit - worlduniversityandschool.org - and please teach to an open wiki eg by adding a youtube video you make to a related subject https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (and check out twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch). "Testing, essays and also teaching" will emerge, conceptually, from the MIT OCW, which has exams, - into MITx - but WUaS wants to grow with hiring live instructors in group video, for ex. - and probably at first, MIT and Stanford graduate students, potentially, who may be on the way to becoming faculty. Regarding your . . ., given that WUaS is very MIT OCW-centric (with its ~2500 courses in English), and much astronomy, and physics, WUaS may focus our upcoming Ph.D.s explicitly in the ~32 departments of MIT, and, at the undergraduate level, possibly follow MIT's lead "Undergraduates interested in an astronomy focus can major in either Physics or EAPS" (http://web.mit.edu/astronomy/).

While WUaS is separate and independent from MIT, and as WUaS licenses with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior, it's both the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing, as well as developing collaborations with possibly edX (founded by Harvard and MIT) in Cambridge MA that will inform our degrees, and synergies with MIT into the future.

I'll keep you posted for the autumn of 2020 about signing up, registering and regarding the application process et al., but in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Ay? Thank you.

Best Regards, Scott

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Astronomy -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Physics -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University -
PS
I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point.

Bengali

Amharic

Lithuanian

German

Romanian

Greek

Twi

Scots Gaelic

Norwegian - Bokmal

Inuktitut

Hindi

Farsi

Malay

Spanish

Taiwanese

Indonesian

Thanks again for your interest, in this early phase for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. May I ask please how you heard about WUaS?

Best regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- Languages - World University: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

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- 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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Thanks for your prompt email reply. And yes I'm very ready to keep your emails confidential, and will. And WUaS will develop with time a privacy policy for matriculated students (probably in conversation with MIT's). And please consider adding a confidentiality statement to your email addresses' signature - I can share example if interested - (and please remember too that emails are like postcards, abd companies' employees may have access to your enlmails, and also a stated privacy policy - and re AI etc esp).

At WUaS while tuition eill be free, there will be book, Lego Robotics' kits and other similar costs, FYI. and yes WUaS is planning to begin licensing soon, and accrediting is a concurrent process, with BPPE, for the autumn, but we also don't yet have the monies for this, yet are optimistic.

On the edX platform, the edX, HarvardX, JuryX course is an example of what WUaS courses will be like there - and they'll also be both synchronous in group video, and asynchronous, and seeking to build on the Conference Method newly online. WUaS's academic year will either be 3 terms or 2 senesters, 4 courses, 40 courses over 4 years, for a free to student's Bachelor degree. Seeking too to build a cohort every year or term of people who know each other, and as a network too.

Cheers, Scott

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There's more about the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - and think Socratic dialogue around the 'table' so in group video conference with an instructor (so seminar, in a sense), or in a virtual world like Second Life, as well as lecture with sections too. And there are 2-3 channels newly in group video: ie voice, gesture, and for a parallel 2nd conversation group text messaging. And WUaS is seeking to make classes and the undergraduate year/4 years like this (with parallels, too, to Reed College's approach to the conference method).

And in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Jay? Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
(And please see the confidentiality notice, as an example, from my email's 'signature' below).

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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress

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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress

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Here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) -

1) https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow....socialflow_twitter

2) with the article's Twitter connection - https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html

And also especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, but also a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? And how much physics did you study in high school?

Here are astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.

Best, Scott

PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards:

"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"
https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

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Hi Flying Jay, Kyle, prospective students, Board, and speakers of languages below, and All,

I just want to take this opportunity to introduce Kyle to everyone. I omitted including him yesterday in my email to all of you, and Kyle's on the WUaS Press Board, and shares regularly about transforming education via Project Based Learning, and here's an example of an email he just shared today - https://mailchi.mp/a265e2ea481c/5-dos-and-donts-of-online-class-meetings-4834453?e=ec2d3baa06 in these regards. Kyle works for, or did, a school in Hong Kong, and was also recently hiking the Camino Santiago in Spain.

I'm including the emails I sent to Jay yesterday in this blog post from today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html - but not including his emails in this blog post per his request. It offers an interesting glimpse into where WUaS is heading with physics / astronomy undergraduate studies for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, as well as the building out of a realistic virtual universe potentially as part of this.

And here's a related article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) which I found on Twitter

- https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html

And with regard also to MIT OCW in astronomy - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click - this is relevant especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and also regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, also to a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? (See, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - regarding to wiki creating a realistic virtual earth / universe, which I think involves an interpretive, even ethnographic approach in all of the science involved, hence ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).

And here are astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, - and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject (and none in edX's astronomy). In what ways too I wonder can WUaS explore developing a JuryX / HarvardX / edX approach to astronomy courses - per Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson's great 2016 edX law course (seealso the blog post with my emails to us and Jay - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html )?

Best, Scott

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

PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards:

"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"
https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

PPS

Here's the nascent World University Foundation page with the World Univ & Sch Board of Trustee members - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - above in email addressees. WUaS is 2 separate legal entities in the state of California with separate Boards - 1) the non-profit MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, which is also a 501 c3 at the US federal level, and 2) the for-profit WUaS Corp / Press which is a general stock company legal entity in California. Together, there's remarkable potential for parallel growth, planned in ~200 countries' official and main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages.

PPPS

Larry Viehland (above) and I are going to update the 14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - for the open April WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. Apr 18 (and on 3rd Saturdays in general).

PPPPS

And here are the Minutes of March 21, 2020 where you'll see mention of

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/snowshoe-hare-minutes-for-march-21.html

PPPPPS

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, Greece, and I will be talking again (see, here our March 23, 2020 talkhttps://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning at 10 am Pacific Time, about Greece World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning on 3/30/20 at 10 am PT https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244472798229102592?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244473006270763008?s=20
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244473171081748482?s=20

PS
I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point.

Bengali

Amharic

Lithuanian

German

Romanian

Greek

Twi

Scots Gaelic

Norwegian - Bokmal

Inuktitut

Hindi

Farsi

Malay

Spanish

Taiwanese

Indonesian

Thank you !

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://t.co/tVlieKL9Ti) in the morning on 3/30/20 at 10 am PT https://t.co/RDDLrvNGDw info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 30, 2020

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244472798229102592?s=20 -

(false color?)

(false color)

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

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Saturn

...

Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden,

This picture - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/wer-liefert-wann-das-corona-medikament-und-zu-welchem-preis-16696479.html (https://translate.google.com/) - in the article "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly about competition, and lack of sharing of data ... Hopefully my big project - for example ONE realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals / everything - will change some of these contours regarding CC-4 licensing too, and of MIT OCW in 4 languages as well, and regarding clinical trials planned with machine learning - for speakers in all 7,117 known living languages (the number rose from 7,111 recently).

Am not clear how this shelter-at-home approach in much of USA, with current coronavirus meme pandemic, will affect the November election, or online pharmaceutical drug development, or for that matter data-sharing, but 'society' seems a bit different newly, and growing fulsomely online. Was there some precipitating radical action that has informed these changes? Am developing "coronavirus" meme 'radical action' inquiries here -

Mt. Shasta at sunrise: Inquiring here - was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? - and work 'start-age' too? * * * Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronavirus ....

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html - (and in some of 18 recent blog posts - my mother has encouraged me to keep a journal in these times, and my blog is this in some ways) - and I wonder what implications for November there might be here re shelter at home and radical actions too. (Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church continues to call for lock downs -

Decision-makers at the federal, state and provincial levels around the globe: Immediate lockdown for reducing spread of COVID-19 - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/R3PwefTe0U via @Change
— george church (@geochurch) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1240795005524086785?s=20 ).

Was a little started to observe Dr. Tony Fauci MD suggesting on front page of Sunday Boston Globe yesterday that 100,000 people could die from coronavirus, and here too:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU"

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/F2MOHY3xl4
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 29, 2020

> https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1244275909944885248?s=20

(And am appreciating both Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's support of Fauci, here again - Here's Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's "Thoughts on the Pandemic" - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html - as well as am also a little startled at the 'severe' language both he and John Palfrey, President of MacArthur Foundation, and former Harvard Law Prof, are using regarding the 'battle' with coronavirus). Am also startled regarding the possible quarantine - Boston Globe yesterday again - or lock down even of all of New York, CT, MA ... or "strong" advisory not to travel from these states). What's happening - and regarding what?

And have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language - (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ? ? ?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? And how are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :) I am as well here in Canyon 94516, and the internet is making possible many new forms of sociality (which I partly teach about in this course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - as well as study). :) Lucy, Alden, Dick?

Fondly,
Scott

Next week, M 4/6/20, instead: Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://t.co/Uofktmenp8) at 10aPT https://t.co/s26nbFJMCB #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA GSci degrees: https://t.co/M4H2SoUoA9 ~
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 30, 2020

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244675033428967429?s=20 -

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See:

Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens - 23 March 2020 Q & A and News

https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch

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... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 19 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Lavacicles - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html

Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html

oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html

golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

Lavacicles

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

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lavacicle

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

...

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 1 of 8

https://youtu.be/ZuvMePr82y8

1998 Gordon Duncan Trophée Macallan Fil Lorient

https://youtu.be/V6LF0S4CWWI

Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron

https://youtu.be/nsWSrDX7zrs

Not only fantastic, metronomic ... but also so assured ...
15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall

https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA

Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie / Ash City / The Inverness Incident / The High Drive
https://youtu.be/xXuRFoweq3I

Gordon Duncan Just for Seamus

https://youtu.be/Qurj6sSLigI
(interesting mix, and photos too - almost kinda hippy:)

J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute played by Hopkinson Smith

https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U

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

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

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Scott MacLeod
Mon, Mar 23, 10:39 PM (8 days ago)
to Connor

Hi Connor,

Looking forward to our lesson soon (and am watching out for the differential Daylight Savings' Time - Scotland re US - for Tu March 23, 2020).

I've been observing and learning from a recording from a lesson - enjoyably and edifyingly - and would be grateful if you'd be willing to play some or all of the tunes I've uploaded so far. I've also be interested in the lesson recordings to hear me play with you there (so socially and as my teacher, and with your confident knowledge of piping) - which gives me new ideas about where to head with recording 'Honey in the Bag' album.

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sAhhfNbJAKmZf3Ibr-PFv1nTcV_qMKe -
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html.

Thank you, and cheers,
Scott

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Scott MacLeod
Mon, Mar 30, 10:19 PM (16 hours ago)
to Connor

Hi Connor,

Thanks for a good lesson last week, and thanks too for playing a tune from my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album and then allowing me to play it in a kind of call and response, - learning wise. Thanks also for singing the hornpipe rhythm out loud (appreciating your skillful knowledgeable piping experience and esp. confidence). This lesson, I'm curious to talk about and explore, riffing-wise, how to 'hear a sound in your mind' regarding - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm -
I think regarding playing Scottish small pipes this week, I'm going to focus on hearing every note in my mind per

"2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).

Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind."

- which I've done a little of in recent weeks, but want to go further.

And how to learn to play both in the manner of the very great pipers PM Stuart Liddell and Gordon Duncan, and in conversation with your playing ... What does it mean for Connor to play as Stuart does, or Gordon did? :)

So let's also talk, if we could, about / explore further what is a
Stuart Liddell sound?
Gordon Duncan sound?

(I'm glad to be starting to teach a student soon - from which I'll learn in different ways).

I added further "Honey in the Bag" tunes to -

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sAhhfNbJAKmZf3Ibr-PFv1nTcV_qMKe (and rotated most them this time!)
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html.

I think Scotland had a time change on Sunday, March 29, 2020, so see you at 4pm Glasgow time again, - back to 8am Pacific Time for me (from 9am for a couple of weeks).

Might taking another series of 10 lessons be possible please, as I proceed with this album? I think this one on March 31, 2020 will be the 9th out of 10 .

Cheers, and thank you,
Scott

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

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Connor,

Thanks again ... I have much to play this week (thanks in part too to the lesson recordings). Enjoyed particularly your playing Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie in a Gordon Duncan style, and then by way of comparison in a Stuart Liddell style (so so great! :)

And here's some of the music we talked about: :) ...

1998 Gordon Duncan Trophée Macallan Fil Lorient
https://youtu.be/V6LF0S4CWWI

Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron
https://youtu.be/nsWSrDX7zrs

15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall
https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA
(Not only fantastic, metronomic ... but also such assured bagpiping ... )

Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie / Ash City / The Inverness Incident / The High Drive
https://youtu.be/xXuRFoweq3I
(Gordon Duncan)

Gordon Duncan Just for Seamus
https://youtu.be/Qurj6sSLigI
(interesting mix, and photos too - almost kinda hippy ... where Scots' fiddler Alasdair Fraser who lives in northern California mostly ... is very much a Scottish hippy in 2020 still ... where the 1960s and 1970s, alternative culture, and hippies are an interest and focus of mine, including regarding my actual<>virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project ... interesting how culture informs bodyminds especially re Alasdair, for example :)

(I have about 3 strings of Xmas lights around my place on all the time, one of which is what's behind me during our lessons, FYI, - liking the colorful lights ... kind of like the high notes on the chanter, and in music in general - does something to my neurophysiology :)

Still aiming to bring the other D & B flat chanters into our lessons with drones, as well as explore further, and identify, the various keys in the 9 notes of an A chanter (or B flat:).

May see how to fit the tune Mason's Apron (up to speed, re Stuart Liddell above) onto my upcoming album.

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sAhhfNbJAKmZf3Ibr-PFv1nTcV_qMKe
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html.

Strathspeys and reels next week, from my "Honey in the Bag" album?

Appreciating too the 'vision' aspect of Gordon Duncan's and Stuart Liddell's bagpiping, and regarding -
"Legacy of Pitlochry ‘musical visionary’ Gordon Duncan, who played AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on bagpipes"
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/entertainment/1227028/feature-legacy-of-pitlochry-musical-visionary-gordon-duncan-who-played-ac-dcs-thunderstruck-on-bagpipes/ ... and learning from their 'vision' (where there's also a 'vision' label in my blog https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/vision :)

Cheers, Scott

PS
If you listen to this, and it makes you 'purr' too - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - let's explore why in conversation ...

J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute played by Hopkinson Smith
https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U

How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my "Honey in the Bag" album, is a sound I'm heading for :).

Thanks, Connor!

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

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Hi Connor,

Had actually never heard AC/DC play Thunderstruck -
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Official Video)

https://youtu.be/v2AC41dglnM

And here's Gordon Duncan playing his amazing "Thunderstruck" -
Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan

https://youtu.be/_EwDlUHoDFo

Appreciating too some of the language (but not all, since I don't agree with some of the interpretations) of the first few paragraphs of - https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/entertainment/1227028/feature-legacy-of-pitlochry-musical-visionary-gordon-duncan-who-played-ac-dcs-thunderstruck-on-bagpipes/ - re Gordon Duncan's creativity ...

Amazing how Gordon transposed Thunderstruck into piping music, and also rock and roll energy-wise :)

Cheers, Scott

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

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Here are Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, where the picture's interesting of Alasdair, as is "The High Drive" (by Gordon Duncan I think) played nicely ... (but the first tune, not enough drive, a little blasé ... is Alasdair from Uist, I wonder?)

The Wee Man from Uist / The High Drive

https://youtu.be/1rqSow0HdP4

Scott

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

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Thank you, Niall Ferguson and Tom Gilligan, for - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - this morning.

Here are the questions and comments I posted to the Zoom Q&A:

Have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' in new ways as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ?

Thank you, Niall and Tom! - Regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html)

- Scott GK 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 MIT OCW.

(I sent the following to http://www.niallferguson.com/contact after Niall's fascinating Stanford Hoover briefing: https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science)

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Have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' in new ways as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language - (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ?

Thank you, Niall and Tom! - Regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html)

Lavacicles: This picture in "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly about competition, and lack of sharing of data ... Hopefully my big project - for example ONE realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals / everything - will change some of these contours regarding CC-4 licensing too, and of MIT OCW in 4 languages as well, and regarding clinical trials planned with machine learning - for speakers in all 7,117 known living languages (the number rose from 7,111 recently) * * * Am developing "coronavirus" meme 'radical action' inquiries here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html (and in some of 18 recent blog posts) * * * See: Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens - 23 March 2020 Q & A and News ... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 19 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html -

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A #WUaSFarmRobot for every Indian-to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://twitter.com/kunalshankar/status/1244932412829622272?s=20
-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244747753118298113?s=20 ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245085550589050880?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245085926021189632?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1245087506829160448?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1245087376222728192?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1245088306666201088?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245089219091062791?s=20

A #WUaSFarmRobot for every SCOT - to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth

This is no exaggeration: India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus https://t.co/Hw4FHtzfZc
— Kunal Shankar (@kunalshankar) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/kunalshankar/status/1244932412829622272?s=20
-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244747753118298113?s=20 ~

A #WUaSFarmRobot for every Scot - to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://t.co/ly2b4RLD6C
-https://t.co/YvTkd0IKIq ~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1245092150305370112

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In an ibex, or mountain goat, form factor as robot? Digital species ... for on the farm for every aspect of farming, bringing to market etc ...

These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt.

These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt. pic.twitter.com/DBtaywkIfi
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1245087739042828292?s=20

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In an ibex, or mountain goat, #WUaSRobotFormFactor as #Robot? with live ibex? #DigitalSpecies for every aspect of farm work, bringing to market etc. #WUaSFarmRobot ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1245087739042828292?s=20~

In an ibex, or mountain goat, #WUaSRobotFormFactor as #Robot? with live ibex? #DigitalSpecies for every aspect of farm work, bringing to market etc. #WUaSFarmRobot ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://t.co/a2lIcWmPBj~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245130374235078656?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1245131848537100288?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1245133433858187264?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1245133374835945472?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245135075680727040?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1245135586005905408?s=20

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ONLINE Home #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics in 1 #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming& #MachineLearning -https://t.co/jFqFpMc89Z
-https://t.co/LWezDzCKvZ
-https://t.co/CfqQtgo6UI https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK -@WorldUnivAndSch ~
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244739329919868933

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ON the FARM, combined #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning -https://twitter.com/THEnergyNet/status/1244575068983877632?s=20 … >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics -@WorldUnivAndSch~

ON the FARM, combined #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming& #MachineLearning -https://t.co/rKj8orM8e4>https://t.co/Wsccf7YfAO -@WorldUnivAndSch~
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1244747357951909888

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Hi Connor,

Blogged a bit about today's piping - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html (and with other ideas too, including robotics :) ... including A #FarmRobot for every Scot and American and Indian - to do everything on a farm? Like a farm tractor ...

And here's the idea of the sideways head in Istanbul Turkey per your playing PM Tom McAllister / Links of Forth sideways -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/20131203_Istanbul_269.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern) - but I don't think it's the one in the so-called 'Grand Cistern' (which I actually was invited to play in, after I was busking for awhile in the main area in front of this, near the very old Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque as well) that I saw years' ago, which I can't seem to find a photo of online.

How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my "Honey in the Bag" album (per the JS Bach played by Hopkinson Smith), is a sound I'm heading for as well :).

Cheers, Scott

- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm -

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

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

...

How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' re the coronavirus pandemic in the USA?

May seek to develop a "how are Harbin Residents' coping?" approach to my actual < > virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project's focus further in a developing realistic virtual earth / realistic virtual Harbin ... visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) - and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, California, and "amble" around the town to visit it in very new ways. It's not possible to go into virtual Harbin here in Google Street View to soak and visit at this point, - and I'm hoping in particular to facilitate this for physical < > digital ethnographic comparison and online study even.

Appreciating too the likelihood of some music-making in the areas around Harbin and Middletown, CA, as ways to cope.

Am playing Scottish small pipes here much as coping strategy ... and in preparation too for my first SSP album, tentatively entitled "Honey in the Bag" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html.

Stay well. Be well.

Warm regards,

Scott

... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are about 20 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes -

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4th Harbin-inspired book, just published:

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to realize it in virtual Reality" ~ https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490 ~ :)

https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

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As I look at and think about the beautiful pictures on my Google Smart TV that pass by, both of nature and intense large cities (all very interesting patterns), I see a number of the aurora borealis, and one looks like a tiny community in Alaska (I think) on a body of water (probably ocean) at dusk with the community alit and borealis above a mountain range behind; this gives me a new perspective on community ... These Google Smart TV photos offer perspective on life too in interesting other ways, and make me appreciate where I live in Canyon 94516 for its beauty. Perhaps the Alaskan community, and Canyon's too, are kinds of native communities with all their historical knottedness which Angela Farmer touches on here - https://youtu.be/qQWieQ2s2eM (aka 'Underground Yoga' here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html) but am keeping both the Desiderata in mind with regard to my big World Univ & Sch project, as well as a kind of good ethics, and possibly philosophically as well. Great ethics even ... Some of the other images are underwater, and of turtles and seals swimming too ... am wondering when all of these great images will emerge in an interactive single realistic virtual earth and for science, as well as exploration, and creation. :)

With the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin, it could be great to turn the pool Sioux and Tim and I found - HERE IT IS ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/camellia-japonica-photos-of-seemingly.html - about 1/2 mile from here into a WARM pool, and bring a digital mask up there - as if to visit Harbin - and still get a nice little walk up there (but I have no idea how it would be managed socially, or even whether nascent robots could eventually make it nice:).

See, too, from 2009 ... :))

Deep Canyon: into the pools, into the vision vessel, releasing

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/deep-canyon-into-pools-into-vision.html

Maui's dolphin: Poetry book ~ Haiku-ish ... here some are ~ "Haiku-ish and Other Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry" ( http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html )

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/mauis-dolphin-poetry-book-haiku-ish.html

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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

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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?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-camellia-sinensis-bring-eric.html

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Searched in Google on:
"Harbin Hot Springs - Coronavirus"

Found
on April 1, 2020:

"We are temporarily closed

In response to increasing public health concerns around the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the difficult decision of closing our facilities for 24 days effective 5 PM Tuesday March 17, 2020. Please read our update below for more information.

Reservations Now Available ... "

https://harbin.org ...

Guest notice:

3/16/20

Dear Guests,

In response to increasing public health concerns around the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the difficult decision of closing our facilities for 24 days effective 5 PM Tuesday March 17, 2020. We will be monitoring the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation very closely and have a tentative reopening date of Friday April 10, 2020. The final decision to reopen our facilities will be made based on all the available information including from the federal, state and county health authorities. If your reservation falls within that time frame, it will be cancelled and our office staff will add a credit to your Harbin account. We will post COVID-19 or other updates on our website and Facebook Pages. We apologize for any inconvenience to our guests.

Please stay safe.

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These articles also came up ...

Clothing optional resort Harbin Hot Springs reopens its pools 3 years after wildfire

Amy Graff | on January 16, 2019

- https://www.sfgate.com/weather/amp/Harbin-Hot-Springs-opening-pools-reservations-fire-13535539.php
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/amp/Harbin-Hot-Springs-opening-pools-reservations-fire-13535539.php

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New Age, clothing-optional Harbin Hot Springs rises from embers in Lake County

Kurtis Alexander | on January 20, 2019

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/amp/New-Age-retreat-rises-from-embers-13546291.php

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Well-loved Harbin Hot Springs ravaged by Valley Fire; pools survive

Kurtis Alexander and Evan Sernoffsky Sep. 14, 2015 (Houston, Texas)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Harbin-Hot-Springs-ravaged-by-Valley-Fire-6503417.php

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Lake County’s Harbin Hot Springs will reopen its pools next year

MARTIN ESPINOZA

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

December 11, 2018 (Santa Rosa, California)

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9033096-181/lake-countys-harbin-hot-springs

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Nudist Resort Destroyed By Valley Fire To Reopen
March 9, 2016 at 10:35 am (Sacramento, California)

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/03/09/nudist-resort-destroyed-by-valley-fire-to-reopen/

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Lucid dreaming ...

Blue dacnis: Lucid Dreaming - Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, 'Awakening the Luminous Mind,' David Chalmers on the virtual and the real, Grateful Dead Yoga, Yoga Robotics to teach yoga poses, to help with vegetarian cooking & FREEDOM Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations, Esalen, Harbin Hot Springs, Monty Python's John Cleese, his ex-wife Faye Alyce Cleese, May add 'reading'& 'self-study' words to http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html re ~ 'Cultivate learning consciousness of your own neurophysiology' w more STEM research, In what ways could a realistic virtual Harbin become a site for Yogic "reading" and "self-study" re Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations?

- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/11/blue-dacnis-lucid-dreaming-tenzin.html -

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Am curious about this recent Minnesota UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm interview - https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw - with 2 mentions of sauna and 1 of hot tubs ... and re "coronavirus" pandemic . . .

UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm:

- https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw

Rich discussion on #COVID19 with @mtoster with analogies on level of preparedness for public health vs. defense (and biggest vulnerabilities are likely supply chains that depend on China...) https://t.co/AoUNUj1ktP
— Jonathan H Chen (@jonc101x) March 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/jonc101x/status/1237647356318724096?s=20

Sexual selection in birds: Thanks to Stanford Professor Jonathan Chen MD (and computer scientist) for sharing this video with an interview with UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm regarding #CoronaVirusCOVID19 * And in a "pan"-demic interpretive vein, thanks, too, to Stanford Law Prof. Greely for sharing this WHO 'pandemic' Tweet: (where Pan could refer to the genus 'Pan' as in Pan Troglodyte or Pan Paniscus ... ) * * And I could interpret this recent Tweet by Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely, with his focus on biosciences, and as an (actual<>virtual, physical<>digital) ethnographer of Harbin Hot Springs in the following ways: "I apologize (ish) for flooding my followers w/retweets. There's just SO MUCH interesting stuff going on. This would be a wonderfully fascinating time..if it weren't real" * * * And ... there's an ... AMAZING opportunity in creating in GROUP VIDEO an online LEARNING CULTURE (due to #coronavirusCOVID19 pandemic in US) eg since MIT & Harvard & all Massachusetts' universities are moving classes online? > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School in fall '20 ~ An algorithms as culture study @npseaver? * * * Cambridge Univ video "Spanish Flu: a warning from history" and related videos * * * * Heartsong and All, Brain to brain blog to blog species to species creativity evolves https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg (Just for Hits - Richard Dawkins ... on genes and minds, - and a bit of a trip)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html

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Courtship display: Heartsong and All, "Brain to brain blog to blog species to species creativity evolves" https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg (Just for Hits - Richard Dawkins ... on genes and minds, - and a bit of a trip) * * UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm on COVID-19 and with talk about Saunas and Hot Tubs

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html

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New newspaper ...

"Hypothetical News"

... with first tentative headlines:

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily
1
a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to

governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too

2
for keeping kids safe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/how-keep-kids-connected-with-friends-even-when-theyre-housebound/

and seeking too to limit F&M sex offenders and perpetrators potentially with the law in new ways eg paralleling the medicinal and recreational cannabis law distinction - & w 1) rapid response, 2) continuous testing & 3) continuous tracking now with machine learning
(has CA has been doing for decades already in one way or another???)

3
successful in reversing global warming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place and thus dramatically lessening airplane and automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution

4
for nation states' to develop their borders or boundaries in new ways - and newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting any expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in the beginning of the 21st century - as well as potential military aggression.

5
has been primarily memetic (replicating cultural unit - the 'coronavirus' word or idea), & not genetic (SARS CoVD - although may have been precipitated by this in Wuhan, China), - and as such an experiment in radical action in the information technology age, and the internet.

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The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily
1
a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to

governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245426567716556800?s=20

(non harming or nonviolent)
... and as an "in case of emergency" situation, and because of the way this situation developed (and the value of treating this as a serious 'fire drill'), no one - the internet media on 10s of 1000s of web sites on a many-to-many information technology - or governments etc ... were in any positions to question this for other kinds of benefits to publics. So critical thinking about this by individuals has much merit ...

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/how-keep-kids-connected-with-friends-even-when-theyre-housebound/
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245427302294384640?s=20

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
3
successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428201377001473

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
4
for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428622413848576?s=20

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
5
memetic (#coronavirus 'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245429563716284417?s=20

*

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily
1
a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to

governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily
1
a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to

governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245426567716556800?s=20

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/how-keep-kids-connected-with-friends-even-when-theyre-housebound/
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safehttps://t.co/PI1TYT8BXG
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245427302294384640?s=20

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
3
successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html ~

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
3
successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://t.co/A7vlAwlyBX ~
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428201377001473

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
4
for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
4
for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428622413848576?s=20

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
5
memetic (#coronavirus 'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
5
memetic (#coronavirus'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245429563716284417?s=20

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Re
How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' re the coronavirus pandemic in the USA?

I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...

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

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monal

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

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

...

Hi Ma, Dick, Lucy, Ann, and Alden,

Happy birthday to Ma Mère!

I made this animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial this morning (https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ from 3/26/20, as well as the next livestream, also by Zoe, today, 4/2/20 - https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw ... as well as ).

This card is animated, or programmed, (and may still be a work in progress ... :)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382124547

(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

... 'homemade' programming as birthday card, could one say? :) (And it may be as close as it gets to a 'physical' gift for her today:)

Happy BIRTHDAY, Ma!

Click on the green flag to send heart to the middle!
Click on the space bar to send it back.
Click the heart to hear a birthday song.
And click on the stop sign to end the song.

And for a moment of hilarity in the middle of this 'national emergency,' from Monty Python's John Cleese (who's quarantining in LA:) -

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine pic.twitter.com/g7m1QzaUwj
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1245798680306860033?s=20

Warmly, Scotty

5 Tweets in a beginning new "Hypothetical News" re the 'coronavirus' -

Himalyan Monal: How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' in the USA? * * * New newspaper ... "Hypothetical News" ... with first tentative headlines: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily 1 a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too * * * I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html -

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

*

https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/

Imagine a World tutorial
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382283884/editor

Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w

Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Introduce a Character! Create-Along LIVE: Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw

Submit a question to the Scratch Create-Along livestream!
Got a question or a comment? Want help with something? Looking for a project idea? Send it in! I'll answer questions on the livestream.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/viewform

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Hi Zoë,

With another inspiring video by Zoe and Eric, Karen Brennan's Alexa Kutler's Retweet, and Jared Amalong in Sacramento having gotten back to me that he had met and knows Zoe, I followed up with Zoe yesterday in email. Hoping to become email friends and communicate in writing some at first.

April 2, 2020

Thanks so much, Zoe! Am curious how characters we animate might eventually enter a Google Smart TV environment in Google Street View ... How to anticipate this somehow - and in Scratch? (And how might such a Google Smart TV environment with Google Street View / Brick Street View regarding Lego Brick Robotics be coded for with Scratch, or how to anticipate this?) Thanks for your inspiring Scratch Create-Along livestream!

Thursday, March 26, 2020:

Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Thanks for making this Scratch Create-Along so social and interactive in a new online way with this question tool :)! Am liking the sociality of your livestream live esp. too. How to make Scratch with 'Home Robotics' (WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3 / Mindstreams:) & Spike Prime) as social and interactive online - and in new ways? (Animate a Greeting Card with a Scratch coded Lego robot???) How to make the making of Scratch coded robots as fun as your "Animate a Greeting Card"? And how to make coding Scratch together somehow newly social and very fun online? Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë ! :) Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse -

Zoë: MIT alumnus Jim Spohrer asked in some ways my Scratch with Lego Robotics' interactive, fun and social and making/creating-together online questions in a related way: "Jim Spohrer @JimSpohrer:
Does anyone have an article on telerobotics and future of jobs? Would like to understand the state-of-the-art and projections.
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1243227311681331200?s=20" Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë ! :) Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse

Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... AND Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics and future of jobs,'' the state-of-the-art and projections' questions, how might a future Create-Along LIVE! focus on Scratch3.0 with Lego WeDo 2.0 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego (Einar Öberg @inear with his Brick Street View in Google Street View - eg https://twitter.com/inear/status/1242374206601465858?s=20 - but for Lego ROBOTICS), #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics and #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?

Related Tweets with more info & LINKS -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243256210033274881?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243256856039964672?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243258160241987584?s=20
And especially for MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUALLY - "Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!" - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243258899269996544?s=20 - WITH Google Research Football

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1223738618264481793?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1223738898909499392?s=20

Happy International Waffle Day ! :) And thank you!

* * *

Am wondering when characters we animate in Scratch might enter the Google Smart TV environment in Google StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding Lego Brick Robotics & be code-able with Scratch? scottmacleod.com
(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

Could such characters eventually become both realistic and fantastic avatars in Google Street View ?

And even become surgeon robots eventually ... a character I may seek to introduce re

Searched on -

Google Street View in Google Smart TV

Google Street View in Google Cardboard

* * * *

Dear Stanford's Hoover Institute, and Tom Gilligan,

Tom,

Thanks for the conversation today with Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D., and Michael Auslin.

Here's the question I asked in the Q&A a little further spelled out:

What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China? For example, in what ways could Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China? - "The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties. Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci "
- https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 Thanks.

This is the Duke Univ professor, a former FDA commissioner, who's the head of Project Baseline there -

Robert M Califf @califf001 Mar 20
Working with the governor's office to screen for Covid 19. @verilylifesci
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20

And Bob Harrington MD, who's the chair of Stanford Medicine, is a colleague and also involved with Stanford's Project Baseline.

Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

I've blogged, in part, about Niall Ferguson's great presentation - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html - (and thanks for the video of Niall's presentation; I had emailed him this question:

Thank you, Niall Ferguson and Tom Gilligan, for - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - this morning.

Here are the questions and comments I posted to the Zoom Q&A:
Have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' in new ways as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ?

Thank you, Niall and Tom! - Regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html)
- Scott GK 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 MIT OCW.

(I sent the following to http://www.niallferguson.com/contact after Niall's fascinating Stanford Hoover briefing: https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science) ).

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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

...

Free CC-4 best STEM (MIT) OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' (licensing) Bachelor degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School this autumn, -& in ~200 countries' languages @sgkmacleod with time: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States> worlduniversityandschool.org> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

Free CC-4 best STEM (MIT) OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' (licensing) Bachelor degrees https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E this fall, -& in ~200 countries' languages @sgkmacleod with time: https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4>https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2>https://t.co/ExHIFfPqkW ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246134205416755200?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246136612062236679?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246142367838568448?s=20

*
How a STEM or science degree would work at WUaS ... See > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video

> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

* * *
FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Sing-alongs online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing? Let's create! FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' Bach. degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School in Langs @sgkmacleod worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Sing-alongs online - https://t.co/3j7NLedeK7? Let's create! FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://t.co/1411VOLmF3 And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' Bach. degrees https://t.co/quUYjRX6Ye in Langs @sgkmacleod https://t.co/laEDzMD0vm~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246123225743949824?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246123628309041152?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246124355475529729?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246124762041962497?s=20

*
Am wondering when #Scratch3 code-able characters we animate https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw might enter a #RealisticVirtualEarth >Google Smart TV in StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding #LegoRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics scottmacleod.com > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html ?

Am wondering when #Scratch3 code-able characters we animate https://t.co/KmufrK4GZQ might enter a #RealisticVirtualEarth >Google Smart TV in StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding #LegoRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics https://t.co/D8Sj668UsR > https://t.co/3GNBwb1uDT ?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246117224831520768?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246117686054027266?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246117371627974656?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246116338545745920?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246116641819123717?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1246119689450696704?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246120234232102913?s=20

* * *
A new Constitution for education in ~200 countries & 7117 known living languages (& WIKI)
'a body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which an organization is acknowledged to be governed'> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States each a major Univ & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth~

A new Constitution for education in ~200 countries & 7117 known living languages (& WIKI)
'a body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which an organization is acknowledged to be governed'> https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 each a major Univ & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246170010730393600?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246174745856315393?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246175031580712960?s=20

* * *

Google taught this robotic dog to learn new tricks by imitating a real one

Conclusion: "The team plans to try using animal videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615440/google-ai-robotic-dog-learns-with-imitation-reinforcement-learning<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00784.pdf #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

Conclusion: "The team plans to try using animal videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable"#FilmTo3D https://t.co/Mw1BFKdcgi<https://t.co/zcKVV39kHV #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/a53n3kl75l ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246198476796391425?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246198866367500289?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246199050170298368?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246200739237527552?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246200999972237312?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1246201714950041601?s=20

*
SCD #DanceScottish "The team plans to try using.videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615440/google-ai-robotic-dog-learns-with-imitation-reinforcement-learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00784.pdf #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

SCD #DanceScottish"The team plans to try using.videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable"#FilmTo3D https://t.co/e7eLkw89PL https://t.co/2yI4D3A9WJ #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/sCexK9pH4K ~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246201463606394880?s=20

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

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

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

...

. . . would really like my big project, World Univ & Sch, to begin to grow ... and with this 'national emergency' everyone is now studying online ... is excellent preparation for students for World Univ & Sch ). Am out on a walk on a beautiful afternoon ... down the hill and up the hill...

* * *
Everyone is now studying online with #coronavirus 'national emergency' which is excellent online learning preparation for students & matriculating them at
@WorldUnivAndSch for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees this autumn https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - @WUaSPress ~

Everyone is now studying online with #coronavirus'national emergency' which is excellent online learning preparation for students & matriculating them at @WorldUnivAndSch for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees this autumn https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E - @WUaSPress~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246490974060077056?s=20

* * *
Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - &
@WorldUnivAndSch
seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ~

Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"https://t.co/u9Xzq38I19 - & @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages > https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ~ https://t.co/uTN73RzDT5
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246482931243048962?s=20

*
george church @geochurch
https://livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.html?utm_source=notification
Yay!

https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
Yay!
— george church (@geochurch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246424643159896065?s=20

*
Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages
@sgkmacleod
> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ~

Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"https://t.co/u9Xzq38I19 - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages @sgkmacleod> https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ~ https://t.co/uTN73RzDT5
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246483241919320064?s=20

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Hypothesis (sociological/historical/anthropological/primatological): Veils in the Muslim world, & historically in western Europe, for ex., emerged to protect the wearers from being 'hit upon' by men #HumanPrimates Could they be used re #coronavirus to protect innocent / victims?

Hypothesis (sociological/historical/anthropological/primatological): Veils in the Muslim world, & historically in western Europe, for ex., emerged to protect the wearers from being 'hit upon' by men #HumanPrimates Could they be used re #coronavirus to protect innocent / victims? https://t.co/L8pDPXZVKk
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246580930786938880?s=20

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How best to begin to explore this in a single realistic virtual earth for history - think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor flow - and where we can all add data via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ?

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Beard masks might have emerged similarly, e.g. in Sikh world, and beards too (i.e. to not abraid women's faces re intimacy and sexuality) ... and in addition to keeping beard hair out of cheese: :)

Heather Parson @heather_paxson · Apr 2
Cheese is perishable and animals can't stop making milk. How Covid-19 is disrupting America's most time-sensitive industry

Cheese is perishable and animals can't stop making milk. How Covid-19 is disrupting America's most time-sensitive industry https://t.co/p99peMfeZY
— Heather Paxson (@heather_paxson) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/heather_paxson/status/1245817993269035008?s=20

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Why do we want covid-19 antibody testing? How is this different from the testing we already do? What are the limitations? Here are the biggest things you should know about serological testing.

Why do we want covid-19 antibody testing? How is this different from the testing we already do? What are the limitations? Here are the biggest things you should know about serological testing. https://t.co/pBnbZmimj1
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1246544424290652164?s=20

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Information for testing for Covid-19. https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1246493351546777600 …

Information for testing for Covid-19. https://t.co/5pbZ6Y1o5b
— Robert M Califf (@califf001) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1246497671625367552?s=20

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Office of the Governor of California
@CAgovernor · 4h
California has partnered with @verilylifesci to increase #COVID19 testing.

To learn more and find out if you're eligible for testing, watch this video!

California has partnered with @verilylifesci to increase #COVID19 testing.

To learn more and find out if you're eligible for testing, watch this video!pic.twitter.com/bXYu12xB51
— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1246493351546777600?s=20

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Thanks for this conversation. What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China. For example, Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China: The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci

The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://t.co/yUzyw2lk3n and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci.
— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20
Thanks.

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Global Distance Club starting 04-April-2020 at 18:00 GMT/UTC
Interested to join? Send a short message to Skype-ID: klubtalk

9:37 AM
Vielen Dank, Peter, - Ich lerne ein bisschen Deutsch von Deutsche Zeitungen jetzt in dieser Zeit von Coronavirus, - interessant!

9:44 AM
z.B. https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html ... und re Welt Uni fuer alle 7,5 Billiarden Menschen

10:03 AM
Check out George Church's Tweet here esp - Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'

"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages @sgkmacleod > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246483241919320064?s=20 -

Russlands Corona-Überwachung: Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten
https://www.faz.net

Hospital - World University and School Wiki
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org

A Russian and American issue somehow -

https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
Yay!
— george church (@geochurch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246424643159896065?s=20 - esp.?

George Church on Twitter:

"Everyone should wear face 'masks' in public, CDC now recommends

https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
- https://www.livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.html
Yay!"
https://twitter.com/geochurch

Peter, 10:17 AM
Have you seen my post on Twitter about the new Skype Meet Now service? Up to 50 people in a conference call without sign-up or download of Skype.

10:20 AM
Not yet ... will check it out (where?) .. LightStream changed significantly - all your templates on both LightStreams disappeared it appears ... Am hopefully streaming to YouTube with Petros in Athens, Greece, on Monday (and you?) ... but may have to meet in Google Meet instead (with no livestream or Youtube recording).

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Welcome to Global Distance Club, with Peter Bothe!

Interesting Skype group video conference today, and here's the text chat (for the record too) from this:

Welcome to Global Distance Club!

First GDC on Saturday, 04-April-2020 at 18:00 GMT/UTC

David, 6:01 PM

KLUBTALK, 9:53 PM

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KLUBTALK, 10:09 AM

GDC Topic: Coronavirus - How does it effect your social life?

10:09 AM
:)
actually or virtually?

KLUBTALK, 10:10 AM
Actually!

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10:12 AM
physically or digitally? :)
(both are questions I'm asking much re social theory, and realistic virtual Harbin creation too:)

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Georgy, 11:15 AM
I still have 2/2 kids to make them sleep (screamingfear)
so I'll try to join later if you'll be there still

11:17 AM
Sounds good, Georgy!

How far do you live from Sao Paolo & Rio ? 6 hours flight

Georgy, 11:19 AM

How far do you live from Sao Paolo & Rio ? 6 hours flight
Scott MacLeod, Today at 11:17 AM
Nowadays it's an infinite amount of hours since flights are prohibited :)

David, 11:21 AM

Coronavirus Map
https://www.bing.com

Georgy, 11:21 AM

David, 11:21 AM
hahah true georgy :D

11:22 AM
:)
And infinitely close with virtual travel - Skype face-to-face meetings in person :)
FYI - PBS NewsHour full show, Apr 3, 2020

https://youtu.be/a1xYT0VpG-8

What did you think? The China focus at the close of Dr. Tony Fauci's long interview was timely ... and will China even go further into quarantine for decades even? But is this coronavirus pandemic all a 'fire drill' too I keep asking myself ... (seems like a very viable hypothesis :)

11:30 AM
Ajit, do you teach about supply chains esp? Regarding your Twitter - https://twitter.com/ajitmishra71 - too I wonder about the role of ports, harbor and freight in supply chains - and even with regard to a Realistic Virtual Earth for everything (thinking Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow ...) ... what's happening with supply chain in Indian ports (and when quarantine ends too? )

11:34 AM
Is the port of Calcutta / Kolkata, West Bengal, India, a focus of some of your students, for example?

KLUBTALK, 11:37 AM

Ajit, 11:37 AM
For example Haldiya port Kolkata,. JN Port Mumbai. Kandla at Gujrat etc. We have 24 major ports and near about 100 minor or inland waterways ports.

Ajit, 11:46 AM
Indian doctors has made ventilators in just of MRP $2000 and it boosts capacity of our health and medical services to fight with corona. Our scientists and doctors creatd covid-19 test kit for just $10 and provide results in just 3 hours this help our system to make better medical services in this very crucial time.

So we are fighting with corona in better way.

11:48 AM
coping - face-to-face via Skype versus face-to-face in person ... conversation
?
Great, Ajit!

Kunal Shankar - from India but journalist living in Berkeley (with Columbia school of Journalism) - https://twitter.com/kunalshankar - reported Indians fleeing the coronavirus to the land

Kunal Shankar (@kunalshankar) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

Ajit, I find it interesting that it's somewhat difficult to find a non-veggie restaurant in India (in my experience visiting there)

Ajit, 11:57 AM
Yes, you are right, finding non-veggie restaurant in India is little difficult.

In small city it is more difficult.

11:57 AM
Kunal Shankar - This is no exaggeration: India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus

This is no exaggeration: India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus https://t.co/Hw4FHtzfZc
— Kunal Shankar (@kunalshankar) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/kunalshankar/status/1244932412829622272?s=20

... and also back to the land for India (an old pattern regarding modernity?)

Anatoly, 12:19 PM
http://item1000.blogspot.com/2013/06/virtlantis-event-from-shiaida-greece.html

Virtlantis event from Shiaida: Greece and Brazil
http://item1000.blogspot.com

David, 12:19 PM
https://www.firestormviewer.org is this one?

Firestorm Viewer – The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc.
https://www.firestormviewer.org

Anatoly, 12:20 PM
You can see my avatar there

Anatoly

12:20 PM
I've taught a course "Society, Information Technology and the Global Univ" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life for about 10 semesters

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

Hope to teach it again this autumn potentially .. for matriculating students, and also open
Learn MIT Media Lab Scratch visual language programming for free on Thursdays at 1700 GMT / UTC too - https://twitter.com/scratch
-

Scratch Team (@scratch) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

Ajit, 12:23 PM
In India if I am saying about shop, itmeans shop for green vegetables and dry vegitables are different. Shops for grains, pulses and spices are different. Cosmetics store are different. So you have to visit each shop fro each type of commodities. It is not like shop or mini mall.

David, 12:23 PM

COVID-19 Community Mobility Report
https://www.google.com

Ajit, 12:24 PM
Malls are different in India. It means everything in one roof.

David, 12:24 PM
how to I add you in second life?

by e-mail?

12:24 PM
What's your blog, Anatoly, please?

Anatoly, 12:25 PM
About literature mostly last time

12:25 PM
What's the URL please?

KLUBTALK, 12:27 PM
PeterCoach

Anatoly, 12:27 PM

Official Site | Second Life - Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, VR, Avatars, Free 3D Chat
https://secondlife.com

12:27 PM
My avatar is Aphilo Aarde as well, David

Ajit, 12:28 PM
It is very late-night here in India. I have to leave this discussion. So bye for now, will meet next time.

12:28 PM
What are your avatar names Ajit and Anatoly?

Anatoly, 12:28 PM
Anatoliy Learner

12:28 PM
The whole web is virus free, not only SL

KLUBTALK, 12:29 PM
Firestorm

Ajit, 12:29 PM
My avatar name Ajit. But I am not using second Life more frequently.

KLUBTALK, 12:32 PM
Draxtor

David, 12:36 PM
teams?

KLUBTALK, 12:36 PM
Skype Meet Now

12:38 PM
(And Peter is now in World Univ & Sch with an email address and for Google Education with Google Hangouts Meet ... which just increased to 250 people! ....but WUaS's also still doesn't stream to Youtube recordings or do Youtube Livestreams)
Watch Together? will check it out (like going to a movie together but with distance)
- https://www.watch2gether.com/?lang=en -

Watch2Gether
https://www.watch2gether.com
am not sure if it's free or not
Thanks, Peter!
1:00 PM
Thanks, - and bye, All!

David, 1:00 PM
bye

1h 47m 21s

KLUBTALK, 1:02 PM
Here are a few links for the people interested in SecondLife:

Draxtor Bookclub in SL (08-April-2020 at 17:00 GMT/UTC): https://secondlife.com/destination/second-life-book-club

Second Life Book Club
https://secondlife.com
Firestorm Viewer for SL: https://www.firestormviewer.org/os/

SL Operating system « Firestorm Viewer – The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc.
https://www.firestormviewer.org
1:05 PM

Wednesday, I think ... would love to add realistic virtual avatars to Google Street View and

... visit the Harbin Hot Springs' Gatehouse here http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg https://twitter.com/HarbinBook http://bit.ly/HarbinBook :)
(so Pegman in Street View would grow!)

HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

KLUBTALK, 1:19 PM
The main Freebie places in SL are: (search Inworld and Teleport to those locations):
Freebies Ajuda SL Brasil Voluntarios Community (good for mesh avatars & clothes)
Freebies Helping Heaven Gateway (good for avatars & clothes & building materials)
Freebies Galaxy (huge collection of freebie clothes)
Freebies Megastore London City (good for mesh avatars & clothes)

1:20 PM
Thnx

KLUBTALK, 1:33 PM
Information about the Global Distance Club you can find by following these links:
MeWe: mewe.com/i/peterbothe
Twitter: twitter.com/peter_bothe
YouTube: youtube.com/peterbothe
SecondLife Username: PeterCoach

Maybe - and thanks, Peter, for creating this 'distant' :) space for all of us to talk together!

Thanks, Anatoly for item1000.blogspot.com blog - interesting reviews (thought Ajit had posted this at first) .. also found the following ...

How to Watch Videos and Movies with Friends Online - https://youtu.be/3VqT3vaPLXs - (Looks like Syncplay is free, but video has to be on someone's hard drive, - not sure about others)
Syncplay: http://syncplay.pl/download/
Watch2gether: http://www.watch2gether.com/
Gaze: http://www.letsgaze.com/#/
Kast: https://kast.gg/download.html
Netflix Party: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/det...
Sync Video: http://www.sync-video.com/
MyCircle.tv: http://www.mycircle.tv/
Plex VR: http://www.plex.tv/your-media/virtual ...

Thanks for mentioning watch2gether.com!

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... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 23 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Cheese tree - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html
Soap bubble - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html
Himalyan Monal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html
Grey seal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html
Lavacicles - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html
Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html
oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html
golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html
Mount Oeta - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html
Desert Quandong - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html
High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Diamond - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/diamond-eureka-this-start-up-is-using.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~

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Ringtail_Possum_in_Glochidion_Ferdinandi

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

...

Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~

Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~ https://t.co/CcZjgplLeA
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246877396868845568?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246878651729104897?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246879358523805696?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246879547795976193?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246881090918207489?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1246883274099552256?s=20

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Jan Mieszkowski
@janmpdx · Apr 3
Quarantine Day 1
Quarantine Day 15

Quarantine Day 1
Quarantine Day 15 pic.twitter.com/8mLm2PqaAJ
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/janmpdx/status/1246312655565934592?s=20

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Soaking from home @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking @ #WUaSPhilosophy ~

Soaking from home @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking @ #WUaSPhilosophy ~ https://t.co/TXKkcR94iW
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246885452470091776?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246884865917648897?s=20

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( ( ( most interesting work in philosophy these days? #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy & David Chalmers on Consciousness http://whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/david-chalmers #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness
@scottmacleod
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness ~

most interesting work in philosophy these days? #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy& David Chalmers on Consciousness https://t.co/XJQotFYW4k #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240359274200444929?s=20 ) ) )

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#BrainInAVat
Mindville: Philosopher David Chalmers on the Evil Genius and the brain in a vat
https://youtu.be/Rx3yIYdNmmQ
The Matrix as Metaphysics
David J. Chalmers
1 Brains in Vats
http://consc.net/papers/matrix.html
-https://wmpeople.wm.edu/asset/index/cvance/matrix
-https://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=360532&a=t&first_name=D.&author=Chalmers&concept=Brains%20in%20a%20Vat
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy~

#BrainInAVat
Mindville: Philosopher David Chalmers on the Evil Genius and the brain in a vathttps://t.co/oXZmbwIx6Q
The Matrix as Metaphysics
David J. Chalmers
1 Brains in Vatshttps://t.co/FZQ4EXNTtr
-https://t.co/4UersJCDEN
-https://t.co/S3Fqxe9zv4
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246975329903599616?s=20

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What are #BrainInAVat #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness questions?
https://www.iep.utm.edu/brainvat/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-content-externalism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
#PhilosophicalConsciousness
@scottmacleod
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness ~
& re #RealisticVirtualHarbin?

What are #BrainInAVat #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness questions? https://t.co/GUubYcde1G https://t.co/WqwATaKzTY https://t.co/i4jjn7Afc0 #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~
& re #RealisticVirtualHarbin?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246976017316466694?s=20

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Desiderata ... what are the ethics in this prose poem, and regarding the coronavirus meme too?

Keep calm in the time of coronavirus meme - with one's good 'agency' (or free will or intentional action)... ?

Desiderata

GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

By Max Ehrmann © 1927
Original text

~ https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

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Poetry of sea dragons?

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Hi M,

Deep in the morning here, and a potential life partner comes to mind .. and so life partner for kids, grandkids, living together ... and how to connect further over 3000 miles? Appreciating your affirmation, - which I think I've heard in recent conversations. How to realize or MANIFEST connecting, I wonder? Talk with friends, - in Pittsburgh?, Mass, Maine, N.Y., California?, SM? JK? KB? JA? ES? Meet this summer, or before? What would you suggest and how to communicate and bridge the distance?

L, Scott

A bit hippy, even, but .. re language ... .

Here are the seven steps to MANIFEST anything you want — including money.

Step 1: Get clear on what you want. ...
Step 2: Ask the universe. ...
Step 3: Work toward your goals. ...
Step 4: Trust the process. ...
Step 5: Receive and acknowledge what you get. ...
Step 6: Keep Your Vibration High. ...
Step 7: Clear your resistance.
- https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7806936 -

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Good morning, Ma Nerd Mere,

Glad you had a good buurrrrthday as in (cold) picnic.

PROCESS re manifesting -
Finding a mate
E's help
Presenting - being creative

And teamwork - Bob Harrington MD's (from MA) Boston Red Sox picture ...
"Thinking of friends and colleagues in NYC and MA as cases climb. In #NorCal we have steady increase. Family wanted me to have break. So they planned virtual #OpeningDay. Sweet Caroline then Fever Pitch. Go @RedSox"

> https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1246280247617585153?s=20

I think I could learn teamwork from my 'individualism' thinking - and I've been a Red Sox fan from an early age (which team plays a big role in Boston culture) and kind of a Boston-person too ... since I was born in the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' (something from the late 1960s) :)

And in a Boston-vein, is my piping album a question of MIND? (regarding concentration - how one focuses - regarding Yoga and philosophy questions too ... I may write out a schedule for playing today, as well as making robotics and programming them with Scratch)

But still no email from her ... Hmmm ... (there's 'being a character' thinking in our family I'd say too :)

L, Scott

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

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Hi Ma,

Rainy Sunday here. But kinda nice. Thinking about beginning a family ... and questions of modeling consciousness even ... regarding brain-in-a-vat philosophy experiments (going back to Descartes and skepticism questions) but also regarding creating a realistic virtual Harbin for study, and soaking from home ...

... but also modeling brains from within a realistic virtual earth ... (giving new meanings to 'be-in' brain in a vat questions, ontology too) ... so actual - virtual people's brains in their actual-virtual bodyminds while soaking in the Harbin warm pool (or bathtubs as proxy, with digital mask. :) ... and modeling at the cellular and atomic levels too, with brainwave headbands transmitting data from physical people via wifi to virtual people as models ... in this realistic virtual earth ... soaking there is nice ... this philosophical IT modeling complex and innovative and developing ... :)

... and wondering too whether anyone in Canyon might get the coronavirus (people are circulating a lot here even with California stay-home directives) ...

How was your day? :)

Love, Scott

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Ma,

I'm sometimes wondering if there's even a kind of 'reckoning' (ethics' wise too) going on - with regard to coronavirus pandemic somehow, and on a global scale regarding perps and offs, for example, and in so many other ways ?

If coronavirus pandemic is emerging from Boston area somehow,

am appreciating this Boston Globe article's consciousness of the advances America has made with regards to race -

Dancing at HOME
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/22/nation/how-clubquarantine-party-that-brought-together-thousands-across-world-including-michelle-obama-oprah-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-gave-us-reason-dance-again/ How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing @WorldUnivAndSch?

Dancing at HOME https://t.co/BC3p01tL3h How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh& music-making https://t.co/Th9NYKGtS0 to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://t.co/jralgPlavK @WorldUnivAndSch?
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241772453296136192?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1241774102483832833?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241774446114795520?s=20

Love, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): A trip to Monterey a year ago today :) Happy Sunday-it's been raining a lot-cooling off this world-Global Warming reversal? Scott

... https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM4DLXMFeWoGwJoovc9sBSD5FV4OhOfZkJvvPusN52T6TRilfkMgR3Uh4urimTLXQ?key=ekZ1OTladDRUc2YtRFUtLXRqeERXbTZUVjBMdHpn ...

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Ma, David, Pin, Ed,

The short video in this series of photos is of ocean explorer and environmentalist, and based in DC -

Sylvia Earle at Stanford Hopkins' Marine Center - https://hopkinsmarinestation.stanford.edu/events/sylvia-earle-mission-blue-exploring-deep-ocean-frontier - "Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue, Exploring the Deep Ocean Frontier"
APRIL 5, 2019 -
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
HOPKINS MARINE STATION, MONTEREY BOAT WORKS LECTURE HALL

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to create a realistic virtual earth for ocean exploration - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click ... like SL with Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow and for STEM research and classes. - Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org and scottmacleod.com and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/oceans)

And I added the above 2 comments to video as well. (Also am learning how Google's 'Discover this Day' which pops up photos one's taken in the past to one's smartphone, then e-mailable, works!)

Happy Sunday, Scott

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- 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.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_sea_dragon

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

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/04/60-spectacular-seahorses-and-seadragons-pics/

...

Hi Ay,

Please read through these emails again to get a sense of what WUaS's process is at this point - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html >

Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video

> (because I think I've already answered a number of your questions here in previous emails) - and where the WUaS licensing process with the state of California's BPPE could begin in mid-May at the earliest, and with a BPPE workshop. Application process would follow this, and be informed by the BPPE workshop too, in conjunction with WUaS's developing online platform, - and would likely involve high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and essays, and possibly eventually test scores. Please see too what MIT looks for in undergraduate students (and below) -

"What we look for
The match between you and MIT"
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/

And courses, at this time, would be MIT OCW > MITx informed, where students would be taking about 40 courses over 4 years, so about 10 courses per year - probably via the edX platform.

What state (or specifically county) are you based in, when you're not traveling, in a legal sense, and regarding CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS's exploring seeking reimbursement from departments of education in all 50 states, or federally as well? Books and Lego Robotics, etc., would be costs students are responsible for, whereas tuition would be free-to-students' and something WUaS, again, would seek reimbursement for, probably from counties (please read my previous emails again), and WUaS doesn't have an estimate of these costs at this point.

Here's a perspective on costs of going to MIT for a year, for your reference:

"The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total cost includes $53,450 for tuition, $10,430 for housing, $5,960 for food costs, $2,160 for personal expenses, $820 for books and supplies and $340 to cover the school's student life fee" (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/its-costs-73160-to-go-to-mitheres-how-much-students-actually-pay.html). WUaS seeks to create an online bookstore for books and supplies related specifically to the courses WUaS offers.

Since you've told me a number of times that you're actively a Christian, I'm including Professors Viehland (active in World Univ & Sch), both of whom are active in a Methodist Church in western Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Viehland is a Methodist minister, and both of whom went to MIT in chemistry/physics as undergraduates. Please feel free to ask Larry Viehland questions as well.

Have you taken an edX course before - to see if you'd enjoy taking potentially 40 of them over 4 years? Here's a free "How to learn online" course from edX - https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-learn-online - which is only 2 weeks long. And as you might think, MIT undergraduate students, by way of comparison, are quite active learners, high achievers, have great study skills and are hard workers, and tend to be at the top of their high school classes, - with 4 years of focused academic study in high school on their transcripts. And adding having taken such courses to your application would be sensible.

What do you think?

Scott

World Univ & Sch is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages (and, in a sense, shares MIT's mission, referred to below)

- https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/ >

What we look for
The match between you and MIT

Ask any admissions officer at MIT, and they will tell you that while grades and scores are important, it’s really the match between applicant and the Institute that drives our selection process.

Here are the key components:

Alignment with MIT’s mission
Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we’re not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the time they’re 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world. Lobbying a senator to amend bad policy changes the world. There are thousands of examples.

Collaborative and cooperative spirit
The core of the MIT spirit is collaboration and cooperation; you can see it all over the Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs are very common. MIT is known for its interdisciplinary research. If you enjoy working alone all the time, that’s completely valid, but you might not be particularly happy at MIT.

Initiative
Opportunities are abundant at MIT, but they must be seized. Research projects, seed money, and interesting lectures aren’t simply handed to students on silver platters here. For those students who take initiative—who take advantage of what’s around them—MIT’s resources are unparalleled.

Risk-taking
MIT wants to admit people who are not only planning to succeed but who are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn resilience—because risk leads to failure as often as it leads to success. The most creative and successful people—and MIT is loaded with them—know that failure is part of life and that if you stay focused and don’t give up, goals are ultimately realized.

Hands-on creativity
MIT is an active, hands-on place. Innovation is risky and messy! Getting your hands dirty and trying something new is often the best way to achieve success. We apply theoretical knowledge to real-world problems here; our Latin motto means “Mind and Hand.” In other words, you shouldn’t just enjoy thinking, you should also enjoy doing.

Intensity, curiosity, and excitement
In a nutshell, you should be invested in the things that really mean something to you (we’re not particularly picky as to what). Explore! Choose quality over quantity—you don’t have to do a million things to get into college. Put your heart into a few things that you truly care about and that will be enough.

The character of the MIT community
Our community is comprised of people who take care of each other and lift each other up, who inspire each other to work and dream beyond their potential. We’re looking to admit people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community.

The ability to prioritize balance
Despite what you may have heard, this place is NOT all about work. To be successful here, you must prioritize some measure of downtime. Therefore, we like to see that you’ve prioritized some downtime in high school as well. Question #1 (Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick question. Answer it honestly.

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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Ay,

Again, I think, here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) -

1) https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow....socialflow_twitter

2) with the article's Twitter connection - https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html

Here is astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.

Best, Scott

PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards:

"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

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Glad to hear it, Joi. Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in realistic virtual earth for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines - and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. Thanks for texts. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done, Joi!

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Thanks, Fred, and likewise - Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines- and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done,

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Hi Adam, Craig and Byron!

How are you, and your families doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home) in the Pacific NW? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

That almost every school in the world is going online is an AMAZING opportunity for the work of MIT OCW-centric Wiki World Univ & Sch - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html?m=0 too ... people are learning how to study online ... hope World Uni can develop a class of 500-2000 online undergraduates this autumn as we license with CA's BPPE! :) Much love! :)

Pacific NW (Oregon where we attended Reed College together) reminders abound in these curious times - and in the SF Bay Area. (Am wondering in blog whether a 'radical action' - eg EarthFirst 30 years later (where I was involved in PDX / western Cascades, with the Cathedral Forest Action Group seeking to save Old Growth forest nonviolently - could be partly cause of coronavirus memes in all ~200 countries even! But who knows? Glad you're all well, getting out in the rain, and nice to read your message. Be well, stay well! - S

Please stay safe!

- Fondly, Scott

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Patti -

Likewise for your text m'honey. You're both so fortunate to have that piano hot tub out back ... would love to have a virtual Harbin Hot Springs happening for your soaking pleasure - in Glacier Glasses (and for hiking the virtual PCT walking on Athol Ave or up on Skyline :) - but it'll be awhile yet :)

Scott

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Kim and Larry,

Glad to hear, Kim! Face-to-Face in person OR Face-to-Face LIVE people? ... how to cultivate live people in group video, until in person becomes possible again, I'm asking myself. Create sociality online anew?

Scott

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Good morning, Ma,

Nice to talk last night. Sorry the Unitarian Universalist service Livestream didn't work - that it sounded like someone was playing last week's service from Youtube at the same time as the live Livestream from the 1st UU Church of Pittsburgh, PA, I think you said. Contact some UU friends in Pgh re LiveStreaming next Sunday ? Possibly let these online UU services' go - since they may not be helpful? Look for an alternative UU Sunday Livestream? Could Rev David Herndon begin even his own Livestream from his home as a UU service, and at a different time, even, and innovation-wise, for example - and re generating further your UU network and community? Or could he lead a covenant group or similar instead in Zoom at a different time, for example? The UU Church can be a good community in these unsettling times. Grow further Unitarian Universalist community since the UU service Livestream didn't work?

... Could MIT Scratch team member, E.S., from Cleveland, somehow know the Cleveland UU community?

Am doing a Livestream soon regarding World Univ & Sch.

Cool weather here ... kinda nice, ... glad to hear back from a few friends after texting quite a few friends yesterday evening a version of the following. Good to stay in communication in these times when everyone's going online due to the coronavirus meme... Ken Thompson asks how you're doing in response to one of these texts.

Have fun exploring connecting online in group video in these unsettling times - telephone too. Am glad too you're settling in, and making friends, both around you, and regarding your wider great Pittsburgh community.

Your many birthdays' picnic on Friday outside in the cold is wonderful in these regards too. Talk with you soon! (Time to begin a family here, Ma, and grow my community this way:)

Love, Scott

Hello, Ken! How are you, and your family doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home)? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

Please stay safe! -

Fondly, Scott

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Hi Ma,

Use the UU Livestraming challenges recently as an opportunity to connect further with friends and grow your UU community like a garden with lots of rain over the course of the week :) - and for better Livestreaming - but also especially communication power (Castells' book title) - in the future on Sundays? :) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/rings-of-saturn-what-mit-looks-for-in.html (which I touch on at the bottom of this today's post as well!) Lots of rain again today ... spring will be full of flowers!

Love, Scott

25 posts http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0 explore #coronavirus anew: #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B peops in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics >#ProjectBaseline to test, track & study viruses, produce vaccines OCW @WorldUnivAndSch? What genes & knowledge of them have done!

25 posts https://t.co/9W7YrRoZ43 explore #coronavirus anew: #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B peops in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics>#ProjectBaseline to test, track & study viruses, produce vaccines OCW @WorldUnivAndSch? What genes & knowledge of them have done!
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1247300417857286144?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247301220793847808?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247301312443629568?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1247303038588432384?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1247303997565702145?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1247304285735378951?s=20