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Big Sur coastline: WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the MIT Office of Digital Learning? * * * Hi Scott, Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing?

Previous: Quercus chrysolepis (Canyon live oak): Genes and genealogy? - Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again): "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" * * * Any chance you see a Peter Norvig (is a director of research at Google Inc., and used to be its director of search quality) / Google / Alphabet / Stanford getting their coding hands on Ancestry .com and especially with WikiTree (for all 7.5 billion people's genetic samples ... as well as for archaeology genetic samples)? * * * Another take on genetic ownership questions (gene database / narrative ownership, etc.), re other species ... a Wikidata Q-item # for individual species * Found the language I was referring to re "world's only open-access human genome and trait data sets" (per George Church)
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WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the MIT Office of Digital Learning?

https://youtu.be/O1-K6koPnfM

See draft email at bottom here:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/sugar-cone-pine-pinus-lambertiana-prem.html -



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WUaS #LiveStream from FEATURED CHANNEL add /Live http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch MON 5/25/20 at 10a PT Topic: Your Qs & Free best STEM CC-4 OCW Univ in fall
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Unis in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1264782606907797504?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1264783009401548805?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264783377455910912?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264778310443077633?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1264778536629317633?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1264779334897696768?s=20






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Aditi Raman Shridhar
May 22, 2020, 7:03 AM (3 days ago)
to me

Hi Scott,

Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing?

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:55 AM Scott MacLeod wrote:


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Aditi Raman



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Monday, May 25, 2020

Hi Aditi, 

Thanks for your reply. Where are you based? 

Scott
PS
I've blogged a little about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/sugar-cone-pine-pinus-lambertiana-prem.html - some of which you might find inspiring. 

PPS
Are you familiar with paper.li at all? 

Am amazed too that the WUaS MIT OCW Daily NewspAper - eg https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335157#/ - posts daily to Twitter WUaS - eg https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264732146171891712?s=20 - with the WUaS licensing clarifications, an image, some articles, - and thAnks in part to A.I. (and I'm not sure who else - what person - is doing this!) Glad for WUaS to be sharing the MIT name esp.!

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (and MIT OCW CC-4 licensing clarifications are here too - which is so great) - http://ocw.mit.edu :)

https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - 


Am reading this paper - https://www.dn.se/ - and quite a few others (in 10+ languages, some from https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/news.html#record) daily with the help of Google Translate. It's the cultural and linguistics' perspectives / takes I find especially edifying. Also collecting a daily crop of coronavirus articles.







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Lava Beds National Monument: Genealogy software, and new developments - the 'trait' word - and planning for 7.5 billion people re diversity, and a single family tree * "WikiTree: Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and traditional genealogical sources" (Am recalling Alex Haley's "Roots" book from the '70s even in these regards) * * * Lacanian psychoanalysis online with avatar bots at WUaS?, the flow experience of optimal experience, and psychotherapy * * * In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?

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Genealogy software, and new developments - the 'trait' word - and planning for 7.5 billion people re diversity, and a single family tree:


Mark, Sandy, All


Sandy: What would make a great artist-in-residence position at a university? (see below).


Thanks, Mark (from this morning):

"Scott,

One excellent and free source of genealogical info is "Family Search." A bit clumsy interface but it's run my the Mormon church - a group that takes genealogy seriously! I find their record collection to be excellent.

Mark"

And my reply to Mark this morning:

Mark:

Thanks, and interesting (re Family Search).

Hank Greely re Ancestry .com and DNA yesterday ...

"I've the data download from Ancestry as well as a moderately deep Y chromosome analysis. John & I just haven't figured out a way to compare codes."

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1265039249767665664?s=20


Will genetics' textbooks be re-written remarkably for 'trait' language in next 10-20 years per the sentence ...

"To aid in the interpretation and sharing of genomes, Church, in 2005, initiated the Personal Genome Project (PGP),[63] which provides the world's only open-access human genome and trait data sets.[64][65][66] " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist)) ... which I would think will become interoperable with WikiTree eventually (eg https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/MacLeod-2524/5).


... which genealogists will then explore for their own family genealogy/history?  (Have you ever checked out a genetics' textbook for your genealogy research? I haven't yet).

Am glad Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely is Tweeting about Ancestry. Maybe Google / Stanford will get their hands' on Ancestry .com software - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/hawksbill-sea-turtle-great-family.html - with WikiTree, and navigate the genetic information revolution ahead  (I teach a bit about this in http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ie it's as significant as the 3 other IT revolutions, microelectronics, computers, & telecommunications -
The Information Technology Revolution: History and Geography (Scott MacLeod)

https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/black-lace-mushrooms-information.html).

One issue that WikiTree's plans for 7.5 billion people will add re the Mormon Church's genealogy, and others,' is diversity: "WikiTree: Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and traditional genealogical sources." (Am recalling Alex Haley's "Roots" book from the '70s even in these regards).

Will check out Family Search with time, Mark! (But could this be integrated too with a Stanford / Google / WikiTree / Ancestry .com approach to Ancestry family genealogy software (re their entrepreneurialism, and since A is probably making money)?:) Looks like WikiTree possibly has a 256 ancestor limit, I just noticed. Thanks!

Warm regards, Scott


PS In a 25 minute call with Margo Warnecke yesterday, I seem to have been offered an artist-in-residence position yesterday in Sonoma having attended a Stanford Historical Society presentation online - https://mailchi.mp/c1b4dd9afe60/2020-winter-newsletter-4905445?e=d9473d6051 - about architect John Carl Warnecke by granddaughter - at the Warnecke ranch / Institute - https://www.chalkhillresidency.com/artist-residency. Having published 3 books of poetry and in playing the Scottish Small Pipes, would this be structured & remunerated like a Stanford University artist in residency, I wonder? And could my hypothetical wife-to-be occupy my place in Canyon 945616 while I was in residence? I just looked and this position isn't structured like a Stanford artist-in-residency at all, rather it looks like residents pay rent - so am not interested in this position after all. BUT could I instead explore an artist-in-residency position at Stanford University itself, if I were to find one posted, and after Stanford opens again?

Gonna be hot here today again! :)


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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Tue, May 26, 5:58 PM (16 hours ago)
to margo@warneckeranch.comScott
Hi Margo and Stanford, 

Am not interested in the Warnecke artist-in-residency position after all. Very nice to talk. Let's hope the coronavirus pandemic ends soon. 

Thank you, Scott

- #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries




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With WUaS planning for all 7.5 billion people, too, each a Wikidata Q-item # or a Wikidata PIN # at - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - is that WUaS will be able to plan for UBI experiments as well.




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Lacanian psychoanalysis online with avatar bots at WUaS?,
the flow experience of optimal experience,
and psychotherapy


Dear Tym, Sid, MDs, All, ...

The video in this Tweet is a good example of 'artificial humans' aka Samsung 'Neons' or realistic avatars as potential MD psychiatrists as well as Lacanian psychoanalysts (or a new California School of Psychoanalysis with artificial human MDs) ... and MD tele-robotic surgeons re the Samsung Hardware too esp.

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch · Apr 19
Smartphone video-to-3D #FilmTo3D with #GooglePoly> #RealisticArtificialHumans aka #SamsungNeons as #AvatarBot psychiatrists & post-Lacanian psychoanalysts (in California School of Psychoanalysis in Med Schs at WUaS) to HELP, & in #RealisticVirtualHarbin

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1250187619373178880?s=20 ~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1251910522116509697?s=20

Would be great to focus in training both people and coding realistic avatars newly on the 'psychology of optimal experience' too - re Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" book - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flow%20the%20psychology%20of%20optimal%20experience with regards to helping people in regards to mental health issues (probably a different word in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages) :)

Cheers, Scott





Ma!

Thanks so much for "Fwd: Beautiful spot - ... " ducks' picture and note.

Glad you're staying sane, and befriending wonderful animal friends. :)



Am recalling George, again, on who he listens to, and whose books he reads, too ... Richard Dawkins, for ex., yes (whom I think is amazing and brilliant too) ... but not to many others in regards to the messaging that goes on among writers who share ideas, thinkers, communicators, media personalities, teachers. I don't see you as being that philosophically skeptical in your 'modus operandi,' and au contraire even, I see you as very trusting, caring, nurturing, but I think skepticism has much merit with regards to how messages can seem 'attractive,' for example... caveat emptor (buyer beware?) and with symbolizers, news' shows, - smart friends even? 

George was a learner, and receptive too (idea-wise), and so philosophical skepticism, and his remarkably wit  regarding his critique thinking, linguistically (as a Lacanian too), was something I learned from as well.

Love, Scott





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In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265380101648072706?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265380611553849344?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265380814650372096?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265381217660055552?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265379757899702272?s=20


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https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009?s=20



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For #ScottishCountryDancing? How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, & with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265382066859896832?s=20








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Cosmos bipinnatus: World Univ & Sch's letter to MIT Professor {and President} Rafael Reif, Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX courses - to World University and School's course catalog, another major BREAKTHROUGH. :) * * * Adding MIT OCW > edX courses to the WUaS Course Catalog * This edX course starts August 11, and is an 'intermediate' course per edX.

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Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX courses - to World University and School's course catalog, another major breakthrough :) 

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - 




Dear Sanjay,
Thanks so much for your email.

WUaS is going to list edX links in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing, accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Is there anything we should be aware of in these regards?

We intend to offer free-to-students' programs with 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.  How can World Univ & Sch collaborate with the MIT Office of Digital Learning to begin to offer those programs in English this autumn?  Other languages would follow shortly afterwards.

World Univ & Sch intends to seek reimbursement from non-student sources regarding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform. How might we use the money transfer mechanism on edX to accomplish this?

Thank you, Scott
- Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod - 



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Sanjay Emani Sarma

4:02 AM (5 hours ago)
to me
Thanks Scott.

-Sanjay
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Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).

Assistant: Laura White
T: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

5:58 AM (3 hours ago)
to LarryAnantJohn
Dear Larry,
I think we're / WUaS is good. Sanjay writes : "Thanks Scott."
Now to figure out the next steps.
California's BPPE preferred the "Programs'' word to the "Majors"' word in February 2019.
Sincerely, Scott

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sanjay Emani Sarma <sesarma@mit.edu>
Date: 4:02AM, Wed, May 27, 2020
Subject: Re: Your email to President Reif
To: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>


Thanks Scott.

-Sanjay
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Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).

Assistant: Laura White
T: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu





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Dear Larry, 

I've started to add MIT OCW > edX courses to the WUaS Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing .

I went here - 
MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware

searched on "engineering" and found 
which links to - 



and so I added this to the WUaS catalog: 

GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng. https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii

- and there are 2 MIT professors teaching it. 

Success! This edX course starts August 11, and is an 'intermediate' course per edX. Shall we add the rest of these MITx courses, and then announce some of the courses' beginning dates in next month's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting News and Agenda? I think Edward G. has expressed interest in an engineering major. 

Thanks for your excellent 'MIT English' again re Sanjay's affirmative response!

Sincerely, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html -



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Dear Larry,

Thanks so much. I could see this further letter in conversation with Sanjay - in hindsight - as a bit of a gamble, but I think the language of "WUaS is going to list edX links ... " is good logical MIT 'engineering' language, while recognizing a system, and which worked ... and it means that the MIT Office for Digital Learning doesn't have to do anything to speak of, whatsoever ... since there was no response to the questions. I think the timing was good too - ie we hadn't heard back yet regarding Sanjay's "Stay tuned" ... and so WUaS emailed, and then we did hear back this morning with "Thanks Scott." - and WUaS is in the driver's seat so-to-write. The "Your email to President Reif" thread is also a developing conversation. 

Now how to plan for using a kind of WikiTree end user schema (presumably wiki and planning for 7.5 billion people) for WUaS matriculated students), and even for our WUaS remuneration / bookstore ? And re UBI experiments too, here's the Stanford Basic Income Lab new map of "Global Map of UBI Experiments: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?" - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/news/lab-updates/global-map-of-ubi-experiments-where-have-we-been-where-are-we-now-and-where-are-we-going/ - in an email this morning from Juliana Bidadanure (who's French, and Stanford professor of philosophy) and is executive director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. (And it could be good to connect now with the "Mine Pi" folks at Stanford, or the "BitCoin" folks at MIT with Neha Narula - and the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank, and the Silicon Valley long term stock exchange :)).

Would be great for a programmer to simply add all the relevant links from CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on edX to the WUaS Course Catalog ... but probably not yet, and I'll seek to add some, or all 205 of these courses, by hand. These GDocs WUaS Course Catalog spreadsheet links may eventually become a master course catalog that will feed into the WUaS Wiki Universities on relevant subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in all Wikidata's ~300 languages. :)

Thank you, Larry, for our MIT email drafts' conversations! 

Sincerely, 
Scott
PS

PPS
Yay! WUaS has begun to add MIT OCW > edX courses to WUaS Course Catalog > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing(worlduniveristyandschool.org) > 'GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng.' https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
2 MIT profs; Starts 8/11 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265711832372666368?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265714309784432640?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265714603712933888?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265715755036766209?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265716550880727040?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1265717494565629952?s=20



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Dear Larry, 

Also could Stanford's John Etchemendy (via John Hennessy?) help with BPPE licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE  ... no new workshops seem posted, and maybe things are shifting there too, - and WUaS doesn't have the monies anyway. How is it that you thought to edit/add the "programs' word (in addition to the 'majors' word) into the WUaS email?

I'm hoping the BPPE licensing process goes much more automatically than I got the sense of at the 2/20/19 workshop - and re MIT OCW > edX courses!


Sincerely, 
Scott





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Stanford Law Codex - 5/28/2020

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Hi Sachin, Julie, Emil, Siva, Roland and All, 

Thanks for your excellent presentation (and nice to share today's meeting) just now at Stanford Law Codex - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/27/codex-meeting-may-28th-2020/



Here's the WUaS News' announcement I shared: 
Very glad to announce that MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch will begin to list MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform links in the World Univ & Sch Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing
for online free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees this autumn, universities in many languages to follow, and law schools as well. 

Scott 

(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org and 
see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html


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Red cage fungus: Victor (& Angela), I just noticed your beautiful new 'Yoga aereoplane in Lesvos Greece' painting, Victor - https://angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/unpredictable-future - thank you! * And I turned on Raga, and in a way began flying ~ ~ ~ The little microscopic rosies on the aereoplanes will pass too :) ... And A pool of water begins this Raga ... * * * "Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' * * * Marc Ami, Have you been down to Montreux recently, from your mountain haven (sans hot tub, n'est-ce pas?) Here's another way to 'get there' - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972) * * * Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here in StreetView ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ * * * * Deep Purple 'Hair'

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Victor (& Angela), 

I just noticed your beautiful new "The unpredictable future" painting, Victor -





And I turned on Raga, and in a way began flying (from here in my East Bay MUD forested home, Canyon 94516, and next to 'Indian Valley') ~

Nikhil Banerjee Raga Piloo Live in Stockholm 1975

~ flying into a Yogic understanding of meditative yes.

Something about Nikhil Bannerjee's playing in Stockholm, and Denmark, Amsterdam and Berkeley in the late 1960s and early ' 70s that makes his raga different from all the others (Ravi Shankar and others excluded). Is this culture (alternative culture even, something about even counterculture of the times informing note duration)? 

Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' - 
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)
Also in #StreetView - 
(Related GD label 
#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -

The little microscopic rosies on the aereoplanes will pass too :)

Will blog ... (see 'genes' label in blog as well:)

Love, 
Scotty
Hippy~anjali Yoga Notations ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~

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San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills

415 480 4577

World University and Schoo's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga :) - with an invitation to 'edit this page' and explore yoga. 



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A pool of water begins this Raga ... 
Sitar Samrat Nikhil Banerjee: Raga Piloo: Live : Copenhagen Denmark: 1982


... for further Yogic flying ~

blog - 

Scotty




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"Hair" Hair (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)

Blog label ~
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical

:)
Scott



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Marc Ami,

Have you been down to Montreux recently, from your mountain haven (sans hot tub, n'est-ce pas?)

Here's another way to 'get there' - 
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water 1972 (High Quality)

I see Blonay here!, Vevey too! - 

How are you?

:)
Scott
'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical
... not yet in a realistic virtual earth for musicals but there is this - #realisticvirtualearthformusic 






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Tweets:

"Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)
https://youtu.be/w_zaSKZks1A
Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zaSKZks1A&list=RDw_zaSKZks1A&start_radio=1&t=0&t=1 See, too: 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical) >
New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265753375548731392?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265752079659720704?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265752959364640769?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265753673210028032?s=20




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New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals #hashtag :)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals?src=hashtag_click ~

beginning with
'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (1972)



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Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' -
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)
https://youtu.be/ikGyZh0VbPQ
Also in #StreetView -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Montreux,+Switzerland/@46.4461237,6.8456803,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x478e9b20cdb650cd:0xccc07a7fc46d1847!8m2!3d46.4312213!4d6.9106799
(Related GD label
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead) >
#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265750175823196160?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265750904562581504?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265752634863964160?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265753461649338368?s=20





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Scott MacLeod yogamacflower@gmail.com

11:30 AM (4 minutes ago)



to MarcScottScottAngelavictorLynnsatyaAndrewPatriciaBarbaraPatti


It probably has been a good thing to be away from Harbin for the past 5 years or so ... don't you think?

But am hoping to get a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs off the ground for soaking from home bathtub in the not too distant future ... potentially in Google Street View in a digital mask ... or in the back of some REI glacier glasses ...  https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click ~


Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re 
@HarbinBook
 #RealisticVirtualHarbin in Street View - field work in 2011 https://goo.gl/maps/aQntSVwQRbCkViPz9 ~


Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)
Album: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w_zaSKZks1A&list=RDw_zaSKZks1A&start_radio=1&t=0&t=1 See, too: 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)
New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals ~


Scotty
Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here in StreetView ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg {accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~}



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Deep Purple 'Hair'


Marc Ami, 
I've just added some of this 'transportation' to Montreux here ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html
Salut, Scott




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Am wondering if some of those people signed up for your Dartington Hall Yoga course seminar:

Dartington Hall, Devon, UK

Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten
(3rd weekend of July)

would take it online in their homes - from Dartington Hall in the background - and with you in Eftalou, Lesvos, Greece? Kinda like an aereoplane idea internet-wise without plague-like ring around the rosie posies ... Am realizing you're not heading in the computing direction, but if all is one, and a computer is an airplane, well ... And would other people 'travel' in their homes - to Dartington Hall - for this Yoga course even? It wouldn't surprise me ... but you'd probably need some new artistic pilots gliding with you through it all ... in fact, you, Angela and Victor, could probably be in your Eftalou Yoga Hall, and even bypass the Dartington Hall, although it might be interesting for the English Dartington Hall Yoginis and Yogis to take their course with you there (even with you in Greece, and they in their homes:)

And next an Angela and Victor Yoga course from the Harbin Conference Center in 2012, or from the Harbin Temple in 2008? :) All virtually (in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER) ... with you in front of your iPads, or laptops (and maybe with just a video camera or two in your Yoga Hall in Eftalou) ... I don't know of any artistic aereoplane virtual Yoga hall pilot internet videographers however, I'm sorry to say. (A 'Partner Yoga' course from a virtual Harbin warm pool eventually too? ... with everyone eliciting the relaxation response inner releasing action meditation-wise while in the bath at home? ... :)

Scotty

Loving bliss and practices to elicit this

Was jotting some of the above down, as this was going down in the background too ~
Sitar Legend Ravi Shankar: Raga Mishra Pilu: Tabla Legend Alla Rakha: 1966
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Friday, May 29, 2020

Satya Shepherd

12:39 AM (9 hours ago)
to meAngelaVictorLynnAndrewPatriciaBarbaraPattiMarcScottScott
HI Scott

Thank you for this email.  I am the organiser of the this Devon event and am in close contact with Victor and Angela and Dartington.
We are waiting to see what unfolds and all is looking pretty positive as opening up from lock down proceeds - so fingers crossed.

I have been teaching and using Zoom through for quite a while now and using this medium is a possibility for extending our audience for A&V and something I am bringing up with them this weekend.  I know they have been enjoying the break and time to themselves over this period. 

Thank you for your thoughts for the Devon side and we are on track at the moment. 

Deep Well Being to you all in this transition
Satya 



Satya Shepherd
MA Psyc.UKCP ABD BCST RCST ADM ADEd  

Druidstone
Holne Cross
Ashburton
Devon
TQ13 7HE

Mob: 07772 458 553

CraniosacralTherapist.Psychotherapist.Supervisor.Mentor.SeniorLecturer


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Victor Van Kooten

2:36 AM (7 hours ago)
to meSatya
Dear Scott,
Thank you for your input into teaching during covid -19 times, but like I said in my blog that we made our schedule for 2020, and if it was up to us, we would not cancel any of these courses. It is just that plains are cancelled and governmental restrictions are in place.
We do not teach on line classes, since I only use the line to dry our washing.....
We need reality and not the virtual one!
In order to be inspired we need people who inspire us with their personal physical energy, so we have a dialogue instead of delivering a message.
The only thing that happens is that our teaching has been filmed and put on YouTube by someone....
We hope you are well and not too shocked by the fact that we do not support a virtual reality!
Love victor.



Sent from my iPad



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Scott MacLeod

7:35 AM (2 hours ago)
to AngelaLynnAndrewPatriciaBarbaraPattiMarcScottLindaSatyameVictor
Thanks, Satya & Victor, for your emails (& hi Angela!:),

Can't seem to find Python's original meaning of life, but this will do:)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth
https://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)

Glad the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic quarantine may be ending in the British Isles by the time of your Devon Yoga workshop in the 3rd week of July, Angela & Victor. Am looking forward myself to traveling some re a kind of stay at home cabin fever, and visiting family & friends in Massachusetts. Am hoping I echoed in my email both your email and your mentioning before staying away from virtual Yoga teaching, Victor.

It's interesting to me, by way of comparison, that MIT & Harvard & Cambridge Univ & Stanford are all planning for online education for their students for the autumn, due to not knowing about the progression of the virus, and regarding a possible 2nd wave. Is necessity the mother of invention ? They're seeking to protect their students & communities, and perhaps plan for a very very serious global epidemic, I think, as well as advance the science of virology and related genetics dramatically (and see, in a related vein, re aging reversal genetically, Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church:  - "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"-

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk ).

That all these greatest universities are going online for the autumn is super news for one of my big projects - CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University & School (while my actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project is still on hold) - and in planning for online major WUaS universities in all 200 countries' languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages - including Yoga wiki schools with much online creative Yoga potential.

So I wish you the best of luck, for Yoga teaching, that people will be traveling internationally by aeroplane by summer; I've heard it could be 12-18 months before a vaccine might be ready, and have gone through clinical trials (at earliest). Proof's in the pudding! Sailboats to get to Devon, England, on the south coast, and to Eftalou, Lesvos, Greece - for physical Yoga?

Am really hoping you don't get covid-19 symptoms, Victor and Angela, or get labeled with coronavirus - either in Britain or in Greece! It seems like people in their 70s, 80s and older are most at risk for this virus.

Stay safe, Be well,
Scott

PS
Here are 5 Hypothetical News' items, at bottom - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0 - in a Harbin Hot Springs' post, re possible alternative complementary explanations for the coronavirus pandemic, and with further related thinking also spread throughout blog in the 'genes' label in recent months.

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 ...


2
for keeping kids safe, (and seeking to significantly lessen the illegal global sex trade in all ~200 countries)
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


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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


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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


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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

PPS
Am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by Heather Paxson, and Reedie Graham Jones, as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . Do you know this Monty Python version of

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth

https://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)
Yes, yes, - this is the real meaning of life :)

PPPS
Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again):
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"
- which you'll also find a couple of times in these longevity label blog posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ... 





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- Scott MacLeod





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Scott MacLeod yogamacflower@gmail.com

8:42 AM (1 hour ago)
to BarbaraPattiMarcScottLindaLynnAngelavictorPatriciaAndrewSatya
Angela's NOT coming to Berzerkeley either physically (or virtually!) for the foreseeable future! Would I be a 'guinea pig' in a live interactive online Yoga course with students of Angela & Victor, - and with outrageously cool experimental visually fascinating 1960's informed mandala India art augmented reality (way beyond virtual reality), - in a virtual Harbin Hot Springs (not Dartington Hall, o my!) I ask myself? Am not sure ... and it depends on which A&V students ... but am not following up on taking online live interactive Yoga courses with anyone (although I have been appreciative of Rodney Yee's AM PM Yoga video - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500066/ - in the past, which is neither live, nor interactive!). Patricia and Andrew, as students of Angela & Victor, I don't imagine you'd consider teaching online either - http://yellowspringsyoga.com - would you?

Satya, and Linda, please be here introduced - since you've both been teaching Yoga/CST in Zoom video conferencing or similar (from Ashburton, Devon, England, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - http://www.lindameacciyoga.com - and Linda is sharing her online teaching on her home page:)
Satya's Druidstone email from this morning is below! (And again, Victor says: "We do not teach on line classes, since I only use the line to dry our washing..... " :)

And you'll find Angela's "Feminine Unfolding" as well as Angela & Victor's "Underground Yoga" here in: 'Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations' ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~ (both of which I learn from online, even if you are not teaching on line here, Victor!:)

Stay well, be well!

Warm regards, Scott



HI Scott 

Thank you for this email.  I am the organiser of the this Devon event and am in close contact with Victor and Angela and Dartington.
We are waiting to see what unfolds and all is looking pretty positive as opening up from lock down proceeds - so fingers crossed.

I have been teaching and using Zoom through for quite a while now and using this medium is a possibility for extending our audience for A&V and something I am bringing up with them this weekend.  I know they have been enjoying the break and time to themselves over this period. 

Thank you for your thoughts for the Devon side and we are on track at the moment. 

Deep Well Being to you all in this transition
Satya 



Satya Shepherd
MA Psyc.UKCP ABD BCST RCST ADM ADEd  

Druidstone
Holne Cross
Ashburton
Devon
TQ13 7HE

Mob: 07772 458 553

CraniosacralTherapist.Psychotherapist.Supervisor.Mentor.SeniorLecturer






















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Starfish (Fromia monilis): CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford? (Is this all Plan Z?) * * * Plan A - WUaS did find all of WUaS's majors, except 'General Science' (go figure, or go solve for X, or something) at MIT OCW: WUaS could give such graduate student instructors, learning to become faculty, free rein to 'RIFF' IN TEACHING with MIT OCW courses * * "The Meaning of Life," an MIT OCW Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors (Quaker I think) Heather Paxson, and Reedie (Reed College alumnus) Graham Jones * "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth"

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CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 / 2400 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford?



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Plan Z?

Dear Larry, 

I clicked on all of our CC-4 MIT OCW links in WUaS's 6 majors - about 75 courses - and found about 14 edX < MITx courses, and have listed them -  

WUaS 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog had, by far, a majority of CC-3 licensed Yale OpenYaleCourses (OYC) with no YaleX links whatsoever - https://oyc.yale.edu/courses - so WUaS doesn't have the ability to offer the first year of an 'English' major, a major I'd think might have many WUaS applicants. And the MIT Literature courses I checked out don't have any edX links as well. These 7 courses, however, could be good starting places - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English%20literature - from BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX. There are however 62 'Literature' courses in edX. And It seems like Yale is listing many online courses with Coursera, and not edX. (Could be worth exploring if we could add these Coursera links/URLs as well to WUaS's catalog with time? ) And there are 413 'History' courses on edX - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=History

Our WUaS prospective 1st English major, Shabhaz Sanjer, in India, just just now emailed, and asked about an English major beginning in the autumn, and perhaps the above would work as a starting point. 

One question/ further clarification for MIT Professor and VP in Office of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma: "Could WUaS please add these other edX courses to our WUas course catalog, as MIT and Harvard prepare their online platforms for the autumn in this time of coronavirus pandemic" OR "WUaS is going to add other edX courses, besides MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform ... " I wonder what edX's relationship with these other BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX etc. universities is, re fees, and who can list, and how reimbursement to these Universities from edX works? 

So WUaS is a little short presently on courses beginning in the autumn for WUaS undergraduates in our 6 majors, but I wonder about listing other edX courses - and regarding seeking reimbursement, and regarding the edX money transfer mechanism. Am wondering too what MIT lawyers, or MIT legal processes the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and edX too, check out at MIT in all these regards too. There are probable enough courses to work with to cobble something together, all in all. Am not sure, however, how edX will communicate with the Departments of Education in all ~200 countries however. Our WUaS outreach is also a question. 

I've also listed all 260 MITx courses I found in edX just below WUaS majors - as one link in the WUaS Course Catalog. And I listed the "MicroMasters® Program in Finance" on one line in the Course Catalog too, with its 5 courses, just under the WUaS Business Major. 

Time to begin to see if we can add some more non-MITx courses to the WUaS Course Catalog, then figure out WUaS credit hours, - and perhaps even a rockin' first year required Reed Hum 110 course transposed into WUaS Hum 101, but on the edX platform, and created by Reed - and then figure out planning for WUaS cohorts too, if possible, with this Hum 101 course? 

Build this all out on a Google Sites' platform professionally, and with planning for many languages? What about registering our WUaS students with a Wikidata Q-item number or Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University

Suggestions, questions, thoughts, ideas? 

Sincerely, Scott













Plan A: 

Dear Larry, 

But assuming WUaS won't be able to engage all these other institutions, re our CC-4 MIT OCW-centric focus, perhaps we can focus on plan A, namely, to hire graduate student instructors from great universities to teach to CC-4 MIT OCW courses in real time with live group interactivity. In a sense WUaS could give such graduate student instructors, learning to become faculty, free rein to 'RIFF' IN TEACHING with MIT OCW courses. And in these regards, I did find all of WUaS's majors, except 'General Science' (go figure, or go solve for X, or something) at MIT OCW: 

EECS: 

Science: 


Engineering:

English: 

History: 

Business: 

Perhaps we could provide a bit of structure for our WUaS graduate students as well, like finding students, and providing a few other benefits of teaching in an online platform in a startup great university. 

The lack of 'Science' MIT OCW page, upon searching, is a bit of a concern, but WUaS can probably work around this as well :)

And then perhaps we can combine Plan A with my previous email today as a kind of Plan Z :)

Thanks to the MIT Office of Digital Learning! 

Sincerely, Scott

Blogging about this today: 




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Am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors (Quaker I think) Heather Paxson, and Reedie (Reed College alumnus) Graham Jones, as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . Can't seem to find Python's original meaning of life, but this will do:) ... Do you know this Monty Python version of 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth

Seeking I think first to list only the MIT OCW > MITx - and then to look at the rest of the MITx courses, as well as the rest of the edX courses. Searching by starting date could have merit too. What do you think about all this cross-referencing of lists? Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? 

Sincerely, 

Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org







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woodland gilias (Saltugilia splendens): WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics!, edX courses in autumn, Major updates to both WUaS websites 6/15/20 * * * students' patenting ... with their own Lego robotics' creations ... while learning SCRATCH programming * * * Free Bachelor - BS / BA - degrees online begin this fall http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ~ free-to-students' Engineering degrees (and 5 other majors) with Scratch programming and robotics

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WUaS livestream June 15 2020

WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics!, edX courses in autumn, Major updates to both WUaS websites 6/15/20

https://youtu.be/fmd7vEkbFyw


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Hi Universitians,

In about 50 minutes - 

AMAZINGLY - WUaS Bookstore is now carrying Lego Robotics (but WUaS is not yet a reseller)

Now how to create a WUaS Engineering course out of this (and the other 2 kits) for some of our 5 students this autumn - and with Scratch programming? Here's one example integrating Lego Robotics' We Do 2.0 with Scratch -

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/386012815/ .

Also the 2 WUaS wings' web sites (as separate legal entities) have been significantly updated: 

All the best, Scott


PS
It looks like there's a new Lego Mindstorms robotics' kit coming out this autumn, called Mindstorms' Robot Inventor 5-in-1 (building on Mindstorms EV3) and where students can also work with Python programming, as well as Scratch! 


(Alex helped us a lot become carriers of Lego Robotics!)



It'll cost $359, apparently less than the Mindstorms EV3 Core the WUaS Educational Services' Store is carrying - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html at $439, at this point. 

Sincerely, Scott


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WUaS News M 6/15/20:
WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics!, edX courses in autumn, Major updates to both WUaS websites
https://youtu.be/fmd7vEkbFyw
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/woodland-gilias-saltugilia-splendens.html
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ (https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch) Free BS degrees online begin this fall http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1272588187680956421?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1272588794735104000?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1272589031319105536?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1272589850114322432?s=20





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students' patenting? ... with their own Lego robotics' creations ...




Area students take LEGO robotics to the next level


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https://www.dailylocal.com/news/national/area-students-take-lego-robotics-to-the-next-level/article_918ec9a7-da3a-5d3c-b6f6-f827199415ce.html

"The Bird SPA team shared their findings with local environmental educators and scientists, environmental cleanup contractors and with personnel from the International Bird Rescue. All of those contacted thought this was a great idea that deserved more research and testing. Since this is a new approach for cleaning birds, the team has filed an application for a provisional Patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office."


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Ann Arbor teens gain international recognition, potential patent with LEGO competition

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2014/06/ann_arbor_teens_gain_internati.html


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Robotic game system for educational competitions

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090215021



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Gaute Munch, Erik Hansen and team (Denmark) 

Finalists for the European Inventor Award 2018


https://www.epo.org/mobile/news-events/events/european-inventor/finalists/2018/munch.html


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Patents on the soles of your shoes...

Beginning at NYU in Jan 2013 within the context of a Patents Translation course delivered online, this blog seeks to uncover the patents that rock our daily lives....

Friday, May 4, 2018


Oh, patents! Lego® Mindstorms® – EPO Award Finalist

"Sixty years later, and more than 1000 patients after the first Lego® brick patent was filed in 1958 by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the Danish Lego® Mindstorm® inventors, Gaute Munch, Erik Hansen and team, are competing for a 2018 European Patent Office Award in the Industry category. In the interim also, The Lego Group Toy Company has also become the third largest toy manufacturer in the world."

http://patentsonthesolesofyourshoes.blogspot.com/2018/05/oh-patents-lego-2-epo-award-finalist.html





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Yellow star thistle: "Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): Reed College's canyon in 2013, bagpiping, tie die & where I lived 1st semester in 1979 in previous building, Sisson" * * * FilmTo3D in GooglePoly into Machine Learning

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Pin, David, Ed, Ma, Tym, Byron,

How and when Google photos pops up photos from yesterday?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqEm9Y97JTifGzM99

Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): Reed College's canyon in 2013, bagpiping, tie die & where I lived 1st semester in 1979 in previous building, Sisson.

- Warmly, Scott



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to Gabrielle, Nancy, Michael, Gantt, Adam, Craig, Carla, Michael, mwainge, Nancy, Jim, Konrad, s, Scott, Scott, Pin, David, Ed, Jane, Tym, Byron, Scott


here are these photos from this morning again -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqEm9Y97JTifGzM99 - 'Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): Reed College's canyon in 2013, bagpiping, tie die & where I lived 1st semester in 1979 in previous building, Sisson.'

Thoughts about how and when Google photos pops up photos from yesterday? Such photos are great for connecting (please share yours, when inclined)! And asking questions about such is also good for connecting (would love to see some of your Reed photos - and in a realistic virtual earth even in Google Street View with Time Slider, which you can add to !) ... it's kind of a computer science question with a human touch (but not one I touch on in - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html).

Realistic Virtual Earth
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click

Realistic Virtual Earth for History
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click

Virtual Reed College -
https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirtualReedCollege?src=hashtag_click

Could be getting a haircut about now in coronavirus pandemic (see 'genes' label in blog too), but am seeing long hair as an asset too! How are you all?

- Warmly, Scott
Blog is coming along daily, including the Reed College labe -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College

Here's Google Street View, where I've added one of these photos of the Harbin gate house ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

The fairly new WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore just became an 'official' carrier of Lego robotics, but not yet a reseller! :) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - for WUaS Home Robotics! (and check out the licensing at bottom of both this page, and http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ )




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

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com




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Lafadio, Joanne, Riely, Marsha, Gabrielle, Nancy, Mike, Pin, Gantt, David, Ed, Ma, Tym, Byron, Adam, Craig, Carla, Michael, Konrad, Nancy, JIm, All,

photos from this morning again -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqEm9Y97JTifGzM99 - 'Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): Reed College's canyon in 2013, bagpiping, tie die & where I lived 1st semester in 1979 in previous building, Sisson.'

... Perhaps like a live interactive historical library - as a realistic virtual earth or  realistic virtual Harbin with avatar bots - where the people characterized in books can begin to speak to us as avatar bots in a realistic virtual earth, and where we could even do virtual anthropological field work in Google Street View with time slider with Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, and avatar bots ...

How could we go back to Reed in 1981, and hang out in Reed Commons again - as avatar bots, but with ever increasing avatar realism, both interactive and conversant (eg of us, Tym, in the Student Union, around then, or us Riely in Sisson dormitory in fall 1999)?

And thoughts about how and when Google photos pops up photos from yesterday? Such photos are great for connecting (please share yours, when inclined)! And asking questions about such is also good for connecting (would love to see some of your Reed photos - and in a realistic virtual earth even in Google Street View with Time Slider, which you can add to !) ... it's kind of a computer science question with a human touch (but not one I touch on in - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html).

Am interested in developing my actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field site ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ for field work - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - in these regards, and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

as well as 1 (a single) ...
Realistic Virtual Earth
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click

Realistic Virtual Earth for History
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click

Virtual Reed College (in Google Street View with time slider, for adding photos and videos, and eventual interactivity, as if Google Meet video conferencing could merge with Google Street View, and historically eventually with avatar bots of us, for example) -
https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirtualReedCollege?src=hashtag_click

Could be getting a haircut about now in coronavirus pandemic (see 'genes' label in blog too), but am seeing long hair as an asset too! How are you all?


- Warmly, Scott
Blog is coming along daily, including the Reed College label -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College


Here's Google Street View, where I've added one of these photos of the Harbin gate house, and where you can 'walk' down the 'road' 4 'miles' to 'amble' around nearby Middletown, CA ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

The fairly new WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore just became an 'official' carrier of Lego robotics, but not yet a reseller! :) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - for WUaS Home Robotics! (and check out the licensing at bottom of both this page, and http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ )





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Lafadio, Joanne, Riely, Marsha, Gabrielle, Nancy, Mike, Pin, Gantt, David, Ed, Ma, Tym, Byron, Adam, Craig, Carla, Michael, Konrad, Nancy, JIm, All, 

Is there a Reed College experience of the early 1980s? How could we all begin to create this in a Realistic Virtual Reed (conceptually like Google Street View with Time Slider, with SL for avatar bots, but realistic)? 

Here's a definition of the Harbin experience (my actual-virtual ethnographic field site) - 

Harbin experience def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, & mental & physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience">#RealisticVirtualHarbin~



And here are so-called artificial humans - aka Neons - with some related ideas for creating a realistic virtual earth with people, and simply: 

Smartphone video-to-3D #FilmTo3D with #GooglePoly> #RealisticArtificialHumans aka #SamsungNeons as #AvatarBot psychiatrists & post-Lacanian psychoanalysts (in California School of Psychoanalysis in Med Schs at WUaS) to HELP, & in #RealisticVirtualHarbin 


Good for eventual tele-robotic surgery as well - re actual-virtual, physical-digital ...

See you at Reed in 1981 (in our bodyminds then )? :)

Reed cheers, 

Scott

Here are some beginnings of where my further virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic research may head: 








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WeDo 2.0
MIT 1999
Google Research Football




Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org
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A #FilmTo3D App too? for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory > #GooglePoly ? with #ReinforcementLearning in #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #LegoRobotics in https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1223697825671741440?s=20 w… & #MachineLearning & https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc #GoogleResearchFootball ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1261073336328568833?s=20
























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Lotus corniculatus: June 20, 2020 - Agenda & News for World Univ & Sch open monthly business meeting

Next: Symphyotrichum lanceolatum: Maybe science can take advantage of this virus and genetic research opportunity to also develop a cure for the common cold, and so many other viral genetic diseases * * A second actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin ethnography, possibly publishing it to paper from within Google Street View (text in the sidebar)! * * * NIH - "Brain Basics: Genes At Work In The Brain" * * * Seeking also (at World Univ & Sch) to facilitate brainwave headset research (and related brain research), and potentially in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs * * * Brainwave headset with language in Turkish and Turkey - for ease of computing - swimmer's cap for brain signal in fabric instead ... * * Am not yet clear (at WUaS, for students who might be interested) how to research genes in the brain with brainwave headsets from home, regarding a kind of overview ...
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WUaS Agenda and News for MBM on June 20 2020



Dear Universitians and friends, 

Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting if you might be interested. 

And thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the "Agenda and News for Jun 20 2020 NP World Univ and Sch AND WUaS Corp."

And please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch

@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) monthly business meeting this Sat 6/20/20, at 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining! & from time zones in Asia, Africa & Europe!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1273653033377792002?s=20




World University and School 

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Best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School is coming along, and WUaS is seeking to matriculate our second online undergraduate Bachelor's degree class this autumn - potentially in collaboration with edX, so with courses on the edX platform; see The College at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degrees.  

Like with edX courses, WUaS students would initially simply sign up for their courses on something like the edX platform, in part. (You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - will eventually be part of this WUaS sign in process). Students will potentially matriculate online from all ~200 countries in the world, first in English.

World Univ & Sch is also seeking to develop a major university library for undergraduates, first in English, for the above - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources



2
How to develop a functioning WUaS / WUaS Corp Board, and especially now that WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but is not yet a reseller - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and thus further define the relationships between WUaS's 2 wings, or legal entities: 1) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School, also a non-profit legal entity in California, and 2) the WUaS Corporation / Press, a for-profit general stock company legal entity in California? A NomGov Board member? Board Meetings online in the coronavirus pandemic newly? Create with workshops, and graduates, a pool of experienced and smart Board members from which to grow this?

This will unfold significantly on the WUaS web platforms - with AI and machine learning (potentially with the Google / Alphabet platform). 

Websites' updates: 

The WUaS Corporation, as a legal entity, is a for-profit general stock company in California, and planning to go public. See licensing for the WUaS Corp / Press for-profit here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

And World Univ & Sch is a non-profit 501 c 3, and in CA too, and you'll find its Board members here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation ; see licensing at bottom of non-profit - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ too). Together, these 2 legal entities, and wings of WUaS, offer enormous educational growth potential - and are both planned in all ~200 countries' and their official / main languages for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric accrediting degrees, as well as in wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages for open teaching and learning. 





Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, questions? Board members of Silicon Valley's largest companies  - the SV 150, for ex. - are reimbursed handsomely (at around $300,000 per year, I learned in the Stanford Law SVDX meeting 3-4 years ago). 



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Board invitation - 


I think the Stanford Law SVDX webinar is open - and its focus is Board Members actually. All of the above would be in the WUaS Corp legal entity in all likelihood. 


Sincerely, Scott




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Realistic Virtual Earth - 

World Univ & Sch is seeking to facilitate too a realistic virtual earth for everything - e.g. for robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click including especially a realistic virtual Harbin https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click) for academic, STEM, social science, humanities and arts' areas +,  - and has updated our universities & schools' home pages with some of these 

 - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/


- in something like Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow and even with avatar bots for species and individuals (and at the cellular and atomic levels too). 


A realistic virtual earth for Lego into Google Poly ?

A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks into Google Poly - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270092710070726656?s=20
- and the creative computing projects you (Leanna Prater) shared - see, too https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/flowering-silversword-lego-education.html -  into Lego machine learning with the Lego WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - are a lot of virtual world dots to connect, but would open up vast learning horizons (in so many countries and languages even, and re World Univ & Sch).



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WUaS Home Robotics

WUaS Home Robotics seeks to facilitate online courses with Lego Robotics' kits sent to students in their homes, potentially in all ~200 countries, and in building a best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the this best STEM CC-4 OCW Lego resource -https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - as well as curriculum for something like IB high school science majors. This would include Creative Computing approaches to this with Scratch programming - https://twitter.com/hashtag/CreativeComputing?src=hashtag_click - since Lego Robotics is programmable with the Scratch language. Since Scratch is multi-lingual, WUaS seeks to develop this in WUaS major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages! (See, too, 
Creative Computing assessment -  https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1272864023562850304?s=20- https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1266747453509902337?s=20 ).

Machine learning with Lego and Google Research Football too - 




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Brainwave headset research at WUaS - 


World Univ & Sch is also seeking to facilitate brainwave headset research (and related brain research), and potentially in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - into a single realistic virtual earth for brain research and even regarding genes - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - (in Google Street View with time slider, TensorFlow and at the cellular and atomic levels too ... and potentially also with a Film-To-3D application at these scales) ... https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Genes-Work-Brain. Headbands packed with sensors learning both about the brain, as well as streaming data into simulations, as we learn further how to study the brain and mind. Andrew Junker is inventor of Brainfingers.com in these regards, for example, but Armagan Amcalar - https://twitter.com/dashersw - has also developed a brainwave headset with at least 24 sensors in the head set, with software codable with python, and with a language computer screen interface. (What about bathing cap textile brainwave headsets?). See too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain , Will matriculating WUaS students be doing neuroresearch from home, learning from and building on https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ ? :) 



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Wiki (editable and thus teachable too) pages at World University and Schools - 


World Univ & Sch received this inquiry recently:


Artur:
"At Career Karma we are passionate about helping people switch careers from non-tech fields to tech jobs to acquire new skills and obtain higher salaries. I think this is especially relevant during COVID-19 when thousands lost their jobs.


We have plenty of great article ideas so I was wondering if we can submit a high-quality blog post to be featured on your blog?" ...

"So we should make a wiki page, right?


Can we get a do-follow backlink from this future page?"


WUaS: 
For one, World Univ & Sch is a wiki, like Wikipedia, (for open teaching and learning, but free, and high quality - and potentially advertising-free), so you could potentially teach something in a blog post and add it here, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Career_counseling (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects). Want to give it a go? (You can cite it the way you find other resources cited in this article).

Want to riff further with some of this (eg do you know people who know WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki and Wikidata, for example?), or with the ideas for these emerging school wikis, send me another email.

Artur:
"So we should make a wiki page, right?
Can we get a do-follow backlink from this future page?"

- and re Artur's "Pitch: Let's Collaborate on Content."

WUaS:
World Univ & Sch seeks for all of our wiki pages to be informed by templates - and to be informative (i.e. excellent teaching and learning oriented, and not advertising). (And to work with our WUaS students, wiki Universitians, and end users - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (as an example of a front end wiki page) - such as yourself, WUaS is planning brainstorming-wise for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, potentially with a Wikidata PIN #, like a Wikidata Q-item # but different). I think one (of a few) Template(s) already exists, but may be managed by Wikidata (Lydia Pintscher and Markus Kroetzsch and other Wikidatans), since our WUaS CC-4 licensing now appears on every one of the current 725 wiki pages.

Am learning further about 'do-follow' backlinks:
https://www.backlinks.com/2498-how-your-business-can-use-dofollow-backlinks/
https://mangools.com/blog/seopedia/dofollow-nofollow-backlinks/
https://raventools.com/marketing-glossary/dofollow-link/


Further, wiki World Univ & Sch seeks potentially to integrate with WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/ - with its goal of a single family tree (presumably for all 7.5 billion people) and especially regarding DNA and genetic data at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University.


wiki @WorldUnivAndSch seeks potentially to integrate with #WikiTree https://www.wikitree.com with its goal of a single family tree (for all 7.5 billion people) & esp regarding DNA/genetic data at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes
#RealisticVirtualEarthforGenetics -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1272234354165469184?s=20

In creating Wiki pages at WUaS, such as the one you're thinking of, please remember that such pages' section headings, for example, may be translated into Wikidata's ~300 languages, and eventually into 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. Native speakers of all 7117 living languages will become wiki Universitians - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - all teaching and learning with each other in their languages, and potentially re sharing genetic information too. This may also interface with an eventual small gene sequencer - https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20 (per Harvard / MIT professor of genetics, George Church) - on our smartphones even.

Cheers, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes
Realistic Virtual Earth for Genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click -




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Online WUaS Universities in other countries, - an example (and in all African countries' main / official languages, and in all ~200 countries, and in their official / main languages): 

As an example, future World University and Schools in individual countries and their official languages will emerge like Jordan World Univ & Sch: 
Jordan World University and School will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jordan (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) - in Arabic - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Arabic_language - but first The College at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (first will be in English) - accessible with applications/registration/signing in, eventually, and for wiki schools - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - too. 

And students will study edX courses in part for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees online. 


Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month (since last WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sa 5/16/20) 


WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics!, edX courses in autumn, Major updates to both WUaS websites 6/15/20
https://youtu.be/fmd7vEkbFyw

WUaS News 6/8/20 - Home Robotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall

https://youtu.be/6jhe3kCgzKo

WUaS LiveStream - Breakthrough - Dear Students: upcoming free-to-students' degrees in fall - 6/1/20

https://youtu.be/6TNjnKswlWI

WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the (best STEM CC-4 OCW) Office of Digital Learning

https://youtu.be/O1-K6koPnfM

WUaS News - best STEM CC-4 OCW collaborations? Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala, Stanford Law, May 18 2020

https://youtu.be/qpAhS5k6ATY

accessible from WUaS Livestream channel -



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As you probably know, not only has the big free-to-students' educational project I'm developing not become financially operational yet (and WUaS became a non-profit in 2010, and a parallel for-profit in 2017) - so WUaS is very impoverished, but WUaS has posted every time on our open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda & News as well as Minutes the following:


"World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you."

And a number of WUaS Universitians have asked to be unsubscribed, for example; I'm an appreciator of individual choice in these matters, especially when they could be interested in getting information about such a project / product, and even benefit from it significantly too (like an online free-to-students' California Law School at WUaS, which Reed College graduates could also matriculate at and graduate from, - and help create innovations-wise).

Also, WUaS is planning to code for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, native speakers in all 7,117 known living languages as WUaS wiki teachers and learners, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet - potentially for UBI experiments (in ~200 countries' languages, which our WUaS Law School would teach to) too, and significantly to potentially alleviate poverty, The Coronavirus tracing app, which Germans downloaded 6.5 million times in its 1st 24 hours - https://twitter.com/StanfordCDH/status/1273342209371197440?s=20 - may become a precursor to this. (WUaS, brainstorming-wise, is planning to code for 7.5 billion people for these 5 reasons - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - and entrepreneurially too) ... so a listserv wouldn't work well re planning for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' languages, and speakers of all 7,117 and wiki Universitians.

Here are some brainstorming emails today and yesterday to mostly good Reedie friends from the first half of the 1980s - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/yellow-star-thistle-scott-macleod.html - ending with the email I included you on (re WUaS's 2 wings), and to the Reed Legal Network participants recently + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/woodland-gilias-saltugilia-splendens.html -
and re my letting my Reedie friends know about this upcoming 'Reedpreneurs in the Pandemic Era' meeting. Thanks again.






WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press 



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WUaS Press / Corp is now carrying Lego Robotics! 

WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but not yet a reseller  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html 


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WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - is newly grown, and is now carrying 7 products for sale (3 Lego Robotics' kits, and 4 books published by the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch).



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UBI experiments with regards to WUaS, and in planning for universities in ~200 countries and their official languages, with law faculty and students: 

Just asked these questions, as I registered for this Stanford Law SVDX webinar on Tu June 9, 2020 - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar

"Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance - goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"


And further: Each person in the world, all 7.5 billion people, a WUaS Wikidata PIN# (nee Wikidata Q-item #), beginning with matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS - since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development, and got the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence? For ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University .

... and backed somehow by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages help code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School



D

The WUaS Press is seeking to publish a second actual-virtual, physical-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, potentially publishing it to paper from within Google Street View, with text in the sidebar. See, for example: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaf-re-conceiving-book-printable-on.html.

See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate



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WUaS Press - 

To the editor, Rami Daher (Architect and Professor), of a tourism studies' book in which I have a chapter, but which is not yet for sale in the WUaS Press: 

"I hope my thesis of Orientalism in online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the chapter I wrote has been an asset for your edited volume" - https://www.amazon.com/Rami-Farouk-Daher-dp-1845410505/dp/1845410505). 





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Hi M,

Maybe science can take advantage of this virus and genetic research opportunity to also develop a cure for the common cold, and so many other viruses, and genetic diseases (of which aging is being construed as well - to produce aging reversal genetic therapies!)

How are you and what are you up to for this weekend?
As I wrote to my friend, LC, in the state of Washington yesterday:

"Am really missing here a sense of community or camaraderie in Canyon, although it's beautiful. Meet a life partner and head back to P. for raising a family with community?
...
Ongoing seeking of life partner here and to begin a family. Might stay out here in Canyon after Harbin opens both to visit, and to write a second actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin ethnography, possibly publishing it to paper from within Google Street View (text in the sidebar)! "

Good to participate in a Shady Side Academy equity listening video conference yesterday; it seemed to involve much Quaker process re the listening aspect. And good too to feel a little further more of a sense of community in Pittsburgh in these regards than out here.

Interesting that per Stanford Tweet, 65000 downloads of corona tracing app in Germany occurred yesterday (see below), and per a MIT tweet that Norway stops using it due to low # of infections (see below too). I hypothesize in an ongoing way that coronavirus is much much more 'meme' (replicating culture unit) than 'gene' but will be glad if humans make progress with regard to viral genetic and other genetic diseases.

L, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes -



Stanford Center for Digital Health
@StanfordCDH · 19h
German coronavirus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch

https://twitter.com/StanfordCDH/status/1273342209371197440?s=20


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MIT Technology Review
@techreview · 19h
Norway is halting its coronavirus contact tracing app after the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said that the country’s low rate of infections meant that the app’s privacy invasions were no longer justified.

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1273338062207148032?s=20






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(I somehow wasn't able to send this to you yesterday from my gmail account re these innovative emails to you - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/yellow-star-thistle-scott-macleod.html - so am posting this here).


Lynn, Angela, Andrew, Lafcadio, Joanne, Riely, Marsha, Gabrielle, Nancy, Mike, Pin, Gantt, David, Ed, Ma, Tym, Byron, Adam, Craig, Carla, Michael, Konrad, Nancy, Jim, All,


Hello Reedie friends (from the early '80s), Yoga friends, friends, All,

Photos here again (how does Google Photos pop up photos when they do?):  Reed & Oregon travels~ a: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqEm9Y97JTifGzM99 #ReedCollege's canyon in 2013, #bagpiping, tie die, where I lived 1st semester in 1979 in previous building, Sisson & b: 1st communal house moved in in Jan 1980, & 2nd hippy #ReedHouse, People's Food Coop https://photos.app.goo.gl/jamdTfgcVzncB3dd9 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1273327476442140672?s=20


Am seeking also (at World Univ & Sch) to facilitate brainwave headset research (and related brain research), and potentially in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - into a single realistic virtual earth for brain research and even regarding genes - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - (am thinking further Google Street View with time slider, TensorFlow and at the cellular and atomic levels too ... and potentially also with a Film-To-3D application at these scales) ... https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Genes-Work-Brain. Headbands packed with sensors learning both about the brain, as well as streaming data into simulations, as we learn further how to study the brain and mind. Andrew Junker in this email is inventor of Brainfingers.com in these regards, for example, but Armagan Amcalar https://twitter.com/dashersw has also developed a brainwave headset with at least 24 sensors in the head set, with software codable with python, and with a language computer screen interface. Will likely blog about this tomorrow - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain; Will matriculating students be doing neuro-research from home, learning from and building on https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ ? :)

Photos and much more again here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/yellow-star-thistle-scott-macleod.html

Warm regards, Scott

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

(Please let me know if you don't want to receive these emails, and thanks for your positive email responses so far as well! :)


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Brain Basics: Genes At Work In The Brain

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Genes-Work-Brain


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Thnx, Armagan Amcalar @dashersw @TanTTLe,
https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI To Brain_Computer_Interface https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages AND https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences @WorldUnivAndSch worlduniversityandschool.org https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/ @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267660667491778562?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1267660930860462084?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1267661309274816512?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1267662043168923648?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1267662461227765761?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1267663473141403648?s=20



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Thnx, Armagan Amcalar @dashersw @TanTTLe,
https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI To Brain_Computer_Interface https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences @WorldUnivAndSch worlduniversityandschool.org  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/ @sgkmacleod ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1267663772358868992?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267664349524459521?s=20




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Thanks, Armagan Amcalar @dashersw @TanLe,
https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI To Brain_Computer_Interface https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages AND https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences @WorldUnivAndSch worlduniversityandschool.org  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/ @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267631247271923713?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1267632759956107265?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1267633109614202880?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1267633619603873794?s=20



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Thanks, Armagan Amcalar @dashersw @TanLe,
https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI To Brain_Computer_Interface https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages AND https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences @WorldUnivAndSch worlduniversityandschool.org https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/ @sgkmacleod!

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1267634062811820032?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1267636089382002688?s=20



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Thanks, Tan Le, and Great! To Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences AND Brain_Computer_Interface > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in 7,117 known living languages ? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages @ worlduniversityandschool. org (@WorldUnivAndSch) Planning for WUaS students to study such brain wave headsets from home even ~

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/

DACHfest 2018 - console.log(brain) — Armagan Amcalar

https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI

This talk is a demonstration of an open-source Brain-Computer Interface that is completely developed with JavaScript, from the ground up, using neural networks and signal processing. Armagan hits the stage with a wireless EEG headset, shows how to read signals from the brain in JavaScript using native C++ Node.js modules over USB, and the implementation in Electron, Node.js and Vue.js.



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Am not yet clear (at WUaS, for students who might be interested) how to research genes in the brain with brainwave headsets from home, regarding a kind of overview ...














...




honey plants: 'Honey in the Bag' - UPCOMING #ScottishSmallPipes solo album in A - tune list, And learning to play Scottish small pipes' chanters in B flat and D & COMBO DRONE * * * Some further thoughts about bagpiping expression: :) Giving Scottish small piping lessons! * * * Playing in both Stuart Liddell's and Gordon Duncan's expressive piping styles, comparatively, further opens my eyes to what expression in piping means :)

Previous: Symphyotrichum lanceolatum: Maybe science can take advantage of this virus and genetic research opportunity to also develop a cure for the common cold, and so many other viral genetic diseases * * A second actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin ethnography, possibly publishing it to paper from within Google Street View (text in the sidebar)! * * * NIH - "Brain Basics: Genes At Work In The Brain" * * * Seeking also (at World Univ & Sch) to facilitate brainwave headset research (and related brain research), and potentially in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs * * * Brainwave headset with language in Turkish and Turkey - for ease of computing - swimmer's cap for brain signal in fabric instead ... * * Am not yet clear (at WUaS, for students who might be interested) how to research genes in the brain with brainwave headsets from home, regarding a kind of overview ...
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These top 2 Tweets just popped up (thanks to re-Tweets from https://twitter.com/nz_mackenzie/status/1274131140396249088?s=20):



Ma′unga Terevaka volcano: "Honey in the Bag" UPCOMING #ScottishSmallPipes solo album in A - tune list, And learning to play Scottish small pipes' chanters in B flat and D & COMBO DRONE
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/maunga-terevaka-volcano-honey-in-bag.html& https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
@scottmacleod ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1226921026761744389?s=20




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

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1179059080943435776?s=20




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Then found others of mine in the

Scottish small pipes' #hashtag

https://twitter.com/hashtag/scottishsmallpipes?src=hashtag_click



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Cuttyhunk island, Massachusetts, in 2018
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Wzf17AkcnS32JSpa7 #GooglePhotos with a little Scottish Small Piping https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing -
@WorldUnivAndSch - @TheOpenBand - #Scottishsmallpipes - #Cuttyhunk - #Cuttyhunkisland ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1155898257526145024?s=20




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The tune 'My Home' on Scottish Small Pipes on an A Chanter from College of Piping's Blue Tutor V3 on #SoundCloud #np https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com/my-home-on-scottish-small-pipes-on-an-a-chanter-from-college-of-pipings-blue-tutor-v3 #ScottishSmallPipes See too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipeshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials -
@WorldUnivAndSch
 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html -
@TheOpenBand ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1152605399775961088?s=20




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Then I found this other Scottish_smallpipes #hashtag, which I think I began -

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Scottish_smallpipes?src=hashtag_click


... with ...


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Bagpiping 5 years ago in SF Bay Area https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdaJTsjpqy2YmzKr7 #GooglePhotos only playing the Scottish small pipes now ~ http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ~
@TheOpenBand
 ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ~
@WorldUnivAndSch
 ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
#Scottish_smallpipes ~ #ScottishSmallPipes ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1042087726047059969?s=20






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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jun 18, 6:09 PM (23 hours ago)
to Taylor

Hello Taylor!

some further thoughts about bagpiping expression: :)

If I were to hypothesize about one thing that makes Stuart Liddell's expressiveness in piping different from other greatest pipers, I'd suggest it's his ability to play many instruments, and that these all inform each other in his piping; maybe he's a walking synthesis band as he bagpipes (internalizing a whole band of many instruments within him) :).

What is expressiveness? What is it in piping? What is expressiveness re Stuart Liddell's piping? How to hear this? One thing a teacher (a Scot) has described as 'musicality' referring to more emphasis on the main beats, and dotted notes (relatively to playing in a rounded fashion) ... and when this all comes together in a lyrical flow experience playing, I'd call this expression. Another way of thinking about this? Listen to Stuart play My Home and Scotland the Brave, play with ... explore. What's expression in piping for you?

See you in about 59 minutes!

Cheers, Scott




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- http://scottmacleod.com




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Scott MacLeod
Jun 18, 2020, 7:44 PM (22 hours ago)
to Taylor

Taylor,

Good playing!

Ghillie Callum (Sword dance) sheet music with tempos / bpm and many other great tunes' sheet music (including Sean Truibhas and Orange & Blue)

http://www.coloradopipers.com/highlanddance/CoPipers_HighlandDnaceTunes.pdf

The times for the slow and the 'quick step' in Gillie Callum in this sheet music may be reversed. What do you think?

Cheers, Scott



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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com




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Scott MacLeod
5:59 PM (0 minutes ago)
to Taylor

Hi Taylor,

Some further thinking about piping expression:

I was amazed re 'expression' in piping, and regarding both the Solve for MIT Yo Yo Ma clip about technique -

At about the 1:05 of this 1:34 MIT video:
Virtual Solve at MIT 2020: Event Recap - "We're All One Crew."

https://youtu.be/9SIa7Pt1SjA

- and Ma & Marsalis's 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument' (http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm) when my teacher Connor Sinclair 2 or 3 months ago played in both a Stuart Liddell what Connor calls 'metronomic' style   and in a Gordon Duncan style! So great, and interesting.

It occurs to me too that your first way of playing the birl would be worth exploring in playing a double birl - technique-wise! Am looking online for some further thinking about playing double-birls, and am exploring both ways myself.

Am also further seeking my 'sound' - another question Connor asked me for my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album, and consciously - and Connor's playing in both Stuart Liddell's and Gordon Duncan's expressive piping styles, comparatively, further opens my eyes to what expression in piping means. (Am personally looking for something a little further out the box, but am still exploring in these regards ... ) I haven't yet identified a Connor Sinclair style consciously. :)


Re successive approximations (one approach I take to learning) or iterations toward Mastery Learning (in a Sal Khan Khan Academy sense), I think

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.

could apply to these tunes we'll explore next week:

Gillie Callum (quick step)
Dorrator Bridge
Willie Gray


Adding more recent thinking about piping expression here -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/helianthus-debilis-bagpiping-what-is.html :)

Cheers, Scott


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http://scottmacleod.com




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Taylor, 

A further fascinating helpful explanation about keys of GHB bagpipe tunes (within the 9 note scale): 

You can identify the key in which a tune is written by looking at the most common chords in the tune; additionally, most tunes will end on their key note. (This is not only true of bagpipe music, but of over 99% of Western music generally).

and the sentence just before this : 

in fact bagpipe tunes in D very closely approximate this key - for example, "Amazing Grace." It also corresponds to the key signature for B minor (B Aolian) - for example, "Mist-Covered Mountains." And finally it corresponds to the key signature for A Mixolydian - for example, "Scotland the Brave."  

Good for exploring what SSP middle drones' tunings work with whicht tunes! :) (more related info here - http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-112214.html ). Searched in Google on "identifying keys within bagpipe sheet music."

As we've explored (and slightly differently)
Basic Bagpipe Lessons : Bagpipe Lessons: The Birl Technique

https://youtu.be/cGwLwunE2u8

And there's mention here of the 'double tap' girl ...
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-137176.html
Still seeking further birl thinking regarding the tune in CoP Blue Tutor Vol. 3 in Gillie Callum (the slow version of this strathspey) ... and think now that it's the same as a basic birl (and in looking back at earlier birl notation in previous tunes in the Blue book).

Cheers, 
Scott




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Hi Ma, 

These Bach Partitas are very beautiful - 

Bach: Complete Partitas
played by Yuan Sheng (who's back in Beijing, but who studied in NYC for years).

I've emailed Connor Sinclair about this album before, since the pianist has 'good hands,' something people say about pipers, as well. 

But I newly hear some influences of Glenn Gould in his playing, - and re piping, I wonder if my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' album will exhibit influences of the amazing piping of Stuart Liddell, Gordon Duncan as well as Connor Sinclair, - and thanks to lessons with Connor. Making new connections regarding these "Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - as well, and what I've recently learned, and regarding the lesson recordings in video as well. Seeking to play more daily than presently - which I am doing - but right before bed; haven't figured this one out yet, psychologically, and in thinking about this yet :) 

How's your day gone, and how are you? 

L, Scott


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Ma, 

Nice to talk earlier! 

Made my first recording for "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' album in mind this afternoon, using the "Audacity" recording App. It sounds like good quality to my ear - MP3 format. Kinda momentous ... some fast tunes will involve further playing beforehand. Will likely find a new smartphone APP metronome with a flashing light for playing. Some further good steps in this process (but good too to have recorded the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol. 1, and Blue Tutor Vol 3 tunes as tutorials, and for recording experience too). :) Would like to get this to CD, I think .. .and maybe also in the PIpers of Distinction series out of Scotland, if at all possible. I learn from recording too!

How was your day, and your weekend?

L, Scott

PS
Was inspired again earlier today by the 'good hands' of Yuan Sheng re my album:

Bach: Complete Partitas
played by Yuan Sheng (who's back in Beijing, but who studied in NYC for years).

This is very lovely music! 


People use the phrase too - that pipers have 'good hands.' :)



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Jun 18, 2020, 8:16 PM (17 hours ago)
to JaneScott

Hi Ma, 

How was your day?

Appreciating Taylor's receptiveness, and being a good, capable and interested piping student (as we peer through our Skype computer windows in our developing conversation:). 

Still seeking my sound for 'Honey in the Bag' in playing daily I think, and before recording ... and regarding playing expressively :) I feel my way forward with my 'Honey in the Bag' album in giving lessons to Taylor somehow too. Appreciating the connection. 

Am following up re this earlier 'Connecting' email and thread ... 
Re Connor: as I listen thru and watch my video lessons with Connor ... and he connected .. and so did I, I like seeing his confidence, his responses (and our connection) ... am learning much again and again ... and about connecting in a learning conversation with spoken language as well as connecting in learning a piping language ... and confidence re my playing too ... the feeling (sometimes bumpy, but sometimes good from daily playing) as I improve .. and the feeling of being little shy, or even embarrassed at times as I seek to improve (which feeling I feel far less these days than I recall feeling even in elementary school years, for example).

Interesting to experience re-connecting with Connor in lesson recordings, where we connected in real time (he in Scotland - and regarding even identity questions - being pipers, Scottish identity too perhaps) in the actual lessons (ie which were recorded). 
One aspect of playing a musical instrument for me is that I can have a constant self-critique aspect 'in there' ...

But our lessons are kind of a piping-learning 'blather'  

Connor's a good, responsive and skillful teacher ... am learning a lot from videos to work with ... a lot of 'building blocks' from Connor ... Stuart Liddell's piping is my inspiration for inspired piping ... https://youtu.be/pQEJf5XZPL8 ... 

Focused on piping this morning for nearly 2 hours, playing some, but tuning in further to my 19 Feb 2020 lesson with Connor helpfully. 

L,
Scott

Notes from 19 Feb 2020 lesson with Connor Sinclair 
Was very glad to learn the following from 19 Feb 2020 lesson re even thinking about the new E drone, and which tunes could work with it better than others:

Keys in tunes?
44:45
45:30
a bit of uniqueness in (SSP) drone sounds – (potentially with E drone sounding different)

46:45
A major

46:55
B minor
47:10

C sharp, or F sharp minor
(then going into A)

48:10
you could play an A over F sharp minor
((what about an E drone too? – to ask Connor))
49:15
key of D notes, Connor plays (on an ‘A’ GHB practice chanter, which is really in B flat mixolydian, or so called ‘Piper’s A’)

At a push you’ve got

The key of G – and he plays notes on his practice chanter in this key

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.


3 Set goals to chart development.

4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.

5 Relax and practice slowly.
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Sinclair chanters were preferred by top pipe bands for a while, some decades ago I think -
"Sinclair is known for their famous chanter, which has been a favorite among top competing pipers and bands for since the 1960's."
https://www.thebagpipemuseum.com/Sinclair_William.html
Sinclair pipes may still be being made by a Sinclair son
http://www.sinclair-bagpipes.co.uk
(Such 'William Sinclair & Son (Bagpipe Makers)' father and son traditions are long and old in some countries, such as Scotland)
I'll have to ask Connor Sinclair whether there's any relation to him. 

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






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Further ideas from today ... Friday, June 19, 2020



including Scottish small piping on Cuttyhunk
New Bedford Whaling Museum pics (where I ), 
Peter Smith
a giant whale's heart,
and much more ... 


And some 'Great Highland Bagpiping' photos - https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMZQpPcYP6iui8UJGvJ_P-Bv53tjCbVcBd151wseKTGwpUOOC2puqDBt30gHADzIA?key=UEtGdFJsckhaV3lDTEtTUWZ1S0h5cUV4MTh6TVNn - from a few years ago in the SF Bay Area, playing at a Yacht Club in Sebastopol in Marin, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge at a gig. 


And some further creative thoughts about piping and teaching this that I just sent to Taylor (and added here to today's blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/honey-plants-honey-in-bag-upcoming.html)

How was your day, and how are you? 

Love, Scott



Taylor, 

A further fascinating helpful explanation about keys of GHB bagpipe tunes (within the 9 note scale): 

You can identify the key in which a tune is written by looking at the most common chords in the tune; additionally, most tunes will end on their key note. (This is not only true of bagpipe music, but of over 99% of Western music generally).

and the sentence just before this : 

in fact bagpipe tunes in D very closely approximate this key - for example, "Amazing Grace." It also corresponds to the key signature for B minor (B Aolian) - for example, "Mist-Covered Mountains." And finally it corresponds to the key signature for A Mixolydian - for example, "Scotland the Brave."  

Good for exploring what SSP middle drones' tunings work with whicht tunes! :) (more related info here - http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-112214.html ). Searched in Google on "identifying keys within bagpipe sheet music."

As we've explored (and slightly differently)
Basic Bagpipe Lessons : Bagpipe Lessons: The Birl Technique

https://youtu.be/cGwLwunE2u8

And there's mention here of the 'double tap' girl ...
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-137176.html
Still seeking further birl thinking regarding the tune in CoP Blue Tutor Vol. 3 in Gillie Callum (the slow version of this strathspey) ... and think now that it's the same as a basic birl (and in looking back at earlier birl notation in previous tunes in the Blue book).

Scott











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golden everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum): The WUaS Corp is a carrier of Lego Robotics' kits now! * * * Just before WUaS Monthly Business Meeting this morning friend of World Univ & Sch in Sri Lanka, Rifai sent an email to me with a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch web site, with a Grenada URL ... In response ... * * * the style of your German here - http://mayranna.de/. And I'm wondering about its translation into English via Google Translate: * * * Protecting from genes - "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?,"A Harvard geneticist's goal: to protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, and aging: George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School ... "

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Dear Larry, WUaS Board, Universitians, All, 

Amazing development for WUaS, which now carries Lego Robotics: WUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) -  http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - although WUaS is not yet a reseller, but am optimistic !

Maybe with these developments WUaS families and I can afford to raise our kids, to pay the bills!  
the WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WorldUnivAndSch

 is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400

Best regards, Scott


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Dear WUaS Board, Larry, Govind, and All, 

Now that the WUaS Educational Services' Store (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) is newly functioning and carrying products, and that WUaS Corp is officially a carrier of Lego Robotics (but not yet a reseller, either online or on-the-ground in any of the ~200 countries in the world, as planned for physical robotics' stores), please check out these interesting histories of Lego (which word derives from the Danish words "leg godt" meaning "play well" ): 

"The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. It's our name and it's our ideal. The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen. The company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder."



Lego seems to have a great history as a company and began over 85 years ago. Lego is a privately held based in Billund, Denmark, so not listed on any stock markets for example - and the WUaS Corp is planning to go public and be listed as a stock company first in California. And Lego has both grown a lot and been through a lot of lawsuits in many countries - with much to learn from for WUaS, and in the middle of the information technology revolution, with the world wide web beginning to grow significantly in 1993 or' 94. And Lego has worked with the MIT Media Lab since 1984!

Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder, seemed to be very interested in quality for Lego, as is World Univ & Sch for our educational programs! WUaS would seek to develop 'WUaS Home Robotics' for Engineering and Science majors significantly based on Lego Robotics' kits, both actually and especially virtually, both physically, and digitally! 

If you know of anyone interested in Lego Robotics's kits, please invite them to visit the WUaS EducationRobotics' store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and if possible to let WUaS know if they get a set through us! Thank you!

I've blogged some about this and Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch with a Grenada domain name, and much more today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/golden-everlasting-xerochrysum.html

Sincerely, Scott







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Just before WUaS Monthly Business Meeting this morning (3rd Saturdays at 9am Pacific Time, and open), a friend of World Univ & Sch in Sri Lanka, Rifai (founder of Freedom College there), sent an email to me with a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch web site, with a Grenada URL:


Freedom College | Admin

3:02 AM (11 hours ago)
to me
Hi Scott !

I hope the WUaS team is in good health and ready to launch the 6 Bachelor's degree programmes. It is better if we can discuss how Sri Lanka World University and School is going to go forward. I have launched a new domain which will be fully dedicated to this project and customised accordingly.


Let me know your thoughts so that we can setup the site and start enrolling for Autumn 2020. The site can be built in all three languages. You will have to share a how it works document to translate to Sinhala and Tamil. Also check on Open edX and edX Edge by edX. The domain supports Moodle and other LMSs.

Regards,

Rifai





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In response, -


Dear WUaS Board members, Markus, friends, All,

World Univ & Sch MBM Minutes to come from today's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html.

A friend of WUaS in Sri Lanka just created the beginnings of Sri Lanka World University and School website with a .gd Grenada domain name. He's the founder of Freedom College there, and I thank him for his initiative. He writes:

"Hi Scott !

I hope the WUaS team is in good health and ready to launch the 6 Bachelor's degree programmes. It is better if we can discuss how Sri Lanka World University and School is going to go forward. I have launched a new domain which will be fully dedicated to this project and customised accordingly.

http://freeuniversity.rf.gd/

Let me know your thoughts so that we can setup the site and start enrolling for Autumn 2020. The site can be built in all three languages. You will have to share a how it works document to translate to Sinhala and Tamil. Also check on Open edX and edX Edge by edX. The domain supports Moodle and other LMSs.

Regards, Freedom College"

Here below is my reply to him, which could also inform the WUaS finance technologies' build-out of WUaS's information technology platform.

I'll see how he replies, but how could we help him with the Google Sites' platform, and in anticipating machine learning and machine translation - and in combination with planning for WUaS in Wikidata's ~300 languages, and possibly with a Wikidata PIN # (like a Wikidata Q-item # but different, and planning for matriculating WUaS students, Wiki Universitians, and potentially all 7.5 billion people on planet)? Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? Thanks.

Sincerely, Scott



Dear Rifai: 
(Freedom College founder)

Thank you for your email, and for creating this - http://freeuniversity.rf.gd/ - especially as a kind of prototype. 

I've added your creation of 'Sri Lanka World University & School' to the Sri Lanka World University and School wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka .

I linked it using this citation approach under the "Select Websites"' section heading: 

Sri Lanka World University and School. 2020. [http://freeuniversity.rf.gd/?i=1 Sri Lanka World University and School]. Grenada: freeuniversity.rf.gd.

These section headings may all eventually be translated into countries' main languages with machine learning / machine translation. 

Please remember that World Univ & Sch is Google-centric since WUaS is in 
Google for Education & 
G Suite & re
Google Translate

- and for machine learning, and machine translation.

And please remember too that 
worlduniversityandschool.org eventually into worlduniversityandschool.edu is our domain for all 200 countries, and in all 7,117 known living languages.

WUaS seeks to add edX courses to our wiki Academic subject pages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) and in all ~200 countries' official / main languages also - & all potentially in an automated way - and from our course catalog - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/  - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (in a GDocs spreadsheet) - and regarding our 6 Bachelor degree majors / programmes at WUaS . 

Can you work with Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/new (which I've explored a few times in years past eg https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool ) - and develop Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch further in these regards here? 

I'll have to think through the .gd domain name for the country of Grenada in the Carribean further in the web site you created. 


You may have begun Grenada World Univ & Sch as well ! :)

WUaS is thinking in terms of all ~200 countries, each a free-to-students' major online university in the countries' official / main languages.

Eventually, in terms of enrolling WUaS students, WUaS seeks to go from GDocs' Spreadsheet list of WUaS students relating to - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (each person something a Wikidata Q-item #, but probably a parallel Wikidata PIN #, since WUaS is already in Wikidata too, in its ~300 languages) - and for all wiki universitians not only in Sri Lanka, but in all ~200 countries and speakers of all 7,117 known living languages (and planning for all 7.5 billion people). Are you familiar with GDocs for all of this? 

Let's come into further conversation about this re your "It is better if we can discuss how Sri Lanka World University and School is going to go forward". Thank you - and interesting! 

Regards, 
Scott






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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

11:50 AM (1 hour ago)
to annachmayrPeter
Anna (and Peter),

I enjoyed the style of your German here - http://mayranna.de/.

And I'm wondering about its translation into English via Google Translate: 


My name is Anna Mayr and I am a journalist because I cannot do anything else. But I learned that I should better say: Because I don't want anything else.

I studied geography and literature in Cologne. In the first semester, I thought that would help me understand the world. In the eighth semester I had a bachelor's degree and still didn't understand anything.

I call Berlin my home, even if it feels strange. I stay at home most in the Ruhr area, because I can call everyone shit and nobody takes it against me.

I was a student at the German School of Journalism in Munich. Today I am an editor at ZEIT.

For research on the old pharmacy in Bottrop, I was nominated with the Correctiv team for the Reporter Prize 2017 and the Nannen Prize 2018, and we were also awarded the Journalist Prize of the Apothekerstiftung Westfalen-Lippe. Medium Magazin included me in the selection of the top 30 to 30 in 2018.

imprint

I feel responsible for the content of this website in accordance with § 6 MDStV.

Anna Mayr
annachmayr@gmail.com

I am not responsible for anything on the Internet that I have not written myself. The texts on this website are mine - please don't steal them. Google Analytics analyzes what you do on this website. But I never see what comes out of it. So your data is fairly secure.


Am appreciative of the excellence of this machine translation. What do you think? 

Alles Gute, 
Scott

PS
Peter is a friend who lives in Bremen, while I live in the SF Bay Area, am developing the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School (WUaS), as well as my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project. Peter designed the WUaS logos as well. Ich kann auch ein bischen Deutsch. 

PPS
Here are your Twitters: 


And here are mine: 



PPPS
Ich habe auch ein Jahr lang in Muenchen gewohnt vor vielen Jahren. 


PPPPS
WUaS is
Planned in 7,117 known living languages with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
 - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany - planned in German, and for online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees, based on best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages


And here is
World University & School's open monthly business meeting Agenda for Saturday June 20, 2020, at 9 am PT:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-agenda-news-for-world-univ.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html

- to which you are both invited and welcome to attend; please let me know by email and I'll open a Google Meet video conference window. 


Best regards, Scott


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- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

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How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?



https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk


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George Church Harvard age reversal 60 minutes




A Harvard geneticist's goal: to protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, and aging

George Church's lab at Harvard Medical School is working to make humans immune to all viruses, eliminate genetic diseases and reverse the aging process. Scott Pelley reports on how close the geneticist's team is to a breakthrough.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08/



" ...

Despite imperfection, Church has co-authored 527 scientific papers and holds more than 50 patents. Proof that great minds do not think alike.
The best science can tell, it was about 4 billion years ago that self-replicating molecules set off the spark of biology. Now, humans hold the tools of evolution, but George Church remains in awe of the original mystery: how chemistry became life.
Scott Pelley: Is the most amazing thing about life, then, that it happened at all?
George Church: It is amazing in our current state of ignorance. We don't even know if it ever happened ever in the rest of the universe. it's awe-inspiring to know that it either happened billions of times, or it never happened. Both of those are mind boggling. It's amazing that you can have such complex structures that make copies of themselves. But it's very hard to do that with machines that we've built. So, we're engineers. But we're rather poor engineers compared to the pseudo engineering that is biological evolution."





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Neo.Life Boston


https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E





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Protection from genes in a higher primate sense ('alpha' male-wise, & 'alpha' female-wise too) - and psychiatrically, and psychotherapeutically too? Troop-bondage protection of ones genes from (viral) genes, as well as interlopers (in an other higher primate sense)?

Could male humans who are alpha or heads of their families, psychiatrically too, be protectors of their family, ie their genes, - and in an evolutionary biological sense too?

How would this affect the language of males in families even in Lacanian psychoanalytic MD senses?







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buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

Next: Cosmos sulphureus: Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present; WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments * Appreciating too AFSC Tweet * * * Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: "DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophy" * * * Black Books Matter! Black Lives Matter! - Am non-harming inclined however in a NtFriendly, atheist Quaker (ahimsa) sense * * * Friends' Dalton Letter * Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014* * CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? ... Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love, *Loving Bliss as Friends"
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What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 6/21/20


and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):






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Coronaviris Su 6/21/20 Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter


Who the hardest hit the corona crisis in happiness
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article209982523/Corona-Krise-Die-Gutverdiener-sorgen-sich-am-meisten.html
POLITICS
GERMANY ABROAD
GERMANY
CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC
Who the hardest hit the corona crisis in happiness
IMG_8174.jpg
By Elke Bodegas
Responsible editor
Coronavirus - Berlin - Queuing
May 16, 2020, Berlin. Two young women stand in line in front of a clothing store with a distance to each other and with masks against the new corona virus. A security cooperation ...
Source: pa / Wolfram Stein / Wolfram Steinberg
What influence does the lockdown have on the happiness and psyche of the Germans? The sociology professor Martin Schröder has evaluated the first data. They show that the crisis has an impact especially in three groups.
Martin Schöder, sociology professor in Marburg, evaluated the "Socio-Economic Panel" on the pandemic, a survey that has been repeated annually since 1984 and in which the same people in Germany and other countries are always asked - even now, about their experiences during the Lockdown.
WELT: Mr. Schröder, are the Germans the same after the lockdown?
Martin Schröder: Compared to other nations, we have come through well so far. The British, for example, see their mental health burdened more. The values are the same as for unemployment, and that's pretty bad. Interestingly, the old are not that much worse, whereas the younger are more affected.
Corona debt: Central banks must not become state ATMs
The debt of the states increases rapidly because of the corona crisis. In many places the central banks rush to help and buy the debt securities. But such a merging of monetary and fiscal policies is dangerous. It must not become the rule. Thomas Fuster.
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/corona-schulden-notenbanken-sind-keine-bancomaten-fuer-den-staat-ld.1561413

Helga Schubert erhält den Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2020
Das Wettlesen fand zum ersten Mal seit seinem Bestehen nicht in Klagenfurt statt. Wegen der Corona-Krise wurden die Lesungen und Diskussionen digital über Video durchgeführt.
https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/ingeborg-bachmann-preis-2020-ld.1562425

(Pony tails on the police women in picture?)
Armin Laschet does not rule out lockdown in the Gütersloh district
The entire workforce of the meat company Tönnies is in quarantine. NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet continues to think a regional lockdown is conceivable.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-06/toennies-armin-laschet-guetersloh-coronavirus-lockdown


Twin Cities micro apartments put to the test during the pandemic
How will tiny rental units fare in the era of shelter-in-place and working from home?
https://m.startribune.com/micro-apartments-put-to-the-test-during-the-pandemic/571371362/


Ministry of Finance expects Finnish economy to contract by 7% in 2020
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17780-ministry-of-finance-expects-finnish-economy-to-contract-by-7-in-2020.html
THE FINNISH ECONOMY will need at least a good few years to recover from the damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Ministry of Finance on Tuesday unveiled its latest economic forecast, predicting that the national economy will contract by six per cent this year before rebounding with a growth spurt of 2.5 per cent in 2021 and one of 1.7 per cent in 2022.

Anthropologist : The Corona crisis reveals that
many bosses are completely redundant
Author and lecturer Dennis Nørmark believes that the corona crisis has revealed that managers are in many cases completely redundant. He advocates that we change our way of thinking about leadership.
https://www.berlingske.dk/arbejdsliv/antroprolog-coronakrisen-afsloerer-at-mange-chefer-er-komplet

BRAND? (read all these machine translations for fascinating WORD choice)
Reproduction number continues to rise above critical brand
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article206504969/Coronavirus-Reproduktionszahl-in-Deutschland-steigt-ueber-2.html

Where Sparrows soar: Inside Air Inuit’s program to turn Nunavik youth into pilots
In Quebec’s far north, planes keep communities together, but the costs of training can deter Inuit locals from learning to fly them. This initiative aims to change that
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-where-sparrows-soar-inside-air-inuits-program-to-turn-nunavik-youth/

National Indigenous Peoples Day goes virtual amid COVID-19 pandemic restrictions
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-national-indigenous-peoples-day-goes-virtual-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

Future of the city:
Post Corona City
Empty shops and offices, but scarce living space and full bike paths: it's easy to redistribute that. Corona shows how German inner cities have to change.
By Rainer Müller 162 Comments
https://www.zeit.de/2020-06/zukunft-stadt-verkehr-bueros-laeden-veraenderungen-coronavirus

Child abuse:
"Anyone Who Talks About Abuse Abandons The Children"
Children who have been victims of severe sexual violence are by no means lost, says psychiatrist Jörg Fegert. Many can be helped to find their way back to life.
Interview: Jan Schweitzer
https://www.zeit.de/2020/26/kindesmissbrauch-trauma-therapie-joerg-fegert

Corona in Germany: Reproduction number is now over 2.0
Die Corona-Warn-App ist millionenfach heruntergeladen worden. In Berlin findet eine Techno-Party statt. Der R-Wert ist deutlich gestiegen.
https://www.fr.de/panorama/coronavirus-corona-deutschland-neuinfektionen-corona-warn-app-rki-berlin-techno-party-zr-13793431.html


‘It’s like pulling teeth’: There’s still a PPE shortage — and a second wave could send medical workers into crisis mode
Even as the rate of new coronavirus cases has ebbed across Massachusetts, medical workers say they still face shortages of gear to protect themselves, their families, and their patients.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/21/nation/dangerous-shortages-protective-gear-persist-mass-hospitals-clinicians-say/

"Fuck the police! Fuck the system! » - Part of German society treats the police like a sack that everyone can hit
Racism allegations, waste comparisons, street battles: Many leftists and some young men with a migration background see German law enforcement officers as jokes or opponents. Where's the bourgeois contradiction?
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/krawall-in-stuttgart-deutschlands-polizei-als-boxsack-ld.1562429

Is it safe to fly? Far-flung Bay Area families weigh coronavirus risk
https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/Is-it-safe-to-fly-Far-flung-Bay-Area-families-15351374.php


TRAVEL
Here’s everything you need to know about road tripping in California this summer
By Nick Rahaim
https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/Here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-road-15348338.php


Using hand sanitizer during COVID-19 pandemic? FDA warns these 9 might be toxic
BY DAVID J. NEAL
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article243692412.html

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- World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
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http://scottmacleod.com 
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Coronavirus Sa June 20 2020 - Black Books Matter


Reproduktionszahl in Deutschland steigt wieder deutlich auf 1,79
Reproduction numbers in Germany rise again significantly to 1.79
More than 650 employees of the Tönnies slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia have been infected with the corona virus. Working conditions with subcontractors and collective accommodation with many Eastern European employees are heavily criticized.
Source: WELT / Jan-Friedrich Funk
According to the number of reproductions, Germany is back in crisis. Larger regional outbreaks drove R well above 1. However, the RKI continues to see an “overall low level”. An overview in numbers and maps
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article206504969/Coronavirus-Reproduktionszahl-in-Deutschland-steigt-wieder-deutlich.html



The crisis hits city hotels particularly hard. They hope to find their way out of the deep with local guests.
The crisis is particularly hard on the hotel industry in and around Zurich. A look at three establishments also shows a spirit of optimism - from four-star hotels to bed and breakfasts.
https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/corona-krise-in-zuerich-hotels-hoffen-auf-die-einheimischen-gaeste-ld.1562144

Greens and leftists on the role of the opposition
"Do not let clasp"
Does the executive matter in the crisis? Not true, say the faction managers of the Greens and the Left Party in the Bundestag. 
Grüne und Linke zur Rolle der Opposition
: „Nicht umklam­mern lassen“
In der Krise kommt es auf die Exekutive an? Stimmt nicht, sagen die FraktionsmanagerInnen von Grünen und Linkspartei im Bundestag.

"Black Books Matter": Sklaven, Schwestern, Serienkillerinnen
"Black Books Matter": slaves, sisters, serial killers
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/literatur/2064926-Black-Books-Matter-Sklaven-Schwestern-Serienkillerinnen.html

A Low-Profile Regulator Is Catapulted Into a Political Fight
Jay Clayton, the head of the S.E.C., is now the Trump administration’s intended nominee to be the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/business/jay-clayton-sdny-sec.html

More Oregonians catching coronavirus because the virus is spreading more, not just because of increased testing.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/more-oregonians-catching-coronavirus-because-the-virus-is-spreading-more-not-just-because-of-increased-testing.html

‘Yoga brings people together’: PM Modi on International Yoga Day
‘Yoga brings people together’: PM Modi on International Yoga Day
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address is the highlight of the International Day of Yoga which is being observed on electronic and digital platforms this year.
https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/yoga-brings-people-together-pm-modi-on-international-yoga-day/story-aFl0rryQxPHTdi6fRyviaJ.html

St. Petersburg Railway |The train track from Finland to St. Petersburg took many people's health and lives - As a result of the sacrifices, a train connection was completed, the importance of which to neighboring countries has only grown
foreign countries
21.6. 2:00
https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006547031.html
Wasn't delivered in the middle of tge (fabricated?) Coronavirus pandemic
John Palfrey on libraries in 2015
https://youtu.be/13A6Hnd3g6k

Perspective
Lina Lund: In Germany, schools are closed - for safety's sake



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- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

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Coronavirus F June 19 2020 - Black Lives Matter

Lots of hard work has gone into this, but much more to do in this changing landscape of the pandemic. @verilylifesci @vivianleemd @ASlavitt @KBDeSalvo
Today we launched Healthy at Work for organizations across the country looking for better integrated testing and data analytics in their return to work and school.

RISING CORONA NUMBERS
The Africa Meneke
DIE WELT photo shoot 2016
By Christian Putsch
pic
Alarming: More than a quarter of all infections on the continent are in South Africa
Source: dpa
WHO Mauritius
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus209893661/Steigende-Coronazahlen-Das-Afrika-Menetekel.html




As of today, the Corona warning app is available for download from Google and Apple .
What can the app do  , where can you download it and how does it actually work?
Here you will find all the answers to the Corona warning app.



Ian Holm
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
The versatile actor went from the RSC and Harold Pinter to international movie stardom with roles as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and an android in Alien
Ian Holm: a life in pictures
Peter Bradshaw remembers Ian Holm
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins

" Earlier this month, he expressed his sadness that he was unable to participate in a virtual reunion for the films, saying: “I am sorry to not see you in person, I miss you all and hope your adventures have taken you to many places, I am in lockdown in my hobbit home, or holm.” "
Dagens Nyheter


Lord of the Rings and Chariots of Fire actor Sir Ian Holm dies aged 88
By Elle Duffy  @ElleDuffy_
Social Media Journalist
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18528959.lord-rings-chariots-fire-actor-sir-ian-holm-dies-aged-88/
https://twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/1274001493306363905?s=20

Bagpiping mention of coronavirus

SNP politician labels Scottish Government blended learning plans 'absolutely unacceptable'
By David Bol  @mrdavidbol


Photo: Beatrice Lundborg
Samhällsbärarna
"I'm very worried about summer"
Will a new covid wave come? Sweden goes on vacation - but for the staff at SÖS, the summer's leave can be canceled at any time.
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/vi-bar-varandra-genom-den-har-pandemin/

Editorial: Make Juneteenth a national holiday
Honor the sacrifice of African Americans and spotlight our history of racial discrimination, the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board writes.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Make-Juneteenth-a-national-holiday-as-15349820.php


If anyone is to suffer from corona death, it should be cruise tourism
Christina Pletten
BERGEN (Aftenposten): The tourists are gone, and Western Norway is in despair. At the same time, nature and locals get a breather.
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/i/3JvLO0/Hvis-noen-skal-lide-koronadoden_-bor-det-bli-cruiseturismen--Christina-Pletten

Photo: Fredrik Persson / TT
The EU condemns racism and police violence in the United States
Resolution was voted on - the European Parliament recognizes similar problems in Europe.
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/eu-fordomer-rasism-och-polisvald-antar-ny-resolution/

Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi / AP
WHO: The pandemic is entering a new and dangerous phase
Director General: "Many people are tired of staying at home."
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/who-chefen-varlden-ar-inne-i-en-ny-och-farlig-fas/

Study: The corona virus in Italy in December
Wastewater testing shows: The Corona virus arrived in Italy two months before the first confirmed case.
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/studie-coronaviruset-fanns-i-italien-redan-i-december/

Tegnell: "Sure we have passed the summit"
Public Health Authority: There is still uncertainty about how many people have had the infection.
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tegnell-saker-pa-att-vi-har-passerat-toppen/

Student’s pro-democracy human chain protest cancelled after Hong Kong police warn schools
A human chain demonstration organised by secondary students in Tseung Kwan O has been called off, after police wrote to school principals warning that the event could be seen as an unauthorised assembly. The Tseung Kwan O Student Front (TKOSF) – one of the event organisers – announced on Friday morning that a joint school […]
by KELLY HO
16:48, 19 JUNE 2020
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/06/19/students-pro-democracy-human-chain-protest-cancelled-after-hong-kong-police-warn-schools/

Japan's coronavirus contact-tracing app launched amid privacy concerns
"It does not collect personal data at all. People can use it without worry," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in urging its use to curb the pandemic. ..."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/19/national/japan-contact-tracing-app-launched/

Nicolas Nova: "The smartphone does not only embody a form of withdrawal"
The Geneva researcher dissects this ambivalent object in a meticulous anthropological investigation. His work, which has just appeared, distances itself from an alarmist vision
https://www.letemps.ch/societe/nicolas-nova-smartphone-nincarne-une-forme-repli-soi

INTERVIEW
AT Balthasar Glättli: "I dream of being the green president who will install the first or rather the first green federal councilor"
Balthasar Glättli will be elected this Saturday to head the Swiss Greens. The Zurich citizen claims more than ever a place on the Federal Council for his party. He fears that the coronavirus crisis has distanced Romansh and Alemannics and generates a phase of austerity
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/balthasar-glattli-reve-detre-president-vert-installera-premier-plutot-premiere-conseillere


LIVE
Business Updates: Apple is closing stores in four states after a rise in virus cases, and AMC reversed course on masks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html

Corona virus in Germany
Laschet no longer excludes regional lockdown
After the massive corona outbreak at meat producer Tönnies, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia is considering suitable solutions.
Overview of news from Germany
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/coronavirus-deutschland-1.4936309

The bracelet that warns you if you have covid-19 even if you are asymptomatic
An Italian startup, Empatica, created it. It is able to detect the presence of coronavirus even when there are no symptoms (both for the asymptomatic, or those who will never manifest them, and for the presymptomatic, that is, those who will develop them soon)
by RICCARDO LUNA
June 19, 2020
https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2020/06/19/news/il_braccialetto_che_ti_avvisa_se_hai_il_covid-19_anche_se_sei_asintomatico-259675320/

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Antje Vollmer: "All real progress is pacifistic"
Former Vice President of the German Bundestag and Green Party politician about Germany, Europe and the dismantling of enemy images.
June 19, 2020 - 21:13 , Michael Maier

" Antje Vollmer at the federal press conference.
Photo: Imago / Metodi Popow
The Green politician Antje Vollmer, Protestant theologian and for many years Vice President of the German Bundestag, is convinced that any really progressive time is pacifistic in its basic tendency. She talks about her efforts to bring Germany closer together and explains why peace is a European task - and what she misses about today's Greens.
Berliner Zeitung: Ms. Vollmer, the words "peace" and "pacifism" seem to have disappeared from public discourse ...
Antje Vollmer: Even ... " 
Turn of the times
Corona crisis: have we missed the opportunity?
How the crisis no longer brought society together, but drove it apart. And how the old countries learned from the new ones and there was no recognition. An interim balance.
06/19/2020
June 19 , 2020 - 21:56 , Sabine Rennefanz
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/zeitenwende/corona-krise-haben-wir-die-chance-verpasst-li.88317
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Coronavirus Th 6/18/20 + BlackLivesMatter
Californians must cover their face in public. How to wear masks and where you can get one
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article243645637.html

Calif. to require face coverings in ‘most settings’ as it sees record number of cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/18/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

At Northern Spirit Radio (Mark Helpsmeet) we avoid the adrenaline-jangling “flash in the pan” type of news, preferring instead thoughtful, continually relevant, helpful resources for making a better world. We've hesitated to allow the urgency that is often manufactured by the media machine to dictate our subject matter, but it has felt important and responsible to highlight a couple major societal upheavals on Spirit In Action, doing so without degenerating into the obsession that is the current US media norm.

Pandemic: During the COVID-19 crisis we've featured a special show from Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio entitled Crisis Living: COVID-19 & Climate Change, which puts the pandemic in proper societal perspective, and then we sought to put the crisis in proper historical perspective when we spoke with Michael Luick-Thrams of the TRACES Center for History and Culture with a show called Not Our First Pandemic-Rodeo: 1918 & 2020. And finally, we shared a very offbeat show about an extremely alternative approach to the disease, Transcendental Medicine & COVID-19.

Racism: There has been dramatic upheaval across the country and world following the murder of George Floyd (and others), with millions of folks finally taking a good look at racism and how to deal with it. We've been engaging the learning curve with this for years, as you'll find by browsing our archives. While others are relatively new to the concern, the past 2 weeks we rebroadcast last year's Raising White Kids Beyond Color-Blind show, followed by a repeat of Healing Black & Brown Girls, when we spoke with Monique W. Morris. There's much more, completely applicable to today's issues, if you simply search 'racism' on our site.

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Stanford Tweet
65000 downloads of corona tracing app in Germany
MIT tweet
Norway stops using it due to low # of infections 

Stanford Center for Digital Health
@StanfordCDH · 19h
German coronavirus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch
https://twitter.com/StanfordCDH/status/1273342209371197440?s=20



MIT Technology Review
@techreview · 19h
Norway is halting its coronavirus contact tracing app after the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said that the country’s low rate of infections meant that the app’s privacy invasions were no longer justified.

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1273338062207148032?s=20

When Söder talks about the Corona app, Merkel has to laugh
Pic
Die neue Corona-Warn-App war auch Gesprächsthema zwischen Markus Söder und Kanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die beiden lieferten sich dazu bei einer Pressekonferenz ein kleines Scharmützel.
Quelle: WELT
"Auf einer Pressekonferenz wird Angela Merkel gefragt, ob sie die Corona-App nutzt. Sie antwortet ausweichend. Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder nutzt das, positioniert sich eindeutig – und liefert sich ein verbales Scharmützel mit der Kanzlerin. ..."
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article209793115/Corona-App-Soeder-erzaehlt-ueber-Nutzung-Merkel-muss-lachen.html

„Die Bundesregierung steckt dann immer den Kopf in den Sand“
Green foreign minister Trittin ...
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article209765493/Juergen-Trittin-Bundesregierung-steckt-dann-den-Kopf-in-den-Sand.html

866 Haftbefehle infolge von Corona-Grenzkontrollen vollstreckt
Stand: 17.06.2020 | Lesedauer: 3 Minuten
Marcel Leubecher
Von Marcel Leubecher
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article209773553/Bundespolizei-zu-Grenzkontrollen-866-Haftbefehle-vollstreckt.html

(Maybe a serious coronavirus doesn't exist ????)
US election campaign:
As if Corona had never existed
Donald Trump wants to go back to the arena, the US president urgently needs pictures of a victory. But it does not show up against the virus or the political opponent.
An analysis by Johanna Roth 454 comments
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-06/us-wahlkampf-donald-trump-massenkundgebung-pandemie





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Friends' Dalton Letter


Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014


CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/. You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.

CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/


You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and - 

Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.

Loving Bliss as Friends


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For some biotech employees in the age of COVID-19, the workday starts at the bathroom sink
Tango Therapeutics in Cambridge tests workers' gargled samples, then e-mails the results later that day.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/16/business/some-biotech-employees-age-covid-19-workday-starts-bathroom-sink/

Judge orders town of Oxford to shut down gym that defied state order to stay closed
The judge said the town of Oxford may take whatever measures necessary — including changing the locks, boarding up the building, and turning off the utilities — to close the gym down and secure the premises
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/16/metro/judge-orders-town-oxford-shut-down-gym-that-defied-state-order-remain-closed/

Protestteilnehmer in Kopenhagen positiv getestet – Schulen in Peking geschlossen
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/live206935325/Coronavirus-Schulen-in-Peking-nach-Ausbruch-wieder-geschlossen.html
CORONA VIRUS
Protest participants in Copenhagen tested positive - schools in Beijing closed
Status: 00:38 a.m. | Reading time: 2
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For almost two months, no new infections with the new corona virus were reported in Beijing. Now the number of cases has risen to over 100 since Thursday. The authorities react strictly.
Source: WORLD
"15,000 people demonstrated against racism in Copenhagen. The corona virus was found in one. Now the other participants should also be able to be tested. In Beijing, the classes are taking place online again. All developments in the live ticker...."


Tegnell: Everything speaks to being immune
"There are no verified cases that someone has had the disease twice."
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tegnell-allt-talar-for-att-man-blir-immun/

Bundesliga:
FC Bayern Munich wins championship again
FC Bayern became German champions for the eighth time in a row - and for the 30th time overall. A goal record is still possible for the club.
131 comments
EMPTY STADIUM pic
https://www.zeit.de/sport/2020-06/fc-bayern-muenchen-gewinnt-erneut-meisterschaft

Grundeinkommen: Das wären die Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft
Basic income: That would be the impact on society
https://www.fr.de/meinung/grundeinkommen-auswirkungen-auf-gesellschaft-13799083.html

traffic
Berlin gets a round bridge for pedestrians and cyclists
Almost like in the Netherlands: the striking building is supposed to upgrade a crossing in the east of the city. A new street will start there.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/berlin-bekommt-runde-bruecke-fuer-fussgaenger-und-radfahrer-li.87897

Home page International Asia & Pacific
BORDER CONFLICT
20 Indian soldiers dead after confrontation with Chinese soldiers
The armies of both countries have been facing each other at different locations on the controversial border for several weeks
Startseite International Asien & Pazifik
GRENZKONFLIKT
20 indische Soldaten nach Konfrontation mit chinesischen Soldaten tot
Die Armeen beider Länder stehen sich seit einigen Wochen an verschiedenen Orten der umstrittenen Grenze gegenüber
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000118099291/mindestens-drei-tote-bei-indisch-chinesischem-grenzkonflikt

Home / India News / A timeline: India-China’s deadliest border clash since 1975 explained
A timeline: India-China’s deadliest border clash since 1975 explained
The weeks-long stand-off snowballed into the deadliest clash between India and China in 45 years
https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/a-timeline-india-china-s-deadliest-border-clash-since-1975-explained/story-9Ct6lHQKkRuXM5w2K5xmwO.html

Major airlines, including United, say face mask scofflaws can’t fly. But enforcement may be tricky.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-airlines-enforce-mask-policies-20200616-pax6gygjkzdshnlshy2dzgwkti-story.html

LIVE | Latest news today June 16: report of infected and deceased on day 93 of the emergency
Coronavirus in Peru LIVE | Latest news | To date there are 237,156 infected and 7,056 deceased | Review the situation in Peru on day 93 of the state of emergency by COVID-19, today Tuesday June 16, 2020.
https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/coronavirus-peru-en-vivo-hoy-martes-16-de-junio-reporte-de-fallecidos-y-casos-en-el-dia-93-de-la-emergencia-ultimas-noticias-del-covid-19-en-el-pais-minsa-martin-vizcarra-cuarentena-noticia/

Philippines
NEWSINFO
WHO: Look beyond virus case numbers, study clusters
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1292740/who-look-beyond-virus-case-numbers-study-clusters

While Europe is open to tourists and swimming, funerals never end in Bergamo
BERGAMO (Aftenposten): Europe is getting back to normal. But in Europe's hardest-hit region, church bells are ringing continuously, and the funerals are gathering. Day after day.
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/jdRp2b/mens-europa-aapnes-for-turister-og-badeliv-tar-begravelsene-aldri-slutt-i-bergamo?

Do the grades get better if the children get paid? The researchers have some clear and perhaps unexpected answers.
https://www.aftenposten.no/familieogoppvekst/i/2GQJ1B/1000-kroner-for-en-sekser-Blir-karakterene-bedre-hvis-barna-far-betalt

GREECE IN CRISIS:
They risk everything
Greece has fewer coronary deaths than Norway. Now they open to the tourists.
Konk or corona? Now Greece is risking everything.
For ten years Greece has thought it couldn't get any worse. Then came the corona
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/9vP8yq/konk-eller-korona-naa-risikerer-hellas-alt?

CORONA APP
EU agrees to coordinate tracing apps
EU agrees to coordinate tracing apps
Some EU Member States have reached a number of technical agreements to exchange information from tracing apps. In this way, contacts can also be maintained abroad.
Yesterday at 4:39 PM Inland
With summer approaching and several inter-European borders opening up again, contact researchers are facing a challenge. Six European member states currently have an anonymized tracing app, eleven will follow later. The European Union has therefore already devised a number of technical agreements to connect different national apps. The Commission announced this today.
https://m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20200616_04992600

The reunion of Switzerland and Italy after the crisis
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Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis met his Italian counterpart, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio, on the Ticino border. On the menu: post-pandemic Italian-Swiss collaboration, agreement on cross-border workers, immigration and Campione d'Italia
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/retrouvailles-suisse-litalie-apres-crise

#METOO
All codes of conduct, but the students have nowhere to go
Why do issues of transgressive behavior continue to float on the surface in universities? "Universities say they want a safe environment, but that is not clear from the choices they make."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/06/16/allemaal-gedragscodes-maar-de-studenten-kunnen-geen-kant-op-a4003040


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Education
For Warm Springs students, distance learning hinged on the strength of connections, both human and technological
Updated Jun 14, 1:10 PM
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2020/06/for-warm-springs-students-distance-learning-hinged-on-the-strength-of-connections-both-human-and-technological.html


New principal at Warm Springs Academy
Desiree Bergstrom  Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Bambi Van Dyke comes via Montana, where she worked at a K-8 school on the Crow Reservation
https://pamplinmedia.com/msp/131-features/437583-348377-new-principal-at-warm-springs-academy


Global Health Security  Science & Disease
Live  Coronavirus latest news: Britain gets queuing as shops and zoos throw open their doors
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-uk-shops-reopen-face-masks-deaths-lockdown/


Home From College, Old Friends Become Protest Leaders
How four 19-year-olds ended up organizing a 15,000-person march for police reform
https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-from-college-old-friends-become-protest-leaders-11591790402?st=3oilknnr9j4nhha


Universal Basic Income comes with a mammoth price tag
The last thing we want is a new deal that is a raw deal for our kids.
By Mary Z. Connaughton Updated June 15, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/opinion/universal-basic-income-comes-with-mammoth-price-tag/


Stockton has been testing a universal basic income since 2019 — it’s working
The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, a program funded exclusively through donations, has been giving 125 randomly selected Stocktonians $500 a month.
By Michael D. Tubbs Updated June 15, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/opinion/stockton-has-been-testing-universal-basic-income-since-2019-its-working/


 The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration
The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) is the country’s first mayor-led guaranteed income demonstration. We aim to test a simple yet innovative solution to poverty and inequality.
125 RESIDENTS
500 DOLLARS
18 MONTHS
https://seed.sworps.tennessee.edu/index.html


CORONA VACCINATION
"Anyone who does not want to be vaccinated does so against medical advice"
As of: 3:33 p.m. | Reading time: 8 minutes
By Jens Lubbadeh
https://www.welt.de/gesundheit/plus209584505/Corona-Impfung-Wie-wichtig-ist-eine-Impfung-gegen-Corona.html
Pic:
A general obligation to vaccinate against coronaviruses has already been excluded from politics


Content from Crescent
What kind of electric cyclist are you?
 Commuters, tech-savvy or security conscious - find who you are on the board.
https://kampanj.dn.se/crescent/vilken-typ-av-elcyklist-ar-du/


Red-green pink wants a plan to stop sex purchases
Karin Pleijel (MP): "It's no quickfix"
https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/r%C3%B6dgr%C3%B6nrosa-vill-ha-plan-f%C3%B6r-att-stoppa-sexk%C3%B6p-1.29643759




Rassistische Polizeigewalt in den USA: Endlich wird hingeschaut
Das Verhältnis zwischen Bürger*innen und Staat ist in den USA völlig gestört. Ohne eine Reform der Polizei lässt es sich nicht reparieren.
https://taz.de/Rassistische-Polizeigewalt-in-den-USA/!5689595/


world
Here, Swedish tourists are welcome - and not
UPDATED YESTERDAY 15:20 PUBLISHED 2020-09-09
A man with protective mask on a street in Benidorm, Spain. Photo: Jose Jordan / AFP
More and more countries are opening their borders to tourism - but not everyone welcomes visitors from Sweden.
This is how ...
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/har-ar-svenska-turister-valkomna-och-inte/


After the border opens, shopping tourism picks up speed - how Swiss retailers react
The borders are open again after almost three months. A rapid return of shopping tourism can be expected. Local retailers rely in part on targeted discount campaigns.
https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/grenzoeffnung-einkaufstourismus-kommt-in-fahrt-ld.1561452


For direct flights from Sweden, all passengers are measured for fever - the latest developments in corona virus in Switzerland
So far, according to the cantons, 31,116 people in Switzerland have tested positive for the corona virus, and 1939 infected people have died.
https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/grenzoeffnung-einkaufstourismus-kommt-in-fahrt-ld.1561452

The Swiss national borders have been open to EU and EFTA citizens as well as travelers from Great Britain since Monday (June 15th). This means that there is once again full freedom of movement for these countries. Citizens of third countries living in these countries can also enter. However, in addition to your passport, you must provide proof of residence. When the borders open to third countries is still being clarified. Germany officially opens its borders to Switzerland 24 hours later - in the night from Monday to Tuesday. According to the State Secretariat for Migration, the reason is formal and legal.

According to its own statements, Zurich Airport is at the “beginning of a return to the new normal”. On Monday (June 15th), about 50 arrivals and departures were planned, as the airport announced. That is only a little more than at the weekend. Compared to Sunday, when the borders were still largely closed, there was no big difference in eye traffic. The stores were almost fully open on Monday, albeit with shorter opening hours. The range of shops behind the boarding pass control, however, is still greatly reduced. The airport is now expanding steadily, but the airport does not expect the shops to open fully until July 6th.

With direct flights from Sweden to Switzerland, all passengers are measured for fever. For the time being, Sweden is the only country affected by this border sanitation measure, as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) announced on Monday (June 15th). Switzerland reserves the right to take border sanitary measures if people are arriving from a country that has a ...




Fighting viruses:
Corona warning app is available for download
The federal contact tracking app is available several months after the pandemic begins. Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht warns of fraudulent copycats.
https://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2020-06/coronavirus-corona-warn-app-bundesregierung


Corona app:
What takes a long time finally becomes an app
The German Corona warning app is coming, this time really. It should warn you if you have been in contact with an infected person for too long. What you should know now
By Meike Laaff 700 comments
https://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2020-06/corona-app-tracing-datenschutz-faq

Corona warning app:
"Voluntary means voluntary"
Those who do not use the Corona warning app should have no disadvantages, says the federal government. The Greens are pushing for a law that protects workers' rights.


Sun, surf and COVID-19. Jamaica, Bahamas start to welcome back tourists, nationals.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article243541077.html


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buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter



buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirus



buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirus


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirus












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SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020


What I've been watching

Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html




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Cosmos sulphureus: Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present; WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments * Appreciating too AFSC Tweet * * * Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: "DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophy" * * * Black Books Matter! Black Lives Matter! - Am non-harming inclined however in a NtFriendly, atheist Quaker (ahimsa) sense * * * Friends' Dalton Letter * Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014* * CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? ... Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love, *Loving Bliss as Friends"

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Hi nontheist Friends, 

Appreciating too: 

Our General Secretary
@joyce_afsc
 wrote in the
@PennCapitalStar
 about why
@afsc_org
 is mobilizing our community and resources to amplify the message for moral revival and economic equality being put forward by
@UniteThePoor
. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

https://twitter.com/afsc_org/status/1274326192968130566?s=20

which former clerk of San Francisco Friends' Meeting, Chris Mohr (https://twitter.com/chrismsf - and now Director of Friends' Center in Philadelphia), just shared. Glad the media @PennCapitalStar is focusing on the so-called 'Holy Experiment' of Penns' Woods and its current legislative developments.

Here's the 'Poverty Action' wiki subject for open teaching and learning at World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poverty_Action - with only a few best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses at present. WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this autumn, taking potentially edX courses from home, for free-to-students' 4-year Bachelor degrees, as WUaS licenses and accredits with institutions in the state of California - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.htl . 

WUaS is also exploring facilitating UBI experiments to all 7.5 billion people on the planet as you'll see in this Agenda and News for WUaS ! 

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
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2 related Tweets: 

Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poverty_Action with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present. WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1274783550668038144?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1274784907865100288?s=20


Appreciating too AFSC Tweet which former clerk of SFFM, @chrismsf now Director of Friends' Center in Phil) shared. Glad the @PennCapitalStar is focusing on the so-called 'Holy Experiment' of Penns' Woods & its current legislative developments. #NontheistFriends #AtheistQuakers ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1274784528985239552?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1274785252775473159?s=20



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Hi Nontheist Friends: 

Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: 

DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophy


I wrote one of my Reed College qualifying exams in Religion (with both social science focus, as well as feminist theology focus) on the so-called 'problem of evil' (an old debate from Augustine, Aquinas and more recently John Hicks' ) ... but not from an atheist or non-theist (let alone NtF Friendly/Quaker) perspective. 


But Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex offers new ways (for me) for addressing such questions, and potentially in a non-theistically Friendly way ... Alex's opening begins at 22 minutes. 

I find that my more current research interests focus on the ethnography of actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, where Harbin is also 2 churches (HCC, and NACOB) interestingly (but where actual Harbin is now closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and before closed due to the Valley Fire of September 2015 in Lake county CA). My research focuses partly on the ethnography of meditation in warm pools - with parallels to sitting in Quaker Silent Meeting - and even with developing brain research (where philosophical theodicy questions for me are something of the past (1983)). 

Appreciating this Oxford debate philosophical thinking and structure too, (where Quakers have only engaged modestly in debates eg https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710672?seq=1 and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/07/debate-on-god-language-doesnt-mean-all-quakers-are-losing-faith ) ... and NtFs haven't yet engaged in questions of debate that I know of (and anthropology / ethnography is a very different form of inquiry, than this kind of philosophy :).

Appreciating, too, the freedom in non-theistically Friendliness! :)

NtF cheers, 
Scott

Here are some beginnings of where my further virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic research may head: 




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Black Books Matter! Black Lives Matter!

Appreciating:

"Black Books Matter": Sklaven, Schwestern, Serienkillerinnen
"Black Books Matter": slaves, sisters, serial killers
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/literatur/2064926-Black-Books-Matter-Sklaven-Schwestern-Serienkillerinnen.html


Am non-harming inclined however in a NtFriendly, atheist Quaker (ahimsa) sense.



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Friends' Dalton Letter


Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014


CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/. You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.

CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/


You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and - 

Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.

Loving Bliss as Friends









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ocean spray: Spry, - and be adding a little genetic enzyme back into our DNA as we get to be 125 :) Dalai Lama's frailty at close of this Livestream from India made me appreciate the value of doing perhaps a little more Yoga asana daily than I do now to stay spry * * * Am finding this particular Beaton Sisters' Live Celtic Colours' incredible again EXPRESSIVE, yes> Celtic Music @ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Celtic_Music * * Ma, Marsalis: 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument * Characterization of Cape Breton style fiddling and Celtic music, and regarding strathspeys and reels * * * lithe re spry & Baroque dance

Previous: Cosmos sulphureus: Poverty Action wiki subject for open teaching/learning with 7 best STEM CC4 OpenCourseWare courses at present; WUaS is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class this fall, taking potentially edX courses from home & #UBIexperiments * Appreciating too AFSC Tweet * * * Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex, the non-theist Oxford theology graduate student: "DEBATE: Would God Allow Evil? @CosmicSkeptic vs @InspiringPhilosophy" * * * Black Books Matter! Black Lives Matter! - Am non-harming inclined however in a NtFriendly, atheist Quaker (ahimsa) sense * * * Friends' Dalton Letter * Haiku-ish poem from Friends' Dalton Letter in 2014* * CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? ... Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love, *Loving Bliss as Friends"
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Spry, - and be adding a little genetic enzyme back into our DNA as we get to be 125 :)

Per this 1 minute video - https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk




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spry - able to move quickly, easily, and lightly

nimble - quick and light in motion

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Scott MacLeod
Sat, Jun 20, 4:28 PM (21 hours ago)
to Jane, Ann, Scott


Hi Ma, (Ann), How are you both?

As I watched the impressive Dalai Lama in a Livestream from Dharamsala, India -

Resilience, Compassion, and Science for Healing Today

https://youtu.be/2qfLD747ACA

- last night thanks to a Stanford email, I was interested in much (much to learn from him), but also how he seemed a little frail or feeble at the end. And it made me appreciate the value of doing perhaps a little more Yoga asana daily than I do now to stay spry at age 84. As I wrote yesterday:


Went out for a brief walk last evening .. have a slightly swollen outer left L heel, due I think to wearing a lift in two pairs of Birkenstocks on R, and outer left Brikenstock soles getting too thin. (My legs are different lengths, and perhaps the life for the right leg puts extra weight into the left foot! ) Got a pair of New Balance running shoes, almost new, but possibly 10 years old, out of my closet, and in going for a brief walk liked the support and design of these running shoes. May explore putting a lift on NB running shoes, a pair or 2, . .. and getting 2 new pairs of Birkenstocks too, and adding lift re hips' levelness.

But now that I think of it, the walk itself with more Yoga asana could be contributing to the swollen heel in my left out ankle!

Would love to head to another Yoga workshop in Greece with Angela and Victor in Greece sometime (post-coronavirus pandemic), and could even explore teaching Yoga here in Canyon again (with parallels to teaching Scottish small piping online to a student in SF, which is a creative process - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping:).

Warmly, Scott


... email from yesterday evening to you, Ma:

Went out for a brief walk last evening .. have a slightly swollen outer left L heel, due I think to wearing a lift in two pairs of Birkenstocks on R, and outer left Brikenstock soles getting too thin. (My legs are different lengths, and perhaps the life for the right leg puts extra weight into the left foot! ) Got a pair of New Balance running shoes, almost new, but possibly 10 years old, out of my closet, and in going for a brief walk liked the support and design of these running shoes. May explore putting a lift on NB running shoes, a pair or 2, . .. and getting 2 new pairs of Birkenstocks too, and adding lift re hips' levelness.

Dalai Lama is livestreaming from India right now - https://www.mindandlife.org/healing-today/ - if interested :)

Would love to head to another Yoga workshop in Greece with Angela and Victor in Greece sometime (post-Pandemic),


... and could even explore teaching Yoga here again (with parallels to teaching piping:).

What are you up to this weekend?

L, Scott


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- Scott MacLeod
http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html
http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm
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Jun 20, 2020, 8:53 PM (17 hours ago)
to JaneAnnScott
Did some Yoga - Surya Namaskars (Sun salutations, - somewhat vigorous, with many upper body benefits), some Adho Mukha Svanasanas (downward facing dogs, - similarly), and child poses (restorative and gentle - good flexion for legs, and a calming forward bend also) ... nice!

Doing such Yoga at age 128 too?

Depends on how refined the genetic enzyme might become for our aging DNA ! :)

How are you both? And how were your days? :)

Warmly, Scotty



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Good day, Ma & Ann,

Nice day here, - how's the weather par vous deux?


And at 220? ... who knows? !!!

(and at 21,438? :0 ))

Glad to be in communication with Stuart Weeks yesterday and to wish his ~5yo son happy birthday in northern Vermont. My Cuttyhunk friend, David Thurston's 1st cousin, Stuart is probably around 70 and Elizabeth around 40, and I met them in Berkeley and Canyon just as they were traveling, getting engaged, and before they married and had their son. A good model for me to meet & marry a 28 yo woman who wants to begin a family! I think so!

L, Scott

Ma's, and adapted for Oisin's, interactive Birthday card - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382124547 (https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/) ... :)







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Taylor,

Am finding this particular Beaton Sisters' Live Celtic Colours' incredible again, and expressively ...

the Beaton Sisters-live @ ECMA 2010-Celtic Colours Festival Club Stage https://youtu.be/xCSk5waVkxI EXPRESSIVE, yes> Celtic Music @ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Celtic_Music @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument Ma, Marsalis: 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1274744328674398209?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1274745143254384641?s=20

seems like the synergies between instruments elicits particularly great expressiveness


Am curious about the harmonies between the fiddles beginning at about 2 minutes, and re Scottish small pipes esp. ...

To explore?

Cheers, Scott


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





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"Cape Breton fiddle music is strongly influenced by the intonations of the Scots-Gaelic language, especially Puirt a Beul (mouth music) and strathspeys. The ornaments are adapted from those used on the Great Highland bagpipe. The ornamentation (cuts ... "


Interesting further characterization of Cape Breton style fiddling and Celtic music, and regarding strathspeys and reels too: 

"Cape Breton playing is highly accented, characterized by driven up-bowing. The tunes of other music origins (Irish, Canadian, French-Canadian, etc.) sound quite different when performed by Cape Breton players. The strong downbeat pulse is driven by the fiddler's heel into the floor. The pattern tends to be heel-and-toe on reels, the heel on strathspeys.
Cape Breton fiddle music is strongly influenced by the intonations of the Scots-Gaelic language, especially Puirt a Beul (mouth music) and strathspeys. The ornaments are adapted from those used on the Great Highland bagpipe. The ornamentation (cuts aka. treblesdrones and doubling) brings out the strong feeling of Cape Breton fiddle.
A century ago the violin and pump organ were the common instruments; the latter has been supplanted by piano."


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






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lithe re spry & Baroque dance


M, 

Nice to talk. Further explorations re spry & Baroque dance:


spry - able to move quickly, easily, and lightly

nimble - quick and light in motion

limber - lithe or supple or flexible



How to Dance Through Time: The Elegance of Baroque | A preview

https://youtu.be/9wlU4PP1eUI


The Elegance of Baroque | A quick overview of different dances
https://youtu.be/f9JSEXKEV9U


The Art of Baroque Dance: Folies D'espagne from Page to Stage (DOCUMENTARY)
https://youtu.be/O7WSOxN8rfQ


Baroque Dance - L'Allemande
https://youtu.be/cZWDrjLO7r4

Baroque Dance - Mr. Beveridge's Maggot
https://youtu.be/fbXUWNaDKyw
L, Scott




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Curry plant: WUaS LiveStream: CREATIVE Home #LegoRobotics, #FreeToStudentsOnlineWUaSdegrees (June 22, 2020) * * * Minutes for World Univ & Sch June 20, 2020 * * * BREAKTHROUGH - new edX course catalog with amazing array of courses WUaS can offer this autumn to matriculating WUaS students

Next: Phasmatodea: Universal Basic Income Experiments, UBI experiments - in all ~200 countries' and their official languages? - at WUaS * * * Nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers' online Meeting in Zoom - " The topic is "How do we encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other?"" * * * American Friends Service Committee - To support Black liberation growing, AFSC invites white people of faith to deepen our practice and to show up in substantial ways to support the movement for racial justice. Sign up for for our new e-course "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" regarding too "Welcome to World University and School Wiki which anyone can add to or edit." * * * Life in California during the coronavirus pandemic today * * * CLT - Classic Learning Test??? If in the future for BPPE licensing and WASC accreditation, World Univ & Sch needs a standardized admissions' test ...
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BREAKTHROUGH, - adding new edX catalog
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?ts=5e98ba6d#gid=48622087 with amazing edX courses! to WUaS, & here's @WorldUnivAndSch's course catalog - with 6 majors https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/curry-plant-wuas-livestream-creative.html Matriculating WUaS students in fall, Sign up: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1275248129206415361?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1275248413139824640?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275248992431992835?s=20




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WUaS LiveStream: CREATIVE Home Lego Robotics, Free-to-students' online WUaS degrees June 22, 2020

https://youtu.be/ON0lAFT-v8A



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WUaS LiveStream: CREATIVE Home #LegoRobotics, #FreeToStudentsOnlineWUaSdegrees (June 22, 2020)
https://youtu.be/ON0lAFT-v8A
-http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
-worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1275124700335583233?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275124468365443072?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1275125213219311618?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1275125825424125953?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1275126396067577858?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1275129543284547584?s=20



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In many ways, this 34 minute video from today's WUaS News' Livestream contains the beginnings of the Minutes for WUaS - https://youtu.be/ON0lAFT-v8A

Minutes for World Univ & Sch June 20, 2020




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BREAKTHROUGH - new edX course catalog with amazing array of courses WUaS can offer this autumn to matriculating WUaS students 



Hi Rifai, Peter and Partha!


Thanks again for your email, Rifai, which I've reposted below - and for saying you're interested in translating some of WUaS in English into the Sinhala language, and that you have some possible students who might be interested in taking WUaS edX courses in English and Sinhala (I think). Peter, would you like to explore translating similarly into German in a WUaS Google Sites' page? Rifai, I've numbered your 3 paragraphs in your email, and am replying to each below.

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You also lead me to think that Google Sites is again new, and that this, for example, is now more readily editable - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool . Am interested in adding most of this http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ to this WUaS Sites' page - - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - and for translation into the Sinhala language, especially (partly with machine translation). But I'm also appreciative that a single column, rather than 3 columns, would be better for smartphones. And I just saw that it's possible to take an edX course on a smartphone and tablet - https://support.edx.org/hc/en-us/articles/206914817-Can-I-access-edX-courses-on-my-smartphone-or-tablet- . 

I've also now removed the Sri Lanka World University and School website with a Grenada domain name you, Rifai, made from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka - per your request. 

(Are you both on the Wikidata email list - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata - with Wikidata's ~300 languages? Here's a recent language related email thread - "[Wikidata] Language codes 'mul' and 'mis' not recognized" for example. And here's Sinhala in Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13267 and the Sinhala language Wikipedia - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8571954 - in Wikidata.  WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received this Miraheze WUaS MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language but back end and front end are not yet interoperable. And Wikidata's ~300 languages along with Google Translate's ~100 languages will inform World Univ & Sch's coding for all 7,117 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - even).

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I've just updated this WUaS Google Sites' page in English - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  . 
Let's work through the linkages with time. For a while not too long ago, I had this - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  - at the top of worlduniversityandschool.org ... but structure and planning for all ~200 countries' universities in their languages in Google Sites will probably be connected with the A) nation states and B) languages' link on both https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool and worlduniversityandschool.org. Looking forward to further students - and potentially from Sri Lanka, first in English, and then also in Sinhala! 

I've begun to do update this https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ so if you'd like to start translating to a Sri Lanka World University and School Google Sites' page on your end (anticipating machine translation on the Google Sites' platform, I think), am looking forward to seeing this.

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Regarding the 

here's 
World Univ & Sch's course catalog - in WUaS's 6 majors - and with both CC-4 MIT OCW courses in our majors (leading us to offer free-to-students' degrees) and edX FROM MITx course links -


Am wondering if we should merge these lists. edX, and MIT OCW links, from one or both lists will feed into the WUaS wiki subjects' pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - from their respective GDocs. 

The WUaS GDocs form for enrollment wasn't working well, and WUaS has removed it from worlduniversityandschool.org

Names of people who signed up were put into a GDocs spreadsheet. And that is the plan going ahead. In building out this new "form for enrollment for Autumn 2020" WUaS needs to make a new one. Could you help with that Rifai, please? Please plan for people in ~200 countries, speakers of 7, 117 known living languages, and all 7.5 billion people per You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University . WUaS seeks to link it to worlduniversityandschool.org and https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool (and possibly the WUaS Google Sites' page you translate into Sinhala too).

Please remember that in WUaS seeking reimbursement from nation states and possibly their states and 'counties,' WUaS is seeking to matriculate students for 4 year Bachelor degrees, taking something like CC-4 MIT OCW courses, and eventually 'pegging' our WUaS reimbursement per student per year on what tuition is at MIT itself (approximately $55,000 per year at present). So the GDocs' form for matriculating WUaS students you might create, Rifai, will be central to WUaS relating to countries' governments for reimbursement.  Each matricualting WUaS student will likely get a Wikidata PIN # per - You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and their will be 7.5 billion of these Wikidata PIN #s! Partha? 

Peter, do you want to begin to translate some of this into German, Partha, would your parents be available to translate into Bengali? Rifai - do you know someone to translate into the Tamil language?

I've just updated this WUaS Google Sites' homepage https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  !

Looking forward to seeing your Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch page in Sinhala in WaS Google Sites! (I'll be exploring reading it with a Google Translate extension in my Chrome browser). Thank you, Rifai!

Regards, 
Scott



PS Templates are in the works in Wikidata too - and where machine learning and AI will inform InfoBoxes in Wikidata and in the WUaS wiki n ~300 languages! 


Hi !

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I was thinking that you were planning to move away from Google Sites. If that is not the case we can keep freeuniversity.rf.gd parked for the time being, i will remove all references to WUaS, you can remove all links to freeuniversity.rf.gd 


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I will focus on developing SL WUaS on Google Sites. Share with me the link for the latest one for English. I will translate to Sinhala launching SL WUaS on Google Sites. I might be able to provide some courses in Sinhala soon. This way we can use our existing domains to link to the Google Sites.


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I will also share with you a catalog of edX courses to add into Subjects. Yes ! I have been using GDocs you can share the form for enrollment for Autumn 2020. I will start getting some students. You need to tell me the process from enrollment to certificate to inform the students and issue a document authorising Freedom College.



Regards,

Rifai, 
Freedom College, 
Sri Lanka


















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Phasmatodea: Universal Basic Income Experiments, UBI experiments - in all ~200 countries' and their official languages? - at WUaS * * * Nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers' online Meeting in Zoom - " The topic is "How do we encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other?"" * * * American Friends Service Committee - To support Black liberation growing, AFSC invites white people of faith to deepen our practice and to show up in substantial ways to support the movement for racial justice. Sign up for for our new e-course "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" regarding too "Welcome to World University and School Wiki which anyone can add to or edit." * * * Life in California during the coronavirus pandemic today * * * CLT - Classic Learning Test??? If in the future for BPPE licensing and WASC accreditation, World Univ & Sch needs a standardized admissions' test ...

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Universal Basic Income Experiments, UBI experiments - in all ~200 countries' and their official languages? - at WUaS

Fascinating & thnx-why no mention of Euro currency itself (in 19/28 EU countries)? @vestager @ThierryBreton Why not a #SingleCryptocurrency in most of ~200 countries/langs https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275124468365443072?s=20 distrib. by #UBIexperiments for 7.5 bil peop-See UBI label https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html?



https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1275486442156781569


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Fascinating & thnx-why no mention of Euro currency itself (in 19/28 EU countries)? @vestager @ThierryBreton Why not a #SingleCryptocurrency in most of ~200 countries/langs https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275124468365443072?s=20 distrib. by #UBIexperiments for 7.5 bil peop-See UBI label https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html?



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1275531807409139713?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1275535262701903875?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1275540214266511361?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275535549772623874?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1275558161315819520?s=20





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Nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers


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Hello NTF Planning Group,

I had sent an announcement out yesterday to NTF listserve (which I assumed had everyone on the Planning Group too) but now have been made aware that that may not be true!

So below is the Zoom invitation to the NTF sponsored worship sharing tonight at 8:00 (Eastern time) if you would like to join in.  The topic is "How do we encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other?"

Cheers!

John Hunter
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Gathering Staff is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Nontheist Worship Sharing
Time: Jun 23, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Dear Friends,

Tomorrow (Tuesday 6/23) beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern time, FGC will be facilitating a ZOOM "worship-sharing" meeting hosted by Nontheist Friends on the following topic:

"How do we encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other?"

All F/friends interested in participating are invited to sign in. The relevant information is pasted in below.

We look forward to seeing you some of you there!

Rosemary Coffey and John Hunter
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Gathering Staff is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Nontheist Worship Sharing
Time: Jun 23, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Hi, John, Rosemary, nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers,

Thanks for organizing this.

Sorry, but I can't make it; I did however blog about some NtFriendly views, which I had shared in this list, on Poverty Action and much more yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/cosmos-sulphureus-poverty-action-wiki.html. Chris Mohr, executive director of Friends' Center, also has a focus on stopping poverty - https://twitter.com/chrismsf - as you'll see in his Twitter profile.

If the way opens, please share with us what people shared. (And if a Youtube recording is made, if people are comfortable with this, let's consider adding it to Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?) wiki school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) ). I hope nontheist Friends are doing well in the coronavirus pandemic sequestrations, (further thoughts about this in the genes' label in blog too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes).

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
- http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
- Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?) wiki school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) planned in all ~200 countries' languages.
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/






Here in the #NontheistFriends' Twitter #hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/NontheistFriends?src=hashtag_click - I just found a Twitter post regarding SF Friend Sherri Maurin and my conversation & invitation to Quaker kids to matriculate at World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' online degrees (from 2012 actually, when I represented Friendly-informed WUaS at FGC in Rhode Island). It's looking like WUaS will be offering our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class the opportunity to take edX courses (founded by Harvard & MIT), I'm glad to announce.

Here's a
@WorldUnivAndSch
 outreach video I prepared for FGC in 2016 #FGCgathering2018 with Friend Sherry Maurin in SF (& re #NontheistFriends too):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk… Friendly-informed WUaS Seeks Undergraduate Students to Apply Now & Matriculate Sept 1 2020!!! for Free Bachelor Degrees

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1020150659943813120?s=20


If you know of any 17 or 18 yo NtF or Quaker kids interested please let WUaS know. (A new sign up may appear here in the next few days - worlduniversityandschool.org).

Quaker-informed (NtF especially) colleges - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - can be an excellent way to further "encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other."

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
- Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?) wiki school - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) planned in all ~200 countries' languages.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/







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American Friends Service Committee


Dear Scott Gordon,

With the call to support Black liberation growing, AFSC invites white people of faith to deepen our practice and to show up in substantial ways to support the movement for racial justice.
Sign up for for our new e-course "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" starting this Thursday, June 25.
In Twin Cities, Minnesota, AFSC Black program staff are a part of the movement for racial justice. When the uprising began in Minneapolis after the police murder of George Floyd, we asked staff members "What do you need?" They asked AFSC to invite white people of faith and Quakers to show up in ways that go beyond charity toward co-working for liberation and to show up in full solidarity with the Black movement leaders in this moment of grief, rage, and possibility.
Join us by registering today. Over four sessions from June 25 through Aug. 13, "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" will help you engage in deep, embodied learning and practice with other white people of faith working to end white supremacy. We will build the skills to show up fully, follow Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) leadership, speak effectively, and engage in direct action.
Core sessions will take place via Zoom on:
- June 25, Thursday, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET
- July 9, Thursday, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET
- July 23, Thursday, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET
- Aug. 13 Thursday, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET
Participants will also be required to do work between core sessions (including recommended small group gatherings) and commit to action that results in tangible, positive outcomes for BIPOC people in our communities and systemic change.
Facilitators include Lucy Duncan, Lisa Graustein, and Mila Hamilton.
Lucy is AFSC’s director of Friends Relations. She is a member of Green Street Friends Meeting in Philadelphia. She teaches accompaniment of those most impacted by injustice as a spiritual pathway to liberation of all. She has been a storyteller for 20 years.
Lisa Graustein is a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting and is helping grow Three Rivers Meeting (NEYM). Her call to ministry centers on embodied justice work among Friends and out in the world. Lisa holds an Master's of Education in Racial Justice Education, was an out public high school teacher for 20 years, and has been facilitating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops for 15 years.
Mila Hamilton lives in Minneapolis, where she is a member of Twin Cities Friends Meeting and Northern Yearly Meeting. Mila also serves on AFSC’s Friends Relations Committee. She has a background in youth work, critical race theory pedagogy, and communal studies.
We hope you can join us for "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" starting this Thursday!
In peace with justice,
Lucy Duncan, Lisa Graustein, and Mila Hamilton
P.S. Interested in more ways to deepen your anti-racist work? AFSC is offering several anti-racist oriented programs at the Virtual Friends General Conference Gathering from June 28 through July 4 as well as immersive "Defund Hate and Decolonizing the Future" workshops and several afternoon events. Learn more.


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Hi Lucy,
Lucy Duncan (AFSC) 

A bit more about wiki-adding courses to World Univ & Sch's wiki subjects here - 

World Univ & Sch is a wiki (editable, teachable web pages), and free to post to (but not advertising). See - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for example:  

Welcome to World University and School Wiki
which anyone can add to or edit.
The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
Multilingual University & School
where anyone can teach or take a class or course

And WUaS's licensing is Creative Commons 4, so is 1) non-commercial , but which licensing allows for 2) sharing, and 3) adapting (like best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare - https://ocw.mit.edu/) -  

(see the bottom of WUaS wiki pages): 
Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted.

- but WUaS has still not yet connected our wiki "front end" eg





or you could begin a wiki subject, as well. 

with our wiki "back end" structured knowledge database in Wikidata and in its ~300 languages, so it might be worth exploring constructing courses that could work on our wiki pages (like best STEM CC-4 OCW courses), or even on the degree side of WUaS, with courses that undergraduates could take this autumn for credit, for example (and possibly like edX courses, regarding different time zones etc).

Questions, thoughts, ideas, suggestions? Please email me. 

Friendly regards, Scott

PS
Here in the #NontheistFriends' Twitter #hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/NontheistFriends?src=hashtag_click - I just found a Twitter post regarding SF Friend Sherri Maurin and my conversation & invitation to Quaker kids to matriculate at World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' online degrees (from 2012 actually, when I represented Friendly-informed WUaS at FGC in Rhode Island). It's looking as if WUaS will be offering our 2nd matriculating undergraduate class the opportunity to take edX courses (founded by Harvard & MIT), I'm glad to announce.

Here's a
@WorldUnivAndSch
 outreach video I prepared for FGC in 2016 #FGCgathering2018 with Friend Sherry Maurin in SF (& re #NontheistFriends too):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk… Friendly-informed WUaS Seeks Undergraduate Students to Apply Now & Matriculate Sept 1 2020!!! for Free Bachelor Degrees

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1020150659943813120?s=20

If you know of any 17 or 18 yo NtF or Quaker kids interested please let WUaS know. (A new sign up may appear here in the next few days - worlduniversityandschool.org).

Quaker-informed (NtF especially) colleges - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - can be an excellent way to further "encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other."






https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
 (seeking to create ~200 online major MIT OCW-centric wiki Universities in all countries' official and main languages, offering online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (seeking to develop wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (planning for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, wiki Universitians as native speakers in all 7,117 living languages, and then all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #, like a Wikidata Q-item #)

(FYI, WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015 as a "back end" structured knowledge database in Wikipedia's ~300 languages, and received the WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki, as "front end," in 2017 - eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - but they aren't yet interoperable).
(which is all in the middle of this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/golden-everlasting-xerochrysum.html )





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Hi Nanette, Nice to hear from you. Glad you are all well, and able to travel across EU borders this summer in a van! Sounds fun! Greetings to Harald and your boys. Creative time here, in ongoing way - with World University and School (in ~200 countries and 7117 languages), and actual-virtual, physical-digital realistic virtual earth / Harbin as STEM field sites, and classrooms' projects. What languages are your boys learning? Any programming languages like Scratch (with Lego robotics even)? Am pretty well, continuing to seek a life partner, and while daily life in California may be a little quieter than pre-Covid-19 CA is in phase 2 or 3 of opening, even without vaccine or plan (although coronavirus mortality worldwide seems miniscule - 5,000 in Sweden with no sequestration) ... but I'm still staying mostly at home in beautiful Canyon CA 94516 (on hot summer afternoons too). WUaS collaboration with edX founded by Harvard & MIT this autumn looks promising for WUaS's 2nd undergraduate class, first in English! :) When might you return to the states? It would be nice to see you again! Could head conceivably to Cuttyhunk Aug 1, but waiting on further developments gene-wise, and meme-wise (replicating cultural units - eg news articles, and the 'coronavirus' word :)  Warm regards, Scott





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CLT - Classic Learning Test
https://blog.cltexam.com/historical-test-day-clt/




Dear Larry,

If in the future for BPPE licensing and WASC accreditation, World Univ & Sch needs a standardized admissions' test ... this one is at the top of a WUaS list (over SAT etc) - but seeking others. This one isn't in other non-English languages, for example. Maybe WUaS can create a spin off - a regarding HGSE Creative Computing Assessment philosophy even - in multiple countries' languages.

Sincerely, Scott



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

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







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Sri Lanka blue magpie: Great WUaS developments with Sri Lanka World University and School, edX potentially, and a beginning WUaS student Sign-On form in GDocs emerges for WUaS so I can include this in the Minutes (for WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. 6/20/20) * WUaS on Google Sites.

Previous: Phasmatodea: Universal Basic Income Experiments, UBI experiments - in all ~200 countries' and their official languages? - at WUaS * * * Nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers' online Meeting in Zoom - " The topic is "How do we encourage the expression of diverse views in our Meeting, while supporting each other?"" * * * American Friends Service Committee - To support Black liberation growing, AFSC invites white people of faith to deepen our practice and to show up in substantial ways to support the movement for racial justice. Sign up for for our new e-course "Radical Acting in Faith for White People" regarding too "Welcome to World University and School Wiki which anyone can add to or edit." * * * Life in California during the coronavirus pandemic today * * * CLT - Classic Learning Test??? If in the future for BPPE licensing and WASC accreditation, World Univ & Sch needs a standardized admissions' test ...
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Hi Freedom, Peter, Partha, All

Am waiting a bit longer before I email the WUaS Minutes from MBM on Sat. 6/20/20 to see if a beginning WUaS student Sign-On form in GDocs emerges for WUaS so I can include this in the Minutes - and importantly let people / Universitians / students know. In the minutes, I'd like especially to let our prospective WUaS students know that they can / will be able to sign-on in WUaS GDocs, for courses, beginning September 1, - and that they can take edX courses, and get a WUaS / edX certificate for each course. (Some other reasons for developing WUaS on Sign-On form below, and in previous emails, including planning for students and wiki-Universitians in all ~200 countries, in all 7,117 living languages, and all 7.5 billion people, - all beginning with a basic GDoc spreadsheet potentially for students). Will blog today about some of our communications. Thank you Rifai, Peter, and Partha. 



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Freedom College | Admin

Sat, Jun 20, 3:02 AM (4 days ago)
to me
Hi Scott !

I hope the WUaS team is in good health and ready to launch the 6 Bachelor's degree programmes. It is better if we can discuss how Sri Lanka World University and School is going to go forward. I have launched a new domain which will be fully dedicated to this project and customised accordingly.


Let me know your thoughts so that we can setup the site and start enrolling for Autumn 2020. The site can be built in all three languages. You will have to share a how it works document to translate to Sinhala and Tamil. Also check on Open edX and edX Edge by edX. The domain supports Moodle and other LMSs.

Regards,

Rifai



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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Sat, Jun 20, 10:48 AM (4 days ago)
to Freedom
Dear Rifai, 

Thank you for your email, and for creating this - http://freeuniversity.rf.gd/ - especially as a kind of prototype. 

I've added your creation of 'Sri Lanka World University & School' to the Sri Lanka World University and School wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka .

I linked it using this citation approach under the "Select Websites"' section heading: 

Sri Lanka World University and School. 2020. [http://freeuniversity.rf.gd/?i=1 Sri Lanka World University and School]. Grenada: freeuniversity.rf.gd.

These section headings may all eventually be translated into countries' main languages with machine learning / machine translation. 

Please remember that World Univ & Sch is Google-centric since WUaS is in 
Google for Education & 
G Suite & re
Google Translate

- and for machine learning, and machine translation.

And please remember too that 
worlduniversityandschool.org eventually into worlduniversityandschool.edu is our domain for all 200 countries, and in all 7,117 known living languages.

WUaS seeks to add edX courses to our wiki Academic subject pages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) and in all ~200 countries' official / main languages also - & all potentially in an automated way - and from our course catalog - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/  - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (in a GDocs spreadsheet) - and regarding our 6 Bachelor degree majors / programmes at WUaS . 

Can you work with Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/new (which I've explored a few times in years past eg https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool ) - and develop Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch further in these regards here? 

I'll have to think through the .gd domain name for the country of Grenada in the Carribean further in the web site you created. 


You may have begun Grenada World Univ & Sch as well ! :)

WUaS is thinking in terms of all ~200 countries, each a free-to-students' major online university in the countries' official / main languages.

Eventually, in terms of enrolling WUaS students, WUaS seeks to go from GDocs' Spreadsheet list of WUaS students relating to - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (each person something a Wikidata Q-item #, but probably a parallel Wikidata PIN #, since WUaS is already in Wikidata too, in its ~300 languages) - and for all wiki universitians not only in Sri Lanka, but in all ~200 countries and speakers of all 7,117 known living languages (and planning for all 7.5 billion people). Are you familiar with GDocs for all of this? 

Let's come into further conversation about this re your "It is better if we can discuss how Sri Lanka World University and School is going to go forward". Thank you - and interesting! 

Regards, 
Scott




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Freedom College | Admin

Sun, Jun 21, 9:47 AM (3 days ago)
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Hi !

I was thinking that you were planning to move away from Google Sites. If that is not the case we can keep freeuniversity.rf.gd parked for the time being, i will remove all references to WUaS, you can remove all links to freeuniversity.rf.gd 

I will focus on developing SL WUaS on Google Sites. Share with me the link for the latest one for English. I will translate to Sinhala launching SL WUaS on Google Sites. I might be able to provide some courses in Sinhala soon. This way we can use our existing domains to link to the Google Sites.

I will also share with you a catalog of edX courses to add into Subjects. Yes ! I have been using GDocs you can share the form for enrollment for Autumn 2020. I will start getting some students. You need to tell me the process from enrollment to certificate to inform the students and issue a document authorising Freedom College.

Edx catalog

Regards,

Rifai



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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Mon, Jun 22, 1:32 PM (2 days ago)
to PetermazumdarpScottFreedom
Hi Rifai, Peter and Partha!

Thanks again for your email, Rifai, which I've reposted below - and for saying you're interested in translating some of WUaS in English into the Sinhala language, and that you have some possible students who might be interested in taking WUaS edX courses in English and Sinhala (I think). Peter, would you like to explore translating similarly into German in a WUaS Google Sites' page? Rifai, I've numbered your 3 paragraphs in your email, and am replying to each below.

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You also lead me to think that Google Sites is again new, and that this, for example, is now more readily editable - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool . Am interested in adding most of this http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ to this WUaS Sites' page - - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - and for translation into the Sinhala language, especially (partly with machine translation). But I'm also appreciative that a single column, rather than 3 columns, would be better for smartphones. And I just saw that it's possible to take an edX course on a smartphone and tablet - https://support.edx.org/hc/en-us/articles/206914817-Can-I-access-edX-courses-on-my-smartphone-or-tablet- . 

I've also now removed the Sri Lanka World University and School website with a Grenada domain name you, Rifai, made from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka - per your request. 

(Are you both on the Wikidata email list - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata - with Wikidata's ~300 languages? Here's a recent language related email thread - "[Wikidata] Language codes 'mul' and 'mis' not recognized" for example. And here's Sinhala in Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13267 and the Sinhala language Wikipedia - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8571954 - in Wikidata.  WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received this Miraheze WUaS MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language but back end and front end are not yet interoperable. And Wikidata's ~300 languages along with Google Translate's ~100 languages will inform World Univ & Sch's coding for all 7,117 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - even).

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I've just updated this WUaS Google Sites' page in English - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  . 
Let's work through the linkages with time. For a while not too long ago, I had this - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  - at the top of worlduniversityandschool.org ... but structure and planning for all ~200 countries' universities in their languages in Google Sites will probably be connected with the A) nation states and B) languages' link on both https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool and worlduniversityandschool.org. Looking forward to further students - and potentially from Sri Lanka, first in English, and then also in Sinhala! 

I've begun to do update this https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ so if you'd like to start translating to a Sri Lanka World University and School Google Sites' page on your end (anticipating machine translation on the Google Sites' platform, I think), am looking forward to seeing this.

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Regarding the 

here's 
World Univ & Sch's course catalog - in WUaS's 6 majors - and with both CC-4 MIT OCW courses in our majors (leading us to offer free-to-students' degrees) and edX FROM MITx course links -


Am wondering if we should merge these lists. edX, and MIT OCW links, from one or both lists will feed into the WUaS wiki subjects' pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - from their respective GDocs. 

The WUaS GDocs form for enrollment wasn't working well, and WUaS has removed it from worlduniversityandschool.org

Names of people who signed up were put into a GDocs spreadsheet. And that is the plan going ahead. In building out this new "form for enrollment for Autumn 2020" WUaS needs to make a new one. Could you help with that Rifai, please? Please plan for people in ~200 countries, speakers of 7, 117 known living languages, and all 7.5 billion people per You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University . WUaS seeks to link it to worlduniversityandschool.org and https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool (and possibly the WUaS Google Sites' page you translate into Sinhala too).

Please remember that in WUaS seeking reimbursement from nation states and possibly their states and 'counties,' WUaS is seeking to matriculate students for 4 year Bachelor degrees, taking something like CC-4 MIT OCW courses, and eventually 'pegging' our WUaS reimbursement per student per year on what tuition is at MIT itself (approximately $55,000 per year at present). So the GDocs' form for matriculating WUaS students you might create, Rifai, will be central to WUaS relating to countries' governments for reimbursement.  Each matricualting WUaS student will likely get a Wikidata PIN # per - You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and their will be 7.5 billion of these Wikidata PIN #s! Partha? 

Peter, do you want to begin to translate some of this into German, Partha, would your parents be available to translate into Bengali? Rifai - do you know someone to translate into the Tamil language?

I've just updated this WUaS Google Sites' homepage https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool  !

Looking forward to seeing your Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch page in Sinhala in WaS Google Sites! (I'll be exploring reading it with a Google Translate extension in my Chrome browser). Thank you, Rifai!

Regards, 
Scott



PS Templates are in the works in Wikidata too - and where machine learning and AI will inform InfoBoxes in Wikidata and in the WUaS wiki n ~300 languages! 


Hi !

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I was thinking that you were planning to move away from Google Sites. If that is not the case we can keep freeuniversity.rf.gd parked for the time being, i will remove all references to WUaS, you can remove all links to freeuniversity.rf.gd 

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I will focus on developing SL WUaS on Google Sites. Share with me the link for the latest one for English. I will translate to Sinhala launching SL WUaS on Google Sites. I might be able to provide some courses in Sinhala soon. This way we can use our existing domains to link to the Google Sites.

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I will also share with you a catalog of edX courses to add into Subjects. Yes ! I have been using GDocs you can share the form for enrollment for Autumn 2020. I will start getting some students. You need to tell me the process from enrollment to certificate to inform the students and issue a document authorising Freedom College.


Regards,

Rifai




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Freedom College | Admin

Tue, Jun 23, 9:00 AM (1 day ago)
to mePetermazumdarpScott
Hi !

I meant we could offer some readymade courses in Sinhala. Translating a course is not easy. We can start with the translation of the site. I will see how the design can be improved. Am I given access to edit the site or you want me to share the content? Can we get someone from South India for Tamil? I can only speak.

I will keep the domain as it is for now. You can share with me guidelines for the enrollment form. How do we integrate the unique id? The catalog contains only the ORAP courses.

Regards,

Rifai



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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Tue, Jun 23, 10:05 AM (1 day ago)
to livestreamFreedomPetermazumdarpScott
Hi Freedom, Peter, Partha, 

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Thanks. Eventually, Sri Lanka WUaS seeks to offer the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare caliber courses in Sinhala, and hire graduate student instructors to help create these. I noticed in the great edX course catalog you shared combined language-in-country codes (e.g. 'en-us' code for US English), but not one for Sinhala yet. Before I share a page similar to this - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - for you to translate into Sinhala or German (am not sure how to share editing in Google Sites yet, like in GDocs), I'd like to add the 'en-us' code somewhere in the URL for https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool so you could then add the Sinhala in Sri Lanka code. (I hope these codes are anticipating all 7117 living languages).  I'd also like to anticipate using Google Translate, for machine translation, but couldn't yet translate - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - with a browser Translate extension.

So re your "Am I given access to edit the site or you want me to share the content?" I just tried to share a TEST "Share this page" from Google Sites, and it said that I couldn't share with info@nidahasvidyalaya.edu.lk because you don't have a Google account (am not sure about Peter here). What are your Google account emails? (I could use livestream@worlduniversityandschool.org for you Peter, since we share the password and it's a Google acct). Let's focus on Sinhala and German, in addition to English for translation testing within Google Sites here, for the time being re Tamil. 

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Sounds good. Perhaps we can communicate further with edX for structuring an enrollment form. (How did you obtain the great edX list of courses?). Re a unique ID, let's begin with a simple GDoc spreadsheet for our current prospective students. (And I'll get in touch with Lydia and Markus re a hypothetical Wikidata PIN # related to a Wikidata Q-item #, in Wikidata's ~300 languages). How best to integrate, too, the ORAP (Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships) courses from edX (good to know re licensing) with the WUaS course catalog? Keep the edX course headings, and the WUaS headings and majors. The edX courses are also VIEW ONLY, so not yet workable. 

What's a gmail address for you, Rifai, so I can further explore sharing WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - in Google Sites for you to translate into Sinhala?

Regards, Scott


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I meant we could offer some readymade courses in Sinhala. Translating a course is not easy. We can start with the translation of the site. I will see how the design can be improved. Am I given access to edit the site or you want me to share the content? Can we get someone from South India for Tamil? I can only speak.

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I will keep the domain as it is for now. You can share with me guidelines for the enrollment form. How do we integrate the unique id? The catalog contains only the ORAP courses.

Regards,

Rifai




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Tue, Jun 23, 10:42 AM (1 day ago)
to FreedomlivestreamPetermazumdarpScott
Rifai, (Peter, Partha),

Shall I at WUaS provide you with a Google accounts' email, something like freedomcollegeSL@worlduniversityandschool.org ? This could make it easier for you to develop Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala from within Google Sites. If so, what user name might you prefer to use? (I'll plan to use livestream@worlduniversityandschool.org for you, Peter, unless  you suggest a different Google email address).

Regarding the Wikidata PIN # and getting in touch with Lydia and Markus re a hypothetical Wikidata PIN # related to a Wikidata Q-item #, in Wikidata's ~300 languages, WUaS also seeks to be in communication with WikiTree in these regards (am thinking 7.5 billion people, each a unique ID), and for genetics too!

Regards, Scott



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9:00 AM (4 hours ago)
to livestreamPetermazumdarpmeScott
Hi !

I am planning to start translating content to Sinhala in the upcoming months. If I could get some support from some graduates it would be great. No Sinhala courses in edX or any major platform yet.

Create a new page. Try copy & paste using Google Translate. Need to edit to have a sensible page. I have got nidahasvidyalaya@gmail.com and I could try to translate only the first page to Tamil using Google Translate. If you are giving me an email account I suggest srilanka@ worlduniversityandschool.org which is inline with Sri Lanka World University & School

If you switch to edX edge or Open edX you don't need a form as it is inbuilt into the platform. I got the list from edX ORAP. I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons for free. I can give some coupons. You can enroll for free for the verified certificate programmes and get full access. Let me know how many you need. These are set to expire this month.

Regards,

Rifai



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Hi Freedom, 

Thanks again for your email. Here's your new email address - SriLanka@worlduniversityandschool.org  (temporary password:  =3H9aaCa  - M. Rifai,  info@nidahasvidyalaya.edu.lk, is the information I used to create this Google for Education / G Suite email address): 

This user can start using G Suite

Re machine translation and Sinhala language - I've been using Google Translate extension in Chrome browser to translate many foreign language newspapers into English. It's good and getting better. Here's a Sri Lanka Sinhala example - https://divaina.com/daily/index.php - going the other way, - try Google Translate into English. I'd like to build in Google Translate to WUaS Google Sites -  https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool - into Sinhala and German, for exmaple, and wonder when even Google might help do this. Sinhala speaking WUaS matriculating students (in English) in Sri Lanka may be able to help. 

WUaS seeks to build our own WUaS sign-on form for WUaS matriculating students, beginning with GDocs - and in anticipating machine learning and machine translation in multilingual World University and School. And WUaS seeks further to facilitate WUaS students taking edX courses for free, as they study toward their 4-year free-to-students' Bachelor degrees. And WUaS seeks also to get a certificate from edX that students have completed a edX free course at WUaS (which would apply toward their 4-year WUaS licensing / accrediting online best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor degrees). This WUaS GDoc student sign-on form would also be for WUaS to seek reimbursement from nation states, per student per year, potentially.

WUaS is also seeking to further add relevant-for-WUaS-students' edX courses for course-credit to our WUaS Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing ... any thoughts how to 'unlock' the edX catalog you shared - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?ts=5e98ba6d#gid=48622087 ? (What an amazing list of edX courses!) WUaS would seek to add all these courses, and some of the headings in the spreadsheet too, to our WUaS course catalog for matriculating students this autumn.

What Sri Lanka students might you add to the WUaS Sign-On form, and who might be interested in a free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric edX courses' 4-year Bachelor degrees in English? Do you think you might find 100 high achieving Sri Lanka 18 year olds interested in this online College - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School? This would begin potentially September 1st. Thanks again, Rifai!

Regards, Scott
Agenda & News for recent 6/20/20 WUaS open Monthly Busiess Meeting 
- with WUaS Minutes to come. 




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Hi Freedom, Peter, Partha, All

Am waiting a bit longer before I email the WUaS Minutes from MBM on Sat. 6/20/20 to see if a beginning WUaS student Sign-On form in GDocs emerges for WUaS so I can include this in the Minutes - and importantly let people / Universitians / students know. In the minutes, I'd like especially to let our prospective WUaS students know that they can / will be able to sign-on in WUaS GDocs, for courses, beginning September 1, - and that they can take edX courses, and get a WUaS / edX certificate for each course. (Some other reasons for developing WUaS on Sign-On form below, and in previous emails, including planning for students and wiki-Universitians in all ~200 countries, in all 7,117 living languages, and all 7.5 billion people, - all beginning with a basic GDoc spreadsheet potentially for students). Will blog today about some of our communications. Thank you Rifai, Peter, and Partha. 

Sincerely, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Asia



Thursday, June 18, 2020


WUaS Agenda and News for MBM on June 20 2020


Dear Universitians and friends, 

Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting if you might be interested. 

And thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the "Agenda and News for Jun 20 2020 NP World Univ and Sch AND WUaS Corp."

And please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch
@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) monthly business meeting this Sat 6/20/20, at 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining! & from time zones in Asia, Africa & Europe!



World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for June 20, 2020:


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

Sincerely, Scott
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/





Agenda and News for Sat June 30, 2020
World University and School 
Monthly Business Meeting

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Best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School is coming along, and WUaS is seeking to matriculate our second online undergraduate Bachelor's degree class this autumn - potentially in collaboration with edX, so with courses on the edX platform; see The College at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degrees.  

Like with edX courses, WUaS students would initially simply sign up for their courses on something like the edX platform, in part. (You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - will eventually be part of this WUaS sign in process). Students will potentially matriculate online from all ~200 countries in the world, first in English.

World Univ & Sch is also seeking to develop a major university library for undergraduates, first in English, for the above - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources


2
How to develop a functioning WUaS / WUaS Corp Board, and especially now that WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but is not yet a reseller - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and thus further define the relationships between WUaS's 2 wings, or legal entities: 1) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School, also a non-profit legal entity in California, and 2) the WUaS Corporation / Press, a for-profit general stock company legal entity in California? A NomGov Board member? Board Meetings online in the coronavirus pandemic newly? Create with workshops, and graduates, a pool of experienced and smart Board members from which to grow this?

This will unfold significantly on the WUaS web platforms - with AI and machine learning (potentially with the Google / Alphabet platform). 

Websites' updates: 

The WUaS Corporation, as a legal entity, is a for-profit general stock company in California, and planning to go public. See licensing for the WUaS Corp / Press for-profit here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

And World Univ & Sch is a non-profit 501 c 3, and in CA too, and you'll find its Board members here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation ; see licensing at bottom of non-profit - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ too). Together, these 2 legal entities, and wings of WUaS, offer enormous educational growth potential - and are both planned in all ~200 countries' and their official / main languages for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric accrediting degrees, as well as in wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages for open teaching and learning. 



Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/



Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, questions? Board members of Silicon Valley's largest companies  - the SV 150, for ex. - are reimbursed handsomely (at around $300,000 per year, I learned in the Stanford Law SVDX meeting 3-4 years ago). 



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Board invitation - 


I think the Stanford Law SVDX webinar is open - and its focus is Board Members actually. All of the above would be in the WUaS Corp legal entity in all likelihood. 


Sincerely, Scott


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Realistic Virtual Earth - 

World Univ & Sch is seeking to facilitate too a realistic virtual earth for everything - e.g. for robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click including especially a realistic virtual Harbin https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click) for academic, STEM, social science, humanities and arts' areas +,  - and has updated our universities & schools' home pages with some of these 

- in something like Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow and even with avatar bots for species and individuals (and at the cellular and atomic levels too). 


A realistic virtual earth for Lego into Google Poly ?
A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks into Google Poly - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270092710070726656?s=20 
- and the creative computing projects you (Leanna Prater) shared - see, too https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/flowering-silversword-lego-education.html -  into Lego machine learning with the Lego WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - are a lot of virtual world dots to connect, but would open up vast learning horizons (in so many countries and languages even, and re World Univ & Sch).



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WUaS Home Robotics

WUaS Home Robotics seeks to facilitate online courses with Lego Robotics' kits sent to students in their homes, potentially in all ~200 countries, and in building a best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the this best STEM CC-4 OCW Lego resource -https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - as well as curriculum for something like IB high school science majors. This would include Creative Computing approaches to this with Scratch programming - https://twitter.com/hashtag/CreativeComputing?src=hashtag_click - since Lego Robotics is programmable with the Scratch language. Since Scratch is multi-lingual, WUaS seeks to develop this in WUaS major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages! (See, too, 
Creative Computing assessment -  https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1272864023562850304?s=20- https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1266747453509902337?s=20 ).

Machine learning with Lego and Google Research Football too - 



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Brainwave headset research at WUaS - 

World Univ & Sch is also seeking to facilitate brainwave headset research (and related brain research), and potentially in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - into a single realistic virtual earth for brain research and even regarding genes - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - (in Google Street View with time slider, TensorFlow and at the cellular and atomic levels too ... and potentially also with a Film-To-3D application at these scales) ... https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Genes-Work-Brain. Headbands packed with sensors learning both about the brain, as well as streaming data into simulations, as we learn further how to study the brain and mind. Andrew Junker is inventor of Brainfingers.com in these regards, for example, but Armagan Amcalar - https://twitter.com/dashersw - has also developed a brainwave headset with at least 24 sensors in the head set, with software codable with python, and with a language computer screen interface. (What about bathing cap textile brainwave headsets?). See too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain , Will matriculating WUaS students be doing neuroresearch from home, learning from and building on https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ ? :) 


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Wiki (editable and thus teachable too) pages at World University and Schools - 


World Univ & Sch received this inquiry recently:

Artur:
"At Career Karma we are passionate about helping people switch careers from non-tech fields to tech jobs to acquire new skills and obtain higher salaries. I think this is especially relevant during COVID-19 when thousands lost their jobs.

We have plenty of great article ideas so I was wondering if we can submit a high-quality blog post to be featured on your blog?" ...

"So we should make a wiki page, right?

Can we get a do-follow backlink from this future page?"


WUaS: 
For one, World Univ & Sch is a wiki, like Wikipedia, (for open teaching and learning, but free, and high quality - and potentially advertising-free), so you could potentially teach something in a blog post and add it here, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Career_counseling (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects). Want to give it a go? (You can cite it the way you find other resources cited in this article).

Want to riff further with some of this (eg do you know people who know WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki and Wikidata, for example?), or with the ideas for these emerging school wikis, send me another email.

Artur:
"So we should make a wiki page, right?
Can we get a do-follow backlink from this future page?"

- and re Artur's "Pitch: Let's Collaborate on Content."

WUaS:
World Univ & Sch seeks for all of our wiki pages to be informed by templates - and to be informative (i.e. excellent teaching and learning oriented, and not advertising). (And to work with our WUaS students, wiki Universitians, and end users - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (as an example of a front end wiki page) - such as yourself, WUaS is planning brainstorming-wise for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, potentially with a Wikidata PIN #, like a Wikidata Q-item # but different). I think one (of a few) Template(s) already exists, but may be managed by Wikidata (Lydia Pintscher and Markus Kroetzsch and other Wikidatans), since our WUaS CC-4 licensing now appears on every one of the current 725 wiki pages.

Am learning further about 'do-follow' backlinks:


Further, wiki World Univ & Sch seeks potentially to integrate with WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/ - with its goal of a single family tree (presumably for all 7.5 billion people) and especially regarding DNA and genetic data at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University.


wiki @WorldUnivAndSch seeks potentially to integrate with #WikiTree https://www.wikitree.com with its goal of a single family tree (for all 7.5 billion people) & esp regarding DNA/genetic data at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes
#RealisticVirtualEarthforGenetics -


In creating Wiki pages at WUaS, such as the one you're thinking of, please remember that such pages' section headings, for example, may be translated into Wikidata's ~300 languages, and eventually into 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. Native speakers of all 7117 living languages will become wiki Universitians - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - all teaching and learning with each other in their languages, and potentially re sharing genetic information too. This may also interface with an eventual small gene sequencer - https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20 (per Harvard / MIT professor of genetics, George Church) - on our smartphones even.

Cheers, Scott




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Online WUaS Universities in other countries, - an example (and in all African countries' main / official languages, and in all ~200 countries, and in their official / main languages): 

As an example, future World University and Schools in individual countries and their official languages will emerge like Jordan World Univ & Sch: 
Jordan World University and School will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jordan (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) - in Arabic - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Arabic_language - but first The College at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (first will be in English) - accessible with applications/registration/signing in, eventually, and for wiki schools - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - too. 

And students will study edX courses in part for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees online. 


Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month (since last WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sa 5/16/20) 


WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics!, edX courses in autumn, Major updates to both WUaS websites 6/15/20

WUaS News 6/8/20 - Home Robotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall

WUaS LiveStream - Breakthrough - Dear Students: upcoming free-to-students' degrees in fall - 6/1/20

WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the (best STEM CC-4 OCW) Office of Digital Learning

WUaS News - best STEM CC-4 OCW collaborations? Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala, Stanford Law, May 18 2020

accessible from WUaS Livestream channel -



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As you probably know, not only has the big free-to-students' educational project I'm developing not become financially operational yet (and WUaS became a non-profit in 2010, and a parallel for-profit in 2017) - so WUaS is very impoverished, but WUaS has posted every time on our open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda & News as well as Minutes the following:


"World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you."
And a number of WUaS Universitians have asked to be unsubscribed, for example; I'm an appreciator of individual choice in these matters, especially when they could be interested in getting information about such a project / product, and even benefit from it significantly too (like an online free-to-students' California Law School at WUaS, which Reed College graduates could also matriculate at and graduate from, - and help create innovations-wise).

Also, WUaS is planning to code for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, native speakers in all 7,117 known living languages as WUaS wiki teachers and learners, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet - potentially for UBI experiments (in ~200 countries' languages, which our WUaS Law School would teach to) too, and significantly to potentially alleviate poverty, The Coronavirus tracing app, which Germans downloaded 6.5 million times in its 1st 24 hours - https://twitter.com/StanfordCDH/status/1273342209371197440?s=20 - may become a precursor to this. (WUaS, brainstorming-wise, is planning to code for 7.5 billion people for these 5 reasons - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - and entrepreneurially too) ... so a listserv wouldn't work well re planning for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' languages, and speakers of all 7,117 and wiki Universitians.

Here are some brainstorming emails today and yesterday to mostly good Reedie friends from the first half of the 1980s - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/yellow-star-thistle-scott-macleod.html - ending with the email I included you on (re WUaS's 2 wings), and to the Reed Legal Network participants recently + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/woodland-gilias-saltugilia-splendens.html -
and re my letting my Reedie friends know about this upcoming 'Reedpreneurs in the Pandemic Era' meeting. Thanks again.





Agenda and News for June 30, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting



WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press 


A
WUaS Press / Corp is now carrying Lego Robotics! 

WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but not yet a reseller  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html 


B
WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - is newly grown, and is now carrying 7 products for sale (3 Lego Robotics' kits, and 4 books published by the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch).



C
UBI experiments with regards to WUaS, and in planning for universities in ~200 countries and their official languages, with law faculty and students: 

Just asked these questions, as I registered for this Stanford Law SVDX webinar on Tu June 9, 2020 - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar

"Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance - goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"


And further: Each person in the world, all 7.5 billion people, a WUaS Wikidata PIN# (nee Wikidata Q-item #), beginning with matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS - since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development, and got the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence? For ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University .

... and backed somehow by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages help code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School



D
The WUaS Press is seeking to publish a second actual-virtual, physical-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, potentially publishing it to paper from within Google Street View, with text in the sidebar. See, for example: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaf-re-conceiving-book-printable-on.html.

See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate



E
WUaS Press - 

To the editor, Rami Daher (Architect and Professor), of a tourism studies' book in which I have a chapter, but which is not yet for sale in the WUaS Press: 

"I hope my thesis of Orientalism in online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the chapter I wrote has been an asset for your edited volume" - https://www.amazon.com/Rami-Farouk-Daher-dp-1845410505/dp/1845410505). 

With very best wishes, Scott




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Hi Freedom, Peter, Partha, All

Am waiting a bit longer before I email the WUaS Minutes from MBM on Sat. 6/20/20 to see if a beginning WUaS student Sign-On form in GDocs emerges for WUaS so I can include this in the Minutes - and importantly let people / Universitians / students know. In the minutes, I'd like especially to let our prospective WUaS students know that they can / will be able to sign-on in WUaS GDocs, for courses, beginning September 1, - and that they can take edX courses, and get a WUaS / edX certificate for each course. (Some other reasons for developing WUaS on Sign-On form below, and in previous emails, including planning for students and wiki-Universitians in all ~200 countries, in all 7,117 living languages, and all 7.5 billion people, - all beginning with a basic GDoc spreadsheet potentially for students). Will blog today about some of our communications. Thank you Rifai, Peter, and Partha. 







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Lantana camara: Bagpiping, Scottish Small Piping Re both expressivity and mastery learnin * * * far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India"

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Hi Taylor, 

See you in a few hours! Re both expressivity and mastery learning, here are some interesting further examples.

I enjoyed this
The Beaton Sisters 
Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival
https://youtu.be/3_CW5_N-T3A

and could guess that it might pre-date 2012 - since Margie and Dawn Beaton look so young (and look at Margie's face part way through :)!

INTO 

the Beaton Sisters - live @ ECMA 2010 - Celtic Colours Festival Club Stage

interesting way of seeing what 'mastery learning' is ... 

And here's a definition of 'mastery learning' I appreciate ... 
"Mastery learning simply means allowing a student to continue to work on a concept until they can master that concept or skill. ... At Khan Academy, we provide a personalized, mastery-based learning system. Students are supported and challenged to build skills over time."

Why Mastery Learning, by Sal Khan – Khan Academy Help ...khanacademy.zendesk.com
https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan

... and even with regards to a successive approximations' approach to learning ... which can lead to mastery learning ... 

expressivity I appreciate too ...
Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson (Mochara) - Táimse im' Chodladh/King of the Pipers
https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk
(but on Uilleann pipes, and with guitar too for expressive synergies)

Playing a tune one's learning with metronome can be a way of gauging one's own mastery learning - and especially re dot-cuts. 

Cheers, and regards, Scott




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Re tunes this evening, 

Gillie Callum (quick step)
Dorrator Bridge
Willie Gray
Have you been able to access easily
Gillie Callum (quick step)
http://www.coloradopipers.com/highlanddance/CoPipers_HighlandDnaceTunes.pdf ?

Cheers, Scott


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Good lesson tonight, Scott.

Here's the Spotify links I mentioned.

Drops of Brandy, by Distant Oaks. Some of their music is a little new agey for my liking (lots of cheesy low whistles and synths), but now and again they'll play a trad tune like this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/4DITJFx8DFKTky0bar3PvU

Lark in the Morning, Alternative Pipers (etc): https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZkKYroU93YUepffXhQTcp

As a bonus, here's a quartet on youtube:

By the way, do you have an opinion one way or the other regarding the Falkirk Piper on Youtube? He's recorded most of the Scots Guards tunes and I consult his recordings when I need to confirm I'm reading a tune right.

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9:56 PM (19 minutes ago)
to Taylor

Thanks so much, Taylor,

Both Spotify piping tracks sound good initially ... will listen further.

Are you familiar with the new SSP album -
The Reeling (2019)
Brighde Chaimbeul
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7AzZeX7Q9ziRE6mILhQZ8W
Brighde's from the Isle of Skye interestingly.


I have come across -
Ceolas Piping Concert, smallpipes.
https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
- a couple of times, and with its singing ... good group model for SSP and singing possibly ... quite Scottish, with pipe band players too ... and, separately, Allan MacDonald (on left) may have revived in a new way an old different GHB piping style with his album "Colla Mo Rún "‎(CD, Album) - https://www.discogs.com/artist/564972-Allan-Macdonald - and his University of Edinburgh thesis in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies  (but this Ceolas Youtube video with him and fellow pipers is not somehow entirely inspiring to me, somehow).

Am appreciative of Neil Clark's Falkirk Piping instruction in general.

It could be fun to explore playing duets together with time.


I have the recollection that Canntaireachd is used for learning Piobaireachd,
but searched on
'canntaireachd singing and ceol beag light music piping youtube"

and this is nice, and instructive ...

The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
( and it's also about St. Kilda which I did my University of Edinburgh thesis on in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - virtual St. Kilda as place even ... )
Lovely played Piobaireachd by Michael Grey as well! Nether Lorn Canntaireachd is best known both scholarly and

Piobaireachd - The Field of Gold.
https://youtu.be/aGufeIx37y4
(Canntaireachd as choral music starts after pipe band Piobaireachd at about 5:25  - and that's Jack Lee 'conducting-piping')

Both of these are creative uses of Canntaireachd

Band-Re: Hihorodo hiharara
https://youtu.be/o_b1hNtbsdI
(with Canntaireachd written out too)

The Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU
(with Canntaireachd written out too - pointers to the scholarship too - Allan MacDonald again)

Oran Canntaireachd - Chris Armstrong, Finlay MacDonald (who's been a teacher of mine conducts)
https://youtu.be/Ljrz0GhQgs8

Am wondering about - for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album - even Blockchain ledger with tracks on a CD / internet video possibilities (and even creatively exploring making and coding Lego robots that might be coded somehow to dance to piping, and metronomically too - out of the box, and haven't seen this whatsoever yet).

Thanks,
Scott

This may be a spotify URL for me ... https://open.spotify.com/user/scottworldunivandsch or similar ... but their new 'hard sell' and 90 seconds + of ads seems to be getting in the way of ease of use, so I don't head in the Spotify direction much.

Next week, the MSR:  :)
Willie Gray
Dorrator Bridge ...
Devil in the Kitchen



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Dear Naushad, Yamini, Steve, Saumitra,

Thank you for your far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India" this morning PT (from the SF Bay Area, east bay hills) - https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/events/covid-19-impact-india. And nice to hear you again, Naushad; I last heard you speak, when we met too, in the Stanford India Center on 'India National Innovation System' on Oct 10 2017.

Saumitra, thanks especially for making this conversation available online, and your excellent moderation and speakers. Regarding online Covid-19 medicine, planning for densely populated cities, and the e-ICU idea you mentioned, Naushad, - I'm wondering what role the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing app might play in the future with viral epidemics in India (and see below). And in developing best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, with planned online medical schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their official / main languages too, and planned online teaching hospitals for online clinical care and online research, I'm writing to inquire how we might potentially collaborate? Planning for infectious diseases and viral epidemics in India in the future could be invaluable, but so could planning for medical degrees for Indians, and online clinical care. 

Steve and All, I'm posting below an email I sent yesterday to another infectious disease MD (and Brown University Medicine Professor in Rhode Island), Dr. Curt Beckwith, who presented yesterday about Covid-19 too (in a Shady Side Academy alumni meeting - where we both went to high school), - potentially with much relevance to Covid-19 in India, and information technology approaches to this. 

"Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application, - hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this? What do you think? And what did you see with electronic medical records?  Could you see Covid-19 testing (via the Google-Apple tracing app even) with results transferred directly into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw?  (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"

How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the opening window of opportunity created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!

Best regards, 
Scott


Dear Curt, 

Thanks so much for your excellent reply to my 'brainstorming' questions in this SSA meeting (which I've posted below). Here too is the beginning Clinical Trials' wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) at World Univ & Sch - planned for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages. 

I noticed the photo of the beautiful coastline in the back of your office. It reminded much of Cuttyhunk Island, MA, not far from Providence, RI, at all - and where my family has a place (and to which we've been going since 1966). Where is this? It's gorgeous. Have you visited Cuttyhunk, by any chance? There are 1 or 2 families there with many Colby graduates. And where did you grow up in Pittsburgh? My family lived in Point Breeze when I went to Shady Side, and my mother now lives in Oakmont / Verona. (And do you happen to know Sid Mazumdar SSA '78 or '79, my best friend then, who works in the US Federal Government, and his sister, Maitreyi Mazumdar MD who is a Harvard pediatric neurologist, with a research focus on Bangladesh; both of their parents came from West Bengal to Cornell to do their Ph.D.s in 1962? She went to Taylor Allderdice, and Yale as an undergraduate; am not sure where she went to medical school).

World University and School's planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care will likely first emerge first in English 4 years from now, and would love to explore collaboration opportunities with time with Brown and Yale (where my father was on the faculty in the late 1960s / early 1970s). 

The Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records I asked about would be a part of a single realistic virtual earth, and even with a a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - and potentially tele-robotic surgery. Am interested in an ongoing way in the actual-virtual, physical-digital developments, and for all of the above. This is the idea - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1189649081175379968?s=20 . You'll find the best way to conceive of 'Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records' in the images here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/strategy-brainstorming-medicine-and.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/oregon-coast-wuas-avatarbotelectronicme.html (and elsewhere in my blog) - and here - - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177364462858227713 - with related ideas. 

How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the window of opportunity opening created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!

Best regards, Scott





Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this, do you think? And what did you see on electronic medical records?  Could you see Covid-19 testing (via Google-Apple tracing app even) into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw?  (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)



Stanford India Center Naushad Forbes India National Innovation System Oct 10 17
http://events.stanford.edu/events/720/72015/
http://ati.stanford.edu/india_speakers.htm



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Scarlet milkweed (Asclepias curassavica): Greetings from the SF Bay Area to Woodstock school in INDIA from World Univ & Sch! * * * It's a small interestingly-linked world! * Two Reed College alumni

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Dear Swati, (& Saumitra), do you by any chance happen to know each other?

Greetings, Swati! It's a small interestingly-linked world! I just attended an online panel, moderated by Stanford Professor and Woodstock alumnus, Saumitra Jha, and then, after connecting on LinkedIn, and seeing he went to Woodstock School, I noticed on the Woodstock school site - https://www.woodstockschool.in/college-career-counselling/ - that you had gone to Reed, and were an Admissions' counselor there too. I went to Reed College as well, graduating in 1985. And in noticing too, that  you're an admission's counselor now at the Woodstock School in India, -

Swati Shrestha, Head of College and Career Counselling
SWATI SHRESTHA, HEAD OF COLLEGE AND CAREER COUNSELLING

swatishrestha@woodstock.ac.in +91 135 263 9307 - Swati holds a B.A. in English, and a Certificate in College Counseling from UCLA Extension. She was an Assistant Dean of Admission at Reed College for four years and managed international admission. Swati is an International ACAC Inclusion, Access and Success Committee member.

- I'm writing to let you both know about the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, of which I'm the founder and its head. WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd online undergraduate class for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees this autumn. Students would be studying from home, and taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) on the edX platform.


WUaS would like to offer "Home Robotics" emerging from the idea of https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and potentially via the edX platform, for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors. You'll find our 6 planned CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree majors here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and in the WUaS course catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing. WUaS also seeks to offer potentially these ORAP edX courses - edX
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?usp=sharing.

In addition WUaS is somewhat informed by the Society of Friends (Quakers / Non-theist Friends), and is seeking to offer Ph.D., Law, M.D. and eventually IB high school degrees (too!), and online in creative ways with time. WUaS is also seeking to develop major online Universities offering these degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages.

If you'd like to explore in an open vein some of this further. WUaS holds an open Monday at 10am Pacific Time WUaS Q & A, News and Livestream and I would happily invite you to join the live conversation via LIghtStream if you might have questions, ideas, thoughts or even suggestions you'd like to share - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ (accessible from
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch).

I noticed too in Google Street picture that there's a medical college near Woodstock school, and I'd be interested in learning more about this. WUaS's online Medical Degrees 4 years out in English first, seeks to be fully online and in an online hospitals, for online clinical care, and even research, potentially collaborating with Stanford Medicine (and Stanford Law too for our Law Schools). Thanks to CC-4 best STEM OpenCourseWare in its 4 languages for the great beginnings of online Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees.

How might we best communicate further about this?

If you don't know each other, I'd like to e-introduce you here :)

Sincerely, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/India

In Google Street View:
Woodstock school -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodstock+School/@30.4542705,78.1005188,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa5f06ad7169f496f!8m2!3d30.4542705!4d78.1005188

Landour, India -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Landour,+Mussoorie,+Uttarakhand,+India/@30.4545773,78.0838504,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3908da3d1b22a19f:0x493268b0b1f9efc2!8m2!3d30.4554533!4d78.1022729



https://www.linkedin.com/in/swatishrestha/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumitra-jha-6b81881/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/



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Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020



Minute 1

WUaS will potentially offer edX courses to our WUaS matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor degrees.


https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/


 for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors.

You'll find our 6 planned CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree majors here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

- and in the WUaS course catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing.

WUaS also seeks to offer potentially these

edX ORAP courses
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?usp=sharing.

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/scarlet-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica.html



Does a student get something that indicates you completed a course in an edX when taking it for free?


Students would pick their courses

Give them a list of courses

Introductory courses in their major


General education
and related introductory courses


UT Austin courses on edX


of your interest






Minute 1-A


Libraries

must be partner


interlibrary loan
Actual - virtual Harbin ethnographic book (as a kind of text book)
could be contributed to partner with great universities' online libraries

so we do could have books to loan …





Minute 2


WUaS continues to invite you to WUaS open Monthly Business Meeting (hour long on 3rd Saturdays, and conducted loosely in the manner of Friends / Quakers)


WUaS Corp
Stanford Law SDVX for Board Members?




See creative commons licensing and other licensing





Minute 3

Board invitation to you

- info @ worlduniversityandschool.org







Minute 4

Realistic Virtual Earth -


 https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8343827,-122.1635866,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866

https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887


Check out and please add to, if inclined, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory #hashtag on Twitter (or here:) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - :)


See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)



Minute 4-A

Realistic Virtual Earth for Robotics

WUaS seeks to facilitate developing the 3D virtual world of educational MineCraft (with its Lego scale) into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects), and potentially patentable, - in addition to with adding Brick Street View (where a brick refers to a Lego brick) with Google Street View, into which one can add photos and videos, and is integrated with Google Maps and Earth; Film-to-3D App for this.





Minute 5
WUaS Home Robotics

WUaS seeks to offer "Home Robotics" emerging from the idea of https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and potentially via the edX platform, for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors.

with these 3 Lego kits






Minute 6

Brainwave headset research at WUaS -

Ama

and in Turkey and in many World Univ & Schs in some of all ~200 countries ...




Minute 7

Wiki (editable and thus teachable too) pages at World University and Schools -


[Wikimedia-l] 3,000,000 Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories on Su Jun 21, 20

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uses_of_Wikidata_Infobox

[2] https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Infobox





Minute 8


Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala is begun and in Google Sites!






Minute 9

Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month


accessible from WUaS Livestream channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ
(which is accessible from https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)






Minute 10

Please unsubscribe if not interested in receiving WUaS open monthly business meeting emailings


"World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you."




















WUaS Corporation



A
WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but not yet a reseller  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



B
WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - is newly grown, and is now carrying 7 products for sale (3 Lego Robotics' kits, and 4 books published by the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch).




C
UBI experiments with regards to WUaS, and in planning for universities in ~200 countries and their official languages, with law faculty and students:





D
The WUaS Press is seeking to publish a second actual-virtual, physical-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, potentially publishing it to paper from within Google Street View, with text in the sidebar. See, for example: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaf-re-conceiving-book-printable-on.html.

See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)





E
WUaS Press -
seeks to address questions of anti-racism, such as Orientalist questions



To the editor, Rami Daher (Architect and Professor), of a tourism studies' book in which I have a chapter, but which is not yet for sale in the WUaS Press:

"I hope my thesis of Orientalism in online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the chapter I wrote has been an asset for your edited volume" - https://www.amazon.com/Rami-Farouk-Daher-dp-1845410505/dp/1845410505).


This book, and the books in the Academic Press at WUaS are here
- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity








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World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda and News for June 20, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-agenda-news-for-world-univ.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html






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