Thanks for your email, and great work re "downballot" candidates in PA. (How to improve the quality of candidates in politics in general?). Information Technology could help.
The word "commonwealth" is an interesting way of constructing or construing the "state" - from the "inside" re your email.
I suppose one could do that for other entities organizational entities; When I searched on "Is Canada a commonwealth?" I got: "The Commonwealth of Nations is made up of 53 countries, including Canada, that were for the most part once part of the British Empire" (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/commonwealth/).
How to code for the kinds of happiness generation neurophysiology of soaking and meditating in the warm pools at these springs? How to think about and measure this brain science-wise - and comparatively, i.e. in actual and virtual Harbins, possibly with brain wave head sets?
Graduate students know more than undergraduates and can also focus more fully on their academic and entrepreneurial futures in interesting ways - but I learn a lot from both. Grad students can also mentor undergraduate students in great ways (and as Graduate Student Instructors), especially within the culture of MIT!
Still haven't heard directly from the MIT Media Lab about whether I'm on the short list.
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
