Black rosy finch: Charles Darwin's Birthday, Non-theist f/Friends/Quakers and NtFs * * * Stanford Rumsey Map Center "Talk with Chet Van Duzer: New Research on Urbano Monte's 1587 World Map"-In what ways could these researchers, or someone else, add the maps in this paper to a realistic virtual earth, such as Google Streetview / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow * * * Stanford - Sustainability and Self-Driving with Lyft and Ford @ The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series * * * Stanford Uyghur event

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Dear NtFs, 

Seeking too to find out how Darwin felt about his theory of evolution by natural selection, as well as his relationship 'culturally' re Quakers/Friends - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/black-rosy-finch-charles-darwins.html ... 

“That is a distortion of the truth” - 

“Racked by guilt at replacing the doctrines of the Church with a joyless vision of man as a shaven primate in an amoral universe, Darwin retired into obscurity. He repented his blasphemy on his deathbed and was buried as a venerable and almost forgotten savant whose work - like that of so many famous scientists - had been completed while he was still a young man” ... according to this Guardian article - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/19/charles-darwin ... 

Found these items ... 

“At first glance, Charles Darwin seems an unlikely revolutionary”

“While Darwin’s ideas initially challenged long-held scientific and religious belief systems, …”

Darwin on a Godless Creation: "It's like confessing to a murder"

Your NtF f/Friendly Quaker abolitionist (who's parents met and married in an Unitarian UU church in Ohio), 

Scott

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Thanks for your email, and nice to meet you as well. Yes, perhaps we'll have chance to talk at - https://events.stanford.edu/events/817/81780/. (I just learned however that "Conference Venue is now at capacity. Upon registration, you will be added to the waiting list.") Thanks too for your edifying and very interesting talk today - Talk with Chet Van Duzer: New Research on Urbano Monte's 1587 World Map ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/825/82555/ - with such beautiful map slides. 

In the second half of this blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/wandering-albatross-heres-mention-of.html - and throughout my blog in the "virtual world" label, you'll see where I'm heading with a realistic virtual earth, and re researchers adding their STEM and Humanities' research to such a realistic virtual reality. For example, in what ways could these researchers, or someone else, add the maps in this paper - https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/GeoConf/papers/SGW/2019/Bjornsson1.pdf (from these papers - https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/GeoConf/Schedule.php - also in my blog entry) - to a realistic virtual earth, such as Google Streetview / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow and then begin to research further about these? (Am planning this realistic virtual earth as part of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World University and School) Perhaps we can talk about this as well tomorrow. 

Best wishes, Scott

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At MIT OCW-centric World University and School, of which I'm the founder, here are the "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles wiki subject and the "Virtual Worlds" wiki subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) where many courses for credit, and potentially with students (hopefully with Stanford graduate student instructors teaching online 'sections' from students from around the world in many languages), will emerge. 

Looking forward to communicating further about all of this with time. And very nice to meet you. Thanks for your excellent ideas. 

Thank you, 

Scott

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Dear Yasheng, 

Let's stay in touch about: 

as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States). 

Regards, Scott

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