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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P 
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air https://t.co/333k6Nsl0P 
Mon, July 9, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS re @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~
Twitter https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1015729983124221952 ...
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Odysseus & Homer speak: When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I bade my men on board and loose the hawsers. Then they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars; so we sailed on
https://t.co/N4RYVsCAVj ~ https://t.co/uL6lrr8NMt @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1015592364419645442& https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1015588158866505728 ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing ...
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WWW - Wood Wide Web: trees talk to each other - after all

Researchers have found out that trees communicate - or even fight - with one another by using fungal networks.

More on this here:
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Came across this Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White music ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. (Thanks, +AA MacKenzie !) Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...

There's a great zephyr of music and music-making online in video of all kinds streaming forth all over the world these days ... Hope to add some of the best and most lyrical, inspiring etc to World University and School's music school -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments in ALL 7,099 living languages + as wiki schools for open learning and teaching! (Meeting on Wednesday about upcoming wiki platform developments :)
Came across Brighde Chaimbeul (from Skye) & Innes White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owse95kgV4 recently ... Very nice Scottish small piping with guitar … John Mulhearn introduces the young multi-talented Brighde Chaimbeul, joined by Innes White on guitar. Will eventually add to - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in the new country by country's language wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/929751180028399617 ...
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World University and School plans to offer an online Medical School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online Teaching Hospital - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care with online Pharmacy (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology) available from our online store (https://twitter.com/WUaSPress) ... in the Gujarati language (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) and accrediting academically and licensing-wise at India World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (planned in official languages in India too) ...
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This is a great family tree of alphabets — and isn't very conjectural at all, since we actually know how writing spread. The color codes are by kinds of writing.

The oldest forms of writing are true pictograms, not shown here; these are scripts like the earliest forms of Egyptian, Sumerian, and Chinese writing, which are basically pictures (slightly stylized) of physical objects. These aren't full writing systems, in that they can generally only code things like "three sheep, four barrels of wine..."

These quickly evolved into logograms, a few of which are shown here in blue — not only the bulk of ancient Egyptian, but also modern Chinese and part of modern Japanese writing as well. In logograms, a small group of symbols represents a word, not phonetically but conceptually. (This is why the different Chinese languages, which sound almost nothing alike, can nonetheless share a single writing system! The writing codes ideas, not sounds.)

A common extension of logograms is to add sound representations, typically starting with using words to represent homonyms, and then adding logographic marks to indicate "the word symbolized by which sounds like " to clarify synonyms, and so on. Nearly all logographic writing systems adopted this.

Ancient Egyptian did in particular, and an entire subbranch of its writing system started to adopt this more seriously, starting to use purely phonetic representations — that is, symbols that described sounds instead of concepts. This is one of the earliest forms of alphabetic writing.

This kind of "phonetic writing" then has a history which you can see here.

Abjads are scripts like Hebrew and Arabic, where each letter represents a syllable, but only uniquely describes the consonants; you're supposed to know the vowels from context. These work well in languages where the vowels vary following predictable rules and primarily indicate parts of speech, and so are still used in such languages to this day. (The name "abjad" comes from the first four letters of the old Arabic alphabet, a, b, j, and d.)

Abugidas (green) and alphabets (red) take this further, adding accent marks (in abugidas) or separate letter-signs (alphabets) for the vowels, as well. As Barry Powell argued in Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet, this likely emerged as a pattern whenever abjads reached areas where the local language didn't have the same kinds of rules for vowels as Semitic languages, and the ability to explicitly code vowels was important for telling words apart — and, critically, for recording poetry and verse.

Finally, featural alphabets take the march towards phonetic clarity even further. The classic example of this is Hangul, the script invented for Korean in the 15th century. In these writing systems, symbols go beyond coding for sounds — they code for individual features, like "plosive sounds" (you stop the air and then suddenly release it, like t or p), "aspirated sounds" (with a breath), and so on. So for example, ㅌ can be immediately recognized as a voiceless, aspirated, alveolar plosive, or tʰ.

English is in many ways a strange case in this family. The Latin alphabet that it uses is a true alphabet: someone reading Latin immediately knows how to pronounce any word they see, just like someone reading Spanish or Polish would. But English both assembled its lexicon from a bunch of languages, and standardized its spelling system much earlier than most other modern languages — and unfortunately, did so not too long before a major change in how words were pronounced, which gives it all sorts of oddities like "silent e," how tough it is to cough through a rough slough, and so on. (There are not many languages where "being able to spell things correctly" is a televised sport!) In fact, despite its use of an alphabet, English is in many ways moving back towards being a logographic language, where you have to know what a word is (and which language it comes from) to know how to pronounce it.

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To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ... and potentially to facilitate this and even through G + eventually ...
Where is my Chinese speaking Partner?
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Happy #FathersDay to all of the dads who are showing their kids that anything is possible. ... and re http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ...
Happy #FathersDay to all of the dads who are showing their kids that anything is possible.

Image: Dominick Reuter and Chelsea Turner
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Camping outdoors at Harbin too ... & re https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ...
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World University and School plans to offer an online Medical School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online Teaching Hospital - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care with online Pharmacy (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology) available from our online store (https://twitter.com/WUaSPress) ... in the Gujarati language (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) and accrediting academically and licensing-wise at India World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (planned in official languages in India too) ...
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Ann Brown and Scott MacLeod at Wisdom Creek ranch, Medical Springs, in eastern Oregon, June 14, 2018 :)
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“If the robot could touch the object, have a notion of tactile information, and be able to react to that information, it will have much more success. —Maria Bauza

#robots#machinelearning#robotics#MIT
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World University and School News and Q & A
Mon, May 28, 2018 10am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Next http://worlduniversityandschool.org Google Live Hangout on Air ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States… (online Univ & High Sch degrees planned) ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1000105950714343424
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World University Hangouts on Air are growing! ....
World University & School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, May 14, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: "Language Communities" @ @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/995771216731324416
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/995770780058243072
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
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https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
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https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, May 7, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS (and both wings of WUaS: @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress cont.) ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, May 7, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Your Questions, Ideas & Thoughts about WUaS (and both wings of WUaS: @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress cont.) ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
World University and School -
World University and School -
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Hangout Events" page - plus.google.com - World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air - Google+ -
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 https://plus.google.com/u/5/events/cmaso38i1bs0jj2del5la0n0vc0?authkey=CI2vwKWm_Ja1PA&cfem=1  
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
World University and School -
World University and School -
worlduniversityandschool.org
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World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch 
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Hangout Events" page - plus.google.com - World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air - Google+ -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl0u4gdic4651tke0gl0687t2pg -
World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Re Robotics for All - From Lego WeDo 2.0 to Scratch drag & drop programming to Mindstorms to internships
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
World University and School -
World University and School -
worlduniversityandschool.org
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To Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland - and planned with online Music School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - as well.
A most gorgeous setting -- played by a gaggle o the most gorgeous young musicians ever assembled.... well done all!!!
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World University and School News and Conversation Hangout 
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC 
~ https://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch ~
- Topic: How to teach at @WorldUnivAndSch 
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/983137056825028609 
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
-Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440 -
World University and School News and Q & A
Wed, April 4, 2018 10am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Next http://worlduniversityandschool.org Google Live Hangout on Air ~
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States… (online Univ & High Sch degrees planned in countries' official / main languages) ~
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