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Proxima Centauri: 4/17/21 Agenda & News for (open) WUaS Monthly Business Meeting & WUaS Corporation / Press

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Dear Universitians and friends,

Our open World Univ & Sch monthly business meeting meets on Sat., 4/17/2021 at 9am Pacific Time if you might be interested in joining the hour-long conversation, and here's the 

WUaS Google Meet MBM video conference link - 
meet.google.com/ywy-yfft-awu

Our wikis are open for you to teach at or learn from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and are heading in the direction of many languages, as well as integration with a structured knowledge database Wikidata 'backend' in 300 languages (at first) - and think Wikipedia with AI and machine learning. 

Your voluntary contribution in support of tax-exempt World Univ & Sch, and these free-to-students' universities (for Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB) and wiki schools for open teaching and learning is greatly appreciated, with a contributions' link here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. And thank you all for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the financial reports for the NP World Univ and Sch, AND the FP WUaS Corp.


Free Universal Education is WITHIN REACH - Please join us at OPEN (& hour-long) @WorldUnivAndSch MBM meet.google.com/ywy-yfft-awu (in 7k langs @sgkmacleod) @WUaSPress Sat 4/17/21 at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET, from ANY time zone ~ OR email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in WUaS Info

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1382780701725003779?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1382776797591314433?s=20


World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for April 17, 2021:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/agenda-news-for-41721-open-wuas-monthly.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/proxima-centauri.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on May 15, 2021.

Sincerely, Scott

World University Foundation -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/  
2) for profit general stock company in CA WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



World University and School

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"edX-WUaS Impasse?" Please see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edxwuas-impasse.html - as WUaS waits to hear back from edX CEO and founder Anant Agarwal (and MIT Professor of EECS) about this email.

WUaS continues to seek to matriculate both PhD and Bachelor degree classes on September 1, 2021, in this edX-WUaS legal partnership. 



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Here are some of the reasons that WUaS Licensing with BPPE (https://twitter.com/CaBPPE) and becoming Accredited with WASC Senior (https://twitter.com/wascsenior) are on hold - 

Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/

This is concerning.
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1380210753588826127?s=20

WUaS, in partnering with edX, will explore further how edX will address questions of WUaS Licensing and becoming Accredited first in the state of California, for free-to-students' online best STEAM OCW-centric Bachelor and PhD degrees. 



WUaS G-Suite for Education 
WUaS continues to plan to code for matriculating WUaS students from all ~200 countries, and speakers of all 7,139 known living languages. 

In the process, WUaS plans to code brainstorming-wise for all 7.8 billion people on the planet as wiki teachers and learners, and for a variety of other reasons - especially these 5: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html.

This will develop further in edX-WUaS partnering legally - and as edX integrates its dashboard (for grades, matriculation info, etc.) into WUaS G-Suite for Education. 

WUaS G-Suite for Education will also be for reimbursement to World Univ & Sch from all 200 countries' departments of education for free to students' CC-4 OCW-centric best STEMPhD, Bachelor, Law, MD and IB degrees, from which WUaS will 'pass through' what WUaS will pay to edX for courses per student per year. 



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WUaS is seeking on our initial edX-WUaS registration page for free-to-students' PhD or Bachelor degrees - something like - https://authn.edx.org/register - to post legal notices (in addition to an honor code which WUaS students would assent to - paralleling edX's or Reed College's Honor Codes ... and eventually with licensing and accreditation planning too) - to protect WUaS from student's illegal activity for example ... but in other ways too. Here's an unrelated, but good, example from Vanguard ... WUaS is seeking for Google to help author such legal notices too.

Legal notices example ...

Legal notices

For more information about Vanguard funds, visit vanguard.com to obtain a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus. Investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information about a fund are contained in the prospectus; read and consider it carefully before investing.

You could lose money by investing in Vanguard Cash Reserves Federal Money Market Fund. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund's sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to the fund, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial support to the fund at any time.

All investing is subject to risk, including the possible loss of the money you invest.

© 2021 The Vanguard Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor of the Vanguard Funds.

P.O. Box 982901 | El Paso, TX 79998-2901 | vanguard.com

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Hopefully these WUaS student-oriented legal notices will be Google informed ... eg in WUaS G-Suite for Education - and for all 7.8 billion people each a wikidata Q item # or Pin #, brainstorming-wise.



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#Realistic Virtual Earth for Genetics 
#WUaS Aging Reversal too


Focus on lifespan #Longevity with #AgingReversal? ~ #Drosophila ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/03/wild-drosophila-melanogaster-fruit-fly.html #WUaSLongevity #WUaSagingReversal in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR (think #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider with #AI at cell & molecular levels with #DigitalSpecies
@WorldUnivAndSch)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1377070127976312838?s=20


And regarding also ... 
Christina Agapakis - Gingko Bioworks

Christina Agapakis @thisischristina
Creative director @ginkgo bioworks in Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

AND ... 

And iterate out to a single #RealisticVirtualEarthforGenetics, #CRISPR too #RealisticVirtualEarthforCRISPR in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider Maps + #TensorFlowAI All with WIKI #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook as source for #WUaSBrainScience too









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Brainwave headsets - and Harbin & realistic virtual earth-oriented -  for Actual-Virtual comparative STEM research, and STEAM social science field work, and at cell and atomic levels too -



Further, in what ways might it be possible to explore too the breakthrough innovations in getting to Alpha Centauri quickly (and even regarding REAL REAL TIME MUSIC-MAKING via the web) to creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for Actual-Virtual ethnographic comparative field work, and STEM research, including brain science (with people wearing headbands in the Harbin warm pool, both, iteratively, 
1) getting neural data from individuals' brains - for example about meditation and enjoyment neurally - and also
2) transmitting this data via fast wireless into avatar bots of you and me in a single realistic virtual earth / Harbin? :)

... into ... 
#AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords - 



Breakthrough ?
Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Alpha Centauri System: A Beckoning Neighbor
Aging reversal geneticist Harvard & MIT Professor George Church gave the keynote in about the Alpha Centauri system, in video recording here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/alpha-centauri.html

 . . .https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1380540280781348865?s=19 ... 
if you might at all be interested, see too -  www.youtube.com/breakthroughprize.




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There are SO many aspects of WUaS to develop after WUaS partnering with edX: 

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Seeking, after edX-WUaS partnering to offer free-to-students' PhD and Bachelor degrees in English, to offer these best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric free-to-students' degrees in all 200 countries (per Olympics) in their official and main languages.

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Then WUaS is seeking to develop online MD AND Law (and IB high school) degrees similarly - as free-to-students' degrees in all 200 countries in their official and main languages.

WUaS Law degree first class in English to matriculate online in autumn 2022? 

WUaS Medical Degree first class in English to matriculate online in autumn 2023? 

WUaS IB high school first class in English to matriculate online in autumn 2024? 

Other WUaS countries' universities, and in their official languages, follow these.


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WUaS Wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,139 long languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - will be part of this initial build out - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and there is SO much potential for free universal people-to-people education - about subjects people love to teach about - in these.


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Then WUaS is seeking to develop online major university libraries in all 7,139 long languages: 




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And then WUaS is seeking to develop online museums from ALL TIME in all 7139 languages in a single realistic virtual earth for museums - think Google Street View with time slider: 




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Then a music school in all 7139 known living languages with ALL musical instruments, each a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning 



And much more ... and see these 12 main WUaS areas .... all planned in 200 countries and 7139 living languages: 


(In the process, World University and School seeks to develop 2.2 million jobs on both wings of WUaS). 



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WUaS coding and artificial intelligence, and, for example, for 
#AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords even: 

~ #GrabTheAIcode #GoogleMonsterMash
to co-create your own #ActualVirtual #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.8 B Peops with #StanfordDukeProjectBaseline #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics in #GoogleStreetViewMaps #NextKillerApp like #EmailForBusiness? #MosaicGUIbrowser?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1380909570944462855?s=19

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1380910722654334986?s=19

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1380910591720624131?s=19

 https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1380910459574906882?s=19

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1380910290787655681?s=19

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1380909964613406721?s=19




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New Bay Area Stammtisch: 
 open Bay Area Stammtisch meets on Saturdays, next on 4/17/21 at 10:30 am Pacific Time again for those who might be interested in Google Meet video conferencing, and here's the link (in the English or the German language) - meet.google.com/fzi-jamh-qrq 



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WUaS Videos from past month -

VIDEO from open WUaS News and Q&A 4/12/21 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6WZjTfALeselUDN2nox4UKkqrEfu4bg/view Thanks to Aurelien in Cameroon (Africa) for question abt 5-7 year PhD programs at WUaS beginning  9/1/21 & friends for joining today's WUaS News & Q&A https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/tinamou.html No WUaS News and Q&A next Mon, 4/19/21

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1381686748829282307?s=20








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edX-WUaS partnering, and 2 WUaS bank accounts: 

if WUaS might also get the other benefits, besides courses and grades etc., of legal partnering with edX, and even regarding planning and their edX Board, and legal thinking too, the edX-WUaS partnering would only relate to the World Univ & Sch non-profit entity, conceptually.

WUaS sends out 2 Financial Reports each month, and has 2 related bank accounts:

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World University and School, the federal 501 c 3 and CA nonprofit legal entity, relating to the x5389 bank account. which WUaS Financial Report file I've named 'World Univ Sch Fin Rep NonProfit 2021 March."

AND
(2
The WUaS Corporation (in CA) for-profit general stock company legal entity, relating to the x9028 bank account, which Financial Report file I've named - "WUaS_Corporation_ForProfit_Financial_Report_2021_March"). 

The WUaS CFO currently can view online both Wells Fargo WUaS bank statements. Larry Viehland is currently the CFO of World University and School, and acting CFO of the WUaS Corporation.  
 





WUaS Corporation 


WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press - 
Academic Press at WUaS - planned in ~200 countries and in 7,139 known living languages with machine translation
for Actual-Virtual bookstores/cafes, Computer stores, Robotics' stores, Hospital technologies' distribution centers, and in a realistic virtual earth for actual-virtual robotics, and telerobotic surgery in 200 medical schools with 200 teaching hospitals 

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The WUaS Corporation has recently added a "Stock Purchases" line in our Financial Report. Please see the "WUaS_Corporation_ForProfit_Financial_Report_2021_March"



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And if the WUaS Corporation decides to seek to offer shares via some kind of IPO - and regarding with, somehow, a single cryptocurrency, such as the mineable "Stanford Mine Pi Coin" - to alleviate poverty via UBI experiments among 7.8 billion people, ... and lists on the emerging Silicon Valley LONG-TERM emerging stock market, the following legal notice may be relevant too.


Legal notices example ...

Legal notices

For more information about Vanguard funds, visit vanguard.com to obtain a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus. Investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information about a fund are contained in the prospectus; read and consider it carefully before investing.

You could lose money by investing in Vanguard Cash Reserves Federal Money Market Fund. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund's sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to the fund, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial support to the fund at any time.

All investing is subject to risk, including the possible loss of the money you invest.

© 2021 The Vanguard Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor of the Vanguard Funds.

P.O. Box 982901 | El Paso, TX 79998-2901 | vanguard.com

Privacy policy | Contact us | Online security | Home




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WUaS Press continues to seek to build out in GDocs with machine translation / Google Translate (perhaps first focusing on languages in India), where the

Academic Press at WUaS is planned in ~200 countries and in 7,139 known living languages with machine translation
also for Actual-Virtual bookstores/cafes, Computer stores, Robotics' stores, Hospital technologies' distribution centers, and in a realistic virtual earth for actual-virtual robotics, and telerobotic surgery in 200 medical schools with 200 teaching hospitals 




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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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