A wind and wave thing, - San Francisco, & its bridges (poem-let)

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There's a line

in the Bay, on the SF Bay.

Smooth is far,

just before Treasure Island,

textured is closer,

a wind and wave thing.

San Francisco, & its bridges,

slightly befogged, they are.

{Pirates?}

A cool winter morning,

outside eating breakfast

on hard garden patio flagstones.

There's a line
in the Bay, on the SF Bay.
Smooth is far,
just before Treasure Island,
textured is closer,
a wind and wave thing.
San Francisco, & its bridges,
slightly befogged, they are.
{Pirates?}
A cool winter morning,
outside eating breakfast
on hard garden patio flagstones. pic.twitter.com/w1YYryO2Qb
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[CamPhilEvents] Mental Sciences in Lent Term; Tom McClelland this Thursday ... (Alexander, All, ongoing questions about the mental sciences, and philosophy, of longevity genetics, aging reversal, and what George Church says could point to 'immortality' in this genetic engineering revolution ...

Dear Jessie and Tom, Cambridge Philosophy Events,

Greetings. Thanks so much for letting people far from Cambridge know about this upcoming series. I didn't listen to your talk, Tom, because I didn't know the Zoom or video conferencing link, if there was one. Sorry to have missed it. And I just searched on 'Tom McClelland (Philosophy) “Perceptual Harm and Perceptual Injustice” youtube' but didn't find a recording of it. If there is a recording, might it be possible to view it please?

And would it be possible please to join the upcoming talks via a video conference? Thank you, and greetings from the SF Bay Area, and CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU-centric, wiki World University and School.

(Alexander, All, ongoing questions about the mental sciences, and philosophy, of longevity genetics, aging reversal, and what George Church says could point to 'immortality' in this genetic engineering revolution - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity and /genes + https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/11522-minutes-for-world-univ-sch-wuas.html).

All the best,

Scott

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Activist, poet, author, and Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh passed away on January 22. It has been said that when enlightened Tibetan monks die, they enter a final meditative state called thukdam during which time their corpses decay at a noticeably slower rate. One might be tempted to measure a monk’s degree of enlightenment based on the number of human souls they touch and awaken, and Thích Nhất Hạnh touches countless millions. But maybe the point isn’t about measurement.

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Frog legs regrown in regeneration breakthrough
The challenge of regenerating a lost leg or arm is not simply a matter of getting the severed stump to regrow—it’s one of patterning. You can induce growth, but how do you get the cells to fall into the right places and morph into a new, functional knuckle, vein, toe, or flesh? Now a research team at Tufts and Harvard has shown this can be achieved by attaching to a severed limb a silk-gel sack they termed a “wearable bioreactor” filled with five regenerative growth factors. In a carefully controlled experiment, they showed that 24-hour exposure to the drug-filled sack was enough to kickstart tissue regeneration in adult Xenopus laevis—the African claw-toed frog, which do not regenerate limbs as adults. But over 18 months, the wearable bioreactor induced severed stumps to regrow, repattern, and reemerge as viable, functionally restored hind limbs. Science Advances

How many lives could a little exercise save?
If most adults over 40 engaged in just 10 more minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, more than 111,000 deaths could be prevented in the United States every year, according to researchers at the National Cancer Institute, a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The study involved 4,840 people between the ages of 40–84 who wore accelerometers for one week. By estimating and comparing their daily activity, the researchers found that 10-, 20-, and 30-minute increases of moderate-to-vigorous exercise were associated with 6.9 percent, 13 percent, and 16.9 percent fewer deaths each year respectively. This means if Americans added 10 minutes of exercise per day, an estimated 111,174 deaths could be prevented; 209,459 deaths could be prevented with 20 additional minutes and 272,297 deaths could be prevented with 30 additional minutes. JAMA Internal Medicine

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Ophthalmologists do way more than flip lenses, project letters on the wall, and trial-and-error their way to your new prescription. They also provide vital health screening by testing for diseases like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, often detecting them before symptoms appear. A new study from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom suggests that they could also detect people who are at risk of a heart attack by imaging their retinas, the veiny tissue at the back of the eye. They trained an AI on a combination of retinal and cardiac scans from 5,000 people in order to gauge heart conditions from eye scans obtained using routine and widely available ophthalmology equipment, and they showed that their AI could predict a person’s 12-month risk of a heart attack with an accuracy of 70–80 percent. Nature Machine Intelligence

Structures could help design non-hallucinogenic psychedelics
As we reported last month, the proponents of psychedelic therapy are divided into two distinct camps with competing visions of the future: one where once purely recreational drugs like mushrooms, acid, or ecstasy would be used in a communal, guided, and spiritually uplifting setting—the other where the drugs would be chemically modified to be bereft of any ability to induce hallucinations. The non-trippers are gaining ground this week with a new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which describes six new high-resolution molecular structures of the human serotonin 2A receptor in the brain, a target of psilocybin and LSD. The structures reveal new details of how this crucial brain receptor works and should accelerate the design of non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analogs, the authors write. Science

Fully robotic laparoscopic surgery on pigs
It may seem like yesterday self-driving cars were just a pipe dream, but sometimes the pace of scientific and technological innovation actually does keep up with imagination. For more than 20 years, surgeons have been able to control mechanical arms and instruments in robot-assisted surgeries, and some examples of fully automated robotic systems exist for procedures involving rigid bony structures. But operating on soft tissue is much more difficult because the low visibility inside those tissues requires adaptive control. Now a study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that it may be within reach. Researchers tested a fully autonomous robot for consistency and accuracy while performing routine laparoscopic surgeries for intestinal anastomosis on pigs, finding the robotic system actually outperformed expert surgeons. Nature Robotics

Blocking genes regenerates mouse liver
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have used a CRISPR screen to parse 165 molecules, called chromatin regulatory proteins, in mice with damaged livers, looking for any that might possibly be involved in repairing the organ. They identified two genes, called BAZ2A and BAZ2B, that were not previously known to be involved in tissue regeneration but appear to suppress it in the mice. They showed that blocking the action of these genes helped to regenerate the tissue—an observation that provides a path forward to designing experimental new drugs that could enhance tissue repair in people who suffer from cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel disease, or acute organ trauma. Cell Stem Cell

Atlas of the human brain vasculature
An adult human brain “transcriptome” atlas of blood vessels was reported today by a team of surgeons and biologists at the University of California, San Francisco. It catalogs all the genetic RNA transcripts within 181,388 cells taken from resected tissue donated by five people undergoing surgery for severe epilepsy. The map has important implications for neuroscience and clinical medicine, the authors write, helping us better understand and treat cerebrovascular diseases like stroke. As a proof-of-concept, they used the resource to investigate brain arteriovenous malformations, a leading cause of stroke in young people, and identified some of the pathological cellular and gene expression changes involved in the malformations. Science

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(His father was a MD, who also taught medical grand rounds as a quick knowledgeable diagnostician, and a professor of public health, and his mother became the director of social work in a large urban hospital, returning to university after her 2 children had grown up a bit). Scott grew up on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., attending Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, PA, from which he received a diploma, and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he received a Bachelor's degree (1985) in Religion (and German). He then received a Master's Degree (2003) in sociocultural anthropology (with a focus on information technologies) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he also recieved a Diploma of Research (2004) in ethnology (with a focus on virtual 'place') from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information technology network society age, the world wide web cosmos, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and see, for example, these "Doubleday's Hummingbird: 5 UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' talks in recent years 2012-2020 ... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html. A passionate educator, he is World University and School's founder, president, CEO, and presiding clerk (in the manner of unprogrammed Friends/Quakers) ~ a non-theistically f/Friendly or nontheistic Quaker 'leading' too; Scott became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004, having been active with Friends or Quakers since around 1975. Wiki World University and School is best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric (in 4 languages) and CC-3 Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major online universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,139 known living languages. Both wings of WUaS together, 1) the Nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt charity, World University and School, and 2) the For-profit, general stock company in California, WUaS Corporation, seek to hire about 2.3 million people (about the size of W-M) in all ~200 countries. WUaS seeks to create large numbers of careers and jobs, both on the academic, learning-oriented, university and school wing, and on the educational services' stores' and hospital technologies' wing+ : https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html. WUaS plans to offer online CC-4 OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. or similar, (emerging from Creative Commons' 4 licensed - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school > into something like CC-4 licensed 'Computer Science CS First with Google at World Univ & Sch - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home (as a kind of template) - and in which you can begin to learn the Scratch programming language now - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/course/z33wpz) - partly in group video, and in ~200 countries' official languages. He is the author of : ~ Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin (San Francisco and Berkeley: Academic Press at World University and School 2016), ~ Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (Stanford, CA: Poetry Press at World University and School 2017), ~ Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (Stanford, CA: Poetry Press at World University and School 2018), ~ To the Dance or the Pools: How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality (Stanford, CA: Poetry Press at World University and School 2019), and ~ Light, Float, Site, Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems (Stanford, CA: Poetry Press at World University and School 2021). http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/lanner-falcon-bio-for-sgk-macleod-is.html ~ ~ Scott GK MacLeod's Curriculum Vitae or CV, also here: ~ http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm ~ Scott MacLeod's Research: World University and School http://worlduniversityandschool.org Free, best, STEAM-centric, C.C. OCW university degrees planned ~ in ALL ~200 countries' main and offical languages! * ~ I'm currently envisioning and developing World University and School (worlduniversityandschool.org), planned in all 7,139 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - each a wiki school for open teaching and learning. And see, too, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - (and where you can wiki-begin or develop a "Subject" in any language, creatively, academically, or in ways you think of, and teach to or learn from, these) - a global, wiki, virtual, free, open university & school (with Creative Commons' licensing so C.C., free, Bachelor, Ph.D., Law & M.D. degrees planned, as well as an ALL instrument in ALL & 7,139 living + languages' Music School), and much more, potentially in all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200-ish countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States. World Univ & Sch is also seeking to facilitate all libraries online ever - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - and in all 7,139 known living languages, and extinct languages too, and in a realistic virtual earth for libraries, and to do the same for all museums in all languages ever - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums. See too the ~12 main WUaS areas here - worlduniversityandschool.org - and their realistic virtual earth beginnings. As a wiki (editable, web pages) meta-directory, WUaS also focuses on online, open course ware at great universities (e.g. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, other 'Ivy League' Schools, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard, Cambridge, Cal Tech, etc.). WUaS is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric (e.g. best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in 4 languages and CC-3 Yale OYC). You can wiki-teach with your webcam, or interactively in group video chat, or in a virtual world like Google Streetview with time slider/Maps/Earth, Open Simulator or Second Life, learn, or 'edit this page,' and create, at wiki World University & School. Here's World University & School's blog: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com. * * * * Big Harbin Book (354 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 in, 180 color pics): 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ Visit the Harbin Gatehouse, eventually for soaking , from home: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ AND PLEASE {Wiki-} ADD YOUR PICTURES OR VIDEOS ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132 * * Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch *** Info WorldUniversity info@orlduniversityandschool.org *** ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org *** Meeting WorldUniversity Friends meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org https://www.youtube.com/MeetingWorldUniversityFriends *** Here are WUaS's & Scott's Social Media pages - SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK SITES ~ Twitter: Scott MacLeod - http://twitter.com/scottmacleod World Univ & Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress “Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook ( OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand ) Here are World University & School, and Scott in http://about.me/scott_macleod http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/SMacLeod https://independent.academia.edu/MacLeodScott https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/portfolio_preview/contact https://www.alignable.com/canyon-ca/wuas-corporation-world-university-and-school Amazon author's page - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity (with daily blog posts) https://angel.co/scott-macleod-4 https://brighteon.social/@Scott_WUaS https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/scott-macleod-1 https://www.entrepnr.com/members/1531048 https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper https://www.facebook.com/macleod https://www.flickr.com/photos/40632665@N00 https://github.com/ScottWUaS https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17846323-scott-macleod https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18757704.Scott_GK_MacLeod Google My Business: https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=CIHM0ogKEICAgICmtdDmaw https://app.joinhandshake.com/employers/447700 https://app.joinhandshake.com/users/19861050 https://www.instagram.com/worlduniversityandschool https://issuu.com/worlduniversityandschool http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-university-and-school https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-macleod-4691a011a https://livestream.com/accounts/9578703 https://medium.com/@scottmacleod https://medium.com/@sgkmacleod https://www.meetup.com/members/243278267 https://mewe.com/profile/5c06c414f9f143691b44d182 https://mewe.com/i/scottmacleod2 https://www.minds.com/scottworldunivandsch/ https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/world-university-and-school https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/actual-virtual-harbin-hot-springs https://www.pubpub.org/user/scott-gk-macleod http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod http://www.quora.com/Scott-MacLeod-3 https://www.quora.com/profile/Scott-MacLeod-28 https://www.reddit.com/user/ScottMacLeod https://www.Reddit.com/r/Quakers https://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Macleod2 http://www.reverbnation.com/scottmacleodbagpiping http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQpokz8AAAAJ&hl=en https://www.scoop.it/u/worldunivandsch https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch http://www.slideshare.net/WorldUniversity https://soundcloud.com/scott-gordon-k-macleod https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com https://soundcloud.com/ScottMacLeodScottishSmallPipes https://www.teacheron.com/tutor-profile/2c3k https://vimeo.com/user12804337 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch https://zoom.us/j/3291730207 * * * Planned for all 3,000-8,000+ languages (Wikipedia/Wikidata is in ~300 languages, by way of comparison, again), as wiki schools, and with an universal translator (building on Google Translate +), World University & School is for the emerging world, the developing world, the developed world - all via the Internet ('internetity') and for everyone, - again, with free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. and IB/sim degrees planned, and as wiki. ~ Please donate to tax-exempt World University & School http://worlduniversityandschool.org * * Further research and teaching notes: ~ My anthropological research focuses on ethnography, the virtual, and information technologies, that is on 'socioculture' vis-à-vis the web, with a particular focus on counterculture (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - I blog daily), as well as on UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The detailed, explanatory potential of anthropology and sociology in relation to the study of the social life of information technology, and to ethnography vis-à-vis the internet, as well as to internet studies, provides a fascinating intersection of approaches / disciplines / methodologies, and is my starting place. I'm interested, in addition, in questions of anthropology vis-à-vis science and STEM. And I'm interested in anthropological, linguistic and philosophical questions about this discourse, about identity (and see, for example, Manuel Castells'"The Power of Identity," Vol. 2, in his "The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture" trilogy, and "The Rise of the Network Society" Vol. 1), modernities, representation and language - and 'internetity,' a term I've coined (I think). ~ I'm also interested in western philosphical questions about consciousness, that is philosophy of mind inquiries, (e.g. how to reconcile the first person and thrid person views of consciousness, awareness, feeling, or sentience, etc.) - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/consciousness. In what ways can a physical-digital, actual-virtual realistic virtual earth for consciousness, and a realistic virtual earth for languages, and realistic virtual earth for brain science, and actual brains of many species, help us further develop this conversation and philosophical inquiry about consciousness in species with it? And in these regards: with - #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords and see this great image - https://posts.gle/YZY27U accessible from this definition - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/greta-oto-avatar-bot-electronic-medical.html and with a Samsung Neon aka 'artificial human' - (and for human brains at the street view, cellular and molecular levels too, for example) - AND for coding for this with AI and machine learning too: - so,Twitter post, "In what way could #Google thanks to #PeterNorvig's #vision #ethics & #realism - https://youtu.be/QCw_D7dr7Rw HIRE #UCBerkeley #MIT #Stanford & #WorldUnivAndSch STUDENTS anew to grow #GoogleAIsystems per 7k https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages with #WUaSavatars?" https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1378397328495632389 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1378397685007323139 https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1378397513674235905? https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1378397452483534849 and regarding, too, a - #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForBrainScience #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolutionaryBiology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolutionaryBiology?src=hashtag_click ~ And I'm also interested in questions of MD psychiatry, online talk therapy (Lacanian-informed? - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/), and potentially with avatar chat bots (and avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.9 billion people, each a Wikidata Pin #), and in what ways World Univ & Sch could facilitate online psychiatry - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry - in WUaS's (~200) online medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals, and in all ~200 countries, per the Olympics, and in their main languages. ~ I've taught "Society and Information Technology" - http://socinfotech.pbworks.com - on Berkman (Island) in Second Life (not on Harvard University's faculty) - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Berkman/165/212/25 - for about 8 semesters. In the autumn of 2008, I taught "Society and Information Technology" on Penn State Isle II in Second Life, as a Penn State University instructor. I've also taught this course on-the-ground at Chatham University as well as Penn State University. I teach courses in anthropology and sociology, both in real life and in 3-D virtual worlds like Open Simulator and Second Life, which are 'placeless,' yet facilitate avatar-mediated conversation. I've also taught Society, Information Technology and the Global University for many semesters newly at World University and School here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ~ At the University of Edinburgh (D.R.), where I studied from 2003 - 2004, I conducted a virtual ethnographic study of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, St. Kilda or Hirta - https://www.nts.org.uk/st-kilda - the island archipelago 40 miles west of the outer Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland, which was inhabited for more than 2,000 years until 1930. In the 2000-2003 school years, I studied, at the graduate level, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A.), and I did graduate studies, again, at U.C. Berkeley in 2008-2009. * Loving Bliss ~ I also explore questions of how we can elicit the neurophysiology of loving bliss, naturally. Loving Bliss Letters Friends' Dalton Letter scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm Loving Bliss and Practices to Elicit This scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm Loving Bliss as Friends scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm Eudaimonia is Flow and Bliss scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ~ (See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss) ~ Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at wiki World University & School ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) ~ Facilitating Wiki Generation of Web Content ~ Please wiki-add your photos and videos to both World Univ & Sch ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects#Select_Photos in any subject and to Google Street View with time slider e.g. at World Univ & Sch - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1483917347836481538?s=20 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1483917816965189635?s=20 (on smartphone, see the links for this) ~ In addition, I'm interested in the concept of reversing global warming climate change - in a way with parallels to clinically proven reversal of heart disease - and regarding DIY low-carbon, energy autonomy too. And here are some reseources for this: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20climate%20change and http://scottmacleod.com/EnergyAutonomy.htm. And in these regards, too, here is a Do it Yourself (DIY) Solar electric air heater 100w 12v - "Solar Electric Air Heater! (100W 12V) - 100W Solar Panel runs it! - PV space heating!! Ez DIY" - https://youtu.be/lQ68jPlnMxM - and with 2nd video on how to double this here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/punch-bowl-falls-oregon.html. It would be helpful if this will soon integrate with the emerging Novel Lithium Batteries coming along presently). ... for studying at WUaS from home with warmth! :) Additionally, how to make available an e-bike or e-bicycle that can travel - with a NEW Novel Lithium Battery? - 500 miles, or 804 kilometers, on a single charge (recharging while riding too), and with a fully loaded 18 speed bicycle pulling a trailer too? Could the WUaS Educational Services' store make these available in all ~200 countries as well? And in what ways could WUaS also best begin to produce such solar electric air heater appliances, batteries, e-bicycles, solar panels etc. for our learners and students? ~ In the autumns of 1999 & 2005, I traveled on Semester at Sea, and here are some impressions from those voyages: Semester at Sea and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Semester%20at%20Sea. ~ Society, Information Technology & the Global University ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ~ which can be helpful English-learning as well! This course asks: What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/896470596040654849 ~ and I will teach this again soon. ~ After publishing my 4th book of poetry in 2021, I continue to enjoy writing poetry, much of which is Harbin Hot Springs' inspired, and here are some haiku-ish. Click on the 'poetry' label on my blog {http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry} to read or share more poetry. ~ Scott * Scott MacLeod has a Bachelor's Degree of Arts (BA 1985) in the social science of Religion (and German) from Reed College, a Master of Arts (MA 2003) in sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research (DR 2004) in Scottish Ethnology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, both with a focus on information technologies, and the socioculture of virtual pLace, a realistic virtual earth for STEM and social science especially. He's taught a course on Society, Information Technology and the Global University for decades - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html. He also has a teaching certificate from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco (1991), (is curious about Yoga genetics, if we can begin to learn about this scientifically), and enjoys the freedom-orientation of these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - and daily sitting meditation with restorative Yoga. Friendly greetings, Scott * * * info@worlduniversityandschool.org scott@scottmacleod.com home: scottmacleod.com copyright Scott MacLeod's Arts 1998 - 2022 *

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WUaS Press Books, {and Recordings}

Upcoming Book (2023?) ~

Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnography:

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Upcoming Album (2024?) ~

Rock Piobaireachd Blues' Laments

(Scottish Small Piping danceable rock & roll bagpiping music, with Allman Bros. '73 at Cow Palace SF energy, with machine learning)

Upcoming Book (2022) ~

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University:

What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? Who did it? ... And how did the global CC-4 ocw.mit.edu-centric wiki World University and School develop?

(Planned in English, 2023?, & in German, 2024?)

Upcoming Album (2022) ~

Honey Piobaireachd

(Scottish Small Piping classical bagpiping music ~ ceòl mòr)

New Book (2021) ~

Light, Float, Site, Watsu ~ Virtually:

Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems

New Album (2020) ~

Honey in the Bag

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New Book (2019) ~

How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality

New Book (2018) ~

Harbin, Wandering & the

Poetry of Loving Bliss

Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Poetry (2017)

Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016)

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Big Harbin Book

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