Buteo lagopus: Creative Commons' organizations and CEO Succession Planning,...
Dear Professor Bahrami,Thank you for a fascinating panel on CEO Succession Planning at Stanford recently(...
View ArticleOryx leucoryx: American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "Quakers" is 'thumb...
Hi Nontheist Friends,I learned on Sunday after San Francisco Friends Meeting that the American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "Quakers" is 'thumb twiddling' (my word for these gestures). Amused, and...
View ArticleOld growth forests: The ones who walked away from the 7/11 near Reed College
The ones who walked away from the 7/11 near Reed CollegeBent-top Doug FirsEight months of rain, or more,Hippie, beat and bohemian worlds,Students bicycling home,to their collective housesat one or two...
View ArticleSwallowtail butterflies: What makes MIT OCW-centric World University and...
Dear R and J,What makes MIT OCW-centric World University and School competitive with all the other great online educational projects?For one, World University and School is planning to accredit to...
View ArticleMultnomah Falls, Oregon: In what ways can World University and School...
In what ways can World University and School celebrate learning and students and riffing with one another as a conversation informing knowledge generation?How to emphasize the celebration aspect of...
View ArticleCatherine Creek, OR: Forests and grasslands, Glistening June day, Walking in...
Forests and grasslands,glistening June day,walking in Oregon dream.T and M shaped this wonder,opening the way here,Thanks sustainable timbering.Up past Catherine Creek,On home land a gem, A human made...
View ArticleBeluga whales: Fascinating example of Beluga whale making human word sounds...
Fascinating example of Beluga whale making human word sounds from the Smithsonian Magazine ...http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beluga-whale-learns-to-speak-like-a-human-88565989/ ...Nuwer,...
View ArticleBlue pimpernel: "Localism Over Consolidation: An Exploration of Public...
Some grassroots and local approaches to Broadband Development ...Localism Over Consolidation: An Exploration of Public Broadband Optionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTy4Njle0k*New America...
View ArticleBeech tree forest: Looking forward to gleaning what presidents of Quaker...
Looking forward to gleaning what presidents of Quaker Colleges and schools in the US think about Ffriendly learning and education, at the FAHE-FCE Quaker educators' conference Haverford College in...
View ArticlePiping plover chick: World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT...
Dear S and P,Greetings ... and thank you for the introduction, S! Greetings, P.World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free degrees planned would indeed like to become the...
View ArticlePenn Treaty Elm: Haverford in the mid-1800s, Quaker-wise? What was it like? A...
Haverford College in the mid-1800s, Quaker-wise? What was it like? A farm, and where the students' families all knew each other?Haverford in the 60s and early 70s? Pretty free spirited and out there...
View ArticleNatural Hot Springs: A Nontheist F/friends Letter: "Unprogrammed Quaker...
Friends Journal recently published (Friends Journal June/July 2014:25-26) an edited version of this letter to FJ in its most recent issue which I submitted in March 2014:March 15, 2014Friends...
View ArticleMarbled murrelet: Moved the WUaS PayPal button up toward the top of this page...
Hi Jen, Lar and Universitians,Nice to talk with you in WUaS's open hour-long monthly business meeting on Saturday -...
View ArticleSawara False-Cypress: Very high about Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson's...
Congratulations, KB, on your new job! ....Very high about Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson's speech from Jamaica on allowing trade of the cannabis product between countries where it's legal, and...
View ArticleWarm waters: I often am in WONDER at how WELCOMING the warm waters at Harbin...
I often am in WONDER at how WELCOMING the warm waters at Harbin are, and incomparably so with other warm waters I know of – in a bath, or at other 'rustic' hot springs, such as at Orr, or at Wilbur or...
View ArticleFull moon: World University and School has 'LIFT OFF' ... with a new...
Dear Universitians,World University and School has 'lift off' ... with a new university domain name -http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -probably until WUaS becomes fully accredited in around 2018,...
View ArticleMoray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus): Hi Universitians, Just added 5 new...
Hi Universitians,Just added 5 new Wikimedia resources to WUaS's main current TEMPLATES ...e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE#Wikimedia_Commons ...{LANGUATE...
View ArticleSierra Nevada: WUaS is a 501 c 3 tax-exempt organization again, IRS letter,...
Dear WUaS Board and friends,World University and School received reinstatement of our 501 c 3 status yesterday, June 20th. I've attached scans of both parts of the IRS's 501 c 3 reinstatement...
View ArticlePenstemons: "Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of...
Dear Antero (and Greg at Berkeley),Thanks for this "Call for Chapters." I enjoyed your observations here about Gaming at about the 11:30 minute mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNjUnQr1Is (which...
View ArticleSandpipers: Friends Association for Higher Education -Friends Council on...
Dear Kay, Dave and Jonathan,It was very nice to have met you at our recent FAHE-FCE (http://quakerfahe.com/ and http://friendscouncil.org/) conference at Haverford. Thank you for your sharing on the...
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