Figian Iguana: AMAZING OpenCourseWare Consortium Course Links, Bleak Perspective?-Change Code ~ Music? Relaxation Response is Tenderizing

added AMAZING OpenCourseWare Consortium educational links to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates's 'Course Listings' Aggregates' - with many Languages. This is an impressive seed in the garden of World University & School, especially as it grows. It's great to have a multi-country approach to institutional opencourseware.

ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html Institutions can share their opencourseware here.

{Thanks to a friend who is on World University & School's Board of Clerks}.


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A friend in FB writes:
is on the greyhound, crawling back to the Bay.

Scott:
The Green Tortoise doesn't have a north south run any more that I can see, but it does have some interesting trips north that might get you there part way:) http://www.greentortoise.com/adventure-bus-tours-california.html

'Arrive Inspired, Not Dog Tired" is the Green Tortoise's motto ...

The Tortoise is inspiring ... it's the culture they create i.e. it's a hippy bus ... and it's 'countercultural' in a way, and hippie travelers have fun ...


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A FB friend, also someone who went to Reed, writes:

Bleak perspective from a bleak place, so take it with a grain of salt: It seems to me that the world we have created functions in accordance with money, numbers, and the arbitrary structure we have fabricated to support it all. Nothing is real. The artists are the only ones doing anything pure, the rest of uphold the lie that supports the illusion of order.


Scott:

Time to explore the hippie thing on the margins? Modernity can be challenging ... Sleep and some possibilities here: http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm ?

Change the code when things are bleak? Put on music you like ... e.g. Grateful Dead? Mozart?


Friend:
Thanks for the advice. Per usual the Reed oikos ('household' in ancient Greece) comes through ...


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... would like please the two manuscripts (ethnography and poetry) back that were stolen with laptop and knapsack from his car in SF on June 23.

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The evening (before) is clear in berkeley. holiday lights in elmwood along the shops sparkle. two men chat on a street corner near the bakery collective ...


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Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Q) way for humans. Is it for Pan? Kanzi? Koko? What say you? Jerry is playing - Dancing (A Twitter/Facebook post)

Expanded:
Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Quaker) sense for humans. Is it for Pan - chimpanzee? What say Kanzi and Koko? Why not ask Kanzi (a bonobo chimpanzee, a friend of primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who 'has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude')? or Koko (a lowland gorilla, and friend of primatologist Francine 'Penny' Patterson, who 'is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English')? What say you? Jerry Garcia is playing on a CD as I wrote this ... I was dancing ...


As this music was playing, and moving me - the Grateful Dead are great - I learned that my uncle died ... saw some synchronicities with what I was thinking, experiencing, and hearing, during this time.


Farewell, Bruce. I mourn your passing.























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/figian-iguana-amazing-opencourseware.html - December 16, 2009)