Regeneration of ice age seeds: The Open Course Ware Consortium is looking for 1) ways for students interested in learning to navigate through its resources to be able to choose, for example, a MIT OCW physics' course from a community college physics' course and 2) for ways for people to offer feedback

http://www.eoearth.org/files/200301_200400/200337/kolymariversiberia.jpg


The Open Course Ware Consortium ...

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ ...

is looking for

1) ways for students interested in learning to navigate through its resources to be able to choose,

for example,

a MIT OCW physics' course from a community college physics' course, and 


2) for ways for people to offer feedback, per OCWC's Mary Lou. 


Vis-a-vis World University and School, 

and to do both of these things but with a great universities' Open Educational Resources' focus, 

I'm excited about the new 


WikiData -  

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata - and 

WikiBase - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client - 

 
(see, too, http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/wikipedias-next-big-thing-wikidata-a-machine-readable-user-editable-database-funded-by-google-paul-allen-and-others/) - 


both as new and developing, workable, wiki, database resources for the end user, 

for Wikipedia in all 284 languages, 

as well as for World University and School as part of its 'backend' - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan ... 

WikiData and WikiBase are wiki database breakthroughs, and are Creative Commons' licensed, too!



A reply to the above post:

PO:  I am currently in Software Engineering for SaaS, aka UC Berkeley CS 169 from https://www.coursera.org/





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The Plethedon otter salamander: Archiving Process at Harvard, Drupal talk at Harvard by founder, WUaS is looking for great libraries like DPLA, WUaS's upcoming, Bookstore / Computer Store

 http://www.amphibianark.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/plethodoncinereushocking.jpg


The 'Digital Archiving Process at Harvard ... '

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1076801.files/Archivist%20Video.mov ...

interesting ...


And here's a new Harvard course with Computer Science professor Stuart Shieber,

all of which, with related links, are mentioned here in Stuart's May 29th blog entry -

"Processing special collections: An archivist’s workstation"
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/


I added this, and related links, to WUaS's Library Resources ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources ...




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Drupal talk at Harvard, by Drupal founder ...

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/05/buytaert ...

and this will be archived as well ...

added this to World University and School's Volunteers' page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteer. 


WUaS plans to become significantly Volunteer run, 

like Wikipedia, 

and also wiki, 

probably using WikiData  ... -  

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata - 

and WikiBase -  

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client ...



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World University and School is looking for access for our upcoming students to great libraries

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources),

like Harvard's,

and so is excited about the upcoming Digital Public Library of America ...

(http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/exercises-in-democracy-building-a-digital-public-library/).


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And Drupal is another internet startup success, now with 220 employees in its complementary Acquia company - which makes Drupal's Content Resource Management database systems available to companies and businesses.

I hope World University and School may be equally, or more, successful in some years, and with the WUaS 'Bookstore / Computer Store (new and used)' in some years -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS -

and in all languages and countries.





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Golden Headed Lion Tamarin: Wow ... stunning ... Filastine - Colony Collapse, Art, Modernity, Sonic Youth

http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/21/2142/3QRED00Z/art-print/portrait-of-golden-headed-lion-tamarin-endangered-species-native-to-brazil.jpg



Wow ...

stunning Remix ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXLED5HuI8o ...

which I found here -

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=6440.


 
Will look to add to Modernity -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Modernity

(not a page yet) -


 
or Art

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Art -

or ? -

 
... at WUaS

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Sonic Youth … 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/sonic-youth-three-decades-of-dissonance-20120328/ … 

hadn't heard of them - 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Youth - 

they're dissonantly great ... 

will look to add them to World University and School's Rock and Roll page ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll ... 


I like this kind of 'best of' Rolling Stones' approach above ... 

with all the videos they've posted ...

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Silene serpentinicola: Energy, Nuclear, Climate Change

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0607/0146.jpeg


"Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5" ... such great news! ...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/17/1552234/japan-to-be-without-nuclear-power-after-may-5

... abolish Nuclear worldwide / world wide ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering ...

with an invitation to edit WUaS's Nuclear Science wiki page ...




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"Jim Hansen - 20 Years of Climate Concerns" ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=auTEWanRTfM ...

with a recent paper by Hansen (in public access science journal at Cornell) ...

"Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice" ...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1286v1 ...


will look to add to WUaS's "Ocean and Climate Management Plan" ...

 http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan ...



"A Fresh Look at How Humans Are Loading Climate ‘Dice’ " (NYT's) ...

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/a-fresh-look-at-how-humans-are-loading-climate-dice/


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Sand dollar shell: Other names for nontheist friends / Nontheist Friends, "Evolutionary biological f/Friends," "Atheist Quakers," "Relaxation response, email, nontheist f/Friends," other names for NTFs from an unfolding, NTF email conversation?

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2124/1624644852_210e45793d_z.jpg



Hi Nontheist Friends,

I'm quite interested in the name "Evolutionary biological f/Friends," since that seems to be a main context out of which humans, and all species, stem, and would be interested in furthering a discussion of this in our Quakerly email groups (both general and planning NTFs), as well as at FGC (to which I think I'm also heading).  Evolutionary biology, as an interest of some nontheist Friends, has been written about in the "Nontheist Friend" entry in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friend - for some years now, for example, - and as an open, wiki definition.

But I also think the term "Atheist Quaker," without the question mark, more closely parallels the term "Nontheist Friend" than almost any other, for me, and logically, and has also long been part of this other, wiki, subject name of the "Nontheist Friend (Atheist Quaker?)" page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29 - at open, free, wiki World University and School, - also for years now.

With both terms, - "Evolutionary biological f/Friends" and "Atheist Quakers,"  - I see kinds of "if not, then ... " and "if ... then" logics that ring true for me in this process of (nontheistic) F/friendly truth-seeking, with long historical precedents (that is, seeking the truth) among Friends, and in Quaker thinking. This linguistic logic goes: if not theist Quakers, then nontheist f/Friends. And, if nontheist Quakers, then atheist f/Friends, as well as, if atheist f/Friends, then evolutionary biological Quakers (especially from 'origin' / ontological / naturalist perspectives).

So I too am glad there is great diversity in these names we are currently exploring here in our NTF email lists, as well as some tolerance/appreciation among us for this process as well as for these NTF names (which hasn't always been the case historically among religious identities, Quakers, or even nontheistic (I assume) species' engagement, unfriendly or not, with each other (as among common chimpanzees, which 'do' war, aggression and team violence, but not among Bonobo chimpanzees, which are egalitarian, matriarchal, very sexual and with no known fatalities per primatologists, since their discovery in the 1920s and 1930s)), in my reading of religious history. I hope we NTFs can learn richly from the natural / biological world, also, and especially from other higher primate species, in our seeking of 'truths' in these unfolding NTF naming conversations, hence my interest in the name "Evolutionary Biological (nontheist) f/Friends." 

I'm very curious to learn of other possible names for NTFs from this unfolding conversation. The diversity of our names for ourselves and NTFs thus far is far-reaching, and engaging. For example, "Human primate Quakers / s/Friends" interests me.

One further name that I would entertain for NTFs in "Relaxation response, email, nontheist f/Friends" engaging my reading of the effects of 350 years of Quaker Meeting - sitting together / gathering in silence, and sharing - now in our unfolding digital conversations. (Here's WUaS's relaxation response wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response).

Looking forward to meeting some of you/us further in Rhode Island; and yea for NTFs and our unfolding Quaker-informed conversations.

Nontheistically f/Friendly regards,
Scott




(... interesting, unfolding discussion about names for nontheist Friends e.g. atheist Quakers / humanist Quakers, in the NTF email lists under multiple subject headings).




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Brown violet-ear hummingbird: added "Human Languages Decline as Species Disappear," Clever view of Language

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/gifs/birds_brown_violetear.jpg





added "Human Languages Decline as Species Disappear" -

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/05/human-cultures-decline-alongside-species -

to the "Languages" wiki page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

and the new "Species" wiki subject 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Species ... :)



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Clever view of Language from Steven Fry ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY ...

may add to Linguistics at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics ...


or Language ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Language ...


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Ah, language ... how extraordinary you are ...











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Humboldt Marten: "The English Language In 24 Accents," Adding to WUaS's 'English as a Second Language,' 'Linguistics,' 'Languages,' Scots, Scots' Gaelic

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4900498117559150&id=9e00ffdfb20af09ee49e2006791023ff


"The English Language In 24 Accents" ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM ...

very wild ...



adding to 'English as a Second Language' page,

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language


as well as to the 'Linguistics'

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics


and 'Languages' '  ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... pages.


Which are languages?

Scots?


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots


(There's no Scots' Gaelic in the above video

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic ...





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Darlingtonia fen: Virtual Worlds for Education Compared

http://siskiyouland.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/darlingtonia-fen_stony-creek_medres.jpg



Some interesting glimpses into "Immune Attack," an online, video game that teaches interactively about the immune system (at the high school level) ... 


Here's what students think -

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AI2yLjVxnU - 

and here's a demo -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l-NNB0ikSA ... 

It's been posted at WUaS's free Educational Software, wiki page for a long time -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software - 

but will look to add these videos.



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David Deeds in China on comparative virtual worlds, in a Second Life presentation about 1 month ago ...


[2012/04/10 19:45] Aphilo Aarde: yes
[2012/04/10 19:45] Kat Lemieux: Oh, then visit the International Spaceflight Museum, too!
[2012/04/10 19:45] Kat Lemieux: Good on you!
[2012/04/10 19:45] Josain Zsun: It's back
[2012/04/10 19:45] Aphilo Aarde: Here are some slurls to splo - http://www.splo.org/
[2012/04/10 19:46] Aphilo Aarde: for great SL physics
[2012/04/10 19:46] Kat Lemieux: Yes, ISM is back, and funded.
[2012/04/10 19:46] Vic Michalak: SciLands in general (SPLO, ISM, etc.)
[2012/04/10 19:46] Vic Michalak: And of course here!
[2012/04/10 19:47] Vic Michalak: Saturday at 10am Large Auditorium MICA presentations...
[2012/04/10 19:47] Josain Zsun: Other duties as assigned…
[2012/04/10 19:47] Josain Zsun: Depends on the cartel you belong to
[2012/04/10 19:48] Ute FrenburgUte Frenburg believes that optimism is very good!
[2012/04/10 19:48] Aphilo Aarde: @Ute :)
[2012/04/10 19:49] Oronoque Westland: sorry, what was the concern about Jokaydiagrid?
[2012/04/10 19:49] Oronoque Westland: but you can limit access to your sim
[2012/04/10 19:50] Oronoque Westland: even my univ has those concerns
[2012/04/10 19:51] Vic Michalak: I remember people saying the same thing about about the Web 15+ years ago (of course the % of porn was pretty high then...)
[2012/04/10 19:51] Oronoque Westland: and we are in a big metropolitan city with a subway heehee
[2012/04/10 19:51] Tool Rezzer: Sorry - Lock is enabled
[2012/04/10 19:52] Oshun Akina: Thank you David -- very interesting!
[2012/04/10 19:52] Sayrah Parx: thanks
[2012/04/10 19:52] Ute Frenburg: Thank you so much, David!! :-)
[2012/04/10 19:52] Oronoque Westland: thanks so much David....and all the best in your new job
[2012/04/10 19:52] Celestiall Nightfire: Thank you David!
[2012/04/10 19:52] Kat Lemieux: Thank you!
[2012/04/10 19:53] Ute Frenburg: Great poster site at VWBPE....very flashy...lol
[2012/04/10 19:53] Aphilo Aarde: thanks ... and good exchange of information, as well






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Porcupine in Klamath-Siskiyous: World University and School's new 'Machinima' page

http://kswild.org/what-we-do-2/biodiversity/porcupine/



Here's wiki World University and School's new 'Machinima' page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Machinima_Videos_%28Making%29.


Machinima are a form of videography/film-making in virtual worlds, and on the web.


WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW,

and is planning to be in all 3000-8000 languages

(Wikipedia is in 284 languages, by way of comparison),

and offer free, online, MIT-OCW centric Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees.


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Anyone can start a Subject page,

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects


and teach, learn and create at WUaS, -

simply by adding, for example a Machinima, as teaching, here.










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Rosewood trees: Are the internet and the web out of tune? In giving bagpipe lessons with video streaming in one direction but not together, my sense is that the web pitches tones up

http://s1.hubimg.com/u/1453328_f260.jpg


Are the internet and the web out of tune?

In giving bagpipe lessons with video streaming in one direction, and the other, but not together in real time, my sense is that the web pitches tones up (but I don't have perfect pitch).

Does anyone know?


I'm seeking to add such resources about this to the Computer Music wiki subject at WUaS - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music for the Music School 

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School), 

and eventually for online jamming and real time playing. ... 



Cool "TablaNet : a real-time online musical collaboration system for Indian percussion" ... 

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41750 ... 

but nothing about web tuning, and pitch, in this project that I've read so far ...


 added to the Tabla wiki subject page at WUaS, as well as the 2 subjects above ...






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White Ibis: LIVE Improv Comedy: Train Station - The Suggestibles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Architect Sketch, Bicycle Repair, WUaS Comedy, UC Berkeley ... :;8)))) ... What happens when BP spills coffee

http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/68/bp-gulf-oil-spill-birds-white-ibis-lg.jpg



LIVE Improv Comedy: Train Station - The Suggestibles ...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVX_UEPm7c ... 

will look to add to ... Comedy at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comedy ... 

and may start an 'Theater Improvisation' wiki subject soon-ish ...



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Monty Python and the Holy Grail ... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd_zkMEgkI ... 

"I thought we were living in an autonomous collective ..." 

... if life was this amusing 500 years ago, it'd have been quite enjoyable ... :)



Monty Python- Architect Sketch ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=e2PyeXRwhCE ... 

may add to WUaS Comedy or Architecture

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects :)

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The Galaxy Song ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk ...

from Monty Python's Meaning of Life ... add to Comedy at WUaS? ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comedy ...

some great things here already :)

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Bicycle Repairman from Monty Python ... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw ...

will look to add to WUaS's Comedy wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comedy ...

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Very funny ... :;8)))) ... this is what happens when BP spills coffee :-) 

BP Spills Coffee 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM … 

How do you think we should address our 85 million barrel a day addiction? ... 

will add this satire to WUaS's Ocean & Climate Management Plan .... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan ...

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Northern Spotted owl fledglings in Siskiyous: Friends, Giving to World University and School, Quakers, and Loving Bliss Eliciting

http://kswild.org/siteimages/owlspudsweb.jpg/image_preview


Hi D,

Thanks for your email. I hope your trip to Seattle is salutary, and that your father's leg is healing steadily and well, if slowly.

I see my time-budget getting tighter too in the next few weeks, with a friend coming for 2 nights next week, then SFFM's annual retreat, then a Reed gathering (for WUaS, in part, I hope), then FGC (also to share my leading about WUaS, in part), and field work for writing my Harbin book interspersed, weekly as much as possible. I continue to look for World University and School fundraising avenues, and we talk about this regularly at WUaS business meeting. Here's a recent example of WUaS's plan to connect with the people who have already given monies to WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Acknowledgement_of_Giving_to_World_University_and_School. It would be great if people in SF Friends' Meeting could benefit from WUaS over time.

Have fun at Quarterly Meeting, which I've enjoyed at Ben Lomond 1 or 2 times. This will be my first time at SFFM's retreat, which I'm looking forward to - sorry we won't overlap there.

Loving bliss elicitation ~ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29 ~ continues to be a focus for me, ... and a sense of limited time, as well as limited monies, crimps/inhibits such neurophysiological explorations and thinking, but I hope such 'seekings' are sharable, so others can benefit from 'neural cascades of pleasure,' in whatever language inspires them, as well. And perhaps even related 'musical' conversations are emerging. I'd love it if such conversations and foci and 'musical playing' would emerge with a good friend and partner, but that will emerge with the fullness of time.

See you at M one of these weeks.

I hope you find some trails, and fun byways, to explore in your travels home, as well.

Friendly regards,
Scott








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Grizzly: Leland Stanford and the Founding of Stanford University, Stanford's 'lenient policies on company formation,' Great ... "Eadweard Muybridge. Movement Four." ... ballet in film?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01539369c372970b-600wi

Leland Stanford and the Founding of Stanford University  ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-rAcHc6bok ...

and Stanford's 'lenient policies on company formation,

which led to why the valley is the way that it is' ...

love it, especially vis-a-vis World University and School ...


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Great ... "Eadweard Muybridge. Movement Four" ... ballet in film?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWfIeWFWBio


may add to Dance -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Dance -

and/or Film -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film -

at WUaS

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Grenadilla wood: So much wondrous music, if only on YouTube, {for us all} to add to all the Musical Instrument wiki Subject pages at WUaS, New 'Oboe,' wiki subject at WUaS, Insights into conducting from the NY Philharmonic's Alan Gilbert

http://www.lisasclarinetshop.com/site/pics/800/74206/277040/383635/grenadillbaum_small-1.jpg



So much wondrous music, if only on YouTube, ...

J.S. Bach "Italienisches Konzert" BWV 971 - Albrecht Mayer - Oboe


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJ-qwIKzfI

... {for us all} to add to all the Musical Instrument wiki Subject pages at wiki WUaS, -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School -

as well as to the other Music pages,

let alone play and innovate with,

teaching and learning-wise,

as well as musically ...

fields of musical flowers and flourishing forests ...


Here's a new 'Oboe,' wiki subject at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Oboe ...

to which I added the above 

"Italienisches Konzert" by J.S. Bach
gardens and gardens of amazing music,

as we tune into it all ... :)


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also added the above to the J.S. Bach WUaS wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach



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Insights into conducting from the NY Philharmonic's Alan Gilbert ...

Gilbert, Alan. 2012. [http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/04/06/arts/music/100000001474891/demystifying-conducting.html Demystifying Conducting: Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor]. New York, NY: video.nytimes.com ...

and added to Classical Western Music at

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Classical_Western_Music

... at World University and School.





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Salt Hay Grass: Just came across Victor and Angela's 'process' page ... "The World Within" :) ... added to Yoga at wiki World Univ & Sch, Happening Yoga places in the SF Bay Area

http://www.uri.edu/cels/bio/rishores/images/spatens.jpg



just came across Victor and Angela's 'process' page ...

http://www.angela-victor.com/process.html :) ...

added to Yoga at wiki World Univ and Sch ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ...



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Happening Yoga places in the SF Bay Area ...


In talking with an old Reed friend this morning,

he mentioned a number of yoga places in the SF Bay Area that he enjoys ...


http://www.yogatreesf.com/

http://www.anusara.com/

http://www.yogakula.com/


http://www.opentograce.com/

http://darrenmain.com/

http://www.gracecathedral.org/cathedral-life/communities/yoga/



Here are some more that I came across / know of ...

http://www.iyisf.org/


http://www.ashtangayoga.info/yoga-world/yoga-teacher-and-classes/item/vance-selover-berkeley-ashtanga-yoga-berkeley/

http://hannahfrancoyoga.com/





http://louisjacksonyoga.com/


http://www.shastriyoga.com/


Quick fix yoga videos ...
http://www.yogatuneup.com/quickfix-yoga-videos

(which I added to WUaS's Yoga wiki subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga)

http://www.jillmilleryoga.com/teachertraining.html






And here's Harbin's yoga page - http://www.harbin.org/yoga.htm


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and again ... http://www.angela-victor.com/process.html



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Not only are all of their web sites interesting from an anthropology of yoga on the web in the SF Bay Area perspective, but like Reed College Sociology professor, John Pock, who once suggested (in a Sociology of Religion course in the early 1980s) visiting churches on Sunday mornings to do sociological field work of the variety of religious experience / churches in Portland in the mid-'80s, it would be interesting to do something similar learning-wise in visiting these yoga studios, - and also to network and grow yoga community with them.

Also it's just an interesting glimpse into yoga these days in the SF Bay Area ...


As a very loose sociological interpretation, I think yoga (all of these yogis above have taught in California) these days offers practices for developing a healthy bodymind through asana, a community, culture, and meaning for practitioners, a language, set of narratives, a discourse and focus, identity, as well as a kind of sensible coping strategy for dealing with life, modernity and cities. Yoga also offers a positive vision of health and connectedness, as well as a means to change one's own neurophysiology, physically, in the context of such discourses.


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I'm also curious what's happening at the Fremont Hindu Temple in the South Bay in terms of yoga.


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Here's my yoga page - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm - with its somewhat unique, beginning-focus on questions of evolutionary biology, and well as wondrous-ness, in this art.


... would love to attend a yoga course again with Angela and Victor on Lesvos, Greece ... soon-ish ...








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Underwater Rainbows: enjoyed watching "Walking Rainbow: Fred Moore Remembered" made by Markley Morris of SF Friends' Meeting, Fred was also integral to the Home Brew Computer club

http://hawaiianseamonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Underwater-Rainbows.jpg


... just enjoyed watching "Walking Rainbow: Fred Moore Remembered" (26 mins.) about peace activist and nonviolent organizer in the SF Bay Area, made by Markley Morris of SF Friends' Meeting. D.K. on WUaS's Board was an interviewee ...

added to "Peace and Social Justice Studies" wiki, subject page at World University & School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies ...


Fred was also integral to the Home Brew Computer club in the SF Bay Area in the mid '70s with Steve Wozniak and so many other early Personal Computer luminaries then, in that time of computing creativity and envisioning.






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Haitian Solenodon: Two Awesome Examples of Repurposed OLPC Hand Cranks, as phone charger and as gravity charger !, just learned of this great! MIT Haiti site and here are some of its emerging resources

http://www.animalinfo.org/image/solepara1%2074.jpg


Two Awesome Examples of Repurposed OLPC Hand Cranks - OLPC News ...

as phone charger and as gravity charger ! ...

http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/power_supply/two_awesome_examples_of_repurposed_olpc_hand_cranks.html ...


will add to OLPC page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT ...

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just learned of this great! MIT Haiti site and here are some of its emerging resources ...

Muramatsu, Brandon. 2011. MIT’s Educational Materials Available for Faculty and Students in Haiti. November 11. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: haiti.mit.edu


Best Practices for Reconstruction. 2012. Pi Bon Zouti Pou Nou Rebati - Best Practices for Reconstruction: Technology-enhanced and open education in Haitian universities. Cambridge, MA: haiti.mit.edu

... both of which I added to WUaS's Haiti page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Haiti

This MIT Haiti educational resources page will be one great model for educational resources in many emerging and poor countries ... (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States)

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Markhor: Virtual University of Pakistan (Open Course Ware), WUaS's wiki Pakistan and Urdu pages

http://www.pakistanpaedia.com/glance/national%20animal-markhor-1.jpg


I recently came across the Virtual University of Pakistan (Open Course Ware) -

http://ocw.vu.edu.pk/ -

which I added to open, free World University and School's 'Pakistan,' wiki page

 (the beginning of an online, MIT OCW-centric, Pakistan University) -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pakistan.

See, too, the wiki Urdu language page at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Urdu :)

Such an abundance of growing open educational resources and in all languages and countries!

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Squirrel and infant: World University & School is about sharing and caring, e.g. Peace and Social Justice Studies, accrediting on MIT OCW and edX

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Squirrel-JWTaylor-Crop.jpg


World University and School is about sharing and caring vis-a-vis open, free education ...

(e.g. here's the Peace and Social Justice Studies' wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies) ...


where YOU can openly wiki teach and learn,


as well as about excellence in this,

our online, startup university,


with free degrees planned,


accrediting on MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/)

as well as edX (the new HarvardX / MITx collaboration - http://www.edxonline.org/).

Bateleur: Harbin comes out of the '60s (http://harbin.org/) ... Here's a French film - "La belle Verte," with back to the land, alternative envisioning, where modernity is strange ideas with similarities to Harbin

http://5601-newswatch.voxcdn.com/files/2012/05/Bateleur-Ronald-Krieger-875x700.jpg


Harbin comes out of the '60s (http://harbin.org/) ...


Here's a French film - "La belle Verte" (1996) -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5CmMm_SRpM

from the '90s with a lot of

back to the land,

alternative envisioning,

modernity is strange,

living-sanely-in-Paris-is-a-mess thinking ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/09/vallee-de-mai-seychelles-green.html ...

curious where these folks go to soak :)







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Acrinophrys sol: Great article about where the Digital Public Library of America stands presently, WUaS's Library Resources

http://www.tabathayeatts.com/Acrinophrys-sol.jpg


Here's a great article about where the Digital Public Library of America stands presently - http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/05/exercises-in-democracy-building-a-digital-public-library.ars. I'll add this to WUaS's Library Resources's wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources, and wonder with the article's mention of Europeana, the DPLA counterpart in Europe, how, or if, the DPLA is planning potentially for libraries in all 3000-8000 languages and around 200 countries, for which World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is beginning to plan. John Palfrey ... in what ways is the DPLA planning for such possible digital integrations?





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Asiatic golden jackal: What might greatly 'intellectual,' as well as greatly enjoyable learning/studying, be at world-class World University and School?

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/asiatic-golden-jackal.jpg


What might greatly 'intellectual,' as well as greatly enjoyable learning/studying, be at world-class World University and School? - ... "... get to place an extremely high value on creativity, on intellectual independence, and on a real, honest passion for learning and being.”  (- from Brown Univ. here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/intellectual-colleges_n_707087.html)? Read, write, do math and science and compute a lot, in symbolically and sophisticatedly rich ways (and are very well read), as well as sharing in a vision of great universities' intellectuality (such as these great universities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings)?






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Spiraea virginiana: ... innovation from a legal perspective -University of Virginia Law Professor John Duffy's "Inventing Invention" to WU Law School

http://vtpp.ext.vt.edu/pesticide-safety-education-program/endangered-species-and-pesticide-regulation/virginia-endangered-species-list/images/spiraea_virginiana_lg.jpg



... innovation from a legal perspective -

just added University of Virginia Law Professor John Duffy's "Inventing Invention" -

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087067 -


to both the WU Law School -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School -


and to the Innovation -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Innovation -

wiki, subject pages at World University and School ...



Here's the abstract:

"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be both new and useful. Now those two fundamental requirements have been joined by a third: Patentable inventions must also be nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the doctrine of invention, inventive step or simply the patentability requirement. This Article traces how this defining doctrine of invention was itself invented by the world legal culture. For scholars of intellectual property law, this history provides significant insights into the proper functioning and continued development of the doctrine. But the case study also gives much more general insights into the process of legal development, showing how one successful doctrine grew up and conquered the world while many failed doctrines with promising beginnings withered. The history reveals that the legal system itself is capable of generating true legal innovations - i.e., intellectual advances that are objectively better ways for accomplishing the purposes of the law. Such legal innovations can take decades, even centuries, to develop, and flawed doctrines can remain stable law for large portions of a century before their downfall. The case study has obvious relevance to the great debate over the so-called positive theory of the economic analysis of law and suggests that economic analysis should have a more unabashedly normative component, which might facilitate innovation and progress in law."


... will look to add it to the 'Patenting' page at WUaS, as well ...


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Patenting





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Bonobos at Lola: Fascinating co-authored paper, by 1 human and 3 Bonobos

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/great-apes/images/ouakamasisi_pat_redimensionner.jpg



Fascinating co-authored paper, by 1 human and 3 Bonobos -

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Kanzi Wamba, Panbanisha Wamba, and Nyota Wamba. 2007. Welfare of Apes in Captive Environments: Comments On, and By, a Specific Group of Apes. 10(1), 7–19. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science/Lawrence Erlbaum.

... and a response to it -

Bradshaw. G. A. 2010. An Ape Among Many: Animal Co-Authorship and Trans-species Epistemic Authority. 2010, 18:15–30. Configurations. ...

I've added these references+ to WUaS's

Primatology -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology and

Bonobos chimpanzee -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bonobo_chimpanzee wiki pages,

in a new "Culture and Chimpanzee" section ...


CA:

thanks for this interesting post on bonobos (gosh, authorship rules are so strict in medicine - how did these apes qualify?). very interesting read. you may enjoy "The Ape House", which i recently finished - and that features bonobos as well. ...

                                                                               
SM:

I think Sue Savage-Rumbaugh communicated with these Bonobos about their authorship, and they're not MDs, so not too worry.

I'll look at "The Ape House" and look to add it to WUaS's Primatology page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology -

look forward to catching up.






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Cup coral: U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence, What the Tipping Point is, Looks like Japan is shutting down Nukes, Diablo Canyon Nuke legal history

http://losangeles.freefunguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cup-coral-rigs1.jpg

Good explanation of the tipping point or threshold effect in Global Warming, where ocean ice melts quickly, and irreversibly, raising sea level ...

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/meet-jonathan-foley-climate-pragmatist/

... will add to Ocean & Climate Management Plan ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan at WUaS ...

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U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/business/energy-environment/inching-toward-energy-independence-in-america.html

... will look to add to

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies ...

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What's the legal history of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in San Luis Obispo, CA? Why & how, legally, was it retrofitted from a 6.75 (when it was built in the '60s) to a 7.5 in the '70s (per Wikipedia). What is its legal status now? Can Federal Law be brought to bear to close it, post Fukushima, which nuclear calamity was caused by a 9.0 earthquake, for public and species safety reasons? How best to close it, legally, now?

JL:

Don't know but I have been told the current governor had a lot to do with it?

WUaS's Nuclear Science and Engineering, wiki subject may become an academic department in the future. Abolish nuclear!

Looks like Japan is shutting down Nukes ... "Fifty-three reactors down, one to go: Japan may have a nuclear-free summer" ... http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fifty-three-reactors-down-one-to-go-japan-may/blog/39711/ ... Let's learn worldwide from the Fukushima Nuclear catastrophe and abolish it ... Here's WUaS's Nuclear Science adn Engineering subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering ...

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Most important lesson from Fukushima says Japanese MIT Professor - "Nuclear power plants should have multiple, reliable ways to cool reactors" ...  http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/05/2056247/world-is-ignoring-most-important-lesson-from-fukushima ... and Diablo Canyon Nuke in California is designed to withstand a 7.5 earthquake, where Fukushima was a 9 ... don't know how ways to cool Diablo there are, but we can add this here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering - and will look to add this slashdot piece to WUaS. 

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Battery innovation & good presentation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA - MIT Prof Donald Sadoway ... will add to WUaS's wiki Battery Technologies' page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Battery_Technologies ... 

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Both Japan and Germany are becoming known for a nuclear shutdown path - http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/27/472713/germany-fighting-climate-change-and-phasing-out-nuclear-power-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/ - will look to add to WUaS's Nuclear Science and Engineering subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering - abolish nuclear ... 

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Shooting Star: edX web site, MITx/HarvardX and WUaS/World University & School

Press Conference: Harvard, MIT Announce edX




I'm very excited about edX - the recently announced MITx-HarvardX collaboration - http://www.edxonline.org/ ("Watch the edX Press Conference" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pYwGpKMXuA) and http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/edx-faq-050212.html. Building on the free, online, now ~ 3000 edX / MIT OCW courses (per MIT's Anant Agarwal), the 42 Yale OYC, other great universities' Open Educational Resources - all here at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - (+), WUaS facilitates a new, wiki, university conversation, where YOU can teach, learn and create, all from home on your computer. Free (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD) degrees are planned. Excellence!




Here are some further thoughts about how World University a d School will benefit. Since MIT OCW is Creative Commons' law licensed, and the same as edX at present, WUaS can just proceed with accreditation on MIT OCW as planned.


Hi N,

Yes, WUaS incorporated in 2010, and received 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status as an educational charity in 2011, which is great!

The MIT OCW External Director in January took me out to lunch (when I was attending the Festival of Learning at the Media Lab), and WUaS is now inquiring about web cameras in MIT OCW classrooms for matriculating classes in 2014, - but edX has since come out, which may put live MIT / Harvard professors online anyway (I hope), as an open educational resource. This is particularly great!

WUaS is seeking a wiki that will not only work in all languages (MediaWiki is in around 284 with Wikipedia), but also on obscure browsers on older internet phones (like my Palm operating system on my Treo) for the developing world. Wiki on handhelds (like NYT's articles on my Treo, but as editable, wiki pages) may open accessibility in OLPC countries in more accessible ways than OLPC itself does.

Do you know of most versatile wikis, by any chance, - of wikis that display in most browsers on internet phones? It's Wiki that allows for people-to-people teaching, in addition to the MIT OCW / edX for free degrees, which are WUaS's foci and goals, - and potentially in all 3000-8000 languages and approximately 200 countries.

I hope to post more about ways WUaS will build on MIT OCW / edX in WUaS's blog, - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ - and I'll try to send you the link.

WUaS eventually hopes to hire matriculated UC Berkeley student interns, as well as Stanford, Harvard and MIT ones (undergraduate and graduate), for all languages and countries.

Regards,
Scott






Dear L,

Thanks for sending this first information about edX.  ... exciting ... and great, and for WUaS potentially, too. Interesting to see how they structure their organizations - with clearly stated directors, for example.

I couldn't yet find the edX web site to add to WUaS's courses page.

WUaS will have to explore about the possibilities of accrediting with WASC for free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and MD, degrees on edX and MIT OCW, together or separately. And no mention is made of the all 3000-8000 languages, so edX could serve as a kind of enhanced MIT OCW, and then be translated, etc., into many languages.

I'm glad M, at Oxford, and friends are continuing to improve Wikipedia software, with WikiData and WikiBase, and we've heard back positively from him a few times, (which is good for WUaS), but until we get monies, we won't be able to hire such folks, or MIT students as WUaS graduate student instructors.

It probably would be helpful for WUaS to be in closer communication with this new MIT / Harvard edX initiative, especially for WUaS degree granting, country accreditation, and all languages and perhaps that can happen over the next few months and years.

Sincerely,
Scott




Dear L,

Here's edX - MITx and HarvardX's - promotional video ...  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/edx-faq-050212.html ... with video of the MIT and Harvard Deans and Provosts of these programs.

I missed their news' conference at 7am PT - http://web.mit.edu/ .

This will make so many great faculty member resources available.

No mention of the Conference Method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning) so far in edX, either.

Sincerely,
Scott






Dear L,

Here's the edX web site - http://www.edxonline.org/ - and it looks like the possibly recorded news' conference is here.

I've added this http://www.edxonline.org/ to the 'Courses' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses - at WUaS ...

I think edX's plan to charge for certificates gives WUaS a competitive advantage in WUaS's plan to offer free, online Bachs, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees.

Students will still be living at home with those costs, as well as book costs, etc., at WUaS, even as WUaS remains an open, free, wiki teaching and learning platform for all.

Sincerely,
Scott





Dear L,

WUaS also would like to be a significant job producer/generator, including of university professors, but in all spheres of education (and university is BIG worldwide these days), and in all languages, in a way that MIT and Harvard probably can't because they're building on their existing infrastructure.

But engaging the edX MIT Harvard 'brands' would be invaluable for WUaS. And communicating about with Harvard/MIT over the long term should probably be a priority for WUaS.

(I hope we can make forms of grading helpful in the long term to the students, in the form of offering new opportunities for learning, instead of just to the institution/society).

Sincerely,

Scott






Dear T,


Making wiki edX - the recently announced MITx / HarvardX Open Educational Resources' collaboration, already a rich basis for WUaS accrediting, - will extend these resources remarkably, (not to mention in all languages and countries).

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Tamar Tamarix ramosissima: Ethnographic films or doing/practicing Ethnography or Ethnomusicology or Anthropology or Folklore, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" from Amer Anthro

http://smithsonianscience.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Tamar_Tamarix_ramosissima1.jpg




What are some guidelines for making Ethnographic films or doing/practicing Ethnography or Ethnomusicology or Anthropology or Folklore to add to these WUaS subjects ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... 


so people, while traveling or touring, for example, might have a resource 


 (with the MIT OCW + Anthropology resources) 


with which to create interpretations ? 


(a kind of crowd-sourcing of Ethnology?) ... extending this conversation ...


What would you add to the 'Ideas' section here ... 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ethnographic_Film ?


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Remember the amusing and illuminating narrative 


"Body Ritual among the Nacirema" from the American Anthropologist, 


which many read in a first Anthropology class? ... 


https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html ... 




added this to the WUaS anthropology subject ... 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology ... 


earlier today ... 


spell Nacirema backward to explore further ... :)








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Kummerowia stipulacea: Two, new, Nation States', wiki, subject pages at WUaS: Korea and the Netherlands

http://delawarewildflowers.org/images/kummerowia_stipulacea.jpg



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Two, new, Nation States', wiki, subject pages at WUaS: Korea - 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Korea,_Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of - 


and the Netherlands - 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Netherlands ... 


Each will become a university in itself, 


paralleling the English WUaS, 


and with plans to accredit on MIT OCW in main languages there.

Each wiki page has some significant, open course ware collections, 


in those languages, to start.

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Forests: New, 'Forestry,' wiki subject at WUaS

Of Forests and Men ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSaAlPRN-c
(Trying to find a way to link images and videos to titles, such as the one above, since Google changed blogger.com format - may Google this. I began the "Heron ... " entry below before Google made its changes).


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New, 'Forestry,' wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Forestry ...

linked to many of the WUaS Agriculture subjects -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Organic_Agriculture#World_University_and_School_Links




...

MIT and Harvard announce EdX, Exciting ... and Great, - and for World Univ & Sch potentially, too, WUaS's plan to offer free, online Bachs, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees. (Students will still be living at home with those costs, as well as book costs, etc., at WUaS).

MIT and Harvard announce EdX ...

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/edx-faq-050212.html

... exciting

... and great,

and for World Univ & Sch potentially, too ...


WUaS will have to explore about the possibilities of accrediting with WASC

for free Bachelors, Ph.D., Law and MD, on EdX and MIT OCW,

together or separately.


And no mention is made of the all 3000-8000 languages

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages),

or accrediting in many countries,

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States)

(or wiki-fying the process, so people can teach to each other which is part of WUaS)

so EdX could serve as a kind of enhanced MIT OCW,

and then become translated, etc., into many languages.



Here's the EdX web site -

http://www.edxonline.org/ -

and it looks like the recorded news' conference is here.


I'll add this EdX site (http://www.edxonline.org/) to the 'Courses' page at WUaS ...


I think EdX's plan to charge for certificates gives WUaS a competitive advantage in WUaS's plan to offer free, online Bachs, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees.

(Students will still be living at home with those costs, as well as book costs, etc., at WUaS).

Sincerely,
Scott





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Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument

"Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument" - 


http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm.


Thoughts, ideas, observations, inspirations?


Add them to the 'Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology)" ...


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

And check out the "yo-yo ma lesson" here at World University and School's Cello wiki subject page - 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cello - 


to see a virtuoso teach and skillful cellists learn.

And here are many Singing wiki subject pages at WUaS - 


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing#World_University_and_School_Links - 


where anyone can teach, learn or create, 


potentially interactively in real time, and/or via video, 


or in ways people create, 


and which can lead to bliss-elicitation.

Let's explore eliciting bliss neurophysiology via yoga.

Regards and Namaste,

Scott