Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog: Glad to see this upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on Creating a Law School e-Curriculum with Oliver Goodenough, World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella, California already has 12 online law schools, See BRIAN BURNSED's US News article - "Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar"

Glad to see this open, upcoming, online, Harvard talk on Tuesday, July 9, 9:30am Pacific Time, on


Creating a Law School e-Curriculum

with Oliver Goodenough
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8386

I hope WUaS might engage fully such Harvard (and MIT) resources as they emerge to benefit people around the world.


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World University and School is planning a law in each of 204+ countries, under one umbrella ...

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


(See, too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law at WUaS).

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California, the state in which WUaS is incorporated, has 12 online law schools (none of these are ABA approved, but anyone can sit the California Bar exam, regardless of such approval, as I understand it), at present, and WUaS would like to develop another online MIT OCW/Harvard-centric law school, and eventually accredit in all 204 countries in the world, in main languages in those countries, beginning with the 6 United Nations' languages. 

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California already has 12 online law schools -

BURNSED, BRIAN. 2012. [ http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2011/03/23/online-law-schools-have-yet-to-pass-the-bar Online Law Schools Have Yet to Pass the Bar: Many argue that fully online programs aren't the path to a traditional legal career]. June 20. (updated from March 23, 2011). USNews.


(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/lawtons-wrinkled-ground-frog-glad-to.html)




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Even in the Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org) I couldn't find a picture of  Lawton's Wrinkled Ground Frog (Platymantis lawtoni), so the above photo is a Platymantis but not lawtoni.






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West Indian Manatee: Dear Students and Parents interested in WUaS and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees, Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about World University and School next week (probably on Tu, 4/2 or W, 4/3, in the evening C.T.)

Upcoming, G+ group video Hangout online opportunity for prospective students to ask questions about MIT OCW-centric World University and School next week, probably on Tuesday, July 2nd or Wednesday, July 3rd, in the evening around 5pm Central Time (with exact time to be posted here later). 


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Dear Students and Parents interested in World University and School and free, online, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees,

Here are the Admissions' page at WUaS as well as related, upcoming, degree-program links on the Admissions' page at WUaS:

Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Related degree-program links at Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links


Here are some WUaS outreach things for prospective students to do:

- Please send your contact information to World University and School, -worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - if you are interested in applying to  WUaS this autumn 2013.

- Watch this new, outreach VIDEO

"FGC WUaS F/friendly outreach in Colorado, FAQs" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk - Yea !!!

- Stay tuned to the WUaS Youtube channel with this above video - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - and with new WUaS channel art!


Two, WUaS, informational flyer PDFs are attached.


For planning purposes, students would be taking 32 of these MIT OCW courses over 4 years -

MIT OCW audio and video -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ (check out an individual course) - engaging the interactive

Conference Method -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning -

in something like Google + group video Hangouts -
https://plus.google.com/hangouts -

for a free, online, accrediting, MIT OCW-centric, bachelor's degree.


Students will purchase their own books and computers, and probably be living at home, in the neighborhoods where they went to high school.

WUaS FAQs are here online - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions - and they are printable from this page, if small.


With friendly greetings,
Scott MacLeod

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Amazonian Manatee: For prospective students (11th graders?) to World University and School - New Video Introduction, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at WUaS

New, video introduction to prospective students (11th graders) to World University and School, with Sherri Maurin and Scott MacLeod ...




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk




FGC WUaS Friendly outreach in Colorado

World University and School Friendly outreach to Friends' General Conference participants in Greeley, Colorado

Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Related degree-program links at Admissions at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, educational organization.



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See, too, the World University and School blog -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/for-prospective-students-11th-graders.html.


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), wiki page at WUaS ...

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

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Yew trees: "WHO IS LAW FOR?," Magna Carta, Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then, Added her blog entry to WUaS's Law, wiki, subject, WUaS's beginning Law School, planned for all countries, under one umbrella, In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

Magna Carta

Oxford lecturer, Dr. Hannah Skoda, in medieval history's blog, - http://ideasnowandthen.blogspot.co.uk/ - has much about law in medieval times and now.


She suggests the Magna Carta greatly gave the benefits of law, and a legal system, to 'freemen' in the 1200s, but not many people were 'freemen' then.



She begins this blog entry:

"One of the most famous clauses of Magna Carta states that law is there for everyone – ‘to no one will we deny right or justice’.  But we all know that everyone doesn’t mean everyone.  Who was excluded?  Quite simply, the charter only included freemen – and huge numbers In England in 1215 were technically unfree and therefore ineligible for the supposed guarantees and protections offered by law…."



Hi Hannah,

Thanks for your edifying blog entries.

Skoda, Hannah. 2013. WHO IS LAW FOR?. June 26. Oxford, UK: Now and Then Blog.

I've added this entry - http://ideasnowandthen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/who-is-law-for-one-of-most-famous.html - to the 'Law,' wiki Subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law - at World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), and which is planning, online, Creative Commons' licensed, (so free), MIT-centric, university degrees (bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D.) in many countries and languages, including Law Schools in all 204+ nation states (per the "Olympics"), and in their main languages. (Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison).

Here's the beginning, online, Law School at WUaS, in English ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School ... In the spirit of the Magna Carta, I hope WUaS might extend free, accredited (if possible,) legal education toward law degrees, in all countries, plus more.

Would you like to start a Medieval History, wiki, subject at WUaS, in English (and perhaps in German eventually, too) -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and help focus it over time? We could then add this whole blog. :)

(I saw your posting about this in academia.edu - http://oxford.academia.edu/HannahSkoda).

Best regards,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

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Orange-spotted Emerald Dragonfly: Many, new, WUaS, Bagpiping, wiki pages, as well as a Celtic Music page with links, and Celtic instrument pages, Added Gordon Walker at the Glennfiddich 2008 to the new GHB page, And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages, Music Playing Spaces online in Google + group video Hangouts, Toward a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages}

Two, new, Bagpiping, wiki pages today -

Great Highland Bagpipe -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe -

(which I've separated from the long-time, WUaS, Bagpipe Tutorials' page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials#World_University_and_School_Links)

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes -


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Greetings from the SF Bay Area. Very nice to meet you in Bend, Oregon, recently. I enjoyed the music you played in the session on the Uilleann pipes a lot.

I was looking up "The Last Piper" or "A Solo Piper" Highland Bagpipe recording by Gordon Walker which you mentioned but didn't find the title I recalled you saying. Gordon Walker's recordings listed on Wikipedia are here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Walker_(piper).  What's the name of the recording again, please? (I found it in iTunes, actually with 4 pipers on the recording - "The Last Piper
Stuart Shedden, Roddy McLeod, Gordon Walker & Angus McColl" (2003)).

Here are some relevant World University and School wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning re Piping plus ...

Uilleann pipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Uilleann_pipes (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

Bagpipe Tutorials -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Piobaireachd -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r


Celtic Music -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music  (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

(see, too, this Celtic Music page's links'  - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music#World_University_and_School_Links)


Tin Whistle

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

And here's the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages. 

Please share these with your fellow musicians, perhaps by forwarding them this email, for example. A little like Wikipedia, WUaS is all about 'teaching to (or learning from) a page', 'editing a page' or starting a new page, so please invite your co-music makers to engage this ... toward a kind of musical flourishing (in addition to free, MIT OCW-centric, online university degrees).

Let's explore an online Music Playing Space at some point in a Google + group video Hangout. (Do you have a G+ profile page? And which of these gmail addresses are yours?) I'll mention to Lynne at HoB that I met you at some point.

Best regards,
Scott


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And alphabetically ...

Bagpipe Tutorials - 

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

Bagpipe Tutorials' page with links -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials#World_University_and_School_Links)

Celtic Music - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music  (a new, WUaS, wiki page) 

(see, too, this Celtic Music page's links'  - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Celtic_Music#World_University_and_School_Links)

Great Highland Bagpipe - 

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

Piobaireachd - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes - 

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

Tin Whistle 

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

Uilleann pipes - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Uilleann_pipes (a new, WUaS, wiki page)

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STV Scotland : Glenfiddich Piping Championship - Gordon Walker MSR (2008)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=yme4_Igm7lc


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WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments and eventually in all 7,105+ languages. 

 ... for a flourishing, musical culture of beautiful music, of all kinds, and online {and in all languages} ...





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Northern Spotted Owl: Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation, Reed College and WUaS Media, A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate, student applicants, if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

Dear J, 

It was nice to talk with you earlier today. 

Here's a little about WUaS per your request for information: World University and School is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, and is planning Creative Commons' licensed (so free), online, accredited MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in English first, and eventually in many languages and countries; I'm posting below the WUaS Admissions' page with links to the degrees+ WUaS plans to offer, beginning with a Ph.D. (2015), Law (2016), and M.D. (2017), and about which WUaS is interested in exploring a long-term collaboration with Reed. While World University and School is course-centric, WUaS is also planning wiki schools in all 7,105 + languages and 204+ countries, each a wiki, Subject page to begin, for open, people-to-people teaching and learning. 

WUaS Admissions' page with links - 

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


Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School - 

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - 

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - 

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - 


And here's a helpful overview blog entry from WUaS's blog - 

"Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Earth as 'classroom'"- 
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html . 


I met with former Reed President Colin Diver for an hour in his office in Elliott about 2 or 3 years ago to talk about WUaS; he gave me a copy of Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen's "Disruptive Innovation" at the end of our talk. And I've inquired about the possibility of meeting with Reed President John Kroger in the upcoming future to talk also about Reed College and World University and School collaborations, especially vis-a-vis WUaS's online graduate programs.

A Reed-WUaS collaboration could particularly benefit Reed in terms of reaching many more high achieving undergraduate student applicants, - perhaps with a current goal of 5,000, up from the present 3,000 applicants, and an eventual goal of 50,000 applicants, which is significantly more than Harvard College's 34,000 applicant pool - if great students knew that great MIT OCW-centric, graduate programs (Ph.D., Law and M.D. - and in many languages) in a Reed-WUAS collaboration were possible, and online for free! Let's explore this collaboration richly to get the word out!

WUaS would like to become the MIT / Harvard of the Internet and in all languages and countries. 

And WUaS just got the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process. 

I look forward to meeting you as a Reed Trustee at 4 in San Francisco, vis-a-vis our developing Reed College and World University and School collaboration conversation.

Best regards, 
Scott


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Reed College and WUaS Media - 

I'm very glad to have gotten this entry in the recent "Metamorphosis" edition of the Reed Magazine (June 2013) ... which I've posted here below in its entirety. Here's the note: 





1985: Scott MacLeod sends readers an invitation to engage startup World University and School, worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University, "which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), at which people can openly teach and learn what they'd like. WUaS is inviting Reedies to develop the many pages of WUaS, and in many languages, much like Wikipedia. "While WUAS will always be a wiki (editable web pages), WUaS is MIT OCW-centric, and planning to offer free, online, MIT-centric, Creative Commons-licensed, bachelor, PhD, IB, law, MD degrees and beginning with a first, matriculating bachelor's degree class in 2014, but expanding soon, then, into the six United Nations' languages and some lingua francas of Africa." Scott says that WUaS plans eventually to hire interns, as it becomes financially operational, to develop much of WUaS, but is searching now for volunteers. See questions, ideas, and observations to worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com.



And here's how I'm citing this note:

Reed Magazine. 2013. 1985: Scott MacLeod sends readers an invitation to engage startup World University and School, worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University, "which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), at which people can openly teach and learn what they'd like. Class Notes, p. 49, June. ("Metamorphosis" issue). Portland, OR: Reed Magazine.



And here are some other recent WUaS mentions in Reed College media:


Reed on the Road 2013: Campaign Edition (as the third response)


Scott MacLeod says:
February 18, 2013 at 12:15 pm

http://blogs.reed.edu/riffin_griffin/2013/02/reed-on-the-road-2013/


Scott '85 suggests interning at World University and School (wiki/startup)
http://beta.reedswitchboard.com/posts/663-scott--85-suggests-interning-at-world-university-and-school--wiki-startup

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Maned wolf: Wikidata and World University and School

Dear Wikidatans,

Thanks for this email thread.

I'd like to float a proposal for this ecosystem of Wikidatas vis-a-vis World University and School, (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), with our plans for a wiki school or online, Creative Commons' licensed university (with free, online, C.C., MIT-centric, university degrees planned) in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries. C.C. WUaS hopes to engage Wikidata, as well.

I've begun a link on the WUaS, wiki, Subjects' page called "Wikidata databases and ecosystem," - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - which can easily become an extensible, wiki, subject page itself (using a modified version of Wikidata with the WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) in all languages and countries, to link all the (small number of) Wikidatas that emerge. (Check out this extensible, WUaS, wiki SUBJECT TEMPLATE, since it has many of the possible categories mentioned above in this email thread).

Here is the beginning, Languages' wiki page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - eventually to link all languages, each as a school or university.


And here is the beginning Nation States' wiki page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - eventually to link all nation states, each as a school or university.

The wiki, extensible, WUaS all-languages' (7,105 per "Ethnologue") and all-nation states' (204 per "The Olympics") approach has the merit of potentially including all emergent Wikidatas in all languages (for an universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator), and in all nation states for legal questions, in a way that fully supports the amazing interlingual Wikidata (which is planned for Wikipedia's 285 languages +), and also, - since many/most of these Wikidatas may be data about generative shared knowledge - will therefore fit well with World University and School which is for open, free, wiki, people-to-people teaching and learning.

Best regards,
Scott





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Pongo abelii: Planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses - A) Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses, B) Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead, C) Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world, Wearable Electronics at WUaS, (See the Oculus Rift and this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading), (WUaS Solar Car as Innovation, too?), Would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS

In thinking about/planning for developing Harbin Bubble Glasses, or a pair of Cyber-Glasses, as ethnographic field site, and for people with disabilities like a f/Friend of mine who has ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease, I’m curious to include the following:

Interactive real life video viewable from inside the lens of the glasses

- Ability to visit and view the Harbin warm pool/ pool area inside, for example, REI Glacier Glasses

- With realistic and fantastic avatars

- Partly scripted

- Partly in interactive real life video - think OpenSim and Second Life, for example, but not cartoonesque

- Speakers near the ears

- For relaxation response meditation in warm water in one's bathtub, for example, significantly

- Designed for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, if possible
- As developing virtual world 'classroom' or 'learning space' in digital glasses at World University and School

Brainwave headset – planning for 20 years’ ahead

- Sensors all around the glasses where they connect to the head

- Think http://brainfingers.com or "Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves" or the Oculus Rift (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=EKhp4H3DUwE)

- Reads brainwave, minute eye movement, and electrical activity signals to interact with computer screen

- Also eventually send signals into the brain

- Design for fluid communications for people with ALS, for example, and without words or gestures
- For example, to interweave narratives, musical motifs, imagery, ideation with a friend
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences at WUaS -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences

Video camera on glasses as datafeeds into realistic, interactive, virtual world

- To provide data for a massive interactive real time real life virtual world, (but not at Harbin)

- so that data from around the world, on terra firma, in the atmosphere and under the oceans can be gathered and digitized with these glasses

-  and aggregated in a massive, interactive, real life, virtual world that WUaS also constructs, that also includes plans to model the universe + 

- scalable to 4 x 4 panels of 60 inch screens, such as in the MIT Media Lab, as well as in the glasses themselves and in other ways 

Design for people like my friend (A.S.) and Stephen Hawkings and others with ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease, for fluent brain-computer communications when one’s nervous system fails, for example, with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – also referred to as motor neurone disease. 

 Perhaps spin off a WUaS company for these, and keep a 20 year development horizon in mind. 

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I see developing these Harbin Bubble Glasses as ethnographic field site for the second volume in my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book project (which I had planned for the first volume, but which was sadly stolen with a knapsack with a first virtual Harbin in OpenSim, as well as a first, very different manuscript in June 2009; I've recently completed the 9 draft chapters of my first volume in my Harbin book project).

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Wearable Electronics at WUaS - 

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



(See this article with 6 videos about where Google Glass is heading -  http://mashable.com/2013/05/01/google-glass-video-demos/)

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Similarly WUaS may eventually invite faculty at WUaS to develop a solar car (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Vehicle and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Vehicle#World_University_and_School_Links - (with Nissan, for example?)), with a 20 year horizon in mind. 

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... would like to dedicate the development of these Harbin Bubble Glasses to my friend with ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis), whom I just saw today in Lake County, California, at a Quaker Meeting. 

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Lemurs: New, African languages, wiki Subject page at WUaS, "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families," "Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages, Ethnologue's Africa page, What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity!, All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to Africans to build them.

New, African languages' wiki, Subject page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages - and -

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


From Wikipedia (Languages of Africa), I learned that "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families: Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel Nilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad (disputed validity) Niger–Congo (Bantu) covers West, Central, and Southeast Africa Khoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana Austronesian on Madagascar. Indo-European on the southern tip of the continent"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa


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"Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages - 

http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics

Ethnologue's Africa page,  not wiki -

http://www.ethnologue.com/page/africa


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What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity! :)


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All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to native speakers and Africans especially to build them online.



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Ocelot: Drove through the Umatilla peoples' lands, and also Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today, Created two new, Native American languages' wiki, Subject pages - in both Sahaptin and Chinook, for open teaching and learning, each of which will become a school. Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.

... drove through the Umatilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_people) peoples' lands today (on Interstate 84 in Oregon) and learned they are a Sahaptin language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahaptin_language) speaking group, originally.


So I created a new Sahaptin language, wiki, Subject page at WUaS -

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


Anyone can teach a course or what they'd like to YouTube, for example, as well as add resources.


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And here are likes other Native American language resources at WUaS ...

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


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I also drove through Warm Springs' Indian Reservation lands today -

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

and learned they speak the Chinook language - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon - which is a pidgin ("Like the Grand Ronde Agency in western Oregon, the Warm Springs Reservation is one of the last holdouts in the U.S. of speakers of the Chinook Jargon because of its utility as an inter-tribal language. The forms of the Jargon used by elders in Warm Springs vary considerably from the heavily-creolized form at Grand Ronde. Kiksht, Numu and Ichishkiin Snwit languages are taught in the Warm Springs Reservation schools").

So I created a Chinook language, wiki, Subject page at WUaS -

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

for open teaching and learning, and which will become a school.


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Both of these languages will also become schools in those languages.



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See, too, another post from two days ago (June 18, 2013) about two, other, new, Native American languages at WUaS -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/woodland-caribou-drove-through-yakama.html













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African Spurred Tortoise: Mali, in Africa, wiki (editable), subject page, "US Anthropologist in Mali Becomes Sought-After Blogger," Languages of Mali, African Languages at WUaS

Mali, in Africa, wiki (editable), subject page, as beginnings of an online school/university, in English, and in languages in Mali, to come ... at Nation States at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ... with an invitation to folks to begin this page ...


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"US Anthropologist in Mali Becomes Sought-After Blogger"
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/US-Anthropologist-in-Mali-Becomes-Sought-After-Blogger-146884205.html

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Languages of Mali:

French language at WUaS:

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


Bambara (not yet at WUaS):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambara_language (in Wikipedia)



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WUaS's Languages -

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


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African Languages at WUaS

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

African Languages's links at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages#World_University_and_School_Links




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Woodland caribou: Drove through Yakama Nation lands in Washington state yesterday, also drove through Snoqualmie native american lands today, Yakama's Sahaptin language, Snoqualmie peoples' Lushootseed language, Both languages are not yet wiki-schools at WUaS's Languages' page (planned for all 7,105+), Flourishing languages {All} and a universal translator? Yes :), http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Native_American_Languages

... drove through Yakama Nation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakama_Nation) lands in Washington state yesterday, looping through the town of Toppenish, which has a great many large murals on many of its buildings in its downtown, with many scenes of cattle days, as well as a lot of Yakama and Latino peoples in them.

(Here are some other Yakama blog posts of mine from a few years' ago ... ).


I'm curious about developing flourishingly the Yakima language - the Sahaptin language - university and school -

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

and which isn't begun yet.



I also drove through Snoqualmie native american lands today, crossing the Pacific Crest Trail, which I hiked to from Canada in 1 1/2 months, in 1982, I think), and stopped at the The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum - http://www.snoqualmievalleymuseum.org/ - which opened vistas into the place and history.


The Snoqualmie peoples spoke the Lushootseed language -

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

which is not posted on WUaS's language page yet ...

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

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Native American Languages at WUaS:

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



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Flourishing languages {All} and a universal translator? Yes :) -

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

with an invitation to wiki edit, add, learn and teach ...






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Western Gray Wolf: Curious how to collaborate further with Reed College flourishingly to become the MIT / Harvard, as well as Oxbridge of the Internet, - in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries

... talked today again with a Director at Reed College (thank you!) about a Reed / World University and School collaboration conversation (after talking with the recent, past, Reed College President Colin Diver about this for an hour about 2 years ago on the way to the Rainbow Gathering in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington) ...

I'm curious how WUaS might collaborate further with Reed College flourishingly to become the MIT / Harvard, as well as Oxbridge of the Internet, - in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries ...


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Here, again, are some items at the top of my WUaS - Reed agenda:

- open a long-term WUaS conversation with Reed

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - especially at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities - and these, particular -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia (where G grew up), for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- hire Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/indian-peafowl-looking-forward-to.html)


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See, too ...

"Mantled Howler Monkey: Reed College's ReedFayre Reunion ... In what ways can WUaS plan to become the Oxford and Cambridge of the Internet, 800 years into the future, in addition to becoming the MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford of the Internet, and, on the wiki side, for open, people-to-people teaching, in all languages (7,413+) and countries (204+)?, This ReedFayre provides much to think about in this regard, Harvard has the biggest endowment in the world for an university, WUaS can plan in the following ways in seeking overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries, STEM-centricity, Overachievers, Law, Medicine, Community, "Do Good, Do Great, Do Care - Information Technologically"" ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/mantled-howler-monkey-reed-colleges.html





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amur leopard: finding relaxation response eliciting salutary and beneficial for years, focusing the relaxation response meditation in new ways? is doing the relaxation response for me a kind of individual culture generation?

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finding relaxation response eliciting salutary and beneficial for years ...

a kissing of the inner bodymind,

and an easing and attunement anew,


and also in the context of Quaker Meeting (and just today at Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, after a long time not at this Quaker Meeting, on Sunday), in an nontheistically f/Friendly, manner, as well as in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool {the warm water in lotus pose eases me into meditation deeply} ... and I've been wondering how to move beyond a daily relaxation response meditation, in a variety of ways, but especially in terms of eliciting an easing loving bliss, and often, into ways of flourishing (eudaimonia) ...

... many wonderful neurophysiologies ...


How to explore these neurophysiologies further, especially in the context of evolutionary biology, for example, as well as in visionary ways?


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Is doing the relaxation response daily for me a kind of individual culture generation?

I wondered this morning while doing the relaxation response - having missed a morning eliciting the relaxation response, then done it the next day, then missed it yesterday, both times without thinking about missing it, - whether I was in a way generating culture, in my own way, with it, and being back in Reed's familiar culture or ethos (with its aspects of student counterculture), meant this familiar culture (being immersed in it by living on campus) made doing the relaxation response daily not happen (and that my doing it daily was indeed a form of culture generation). ... interesting observation and connection, I also thought, and I suppose so ... How to begin to articulate culture and biology, in this respect, further, I wonder?


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Relaxation Response ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response

Meditation ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Meditation






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Big, green, iridescent forests speak to me in Oregon, on the road to Reed

Big, green, iridescent forests
speak to me in Oregon, ~
and blue skies and gray clouds
color everything,
with wild, different light.

Timbering industry lumbers on,
as Old Growth forests diminish,
as I drive north to Stumptown,
not yet in a solar car,
to Reed's ReedFayre,
a reunion in Portland,
which is growing big
with people.

Reed's canyon -
that green water-valley in its middle, full of life,
this campus's natural focus these days, -
old friends,
a gentler, Oregon ethos,
than many, in modernity,
are welcomingly familiar,
and I speak quietly here to folks
of World University and School,
influenced as it is,
in its knowledge generation focus, especially,
by Reed's
intellectual culture.

I wander down
on a tour,
into the depths of its library,
to the calligraphic Lloyd Reynolds' collection,
and learn of a book,
full of Beat poets and writing-art,
"LJR: Stained the Water Clear a Festschrift for Lloyd J Reynolds,"
a long time Reed professor,
whom didn't teach Steve Jobs calligraphy -
that was Father Palladino -
before Jobs dropped out,
turned on,
moved back to the Bay,
to found Apple with Woz,
in a garage.
A Lloyd Reynolds' weathergram,
10 words or less calligraphed, about nature,
on paper,
preferably cut from an old, brown bag,
dangles from a tree,
like a treat,
outside the library,
which didn't say,

'Big, green, iridescent forests 

speak to me in Oregon,'

but was instead writ with,  ~

"The new buds open from within,
are lit from behind"

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