Peaks: Sing the Sun, Heard Harbin's Sun~Heart called Strong-Heart ... while World Uni singing

Sing the Sun,
Heard
Harbin's Sun~Heart
called Strong-Heart
there today
in the pool area,
and called him
"Sung Sun," while
World Uni singing.

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...

Congolese forests: Returning to Harbin after many weeks away, A kind of Yoga dreaming, A crossing over that Congolese river into Bonobo jungles in Africa, metaphorically ... where here the "river" is that of Mt St Helena just north of the Napa Valley ... and Harbin is on the Bonobo side, whereas the "chimpanzees" could be on the Bay Area side ... Field work ... ethnographic meditating in the Harbin warm pool ahead ... But not explicitly about the Bonobo_chimpanzee Subject at WUaS, although I explore Bonobo conceptualizations in my 400 actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript ... Would Oxford publish my manuscript?

Returning to Harbin after many weeks away ...

A kind of Yoga dreaming ~

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


A crossing over that Congolese river into Bonobo jungles in Africa, metaphorically ...

where here the "river" is that of Mt St Helena just north of the Napa Valley ... and Harbin is on the Bonobo side, whereas the "chimpanzees" could be on the Bay Area side ...

Field work ... ethnographic meditating in the Harbin warm pool ahead ...


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But not explicitly about the Bonobo_chimpanzee Subject at WUaS ~

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

although I explore Bonobo conceptualizations in my 400 actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript ...


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Would Oxford UP in the UK publish my manuscript?

Oxford Anthro on Twitter -
https://twitter.com/oxford_anthro

Oxford Anthro -
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

...

Bird pairs: If Google Books works out ... Anticipating translating my Harbin book in many many languages, A WUaS universal translator, An Academic Press at WUaS in ALL 7,929 languages, Anticipating an interactive 3D film-realistic build-able Google Earth as ethnographic field site, For ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, - this would be best, And all even as a strategic partnership with Google (and with CC Wikimedia's CC Wikidata too)

Hi M,

Too bad about my actual virtual Harbin ethnographic 400 page manuscript and Berghahn Press but ...

if Google Publisher works out, and

anticipating translating my Harbin book in many many languages (for Press learning purposes too) and even -

an Academic Press at WUaS in ALL 7,929 languages, and
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

(Academic Books at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Books_at_WUaS - too) -

a WUaS universal translator,
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator), and

anticipating an interactive 3D film-realistic build-able Google Earth as ethnographic field site, and for

ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy,

it will be alright (and better) ... and all even as


a strategic partnership with Google
(e.g. re WUaS business plans - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/07/wuass-business-plans-7-foci-updated-in.html)


(and with CC Wikimedia's CC Wikidata too)...

but a big if ....

As a friend said, he's keeping his fingers' crossed about Google.


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Here's what Google Publisher has said here - https://play.google.com/books/publish/ and  here https://play.google.com/books/publish/?re=1 - over approximately the past 1-3 months when I've looked about seeking to publish my Harbin ethnography as a first book, and in print, and WUaS seeking to begin an academic press and in all languages ...

Find new fans.
Sell more books.

Publish your books on Google Play and reach billions of readers around the world.

We are not accepting new sign-ups at this time. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We’ll be back soon.

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...

Syzygium: Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline, How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET, Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript, Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email, An opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds, STEM and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing - Quaker publishers with Google Publisher with World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages)

Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline

Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript. Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email.

I may take this as an opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing. Quaker publishers in SF with Google Publisher with the first book in English at World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages).

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

How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET would be worthwhile.


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Berghahn Books
New Book Outline

USA:
Berghahn Books Inc, 20 Jay Street, Suite 512,
Brooklyn NY 11201, / USA
Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004   Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007

UK:
Berghahn Books Ltd, 3, Newtec Place, Magdalen Road
Oxford OX4 1RE / UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865-250 011   Fax: +44 (0) 1865-250 056

Email: EditorialUS@berghahnbooks.com



Date (that you completed this form): July 4, 2015


Please, return this form to the publisher electronically.


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1. Name, as it will appear in the book: Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III

    Correct pronunciation, if likely to be mispronounced: “MacCloud”
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2. Home address:
PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road),
Canyon, CA 94516

    Tel: 412 478 0116 Fax: NA Email: scott@scottmacleod.com
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3. Professional address:
World University and School, PO Box 442,
PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

    Tel: 415 480 4577 Email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
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4. Nationality (required for copyright purposes): USA
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5. Date of Birth (needed for the Library of Congress and British Library): 12/31/1960
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6. Please provide a short Biographical Note (maximum 50 words) that can be included on the cover of your book and used for promotional material. Please, attach any details of previous appointments [with dates], published works, and any other information that might be relevant in a separate Word document.

Scott MacLeod's (http://www.scottmacleod.com) research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard’s virtual Island for many years where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He’s the founder and president of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare – http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

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7. Working Title: Naked Harbin

    Subtitle: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin


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8. Suggested Delivery Date: As early as October-September 15, 2015 or in time for the Christmas market, if possible, or sometime in the spring of 2016
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9. Approximate Word Count (to include all notes and references; a page count is not accurate as the words per page varies according to fonts and margins): 147,000
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10. Do you hold the Copyright? Yes  

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11. Does it include any illustrations  (halftones, maps, diagrams, tables, etc.)?
       No        Yes, please indicate: Fewer than 20.

      If so, how many? (the maximum number of photos permitted for the print edition is 20 in black and white)

       I’d like to print 20 black and white photos, including also Second Life photos I’ve taken. (Are these considered Black and White Photos or are they separate?)

Are any of these illustrations not author-created and in need of permissions? IF you have questions about this, please be in touch with us.

       Some of the photos may be, about which I’ll be in touch with you, if possible.

Additional photographs and supplemental material may be hosted on our web site. Do you have any material you would like to be considered for this option? if so, please describe.

       1) Audio interviews with Harbin residents, 2) Blog resources from my web site, 3) Harbin Resources from Google Earth, 4) Online Harbin resources from their web site

Please note: It is the author’s responsibility to obtain copyright clearance and pay any fees for use in print and online.
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12. Has any of the material been previously published (if so, where)?

3 ½ draft chapters have been published here in my personal blog:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Book%20Section (read up)

Does the work have origins as a dissertation or, if it is an edited volume, as a collection of conference papers?
No

      Is the work currently being considered by another publisher (if so, by whom)?
No

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13. If the book is to be an edited collection, have you approached the contributors yet?
No, it’s not

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14. Please attach proposed list of contributors and chapter outline – NA

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15. Please describe your book briefly (200-300 words at the most) for intending readers:

An anthropology of the 1960s-70s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology

After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.

- Scott MacLeod


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16. Please describe your book in a short paragraph of 50-100 words for librarians and booksellers:

The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.


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17. Competing or similar titles (if any) (author, title, pub. date, price):


Anthropology - Related titles:

Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $24.95.

Boellstorff, Tom . 2012. (Author), Bonnie Nardi (Author), Celia Pearce (Author), and T. L. Taylor (Author), George E. Marcus (Foreword). 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method Paperback. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $14.46.

Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.


Harbin Hot Springs - Related titles:

Dull, Harold, with the Water Family. 2008 (2004, 1997, 1993). Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water and with Tantsu on Land. 4th edition. Middletown, CA: Watsu Publishing. $27.50.

Ishvara. 2002. Oneness in Living: Kundalini Yoga, the Spiritual Path, and the Intentional Community. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. $24.95

Klages, Ellen. 1993 (1991). Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $29.47.

Wyne, Sajjad. 1997. The Big Bang and the Harbin Experience. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $62.88.


Rainbow Gathering - Related titles:

Butterfly Bill. 2010. Rainbow Gatherings. Bliss Fire Press. $15.00.

Butterfly Bill. 2013. Rainbow Gatherings, Volume Two: 2000 - 2012 (Volume 2). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $16.20.

Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.

Tom Thumb. 2013. Somewhere Under the Rainbow: A personal journey into the Rainbow Gatherings. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $14.39.


1960s - Related Titles:

Kerouac, Jack. 1958. The Dharma Bums. New York, NY: The Viking Press.

Snyder, Gary. 1969. Earth House Hold. New York, NY: A New Directions Book.


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18. How does your book differ?

Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.

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19. Additional material: Please attach a table of contents, chapter outline, or sample chapter.


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20. If your book is suitable for course use: Please describe as precisely as possible those types of courses for which it could be required or recommended and for what level (e.g. undergraduate or graduate):

“Naked Harbin” could be required or recommended to be read in parallel with the following courses, for example:

Syllabi with Tom Boellstorff’s “Coming of Age in Second Life” (Princeton 2008) in them

The Anthropology of Cybercultures (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-850j-the-anthropology-of-cybercultures-spring-2009/readings/

The Anthropology of Computing: Digital Cultures
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/21A/sp09/21A.350J/

Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems
Professor Jenna Burrell
UC Berkeley
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i272/f10/syllabus.html

digital media & virtual performance
Prof. Kiri Miller
Brown University
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/90834050/1971G+VP+syllabus+2014.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1409665583000

Information, Technology, and Society
Steve Jackson
Cornell University
http://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/IS6210%20InfoTechSociety%20syllabus%208nov12.pdf


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21. MARKET: Do you envision your book to have audience potential outside of the academic market, such as in the professional or practioner/policy realms? Yes

This book could influence social theorizing of cyberspace as interactive movie realistic virtual earths emerge.



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22. When you send in a manuscript (although not to begin with), then please DO NOT BIND the manuscript; just tie it together with elastic band.


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23. reviewers: Please, recommend at least four or five names (with school affiliations and e-mail addresses wherever possible) of potential reviewers qualified to assess your work.

Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley, graburn@berkeley.edu
Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis, edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, tboellst@uci.edu
Noel Salazar, KU Leuven, Belgium, noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be
Jim Ferguson, Stanford University, jgfergus@stanfard.edu
Saskia Cousin, Paris Descartes, France, saskia.cousin@parisdescartes.fr


24. Any other remarks:
- In what Berlin/Hamburg/European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings - and at what time of year would be best?

- Scott is founder and President of CC World University and School - which is like CC Wikipedia in 288 languages and best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) - and which plans to develop a virtual Harbin for ethnographic and STEM field work as part of a virtual Earth, and as “Classrooms” too.


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/magnolia-henryi-harbin-hot-springs.html

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Dear Scott,

We have taken the time to evaluate your book proposal and, unfortunately, we must pass on it. I don’t think that we are the best press for the project, which should find a press that is oriented toward a more general audience.

We also don't have the resources to assist with integrating the digital and print materials that you envision.
 
Yours looks like a compelling project, and we are positive you will find a publisher for it.

All the best,
Duncan Ranslem
____________________________________________________________________________

Duncan Ranslem
Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books
20 Jay Street, Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007



On 7/21/15 3:39 PM, "Scott MacLeod"  wrote:

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Dear Duncan,

This sounds like good news indeed. Thank you.

If you'd like, I would send you a PDF of my 400 page draft "Naked
Harbin" manuscript.

Also, here are 2 further questions:

When would a new ethnographic text need to be in print to be selected
for anthropology courses at universities worldwide in autumn 2016? If
this is about a year from now, say in July or August 2016, some
professors might add it to their syllabi as a required text.

What also are some of the characteristics of ethnographic books that
sell 10,000 print copies - if these are a "group?"

All the best,
Scott




On 7/21/15 9:58 AM, Duncan Ranslem wrote:

Dear Scott,

This is a pretty unique project, and I’m excited to get into it
more over the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, our time horizons are a bit too long to allow us to
publish a book by this autumn. Realistically, we might expect a
publication date set next autumn, barring any major manuscript
revisions or unexpected delays.

All the best, Duncan Ranslem
______________________________________________________________________

______

 Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street,
Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1
(212) 233-6007



On 7/21/15 11:52 AM, "Scott MacLeod" 
wrote:

Dear Duncan,

Thanks so much for letting me know that Berghahn Press is
gathering comments about my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book
proposal.

My first questions are: if Berghahn Books accepted it for
publication, is there a possibility that we could publish it this
autumn? And what would that entail?

I couldn't think of a better press to publish with than Berghahn,
since you specialize in sociocultural Anthropology.

Thank you!

All the best, Scott

- -- 
- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- - 415 480 4577
- - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in
California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational
organization, both effective April 2010.

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See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...

Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html



Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html

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...

Red Fox - Grey Fox: MIT Tech Review's "The Skeptic: Stanford's John Hennessy," "India Loves MOOCs," "China's startup boom in online learning," "The Believer: Duke's Sally Kornbluth," World University and School can facilitate excellence in all these learning spheres ... Admissions at WUaS - Students! ... Sign Up here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

The Skeptic: Stanford's John Hennessy -
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539146/the-skeptic-stanfords-john-hennessy/

India Loves MOOCs -
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539131/india-loves-moocs/

China's startup boom in online learning -
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539136/chinas-startup-boom-in-online-learning/

The Believer: Duke's Sally Kornbluth -
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539151/the-believer-dukes-sally-kornbluth/


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World University and School can facilitate excellence in all these learning spheres:

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

Sign Up here -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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...

Pinar Sierra de Guadarrama: Two NEW Flyers - WUaS Free, Creative Commons’ licensed (CC), Online BACHELOR Degrees Accrediting in California on best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare, SIGN UP HERE ... ... Scottish Small Piping Weddings, Celebrations & Surprise Events San Francisco, East Bay & Northern California

World University & School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

(or Google “World University and School”)

Free, Creative Commons’ licensed (CC), Online Bachelor Degrees

Accrediting in California on best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare,

World University Seeks High School Applicants this Autumn 2015,

To Matriculate Online, Interactively, in Group Video and Virtual Worlds,

in Autumn 2016, Graduating in 2020.

Sign Up Here:

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

Google + Info@WorldUniversityAndSchool.org

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rpNfx0jqMsAV0iBJJXF8Va-eX5iYcm0IpjuoVm0XQBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Scottish Small Piping

Weddings, Celebrations & Surprise Events

San Francisco, East Bay & Northern California

Contact Scott MacLeod to pipe at your wedding or next (U.S.A.) event.

415 480 4577

sgkmacleod@gmail.com - http://www.scottmacleod.com/piping.htm 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15J09_0Pc1nzyRsG19xNp-O7tTwqV8EKXAgB0yxIK0zk/edit?usp=sharing

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...

Mount Whitney: A realistic virtual earth for historical climate change "ice shelf" questions etc and a virtual Harbin (in a developing Google Earth), Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt? - Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science and especially modeling for this - A key recent paper, New York Times -- Sea Level Questions and Answers: http://youtu.be/1Dqar1x-F70?a, And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building ... * What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!

Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt?

Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science for this.

Sea Level Questions and Answers in a Warming World - Tad Pfeffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dqar1x-F70


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WorldUnivandSch ‏@WorldUnivAndSch  Jul 24

Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt? A key recent paper http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dotearth/2015/07/23/whiplash-warning-when-climate-science-is-publicized-before-peer-review-and-publication/ … > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan … > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning …? @Revkin

9:03 AM - 24 Jul 2015 · Details

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/624610880475389952

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Ken Caldeira ‏@KenCaldeira  Jul 24

Do open discussion journals provide a service to the scientific community? http://kencaldeira.org  http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dotearth/2015/07/23/whiplash-warning-when-climate-science-is-publicized-before-peer-review-and-publication/ … @Revkin

https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira/status/624604835447345152


*

And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building (especially with anticipating 8,000 languages, too) ...


*

See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...

Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html

Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html


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See Virtual Worlds wiki Subject for open teaching and learning at World University (planned in many languages too) -

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

Ocean & Climate Management Plan -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


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What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!

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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt.+Whitney,+Inyo+National+Forest,+California/@36.5784986,-118.29226,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x80bf8d3667a6b6c5:0x77dad12cf276cbf2!5m1!1e4

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