Pumpkin: How can we access actual books and recordings in Google Street View (with time slider!) now?, "10 libraries to visit with Google Street View," MIT Future of Libraries, Steve Jobs: "Produce leads innovation, not marketing" - Product at WUaS? Wikidata in ~358 languages? Queries in Wikidata? Graduate students as instructors teaching academic creativity at WUaS in Wikidata in all languages? Eventual faculty working with WUaS's information technologies?, (Rainbow Gathering photos in slide show from my blog seem to be gone, which I had some warning about a few weeks ago, and can't find them by searching on "scott macleod's picasa pictures rainbow gathering wyoming 2008" but I still have the photos on my computer, O for a library archive and museum too for these photos which were on the web since 2008, I think ... and were interesting views into the Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming in 2008!

Arghh ... unfortunately my costume isn't that that scary ... kids are coming over anyway for cookies, wraithlike as I appear ... Happy Hallowe'en !

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How can we access actual books and recordings in Google Street View (with time slider!) now?

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10 libraries to visit with Google Street View https://t.co/U6ddLfGm3M WUaS planning https://t.co/lJyh6O8PPL in 8k Langs, in virtual earth

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 30, 2016

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MIT Future of Libraries https://t.co/uZCzWD0P57 WUaS planning libraries in 8k Langs, in virtual earth w time slider https://t.co/lJyh6O8PPL https://t.co/njcQYD8lCZ

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 30, 2016

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Nature traveling: Developing a realistic virtual earth STEM field site and classroom, Conceptually... https://t.co/67Ati2LXKw

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) October 29, 2016

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To https://t.co/t5KOrG5956 https://t.co/lJyh6O8PPL Planned in realistic virtual earth w time slider in 8k Langs)  & https://t.co/HLEomei1Kh https://t.co/1Bky3xKAMi

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 31, 2016

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") Mons Prof Latour, vous parlez de votre traduction bot très intéressant, non? Et comment pouvons-nous améliorerhttps://t.co/Im731rLazp ? https://t.co/hm0uDnaqy4

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) October 31, 2016

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Product leads innovation, not marketing. For a company to thrive it needs to invest in the former. pic.twitter.com/4oIYdlqF13

— Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) October 30, 2016

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Product at WUaS?

Wikidata in ~358 languages?

Queries in Wikidata?

Graduate students as instructors teaching academic creativity at WUaS in Wikidata in all languages?

Eventual faculty working with WUaS's information technologies?


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Hi M,

Canyon is beautiful today. Heading out for a walk soon. (Rainbow Gathering photos in slide show from my blog seem to be gone, which I had some warning about a few weeks ago, as well as the end of Picasa many months ago - Google does closures of applications well - and can't find them by searching on "scott macleod's picasa pictures rainbow gathering wyoming 2008" but I still have the photos on my computer).

I found only references to  "scott macleod's picasa pictures rainbow gathering wyoming 2008"

in the Bing search engine here -

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22scott+macleod%27s+picasa+pictures+rainbow+gathering+wyoming+2008%22&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html

http://scottmacleod.com/photos.htm

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

But I didn't find the "scott macleod's picasa pictures rainbow gathering wyoming 2008"

in these search engines:

Google

Yahoo

DuckDuckGO

I may seek to add them to my Twitter profile, to Wikipedia and related ...

I'm wondering about a second opinion on B.K.'s email draft ... with all the extra considerations I've added ...

Contact Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson for this - since I think he knows how Harbin works and is alternative thinking?

L, Scott

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O for a library archive and museum too for these photos which were on the web since 2008, I think ... and were interesting views into the Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming in 2008!

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

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Hippocampus: Glad to hear from and talk with a friend at Harbin, Job in a Make Work program cleaning up Harbin debris further and in conjunction with the State of California, I think, Gives me hope for a possible similar arrangement re World University and School, China World University and School (CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric - in traditional Chinese - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/) seeks to extend your fascinating scientific study, Ming Li: "Congratulations for your success on China World University and School"

Glad to hear from and talk with a friend at Harbin, a longest term resident there since ~1980 and a main informant in my Harbin book that he's a survivor of the devastating Valley and Harbin fire last September 2015, and especially that he's gotten a M-F job in a Make Work program cleaning up Harbin debris further, and in conjunction with the State of California, I think. It gives me hope for a possible similar arrangement re World University and School.


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Dear Ming,

Thank you so much for presenting today.  Your talk was excellent! Your research is so important. I will have a recording of your presentation today on our web page http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/.    I'll also refer to your talk on our LinkedIn Group https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=6729452, where there may be more discussion and questions for you.  Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!

Here is one comment that came through on the chat from Scott MacLeod: China World University and School (CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric - in traditional Chinese - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/) seeks to extend your fascinating scientific study (as an example) and STEM research in Chinese in many, many ways, and online - CC http://worlduniversityandschool.org. WUaS seeks to develop the "Harvard/MIT of the Web" in the Chinese, and in each of all countries' official languages. Thank you!

Thanks again for a fascinating presentation.
Dianne Fodell

IBM Global University Programs

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Ming, Ji and Dian, 

Interesting medical anthropology comparative questions here - https://youtu.be/Q0_xQcs3UAI - in terms of the social construction of a medical / biological / physical condition (autism / ASD) - e.g. China compared with America ... and which would then have influences on how information technologies and scientific studies were designed (and re 2 languages here). 

Your observation, Ming LI, which I heard at 7:52am PT that people of the same race recognize these eye movements differentially than people of one race recognizing this movement in a different race, suggests something non-objective and socially constructed to me, for example. 

China World University and School (of which I'm the founder and which is CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric - in traditional Chinese - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/) seeks to extend your fascinating scientific study (as an example) and STEM research in Chinese in many, many ways, and online at CC http://worlduniversityandschool.org. WUaS seeks to develop the "Harvard/MIT of the Web" in the Chinese language, and in each of all countries' official languages. World University and School also seeks to develop STEM research between languages and between STEM social construction of the physical & biological world, and primarily in online STEM studies. Thank you!

How could World University and School begin to create STEM research with your study as an example and take into consideration anthropological questions of "social constructionism" in study design? (e.g. how could people of any race recognize the same eye movements, or how could information technology be designed to recognize such movement regardless of race?)

Thank you, Ming Li! 

Best, Scott

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Dear Scott,

Thank you very much for your information

Yes, we also collaborated with some  researchers at Taiwan and US to do some comparative experiments to validate the effectiveness on Chinese children.

Right now, we are focusing on using artificial intelligence methods to help doctors to do some early detection of ASD.

We will share our findings and results with IBM forks and the community.

Congratulations for your  success on China World University and School.

Thank you very much

Best

Ming

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Dear Ming,

Thanks very much for your email.

Here's the AI wiki subject at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence -
with some best STEM CC MIT OCW and other courses plus much more, which WUaS seeks to offer for credit toward free CC online accrediting University degrees in many languages. WUaS will emerge out of CC Wikidata into a new wiki hopefully beginning in January, and is planned in all 7943 languages as wiki schools.

How much AI is sprinkled through the courses here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/ - Ming? WUaS seeks to facilitate translating much of MIT OCW AI into Chinese. How much Chinese OpenCourseWare exists created by Chinese in China?

WUaS also seeks to develop AI in a realistic virtual earth and for experimentation (with time) - e.g. http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/nature-traveling-developing-realistic.html.

Thanks again for your interesting IBM CSIG talk.

Best,

Scott

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

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Nature traveling: Developing a realistic virtual earth STEM field site and classroom, Conceptually in something like Google Street View/Earth/Maps with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim in all 8k languages and at the atomic (nano) and cellular (neuronal) levels, Potentially its MASSIVE data streams from all over the world, Protect people in these scientific experiments and social science studies, Meeting Internal Review Board ethical and STEM standards for protection of subjects+ in the SOFTWARE itself, Collaborating with Stanford, and Google especially, networks, could make this real and happen, Such a realistic virtual earth would be WIKI, Data emerging out of CC Wikidata and via CC World University and School

I'd also like to open the possibilities for developing a realistic virtual earth STEM field site and classroom

(conceptually in something like Google Street View/Earth/Maps with TIME SLIDER with OpenSim in all 8k languages and at the atomic (nano) and cellular (neuronal) levels in addition to the street view level),

with potentially its massive data streams from all over the world,

some real time, much with artificial intelligence,

as well as protect people in scientific experiments and social science studies in ways that would meet Internal Review Board ethical and STEM standards for protection of subjects+ in the SOFTWARE itself,

 and collaborating with Stanford, and Google especially, networks, could make this real and happen.


Such a realistic virtual earth would be WIKI, so scientists, STEM researchers, and travelers, for example, as well, could add their data ( re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ) in any language, and hopefully much data emerging out of CC Wikidata and via CC World University and School.


(Google has much experience with this with its Google cars and earth and mapping projects).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking_(wilderness)

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

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Precipitation: Canceling my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" UC Berkeley TSWG and Lake County libraries' readings/presentations

~ CANCELLED ~

Dear N & C, 

I'm writing because I need to cancel my upcoming "Naked Harbin Ethnography" UC Berkeley TSWG and Lake County libraries' readings/presentations due to something pending re those days, which has come up quite suddenly.

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook

My apologies for this abrupt change, and thank you very much for your willingness and interest in facilitating this. 

Sincerely, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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

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Canna, Scotland: "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Presentation, Lake County Libraries’ New “Harbin Book” Readings and Signings, Sat., Nov 5, 2016, LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY-SPEAKER INFORMATION FORM, ~ http://scottmacleod.com ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ ( http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ) ~ https://www.createspace.com/6072369 ~ http://twitter.com/HarbinBook ... And here's the Amazon author's page for Scott MacLeod World University with both versions of "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ....

LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY

SPEAKER INFORMATION FORM

Name:

Scott MacLeod (author) ~ 
http://bit.ly/HarbinBook 

Affiliated Organization (if any):

Academic Press at World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

Contact Email:

info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Title of Event: 

"Naked Harbin Ethnography" Presentation

Lake County Libraries’ 

New “Harbin Book” Readings and Signings

Date of Event: 

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Intended Audience: 

Lake County residents and library patrons interested in the culture, history and poetry of Harbin Hot Springs Lake County (and undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s)

Description of Event: 

Scott MacLeod will read from his new book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" (Academic Press at World University and School 2016). Q&A and book signing to follow reading.  

Is the event/speaker likely to attract media interest? If so why?

Scott MacLeod is the founder, president and CEO of World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare - http://worlduniversityandschool.org). World University and School seeks to offer free CC university degrees beginning for undergraduates in English in autumn 2017 (and eventually International Baccalaureate I.B. high school degrees), accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin. High achieving students will be studying from home for these degrees. 

Myself, education and career and Naked Harbin

Scott MacLeod has a Bachelor's Degree in the social science of Religion (and German) from Reed College, and a MA in sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, (and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland). He has a certificate from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. 

Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught the open free "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" course on Harvard's virtual island and in Google group video Hangouts for many years, where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He also taught Yoga for many years (Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten-informed, and Iyengar).

Scott began "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" around 2005 (with regular field work over the years since then) intending to make a virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic comparison. For a second Harbin ethnographic book, he plans to build a realistic virtual Harbin/earth, conceptually in something like Google Street View/Maps/Earth with time slider with OpenSimulator (for group building) but also at the nano (atomic) and cellular (neuronal) levels – for actual-virtual ethnographic comparison. 

http://scottmacleod.com 

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook)

https://www.createspace.com/6072369 

http://twitter.com/HarbinBook 

And here's the Amazon author's page for Scott MacLeod World University with both versions of "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ~

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna,_Scotland

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Cocoa bean: Wikidata birthday party today in SF, and WUaS is bringing the cake, Invitation to join the celebration, Seems to be the cultures of employees that watch and curate their social media accounts, that further shapes them - identity warrior-itis-es or bonobo-itis-es could happen here too! Email too is probably not private, and can be probably curated. Hmmm ... email and social media are like post cards ... with an opportunity to get the word out - and by not knowing who you're getting the word out to! :)

Hi M,

You might enjoy this "American Intercontinental Railway" documentary from PBS > http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/american-bison-enjoyed-transcontinental.html.

Music space yesterday evening happened on my own, since Alain in NZ came down with something at the last minute and couldn't play, and Brewster in the Bay Area meets face to face with what sound like alternative/hippy friends (probably some in their 60s), and makes very interesting and time-consuming quadricycles among other hobbies, but is from San Rafael (just north of SF - where the Grateful Dead had their roots too - and Brewster's father was a MD). He went to the high-achieving Quaker college Haverford in Anthro in the 70s and to UC Berkeley for a degree in Architecture after that. Not sure about Reeves ... He may pop up sometime in group video!

Wikidata birthday party today in SF, and WUaS is the bringing the cake. Hope all goes well in getting it there (will try to pick up the cake at 8 am ... get to Hive Meeting Space at AFSC, then birthday party at 12:30 on 2nd street!).

"I'd like to invite you both (and all Wikidatans/Wikimedians in the SF Bay Area) to the Wikidata 4th birthday party on Wednesday, October 26 from 12:30-1:30 at Red Door Coffee SF on 111 Minna Street - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events. 

I'm also going to bring a birthday cake for everyone. 

Friendly Wikidata cheers, Scott"

It seems to be the cultures of employees that watch and curate their social media accounts, that further shapes them - identity warrior-itis-es or bonobo-itis-es could happen here too! Email too is probably not private, and can be probably curated. Hmmm ... email and social media are like post cards ... with an opportunity to get the word out - and by not knowing who you're getting the word out to! :)

L, Scott

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

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American Bison: Enjoyed "The Transcontinental Railroad" (AMAZING AMERICAN HISTORY DOCUMENTARY), {see "Impatiens: As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS" below too!}, Makes me want to create WUaS with great attention to paying a million people in all 8k Langs well (800,000 as students?), and bring together smartest folks, who are also high achieving and reasonable from great universities!, What a hard life back then!, Peace and Social Justice Wiki Subject at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies & re f/Friends, WUaS will become a significant publisher in all 8k languages, with machine translation too - and also IN/from a Virtual Earth - building on our planned libraries and museums in all 8 languages.

World University and School will become a significant publisher in all 8k languages, with machine translation too - and also IN/from a Virtual Earth - building on our planned libraries and museums in all 8k languages.

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How the British Library is using SEO to become a digital media publisher https://t.co/bQl2AKn9pU

— John Palfrey (@jpalfrey) October 25, 2016

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Academic Press at WUaS {see "Impatiens: As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS" below too!} ...
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

All in all 8k languages and in a STEM virtual earth with TIME SLIDER

Library Resources -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

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

Virtual Worlds -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

Peace and Social Justice Wiki Subject at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies & re f/Friends (Quakers)

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> HI Bill,
>
> Have you seen "The Transcontinental Railroad" (AMAZING AMERICAN HISTORY DOCUMENTARY) by any chance? Just came across this in looking for further information about Stanford's history. Enjoying it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kq1r27S5DU - as an interpretation.

Hi, Scott

Thank you for the link!

I was not aware of that documentary.

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The Transcontinental Railroad (AMAZING AMERICAN HISTORY DOCUMENTARY)


 

History Scholar

I enjoyed it. Makes me want to create WUaS with great attention to paying a million people in all 8k Langs well (800,000 as students?), and bring together smartest folks, who are also high achieving and reasonable from great universities!

What a hard life back then!

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Impatiens: As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS, how could we publish this upcoming tourism studies' "tourism governance" book focusing on about 20 countries in all ~200 countries' main languages, such that it was also easy for people involved in key tourism discourses/cultures in each of these countries (academics, intellectuals, highest achieving students, tourism ministry officials, planners, information technology professionals, etc.) to a) want to read this, b) read this book when it's published and c) increase highest quality foreign tourism to their countries by d) 1-10% and their countries' benefit from the related revenues?, Many people in the room - many of whom were graduate students - would also make excellent editors in their many languages, If WUaS seeks on its For-Profit side to grow its stock price by 11% per year, how many copies and in which countries would the Academic Press at WUaS have to sell every year for the next decade or so, so that this book contributed to the hypothetical WUaS.com's stock price?, Skills in analysis and writing

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/impatiens-as-current-publisher-for.html

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

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Pt. Lobos: Moments of animated people at Stanford yesterday in the new Anderson museum, and early this morning, A realistic virtual earth in 8k langs eg for brain & STEM research will allow philosophers to address qs abt Qualia http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness …

Hi Mari and Donald,

How are you both?

Some moments of animated people at Stanford yesterday in the new Anderson museum (also re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/music-play-electric-harley-in-musrum.html) and already this morning coming to a conference here. Yesterday, a couple, possibly in their late 50s, dressed quite trippily were also acting somewhat animatedly in watching the Nick Cave "Soundscape" videos. Don't think they were doing anything except being kinds of characters, - and, I hypothesize, possibly simulating what they had learned trippily 30 years ago as students at Stanford, kind of as actors now - amusing and interestingly. 

Then this morning as I walked in from parking (getting up at 5am), this group of probably first year young women students came around the corner dressed in sweats/almost pajamas and one was wearing a crown, and she was animatedly talking to the others. Were they all in an acting class together? Had someone where they live suggested they all enact this animated scene at this time of day, saying something loudly referring to Stanford, as they passed by. Were they all in a Stanford 1st year marketing class, even? I know not ... but Stanford is interesting and smart and somehow very alive, California-wise (differently I'm sure from the '70s) ... but Stanford remembers and it's somehow soft and excellent and very well organized as well - and beautiful and caring.

Just some early morning Stanford (ethnographic?) thoughts ... :)

The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School's LAW, BORDERS, AND SPEECH day-long conference (with potentially much relevance from World University ... looking for ways in which to combine a Stanford ethos and WUaS together in all countries' main languages in flourishing f/Friendly ways) begins soon.

Hope you both a good day.

Friendly greetings, Scott


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A realistic virtual earth in 8k langs eg for brain & STEM research will allows philosophers to address qs abt Qualia http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness …

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A realistic virtual earth in 8k langs eg for brain & STEM research will allow philosophers to address qs abt Qualia https://t.co/uWyJ7EgSLO https://t.co/fe8XeFFOqE

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 23, 2016

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A realistic virtual earth in 8k langs eg for brain & STEM research will allow philosophers to address qs abt Qualia https://t.co/TVm8YJmYyd https://t.co/Rtn6WNV1iY

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) October 23, 2016

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

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Canna: Thank you for the photos in my Harbin book!, Just held a little Quaker Meeting on my own at Stanford among the white and pink camelias :), Heading monentarily to the Founder's Day celebration in the museum, What hath the Stanfords wrought?, How can one explore trace the ethos/culture/milieu/discourse of Stanford University from the three Stanfords to the excellence and California laid-backness of today?, Finding two new Boards out of the faculty of Berkeley Law (not students), and then further engaging University of California 10 campus's infrastructure+, including pay scales

Jaima, S!

Just gave "Naked Harbin Ethnography" in book form - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook - for you to the kind person at the entrance to Sweet's Ballroom who said he'd give it to you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for permission to use the photos of you in my Harbin book!

Namaste and happy Yoga, Harbin and ecstatic dance!

Scott

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Hi Donald and Mari,

How are you? Greetings from the little acoustic stone circle at the side of Stanford Memorial Church. Just held a little Quaker Meeting on my own here among the white and pink camelias. :)

Heading monentarily to the Founder's Day celebration in the museum.

Happy meetings of friends!,
Scott

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Do you both sit everyday as if in Meeting? 

I'm a daily sitter as such, and meditator, at home, with much appreciation of the inner attunement, releasing and centering.

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Great, Mari, and Donald,

Thanks for your email Mari.

As I sit tomorrow morning, I'll tune in further to humility and gratitude, but for me, like in Quaker Meeting, sitting in half lotus (both sides) in the morning involves a kind of inner releasing action, a centering down, an easing which leads to a harmonizing and sometimes a kind of inner "clearing."

Sometimes joy and even bliss bubble up in this process. I also, having taught yoga (Angela & Victor and Iyengar-informed) for a few decades, come into Yoga mudrasana (closing or sealing, involving bending forward fully) at the close of sitting on each side.

In my evolutionary biologically informed Nontheistic Quakerism, too, the inner soup of my inner body (sounding rather New Agey here:) opens. Friendly SPICES (simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship) come up for me as well at times in this sitting process (with parallels to sitting in Quaker Silent Meeting).

Thank you.

Friendly regards, Scott

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Greetings from Stanford where I held a little Quaker Meeting among white & pink camelias-It's Founder's Day-What hath the Stanfords wrought?

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) October 23, 2016

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How can one explore trace the ethos/culture/milieu/discourse of Stanford University from the three Stanfords to the excellence and California laid-backness of today?

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Dear Bill, 

It occurred to me over night that finding two new Boards out of the faculty of Berkeley Law (not students), and then further engaging University of California 10 campus's infrastructure+, including pay scales (on both WUaS's non-profit and for-profit sides) to create new online CC universities in about ~200 countries' main languages would make a lot of sense - if this were at all possible and worth exploring. It would spread the work for you, - and Berkeley Law faculty and UC staff and faculty are already getting paid. And Berkeley and UC have the infrastructure, the knowledge and the public mission, and would benefit too in a variety of ways from such an arrangement. 

Open WUaS monthly business meeting could continue to meet for an hour, and could develop communications with the each Board's presidents (Berkeley Law faculty?) of both WUaS's non-profit and for-profit sides. 

What do you think about these ideas? 

Thank you again. 

Sincerely, 

Scott

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_(plant)

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Impatiens: As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS, how could we publish this upcoming tourism studies' "tourism governance" book focusing on about 20 countries in all ~200 countries' main languages, such that it was also easy for people involved in key tourism discourses/cultures in each of these countries (academics, intellectuals, highest achieving students, tourism ministry officials, planners, information technology professionals, etc.) to a) want to read this, b) read this book when it's published and c) increase highest quality foreign tourism to their countries by d) 1-10% and their countries' benefit from the related revenues?, Many people in the room - many of whom were graduate students - would also make excellent editors in their many languages, If WUaS seeks on its For-Profit side to grow its stock price by 11% per year, how many copies and in which countries would the Academic Press at WUaS have to sell every year for the next decade or so, so that this book contributed to the hypothetical WUaS.com's stock price?, Skills in analysis and writing

As current publisher for the Academic Press for WUaS, how could we publish this upcoming tourism studies' book focusing on about 20 countries in all ~200 countries' main languages, such that it was also easy for people involved in key tourism discourses/cultures (academics, intellectuals, highest achieving students, tourism ministry officials, planners, information technology professionals, etc.) in each of these countries to a) want to read this, b) read this book when it's published and c) increase highest quality foreign tourism to their countries by d) 1-10% and their countries' benefit from the related revenues?

After attending a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting at UC Berkeley yesterday evening in the Anthropology department about an upcoming book on Tourism Governance - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/TSWGCall2016_Gohar.htm and http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/TourismGovernanceMtg2_2016.htm - edited by a doctoral candidate in the department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Amir Gohar, I wondered how as current publisher for the Academic Press for World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - could publish this.

As I asked at the end of the session to everyone there, and having just published "Naked Harbin Ethnography" in the Academic Press at WUaS via CreateSpace (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook and https://www.createspace.com/6072369), a subsidiary, like Kindle, of Amazon.com, which makes books available in 3 prosperous countries' currencies (dollars, pounds and euros), and to the developing world countries in a few other currencies, how could WUaS, using machine translation into all countries' main languages, make this available easily in terms of currencies as well?

I asked furthermore given WUaS's a) all languages with machine translation, and b) WUaS's planned "for-profit" side foci, how WUaS could help China (or people in each country that read the chapter on their countries) improve tourism by 1% with this book to gain the monetary benefits of this increase in travelers (which would be an enormous financial gain for China), and b) how WUaS could get this book into all countries' languages for easy access and purchase (by libraries and academics, etc.) perhaps in a different way than CreateSpace/Amazon with it's somewhat limited markets/currencies (and which don't have machine translation services that I've seen).

Having heard a number of presentations earlier in the evening, one by the amazing Dean MacCannell via Skype, a number of TSWG people then suggested focusing this upcoming book on Tourism Governance on "best practices."

I mentioned how I think Dean MacCannell's "The Tourist" (1976) has been translated into something like 18, 20 or 22 languages, and just because people wanted to translate it into their languages, not because one of its Academic Presses orchestrated this. I also suggested that Amir have a one-to-one conversation with Dean about his ideas for this book.

Nelson Graburn, who had his 1976 "Ethnic Arts" book there, said he thinks Dean's book has sold more than 500,000 copies, far more than any other author in the room.

Many people in the room - many of whom were graduate students - would also make excellent editors in their many languages (as jobs at WUaS, for example), I also added.

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If WUaS seeks on its For-Profit side to grow its stock price by 11% per year, how many copies and in which countries would the Academic Press at WUaS have to sell every year for the next decade or so, so that this book contributed to WUaS's stock price to sustain such regular growth?

I think Dean's smarts and skill in writing and knowledge of tourism (with Nelson) would both potentially make such a book realizable and very attractively readable, due to their skills in analysis and writing.

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On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate <mcazcarate@ucsd.edu> wrote:

Hi Scott, thanks for your note, it was nice seeing you again!! and thanks for the link in your post, I think  it would be so important and much needed to go for a format that is accesible to tourism policy planners and technicians that are  most of the times hired for short term and don’t have the time for learning about planning in general. Making a sort of document accessible to them is a different project though than an academic book on the topic, nor sure where the majority of people want to go, but ai am up for any of those, really thinking on a combination of both translated in many languages and available for educators!

did you present your work?

best, m. 

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication

University of California, San Diego

https://quote.ucsd.edu/mcazcarate/

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Hi Mathilde and All!

Thanks again for your edifying presentation. I'm passing your email here below on to Amir (and Nelson, Dean, Kathy and Mar), since it might inform what Amir writes up in the near future. 

I'm planning to give a reading/talk on my new actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book with a tourism studies' focus (and photos!) in the Gifford Room at UC Berkeley on F November 11th, per what Nelson and I talked about a few weeks ago. (How best to get this up on the TSWG schedule please, Nelson?) 

My Cal reading will also be a virtual book release party partly, since I'll be streaming it in a Google + Hangout probably like you and Dean were on Skype yesterday evening. (The developing book release schedule for "Naked Harbin Ethnography" is here -http://bit.ly/HarbinBook - as are 2 resources from 2 previous talks about my Harbin project I've given in the Gifford Room in 2012 and 2015). Not only is this my first book, for which Nelson writes the introduction (thank you!), but it's also the very first book in the Academic Press at World University (planned in all 7,943 languages with machine translation!)

Best, Scott

http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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Hi Nelson, Dean, Mar, Kathy and Mathilde, 

I just shared this with Amir, for which you might have good ideas as well: 

Hi Amir,

I hope you can team up with a native English speaking editor in these early phases of book planning. 

Developing World University and School's "forking," and writing my second Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book with planning the realistic virtual Harbin/earth as field site/classroom is making my plate very full. 

WUaS is also basically penniless (very problematically), so if the Academic Press at WUaS and "Tourism Governance" decide to proceed together, WUaS will need financial resources to help develop your great book project.

Sincerely, Scott

Best, Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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

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Linnea: WUaS plans to create its own Media Lab at WUaS, building on MIT's creativity but planned today in 8k Langs from home, Looks like the MIT Media Lab isn't heading in a multi-lingual direction too, even though MIT OCW is in 7 languages, WUaS has a non-violent river in it, in a way perhaps MIT doesn't, Re the Pittsburgh Symphony's financial chaos and strike, I hope WUaS on the for-profit side can establish a sound financial footing for the long term, - a very steady 11% a year before inflation would be really really great, so 8% per year after inflation, and which isn't easy for companies or mutual funds to do, let alone plan for, say, over 100 years, {Hope WUaS can create great online symphonies too, with all of us playing in them and learning from our homes}, Enjoyed live "The Inauguration of Stanford University’s Eleventh President Marc Tessier-Lavigne," Enjoying too this "A Conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy" July 14, 2016 - How Hennessy made Stanford one of the greatest universities in the US

WUaS plans to create its own Media Lab at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School -  building on MIT's creativity but planned today in 8k Langs from home

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/789534184461201408

WUaS plans to create -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School - building on MIT's creativity but planned in a realistic virtual earth too in 8k Langs from home

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/789534184461201408

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Hi M,

Thanks so much for your (longish) email and sympathy re my MIT Media Lab faculty application. Except for the lack of salary money soon-ish (Aug 2017?), not getting the position may open positive far-reaching opportunities re multi-lingual media creativity with WUaS   Glad MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito posted this to Twitter in Japanese about nonviolence and civil disobedience soon after I received MIT's email - https://twitter.com/Joi/status/789164125523968000. Looks like the MIT Media Lab isn't heading in a multi-lingual direction too, even though MIT OCW is in 7 languages. WUaS has a non-violent river in it, in a way perhaps MIT doesn't. 

Re the Pittsburgh Symphony's financial chaos and strike, I hope WUaS on the for-profit side can establish a sound financial footing for the long term, - a very steady 11% a year before inflation would be really really great, so 8% per year after inflation, slightly more than the US stock market's average since the '30s and which isn't easy for companies or mutual funds to do, let alone plan for, say, over 100 years, let alone 300 years. 

{Hope WUaS can create great online symphonies too, with all of us playing in them and learning from our homes}.

S

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Enjoyed live
The Inauguration of Stanford University’s
Eleventh President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
http://president.stanford.edu/inauguration/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5-MepCtaY#t=1409

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Enjoying too this

A Conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy

July 14, 2016
John Hennessy discusses his tenure as president of Stanford University and how he helped make it into an elite school: encouraging technological innovation on campus, working on ideas that push humankind forward and maintain academic excellence, and having one of the best athletic programs in the country. Hennessy notes that one key to Stanford’s success is building quality infrastructure around interdisciplinary themes in a cross-disciplinary space, making it possible to fire up smart people and challenge them with colleagues from varied backgrounds to develop innovative ideas and solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApTQ1bfKXyY

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

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