Holiday Greetings 2016!
Jane and Scott MacLeod
Muir Woods, California
Dear friends,
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
I hope this finds you well and enjoying this season
wherever you are.
Love in this holiday season in the context of this
old world we live in …
"Moehringia: "Love" in loving bliss
- and generatively? ... Some characteristics of love in its best senses, Here
are some wiki schools for this at WUaS - Caring and Loving - and Loving Bliss
(eliciting this neurophysiology), {And how would agency as intentional
causation (in philosophical senses) work vis-à-vis generating the
"love" in loving bliss and in contemporary society and with
information technology?}" ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/moehringia-love-in-loving-bliss-and.html.
And in what ways is it possible to generate love re: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/golden-ghost-crab-curious-how-to-build.html?
I'm continuing to
develop Friendly-informed World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- which is planning major Universities in all countries' main languages,
accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, as well as wiki
schools in all 7,097 living languages, for open teaching and learning. CC WUaS
will likely move to CC Wikidata / Wikiversity / MediaWiki, CC Wikipedia's
database for its 358 languages, developing with AI, machine learning and
machine translation soon. On the wiki side, anyone can teach or create a new
wiki subject page, or code creatively in other ways. On the online free CC
degree side (Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school - again
planned for all ~200 countries' main languages), WUaS would like to begin with
hiring graduate student instructors (which also works for accreditation - re
"sections") from greatest universities to teach in group video
conferencing to MIT and Yale faculty in video, for interactivity, and to keep
teachers central as WUaS grows. WUaS would like to become a major employer in
all 8k languages. WUaS seeks to become major universities as the “MITs / Stanfords
of the web” in all nation states’ main and official languages, especially in
regards to their STEM ethoses.
I've just published my
first book (an actual / virtual ethnography) ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture,
Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural
Anthropology
Academic Press at World University and School
~ and it's about 350 pages long on 8 1/2 x 11 inch
paper, with about 180 photos. It's in a new Academic Press at WUaS, which also
seeks to be in all 7K + languages (partly to create language markets to
regenerate smallest languages).
And I'm music-making
playing Scottish Small Pipes (having moved on from playing the Great Highland
Bagpipe after about 40 years - but playing with the same fingering), as well as
a little keyboard - mostly bass lines - and much for Scottish Country Dancing,
and enjoyably so.
For Friendly-informed
World University, I hold what I call WUaS hive meeting spaces twice weekly at
the SF Quaker Meeting / American Friends' Service Committee in downtown SF -
open times for networking and connecting. I'm a member at SF Friends' Meeting,
but go to meeting more these days in Western Friend magazine's online Quaker
Meeting than on the ground there or to other Meetings in College Park Quarterly
Meeting in northern California.
I've been making it up
to Reed College Reunions in recent years somewhat regularly. I heard poet Gary
Snyder give a keynote, for example, at Reed for its 100th anniversary
celebration. I'm an appreciator of Gary Snyder's poetry ... (and have been
writing poetry of my own as well - and much vis-à-vis Harbin Hot Springs'
anthropological field work in recent years - which you'll find here ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry
- and these may become my next book).
I still would like to
begin a family and have children, and am remaining open to this.
All the best to you in the New Year and
beyond,
Scott
Scott MacLeod
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