Monday, July 31, 2017

Flame shells: To teach or work at World Univ & Sch, what courses - CC MIT OpenCourseWare courses - would a matriculating WUaS student take? e.g. MIT OCW in Spanish or MIT OCW in Chinese?, MIT and Stanford, and many of the greatest universities of the world, for example, seem often to hire their own graduates, Some introductory courses at MIT OCW which WUaS (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) will seek to offer for credit toward free CC OCW undergraduate Bachelor degrees (to come) ... and which would help students potentially with their careers ... (at WUaS Corp for example, http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) ... Google is Hiring! (jobs, privacy and information technology ... ), MIT OCW introductory courses ...


To teach or work at World University and School, what courses - CC MIT OpenCourseWare (and Yale OYC) courses - would a matriculating WUaS student best take?

At the undergraduate and PH.D. levels? And in which languages and nation states?

CC MIT OCW -
https://ocw.mit.edu

e.g. MIT OCW in Spanish -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/

e.g. MIT OCW in Chinese -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/traditional-chinese/

In Korean, Turkish, Persian or Portuguese -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/

Yale OYC -
http://oyc.yale.edu

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MIT and Stanford, and many of the greatest universities of the world, for example, seem often to hire their own graduates.


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Some introductory courses at MIT OCW which WUaS (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) will seek to offer for credit toward free CC OCW undergraduate Bachelor degrees (to come) ... and which would help students potentially with their careers ... (at WUaS Corp for example, http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) ...



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Google is Hiring! (jobs, privacy and information technology ... )
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/cFEnx29aPBU

How could WUaS also plan for Google to hire WUaS's graduates and students ... ?


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Dear Larry, 

I'm holding off emailing T about her beginning in late August until you and I communicate further about this prerequisite https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-031j-energy-decisions-markets-and-policies-spring-2012/this-course-at-mit/ . We could perhaps ask T to make her way through "Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies" on her own ignoring the prerequisite. I didn't find anything from Yale OYC that could be an alternative.   

I'm hoping you'll be her advisor for this course. What would you suggest here? 

Sincerely, 
Scott


And all re ... 

For this WUaS Business 200 in MIT OCW course "Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies" - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-031j-energy-decisions-markets-and-policies-spring-2012/assignments/ - which is one possible first course T may begin in late August, it looks like the pre-requisite is Principles of Microeconomics - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-01sc-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2011/index.htm . 


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Dear Larry, 

Perhaps we could invite T to seek out a MIT OCW course to begin in the end of August on her own, with you as an adviser, that would help her, as she sees this, toward her WUaS business degree. 

I have a poor internet connection here, but I searched on "MIT OCW Introductory business classes Sloan" and "MIT OCW New Enterprises pre-requisite" - all of which I can add to the course catalog - and found some graduate courses, and an undergraduate course, as beginning examples - if she begins to searches for a course. 

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And it looks like a related course has no pre-requisites - http://textbooksearch.mit.edu/class/15.3901 - but it also looks like it's a graduate course, which could possibly benefit T


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also has video, and also looks like it's a graduate course, which could possibly benefit Tanya 

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which says "This course is a prerequisite for all of the advanced marketing courses" - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-810-marketing-management-fall-2004/index.htm 

and there are multiple versions of this 


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And here's an undergraduate business class that looks like it doesn't have prerequisites, but also no video ..


What do you think? 

Sincerely, Scott


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Project-Based Learning approach to each course in MIT OCW? 





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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Komi peoples: Romania World University and School, The World University Bookstore in Romanian will emerge from ... the WUaS Corporation, Greatest universities in Romania? Online Romania World University Bookstore for Romanian titles, and on-the-ground bookstores near its greatest universities, Looks like "University of Bucharest" and "Babes – Bolyai University" have the biggest student bodies, See, too, especially ... "Trillium grandiflorum: Three biggest priorities for the 2017-2018 school year for World University and School educationally ... **** Re World University and School (as distinct from the WUaS Corporation - see below), **** Re WUaS Corporation (as distinct from World University and School - see above), WUaS Corp CEO search" ... and Julian as prospective ...


Romania World University and School will become accessible from here -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States -
in Romanian, and as wiki too ...

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Romanian (limba română/român) Romanian is a Romance language spoken by about 24 million people mainly in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.Romanian retains a number of features of Latin, such as noun cases, which have disappeared from Romance languages.

Romanian language, alphabet and pronunciation - Omniglot

www.omniglot.com/writing/romanian.htm

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The World University Bookstore in Romanian will emerge from ... 
WUaS Corporation 
(as distinct from World University and School - see above)
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress


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Greatest universities in Romania ...


Top Ranked Universities on MastersPortal













UniversitiesWorld University Ranking (2017)Academic Ranking of World Universities ()
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601-
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801-
http://www.mastersportal.eu/ranking-country/33/romania.html


Universities in Romania

There are 49 public and eight private universities in Romania. Undergraduate courses last three years for sciences, humanities, social and economic, law, political science, fine arts and sport; four years for technological sciences, engineering, agriculture and forestry; and six years for general medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and architecture. Master’s courses last for two years. Higher education institutions in Romania consist of universities, institutes, academies, conservatories and university colleges.
Four universities in Romania feature in the QS World University Rankings® 2016/17, all of which are ranked 701+*. A further seven institutions are featured in the QS University Rankings: EECA 2016, a ranking of the top universities in Emerging Europe and Central Asia. The top four universities in Romania are:

University of Bucharest

The University of Bucharest is the second-oldest higher education institution in the country and the highest-ranked in the global tables. Established in 1864, the university is currently ranked 32nd in the EECA ranking and 701+ in the world. It is home to approximately 32,000 students and 1,300 academic staff. The University of Bucharest has 18 faculties, covering a broad spectrum of subjects. It cooperates with over 50 higher education institutions in 40 countries, and participates in programs such as Erasmus Mundus, Lingua, Leonardo da Vinci, Tempus and others, which promote international collaboration in higher education.

Babes-Bolyai University

Babes-Bolyai University is the largest Romanian higher education institution, with over 41,000 students enrolled. It was established in 1919, but underwent a profound process of transformation in 1959. Babes-Bolyai University also features among the world’s top 800 universities and 36th in EECA. Named after prominent Romanian scientist Victor Babeș and Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai, it is a leading research university with 21 faculties. The higher education institution offers courses in Romanian, Hungarian, German, English and French.
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

The oldest Romanian university, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, was established back in 1860 by Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. It is one of the most respected universities in Romania, and features in the latest QS University Rankings: EECA in joint 49th place. It teaches about 26,000 students at its campus in Iași. When founded, the university had only three faculties – Philosophy, Law and Theology – but has significantly developed, establishing 12 more. The university is a member of some of the most prominent international higher education networks, including the Coimbra Group and the Utrecht Network.

West University of Timisoara

The fourth Romanian university to rank among the world’s top 800 is the West University of Timisoara, which is also joint 59th in the EECA ranking. Established in 1962, it is the youngest of Romania’s internationally ranked institutions. The university is organized in 11 faculties: Mathematics and Informatics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Theology, Psychology, Economics, Arts, Physical Education, Politics, Philosophy and Law. One of the most notable alumni of the university is Herta Müller, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
*For information about ranking categories, and answers to other frequently asked questions, click here.

https://www.topuniversities.com/where-to-study/europe/romania/guide

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http://www.webometrics.info/en/Europe/Romania

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See, too -
http://internationalstudentsguide.org/top-5-highest-ranking-universities-romania/

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Romania in Wikipedia -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

Romanian language - Wikipedia

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

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

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Romania WUaS will be a great base potentially for studying all languages in Russia too ...

See, too, especially ...

Trillium grandiflorum: Three biggest priorities for the 2017-2018 school year for World University and School educationally ... **** Re World University and School (as distinct from the WUaS Corporation - see below), **** Re WUaS Corporation (as distinct from World University and School - see above), WUaS Corp CEO search

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/07/trillium-grandiflorum-three-biggest.html


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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Blue-throated macaw: WUaS Corporation emerging ... Advisory Board invitation ... Harvard Business Review-"What Makes Great Boards Great," Forbes-"What Makes a Great Board Member" and "Here's the Right Way to Put Together an Incredibly Smart Advisory Board"


Hi S,

Thanks for your email to my other address yesterday re your -

"Yes, excellent approach to bootstrapping a start-up with no outside investors yet.
What are your thoughts on fundraising moving forward?

Thanks, too, for your response re an invitation to become the WUaS Corporation's startup CEO (more below about this).

I'm writing now to invite you to become a WUaS Corporation Advisory Board member, with a focus on Media Platforms' integration portfolio (and related).

You'll find an emerging WUaS Corporation business plan here - WUaS Corporation Business Plan in GDoc ... https://docs.google.com/a/worlduniversityandschool.org/document/d/12GqcLW_PrcCCQpwNKDF8AqNwtWxYMNUG1h-TfnpbPXw/edit?usp=sharing (see, too - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html) - which doesn't yet focus on Media Platforms' planned revenue streams in all ~200 countries' official languages. This plan will give you a good idea, however, of where WUaS Corporation is going and re revenue streams.

(World University and School as you may know is like Wikipedia in its 358 languages, on the one hand, with CC MIT OpenCourseWare in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, on the other. On the planned CC MIT OCW-centric degree side (in all countries' official languages), we seek to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as eventually I.B. or similar high school degrees).

Thanks to the filing of the WUaS Corporation's Articles of Incorporation this past April 21, 2017 and the subsequent filing of the California Statement of Information 550 on July 18, the WUaS Corp is now taking shape. And I'd as this all takes shape, I'd like to invite you again to a nascent Advisory Board role, if you would like this Board experience.

A friend in Romania, Julian, emailed me recently about being interested in receiving shares of the newly emerging WUaS Corporation in exchange for leading the WUaS Corp - a great development, since it now looks like the WUaS Corporation will have a startup CEO, and because he's someone who can help start our online Educational Services' planned revenue streams, - and potentially with a group of coders he knows (in Podio - which is for managing workflow).

Re the developing the WUaS Corporation Board itself, I have these following HBR and Forbes' articles in mind, for your information:



What Makes Great Boards Great


https://hbr.org/2002/09/what-makes-great-boards-great

What Makes A Great Board Member? (You Really Need To Get This Right)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanstolle/2014/06/19/what-makes-a-great-board-member-you-really-need-to-get-this-right/

Here's The Right Way To Put Together An Incredibly Smart Advisory Board

https://www.forbes.com/sites/actiontrumpseverything/2013/10/02/heres-the-right-way-to-put-together-an-incredibly-smart-advisory-board/

To give you an idea about how the two World University and School wings (non-profit wing based around the CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages, and for-profit wing), here's a recent blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/07/trillium-grandiflorum-three-biggest.html - which characterizes fairly well their emerging relationship.

The WUaS Corporation is hoping to have our first Board meeting from Stanford, and in a Google group video Hangout, in the 3rd week of August. Might you be interested in this Advisory Board role, Scot, for which we haven't determined shares yet, but this is in the works? And if so, would you be able please to participate in this? Looking forward to communicating further about this with you soon. Thank you.

Best, Scott




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org


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Hi K, 

Thanks. I'm glad you're possibly interested in joining the WUaS Corporation Advisory Board. You'll find an emerging WUaS Corporation business plan here - WUaS Corporation Business Plan in GDoc ... https://docs.google.com/a/worlduniversityandschool.org/document/d/12GqcLW_PrcCCQpwNKDF8AqNwtWxYMNUG1h-TfnpbPXw/edit?usp=sharing (see, too - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html) - which doesn't yet focus on the online lessons' planned revenue streams in all ~200 countries' official languages (another possible great-fit portfolio for you). This plan will give you a good idea, however, of where WUaS Corporation is going. Looking forward to communicating further about this with you soon.

And yes, WUaS is seeking to create a cohesive online course and platform for e-learning. It's like Wikipedia in its 358 languages, on the one hand, with CC MIT OpenCourseWare in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, on the other. On the planned CC MIT OCW-centric degree side (in all countries' official languages), WUaS seeks to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as eventually I.B. or similar high school degrees, accrediting potentially in each country (for law degrees) ... and to be like a Stanford or MIT re accreditation and foreign students as well. 

Responses to your questions (all on the World University and School non-profit CC4 centric side, in contrast to the for-profit general stock company startup WUaS Corporation side): 

Is the major difference between WUaS and others that it will be offered for free?
- Creative Commons' licensed (CC4) MIT OpenCourseWare on the degree side. 

Where will it start in the early phases? 
- Online CC MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees 

Are professors already starting to contribute content?
- For planning purposes and initial classes it will the MIT OCW faculty in video who will be our first professors. 

Have you received endorsement and/ or financial backing from any major universities? 
- We've communicated for two successive years with MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira, and must write on all our web pages 

What will the accreditation process look like? 
- Hopefully WASC senior ... contingent upon students and money 

Is it meant to supplement coursework in a university or replace it? 
- WUaS seeks to become independent universities in each of all ~200 countries

(Having done your PBL survey once, I'm going to pass on becoming a PBL best-tester, due to being way over-committed. But thank you).

Thanks to the filing of the WUaS Corporation's Articles of Incorporation this past April 21, 2017 and the subsequent filing of the California Statement of Information 550 on July 18, the WUaS Corp is now taking shape. And I'd as this all takes shape, I'd like to invite you again to a nascent Advisory Board role, if you would like this Board experience. 

A friend in Romania, Julian, emailed me recently about being interested in receiving shares of the newly emerging WUaS Corporation in exchange for leading the WUaS Corp - a great development, since it now looks like the WUaS Corporation will have a startup CEO, and because he's someone who can help start our online Educational Services' planned revenue streams, - and potentially with a group of coders he knows (in Podio - which is for managing workflow).


To give you an idea about how the two World University and School wings (non-profit wing based around the CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages, and for-profit wing), here's a recent blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/07/trillium-grandiflorum-three-biggest.html - which characterizes fairly well their emerging relationship, and mentions your PBL project too.

The WUaS Corporation is hoping to have our first Board meeting from Stanford, and in a Google group video Hangout, in the 3rd week of August. Might you be interested in this Advisory Board role, Kyle, for which we haven't determined shares yet, but this is in the works? And if so, would you be able please to participate in this?  Thank you.

Best, Scott



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Friday, July 28, 2017

Thinkers about species: Multiple Sclerosis - a realistic virtual Harbin / earth and seeking STEM therapeutic research developments, both for cold water benefits of movement / exercise, as well as at the atomic and cellular levels for modeling and research ... re MIT + articles and successes/breakthroughs ... Could people with Multiple Sclerosis with access to swimming pools (cool pools of water), for example, don a DIGITAL MASK, as they walk around in the cool swimming pool realistic VIRTUAL Harbin Hot Springs, OR ONE OF THE COLD PLUNGES? Have people with MS already found benefits at Harbin Hot Springs, with its various pool temperatures? Could, for example, Pamela Sutherland - https://twitter.com/Ltd_To_Two - and see TOO her blog - https://livinginalimitedworld.com - living with MS in Glasgow, Scotland, do so, and flourish in new ways, finding freedom?, Potential here for scientific developments and breakthroughs, Some Dr. Andy Weil MD articles on MS, A realistic virtual Harbin would also facilitate brain wave head set research in combination with digital masks potentially from a swimming pool ... including especially sociality around nudity ... See, Pamela Sutherland's Twitter profile in these regards


Multiple Sclerosis - seeking STEM therapeutic research developments in a realistic virtual Harbin / earth, both for cold water benefits of movement / exercise ... as well as at the atomic and cellular levels for modeling and research ... and re these MIT articles and successes/breakthroughs ...

Could people with Multiple Sclerosis with access to swimming pools (cool pools of water), for example, don a digital mask, as they walk around in the realistic Harbin Hot Springs' cool swimming pool? Have people with MS already found benefits at Harbin Hot Springs, with its various pool temperatures?

Could, for example, Pamela Sutherland - https://twitter.com/Ltd_To_Two - and see TOO her blog - https://livinginalimitedworld.com- living with MS in Glasgow, Scotland, do so, and flourish in new ways, finding freedom?

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In searching on "MIT and multiple sclerosis" and similar, I found ...

Group Members

Principal Investigator

Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Biological Engineering
[Biography, Research, Teaching & Leadership]
Email: krystyn at mit dot eduPhone: 617.253.3315 (e-mail preferred)
Office: MIT Room 8-237
Mail: MIT Room 8-237; 77 Massachusetts Avenue; Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Anna Jagielska

PhD, University of Warsaw, Department of Chemistry, Poland
Anna is interested in understanding the interplay between in vivo chemomechanical environment and stem cell differentiation, with an ultimate goal of improving stem cell based therapies. She is currently focused on the role of mechanical factors in neural stem cell differentiation and myelin repair in neurodegenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis. Anna’s past research fields include quantum chemistry (PhD), and computational biology and biophysics (postdoctoral).
http://kjvvgroup.mit.edu/?page_id=1916

Collegiate inventors awarded 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

http://news.mit.edu/2017/collegiate-inventors-awarded-lemelson-mit-student-prize-0419

BIOE Student Wins Prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Lisa Tostanoski
Lisa Tostanoski
Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) Ph.D. student Lisa Tostanoski has won a $15,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for efforts to develop two novel biomaterials-based strategies to combat multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases. 
http://bioe.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=10479

University of Maryland grad student restores movement to mice crippled with multiple sclerosis
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-lemelson-award-20170506-story.html

National MS Society ...
https://secure.nationalmssociety.org/site/SPageServer/?NONCE_TOKEN=723D2D5E6111E515A2539D34005FF5B9&pagename=HOM_INVOLVED_whygive_blewett

"Hello

For as long as I can remember I have felt light headed after an occasional hot bath. They were never particularly hot, just hot enough to be pleasant. 

About 10 years ago (I was 18 then) I fainted completely following a bath."
https://overcomingms.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=648

Heat & Temperature Sensitivity

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Living-Well-With-MS/Diet-Exercise-Healthy-Behaviors/Heat-Temperature-Sensitivity


There’s an app to have help just a tap away

Boston Home resident, MIT students create app that eases safety concerns

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/08/mit-students-patient-collaborate-app/bW0DDqu7fGz55fmuz27ZKO/story.html

Continuing the Legacy: Assistive Technologies at MIT

https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/continuing-legacy-assistive-technologies-mit

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Assistive Technologies' wiki subject page at World University ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies ...
planned in all countries' official languages +

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A realistic virtual Harbin would also facilitate brain wave head set research in combination with digital masks potentially from a swimming pool ... including especially sociality around nudity ... (see, Pamela Sutherland's Twitter profile in these regards ... - https://twitter.com/Ltd_To_Two -)

Consumer-grade EEG devices: are they usable for control tasks?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806709/

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Exercise — or not — in Water

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Resources-Support/Library-Education-Programs/You-CAN/Exercise-%E2%80%94-or-not-%E2%80%94-in-Water

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Dancing in water for movement benefits with MS?



http://www.msunites.com/wp-content/uploads/Aquatic-Aerobics.jpg
(http://www.msunites.com/category/cat-living-with-ms/cat-living-with-ms-exercise/)

See, too, re MS and Yoga -
http://www.msunites.com/cmsc-2016-coverage-ms-and-yoga-author-and-instructor-says-ancient-discipline-can-help-patients-in-many-ways/

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And here are some Dr. Andy Weil MD articles on MS ...

Multiple Sclerosis

What is multiple sclerosis?
https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/autoimmune-disorders/multiple-sclerosis/

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Are There Natural Remedies for Multiple Sclerosis?

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/autoimmune-disorders/are-there-natural-remedies-for-multiple-sclerosis/

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Bogus Approach To Multiple Sclerosis?

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/disease-disorders/new-approach-to-multiple-sclerosis/

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What's up with watsu? Controversial treatment blends massage therapy, water
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Feb2001/ContraversialFormOfPhysicalTherapy.html
... "Watsu is effective for arthritis, fibromyalgia, back pain, knee or ankle pain, head injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, practitioners say." ...

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(I have a slow internet connection here (on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts), so can't add all the interesting titles of the above MS articles and web pages - and the potential here for scientific developments and breakthroughs).





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