Feb 7, 2015
Only playing the Scottish small pipes now, and they're sounding sweetly ... gigs welcome ... http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ...
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Feb 7, 2015
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In the largest comparison of genetic and linguistic data ever attempted, Stanford biologists find that features of language show a strong link to the geographic dispersal of human populations.
Story: http://stanford.io/1HMhN6b
Story: http://stanford.io/1HMhN6b
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Feb 4, 2015
First WUaS pages with OpenCourseWare and Wikipedias in those languages, Momentous because ...
Vicuña: First WUaS pages with OpenCourseWare and Wikipedias in those languages, Momentous because these are the very beginnings of best STEM-centric universities in those languages with two main CC resources, And, of course, you can teach here, since WUaS is wiki ... Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish World Universities - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/vicuna-first-wuas-pages-with.html .
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Feb 3, 2015
Cuttyhunk Island Striped Bass Weather Vaine on Methodist Church
Cuttyhunk Island Striped Bass Weather Vaine on Methodist Church
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Feb 3, 2015
View from the Hill on Cuttyhunk Islandcu
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Feb 2, 2015
David and Elliott Thurston and Peggy Lovell
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First open WUaS Hive meeting space at AFSC / SFFM (American Friends Service Committee / San Francisco Friends Meeting) last autumn et moi (Scott) ...
Scott MacLeod (WUaS): First open WUaS Hive meeting space at AFSC / SFFM (American Friends Service Committee / San Francisco Friends Meeting) last August 25, 2014 et moi (Scott) ...
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First open WUaS Hive meeting space at AFSC / SFFM (American Friends Service Committee / San Francisco Friends Meeting) last autumn ...
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Far-reaching (and enjoyable and funny) photos ... in Mother India! :)
President Obama just became the first U.S. President to join the people of India on Republic Day to celebrate the anniversary of their constitution. Check out photos from the President and First Lady's trip to India → http://go.wh.gov/nNJz2f
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Great ...
Oxford's All Souls College has a famous fellowship program, access to which is determined by a somewhat infamous exam. What is truly marvelous about this exam, though, is that the questions are profoundly interesting: these are not questions with right and wrong answers, but ones which require deep thought and argument. And that's what's expected of candidates: not an absolute answer to the question, but demonstrating a strong command of the subject, and the ability to make compelling and clear cases.
I have to say that these questions seem quite delightful, and many (all?) of them would make excellent seeds for any conversation. I may well seed posts with them in the future, in fact. Consider some of the following exam questions:
"Did the left or the right win the twentieth century?"
"What, if anything, is wrong with using drones in warfare?"
"When, if ever, should firms bear responsibility for their customers' poor purchasing decisions?"
"Can a privately-supplied currency such as Bitcoin be viable in the long run?"
"How do apologies work?"
"How might we look for the rural poor of the Roman Empire in the archaeological record?"
There are plenty more. This article gives a few, and you can read the complete archive of past questions at http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/content/Past_Papers .
Maybe we should have some kind of "All Souls Challenge:" picking questions, writing posts about them and having conversations, and then tagging other victims...
Thanks to +Irreverent Monk for finding this!
I have to say that these questions seem quite delightful, and many (all?) of them would make excellent seeds for any conversation. I may well seed posts with them in the future, in fact. Consider some of the following exam questions:
"Did the left or the right win the twentieth century?"
"What, if anything, is wrong with using drones in warfare?"
"When, if ever, should firms bear responsibility for their customers' poor purchasing decisions?"
"Can a privately-supplied currency such as Bitcoin be viable in the long run?"
"How do apologies work?"
"How might we look for the rural poor of the Roman Empire in the archaeological record?"
There are plenty more. This article gives a few, and you can read the complete archive of past questions at http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/content/Past_Papers .
Maybe we should have some kind of "All Souls Challenge:" picking questions, writing posts about them and having conversations, and then tagging other victims...
Thanks to +Irreverent Monk for finding this!
Oxford Examiner Reveals How To Answer Questions On The 'World's Hardest Test'
businessinsider.com
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Related UC Berkeley Harbin talk abstract - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gur9SMPlw
Related UC Berkeley Harbin talk abstract - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gur9SMPlw
Aphilo Scott MacLeod Virtual Harbin Introduction Apr 09
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Oregon travels ... that first picture is Medical Springs in eastern Oregon ...
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Added this "Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Feq_Nt3nM ... and related channel mix to "Rock and Roll" at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll ...
Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll
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Music School at World University is mentioned at the bottom of this blog entry about WUaS presentations in Oregon at Reed and Multnomah Meeting this weekend ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/erythronium-dens-canis-talking-about.html
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Great to revisit INDIA in January 2014
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Jan 6, 2015
Check out the Software Libraries and Gaming wiki schools at WUaS ...
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Jan 4, 2015
Music in Braille in MuseScore! ... see WUaS Music links here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/senecio-playing-piano-ideas-and-doing.html ... for access to Music School and similar.
To celebrate Louis Braille's birthday, we've added download for scores in Braille format on +RNIB's profile page https://musescore.com/rnib
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Jan 3, 2015
Great ... will look to add this to the JS Bach school/wiki subject page at WUaS + - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach +Scott MacLeod
The new MuseScore edition of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is available for the first public review. You are all invited to report mistakes using the online commenting tool. http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/sets/openwtc
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Jan 1, 2015
Far-reaching conversation ... "Learning for a New Era" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfsQm7wvlnQ ... will look to add to add to WUaS's Conference Method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning#World_University_and_School_Links - and Education wiki pages.
Learning for a New Era
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Xmas tree and piano ...
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Xmas tree up close with ornaments ...
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Xmas tree and sheet music cabinet
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Kite flyer on Xmas tree
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India photos from this time last year :))
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Great ... will look to add to the Music School at WUaS (planned for all instruments in all languages) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School- and to Music Composition - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Composition - and download and use this as well for piping and piano ...
We added tranpose to the MuseScore app for iOS and Android devices. Update the app or download it for free! http://goo.gl/kRRcbG
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Picconia excelsa: BPPE (state of California initial accreditation), MIT OCW Audio-Video courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ , Posted below a list of MIT OCW audio-video courses to submit to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California, and as the first step for WUaS accreditation in English, "Admissions" at WUaS
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/picconia-excelsa-bppe-state-of.html
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/picconia-excelsa-bppe-state-of.html
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Minutes for Dec 13 2014 WUaS open monthly business meeting - Thank you! ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/12/minutes-for-dec-13-2014-wuas-open.html ... and ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/milkwort-polygala-minutes-for-dec-13.html ...
Minutes for Dec 13 2014 WUaS open monthly business meeting - Thank you!
worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com
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Nice sheet music for free. Good exercises for beginners like me! Also, youtube videos to play and follow along with.
Bagpipe Master
bagpipemaster.com
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Will look to add this to the wiki Business Management subject at MIT OCW-centric WUaS ....
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management ...
Loved this article. What I remember being so impressed with at the time was how little senior management and traditional company hierarchy mattered in all of this. When Larry spotted poorly targeted AdWords ads, he didn’t have to route a message down the chain to the ads people, or wait for a task force to form (in fact, Jonathan and I weren’t even informed until the problem was already solved).
Instead, he knew he could just point out the issue and count on the right people to take care of it because they were as invested in providing a great user experience as he was. That kind of dedication can’t be taught – it comes from having a clear mission, hiring passionate people, and then providing them with the trust and resources they need to do what’s best for the company. #HowGoogleWorks
https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-google-way-of-attacking-problems
#google #culture #mission #passion #hiring
Instead, he knew he could just point out the issue and count on the right people to take care of it because they were as invested in providing a great user experience as he was. That kind of dedication can’t be taught – it comes from having a clear mission, hiring passionate people, and then providing them with the trust and resources they need to do what’s best for the company. #HowGoogleWorks
https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-google-way-of-attacking-problems
#google #culture #mission #passion #hiring
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Founding stories for MIT OCW-centric WUaS in these blog posts here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com , Looking up founding narratives of the Cambridge (1209) and Oxford (1096), What's also interesting about these MIT OCW-centric WUaS founding blog posts is how both hippy-informed and Friendly-informed they are
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/rosa-canina-dog-rose-so-many-of-these.html
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/rosa-canina-dog-rose-so-many-of-these.html
Founding stories for MIT OCW-centric WUaS in these blog posts here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com , Looking up founding narratives of the Cambridge (1209) and Oxford (1096), What's also interesting about these MIT OCW-centric WUaS founding blog posts is how both hippy-informed and Friendly-informed they are
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/rosa-canina-dog-rose-so-many-of-these.html
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/rosa-canina-dog-rose-so-many-of-these.html
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