Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Panamanian golden frog: World University and School is also seeking to develop Engineering courses and degrees in a realistic virtual environment and with actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language * * * Ethics? - perhaps to Richard Rorty in terms of ethics - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ - as well, and re his liberalism, his focus on social justice, appreciative too of Rorty's 'social gospel' thinking * * * Added about 10 more poems from 2011 to my now nearing complete poetry book manuscript "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! .... " (2019) ~ Almost ready to send manuscript to the Academic Press at World University and School for printing / publishing via KDP ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ...


Edward and Larry,

Edward, per your inquiry about World University and School:

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/araucaria-araucana-thanks-for-your.html >

Araucaria araucana: Thanks for your email inquiry, interest and intent to apply to and matriculate at MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, toward an engineering degree * * * Writings are a bit hippy-informed, as does seem to be your art re your lunacy observations> See too the Hippy Van with Bed and Bath, and as Dorm Room, as well as Fitting a Drum Set into the following self-driving hospital prototype * * * * * Single family tree - presumably for 7.5 billion people, and World Univ & Sch seeks to help with a Wikidata Q-item #

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/araucaria-araucana-thanks-for-your.html ...



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Hi Edward and Larry,

WUaS will contact you when it's possible to apply and matriculate for free-to-students' licensing, online MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degrees at World University and School. For your information, and in the meantime, please see:

MIT OCW - Engineering

MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware

OpenCourseWare bundles for edX

MITx Courses on edX

MITx: Free online courses from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

World University and School is also seeking to develop Engineering courses and degrees in a realistic virtual environment and with 1-1 correspondence actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language (and please check out this recent hour-long Scratch introduction - 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1201685428501270528?s=20 - and feel free to attend an hour of code next week online as well). See, too, the #hasttag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click ...  

Licensing and accreditation will help WUaS build a much better platform in these regards than otherwise as well. 

Please let me know what you think, and if I, or Larry Viehland above, can answer any specific questions you might have. Thank you again for your time. 

Sincerely, Scott



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  


- World University and School


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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By a realistic virtual earth environment for robotics, but focused on Lego scale, I mean something like this -

and re ... "realistic virtual environment and with 1-1 correspondence actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language" ...



Realistic Virtual Harbin #RealisticVirtualHarbin For PLAY #RealisticVirtualEarthForPlay re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital SpotMini ~ https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009?s=20 … with LEGO #LegoRobotics & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & for HOME  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics  @WorldUnivAndSch ~


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1198668516380966912





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Tuesday, December 3, 2019 



Hi Ma,

Are you doing alright? How are you?

I think I have ethics' inquiries heading in about 8 directions now (some of which I've touched on in this blog), having 'whistle-blown' in these regards in recent years. Cosmic Skeptic Atheist Alex (an Oxford graduate student in theology as an atheist, interestingly) helped focus some of these questions in recent weeks further for me (and re CA Quakers esp.), & re questions of somehow right and wrong ... and out here in curious California ... (and with an unfolding actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project continuing to develop as well - mostly in my blog these days). Blogged a bit after emailing the Nontheist Friends' email list about addressing, or thinking about, (LG...?) wrongdoing recently ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/dolphin-playful-species-take-me-to.html?m=0 (but 'ethics' isn't a label here ... since I keep running out of label space:). How to generate an ethics' conversation further at Stanford, 125 years into its history, for example (or in California too), I'm not sure I want to get into, but .. seeking to help protect potential victims (of the sex trade, for example) has much much merit, beyond questions of law, and scofflaws too ... curious world we live in ... I think it's the negative vortex (rogue-like?) aspects of culture in California which open possibilities for change and even learning or education ... and hippy counterculture, for example, probably happens any way ... and re further ethnographic research ahead? Am aware too that the Dutch address ethical questions as an identity or people differently from the English (Alex) from people in India, from peoples and nationalities with intense and in depth philosophical examinations of ethical questions. Am appreciative in these regards too of living in California (my ethnography writing, and thinking in general, at times goes to 'place' in my analysis in these regards ... perhaps to Richard Rorty in terms of ethics - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ - as well, and re his liberalism, his focus on social justice, appreciative too of Rorty's 'social gospel' thinking from his mother's father - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rorty).

Looks like I'll have a lesson with Finlay on Wednesday in a week, I'm glad to say. Working on finishing up publishing my poetry book, - and may head to 4 free museums today in SF - https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/monthly-free-museum-days/. Time too to start playing a lot before 12/11/19, and after playing yesterday evening in Open Band, for example .... still seeking to bring my vision for "Honey in the Bag" album, and inspired daily playing, further into focus :)

What are you up to this week? Anyway ... :)

Love, Scott


Interesting name for a museum (given California's possible legacy of what I'll call, and perhaps have observed, rogue-like ethics, but perhaps as aspiration and linguistically, it's worth thinking about further ... :)

Legion of Honor
FREE First Tuesdays
FREE Every Saturday for SF Residents – Starting April 6, 2019
This exquisite Beaux-Arts building, located on a perch with an unbelievable view overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, houses a collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European arts. Special exhibition surcharges may apply.
– 100 34th Ave, San Francisco
– confirmed 11/17/19

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
FREE First Tuesdays
Multidisciplinary art center features exhibitions, performances, film/video and rotating art exhibits with a focus on contemporary and emerging artists from the Bay Area and beyond.
– 3rd and Mission, San Francisco – BART: Powell Street
– confirmed 11/17/19

de Young Museum
FREE First Tuesdays
FREE Every Saturday for SF Residents
One of the most visited art museums in the country, the de Young showcases a priceless collection of American art from the 17th through 20th centuries along with art from Central and South America and the Pacific, in addition to an impressive collection of textiles. Special exhibition fees may apply. The de Young also hosts a free “Friday Nights at the de Young” program which runs seasonally (typically in the fall).
– 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
– confirmed 11/17/19

Museum of Craft and Design
FREE First Tuesdays
After six years in Union Square and two years of pop-ups, the Museum of Craft & Design opened up their permanent location in the Dogpatch. Rather than featuring paintings or traditional sculpture, the museum showcases other types of artwork that range from furniture, kinetic sculptures, and jewelry.
– 2569 Third Street, San Francisco
– confirmed 11/17/19






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Good morning, Ma!

Very nice to talk last night again - and also about recording my upcoming of "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' album ... how to record without the bellow's sounds is an interesting question.

Added about 10 more poems from 2011 to my now nearing complete poetry book manuscript "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! .... " (2019) last night. So my manuscript is now about 146 pages long, longer than last years' book "Winding Road Rainbow" (2018) of about 100 pages ... Have drafted the Forward too, as well as some of the information at the back of the book. Almost ready to send manuscript to the Academic Press at World University and School for printing / publishing via KDP ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ... This volume will then include my poems from 2010 and 2011, whereas "Winding Road Rainbow ... " (2018) included most poems from 2008-2009, I think. And "Haiku-ish ... " (2017) included all of my short sweet Haiku~ish (of course:)! As I now read through this manuscript for the following themes ~Harbin, ~ virtual reality, and ~sequencing of poems, possibly as journey, - potentially too as VR develops with regards to how one might experience each poem (written in 2010-2011) newly in VR Glasses, for example :) These are interesting innovation ideas, as
well as some poems in these regards too.

Explore becoming friends? - if I spend more time in Cambridge, MA, in the New Year at Harvard and MIT, with
Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley -

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w

To help grow World Univ & Sch? -
Brittany Bir -

https://youtu.be/TFN1SztNdr4
(Am meeting on Wednesday 12/11 at Schoolab's offices' Grand Opening in SF from 11-11, for a welcoming CEOs Jean-Claude Charlet and Matthieu Aguesse ... with great day long opportunities to talk with many Schoolab people about World Univ & Sch as well).

Here I be at Magnussen's Toyota Palo Alto and getting a 5000 mile service, on a 4th generation Prius c car that's working pretty well.

What are you up to today and for the rest of the week? (Will likely blog again partly about ethics!)

Love,
Scott


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com
- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity








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