Friday, March 6, 2020

Glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium ... ): . . . Harrumph and wriggle-snort, regarding 2020 envisioning as well ... Harvard - "How political ideas keep economic inequality going," Am glad he touches on Universal Basic Income (experiments?) but am wondering how long into the future Piketty is envisioning this for nation states, especially regarding developments in aging reversal * * * * Robotics with WeDo 2.0 and Scratch visual programming language, and Raspberry PI - from home? Making and coding robots with my Lego WeDo 2.0 Robotics' kit's tutorial, and with the free Scratch visual programming language - "Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators" ... https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - and with the MicroBit card, and the Raspberry Pi computer on a card * * * * At World Univ & Sch this autumn 2020, Shabhaz in India writes, would "I would have to travel to US to start my Degree program," and WUaS replies "As a prospective undergraduate English major at MIT OCW-centric World University and School this autumn 2020, these WUaS 4 year (licensing and accrediting) degrees would explicitly not involve traveling to the US to start your degree," * * If you decided, for example, after 4 years and receiving your degree, to apply to and matriculate in the online WUaS Medical School, this might involve some travel outside India, but not necessarily to the US - e.g. brainstorming-wise, in academic Toyota Teaching Hospital Vans as medical schools with tele-robotic molecular surgery, and robotic CRISPR gene editing technologies


Scott MacLeod
1:32 PM (4 hours ago)
to Richard, Lucy, Janie, Alden

Harrumph and wriggle-snort, regarding 2020 envisioning as well -

"How political ideas keep economic inequality going"
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated

How political ideas keep economic inequality going
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated Glad he touches on #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBIexperiments?) but am wondering how long into the future Piketty is envisioning this for nation states, esp. regarding #AgingReversal https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236043385061793792?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236044140271435778?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236046649962577920?s=20


https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1236002360394166272?s=20


How political ideas keep economic inequality going
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated Glad he touches on #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBIexperiments?) but am wondering how long into the future Piketty is envisioning this for nation states, esp. regarding #AgeReversal https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236044256399130629?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236046118368108544?s=20


Am glad he touches on Universal Basic Income (experiments?) but am wondering how long into the future Piketty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty) is envisioning this for nation states, especially regarding developments in aging reversal / longevity - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity. Not very much analysis of the significance of the internet here whatsoever, although am wondering whether his parents could have known Manuel Castells in 1968 in Paris.

Scott

PS
relevant article regarding CoronaVirusCOVID19 developments -

VIRUS TEST
"Corona virus: How does the Sars-CoV-2 virus test work?"
by Tanja Banner
https://www.fr.de/wissen/coronavirus-wie-funktioniert-test-virus-sars-cov-2-13582810.html (video works here, but in German) #CoronaVirusCOVID19 #GoogleTranslate https://translate.google.com/ for text. Video concludes with as long as MDs remain CALM, we can also relax

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236017643284381697?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236017992506302464?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236018653969043456?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1236029580554539008?s=20

Auf das #Coronavirus #SARS_COV_2 wird in Deutschland nicht jeder getestet, der Symptome aufweist. Wer auf das Virus getestet wird und wer nicht.

https://twitter.com/fr/status/1235926559875350528?s=20

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com


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Does the U.S. Need a National Digital Currency?
Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster & easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient
https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-the-u-s-need-a-national-digital-currency-11582513201?shareToken=st833a53a33d584d5491a7f7eafa74ea0f
#UBIexperiments for 7.5 bil people #UniversalBasicIncome #WikidataQitem #WikidataPin #

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236076221848416257?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236076690972917760?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236078874661814272?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1236081023386963968?s=20



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Neha Narula
@neha
Feb 24
I wrote the pro side of a debate arguing the US should issue digital currency in the Wall Street Journal today:


https://twitter.com/neha/status/1231987170170286081?s=20





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Lego WeDo 2.0 Robotics with Scratch programming language with the MicroBit card,  and the Raspberry Pi computer on a card
(Scratch Programming Lesson 5: Variables & Collisions
https://youtu.be/EKqG0EFhJOg?)


Thought I might get back into making and coding robots with my Lego WeDo 2.0 Robotics' kit's tutorial, and with the free Scratch visual programming language - "Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators" ...  https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - and with the MicroBit card,  and the Raspberry Pi computer on a card (which Jared Amalong kindly shared with me at a recent Raspberry Pi and Scratch MeetUp in Sacramento) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/aurora-prepping-for-pi-day-with-scratch.html (February 27, 2020) ...


lego wedo scratch raspberry pi demo with alligator

https://youtu.be/VVBkSJLLGps


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Introduction to Scratch for Pi, with GPIO LED Example

https://youtu.be/7YS2PECMFc0



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Roberta Kurs 2. Klasse - Thema Frösche. Die Mädchen hatten viel Spaß #mint


https://twitter.com/detlefschmidt/status/1235646140856569856?s=20





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Minutes for Sat Feb 15, 2020 World University & School's Monthly Business Meeting * * * Minutes for Feb 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting - AAA & students

Info WorldUniversity
11:02 AM (6 hours ago)
to Nimisha, Scott, Shahbaz, Larry, Anant

Hi Shahbaz, (and Anant, Nimishi, and Larry)

Thank you for your inquiry today again:
"I am delighted that you are moving closer to your goal. I just want to know whether I would have to travel to US to start my Degree program."

As a prospective undergraduate English major at MIT OCW-centric World University and School this autumn 2020 (since WUaS wasn't able to make courses available for credit this past January per your expressed interest and inquiries), these WUaS 4 year (licensing and accrediting) degrees would explicitly not involve traveling to the US to start your degree. (If you decided, for example, after 4 years and receiving your degree, to apply to and matriculate in the online WUaS Medical School, this might involve some travel outside India, but not necessarily to the US - e.g. brainstorming-wise, in academic Toyota Teaching Hospital Vans as medical schools with tele-robotic molecular surgery, and robotic CRISPR gene editing technologies).

I'd like to introduce you as well here to not only Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, and MIT Prof of EECS, but also to Nimisha Asthagiri, edX’s Chief Architect - https://blog.edx.org/edx-insider-meet-nimisha/ - who also has a MIT BS degree in Engineering (EECS) from 1997. (And Larry Viehland is WUaS's chair of the Board, and also a MIT alumnus - from 1969 in chemistry/physics).

Sincerely, Scott



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Info WorldUniversity
11:20 AM (6 hours ago)
to Larry, Anant, Nimisha, Scott, Shahbaz

Hi Shahbaz, and Anant, Nimishi (and Larry)

again: Thank you for your inquiry today -
"I am delighted that you are moving closer to your goal. I just want to know whether I would have to travel to US to start my Degree program."

Regarding MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch developing WUaS courses available for credit for this autumn 2020 - something like CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx courses (of which there are presently 205 courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ ) - how might we, please, Anant and Nimishi, best make these courses available for WUaS 4 year (licensing and accrediting) degrees, and potentially not only for online undergraduate students and majors in English, but also for students majoring in General Engineering, Business, EECS, General Science, and History (all of which are WUaS's initial planned majors; see the majors and beginning, brainstorming-wise, MIT OCW here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/)?

And, again, I'd like to introduce you as well here to not only Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, and MIT Prof of EECS, but also to Nimisha Asthagiri, edX’s Chief Architect - https://blog.edx.org/edx-insider-meet-nimisha/ - who also has a MIT BS degree in Engineering (EECS) from 1997. (And Larry Viehland is WUaS's chair of the Board).

Nimishi, is there a way, please, we could begin to communicate about and explore developing courses in the autumn not only in English, for Shahbaz, but also in Engineering, and Business, all of which majors, WUaS has students interested in matriculating for. Thanks so much.

Thank you & Regards, Scott
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://scottmacleod.com



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Hi Shahbaz,

Thanks for your email. World Univ & Sch seeks to be as online as possible (with parallels to edX). WUaS is also seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual earth as digital classrooms and virtual campus (think Google Street View with time slider with Second Life with avatar bots, but realistic).. This realistic virtual earth for English would have much in common with a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click . But WUaS is not planning to offer a physical campus. With a free-to-students' (licensing and accrediting) CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS undergraduate BA degree, one could then apply to MIT on-the-ground for a PhD, for example. By way of comparison, applying to, getting accepted at, matriculating at, and paying the tuition at MIT for example would probably be around $55,000/year pulse another $20,000 in living expenses, with scholarships and stipends available. (And as I wrote earlier, WUaS may innovatively in our medical schools seek to develop Toyota Teaching Hospital Vans which would be a kind of physical campus as well).

 Where do you live in India?

Sincerely, Scott







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