Sunday, August 23, 2020

Nemophila menziesii (baby blue eyes): If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here, ...? - Harvard and MIT's George Church - 60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute) - and which was FDA approved (so we understood the science thanks to experimentation, and it was safe and effective), would you do so? :) I think I'd prefer a capsule :) * * * 'Visual Tour: Studying at ETH Zurich' - Switzerland ... In what ways will it be possible for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch to collaborate remarkably with ETH Zurich, I wonder. Do you work with / hire ETH Zurich graduates in great numbers? * World Univ & Sch is moving forward, OUI ... developing step by step, SOMETIMES with a side step or two :) ... and WUaS has made some great recent advances ... like OFFICIALLY carrying Lego Robotics for WUaS 'home robotics' - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html * * * The great book "Always Coming Home" (1985) by Ursula K. LeGuin takes place 400 years in the future, after the oceans have risen, and in the Napa Valley - and where the main character Stone Telling's father is from the warlike Condor people, who keep trying to put war technologies into the air as flying machines, but fail. It offers an interesting perspective on technologies and cultures - peace, too - and Ursula's family?, and since Ursula's father was Alfred Kroeber, after whom the UC Berkeley Anthropology building is named * * Am wondering too about the role of psychiatry to help people at the time, and how one could plan for psychiatry 10 or 100 years from now online, in the SF Bay Area, and AROUND THE WORLD! * * * California Frontier (continued:) * * Cuttyhunk Island in the 1970s’ Documentary Film idea



Ma, Sandy (mon frère),

If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here, 

Harvard and MIT's George Church - 
60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

- and which was FDA approved (so we understood the science thanks to experimentation, and it was safe and effective), would you do so? :)

I think I'd prefer a capsule :) ... which still seems some ways off in the future ... and am not holding my breath either ... but there seems reason to be optimistic perchance :)



L, Scott





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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Aug 14, 11:03 AM (9 days ago)
to Marc

Marc!

How are you? Are you 'holed up' in your mountain hideaway exploring the intricacies of the immune system virtually, - and due to coronavirus pandemic memes (since the viral / virus expression seems to be quite limited, and in all ~200 countries ... SARS in China and Italy initially, and introduced???, and then the Swedes took the 'herd immunity' approach successfully to a somewhat mild coronavirus Covid-19 virus ... and tests may become available in supermarkets soon - & vaccines too)???

In what ways could this best be done further in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click?

I enjoyed this glimpse into academic life in Zurich! -

Visual Tour: Studying at ETH Zurich

https://youtu.be/n49K-DAf7IY

In what ways will it be possible for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch to collaborate remarkably with ETH Zurich, I wonder. Do you work with / hire ETH Zurich graduates in great numbers?

Warm regards, Scott

Academic Mind -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Mind
STEM -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com


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Marc Dupuis
Aug 22, 2020, 3:37 AM (1 day ago)
to me

Hey Scott!

Happy  to hear from you! The immune system has evolved and adapted to eliminate pathogens, and pathogens have adapted and evolved to escape it.

The game has been going on For ages, even though virus do seem to use minimal gene expression to create havoc within organisms and populations. In the end it’s an equilibrium so there is hope it should stabilize at some point. And yes, our behavior or memes are the main cause for spread, as virus are very effective at exploiting our weak spots.

How are you? I see your University and Harbin projets moving forward, that’s great. We heard about the fires in California, and people staying at the beaches, hope it’s not too bad. Viruses are likely to survive heat waves and climate change...are we?

Places In the mountains and cool woods in the hills are likely to become highly sought for...

Work is fine, our Company is  French-centric so lots of frenchies and rarely do we see Zürich students... lack of diversity is the surest way to extinction.

So little we can do to grapple with important issues...

So let’s preserve what we have and celebrate long lasting friendships.
A ta Santé Scott, et à la prochaine
Marc



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Scott asks:
(communicative BEHAVIOR, as in the media? ... re MEMES as replicating cultural units)


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Scott MacLeod
12:09 PM (2 minutes ago)
to Marc

Marc,

So great to hear from you too!

Sounds like you're exploring a variety of 'conversations'! Evolutionary, immune system-wise, viral, company-identity-wise ... evolution biology goes on ... and beginning a family is on my mind, so dating would be great ... and while I have a great 'pad' ... the 'new normal' complicates things.

World Univ & Sch is moving forward, OUI ... is developing step by step, SOMETIMES with a side step or two along the way :) ... and WUaS has made some great recent advances ... like OFFICIALLY carrying Lego Robotics for WUaS 'home robotics' - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ... (but so far only for US students).

Harbin Hot Springs' projet aussi moves forward - oui - but not yet in a realistic virtual Harbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click (with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics or Brain science yet https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click !) - so more in blog - eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin - and see upcoming talk I'll likely give in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department this autumn - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/rosa-californica-california-frontier.html - at bottom. (And Harbin newly appears to be open-closed - https://harbin.org/ - even regarding California's stay at home directive - https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ - since there's fire in Lake County, California closing it again now, apparently, but one can still make reservations) ... I emailed Sunheart  at Harbin Happy birthday recently ... see Rosa Californica-California Frontier blog post again - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/rosa-californica-california-frontier.html ... my daily blog and 6 Twitters are ongoing creative endeavors.

Living in a well-designed little house-let in a beautiful spot in the hills near Berkeley is amazing in some ways, but am living in some solitude here too, which could change with dating ... it could be great if I could even come into 'ownership' of this property somehow ... )

Amazing that WUaS has this daily free newspaper -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1296984123647709186?s=20 - characterizing too the MIT OCW CC-4 licensing arrangement with WUaS ... Am hopeful edX CEO & MIT Prof of EECS Anant Agarwal can further open the way for WUaS to work with edX -

https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1296806235749187586?s=20 - and perhaps not just via Open edX.

Am teaching Scottish small piping now (have given 20 lessons so far) ... and am just getting into teaching SSP composing interestingly ... Are you making music these days? Are you exploring other aspects of evolutionary biology, besides the immune system and viral processes en français sans les ETH?  What is equilibrium in a multidimensional single realistic virtual earth for genetics too (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click) I wonder? :)

Thoughts about aging reversal re George Church as well? (see below:)?

Oui, oui, oui
So let’s preserve what we have and celebrate long lasting friendships.
A ta Santé Marc, et à la prochaine

Fond regards,
Scott

MIT Scratch programming teacher, Zoe Bentley, in the Boston area

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1295792109971283970?s=20


Ma, Sandy, (mon frère)

If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here,

Harvard and MIT's George Church -
60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

- and which was FDA approved (so we understood the science thanks to experimentation, and it was safe and effective), would you do so? :)

I think I'd prefer a capsule :) ... still seems some ways off in the future ... am not holding my breath either ... but there seems reason to be optimistic perchance :)

L, Scott

--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand



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Marc, 

Have you seen these Genomics' leadership interviews?


https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1294325028616634368?s=20

Cheers, Scott



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Scott MacLeod
11:10 AM (1 hour ago)
to Jane

Ma,

Smoke is back thick in the morning, so shut windows covered by curtains in front room at 7 am , 75F ... at 10:30 78F ...

Am amazed by these digital technologies we live among ... and use (smartphone, internet, laptop computer, house-let, Evaporative cooler, refrigerator, microwave, smart TV, hybrid car getting about 44 mpg on average regarding reversing global warming) and appreciative ...

The great book "Always Coming Home" (1985) by Ursula K. LeGuin takes place 400 years in the future, after the oceans have risen, and in the Napa Valley (where Ursula grew up as a child) where in the Valley the main character's mother who is of the Kesh people Dance the Moon, and Dance the Wine, and other seasonal ritual dances (and where they have computers, also in underground Heyimas, or sacred spaces) - and where the main character Stone Telling's father is from the warlike Condor people, who keep trying to put war technologies into the air as flying machines, but fail. It offers an interesting perspective on technologies and cultures - peace, too (and Taoism, explicitly, too) - and Ursula's family as well?, - and since Ursula's father was Alfred Kroeber, after whom the UC Berkeley Anthropology building is named, and where he was a founding professor. (And her mother, Theodora, wrote the book - "Ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America." Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22940-2, Kroeber, Theodora (1961) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi. They were living in Berkeley, California around 1900, since the Cal Anthropology Department was founded in 1901. What a different world that would have been, and in the Napa Valley too - culturally and anthropologically in its own right! (Will we be able to revisit in in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and a realistic virtual earth for anthropology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology?src=hashtag_click)? "Always Coming Home" is an amazing work of ethnographic science fiction.

Am wondering too about the role of psychiatry to help people at the time, around 1900, and how one could plan for psychiatry 10 or 100 years from now online, in the SF Bay Area, and AROUND THE WORLD!

What are you up to today? And how are you doing?

Love,
Scott





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Cuttyhunk Yacht Club ~ 

CYC End of Season Information and News!





Greetings from Cuttyhunk! We have a busy week ahead and some important news to share:
  • Closing Weekend begins this Saturday 8/22 at 9am, we will be taking most of the boats out of the water
  • We will extend our season through Labor Day, with a limited fleet and staff, by adhering to the following structured boat borrowing schedule, beginning Monday 8/24:
    • Current Level 2 Sailors get priority from 9-11am weekdays
    • Current Level 3 Sailors get priority from 1-4pm except for Wednesdays which remain open for maintenance
    • Current active adult members from the 2020 season may borrow boats between 9-4pm with permission from the Commodore
      • All equipment must be returned by 4pm, no exceptions. This is for your safety and the integrity of our fleet
  • Our General Membership meeting will take place on Sunday 8/23 at 9am on The Barnacle lawn
Finally, yes we will have an August Virtual Party Awards Video. Stay tuned for details!!! Until then, keep sailing!!!

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Scott MacLeod
Tue, Aug 18, 8:21 AM (6 days ago)
to Janie, David

Good morning, Ma, and David,

Are you going to 'attend' the CYC August Party, although it looks like this is neither in group video nor interactive;  "August Virtual Party Awards Video. Stay tuned for details!!! Until then, keep sailing!!!" :)?

Am getting a little involved in the Cal-Sailing 'Berkeley Yacht Club' at the Berkeley Marina these days. Seeking to get out on a Laser soon, and also because it's much cooler in Berkeley on the water, than in sweltering Canyon 94516 these very hot days.

How are you both doing in the heat of Pgh and DC? Cuttyhunk starts to get cool around August 15th, I recall .... (due, I think, to the Atlantic waters). The last 2 weeks of August can be a great time to be there coolness-wise, re these recent decades of humid summers compared with the 1970s! :)

Warm regards, Scott



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

2:53 PM (5 hours ago)
to Janie, David
Ma, David,

I haven't seen this CYC "August Virtual Party Awards Video" 'film' yet ... have either of you? ... and I wonder if there's a kind of production element happening, beyond the recording of it to Youtube idea .. am not sure it's my cup of tea, but it could be a way for the CYC to raise money from all the Cuttyhunk Yacht Clubbers of this 'crazy' coronavirus Covid-19 summer, for ex.

Reminds me of a Cuttyhunk film I'd like to make some day, and here in the 2nd blog entry especially are some scenes from it. It would be wonderful if Ken Burns could make it. Will you be a consultant, David? Ma? :) ... (I bet there'd be a lot of good Cuttyhunk consultants! ... David? :))

Seals: Cuttyhunk Island in the 1970s’ Documentary Film Proposal, WUaS teacher training all day and homework at night next summer?, For WUaS to become the MIT / Harvard of the Internet with time, and in all languages and countries
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/seals-cuttyhunk-island-in-1970s.html

Cuttyhunk bayberry: I've made at least one Cuttyhunk video before, the Cuttyhunk Historical Society profile page on Google Plus, Thinking through a Cuttyhunk documentary of the 1970s
(from 2014 in July in the Cuttyhunk label, in daily blog)

Very smokey here today! Have added some further thoughts about this, and related emails to my blog post today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/nemophila-menziesii-baby-blue-eyes-if.html :) Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

3:15 PM (5 hours ago)
to Janie, David
David, Ma,

Interviews might be a big part of such a Cuttyhunk in the 1970s' film project, and ethnographically even in a way!







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