Javan slow loris: Peter Norvig's Lego Institute, and WUaS plans for WUaS Home Robotics, - and since WUaS is now carrying Lego Robotics' kits officially ... * * Seseorang menambahkan email Anda sebagai email pemulihannya * * Peter Norvig - PS CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is developing, and WUaS is in the process of partnering with edX Online Campus for free-to-students' online licensing (in CA) and accrediting Bachelor's degrees (then Ph.D.s) beginning in January (for 3rd undergraduate class). And the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation - and regarding planning for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item # or similar Wikidata Pin # - is also seeking to develop a related platform for our WUaS Educational Services' Store, which is now officially carrying Lego Robotics (regarding, too, your Lego Institute) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html - and even regarding UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and backed by their central banks, and post US dollar, which is a de facto international currency already). WUaS is also seeking to develop a related platform for our Academic Press at World Univ & Sch - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - planned with machine translation in all 7,117 known living languages for the related WUaS bookstore/computer store/robotics' store / hospital technologies' distributor - in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages - both online and on-the-ground - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - which again is officially carrying 3 Lego Robotics' kits, (but which are only currently purchasable by students and people in the USA).

Peter Norvig's Lego Institute, and WUaS plans for WUaS Home Robotics, and since WUaS is now carrying Lego Robotics' kits officially ...

LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation

https://norvig.com/LI2/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17793594

https://www.businessinsider.com/googles-peter-norvigs-funny-website-2014-9

See, the Lego Robotics' kits here in the WUaS Educational Services' Store - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Peter (Norvig), I am wondering if I should be concerned with this notice from Google....

Seseorang menambahkan email Anda sebagai email pemulihannya 

oogle <no-reply@accounts.google.com>	Tue, Sep 29, 7:14 PM (2 days ago)
to Helianth

Indonesian

English

   

Translate message

Turn off for: Indonesian

Seseorang menambahkan Helianth@gmail.com sebagai email pemulihannya 31fahriali@gmail.com ingin menjadikan alamat email Anda sebagai email pemulihannya. Jika Anda tidak mengenal akun ini, ada kemungkinan alamat email Anda ditambahkan secara keliru. Anda dapat menghapus alamat email dari akun tersebut. Putuskan hubungan email English | Русский | Deutsch | 日本語 | español | français | 中文 | português | italiano | polski | … Anda menerima email ini sebagai pemberitahuan tentang perubahan penting pada layanan dan Akun Google Anda. © 2020 Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

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Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com>	9:24 AM (21 hours ago)
to Peter, Scott, Scott, Larry, Govind, Ed, Tym, Pin, Sri, Jayni, Kyle, tito, Juan, Yuping-CASPA, Info, mazumdarp, Peter, Marisol, Rohit, Rohit

Peter, I am wondering if I should be concerned with this notice from Google. I'm assuming that if someone in the Indonesian language adds my email address as their back up, that they won't be able to use the backup email, because they don't have the password to it. What else could this email be about, I wonder? I'm going to ignore this unless you or Google suggest otherwise. I hope this finds you well. How are you doing?

 Thank you, Scott

PS

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is developing, and WUaS is in the process of partnering with edX Online Campus for free-to-students' online licensing (in CA) and accrediting Bachelor's degrees (then Ph.D.s) beginning in January (for 3rd undergraduate class). And the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation - and regarding planning for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item # or similar Wikidata Pin # - is also seeking to develop a related platform for our WUaS Educational Services' Store, which is now officially carrying Lego Robotics (regarding, too, your Lego Institute) ...  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html - and even regarding UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and backed by their central banks, and post US dollar, which is a de facto international currency already). WUaS is also seeking to develop a related platform for our Academic Press at World Univ & Sch - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - planned with machine translation in all 7,117 known living languages for the related WUaS bookstore/computer store/robotics' store / hospital technologies' distributor - in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages - both online and on-the-ground - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - which again is officially carrying 3 Lego Robotics' kits, (but which are only currently purchasable by students and people in the USA).

Scott

 - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Thank you, Peter!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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. 

* 

Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com>

9:24 AM (21 hours ago)

to Peter, Scott, Scott, Larry, Govind, Ed, Tym, Pin, Sri, Jayni, Kyle, tito, Juan, Yuping-CASPA, Info, mazumdarp, Peter, Marisol, Rohit, Rohit

Peter, I am wondering if I should be concerned with this notice from Google. I'm assuming that if someone in the Indonesian language adds my email address as their back up, that they won't be able to use the backup email, because they don't have the password to it. What else could this email be about, I wonder? I'm going to ignore this unless you or Google suggest otherwise. I hope this finds you well. How are you doing?

 Thank you, Scott

PS

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is developing, and WUaS is in the process of partnering with edX Online Campus for free-to-students' online licensing (in CA) and accrediting Bachelor's degrees (then Ph.D.s) beginning in January (for 3rd undergraduate class). And the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation - and regarding planning for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item # or similar Wikidata Pin # - is also seeking to develop a related platform for our WUaS Educational Services' Store, which is now officially carrying Lego Robotics (regarding, too, your Lego Institute) ...  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html - and even regarding UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and backed by their central banks, and post US dollar, which is a de facto international currency already). WUaS is also seeking to develop a related platform for our Academic Press at World Univ & Sch - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - planned with machine translation in all 7,117 known living languages for the related WUaS bookstore/computer store/robotics' store / hospital technologies' distributor - in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages - both online and on-the-ground - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - which again is officially carrying 3 Lego Robotics' kits, (but which only currently purchasable by students and people in the USA).

Scott

 - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -

worlduniversityandschool.org

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Thank you, Peter!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

-- 

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_25_Most_Endangered_Primates

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nycticebus_javanicus

...

Catharanthus roseus: Sal Khan - 'free world class education for anyone anywhere' is Khan Academy's mission * * World Univ & Sch's mission is as broad, - planning to code for 7.8 billion people on planet - at You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ... and adds CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity in its 4 current languages, for free to students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD, and IB high school degrees, wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages, for open teaching and learning * * World Univ & Sch's mission is here ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation !

 

I heard the very impressive 

Sal Khan 

(https://www.khanacademy.org)

- here today at - 

~ MIT Solve ~

https://solve.mit.edu/events/solve-challenge-finals-2020

and he mentioned Khan Academy's amazing mission - 

'free world class education for anyone anywhere' 

Sal reports many learners using Khan Academy too ... and as an entrepreneur especially.

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TODAY @ 3:30pm ET: Solve Challenge Finals Livestream Today is the day! The closing plenary of Virtual Solve Challenge Finals will be livestreamed here on our website TODAY from 3:30-5:30pm ET. Log on to experience inspiring speakers, groundbreaking announcements, and a reveal of the 2020 Solver teams: A fireside chat between Sal Khan, Founder & CEO of Khan Academy, and Anya Kamanetz, NPR Education Correspondent, on the future of learning and social entrepreneurship

https://solve.mit.edu/events/solve-challenge-finals-2020

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How many people are using WUaS? ... am seeking for many in collaborating with edX Online Campus beginning this January ... 

(Is Khan Academy too testing oriented? ... re the aversive experience of testing in today's online education, and even regarding BF Skinner's animal behaviorism, and re schedules of reinforcement. Who knows re engagement of students toward free-to-students' online degrees?, - and in thinking about World Univ and Sch). 

* * 

World Univ & Sch's mission is as broad, - planning to code for 7.8 billion people on planet - at You at WUaS  - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ... 

and adds 

CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity in its 4 current languages, for free to students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD, and IB high school degrees, 

wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages, for open teaching and learning, 

so anticipates wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people

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WUaS academic and creative open wiki subjects, planned in all 7,117 languages - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
...
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)

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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And you'll find World Univ & Sch's mission here - 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation

Mission:

World University and School's mission is free education, courses, and degrees in all known languages. World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best CC-4 OpenCourseWare) seeks also to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning through open, editable wikis. WUaS plans to accredit at the university and high school levels to offer online degrees and diplomas in all countries' main languages. WUaS’s wiki will involve open and editable teaching and learning but also non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. WUaS will facilitate the use of free CC courses as credits toward degrees. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere. WUaS will explore the possibility of using universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language with time.

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World Univ & Sch's Youtube channel - 

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

And here are WUaS's 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.

* 

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

...

Longcomb sawfish genova: WUaS News Q&A Livestream M 9/28/20 10a PT i) Vaquita porpoise: MINUTES from 9/19/20, ii) Partnering with edX Online Campus iii) 1/1/21 planning https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html To talk with & take part: info@ worlduniversityandschool.org @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch ~ * edX's Research - and in the McGovern Brain Institute

9/28/20 - "WUaS News and Q & A i) Partnering with edX Online Campus, ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES, iii) 1/1/21 planning" 

- https://youtu.be/uZXK7ocOYs8

edX's Research - and in the McGovern Brain Institute 

https://edx.org/about/research-pedagogy - WUaS's https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/sawfish-genova-wuas-news-q-livestream-m.html -

9/28/20 - "WUaS News and Q & A i) Partnering with edX Online Campus, ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES, iii) 1/1/21 planning"
- https://t.co/L2iyFCeiUD
edX's Research - and in the McGovern Brain Institute https://t.co/KWR2GVMbog - WUaS's https://t.co/l8EcbrTdCF -https://t.co/wRsVQrABba -

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1310651850333368320?s=20

*

WUaS News and Q & A i) Partnering with edX Online Campus, ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES, iii) 1/1/21 planning

https://youtu.be/uZXK7ocOYs8

edX's Research - and in the McGovern Brain Institute 
https://www.edx.org/about/research-pedagogy


WUaS News Q&A Livestream M 9/28/20 10a PT i) Vaquita porpoise: MINUTES from 9/19/20, ii) Partnering with edX Online Campus iii) 1/1/21 planning https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html To talk with & take part: info@ worlduniversityandschool.org
@WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~

WUaS News Q&A Livestream M 9/28/20 10a PT i) Vaquita porpoise: MINUTES from 9/19/20, ii) Partnering with edX Online Campus iii) 1/1/21 planning https://t.co/ibNwG8v48n https://t.co/is1ZF4kkQ2 To talk with & take part: info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2@WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1310610525638676480?s=20


Am very glad to announce that WUaS is proceeding with the next steps in partnering with edX Online Campus for January 2021 - see the email from Matthew at edX in the Minutes above. This should allow you to take VERIFIED courses, Shahbaz - and toward a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor degree. 

And my 'Society and Information Technology' course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - begins in mid-October, Shahbaz and Rohit - 8:30 pm India Time on Tuesdays and Fridays probably - in group video. Please join this if you can, and in anticipating January's edX courses at WUaS. 

If any of you would like to join today's conversation in Jitsi video conferencing, streaming to Youtube Livestream (and recorded there too), please let me know. (Shahbaz, and Rohit, meeting today would be a good preamble to "Society and Information Technology" course, but I realize it may already be too late at night in India).

World Univ & Sch cheers, 
Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

From last week:
World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - 21 Sept 2020

https://youtu.be/IsBrCEdfCk8

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/asian-emerald-cuckoo-agenda-news-for.html

 

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https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/pristis-zijsron/

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

...

Utricularia: Big @WorldUnivAndSch project as an inspiring #Stanford with #UU #Friendly #Quaker #NtF INSPIRED caring, in best of these envisionings, newly even partly in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth / #VirtualReality will benefit many - with people leArning & teaching & connecting from their homes (and home bath tubs)

 

Good to be free, and to explore developing a great online set of universities and wiki schools, in a realistic virtual earth even, from a new potential domicile, - and in a digital mask from a bathtub in a developing realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs even.

Big @WorldUnivAndSch project as an inspiring #Stanford with #Unitarian Universalism #Friendly #Quaker #NtF INSPIRED caring, in best of these envisionings, newly even partly in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth / #VirtualReality will benefit many - with people leArning & teaching & connecting from their homes

Big @WorldUnivAndSch project as an inspiring #Stanford with #UU #NtFriends #Quaker INSPIRED caring, in best of these envisionings, newly even partly in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth / #VirtualReality will benefit many - with people leArning & teaching & connecting from their homes

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1310296647201484801?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1310295994160934912?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1310299279743803392?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1310295939500765184?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1310296369941209093?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1310296900797521921?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1310296647201484801?s=20

Big @WorldUnivAndSch project as an inspiring #Stanford with #UU #Friendly #Quaker #NtF INSPIRED caring, in best of these envisionings, newly even partly in 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin #VirtualReality will benefit many - with people leArning & teaching & connecting from their homes

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1310296168304242688?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1310295639675170822?s=20

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

...

buttercup (R. flammula): What I've been reading - 9/27//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

 

What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 9/27/20


and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

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Coronavirus Su 9/27/20 Black Lives Matter

Pandemic has altered the landscape of college life
By Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff,Updated September 26, 2020,

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/26/metro/pandemic-has-altered-landscape-college-life/

Why is it called "herd" immunity? And why shouldn't we "simply put our faith in the immunity of our herd?" In a short, fascinating article in The Lancet, 
@MITanthropology
 Prof Stefan Helmreich and 
@HarvardChanSPH
 Prof David Jones answer both questions. http://bit.ly/HerdHistory
https://twitter.com/MIT_SHASS/status/1309146332767162369?s=20

PERSPECTIVES|THE ART OF MEDICINE| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10254, P810-811, SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
PDF [338 KB]

A history of herd immunity

David Jones
Stefan Helmreich
Published:September 19, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31924-3/fulltext

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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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Coronavirus Sa 9/26/20 Black Lives Matter

Economic Fallout From COVID-19 Continues To Hit Lower-Income Americans the Hardest
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/09/24/economic-fallout-from-covid-19-continues-to-hit-lower-income-americans-the-hardest/

Fact check: 'Kingdom of God' comment by SCOTUS contender Amy Coney Barrett lacks context in meme

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/24/fact-check-amy-coney-barrett-quote-missing-context-viral-meme/3496107001/

Satellite images show how thousands of mosques have been razed to the ground in China

https://www.dn.se/varlden/satellitbilder-visar-hur-tusentals-moskeer-jamnats-med-marken-i-kina/

Climate protests by the end of the terrain

The last pub reopens

The end of the terrain has occupied a house in the village of Keyenberg, which is threatened by the lignite attack. Local residents are happy about the protests.  KATHARINA SCHIPKOWSKI

https://taz.de/Klimaproteste-von-Ende-Gelaende/!5716773/

 

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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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Coronavirus F 9/25/20 Black Lives Matter

Why virtual runs are indispensable for me right now

https://www.welt.de/sport/fitness/plus216442310/Lauflegende-Uta-Pippig-Weshalb-virtuelle-Laeufe-in-dieser-Zeit-so-wertvoll-sind.html

Virtual jogging

https://youtu.be/qaRcmy61Oyg

Amy Coney Barrett interview

https://youtu.be/0HMAHnT-y7c

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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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Coronavirus Th 9/24/20 Black Lives Matter

A new survey says white support for Black Lives Matter has slipped. Some historians say they’re not surprised

Earlier this summer, thousands of Americans spilled into the streets in anguish. Now white engagement has slackened among some groups, especially Republicans. 8:14 p.m.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/24/metro/new-survey-says-white-support-black-lives-matter-has-slipped-some-historians-say-theyre-not-surprised/

Google services go down in some parts of US

Google users experienced a widespread service disruption Thursday evening, including the company’s email, YouTube, and Google documents services.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/24/business/google-services-go-down-some-parts-us/

 

Photo: Henrik Montgomery / TT

Registration now opens for this autumn's university entrance exam 

 Starts at 07 - but places are very limited and the search pressure is high.

https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/nu-oppnar-arets-anmalan-till-hogskoleprovet/

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- 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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Coronavirus W 9/23/20 Black Lives Matter

Soon end to late parties: "It is not wise"

The pubs in London are crowded, but from Thursday they must close at 10 pm Photo: Alex Lentati / AP

Rapid transmission and stricter rules in the UK. But in central London, there is a party and congestion before Thursday, when the pubs have to close at 10 pm. "It is not wise. It is not in the pubs that the infection spreads, ”says a bartender to SvD.

Gunilla von Hall

Updated 13:31

LONDON. In central London the evening is balmy, it is packed on the terraces and in many pubs and restaurants.

People sit outside drinking beer and sipping wine, without mouth guards. Talking, laughing, joking, sitting close, kissing and hugging - even though it is only hours after the government's warnings about the increased spread of

https://www.svd.se/snart-slut-pa-sena-kvallar-borde-gjort-som-sverige

(Quite a contrast between article above and below ...)

Boston ‘very close’ to moving into red category for coronavirus transmission, Walsh says

Boston could soon find itself in the state’s red category for communities at the highest risk of coronavirus transmission, Mayor Martin J. Walsh told reporters Wednesday.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/23/metro/boston-very-close-moving-into-red-category-coronavirus-transmission-walsh-says/

Hobbies for Finns to start during the coronavirus pandemic

LIFESTYLE 23 SEPTEMBER 2020

As the coronavirus scourge continues to wreak havoc all over the world, millions of Finns have been forced to stay at home. As much fun as suddenly finding ourselves thrust into the apocalypse is, it stands to reason that we may need a little bit of inspiration regarding what to do with all our new-found free time, as with all these precautionary measures comes boredom.

 https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/lifestyle/18103-hobbies-for-finns-to-start-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html

Maine lifts restrictions on travelers from Massachusetts

Maine has lifted restrictions on travelers from Massachusetts that had required the visitors to produce a negative coronavirus test or quarantine for two weeks.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/23/nation/maine-lifts-restrictions-travelers-massachusetts/

The new "Mister Corona" is leaving the stage again

https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/der-neue-mister-corona-verlaesst-die-buehne-bereits-wieder-ld.1578184

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 200,000, On Track to Double by Year’s End

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/23/headlines/us_coronavirus_death_toll_tops_200_000_on_track_to_double_by_years_end

Doctors' representatives consider the Corona warning app to be ineffective

https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/live206935325/Coronavirus-Aerztevertreter-halten-Corona-Warn-App-fuer-wenig-wirksam.html

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Coronavirus Tu 9/22/20 Black Lives Matter

Mass. reports 143 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 11 new deaths

The seven-day rate of positive tests stayed steady at 0.8 percent, which is the lowest observed figure for that metric. 56 minutes ago

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/22/nation/mass-reports-143-new-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-11-new-deaths/

‘She’s a fighter’: 102-year-old woman survived both 1918 flu and COVID-19

Mildred Geraldine “Gerrie” Schappals, a 102-year-old Worcester native, has survived not just one, but two global pandemics.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/22/metro/shes-fighter-102-year-old-woman-survived-both-1918-flu-covid-19/

School summit:

Laptops for teachers, otherwise not much new

Is that Merkel's high pressure with which the schools are made corona-proof? And why has the digital pact moved so little? Questions and answers about digitization

By Parvin Sadigh

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/schule/2020-09/schulgipfel-corona-krise-digitalpakt-kanzleramt-kultusminister-angela-merkel

Pandemie

Gesundheitssenatorin berät mit Bezirken über neue Maßnahmen

Vor allem in der Innenstadt steigen die Zahlen der Corona-Infektionen zum Teil drastisch. Noch ist unklar, ob in den Stadtteilen demnächst unterschiedliche Regeln gelten.

Christine Dankbar, 22.09.2020

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/gesundheitssenatorin-beraet-mit-bezirken-ueber-neue-massnahmen-li.106822

Color code for travel: to a European map updated every week

https://www.lesoir.be/326817/article/2020-09-22/code-couleur-pour-les-voyages-vers-une-carte-europeenne-mise-jour-chaque-semaine

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Coronavirus M 9/21/20 Black Lives Matter

The United Nations at 75: Indispensable or irrelevant?

https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2020/20200918

Tour de France: yellow, white, polka-dot, the multicolored coronation of Tadej Pogacar on the Champs-Elysées

Irishman Sam Bennett triumphed in the sprint on Sunday in Paris. He won the unique distinctive jersey - the green - escaping the Slovenian, who left this 107th edition with the three tunics.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2020/09/20/tour-de-france-2020-jaune-blanc-a-pois-le-sacre-muticolore-de-tadej-pogacar-sur-les-champs-elysees_6052958_3242.html

Coronavirus: epidemic is spreading faster than testing capacity

More than 13,000 contaminations were recorded two days in a row. The prefect of the Rhône is to announce additional preventive measures on Monday. The Haute Autorité de santé recommends using saliva tests for people with symptoms.

https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-lepidemie-setend-plus-vite-que-la-capacite-de-test-1244132

 

MADRID

Many poorer people from Madrid are angry: why is their neighborhood closed?

In the Madrid working-class neighborhood of Vallecas, they have also noticed: the new local lockdowns mainly affect the poor.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/09/20/schande-dat-deze-plek-op-slot-gaat-a4012884

California:

"We finally want to take a deep breath again"

Kaija Richter has lived in California with her family for twelve years. Forest fires are part of everyday life, but the current situation reminds them of the apocalypse.

Minutes: Doreen Reinhard 192 comments

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2020-09/kalifornien-waldbraende-usa-klimakrise-protokoll

Emmys:

"Schitt's Creek" wins all seven major comedy awards

At the virtual presentation of the television awards, the family series clears the comedy section. The German Maria Schrader wins an Emmy for best director.

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2020-09/emmys-fernsehpreis-verleihung-schitts-creek-maria-schrader

Japan

Old, older, the oldest: Kane Tanaka breaks all records at the age of 117

Tanaka is the oldest living person in the world. She once said that she had absolutely no desire to die.

09/20/2020

Japan

Alt, älter, am ältesten: Kane Tanaka bricht mit 117 Jahren alle Rekorde

Tanaka ist der älteste lebende Mensch der Welt. Aufs Sterben habe sie überhaupt keine Lust, sagte sie einmal.

20.09.2020

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/alt-aelter-am-aeltesten-kane-tanaka-bricht-mit-117-jahren-alle-rekorde-li.106371

Coronavirus: How a student blogger who 'knows nothing' about statistics set up Scotland's most popular Covid tracker site

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18731744.coronavirus-meet-travelling-tabby---student-blogger-behind-scotlands-popular-covid-tracker-site/

Photo: TT and facsimile from The Sun.

Here, Tegnell is hailed as a hero abroad

 Foreign media fluctuate in coverage of the Swedish strategy • Sweden stands out.

https://www.dn.se/sverige/utlandska-medier-svanger-i-bevakningen-om-den-svenska-strategin/

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buttercup (R. flammula): What I've been reading - 9/27//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-flammula-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. flabellaris): What I've been reading - 9/20//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-flabellaris-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. filaria): What I've been reading - 9/13//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-filaria-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. eschscholtzii): What I've been reading - 9/6//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-eschscholtzii-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-cymbalaria-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. circinatus): What I've been reading - 8/23/20 week - Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-circinatus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. cassubicifolius): What I've been reading - 8/16/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-cassubicifolius-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. carinthiacus): What I've been reading - 8/9/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-carinthiacus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. californicus): What I've been reading - 8/2/20 week -Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-californicus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. bullatus): What I've been reading - 7/26/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bullatus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bulbosus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. austro-oreganus): What I've been reading - 7/12/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-austro-oreganus-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. auricomus): What I've been reading - 7/5/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-auricomus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. asiaticus): What I've been reading - 6/28/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-asiaticus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aquatilis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. amplexicaulis): What I've been reading - 6/7/20 week - + George Floyd + BlackLivesFirst

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-amplexicaulis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-alismifolius-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aestivalis): What I've been reading - 5/24/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aestivalis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acris-what-ive-been-reading.html

buttercup (R. acraeus): What I've been reading - 5/10/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aconitifolius-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. acaulis): What I've been reading 4/26/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-acaulis-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. abortivus): What I've been reading - 4/19/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-abortivus-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. abnormis): What I've been reading - 4/12/20 week - Coronavirus

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-abnormis-what-ive.html

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GREG MANKIW'S BLOG

Random Observations for Students of Economics

SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020

What I've been watching

Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html

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