Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Sarek National Park (Sweden): Cross-Country World Cup in Sweden - Biathalon * @WorldUnivAndSch How could a single #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider) help us find out ~ so seek the truth of, or prove, or do #InformationArbitrage ~ whether this #BiathlonWorldChampionship2021 is happening in Sweden, or Slovenia, during ongoing #Covid19pandemic? * * * edX - WUaS developments ... and re ' MIT's departments, in what ways would it be possible for these prospective WUaS PhD students to apply directly through MIT Departments to matriculate at WUaS?' * * * 'Federalism' & 200 countries and in their languages - at WUaS ? * * * Hi silent Friends, NtFs, non-theist Friends, Nontheist Quakers

 

WorldUnivandSch

@WorldUnivAndSch

How could a single #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider) help us find out ~ so seek the truth of, or prove, or do #InformationArbitrage ~ whether this #BiathlonWorldChampionship2021 is happening in Sweden, or Slovenia, during ongoing #Covid19pandemic?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1359584018694434817?s=20


How could a single #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider) help us find out ~ so #WUaSseekTruthOf, or prove, or do #InformationArbitrage ~ whether this #BiathlonWorldChampionship2021 is happening in Sweden, or Slovenia, during ongoing #Covid19pandemic?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1359958474839322624?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1359962085938008064?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1359963720848351232?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1359964361914085377?s=20


https://twitter.com/RosannaCrawford/status/702526665583411200?s=20


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Could we combine all #WebCameras+, all over world, installed since the 1990s in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForJournalism  #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory (think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider) at cell/atom levels too to prove / #WUaSseekTruthOf news' claims?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1359959701052481538?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1359959958360530944?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1359961880018579458?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1359963879065874432?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1359964200001445888?s=20


https://twitter.com/SmokiesFriends/status/1357082698670555143?s=20



Cross-Country World Cup in Sweden - Biathalon 

"The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting"


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Wed, Feb 10, 8:42 AM (1 day ago)
to JanieDavid
Ma, David,

Are you tuning into the "Cross-Country World Cup in Sweden" and biathlon world championships which are happening now?

Sweden took the bronze with home advantage ...

Swedish bronze in the World Cup premiere - after sprint battle: "Best start we could get"
(Google Translate)


And...
Italy and Slovenia claim team sprint titles at Cross-Country World Cup in Sweden
World Cup in Sweden
By Geoff Berkeley


Well maybe in Slovenia and Slovenia won :)

Fondly, Scott

Am an appreciator of the Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter (liberal, excellent) these days ... https://www.dn.se/ ...

Europe blog label - https://www.dn.se/ ...


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Wed, Feb 10, 8:44 AM (1 day ago)
to JanieDavid
Here's the Europe blog label after all ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Europe?m=0

:)


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Feb 10, 2021, 10:32 AM (1 day ago)

to Janie, David


Ma, David, 

How could a single realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with time slider) help us find out - so seek the truth of, or prove, or do information arbitrage - whether this Biathlon World Championship 2021 is happening in Sweden, or in Slovenia, during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, in Europe ... and even what is happening in the biathlon? 

Could it help journalists write better stories, and do better journalism, if, without, they might nab a photo here and a photo there off the web, and write stories that might not be totally accurate (eg reflecting last year's events?)? 

Could we combine all the existing web cameras all over that have been installed since the 1990s (since the first graphical user interface browsers started 1993 or so, leading to the massive development of the Web), I think, and may still be transmitting data ... and now into Google Street View with Time Slider, to help fill it out ... in addition to sending more Google cars & walkers around even to set up further web cameras too - and for surrounding web cameras for stadium like situations too, or archaeological digs through time (Troy, Çatalhöyük) ? 

And how to systematically fill in the gaps of missing web cameras, making societal decisions about privacy, surveillance and AI. The idea of a single realistic virtual Universe (which I'm heralding) - for tele-robotic surgery in space on the way to Mars in the 2030s, at the cellular and atomic levels, is such a MASSIVE DATA idea and project - filling supercomputers indefinitely into the eternal future with 1s and 0s, bits and bytes, and what comes after ... and creating and writing history too! ... but societies in all 200 countries have already made the decision to do this in a seed way since the 1970s, so it could be likely to continue, and lead to further orientation of societies around computers somehow .

.. And how would this unfold in a developing Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual-virtual ethnography, and not just in the 2020s, but how about planning for the 2120s .... where are the existing web cameras in California???? 

And what's the law, and what would be the academic research protocols re privacy of research subjects / informants for all of this are a whole set of other questions. (Is China leading the way in putting cameras across China - but possibly almost for a kind of repressive state, as I read this, but in what ways could one develop the installations of web cameras for a happy state or nation state, and democratic ones, and great-law abiding ones:)? And how does Pennsylvania do this differently already from Maryland for Scotland from California? 


All or much for learning purposes ... 


Fond regards, Scott

Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg with ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



WEB CAMS in Scotland first search ... 


For example, this is just the beginning of such a search, and how to stream them too into Street View with Time Slider ? :)


list of live web cameras in Scotland


Webcams in the Scottish Highlands

Loch Ness webcam. Wonderful view over loch Ness. ...

Pitlochry Webcam. ...

Lecht Webcam. ...

Snowgates Braemar, Glenshee & More. ...

Skyebridge webcam. ...

Eilean Donan Castle. ...

Cairngorm Mountains Webcam. ...

Ben Nevis Range Webcams.

https://www.scotlandinfo.eu/webcams-in-scotland/


https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/uslinks/webcam.html



PS 

In a related vein, 

I think real real time music making will come out of this soup - https://amp.ft.com/content/dca96eaf-8262-42d8-a95f-d255642e9c7a - but not tomorrow :) 


Investing in 5G should be an urgent priority of the US and its allies—particularly as our main geo-strategic rival, China, is far ahead. But the recent FCC spectrum auction set us back yet again.

By Eric Schmidt 

Former head of Google 


Here are three ways to strengthen America's digital economy: https://t.co/17b21LQTk0 

https://twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/1358814401705426949?s=19


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Stina Nilsson, Olympic champion cross-country skier, changes sports

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/03/23/stina-nilsson-cross-country-skiing-biathlon/



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Hi Janie and David, 


Methinks we couldn't prove this - with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForJournalism bringing together all the active web cameras installed and working since the 1990s, for realism, and into something like Google Street View with time slider, for reference - but there's a NBC article suggesting that the biathlon world cup - cross-country skiing and rifle shooting - was held last year and Stina Nilsson won it - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/sarek-national-park-sweden.html. This article has interesting language about Swedes being a cross-country ski and 'strong' country. Is this biathlon a Swedish identity issue / event and re preparation for defense as a nation state too ?

I put in the label both Unitarian Universalist and Nontheist Quakers re Identity questions, and also the 'identity' label. I also blogged here about a single realistic virtual earth re US federalism extended to all 200 countries and in their languages - idea. Hmmm ... On Google Smart TV a picture of the pyramids in Egypt shows up regularly in the stream of AI generated images (which Googe Smart TV has chosen) ... and how to build or engineer something vis-a-vis the Web that last 5700 years or longer is a question that comes to mind with these amazing solid and long-lasting buildings, and re WUaS.

Fondly,
Scott




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edX - WUaS developments


Dear Matthew,

I hope this finds you well.

Thank you for the clarification. HOW would the integration with Google's WUaS' G Suite for Education work with edX for grades etc., with our WUaS plans to build out in WUaS Opencura WikiBase/Wikidata's 300 languages, and for matriculating Universitian students and WUaS wiki editors in all 200 countries, conceptually here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - (and in planning for WUaS wiki teachers and learners in all 7117 known living languages) ? 


And would you be able please to include Larry Viehland in our communications each time, since he's chair of the Board at World University and School? Viehland@chatham.edu is his email address. Thanks. 

WUaS is still seeking funding. So is WUaS and edX still talking about ~ $17,000 per 50 students per year? And what please would be the next steps and costs to sign the edX-WUaS partnership agreement? (And would you please lay all of these out in writing)? Also, from you edX perspective, could WUaS matriculate 150 undergraduate students (and potentially at least 4 PhD students working toward their Master's degrees) September 1, taking engaging edX courseware which helps with student retention, in 29 majors (licensable be BPPE and accredit-able by WASC), for a first year out of 4 years' college?

Thank you,
Scott


PS
Here are some ideas for where WUaS would like to head with a single science subject from our WUaS CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity (for reimbursement reasons from countries) to edX and beyond, first in English then in other languages with machine translation (some of which will happen in a realistic virtual earth in the Google ecosystem too) ...


Chemistry at OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/ >https://www.edx.org/course/subject/chemistry > 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~#RealisticVirtualEarthForChemistry at #atomic, #molecular & #StreetView with #TimeSlider levels @WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) #ActualVirtual w #FilmTo3D App



Thank you.



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And posted here too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/urho-kekkonen-national-park-finland.html


 MIT's departments, in what ways would it be possible for these prospective WUaS PhD students to apply directly through MIT Departments to matriculate at WUaS?


Dear Matthew, Marissa, Ned, Cameron at edX, All, 


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Feb 7, 2021, 2:48 PM (4 days ago)
to Marissacameron.kaubrisNedMatthew4982103Larryabdelwaheb
Dear Matthew, Marissa, Ned, Cameron at edX, All, 

I hope this email finds you well. Just following up on our recent conversation in videography. In anticipating WUaS Monthly Business Meeting in 2 weeks, and matriculating 150 undergraduate students potentially as early as May 1, but probably September 1, 2021, I'm writing to confirm that what you said is that WUaS would have to pay edX about $101,000 to interoperate our developing platform with edX's dashboard ($50,000), and $17,000 (or $350 per student per year) for each 50 students we matriculate, and get grades for, as we proceed with probably BPPE licensing and WASC accrediting. Is this accurate? Newly, WUaS is seeking to plan for 4 possible PhD students too (taking possibly 7 years to complete their PhDs in English; 2 from India possibly, 1 from Morocco, and 1 from Indonesia). 

And since WUaS doesn't yet have a relationship with MIT's departments, in what ways would it be possible for these prospective WUaS PhD students to apply directly through MIT Departments to matriculate at WUaS? This is something Larry Viehland and I and Prasanth talked about at last month's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/alpine-lily.html, and also perhaps through MIT Admissions -
 (https://twitter.com/MITstudents/status/1349417230623272960?s=20 ? In process, in what ways might our WUAS matriculating students get access to MIT Medical for counseling even (see below)?

One of our high achieving prospective PhD students today wrote 

இந்த உலகத்துல யாரும் என் அளவுக்கு துன்பம் அனுபவித்திருக்க மாட்டார்கள் என நினைக்கிறேன்.
Translated from Tamil by
I don't think anyone in this world has suffered as much as I have.

https://twitter.com/Prasanth0Nature/status/1358499275680804864?s=20

So would it also be possible for our WUaS PhD students to get access to MIT Medical (https://twitter.com/MITmedical) or similar for counseling too?

And in terms of interoperating WUaS's developing platform with edX's dashboard, and Houcemeddine above (in Tunisia, who helped install WUaS in Wikibase Opencura - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/12/sat-dec-19-2020-wuas-minutes-for-open.html - and in WUaS planning for students in all ~200 countries, and wiki teachers and learners in all 7,117 known living languages, and indeed, brainstorming-wise, wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people on the planet, for free universal people-to-people education), could Houcemeddine and perhaps Ned somehow work together to develop an interface between the edX dashboard, the emerging WUaS platform, partly WUaS Wikibase Opencura-centric, and in WUaS's G Suite for Education too, which WUaS has been in for years, and which also provides access to the Google Ecosystem including Translate and TensorFlow too? 

I think Prasanth as a matriculating student would welcome an opportunity for counseling, given the statement above (since I think life can be really hard in India, despite it's remarkable tolerance, and diversity and many languages and cultures). 

Thank you. 

Sincerely, Scott
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ 
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - 



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'Federalism' & 200 countries and in their languages - at WUaS ?

US 'federalism' idea extended to 200 nation states, and in their languages? 


Hi Ma from the UU Church ... How was your day? Heard a Harvard Nobel laureate economist on Zoom - https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/quarter-century-‘-proper-scope-government’-theory-and-applications - today and a Federalism for all 200 countries' idea came up (had asked a question) ... Even re WUaS and a realistic virtual earth idea .... Just as talk was beginning, Jesus comes by with a very loud leaf blower outside, (so Stanford c/wouldn't turn on my mic easily ?) ... ...made me wonder whether everything's on schedule re Pin even and Navin and leaving 1749 at the end of March and even re a schedule of 'cleaning up' Canyon? ... First good piping lesson with Ian today after 11 years ... Inspiring learning conversation ... Good to connect too ... and I learned a lot! .with more to learn from the video recording :) .. what are you up to for rest of week:) pretty night now up on hill on bench ... Soon to walk 🏡 me 😌 :) Love Scott




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WUaS - World University and School

Wed, Feb 10, 11:15 AM (1 day ago)
to nontheist-friends
Hi silent Friends, NtFs, non-theist Friends, Nontheist Quakers, 

Blog post with this first email from Sunday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/urho-kekkonen-national-park-finland.html ... and what do you think? And what do you think too of the "Save Salla" Finland by the way? A third correspondence in blog about WUaS developing relationship with edX ... 


Non-theist Friends (NtFs), friendly Quakers


Greetings, Nontheist Friends (NtFs), friendly Quakers, 


I hope this email finds you well. 

Glad to write that NtF inspired (in part) CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is growing. WUaS is newly partnering with edX, and seeking 150 undergraduates to matriculate this autumn 2021 for free-to-students' online best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor degrees, first in English. WUaS also has four possible PhD students (7 years to completion?) and is seeking for these to apply and matriculate at WUaS through MIT Departments themselves. In doing this, WUaS is also seeking to develop online WUaS counseling and potentially through something like MIT Medical - and for our students from all ~200 countries, many with English as a second language, and from very different cultures than in the US or Anglophone countries, for example. 

On our WUaS wiki side, WUaS is seeking to build out wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages, and will blog about both of these developments today in a post with communication with edX and MIT > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/MIT.


I think the Guilford College President's search is continuing, with more about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/cedrus-atlantica.html . Please contact Max Carter if you have a possible candidate in mind. 

Friendly regards, 
Scott

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ 
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - both planned in 200 countries and in 7117 living languages. 




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- World University and School

- 415 480 4577


- 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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'Save Salla' Finland by #ReverseGlobalWarming ~ 'Salla 2032' - Olympics, a new city, & #ActualVirtual realistic virtual earth for WUaS Telerobotic Surgery?

https://youtu.be/sSZSrjmmSIo as #WinterOlympicsCityCandidate? Astounding film-let > #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture >an #ActualVirtual #WUaSFinland online University with #WUaSTeleRoboticSurgery?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1358530156176969729?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1358530786744389632?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1358530687406460928?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1358530995566219264?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1358531114785116161?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1358531278107156480?s=20


Conscientious objection blog label (re Quaker thinking) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/conscientious%20objection - 

Scott



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Hi NtFs, Non-theist Friends/Quakers, 

Here's a blog post re NtFs as well as a realistic virtual earth for 'seeking the truth of' even - #WUaSseekTruthOf  .... https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSseekTruthOf?src=hashtag_click (with this #hashtag)

Did the Biathlon World Cup 2021 occur as the Web could be suggesting and in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic, which may be 'cleaning up' other issues, besides replicating genes causing flu like symptoms? Some ideas for this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html - and throughout blog over the past year or so, as 'Hypothetical News' in some instances. 

How could we know if Biathlon World Cup 2021 is occurring?

Methinks we couldn't prove this - with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForJournalism bringing together all the active web cameras installed and working since the 1990s, for realism, and into something like Google Street View with time slider, for reference - but there's a NBC article suggesting that the biathlon world cup - cross-country skiing and rifle shooting - was held last year and Stina Nilsson won it - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/sarek-national-park-sweden.html. This article has interesting language about Swedes being a cross-country ski and 'strong' country. Is this biathlon a Swedish identity issue / event and re preparation for defense as a nation state too ?

I put in the label both Unitarian Universalist and Nontheist Quakers re Identity questions, and also the 'identity' label. I also blogged here about a single realistic virtual earth re US federalism extended to all 200 countries and in their languages - idea. Hmmm ... On Google Smart TV a picture of the pyramids in Egypt shows up regularly in the stream of AI generated images (which Googe Smart TV has chosen) ... and how to build or engineer something vis-a-vis the Web that last 5700 years or longer is a question that comes to mind with these amazing solid and long-lasting buildings, and re WUaS.

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? 

Friendly greetings,
Scott


- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ 
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - both planned in 200 countries and in 7117 living languages. 























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

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

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