Sunday, January 2, 2022

Mediterranean sea holly (Eryngium bourgatii): Happy New Year! Check out @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress - planned in ~200 countries as major Univs & in 7,139 living languages - special New Year’s Minutes * ... the language of these new genetic therapies in pipeline in Nature magazine * * * Culture Club #JanieMacLeod #JeanThomas from 3 years' ago #CarnegieMuseum #CarnegieLibrary * Birthday hike and evening (Scott GK MacLeod) on 12/31/2021 * * * Connecting with 2 Reed College friends (from 1979-1985) over New Years, and their lack of interest in aging reversal, and longevity genetic therapies and vaccines * * * Muscle wasting - re "Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state." By Nicholas Wade March 24, 2020 * * * * Scratch programming language with Lego Spike Prime robotics * * * * * Welcome to Consumer Reports Digital & on Paper too! * Robotic Vacuum Cleaners * * Top Tech Toys - Consumer Reports * Zoomer Chimp ~ an early primate robot toy * Battle of the Toy Bots: CR Checks Out 5 * Toy Fair 2013: Six Super Tech Toys * * Happy New Year, and Season's greetings to you too ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html !


Happy New Year! Check out @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress - planned in ~200 countries as major Univs & in 7,139 living languages - special New Year’s Minutes:

Happy New Year! Check out @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress - planned in ~200 countries as major Univs & in 7,139 living languages - special New Year’s Minutes: https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/121821-wuas-minutes-for-open-monthly.html?view=sidebar ~ Meeting @ WorldUniversityAndSchool.org wishes everyone a Happy New Year & Here’s to a flourishing 2022!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477731634396893185?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1477733257659629570?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1477733680453861377?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1477734061007249408?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1477734516324126720?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1477748712990380036?s=20




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... the language of these new genetic therapies in pipeline in Nature magazine

What do you think about the language of these new genetic therapies in pipeline in Nature magazine, and  speculatively possibly regarding #AgingReversal genetic therapies emerging? - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476801818839506947?s=20 See too longevity, and genes', labels in blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477732800782487553?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1477733359816101888?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1477733593929551875?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1477733980229160965?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1477734459139305472?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1477748805806149632?s=20



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new genetic drugs in pipeline?

"Drug pipeline 3Q21—mixed news for genetic therapies" 

Nature Biotechnology v39, pp 1326–1328 (2021)

https://nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01119-8 … >

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Genetics - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology… What might #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal 

genetic drugs look like?


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476801818839506947?s=20

 



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Culture Club #JanieMacLeod #JeanThomas from 3 years' ago #CarnegieMuseum #CarnegieLibrary

Culture Club #JanieMacLeod #JeanThomas from 3 years' ago #CarnegieMuseum #CarnegieLibrary #PittsburghPA >ALL https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums >ALL https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries ~ #StreetView w #TimeSlider w #FilmTo3D App

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1477307854021279744?s=20


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Happy New Year to you! And thanks for your New Year's Greetings (& birthday wishes too, today)! Some further thoughts & wishes here (& re the non-genetic Non-epidemic coronavirus pandemic), Friendly regards, Scott ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html #EdSmythMD 

@HeartBobH @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476931273125883905?s=20



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Lovely evening at the Unitarian church 1.8 miles from where I live, Ma! Good walk and good to get out on a low energy day too! How was your day? Hope you had a good Xmas - was Great to see you, Back in some isolation here, by way of contrast ... whereby meeting a great friend would change this, but how? :) have a great weekend, Ma!


Thanks for your birthday call, Ma! And happy New Year! More about the Audubon Xmas bird count here - http://www.aswp.org/pages/christmas-bird-count ...AND a Tweet 🙂 ~ Happy New Year to you! And thanks for your New Year's Greetings, (& birthday wishes too, today)!  Some further thoughts & wishes here (& re the non-genetic Non-epidemic 'coronavirus pandemic'), Friendly regards, Scott ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html @DianaHe23732776 @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476886836945424386?t=R8EZxSPmDD_JW4gCXMQsZA&s=19


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AND Pictures of Mr. Mazumdar and I in India 8 years ago today on my birthday - India, #Kolkata (formerly #Calcutta) 8 years ago today on my birthday, Dec 31, 2013, with Mainak Mazumdar (father of best friend from high school @shady_side) who knew my father #GordonKMacLeodMD & knows my family. Wonderful trip: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bengali_language /India @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476935375251652608


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The Diana Henderson above (on Twitter - @DianaHe23732776) is a MIT Prof of Shakespeare, brilliant (so knowledgeable), originally from the DC area ... and with some Scottish background too (Might I meet a life partner somehow through her, and even possibly a brilliant former student of hers, also of some Scottish background?:) in the SF Bay Area even? 🙂(Here's the Shakespeare label in my blog, Ma - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Shakespeare :) And thanks so much for your birthday call! Love, Scott



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Video recording from the 1/1/22 #BayAreaStammtisch - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M_Y37GKpYPTAQaRhDHVba8kenenS2CsB/view - get together, & at @WorldUnivAndSch too, in German & English. Stay tuned for next platform: Anthriscus sylvestris: Happy New Year! AND Season's Greetings to you too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/anthriscus-sylvestris-happy-new-year.html @sgkmacleod~


https://twitter.com/VanJisca/status/1213913305821143040?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1477355904068513793?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477356428968882179?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1477356956482375681?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1477357435081805824?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1477358045885710337?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1477358710640951296?s=20




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Connecting with 2 Reed College friends, and former housemates in a Reed communal house, Craig Thom and Adam Hewitt (from 1979-1985) over New Years, and their lack of interest in aging reversal, and longevity genetic therapies and vaccines 


Craig Thom and Scott MacLeod: 

 Saturday · 2:46 PM 

Happy New Year, and Season's greetings to you too ~ 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html ~ Craig!

Euphorbia heterophylla (wild poinsettia): Seasons Greetings 2021 from Scott MacLeod @ World Univ and Sch


Seasons' Greetings ~ 2021Scott MacLeod and Ed Smyth MD in Tilden Park, Berkeley, during non epidemicGood tidings: free wiki World Univ & Sch is growing: http://worlduniversityandschool.org & http://scottmacleod.com Season Greeting’s , friends! I hope this finds you well and in planning ahead for a great 2022, in this time of Solstice, Christmas and New Year - and related celebrations, gatherings and festivities! How are you? How was your 2021? As we seem to be emerging from the coronavirus pandemic non-genetic non-epidemic self-quarantine of the past 20 months, I see as good tidings that we may be able to abolish contemporary forms of slavery even, and also as good tidings that we may have problem solved with the 5 “Hypothetical News” items here at bottom, from 1/1/20 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html. Heading to an abolition rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Xmas, so happy travels too in this time of gathering with your families! Possible new solutions and approaches to abolition of the illegal sex industry, (and illegal drug industries + too), and their latent networks of violence, both regarding the profit motive, and internationally? Appreciating that the Anti-Slavery Act of Britain became law in 1833, and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 in the US, and that they freed millions of people. Appreciating too that even after the Civil Rights’ movement of the 1960s, and very recently after the coronavirus pandemic genetic engineering revolution advances, with vaccines, and electronic medical records (and which may not just have been about genetics or similar), of the past ~20 months, that there's abolition movement still work to be done, to free people, and in all ~200 countries! And how this develops at CC-4 https://ocw.mit.edu -centric wiki World University and School, in planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Pin # and even for UBI Experiments to end poverty, by distributing a single cryptocurrency such as free Stanford Mine Pi (https://minepi.com/sgkmac), and protecting people with artificial intelligence and machine learning, is still unfolding. Good tidings! And while I don't know if a personal robot for each of all 7.9 billion people on the planet in some years can help, I am thinking this might be part of a solution! Happy New Year in 2022! A little news: I published my 5th book on January 1, 2021 - "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually" - in the new Academic Press at World Univ & Sch - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - (planned in 7,139 known living languages with machine translation, and which is an authorized reseller of 3 Lego Robotics’ kits in the USA). And WUaS will potentially grow this @WUaSPress in GDocs with Google Translate in the New Year, and even creatively from Google Street View, with time slider, text-in-the-sidebar, with time. My Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic project ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ continues as well, and am hoping to get back to my actual field site in 2022, after major California fires, and the coronavirus pandemic of recent years. More news, and good tidings too, in my blog, with a daily blog post again this 2021 year - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com. Search on the label that interests you! I’m glad to write that the WUaS Corporation, the second WUaS wing, recently received and paid its first tax bill from the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), for 2018, 2019, and 2020 - momentously. WUaS is now beginning to work more closely with the state of California, in a sense (and even hopefully its 239,000 employees, many in its University systems!), and the WUaS Corporation is also a for-profit general stock company in California. The first WUaS wing: World Univ & Sch's growth continues very gradually but WUaS is matriculating another Bachelor’s degree student, from Cameroon, Africa, presently, and with him studying a new ‘CS First’ with Google course. World Univ & Sch is excited that it’s this “CS First with Google” course that seems to have led him to decide to matriculate (and eventually probably through WUaS Google Workspace for Education @ WUaS admin.google.com or similar)! From Mwende in Cameroon, Africa, abt matriculating @WorldUnivAndSch in CS for free ocw.mit.edu -centric 4 yr Bachelor's Degree: YES w this new CC4 licensed 'CS First' course https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home - using #ScratchProgramming language info@worlduniversityandschool.og ~From Mwende in Cameroon, Africa, abt matriculating @WorldUnivAndSch in CS for free https://t.co/M2OWxgiYvR -centric 4 yr Bachelor's Degree YES w this new CC4 licensed 'CS First' course https://t.co/zF1CrXd3li - using #ScratchProgramming language info@worlduniversityandschool.og ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 22, 2021 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1473519315320139781?s=20 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1473519668388265984?s=20 https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1473520174519119872?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1473520367654227968?s=20 https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1473520051458174976?s=20 https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1473520934019502081?s=20 This is a related direction World Univ and Sch is heading in, with Lego ROBOTICS' kits: “In what ways could we best import this PHYSICAL Lego Robot via a #FilmTo3D App from YouTube into DIGITAL Scratch program scenes, brick by brick too, & then begin to do #ActualVirtual robotics, w the Scratch programming blocks, & in Google Street View too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/english-sundew-drosera-anglica-robotics.html?m=0 ?” > https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1471125486663307265 In what ways could we best import this PHYSICAL Lego Robot via a #FilmTo3D App from YouTube into DIGITAL Scratch program scenes, brick by brick too, & then begin to do #ActualVirtual robotics, w the Scratch programming blocks, & in Google Street View too https://t.co/qTIo2icGSK? https://t.co/sv2oqMu6F7— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 21, 2021 https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1473279249888923652 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1473280328349323266 https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1473279928149819393 https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1473280136489234439 https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1473279645281779713 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1473280434612092937 And, again, the WUaS Corporation is an authorized reseller of 3 Lego Robotics’ kits in the USA and online, and is seeking to become a distributor (middle-person) of Lego Robotics’ on-the-ground in all 200 countries and even in their counties, as part of the WUaS seeking to develop Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital, Educational Services’ Bookstores/Cafes, Computer Stores, Robotics’ stores, and Hospital Technologies’ Distribution, etc., in all ~200 nation states, and in their counties too. World Univ & Sch is also glad to be developing in Google My Business, with its integration with the rest of Google, e.g. - https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=CIHM0ogKEICAgIDGgZL8fQ And please send in the CC-4 OCW.mit.edu courses you'd LIKE to study in your first term, and your transcripts, for a free-to-students' 4-year Bachelor or PhD degree to meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org beginning in 2022 now! - Further good tidings to you: Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics’ George Church is suggesting aging reversal genetic drug vaccines and therapies are emerging: How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk (60 Minutes) And do these recent @GeoChurch Tweets possibly indicate the accelerating of Aging Reversal Genetic Drug Therapies’ and Vaccines’ development, regarding genetics' and companies? The following seem to be amazing examples of Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital, biology-machine learning developments, and re companies, scientists, law, countries, mapping, and centers for Genetic and Artificial Intelligence excellence, and for emerging Aging Reversal Genetic Drug Therapies, from Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church - Astellas and Dyno Therapeutics (regarding mapping, and possible correlation with Google Street View with time slider at the cellular and molecular levels) - https://t.co/yDjG73JiH3— george church (@geochurch) December 2, 2021 https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1466395250637918210?s=20 Nabla Bio - As therapeutics become more complex with more functional domains, the role of AI in development will become critical. https://t.co/Pd09I2lNQu— george church (@geochurch) December 6, 2021 https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1467881501022994439?s=20 See, too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/turritopsis-dohrnii-immortal-jellyfish.html From: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/arctostaphylos-manzanita.html And, some further inquiries, and a blog post, in these regards: If 1st generation #AgingReversal drugs will get us to 25 'years old' when 150 yo, what will 2nd gen #AgeReversal vaccines do, re avoiding #SideEffects & #UnanticipatedConsequences? Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea): If 1st generation #AgingReversal drugs will get us to 25 'years old' when 150 yo, what will 2nd gen #AgeReversal vaccines do, re avoiding #SideEffects & #UnanticipatedConsequences? #WUaSAgingReversal #WUaSlongevity in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth? * brass ring? What could this mean? * * Honestly pretty, Lovisa Herold - with some Greens' Swedish thoughts about flying (about shaming Swedes not to fly, interestingly) ... Published on my mother's birthday 2 years ago ... "Swedish identity in modernity, not yet 'internetity'" I would sayhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/purple-coneflower.html From too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/arctostaphylos-manzanita.html Seeking to record my 2nd Scottish Small Pipes’ album in 2022, this one of Piobaireachd classical bagpiping music, and tentatively titled, “Honey Piobaireachd” - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm. Very glad to learn that my brother, Sandy, is coming home to Pittsburgh this Christmas, and Solstice, for what seems like the first time in about 10 or 15 years! And looking forward to reconnecting with my mother and my brother both together over this Xmas holiday! Seasons' greetings, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to you! Friendly regards, Scott https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html Amazon author's page - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity (with daily blog posts) -- -- - Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_heterophyllahttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_heterophylla ...

scott-macleod.blogspot.com


Craig: 

Out with the old!


Scott: 

Out with the cold! 🙂

Are you in Washington state north of Seattle now, Craigly? 🙂 (What do you think about aging reversal genetic therapies emerging? - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476801818839506947?s=20 - and see too longevity and genes' labels in blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity)


Craig: 

Yes. Anacortes. 

No interest here in Messing with genetics. Looking for wholesome healthiness and normalcy only. 


Scott:

None of eating heirloom varieties of the past centuries then? I find it fascinating that so few new genetic drugs have  emerged over the past 20 months of non-genetic, non-Epidemic self quarantine! I also think the language of the Nature article re genetic therapies in the pipeline is interesting to read ... Maybe these pipeline lists will swell in upcoming months ... glad the FDA seems to be 'on it' ... Just read Nobel Laureate Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" about Artificial Intelligence Friends, Artificial Friends, Robot People, and Personal Robots, where the main human character was also 'lifted' - genetically engineered for enhancement because her parents had the money (in Britain?) ... but which makes her feel sick much of the time (so fallen in a sense too) ... Glad you are wary or uninterested of such possibilities ... see, too - How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

from 2019 ... 🙂

How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

"Aging reversal is something that's been proven about eight different ways in animals," geneticist George Church says. So when will humans get to turn back t...

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Adam Hewitt and Scott MacLeod: 

Scott: 

How is your teaching going, Adam? Heading here with Yoga - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (and dropped out of A&V's yoga circles, as inspiring as they were (for ethical reasons)- like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates ... from Reed & Harvard?) ... Search on the words "spirit" and "ego" (the Freudiam / Jungiam word for self - which Lacan doesn't so much engage that I've read ) ... in these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations (have you 'read' Patanjali at all?)  ... If we can live to be older than 122 years of age (oldest documented living human, Jeanne Calment), we could potentially help people for more years than in the next 2 or 3 decades ... What hath Crick and Watson in 1953 wrought? Eliciting neurophysiology of loving bliss brain chemistry for more than our likely actuarial age for mortality has some appeal to me too. My mother's well, now living outside of Pgh, in a good community (Presbyterian I think). I'm pretty well (& seeking a life partner who's pretty, and smart - a MD even, and in her 20s? - with some echoes love map -wise of Susan, and Friendly Anke potentially). Is Helen graduating from that good Scottish-American named school, CMU or similar? Happy New Year - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477731634396893185?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1366811917956706304?s=20 -

https://brighteon.social/@Scott_WUaS - and nice to hear from you, Adam! 


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Scott: 

What do you think about the language of these new genetic therapies in pipeline in Nature magazine, and  speculatively possibly regarding aging reversal genetic therapies emerging? - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1476801818839506947?s=20 - and see too the longevity, and genes', labels in blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity)


Season's greetings to you too -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html !



Adam: 

Happy Birthday and 2022!

And, no, it doesn't really interest me that much. I see it as a mirage. You know yourself, as a yoga teacher, that as human beings our reality lies in the Spiritual World, from which we are having a temporary physical experience. Why we would wish to prolong that experience baffles me. I think the answer is pure egotism: I wanna be ME in this physical body as long as I can.

Such an approach is not for me!

How are you and how is your Mom? I may be in Pittsburgh in April.


Scott: 

How is your teaching going, Adam? Heading here with Yoga - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (and dropped out of A&V's yoga circles, as inspiring as they were (for ethical reasons)- like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates ... from Reed & Harvard?) ... Search on the words "spirit" and "ego" (the Freudiam / Jungiam word for self - which Lacan doesn't so much engage that I've read ) ... in these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations (have you 'read' Patanjali at all?)  ... If we can live to be older than 122 years of age (oldest documented living human, Jeanne Calment), we could potentially help people for more years than in the next 2 or 3 decades ... What hath Crick and Watson in 1953 wrought? Eliciting neurophysiology of loving bliss brain chemistry for more than our likely actuarial age for mortality has some appeal to me too. My mother's well, now living outside of Pgh, in a good community (Presbyterian I think). I'm pretty well (& seeking a life partner who's pretty, and smart - a MD even, and in her 20s? - with some echoes love map -wise of Susan, and Friendly Anke potentially). Is Helen graduating from that good Scottish-American named school, CMU or similar? Happy New Year - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477731634396893185?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1366811917956706304?s=20 -

https://brighteon.social/@Scott_WUaS - and nice to hear from you, Adam! 

 Sunday · 9:33 PM 

Scott:

Some of this here, Adam - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/eryngium-bourgatii-december-31-harbin.html - and much more! Happy New Year!

 Sunday · 10:43 PM 

See too the possibly interesting Toys that Consumer Reports finds interesting toward the bottom! 🙂





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Happy Birthday and 2022! And, no, it doesn't really interest me that much. I see it as a mirage. You know yourself, as a yoga teacher, that as human beings our reality lies in the Spiritual World, from which we are having a temporary physical experience. Why we would wish to prolong that experience baffles me. I think the answer is pure egotism: I wanna be ME in this physical body as long as I can. Such an approach is not for me! How are you and how is your Mom? I may be in Pittsburgh in April.

How is your teaching going, Adam? Heading here with Yoga - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (and dropped out of A&V's yoga circles, as inspiring as they were (for ethical reasons)- like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates ... from Reed & Harvard?) ... Search on the words "spirit" and "ego" (the Freudiam / Jungiam word for self - which Lacan doesn't so much engage that I've read ) ... in these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations (have you 'read' Patanjali at all?) ... If we can live to be older than 122 years of age (oldest documented living human, Jeanne Calment), we could potentially help people for more years than in the next 2 or 3 decades ... What hath Crick and Watson in 1953 wrought? Eliciting neurophysiology of loving bliss brain chemistry for more than our likely actuarial age for mortality has some appeal to me too. My mother's well, now living outside of Pgh, in a good community (Presbyterian I think). I'm pretty well (& seeking a life partner who's pretty, and smart - a MD even, and in her 20s? - with some echoes love map -wise of Susan, and Friendly Anke potentially). Is Helen graduating from that good Scottish-American named school, CMU or similar? Happy New Year - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1477731634396893185?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1366811917956706304?s=20 -
https://brighteon.social/@Scott_WUaS - and nice to hear from you, Adam!

Sunday · 9:33 PM

Some of this here, Adam - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/eryngium-bourgatii-december-31-harbin.html - and much more! Happy New Year!

Sunday · 10:43 PM

See too the possibly interesting Toys that Consumer Reports finds interesting toward the bottom! 🙂



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Birthday evening on 12/31/2021

Tym called after you called, Ma! Thank you both for your birthday greetings! Went hiking after reaching out for Mwende and WUaS to Google and CS First with Google course - Computer Science First - farther north in Sonoma county than before. Trail high up over the Pacific, - Sea to Sky to Raptor Ridge Loop on AllTrails

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/sea-to-sky-to-raptor-ridge-loop (only hiked out & up first .75 miles -

with cold wind, wet path, in Birkenstock sandals, wet foot, fun adventure before dark. Drove back and thought to get birthday dinner newly at Tashi Delek Cuisine Tibetan Indian restaurant on San Pablo at Portrero (the 'main' intersection near me) ... 1st time there, ethical (picture of Dali Llama on wall :), clean, but waited 45 minutes for takeout in cold eatery, with many Tibetans as customers too - different cultures do food differently in America (and post Pandemic self-quarantine continuing of cleaning up for virus prevention too) ... Exhausted, went back to cool dwelling, food was pretty good, Mango Lassi Better as birthday cake :) Sleep ... How was birding? Wise to stay home, Ma? Xmas New Year possibly next year in the SF Bay Area? Last Bay Area Stammtisch today or next week, since Google Meet video conference is becoming a premium service for WUaS Google Workspace for Education for free ... New free video conferencing may emerge :) 


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Tym mentioned Alison's name ... Is this his girlfriend, or was this the pretty woman with friend at Politics and Prose Bookstore? He mentioned his high school St Albans, and parents too. We also talked about Yemen and Semester at Sea. Could Tym become an interport lecturer from India to Yemen? I mentioned the adventure in the Red Sea in 1999 on SAS - Here's the touch the Red Sea Semester at Sea story I mentioned - 

http://www.scottmacleod.com/SAS2005/SAS2005index.htm - as ethnography even

Curious about the woman in the Bookstore cafe ... as well as teaching out to 178/206 embassies and consulates in the DC AREA



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Tym! Here's the 'critique of Harbin Hot Springs I mentioned, which is also kind of interesting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/common-milkweed.html 🙂 Could it be a text in a class I teach on field work too &  re - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - and could it be used by the California legal system especially, and to help 'clean up' Harbin from a law perspective, I wonder? I know former heads of Harbin Human Resources' David Edick (am forgetting his real last name), and Sanna Durk (and her daughter Alexa Mcara, a Berkeley alum, and former Harbin 'MD' - managing director), and they're great! How are you doing? Happy New Year, and fond regards, Scott (Please come visit ! )



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Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT * * Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - "SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" * * Now why can't we head into virtual Harbin right now from home ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and soak, and do / write / EWVWG ethnography at the e-same time? ... and simply hang out in the pool area socially, as well as head into the pools some times?

Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT * * Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - "SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" * * Now why can't we head into virtual Harbin right now from home ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and soak, and do / write / EWVWG ethnography at the e-same time? ... and simply hang out in the pool area socially, as well as head into the pools some times?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html



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Critique of Harbin Hot Springs

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): "What's wrong with Harbin Hot Springs" - Musser Communications http://www.mussercommunications.com/mcassets/Whats_Wrong_with_Harbin_Hot_Springs.pdf * Critique of Harbin Hot Springs * Mentioning too friends' David Edick and Sanna Durk (also lawyers, or formerly so) * * * A theoretical paper, and regarding 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-grapy' - 'Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality' - by Nick Seaver, Anthropology article title >Text-in-the-sidebar #TextInTheSidebar of #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider & for #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): "What's wrong with Harbin Hot Springs" - Musser Communications http://www.mussercommunications.com/mcassets/Whats_Wrong_with_Harbin_Hot_Springs.pdf * Critique of Harbin Hot Springs * Mentioning too friends' David Edick and Sanna Durk (also lawyers, or formerly so) * * * A theoretical paper, and regarding 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-grapy' - 'Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality' - by Nick Seaver, Anthropology article title >Text-in-the-sidebar #TextInTheSidebar of #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider & for #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/common-milkweed.html





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December 5, 2021

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Dec 5, 2021, 1:59 PM
to Timothy
Tym!

How are you? How did your regaling of Princeton students about Yemen and the Middle East go (and regarding the new related university at the US State Department even :)? What are you doing over Xmas and New Year? Might you be around even, or heading to Yemen and the MIddle East, or warmer climes south, or ... ?

... hoping you're navigating the oncoming winter in the DC-area alright. It looks like I'll be heading back to Pgh for Xmas, :) but only for a brief trip, so may not head to DC as I've done in some previous years, although it would be great to see you somehow, either possibly even to celebrate Xmas together in a video call, ... or even if my plans change, and I head back to Pgh, and with a trip to DC in between Xmas, and then heading back to the SF Bay Area :) It was good to talk with my mother last night (see below), having invited her out here for Xmas, but she may not be doing this for awhile, since it's a different trip to California than to Portland, Maine, for Thanksgiving (where she went to visit Sandy) culturally perhaps somehow too. 

Am seeking 1 or 2 new Scottish Small Pipes' students for online learning currently :) Know anyone who might be interested? 

Might we check in at Harbin and for research in the spring ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/uluru.html?m=0 ?
 :)

Warmly, Scott



PS
Just searched on and found a bit surprisingly these 2 somewhat new articles on aging reversal (below), where the focus is on research to "rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a youthful state" ... I'm wondering if there are a zillion new scientific opportunities in some of these aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging regards, thanks to the past 18 months of dramatic, I hypothesize, vaccine developments and related fundamental research (at the NIH in scaling organizationally too). The NYT's Wade article is a good overview, and with an angle on rejuvenation of cells, and its related aging reversal history, and key scientific ideas ...  

Am wondering too about Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital experiments' history, in broad strokes, and even regarding a scientific literature review, and possible comparative papers - in many disciplines of 'hard science' from biology to physics to chemistry to geology to materials science to psychology (re rigorous experimental paradigm) ... and what we could learn from this for a realistic virtual earth for STEM for Genetics ... and especially for aging reversal genetic drug therapies ... (e.g. in Google Street View with time slider at the cellular and molecular levels, how do particles and molecules rearrange themselves as aging reversal hypothetically takes place ... and with ever expanding data sets, and machine learning even?). But thinking about classic scientific experiments, whether they be in animal behavior, re BF Skinner's studies with pigeons and rats, or atmospheric gases' experiments, ...  or a vast myriad of other examples of scientific experiments, from some decades ago even, how have they emerged anew with computer simulations, modeling and similar?

Now how might you or I begin to play with aging reversal basic science and in a realistic virtual earth for STEM ... at the molecular or cellular levels, and in a Do-It-Yourself DIY way? And to even edit or transform our own genome, perhaps aging reversal wise ... and via even WikiTree genealogy software, I wonder, as an entry way into this self-genetic-engineering ... and with realistic virtual avatar bots too? :) ... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 ... say working with George Church collaboratively on these questions too? 

One 'definition' of intelligence, I recall from family friend George Alexander MD is 'problem solving' (and scientific experiments do this), and another, though, is modeling ... I am seeking for a realistic virtual earth to perhaps facilitate this latter approach to intelligence in myriad excellent iterating ways, and digitally or virtually and with computing and machine learning even :)

Hoping to create my 2nd Scottish Small PIpes' album too in the next few weeks (see email too to my mother), this one of Piobaireachd, but we'll see :) 

Warmly, Scott




"Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells
Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state."
By Nicholas Wade
March 24, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/science/aging-dna-epigenetics-cells.html


Old human cells rejuvenated with stem cell technology
Old human cells can become more youthful by coaxing them to briefly express proteins used to make induced pluripotent cells, Stanford researchers and their colleagues have found. The finding may have implications for aging research.
March 24, 2020 - By Krista Conger
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/old-human-cells-rejuvenated-with-stem-cell-technology.html




Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells
Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state.


A scanning electron micrograph of a human embryonic stem cell.
A scanning electron micrograph of a human embryonic stem cell.Credit...David Scharf/Science Source
By Nicholas Wade
March 24, 2020
Researchers at Stanford University report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a youthful state. They hope that the technique will help in the treatment of diseases, such as osteoarthritis and muscle wasting, that are caused by the aging of tissue cells.

A major cause of aging is thought to be the errors that accumulate in the epigenome, the system of proteins that packages the DNA and controls access to its genes. The Stanford team, led by Tapash Jay Sarkar, Dr. Thomas A. Rando and Vittorio Sebastiano, say their method, designed to reverse these errors and walk back the cells to their youthful state, does indeed restore the cells’ vigor and eliminate signs of aging.

In their report, published on Tuesday in Nature Communications, they described their technique as “a significant step toward the goal of reversing cellular aging” and could produce therapies “for aging and aging-related diseases.”

Leonard P. Guarente, an expert on aging at M.I.T., said the method was “one of the most promising areas of aging research” but that it would take a long time to develop drugs based on RNA, the required chemical.

The Stanford approach utilizes powerful agents known as Yamanaka factors, which reprogram a cell’s epigenome to its time zero, or embryonic state.

Embryonic cells, derived from the fertilized egg, can develop into any of the specialized cell types of the body. Their fate, whether to become a skin or eye or liver cell, is determined by chemical groups, or marks, that are tagged on to their epigenome.

In each type of cell, these marks make accessible only the genes that the cell type needs, while locking down all other genes in the DNAs. The pattern of marks thus establishes each cell’s identity.

As the cell ages, it accumulates errors in the marking system, which degrade the cell’s efficiency at switching on and off the genes needed for its operations.

In 2006 Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a stem-cell researcher at Kyoto University, amazed biologists by showing that a cell’s fate could be reversed with a set of four transcription factors — agents that activate genes — that he had identified. A cell dosed with the Yamanaka factors erases the marks on the epigenome, so the cell loses its identity and reverts to the embryonic state. Erroneous marks gathered during aging are also lost in the process, restoring the cell to its state of youth. Dr. Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for the work.


In 2006, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell researcher and Nobel laureate, identified four transcription factors that can be manipulated to reverse aging in cells.
Credit...Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press

But the Yamanaka factors are no simple panacea. Applied to whole mice, the factors made cells lose their functions and primed them for rapid growth, usually cancerous; the mice all died.

In 2016, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, found that the two effects of the Yamanaka factors — erasing cell identity and reversing aging — could be separated, with a lower dose securing just age reversal. But he achieved this by genetically engineering mice, a technique not usable in people.

In their paper on Tuesday, the Stanford team described a feasible way to deliver Yamanaka factors to cells taken from patients, by dosing cells kept in cultures with small amounts of the factors.

If dosed for a short enough time, the team reported, the cells retained their identity but returned to a youthful state, as judged by several measures of cell vigor.

Dr. Sebastian said the Yamanaka factors appeared to operate in two stages, as if they were raising the epigenome’s energy to one level, at which the marks of aging were lost, and then to a higher level at which cell identity was erased.

The Stanford team extracted aged cartilage cells from patients with osteoarthritis and found that after a low dosage of Yamanaka factors the cells no longer secreted the inflammatory factors that provoke the disease. The team also found that human muscle stem cells, which are impaired in a muscle-wasting disease, could be restored to youth. Members of the Stanford team have formed a company, Turn Biotechnologies, to develop therapies for osteoarthritis and other diseases.

The study is “definitively a step forward in the goal of reversing cellular aging,” Dr. Izpisua Belmonte said.




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Hi Ma,

Nice to talk last night, and looking forward to seeing you over Xmas.

Thanks for the encouragement to reach out for a new Scottish Small Pipes' student or two ... Will seek to get a new flyer together for Walsh Bagpipes in Antigonish Nova Scotia Canada re Jean Walsh, and for House of Bagpipes in SF re Lynne Miller regarding too the bulletin board idea, (and blogged about your great bulletin board idea here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/violet-viola-odorata.html and WUaS) ... (with only some concerns about the ending of lessons with previous student - which I think I handled pretty well and somewhat affirmatively, - all told ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping ... And see emails towards the end).

Talking with you, Ma, last night also may help me focus on creating my Piobaireachd album in the next few weeks, before Pittsburgh. (Am not a perfect Piobaireachd classical Scottish Bagpiping music player yet, so have some ambivalence here ... But for changing my thinking and learning, I may seek to make this work) ... And there may be possible questions for Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire Scotland in this too.

I also haven't heard from Stuart Liddell in a while, and would be interested in taking private piping lessons with him, over Topical group piping lessons, (and have paid for a 2nd Topical lesson) ... So may inquire about applying this to 1-1 lessons with him too. I like Stuart ... and his connecting especially. 

Am continuing to play every single day right before bed, working through some of my practicing ambivalence, but it's not necessarily a further positive practicing LEARNING experience or time; Maybe by writing this I can make it more so.

(Uncertainty too with Lego ROBOTICS' kits' contacts, - Leanna Prater and Soren Jorgensen, and therefore proceeding with Orinda Books' bookstore, and the county, and with Barnes and Noble too ... Re further ambivalences ... And WUaS is such a big plan ... So glad to have gotten and paid the very first ever WUaS tax bill to the CA FTB - a BIG organizer itself ... and planning institution too - California).


Re your saying -
'I'm a little in over my head' - thanks for saying this (but don't know exactly what it refers to) ...

But one thought - am wondering if I could meet someone who is not too tall :) in Pgh over Xmas too, a life partner, a MD too? - again when you said last night "I'm in a little over my head" (reminding me also of the Harbin warm pool) regarding, I think, my talking about my concerns about Canyon, schools around Canyon not written down by Pat the manager at Orinda Books, - which other schools I may follow up on, ...  and the development of the WUaS Corporation and as a distribution center for Lego Robotics' kits and reaching out to Contra Costa county schools - and then turning the conversation to Piping. (Ambivalences are interesting in life - and can be great to talk about and seek to understand even :) Thanks for talking, Ma ... And reading this too!

Ma, nice to talk, and thanks for your thinking about piping ! 

And looking forward to seeing you!

Love, Scott


PS
(The reason I asked about Nan Byrne and Longwood again - and you said you don't know, or her - is that you've been saying in the last 2 or so calls 'Yea' and sounding a lot like Rob Byrne, whom I'm not in touch with. ... ... (Glad Rob's daughter got into Harvard Law School he said about 9 months ago when we talked for 30 minutes for the first and last time in about 30 years). Rob's an old Pittsburgh Shady Side Academy friend, but who knows when we'll talk again? ..   Am a little more in touch with David Byrne in Seattle whom I like, and who may be less in conflict than Rob, somehow, or the Byrne women. Hoping you're continuing to grow  abolitionally in some of these regards, Ma, and even regarding Cuttyhunk and Sandy too). 

There may also be some sad stories re the Byrne's family (and Sandy and Cuttyhunk too) in all of this where even ethics and some kinds of Desiderata informed thinking might be of help ... https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html ...


Abolitionally yours, Scott

Cuttyhunk label in daily blog -

Care label in daily blog too - 




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Scratch programming language with Lego Spike Prime robotics


Scratch w Lego Spike Prime robotics

Lego Spike Prime Scratch Programming 

https://youtu.be/JApAX8kvwhw

SPIKE Prime. #2 Exploring Scratch

https://youtu.be/1SAl2RzKaIg

SPIKE Prime Scratch Tutorial #01 

https://youtu.be/zl1t34mNf2M

Spike Prime Scratch Programming - Blocks 

https://youtu.be/ZSPT7npilyQ ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1476658953199120385?s=20




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scratch programming & artificial intelligence


ScratchProgramming #ArtificialIntelligence

Robots, Androids & #AI

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1399754/

AI

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/2924464/

Simple (AI) coding in Scratch

https://youtu.be/3a1NJic7fbs

AI with Scratch Programming

https://youtu.be/IYbAzhyBEbc

Scratch Programming, Creating AI

https://youtu.be/ymn-hnN0hNU

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1476659518301880337?s=20




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scratch programming and google street view


Scratch Programming & #GoogleStreetView

Google Maps » Studios

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/191743718/studios/

Design an Interactive Display or Map with Scratch - Coding Curriculum

https://youtu.be/Y_dKP6r64ZI

Episode #086-Plotting Points on a Map from Scratch

https://youtu.be/LiwMLeHuT4k

#RealisticVirtualEarth~ 

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1476660006145560576?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1476883573315551232?s=20



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Scratch Programming # Machine Learning


Scratch Programming 

#MachineLearning

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/4600284

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/290769/

Try out machine learning with Scratch | Digital Making at Home LIVE https://youtu.be/rQwJvn-noHg

#ML Scratch

https://youtu.be/GJODcwLyYcQ

Using Scratch to teach Machine Learning

https://youtu.be/8VPpHagNuE4

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1476660692618919946?s=20



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Scratch programming with Machine Learning with Python language 


Scratch programming with Machine Learning with Python language 

Machine Learning From Scratch In Python - Full Course With 12 Algorithms (5 HRS)

https://youtu.be/rLOyrWV8gmA

Build a Machine Learning Project From Scratch with Python and Scikit-learn

https://youtu.be/Qr9iONLD3Lk

#WUaScoding~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1476662574217248795?s=20




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Robot vacuum cleaners


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Price

 $950.00


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ROBOTIC VACUUMS

iRobot Roomba S9

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iRobot Roomba S9+



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ROBOTIC VACUUMS

Eufy 11S

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iRobot Roomba i3+

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iRobot Roomba i3

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UPRIGHT VACUUMS

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BAGGED CANISTER VACUUMS


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Vacuum Cleaners - Handheld


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Top Tech Toys - Consumer Reports

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If you’re looking for cool tech gifts and gadgets for the kids, check out Consumer Reports top toy picks. There are interactive robots, great learning toys, and all are good old-fashioned fun. There’s never been a better time to be a kid.

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https://www.consumerreports.org/video/view/electronics/tech-toys-gaming/4655919123001/top-tech-toys/


Zoomer Chimp ~ an early primate robot toy




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Battle of the Toy Bots: CR Checks Out 5

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Consumer Reports engineers examined five of the most popular high-tech robot toys. Then we asked a group of kids what they thought. Here's what the engineers and kids learned


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https://www.consumerreports.org/video/view/electronics/news/5251091380001/battle-of-the-toy-bots--cr-checks-out-5-/





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Toy Fair 2013: Six Super Tech Toys

03:17


Everyone from big names like Mattel and Lego to smaller ones such as littleBits shows up at the Toy Fair. Here are six of the hottest tech toys to make an appearance at this year's show.

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https://www.consumerreports.org/video/view/babies-kids/2158471408001/toy-fair-2013--six-super-tech-toys/




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http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/euphorbia-heterophylla-wild-poinsetta.html !






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