Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Western Purple Martin: @geochurch · Please join me at ARDD 2026 Registration: http://agingpharma.org#ARDD2026 Harvard #AgingResearch #DrugDiscovery October 1–3, 2026 Th-Sat * How best to grow a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingResearch @WorldUnivAndSch, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForDrugDiscovery @WUaSPress? Think #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider @ #GCell #GMolecule #GQubit levels & w #GPegman >#AvatarAgentEHR Network w @geochurch http://agingpharma.org? * * * World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Scotland 9-15 August 2026 Attend virtually? How could a #RealisticVirtualEarth, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPerformance + #ForMusicMaking help in future? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe #WUaSpiping ~



@geochurch · Please join me at ARDD 2026 Registration: http://agingpharma.org#ARDD2026 Harvard #AgingResearch #DrugDiscovery October 1–3, 2026 Th-Sat
 

How best to grow a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingResearch @WorldUnivAndSch, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForDrugDiscovery @WUaSPress? Think #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider @ #GCell #GMolecule #GQubit levels & w #GPegman >#AvatarAgentEHR Network w @geochurch  http://agingpharma.org?

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How best to grow a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingResearch @WorldUnivAndSch, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForDrugDiscovery @WUaSPress? Think #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider @ #GCell #GMolecule #GQubit levels & w #GPegman >#AvatarAgentEHR Network w http://agingpharma.org @geochurch?

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george church
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Please join me at ARDD 2026, the leading conference on Aging Research and Drug Discovery.  At the beautiful Harvard  Rubenstein Treehouse  October 1–3, 2026. Scientists, biotech pioneers, pharmaceutical executives, investors, and policymakers advancing longevity science. Registration: http://agingpharma.org#ARDD2026 #AgingResearch #DrugDiscovery

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World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Scotland 9-15 August 2026 Attend virtually? How could a #RealisticVirtualEarth, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPerformance + #ForMusicMaking help in future? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe #WUaSpiping ~


World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Scotland 9-15 August 2026 
-https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/arts-music-and-culture/world-pipe-band-championships/the-worlds-biggest-week-of-piping Attend virtually? How could a #RealisticVirtualEarth, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPerformance + #ForMusicMaking help in future? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe #WUaSpiping ~






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Who's Really #ShapingLibraryEbookPolicy? - Implications for @WorldUnivAndSch's 1) ~50 #USstates' & ~200 #WUaScountries' online #UniversityLibrariesWUaS


Who's Really #ShapingLibraryEbookPolicy? https://mailchi.mp/e73d3e3e632f/empowering-libraries-17008161?e=3002083275 > https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/moving-beyond-the-publisher-playbook-why-state-level-contract-law-is-essential-to-the-future-of-digital-library-rights Implications for @WorldUnivAndSch's 1) ~50 #USstates' & ~200 #WUaScountries' online #UniversityLibrariesWUaS 2) the @WUaSPress #WUaSAcademicPress in 7159 languages 3) its #WUaSbookstores? 




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Who's Really Shaping Library Ebook Policy?

Libraries spend millions renting ebooks they'll never own. If that frustrates you, you're not alone. A new op-ed from the eBook Study Group argues it's time to stop playing by the publisher playbook, asking why Penguin Random House sponsored a critique of stronger library ebook rights. If you care about the future of digital collections, the op-ed is essential reading.

Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots

Internet Archive has joined with EFF and other civil society organizations in asking the Governor of New York to veto new legislation that aims to curb abusive AI scraping, but could unintentionally harm public-interest tools like the Wayback Machine. The proposed Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act risks lumping beneficial web crawlers into the same category as harmful AI bots. Internet Archive's senior policy counsel, Lila Bailey, outlines why we believe lawmakers can address abusive scraping without undermining the digital infrastructure that libraries, researchers, journalists, and the public rely on.

Check out the final three episodes of our special Vanishing Culture series on the Future Knowledge podcast, from Internet Archive and Authors Alliance:

Host Vida Vojić speaks with writer and researcher Helen Nde, founder of Mythological Africans, and folklorist Laura Gibbs about why preserving African folklore matters. Together they explore how folktales preserve culture, identity, and collective memory, and what we risk losing if these stories aren't passed on and preserved in the digital age. Listen now.
Vida speaks with Peter Scholing of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba and the Coleccion Aruba digital heritage platform about why preserving Papiamento matters. They discuss how Aruba's creole language carries culture, history, and identity, and what we lose when endangered languages disappear. Listen now.
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our Vanishing Culture series, Vida and producer Alice Bridgwood reflect on the conversations, ideas, and lessons that emerged throughout the series. Listen now.
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Library infrastructure is under strain as large-scale data use accelerates. Publishers who once embraced openness are facing hard conversations with authors concerned about how their work is being used to train AI systems. At the same time, advocates of Open Educational Resources (OER) are navigating a paradox: wanting their materials to reach students widely, even as those same materials are absorbed by powerful commercial tools.

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Join the Internet Archive for a live performance by Negativland, the legendary sound collage collective whose groundbreaking work has challenged conventions around media, copyright, and culture for more than four decades. Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive transforms our San Francisco headquarters into a live "theater of the mind," blending found sound, music, radio, humor, and sonic experimentation. Known for the landmark legal battle sparked by their infamous U2 parody, Negativland helped shape the conversation around fair use, artistic freedom, and who controls culture.
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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
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1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
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