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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis): Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~ Sat April 25, 2026 * * And check out again this incredible interview of George Church by Dwarkesh Patel - A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church (6/26/25) https://youtu.be/olmHHxFQwxo partly on aging reversal genetic drug therapies, and with implications for extreme longevity (re further Harvard Thinking:) * * Appreciating 8 Limbs of Yoga & 19 words of yoga in 8 limbs of yoga (& re http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html)

 


Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~ Sat April 25, 2026 


John Seifert

Apr 23, 2026, 9:28 PM (15 hours ago)
to me
I will try to tune into the yoga class, but I will probably be on my way to Lake Tahoe, but I might not leave till Sunday… 
Sent from my iPhone 

On Apr 2, 2026, at 7:39 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:


John, 
Thanks so much for your email and interest in the Restorative Yoga explorations on Saturday's at 8 am Pacific Time ...

And great, John, if I've moved forward the WUaS Academic Medical Center and the Yoga hall into a vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 by tomorrow morning, but it's not looking like it yet  ... Maybe Saturday May 2 ... Have a great trip to Tahoe! 


Scott
Here's 
Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis): Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~ Sat April 25, 2026 

Seeking to update this Yoga in Canyon page -

Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations - 





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Dear Yoga friends, and family in their 80s and 90s' ~ Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), Unitarians' Chris Michaels and Ma/Janie,  Alden (Briscoe.- who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), ~ Quakertarian & Veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon), Donna (Leet MD), George (Church) and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Peter (Norvig, Stanford AI), Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility"), Doortje (Van Kooten), Vivek (Hutheesing, - "Meditation and Yoga" your father said  ... from India to the world as its greatest 'exports' - great (at around the 37 minute mark - https://vivekhutheesing.com/india-past-present-and-future/ in the great Q&A), Sandy (MacLeod, brother),  Pin/Siddhartha (Mazumdar HHS), Ed (Smyth MD in Berkeley),  All, 

Yoga greetings! How are you? Some restorative Yoga explorations this Saturday April 25, 2026 at 8am Pacific Time. Not having moved forward into 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 yet California 94516 and to potentially get together in a Zoom call Yoga hall for teaching and a Yoga conversation ...


A  
Would you like to explore 3 Yoga meditations of your liking or finding from this yoga video 
Angela Farmer : Living Fully In Our Bodies (Full Class) 


B 
Also asked Gemini 
What restorative Yoga asanas could people do - (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? - that 80 and 90 year olds could do at age 135 some of which effects would also be measurable in our avatar agent electronic health records as digital twins emerging from little Google Pegman in Google Street View with Time Slider interoperable in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYogaAsana, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga and in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything re 8 limbs Yoga and say starting with 3 inner body (as a kind of consciousness or awareness) yoga meditations without tennis balls with yogini Angela Farmer selected from - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJfXwm97rw ?

https://gemini.google.com/share/60a380b8e0fe 




C
... and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? 
this interesting Harvard conversation just came onto my smartphone ... Check it out Yoga-wise :)  
Harvard Thinking: The secret lives of super-agers (2026)



D
Explore restorative Yoga first thing upon rising - and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) - (which I find very salutary) 


Yogic-ally (re 8 limbs. ofYoga), Namaste, warm regards, 
Scott 

Here are last Saturday and Sunday's Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~




PS

And check out again this incredible interview of George Church by Dwarkesh Patel - 
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church (6/26/25) 

https://youtu.be/olmHHxFQwxo
partly on aging reversal genetic drug therapies, and with implications for extreme longevity (re further Harvard Thinking:)




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Appreciating 8 Limbs of Yoga & 19 words of yoga in 8 limbs of yoga (& re http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html) 
 

19 words of yoga in #8LimbsOfYoga 
#Yamas 
#Ahimsa, #Satya, #Asteya, #Brahmacharya, #Aparigraha
#Niyamas 
#Saucha #Santosha #Tapas #Svadhyaya #IsvaraPranidhana 
#Asana 
#Pranayama 
#Pratyahara 
#Dharana 
#Dhyana 
#Samadhi re #YogaWUaS  @WorldUnivAndSch




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Appreciating 8 Limbs of Yoga & Yoga Yamas


How best to teach the #YogaYamas in America & #theWest #Ahimsa, #Satya, #Asteya, #Brahmacharya, #Aparigraha, & to teach #YogaAndScience eg in #HinduCountries @ #FreeToStudents' @WorldUnivAndSch w #MITOCW in 7 languages in all 22 scheduled languages in India & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2043399315075514370

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2043399697109598614

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2043402319505858703

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2043401857184514093

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2043403130956915012

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2043403430321086710

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2041993181345280218


Retweeting


Sundar Pichai

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Nothing quite like the blank pages of a fresh notebook!

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https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2041993181345280218





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Appreciating 8 Limbs of Yoga & Quaker SPICES' parallels regarding the Yamas' Ahimsa and Satya 

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https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.561.1.6





https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2022/10/saussurea.html





https://www.sci.news/biology/saussurea-khunjerabensis-11287.html




https://cdn.sci.news/images/2022/10/image_11287f-Saussurea-khunjerabensis.jpg







Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis)


https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.561.1.6


https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2022/10/saussurea.html


https://www.sci.news/biology/saussurea-khunjerabensis-11287.html



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

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


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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Krishna Kamala / Passion Flower (Passiflora): "Reminder Email: Powerup with Advance Google Sheets Functions - Free Session". - India World University and School first in Hindi for free online WUaS degree programs possibly beginning around this September 1, 2026, a Tuesday, to possibly to Army Public School Agra and Rosary School Rajkot India students (or possibly to thousands (or tens of thousands?) of top and interested too Indian high school graduates from Army Public Schools (and other high achieving and academic public schools and high schools) all around India, first in Hindi and English - and with your knowledge, Krishna, of G Sheets and Indian students?

 

"Reminder Email: Powerup with Advance Google Sheets Functions - Free Session" - India World University and School first in Hindi for free online WUaS degree programs possibly beginning around this September 1, 2026, a Tuesday ...


Dear Krishna, Vishal, (and Siddhartha/Pin, Harvard alum 1982 and best friend from high school, and Santosh re extraordinary Art History talk at Stanford from Ambedkar University Dehli India, about which I blogged here on March 3, 2026 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/indian-elephant.html), All,

Thanks so much Krishna for your great "Powerup with Advance Google Sheets Functions" from Agra India, Google Educator Groups GEG Agra (& GEG Ahmedabad), & the Army Public School Agra this morning (at 4:30 am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area), and great to meet you a bit beforehand. And thanks for sharing the G Sheets' lists of students filterable to highest achieving, their emails, their houses, etc. in the Army Public School Agra. 

Seeing your data leads met to ask: 

How might World University and School with Google Sheets and GEG Agra and GEG Ahmedabead and the Army Public School Agra - https://www.armypublicschoolagra.com/ - and the Rosary School Rajkot  begin to offer online free WUaS degrees from home to Indian students at India World University and School first in Hindi (official language of Agra in Uttar Pradesh I think) and English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India - and then in all 22 regional/scheduled languages ... building on MIT OpenCourseWare's more than 2500 courses in English - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - and MIT OCW in these other languages too - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ ? How might we begin to offer these free online WUaS degree programs possibly beginning around this September 1, 2026, a Tuesday, to  possibly Army Public School Agra and Rosary School Rajkot India students (or possibly to thousands (or tens of thousands of top and interested too Indian high school graduates from Army Public Schools, and other high achieving and academic public schools and high schools) all around India, first in Hindi and English - and with your knowledge, Krishna, of Google Sheets and Indian students and other Army Public Schools and Google Educator Groups too, and with WUaS in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program? 

As World University and School seeks to become great 'Harvard / MIT / Oxbridge in England / Stanford / Sciences Po, Paris France / Technische Universitaet Muenchen TUM / Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen / Munich Germany' world class research and teaching universities of the internet (in all 22 official languages in India, and in all 200 countries) and with AI and ML too (and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306), Santosh, and Siddartha, how best to develop even Indian academic faculty members to teach to  these courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ eg https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/4-601-introduction-to-art-history-fall-2018/  - and develop the platform too and with Google Workspace for Education which WUaS is in - https://admin.google.com/ - and which is interoperable with GSheets?

Usha (Iyer, at Stanford as Faculty Director of the Center for South Asia - https://art.stanford.edu/people/usha-iyer), and Santosh, and Sid/Pin, how might we grow such an Indian WUaS  academic faculty for this to teach first year undergraduates for free 4 year BA / BS and 2 year AA / AS degrees beginning possibly as soon as September 1, 2026 with students Krishna might help WUaS matriculate? Might Stanford graduate students and postdocs from India become many of these WUaS faculty even - and possibly teach 1st year and introductory courses from these ~42 majors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/? And how to begin to translate in helpful ways https://ocw.mit.edu/ say into initially Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil (and re Sundar Pichai) and then all 22 official languages of India (building on https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/) and where the translation into Indian languages will be a different process culturally, and with many jobs and with World University and School becoming a big employer in India too?

Best regards, Namaste, Yogically, thank you!,
Scott

I blogged about this today, April 18, 2026 - 




PS
I see that there are many Army public schools in India ... and perhaps Friendly Quaker Peace Testimony informed and Yoga informed World University and School can give a new meaning to defense in India and via knowledge generation - first or initially for GEG Agra and GEG Ahmedabead and the Army Public School Agra and the Rosary School students :

Which is the No 1 Army public school in India?
APS Bolarum is Ranked No. 1 Defence Day School in India, Telangana & Secunderabad by C-fore National Award 2025. 3. The School has been a recipient of NSA Educational Excellence Award 2025.




On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 9:48 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Krishna, Vishal, All, 

Greetings, and looking forward to your "Powerup with Advance Google Sheets Functions - Free Session" with Google Educator Groups' GEG Agra, and GEG Ahmedabad, which I just registered for, and with these broad questions in the PS, but here's another question in a set of TwitterX posts - 



This session will be at around 4:30 or 5:30 am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area, and I'll be in a Toyota Sienna minivan with not great lighting for a Google Meet ... so I hope it works out ... Looking forward to meeting you.

Here are the beginnings of India World University and School - 


and Hindi Language WUaS 

In developing free World University and School building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/ and  https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ - and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, and planning 22 major online research and teaching universities in each of all scheduled languages in India, how might we explore developing India World University and School further for your and many many other Indian computer students K.K. Singh Sir at the  Army Public School, Agra, and in Hindi as Uttar Pradesh's official language? 

Might free India World University and School even begin to offer free online Bachelor's or AA / AS degrees to recent graduates of the  Army Public School, Agra this autumn in Hindi from home?

See you Saturday, and thank you.

Best regards, Namaste, Yogically, 
Scott


PS

Brainstorming questions, and as World Univ & Sch grows both the WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics, groceries, hospital technologies, (and the Academic Press at World University and School planned in all 7159 living languages with machine and human translation): 


Searched on

How can I transfer data from google sheets to quickbooks online?

https://share.google/aimode/F4OnDKGyhkBCqUKtn




AND
how could I best start a bookstore's accounting system with google sheets ?


QBO Google Sheets Connector

Coefficient
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Easiest Way To Integrate Data — Import Live QuickBooks Data to Google Sheets or Excel. Learn why over 500,000 users & 50,000 companies trust Coefficient. Get started today! Live Data Connector.


AND
https://share.google/aimode/PNxbkbWOom8zwZr8j



AND
from the registration form 

K.K. Singh Sir: Have any of your students created innovative applications for Google Sheets to other related spreadsheet and database software? (and re this thinking:  Searched on  "how could I best start a bookstore's accounting system with google sheets ?"  https://share.google/aimode/F4OnDKGyhkBCqUKtn     AND  how could I best start a bookstore's accounting system with google sheets ?   QBO Google Sheets Connector  Coefficient https://www.coefficient.io › google-sheets › qbo-connector Easiest Way To Integrate Data — Import Live QuickBooks Data to Google Sheets or Excel. Learn why over 500,000 users & 50,000 companies trust Coefficient. Get started today! Live Data Connector.   AND  https://share.google/aimode/PNxbkbWOom8zwZr8j) and see the PS too




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Dear Fellow Educator, 


You are invited to attend a free session on Advance Google Sheets that contains demonstration and knowledge on advance Features of Google Sheets like:


  1. Copying data from One sheet to another sheet in a different file

  2. Data Validation

  3. Query with Data Validation

  4. Data Filter, ISNA and Match Functions

  5. IF Conditions, ISNA, VLookup Functions

  6. Query Functions


The session expert is K.K. Singh Sir, an experienced Computer Teacher from Army Public School, Agra and Leader of GEG Agra. He has developed lots of customized sheets that help the teachers of his school to enable them track the performance of their students. His efforts are to ease the data related work for teachers using Google Sheets. It is indeed a privilege to learn from such an experienced teacher.



Join us on:

Date: 18/04/2026 - Saturday

Time: 5:00 to 6:00 PM IST


Pls register here:

https://forms.gle/1uSgruHhH3AMtMN27  


We look forward to seeing you there! 


Best Regards, 


Dr. Vishal Varia

Leader

GEG Ahmedabad


PS: Attendance certificates will be given to the attendees. Google Meet link will be shared on Saturday Morning.


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Monday April 20, 2026



Dear Krishna, Vishal, (and Siddhartha/Pin, Harvard alum 1982, born in Kolkata where he lived for about the first year of his life, and best friend from high school in Pittsburgh PA at SSA, and Santosh regarding the extraordinary Art History "Undoing Caste" talk you at Stanford which I heard there from Ambedkar University Dehli India, about which I blogged here on March 3, 2026 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/indian-elephant.html), All,

Thanks again for this "Powerup with Advanced Google Sheets Functions" GEG Agra session; and thanks too for your initial greetings just before it regarding the India "Army Fraternity" which you talked about Vishal  ... (A child of the 1960s in the USA, and a Friend NtF Quaker with pacifist leanings, and a Yogi (re 8 limbs of Yoga), I appreciate the idea and experience of fraternity (somewhat unfamiliar to me army-wise :), somewhat akin to the idea of community too  - AND please SEE THE PPS where I looked up if all Indian Army members meditate (and do Yoga too) -

Mastering Advanced Google Sheets 2026 04 18 16 36 IST Recording 

From the  feedback form, I've put my written thoughts below, too, in the PS. (Further, in addition to the Indian high school students' grades you shared, Krishna, in your GSheets' data, I also don't think, Vishal, that getting a certificate with a number or score on it, or grade too, is a very effective form of 'reward' for filling out a feedback form, and having joined a GEG presentation). I've gone to quite a few open classroom schools growing up which eschewed grades; that written at World Univ & Sch, we'll develop approaches to grading that are new and with AI and ML and as students study in part MIT OpenCourseWare courses, potetnially in each of all 22 scheduled / regional / official languages in India (and as WUaS seeks to grow wiki schools for people to people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning in all 458 languages in India, by one count: "According to the 2025 data from Ethnologue, India has 458 living languages" - https://share.google/aimode/t9M4XrAuVMHNZ2TtL).


On the other hand, in addition to exploring beginning India World University and School, and with you Vishal and Krsihna and thanks to this GSheets' presentation, for free online degrees for Indians potentially this September 1, 2026, 
I'm wondering further if might I be able to teach, in English, "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" course to Indian students this autumn too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html (which will also inform my upcoming book of the same title)?


Also this came onto my smartphone after the presentation, and I'm wondering if it could be informative feedback as well - 
"Vlookup() | iferror() method | Google" -

Will add this email further here to a blog post I created on Saturday April 18, 2026 and regarding your Krishna very helpful and incredible GSheets' GEG Agra and GEG Ahmedabad  presentation - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/krishna-kamala-passion-flower-passiflora.html - 

Saturday, April 18, 2026
Krishna Kamala / Passion Flower (Passiflora): "Reminder Email: Powerup with Advance Google Sheets Functions - Free Session". - India World University and School first in Hindi for free online WUaS degree programs possibly beginning around this September 1, 2026, a Tuesday, to possibly to Army Public School Agra and Rosary School Rajkot India students (or possibly to thousands (or tens of thousands?) of top and interested too Indian high school graduates from Army Public Schools (and other high achieving and academic public schools and high schools) all around India, first in Hindi and English - and with your knowledge, Krishna, of G Sheets and Indian students?


How best to develop India World University and School for matriculating students potentially on around September 1, 2026 - and from the Army Public School Agra, and Rosary School Rajkot and others as well?


All the best, thank you, Yogically (re 8 limbs of Yoga), Namaste, 
Scott 


PS
I found seeing the GSheets' names of students, and their emails, and their houses re Army Public School Agra and how to filter these, for example, with Google Sheets to open many possibilities for growing free World University and School in India, possibly beginning this autumn; I also found this class on G Sheets' functions and as a GEG Agra presentation to be a possible avenue / first step to developing World University and School STEM subjects & degrees, and building on the many MIT OpenCourseWare STEM courses.


PS a
I often find Indian presentations such as these GEG Ahmedabad presentations and GEG Agra presentations to be light on thinking and analysis and on  academic or analytical content (whereas I found Santosh's Stanford Asia Center's "Undoing Caste" in the field of Art History extraordinary and by contrast - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/indian-elephant.html accessible from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/krishna-kamala-passion-flower-passiflora.html)


PS b
Thanks so much, Krishna and Vishal, GEG Ahmedabad and GEG Agra! Might World University and School begin to matriculate Indian students this autumn - potentially from the Army Public School Agra and the Rosary School Rajkot and with other high school graduates across India and in STEM fields (building from their learning GSheets), and  in Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts' fields -  and might I even teach, in English, my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" course to Indian students this autumn too, and re - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/krishna-kamala-passion-flower-passiflora.html


PPS
Out of curiosity (and which is so so different from the American uniformed armed differences - culturally ... and I'm a sociocultural anthropologist), 
I searched on 

Do most people in India uniformed armed services / military meditate as part of their service?


Yes, meditation and yoga are actively incorporated into the routine of Indian armed forces personnel to improve mental health, stress management, and resilience. While not every single soldier may meditate, these practices are officially supported and conducted, especially for those in high-pressure roles.
Key details on meditation in the Indian Armed Forces include:
  • Routine Implementation: Yoga and meditation are increasingly part of the daily unit routine, including from the training stage.
  • Mental Well-being: Techniques are used to combat high stress levels, improve emotional regulation, and reduce risks of suicide within the forces.
  • Diverse Techniques: Practices include mindfulness, breathing techniques, and specific methods like "Heartfulness Meditation" which has been used across different military branches.
  • Voluntary and Structured: While promoted by the organization, participation is often encouraged within the framework of overall physical and spiritual wellness, often during dedicated physical training hours.
  • Expert Training: Sessions on mindfulness and emotional well-being are often provided to officers and staff, highlighting a commitment to, and understanding of, the benefits of, such techniques





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