Thursday, October 25, 2018

Lupinus polyphyllus: National Science Foundation grant application for WUaS for California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, For hiring about 30 graduate student instructors to teach sections in group video (to the MIT and Yale faculty in their CC-4 OpenCourseWare), Am hoping that California getting MIT for free i.e. WUaS offering CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees to Californians + for online free-to-students' degrees will lead even eventually to a budget line for WUaS from the state of California (paralleling the 10 University of California's), Creating Stanford Law career opportunities at online CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School to begin online law schools, " @UNESCO "You won't believe what the 🇦🇷 Argentine Federal Police 🕵️ 🕵️ discovered in a secret room in Buenos Aires," MIT Technology Review "Japan just gave its cryptocurrency industry legal power to police itself," Japan and Finland


Thanks, Rob, and All,

Appreciating getting your email, Rob. Waiting on a National Science Foundation grant application for WUaS (so waiting too on BPPE), a significant portion of which is for accreditation with both BPPE and WASC senior, and a more significant portion of which is for hiring about 30 graduate student instructors to teach sections in group video (to the MIT and Yale faculty in their CC-4 OpenCourseWare), and tiny portion of which is for 2 out of 12 months' salary. I think this will be awarded around when BPPE begins its online process. And World University and School is seeking to matriculate 100-500 undergraduate students in autumn 2019 for free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees (and I'm still a bachelor too!:)

Am hoping that California getting MIT for free i.e. WUaS offering CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees to Californians + for online free-to-students' degrees will lead even eventually to a budget line for WUaS from the state of California (paralleling the 10 University of California's) ... and then from other ~200 countries' departments of Education (since CC-4 licensing allows for A) sharing B) adapting, but C) non-commercially ... so WUaS can't ask for tuition from students), - and as WUaS begins the accreditation process with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education.

Methinks that having kids will be easier and less risky with a 30 year old partner and wife than a 40 year old, and we'll cross the bridge of age differential when I'm 100 and she's 75 :) And re longevity (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity), who knows, but it's possible we'll be living a lot longer than ever before per this article by MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito and per Harvard's George Church and gene editing - https://web.archive.org/web/20180605002848/https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/ - and then having had kids will have been worth it ... despite any challenges with age differential.

Academia is a curious world for the free-spirited, and re income, but glad to be giving my 5th talk in the UC Berkeley Anthropology Gifford Room tomorrow - http://tourismstudies.org/Colloquia_2018-2019.htm and http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2018.htm and http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM ... and re Scots' History, Dean MacCannell (author of the seminal book "The Tourist" attends these talks and is part of the Tourism Studies' Working Group too), and I think it's his grandfather after whom this room in the Anthropology building is named.

2nd book of poetry and third book due out soon after this talk - https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ... I think Hugh is quite prolific in these regards.

But how best to meet and connect with a partner to be? ... welcoming your ideas and intros even :) As WUaS becomes operational, hoping I can pay the bills of raising a family.

Thank you, Scott
Visit the Harbin gate here and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, and "amble" around the streets there ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

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Lovely lute music from John Dowland here -




- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1055151532197449728 ...
Warm regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand?lang=en
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod?lang=en




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Corinne at Stanford Law


Hi Corinne, 

Nice to talk with you in the dinner line last night. 

Am curious how we might talk further re creating Stanford Law career opportunities at online CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School to begin online law schools (see below) in all ~200 countries' official and main languages re - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - but where MIT doesn't have a law school from which would emerge MIT Law OpenCourseWare, and where Stanford Law has around 10 international projects. 

World University and School is like Wikipedia in its ~300 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages (https://ocw.mit.edu/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), and seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet in all ~200 countries' official and main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages (per Ethnologue). 

Would you like to meet for a coffee sometime soon at Stanford to talk further about this?

Regards, Scott


Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)












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- 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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You won't believe what the 🇦🇷 Argentine Federal Police 🕵️ 🕵️ discovered in a secret room in Buenos Aires @INTERPOLHQ



https://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/1055531992404647938


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https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1055533389351133184


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 JAPAN


Dear Tosni, (and Rika and Karen),

Thank you, Tosni, for your edifying Stanford talk "Is Preventive Care Worth the Cost? Evidence from Mandatory Checkups in Japan" - https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/preventive-care-worth-cost-evidence-mandatory-checkups-japan. And very nice to meet you as well, Tosni and Rika. Am particularly curious about how screening and treating for Diabetes mellitus in Japan might emerge newly online via the Internet (and re Japanese medical practices), with goals of improving outcomes for patients, and reducing costs. And in what ways might Japan develop online medicine for this in new ways (re Japanese medical practices), compared with what might be emerging at Stanford Medicine, in Verily's Project Baseline, and at Kaiser Permanente, for example? In what ways too might we develop your research cross-culturally with, for example, California, and data from the above organizations?

Am curious too how we could bring your research here together with related research in Stanford Medicine's Alphabet/Google's Verily's Project Baseline, and possibly, conceivably, as an eventual 2,000 person study in Japan, building on the current Stanford / Duke / Verily 10,000 person study. 

Am also curious in what ways both A) Project Baseline as well as B) Project ECHO will eventually grow into online A) teaching hospitals with online B) medical schools in all ~200 countries' official languages, and how they will approach (and have approached) questions of DM in some of these nation states, as well as with new technologies. I posted below an email I sent earlier today to 2 Stanford Medicine/ Bioinformatics, Immunology and Genetics' affiliated colleagues from Finland, which explains a little further about where World University and School is heading with planned online medical schools, with online teaching hospitals, for online clinical care and research - and which might have bearing on your research on DM in Japan and reducing costs via preventive medicine.

And in the Japanese model with employers mandating checkups, could a new pilot program both send FBS monitors to people in their homes, for example, as well as pharmaceuticals, with patients doing what's needed in these studies (perhaps partly in group video for MD to patient communication, and possibly re compliance questions), and also develop successful new approaches to research in these regards, thus potentially lowering costs. 

How might we best communicate further about this, and much more, in a related vein?

Thank you also for the book "Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceuticals Policy in the Asia-Pacific."

Very nice to meet you, thank you for your talk, and looking forward to further communication.

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Hi Hanna,

It was really nice to see you at Cori Bargmann's talk yesterday at Stanford. 





Would you like to meet for a cup of coffee? I'll be at Stanford both tomorrow and Thursday. I think you might know something about CRISPR as well as Finnish post docs, for two, and much more. And it could be fruitful to put our heads together in other ways too. (You're welcome to invite your husband or other friends, as well - to an upcoming coffee, or a second later coffee). 

Friendly regards, Scott

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Hi Hanna, 

Thanks for your nice email. It would be great to meet and talk with you, and Maria Haanpaa (MD PhD). Perhaps Maria and I could meet for a coffee to talk a bit about her research, and World University and School for research - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - and re a realistic virtual earth as STEM field sites and as classrooms+ - as well as about Finland World University and School, planned in Finnish - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finland ! (Apologies that I don't speak Finnish - and that WUaS hasn't yet created a successful universal translator:). MIT OCW in Finnish could benefit Finland a lot! Please let me know when you might be available for a coffee as well in your busy schedule. 

Regards, Scott

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Hi Maria and Hanna, 

Nice to meet you here. Would you like to meet in a video chat to talk about research experiences and goals for either research or education, and with regard to your medical and academic research as well as World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in its ~300 languages with CC-4 MIT OCW in its 5 languages? Here are some related WUaS wiki subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Cancer_Biology (check out the MIT OCW here to get an idea of where World Univ & Sch is heading)- and the beginning Finland World University and School https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finland - not yet in the Finnish language. I could meet in video on Friday or Monday morning. Would that work for you? Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards, Scott


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to mhaanpaa, hannao
Thanks, Maria, for your email, and hi Hanna,

At this point, while WUaS is seeking to develop genetics' and medical research projects online in a realistic virtual earth (think CRISPR in something like Google Street View at the cellular and atomic levels, conceptually, with the Google ecosystem, Stanford / Google's Project Baseline and Tensorflow), World University and School is beginning accreditation with the state of California (BPPE, and also with WASC senior which also accredits Stanford) so Californians will get MIT for free (due to CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW), that is by WUaS offering CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees to Californians and also to people in all other ~200 countries for online free-to-students' degrees, first in English. So Finns, who speak English well, I imagine, will have access to MIT for free-to-students' degrees from Finland and with classes via video conferencing, and then later in Finnish. 

World University and School is like Wikipedia in its ~300 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages (https://ocw.mit.edu/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), and seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet in all ~200 countries' official and main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages (per Ethnologue). 

And since MIT has neither a medical school (nor a law school), WUaS is seeking to develop our online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care (defining medicine anew) potentially with Stanford medicine OpenCourseWare or similar, i.e. NEJM continuing education modules designed by Stanford medicine for the first 2 years of medical schools in all ~200 countries' official / main languages online. 

I'm in touch with Stanford Chair of Medicine Bob Harrington about this as well. 

Thank you. 

All the best, 
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Chrysanthemum morifolium: Stanford talk - What is a Good Life, Shige Oishi, What it means to lead a psychologically rich life, Socrates, Aristotle, Victor van Kooten's Yogic Art, Searched on "good life" Stanford Encyclpedia of Philosophy, A Good Life? Heading to Harbin Hot Springs for soaking, heading to Yoga workshops with Angela & Victor in Lesbos Greece ... seems that being a student at Stanford would be a good life ... Creating World University and School as free universal highest quality education in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7097 living languages, ongoing actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' research, making music, and eventually raising a family ...


Stanford talk - What is a Good Life

Shige Oishi

https://events.stanford.edu/events/801/80114/

culture
psychology
well-being


is now a professor at Columbia University.

Shigehiro Oishi was just a professor at the University of Virginia

Personality and Culture (video) -
https://youtu.be/YC7LxSSrJYE


http://people.virginia.edu/~so5x/me2.htm

https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/oishi


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Intro to his Stanford talk:

What it means to lead a psychologically rich life


Shige

today I will talk about

What is a Good Life

And by extension what is a good society


Kaleidoscopic psychology focus

Happy
Meaningful

Psychologically rich life


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Was curious about the linguistic aspects of his research in multiple languages - re translating the main words of his talk and research into other languages to ask these questions comparatively - and asked him about this after his talk, as I gave him my Harbin Hot Springs' book card (since I was out of my WUaS card) ... and re online virtual Harbin research into happiness ... and mentioned how much research potential there is in this project re the psychology of happiness.

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Image result for what is the good life for socrates
Thoughtfulness and critical self-awareness as a way of life is what Socrates stands for. That is why he adopted “Know thyself” as the main maxim for hislife, and why his best known pronouncement is "the unexamined life is not worth living."


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For Aristotle, moral virtue plays a special role in living well. ... Good habits or moral virtues are the principle means to having good lives because they allow us to habitually make the choices that both constitute and lead to good lives. The most important moral virtues or habits are moderation, courage, and justice.Dec 19, 2013

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A good life: Friendship, Art and Truth

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Alexander Nehamas

Abstract


In September 2017 Alexander Nehamas kindly accepted our invitation to have a meeting in Athens in order to discuss several issues of philosophical interest; with his latest publication On Friendship (New York: Basic Books, 2016) as a starting point we soon moved over to a multitude of topics Nehamas has so far dealt with. The whole conversation spirals around the probably most challenging and demanding issue as far as practical philosophy is concerned – yet one every moral agent needs to provide an adequate answer to during his lifetime: Values. Do they exclusively belong to the domain of morality? Nehamas claims that “although moral values […] are important […], they are not the only values that determine whether a life is or is not worthwhile”. This view inevitably shifts the focus from individual values - even fundamental ones such as friendship, art and truth- to the real issue: What is a good life, after all?

https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/15992/0



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Glad Victor posted this this day, probably from Lesvos, Greece, with a new painting - http://angela-victor.com/.






Yoga leading to the architipal layers

Submitted by Victor on 

There is a lot of noise around religions these days. Does God exist or is it a Goddess who created the universe. Should we be more scientific and look at facts? I do like to draw and paint and my inner world is as important to me as the outer world around me.
So I made this drawing today and things come to me when I look at it.
The world is round, although it appears here to be flat....
It has four directions, four seasons, splitting it into four sections or like the cell division after fertilization, creating a cross.
If that is the Cosmic egg onto which the bird is brooding, then it is also the Tree of Life, onto which we are all crucified, since our nature is totally dependent on the environment of the Earth. The Tree of Life sprouting out of the digested autumn leaves of past.( in our human case being the bones of our ancestors)
The Sun and the Moon and all the universe being the power that sets it into motion, the strings of the puppeteer, the snakes that created our divisional path that allows us to live on this wonderfully rich planet.
http://angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/yoga-leading-architipal-layers


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good life Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ...


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The Meaning of Life (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/



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Well-Being (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/



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Life (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life/



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Happiness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/




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Value Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)


https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory/




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The Common Good (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-good/

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A Good Life?

Heading to Harbin Hot Springs for soaking (and meditating in the warm pools), heading to Yoga workshops with Angela and Victor in Lesbos, Greece ... It seems that being a student at Stanford would be a good life ...

Creating World University and School as free universal highest quality education in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7,097 living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning, ongoing actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' research, making music, and eventually raising a family ... creating in ways that help people in their cultures and languages ... traveling a lot ...

It seems too that being a student at a great online university (a kind of Stanford / Reed / Harbin Hot Springs' Harbinger University?) in one's own language with all the innovative potential of creating via the Web would be a good life ... and that anybody could be a student / learner in this too wiki-wise+ ... so that it is inclusive ... would be a good life.

Loving bliss generation (and not just writing about this) ... and in ethical societies in all ~200 nation states, seeking to address social justice issues too ... would be a good life. (In terms of ethics, I have Quaker / Friendly understandings of ethics +).

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And philosophically and psychologically re current disciplines in academic research (pour moi) with their long histories of asking these questions, and scientifically and rigorously ... What is a Good Life?

Let's explore this online too - for actual-virtual comparison - and in ways that help people become happy in flourishing ways (applied research, in a sense) ...




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