Saturday, May 24, 2025

Pine Hill Ceanothus (Ceanothus roderickii): Very nice to meet and talk with you at the Marilyn Ferguson Research Center & Library, regarding its "Historical Research Related to El Dorado County," in the El Dorado County Historical Society - https://edchs.org/ - in Placerville, CA, yesterday F 5/23/25

 

Pine Hill Ceanothus (Ceanothus roderickii): Very nice to meet and talk with you at the Marilyn Ferguson Research Center & Library,  regarding its "Historical Research Related to El Dorado County," in the El Dorado County Historical Society - https://edchs.org/ - in Placerville, CA, yesterday F 5/23/25


Dear Dee (Owens), Rodi (Lee), and Sean, (El Dorado County Historical Society), All, 

Very nice to meet and talk with you at the Marilyn Ferguson Research Center & Library,  regarding its "Historical Research Related to El Dorado County," in the El Dorado County Historical Society - https://edchs.org/ - in Placerville, CA, yesterday F 5/23/25, Thanks to Heather in the Fountain & Tallman Museum - https://edchs.org/fountain-tallman-museum - for suggesting I come talk to you across the street, and at the back of your building. 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is growing a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries too, and in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything (and see #Twitter X for #Hashtags), where we all as individuals and as museums and libraries will be able to add our photos, documents, artifacts (such as a 3D scanned bottle, which we talked about with this as an example, - eg with your upcoming new 3D scanner), evidence, and related historical and archaeological items. See Google AI Director Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article mentioning for the first time that I know of a realistic virtual earth, and how this would work - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - other than by WUaS, and also mentioning #WorldUniversityInSchool and all of us being able to add resources and documents to such; am thinking in terms of Google Street View with time slider, GMaps, GEarth, TensorFlowAI ... and where little Pegman in Street View will become avatar agents / bots of historical persons (say from 1852 or 1867 in Placerville, from photos / similar) with which we'll all be able to converse even with time (based on the integrating evidence and interpretations of this) - 


As an example of a beginning #RealisticVirtualEarth (where you can even walk '4 miles' down the road to the nearby town of Middletown, CA, in this iterating 3D virtual earth), and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory too, here's the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse in Lake county, my physical-digital ethnographic field site (re my first book "Naked Harbin Ethnography") - 
where you'll find three dates, by clicking on 'see more dates' - 2007, 2012, and 2024 - regarding how a Google time slider works, and with innumerable implications for a new approach to history (both theory and method), and even making (all, ever) museums' objects accessible online through time. I've added a couple of pictures here, e.g. of the Harbin Gatehouse itself in 2011, I think (to give you an idea of how Google Street View with a time slider works too), but the photos I've added still aren't accessible for example in the years they were taken. Stay tuned ... and potentially since we'll all be able to visit virtual Harbin Hot Springs e.g. in 1975 differently from 1978 and 1984, and potentially even talk with Harbin residents then, who may become ' animated, interactive and conversational' with AI and machine learning (eg #SunheartSunheart my main ethnographic informant and friend, who first came to Harbin about 1980, and passed away in around 2019) ... AND for iterating Harbin Hot Springs' academic, ethnographic, and STEM research too.

How best to develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth platform for your El Dorado County historical society, and such that you can add data, virtual artifacts, and similar, - please stay tuned as well?

Also, 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also a wiki for open people-to-people wiki teaching and wiki learning, and these 3 MAIN WUaS wiki subjects will facilitate this further (with an invitation to add resources, youtube videos, books, theoretical books about these main aspects of universities, and practical thinking as well) ... 



All accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ... (and planned in all ~200 countries, as major online universities, from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in their main and all their languages - .https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages).


(Also, MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is seeking to matriculate online students from El Dorado County - for free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS, and Master's degrees; so please stay tuned about this as well).


Will add the above emails to the WUaS News and Q&A on Mondays at 10 am PT as well, and please unsubscribe if not interested. 

Hopefully such a realistic virtual earth platform will emerge further from 
and be ready to go for historical society's, museums, libraries in all 200 countries and their languages  and from World Univ & Sch in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS (and see Twitter & LinkedIn for #Hashtags) program. 

All the best, thanks, abolitionally, regards, 
Scott













PS

Found these which you may have mentioned, and which could become database sources or codebases for and in a realistic virtual earth for museums and libraries too 






PPS
Brainstorming - 


visiting (& #WikiCreating) #AllMuseumsEver in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums (thinking #GStreetView w #TimeSlider) potentially conceptually w #GeminiAIasDocents

visiting (& #WikiCreating) #AllMuseumsEver in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums (thinking #GStreetView w #TimeSlider) potentially conceptually with #GeminiAIasDocents + & for #UniversityResearchWUaS in all 200 countries' @WorldUnivAndSch s & in main langs in https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 Wow :)


https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1905012741909475616

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1905015169757106482

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1905014849526255961

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1905014652096188905

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1905013864808476696

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1905013455280890016

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1905015982713950391


Retweeting -


Musée du Louvre
@MuseeLouvre
Cette robe est inspirée des habits masculins de la Renaissance !
Examinons de près cette silhouette de la maison Chanel : « Paris-Edimbourg, Métiers d’art 2012-2013 », exposée dans les Galeries des Chasses de Maximilien, à l’occasion de l’exposition « LOUVRE COUTURE, Objets d’art, objets de mode », jusqu’au 21 juillet 2025.
👉Plus d'informations : https://louvre.fr/expositi.../expositions/louvre-couture
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This dress is inspired by the masculine habits of the Renaissance!
A closer look at this Chanel silhouette: "Paris-Edinburgh, Métiers d'art 2012-2013," exhibited in the Galeries des Chasses de Maximilien, as part of the exhibition "Art and Fashion: Statement Piece," until July 21, 2025.
👉More informations : https://louvre.fr/.../exhi.../exhibitions/louvre-couture
Translated from French by
This dress is inspired by Renaissance men's clothing!
Let's take a closer look at this silhouette from the house of Chanel: "Paris-Edinburgh, Métiers d'art 2012-2013", exhibited in the Galeries des Chasses de Maximilien, on the occasion of the exhibition "LOUVRE COUTURE, Objets d'art, objets de mode", until July 21, 2025.
👉 More information: https://louvre.fr/expositi.../expositions/louvre-couture
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This dress is inspired by the masculine habits of the Renaissance!
A closer look at this Chanel silhouette: "Paris-Edinburgh, Métiers d'art 2012-2013," exhibited in the Galeries des Chasses de Maximilien, as part of the exhibition "Art and Fashion: Statement Piece," until July 21, 2025.
👉 More information:

https://x.com/MuseeLouvre/status/1900521030038257972




AND search on the Louvre here

Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)
UC Berkeley Anthropology paper 2001.



PPSa

How best to grow w https://artsandculture.google.com/ as data source a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums eg in #GStreetView w #TimeSlider that we all can add to w '#EWVWG' (& for all museums ever in all known living languages) w #CuratedWithGeminiAI inspiration in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1890885624451809771

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1890885855784370648

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1890885950927945760

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1890886211855638677

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1890886153185685587

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1890886081702191348





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google arts and culture
a data source for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums - all museums ever in all 7164 known living languages, and in extinct ones too ?

Inspiration #CuratedWithGeminiAI ?  

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Inspiration #CuratedWithGemini ... " -  #RealisticVirtualHarbin as #WUaSFieldSite @HarbinBook

Wow & how will #RealisticVirtualHarbin as #WUaSFieldSite @HarbinBook in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything further grow w
"New in #GMaps: Inspiration #CuratedWithGemini ... "
https://blog.google/products/maps/gemini-google-maps-navigation-updates/
re #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE
#ToolifyAIWUaS art.
-https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1853818203585065396

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1853818119321419944

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1853818270693912683







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google arts and culture - museums -  for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums

google arts and culture
a data source for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums - all ever in all 7164 known living languages, and in extinct ones too ?




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#SundarPichai - 

Exciting week for @GoogleMaps. Hit the 2B monthly user mark, and now you can ask Maps more complex questions, thanks to Gemini’s creation, reasoning + summarization capabilities, grounded in our knowledge of 250M+ places around the world.
EEEF




Scott

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World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 






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https://saveplants.org/plant-profile/859/Ceanothus-roderickii/Pine-Hill-Ceanothus/





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


https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=1826

https://www.fws.gov/species/pine-hill-ceanothus-ceanothus-roderickii




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El Dorado County is home to several endangered species, including both plants and animals. The County is actively working to protect these species and their habitats through various initiatives, including the Ecological Preserve Fee Program. 
Endangered Plant Species:
Endangered Animal Species:
  • Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii): A state-listed species with populations in the Northern Sierra, Feather River, Central Coast, and South Coast. 
  • Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog (Rana sierrae): Listed as endangered. 
  • Mountain Yellow-legged Frog (Rana muscosa): A Northern Sierra population is listed as endangered. 
  • Other Species: El Dorado County is also home to other animals, including black bears and bobcats. 
Conservation Efforts:
Threats to Endangered Species:
  • Habitat Loss and Fragmentation: Development and urbanization are major threats to the habitats of many endangered species. 
  • Altered Fire Regimes: Suppression of natural fires can disrupt the ecosystems of some species. 
  • Invasive Species: The introduction of non-native plants and animals can compete with or prey on native species


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