Saturday, September 19, 2026

White Egyptian Lotus (Nymphaea lotus): Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * A Thanks to Sundar Pichai, since I've read Sundar (originally from Tamil Nadu, India - re the origins of Yoga) does Yoga Nidra (and as CEO of Google and Alphabet)? - This just popped up on Twitter, with a new approach to exploring restorative Yoga - Yoga Nidra on Pinterest https://pin.it/4VkSavyug

 

Dear George (Church), Peter (Norvig, Google AI), Sundar (Pichai), Akhilan (Boopathy, with MIT BS and PhD with machine learning data training focus), Yoga friends, family in their 80s and 90s ~ Ma/Janie, and Alden (Briscoe - who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), & Quakertarian & Veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon) in her 60s, Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also an ophthalmology professor in Harvard Medical School - and might you Dick have helped develop the ongoing clinical trials for ER-100, epigenetic reprogramming for open-angle Glaucoma, and one other Glaucoma condition?, and see - https://share.google/aimode/uWGl5Ms0ZBrwk3sx6), and see too - and see this MIT Tech Review article - https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142074/yuancheng-ryan-lu-age-reversal-tech-restores-sight/amp/, and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - a professor in Harvard Medical School too), Vivek (Buch MD, professor of surgery in the Stanford Medical School), MacLeod kin or family, Doortje (Van Kooten, and Angela and your father Victor, and please forward), Valerie & Ed Smyth MDs, & Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility," 2017, Harvard Press), Pin/Sid Mazumdar, HHS, all, 


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Thanks to Sundar Pichai, since I've read Sundar (originally from Tamil Nadu, India - re the origins of Yoga) does Yoga Nidra (and as CEO of Google and Alphabet)? - This just popped up on Twitter, with a new approach to exploring restorative Yoga - 

Yoga Nidra on Pinterest 


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I'm planning to join - to yoga with? - George Church re https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537 in the Harvard TreeHouse in Allston, from Thursday October 1-3, 2026 at the Harvard Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference e.g. https://agingpharma.org/program2026 # virtual-cell-in-time  - 

One new question here, how might World University and School even develop an OSK drug to age-reverse genetically, I think, my what I'm calling 'eustachian tube dysfunction"  in my right ear ... where a few MDs have looked into my ear but haven't seen anything. As a first step, how can I medically identify the place or spot, or specific cells, in my ear, so as to be able to design such a new OSK drug to reverse the action in their cellularly? Talk with a Harvard Med Sch ENT MD at the Harvard AARD conference as a starting place? And in what ways could World Univ & Sch and Harvard Med Sch collaborate on this in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForENT virtual #RVEforEHR at the cellular level and perhaps with Insilico Medicine's irtual-cell-in-time ?



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I've registered for and am attending the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston  (per https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537), and regarding World University and School's developing realistic virtual earth for genetics, and aging reversal (and our free open wiki Aging_Reversal_Genetics' subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics, not yet in other countries' languages).

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/09/indus-river-dolphin-platanista-minor.html




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restorative Yoga explorations - 


C 1
Savasana with knees bent 
Start with lying on back, head on blanket, knees bent, feet about 12 inches from one another, slightly pigeon toed, knees resting against each other, and release into your inner back body, release your consciousness into the bowl of the back of your head, receiving your eyes into their sockets too ... As your breath comes into through your nostrils, release too your nostril skin away from the touch of your breath as it comes in creating more space from your breath to move freely in (and out) ... in a kind of savasana too 


C 2 
Tadasana prone 

After around 5-7 minutes, extend your legs long, into Tadasana (standing pose or Mountain pose) prone with big toes touching now, 


C 3
into Urdhva Hastasana prone (re upward arms re urdhva hastasana) but here prone lying on your back on the floor

and then extend your arms up toward the sky over your chest, and then describe an arc with your fingertips to bring your arms long over your head toward the floor  ... and with your arms continuing to extend long, let your thumbs come to the floor if they do ... to explore further de-hunching ... then bring your arms back by your sides, and bend your knees again



C 4
With your knees bent again in Savasana, head on a blanket 

draw your knees up over your chest, and hug them, breathing into your belly or belly balloon, releasing your sits' bones down toward the floor 


C 5
Twisting 

With your knees  drawn up over your chest, extend your left arm 90 degrees to the left, and release your knees to the right, and toward embracing them with your right arm, at its elbow, and breath into you inner upper torso to open it from the inside in this Twist on the floor


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Then with your knees  drawn up over your chest, extend your right arm 90 degrees to the right, and release your knees to the left, and toward embracing them with your left arm, toward at its elbow, or with your hand, and breath into you inner upper torso to open it from the inside in this Twist on the floor on the other side


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Sit on a chair now, in a kind of sitting Yoga meditation, spine lengthening up, breathing exploratorily to free open your inner torso, and then extend your arms over your head, into sitting Urdhva Hastasana (upward hands) ... releasing your inner arms long toward the sky through your outer arms (or the eg the skin of your arms in a sense)


C 7
Explore Yoga Nidra to rest and close -

Yoga Nidra on Pinterest 



Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) and in exploring this Yoga-wise , Desiderata prose poem greetings (https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html), abolitionally, Namaste (the light within salutes the light within you), warm regards, 
Scott  

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WSa

How best to Yoga with or join with ... and Yoga meditation-wise -

 all 9B billion possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome



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Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ...?


Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, #RVEforAgingReversal? 2) Dev #MITOCW-like courses re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics? 3) Prove #AgeReversal?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2100630615054057938

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2100632143768719704

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2100632526322799082

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2100632706782822776

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2100633545773654213


https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2100680759376060425

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2100680923884945742



Retweeting again
Sundar Pichai 

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2099911653395685765

Sundar Pichai

@sundarpichai
Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-applications-science-people/



https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2099911653395685765



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And how to add or Yoga-join 10s of thousands or millions of these virtual aging cells to our own #AvatarAgentEHR from #GPegman ?

At #HarvardAgingResearch & #HarvardDrugDiscovery conf 10/1-10/3/26
https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time & re  #VirtualAgingCell from #InsilicoMedicine https://youtu.be/vufvnB1R1xM #PetrinaKamya & #FedorGalkin Interoperate eg years 2007, '12 & '24 #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider in https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 @ #GCellViewLevel @ #HarbinGateHouse WITH #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #AvatarAgentEHR from #GPegman?


#HarvardAgingResearch & #DrugDiscovery conference 10/1/26 - 10/3
https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time

Petrina Kamya
and 
Fedor Galkin - 

Virtual Aging Cell from Insilico Medicine
Insilico Medicine
https://youtu.be/vufvnB1R1xM




WWWS

Fascinating clarification of the science of clinical trials of a new possible longevity drug therapy from the NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya - 


NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ...


NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology ? New #WUaSExtremeLongevityGenetics' #WUaSWikiSchool @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?










NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation ? @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?




Both retweeting 

What can GLP-1 drugs teach us about aging?
 
In this video, I share new NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice. While more research is needed to understand what these findings could mean for people, the study offers intriguing insights into the biology of aging.
 
Learn more: bit.ly/463JGWt 






WWWWS 



On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear George (Church), Peter (Norvig, Google AI), Sundar (Pichai), Akhilan (Boopathy, with MIT BS and PhD with machine learning data training focus), Yoga friends, family in their 80s and 90s ~ Ma/Janie, and Alden (Briscoe - who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), & Quakertarian & Veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon) in her 60s, Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also an ophthalmology professor in Harvard Medical School - and might you Dick have helped develop the ongoing clinical trials for ER-100, epigenetic reprogramming for open-angle Glaucoma, and one other Glaucoma condition?, and see - https://share.google/aimode/uWGl5Ms0ZBrwk3sx6), and see too - and see the MIT Tech Review article below,  and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - a professor in Harvard Medical School too), Vivek (Buch MD, professor of surgery in the Stanford Medical School), MacLeod kin or family, Doortje (Van Kooten, and Angela and your father Victor, and please forward), Valerie & Ed Smyth MDs, & Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility," 2017, Harvard Press), Pin/Sid Mazumdar, HHS, all, ...
















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Friday, September 18, 2026

Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna): Here's the UC Berkeley "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" talk I gave in December 2020 in the Cal Anthropology department for a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting, (which I think I prevented from being scheduled for a Google TakeOut) - and which may lead to the building of a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as well - SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism.mp4 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view?usp=sharing ?



Here's the UC Berkeley "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" talk I gave in December 2020 in the Cal Anthropology department for a Tourism Studies' Working Group meeting, (which I think I prevented from being scheduled for a Google TakeOut) - and which may lead to the building of a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as well -  

 
SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism.mp4 



which is posted here too on - 




Tuesday, December 8, 2020





and which talk I gave in this -

2020-2021 Colloquium Series


The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to present

Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study



Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - worlduniversityandschool.org




And see these slides too - 

Creating a realistic virtual Harbin Tourism Case Study




also here - 

[Dec. 18] Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism: Harbin Hot Springs (S. MacLeod) -





And re a Google TakeOut email I received recently, and replied to Peter Norvig asking about this on - 
  
F Sep 18, 2026



Re: Action Required: Blogger 2 videos scheduled for deletion

External
Inbox

Scott MacLeod

5:30 PM (3 minutes ago)
to norvigme

Dear Peter, 

Greetings, and I hope this email finds you well. How are you doing? 

How, please, to get this link download with a recent TakeOut email from Google to open as the video file I'd like to save and then repost (I think) ?

And for  this video - 
SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism.mp4 

I downloaded the data in a Zip file (and with some other blogger etc files just now)

takeout-20260918T020150Z-1-001.zip 

having done this - 

Your Google data is ready to download
Inbox

Google Takeout <noreply@google.com>
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to me

Google logo
Your account, your data.
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Manage Google Takeout request

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... 
but I can't seem to open the new .zip file into a format like a .mp3 that I can then reupload to a Youtube channel of mine 

and then repost the video here - 



Thoughts? 

Best regards, 
Scott


PS
for eg

2020-2021 Colloquium Series


The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to present

Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study



Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - worlduniversityandschool.org







I started this process 

What is this being removed - 
  • SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism.mp4
 - and from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html ... 

with this report today - 


Create a new export

Google is creating a copy of data from Blogger
This process can take a long time (possibly hours or days) to complete. You'll receive an email when your export is done.
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 6:55 PM Blogger <noreply@blogger.com> wrote:

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We are performing some routine maintenance to our service and as a result will need to remove a small percentage of videos on the platform. We have identified that 2 videos you own will be deleted as a result. These videos usually appear in blogs as non-playable still image screenshots.

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Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

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See, too, The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction from April 2009 


Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction


https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE



























https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_hummingbird

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calypte_anna

https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Calypte_anna





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




https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_hummingbird


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