Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Shorea robusta tree: "Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)" Briscoe, Brown, MacLeod, Chadbourne ... Scotland ... * * * 2020 Nov election - Robb, Briscoe, MacLeod * * Alden, All, "Your Ma's great interview - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (and about Democracy too! - with such great information about farming Silent Meadow Farm, and the wider community around Lakeville) - inspires me to explore doing interviews with family members, along these lines - and online esp (in Covid-19 pandemic). Am curious too how, brainstorming-wise, it might be possible to involve in this the 'shoebox' of family genealogical information into a digitizaTION process - and thus access further family history details, based on texts+. I wanna digitize my shoebox - and re book citations too even (eg sentences from "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" +)..."



Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)

Briscoe, Brown, MacLeod, Chadbourne ... Scotland ... 

John D'auby Briscoe ~

John D'auby Briscoe

1902–1975




Martha (Holway) Brown (Higley) Briscoe
1909–1999
BIRTH 28 MAY 1909 • Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
DEATH 27 JAN 1999 • Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.
great-aunt ...



2020 Nov election - Robb, Briscoe, MacLeod * * Alden (Briscoe), All, "Your Ma's GREAT interview (Martha Brown Briscoe) - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (and about Democracy too! - with such great information about farming Silent Meadow Farm, and the wider community around Lakeville, CT) - inspires me to explore doing interviews with family members, along these lines - and online esp. (in Covid-19 pandemic). 

Am curious too how, brainstorming-wise, it might be possible to involve in this the 'shoebox' of family genealogical information into a digitizaTION process - and thus access further family history details, based on texts+. I wanna digitize my shoebox - and re book citations too even (eg sentences from "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" +)..."



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Scott MacLeod
Aug 11, 2020, 3:12 PM (23 hours ago)
to Alden, Ann, catherinemuller57, Derrick, Edith, Jennifer, Bruce, Sandy, MacLeod, Karen, Janie, Scott, Pete, Jennifer, Scott, Susan, erica.blanton, Gerrard, Scott

Alden, families' historians and All,


Alden, families' historians and All, 

Alden, your Pa's history page - for John Briscoe -  at Ancestry .com just entered my email box - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114451242/story - and it said that Jack Briscoe had 4 sons, which I just edited to say he had 2 sons. (Am I correct?) And as I recall he was also a professor of English at Harvard for a spell, before moving to Silent Meadow Farm in Lakeville Connecticut. Is this correct too? And for how long at Harvard? And as a graduate of Harvard yourself with a BA in history, there's an opportunity in these genealogy tree platforms to write history, interestingly, in new ways. I'd love to learn more of your Pa, (whom I knew and loved) from our MacLeod families' summer trips - stopping in Lakeville to visit - en route to Cuttyhunk Island, first from New Haven, and then from Pittsburgh. But one problem with Ancestry .com from my perspective, and in writing history, is that for non-members, the information is behind a paywall and barricade too! 

And while WikiTree isn't behind a paywall or barricade, and has a specifically public focus - https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=MacLeod-2524&public=1 - and your Ma's my Great Aunt 'Marf" Martha Briscoe is there - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-110771 - I haven't yet added anything about your Pa.

Who's dipping into writing family history from time to time, and where and how beyond these platforms or on this platforms? :)

Warm regards, 
Scotty 
Here's a significantly updated 'Scott MacLeod Family History' page: 
(accessible from - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm - from 'love and links' - http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm - on my home page).  

My WikiTree pages

My Ancestry .com's pages


Here's Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne in WikiTree too - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chadbourne-291 - re the Chadbourne line which I hope in WikiTree to trace back to the 1100s!


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:21 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:


Mark, family historians, 


Now I'm seeing 6 people of James Edward MacLeod's generation (up from 4 yesterday), and was able to merge Margaret Barnes here with her duplicate, - using  "Merge with Duplicate" tool. Thanks, and regards, Scott

I was beginning to merge duplicates yesterday en masse before the 'technical problem' occurred which is still happening - how do you see the duplicates further when almost the whole / entire family tree is down  - and especially with Grandad and Grandmother Gordon and Margaret's brothers and sisters, but all over? And I changed for example Aunt Mary Regina MacLeod Kennedy's birth date from the 1950s to 1920s ... 


I also want to begin to understand further the 9? generations from Benjamin Chadbourne to Sarah Bolles in the Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne family tree
 https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/theodore-lincoln-chadbourne-24-1cxsv9 and regarding his father Lt. Col. Alexander Scammell Chadbourne 1831 - 1900 too.


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Alden, family historians, All, 

Extraordinary - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha . I was searching for your Pa, and found an interview with your Ma! From 1989, hearing her voice 'brings me right to her' - quite wonderfully! 

Was searching on 'John 'Jack' Briscoe 1902 -1975 professor at Harvard in English' but no luck so far.  

Warmest regards, Scott



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Alden Briscoe

Aug 11, 2020, 4:14 PM (22 hours ago)
to Janeme
Scott: Thanks. My father, John D’auby Briscoe (he sometimes left off the apostrophe) was born in Detroit in 1902. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in engineering. He studied for some time (at least a semester, perhaps a year) at Cambridge University in England. He got an MA in English at Columbia. He did some teaching (English) at the University of Wisconsin. He was a graduate student in English at Harvard from about 1933 to about 1939 when my parents bought the farm in Lakeville. He decided not to complete the ph. D. in English but was awarded an M.A. in English from Harvard. Yes, he and my mother Martha had two sons (John Alexander Holway Briscoe and Alden Frank Briscoe

Alden F. Briscoe
Executive Vice President
(1) 650 344 8883 


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James Edward MacLeod married his first wife, Ann Bulger, July 4, 1850. They had 7 kids, of whom 6 survived. Who came before her?
After his first wife died, he was married again in PEI, this time to Margaret E. Barnes; they had 7 sons: Edward, Henry, Charles, Frederick, Ernest James, William, J. Gordon, and 2 daughters: Mary Gertrude, and Amy. (All born on PEI?) Ernest James MacLeod was my great, great grandfather, one of whose sons Gordon had Gordon (1929-2007) (http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod), who is my father. Who came before Margaret Barnes?
My father, Gordon K. MacLeod MD, was an Internal Medicine MD, and a Professor of Public Health. He was also the Secretary of Health in the State of Pennsylvania responsible for handling the Three Mile Island nuclear catastrophe in 1979, as well as president of the faculty senate at the University of Pittsburgh toward the end of his career there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod).
My parents, Gordon K. MacLeod MD and Janet Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (1935-) have two children, myself and my brother Sandy, aka Alexander Brown MacLeod (https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/sandy-macleod/ was: http://sandysculpture.com).
In addition, I'm researching the Mary Glynn family, my great grandmother who married my great grandfather Ernest MacLeod. She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. Who came before Mary Glynn?
I'm also researching my paternal grandmother's father's family. His name was John Driscoll and was born in County Cork, Ireland and married Catherine Ryan who was born on Banquet Hill, County Tipperary. Who came before them?
My father's eldest brother was Francis Earnest MacLeod.

My mother's father's father was
Alden Hugh Brown (1869-1919) and he married Martha Holway Chadbourne (1871-1909), who died in childbirth, having given birth to a) Alexander "Sandy" Chadbourne Brown, my mother's father, so my grandfather, b) Mary Chadbourne Brown, and c) Martha Holway Brown Briscoe ("Aunt Marf"). Sandy and Rachel Gilbert Brown had Theodore "Ted" Chadbourne Brown, and Janet "Janie" Kirkbride Brown MacLeod (my mother), Mary Chadbourne Brown had Edward "Denny" Titus MD, and Martha HB Briscoe, with John "Jack" D Briscoe, had John and Alden Frank Briscoe, all favorite uncles, cousins and family members of mine.
Benjamin Lincoln, in the Chadbourne line, received the sword of surrender from the British in the Revolutionary War and fought in Shay's rebellion. I'm familiar with some of the Chadbourne history through William Chadbourne in England in the late 1500s but don't know who preceded him. William Chadbourne (1582 - aft. 1652) crossed the Atlantic on the Pied Cow (Pide-Cowe) in 1634. Lt. Alexander Scammel Chadbourne of Maine, I think, (See Jim W. Corder's book "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" which contains letters by my grandfather, ACB, as well as being a good read) who fought in the War of the Rebellion and the Battle of Chickamauga around 1862, is also in this line. Fort Chadbourne in Texas is named after him.
Sarah Bolles (b. January 20, 1656/57), who married Humphrey Chadbourne (14 generations back from this author), reportedly comes from a long, documented line of kings and queens in Scotland, England and France (see Bacon's "The Chadbourne Family in America: A Family Genealogy"): "Sarah Bolles has a well-established royal descent from Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) and many earlier Kings of England, Scotland and France, as published in 'Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists' by Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th Edition [1992] compiled by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr."
Here's what the online Encyclopedia Britannica says about Edward I:

"b. June 17, 1239, Westminster, Middlesex, Eng. d. July 7, 1307, Burgh by Sands, near Carlisle, Cumberland

byname EDWARD LONGSHANKS son of Henry III and king of England in 1272-1307, during a period of rising national consciousness. He strengthened the crown and Parliament against the old feudal nobility. He subdued Wales, destroying its autonomy; and he sought (unsuccessfully) the conquest of Scotland. His reign is particularly noted for administrative efficiency and legal reform. He introduced a series of statutes that did much to strengthen the crown in the feudal hierarchy. His definition and emendation of English common law has earned him the name of the "English Justinian." "
Here’s what the online Encyclopedia Britannica says about Edward I’s parents:

"Edward was the eldest son of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. In 1254 he was given the duchy of Gascony, the French Oléron, the Channel Islands, Ireland, Henry's lands in Wales, and the earldom of Chester, as well as several castles. Henry negotiated Edward's marriage with Eleanor, half sister of Alfonso X of Leon and Castile. Edward married Eleanor at Las Huelgas in Spain (October 1254) and then traveled to Bordeaux to organize his scattered appanage. He now had his own household and officials, chancery and seal, with an exchequer (treasury) at Bristol Castle; though nominally governing all his lands, he merely enjoyed the revenues in Gascony and Ireland. He returned to England in November 1255 and attacked Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Gwynedd, to whom his Welsh subjects had appealed for support when Edward attempted to introduce English administrative units in his Welsh lands. Edward, receiving no help from either Henry or the marcher lords, was defeated ignominiously. His arrogant lawlessness and his close association with his greedy Poitevin uncles, who had accompanied his mother from France, increased Edward's unpopularity among the English. But after the Poitevins were expelled, Edward fell under the influence of Simon de Montfort, his uncle by marriage, with whom he made a formal pact. Montfort was the leader of a baronial clique that was attempting to curb the misgovernment of Henry."

"Edward reluctantly accepted the Provisions of Oxford (1258), which gave effective government to the barons at the expense of the king. On the other hand, he intervened dramatically to support the radical Provisions of Westminster (October 1259), which ordered the barons to accept reforms demanded by their tenants...” The Encyclopedia Britannica continues for many more pages about Edward I.
Jeremy O'Brien is also a direct ancestor from the revolutionary war period, who fired the first naval shot, and I'm interested in how he relates to the rest of the tree. (I recall learning this from my grandmother, Rachel Gilbert Brown, too. Granny was both an 'oral historian,' - she talked a lot :) - and interested in family genealogy. She seemed especially interested in her husband Grandpa Sandy Brown's family history).
I'm also interested in who came before Alden Hugh Brown, a mining engineer.
My mother's mother's father was Oscar Gilbert, MD of Boulder Colorado, who married Agnes Kirkbride who also had roots in Missouri, Virginia, and Colorado. Some of Agnes Kirkbride's forbears, one named Jane Horn, came from Kirbythor and Appleby in the north of England, not far from Newcastle-on-Tyne. My grandmother received some heirlooms from her, because her mother assisted Jane Horn financially at some point, I think. How does she fit into the line?
My mother’s mother, Rachel Gilbert Brown, who had a great interest in family history also said that we have a Native American Cherokee ancestor, only a few generations before her. Where does he (I think) fit in the line?
Some of Oscar Gilbert's ancestors, the Powells, came from Virginia in the late 1700's. Who came before them?
There's possibly another Native American ancestor from Virginia (per cousin Susan Gilbert Harvey) in this line. And what will genetic genealogy research show?

New information?
sgkmacleod@gmail.com is my email if you'd like to communicate further about family genealogy or scott@scottmacleod.com. I've posted much of what I know and further questions I have here.
Scott (or Scotty)
(GKM3rd)
home - http://scottmacleod.com
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - I blog daily, and see, for example, the 'Gordon K. MacLeod MD' blog label: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - who was my father; see the 'genes' label as well).

Here's my family web page - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm - my web site (different from this one - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Tue, Aug 11, 4:42 PM (21 hours ago)
to AldenJane
Alden, thanks so much for this information about your father! I'd like to learn more. I've added some of the information you shared to Ancestry com (Is this alright? I'm assuming it would be). I've estimating some dates (like graduation from Michigan as 1923, based on birthdate - and did he graduate from Univ of Michigan in Ann Arbor, or ?) Any graduation date estimates for your Pa, too?

As I listen to this amazing 1st interview with your mother - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (since there appear to be 2 interviews here) - I'm adding little descriptions about your father and mother to Ancestry .com ... (Again is this alright? I'm assuming it would be). And how do you spell your mother's adoptive maiden name (Hinckley or Higley or? I can't quite understand it from the 1st interview ... ). And what year did she matriculate at Radcliffe in Economics? If she graduated in 1931 from Vassar (I think she said), what year would it have been?

Thank you!

Warm regards,
Scott
Jack Briscoe - 

Martha Briscoe - 


Here's some of the information I'm writing up, mostly from Aunt Marf's 1st interview: 



Jack Briscoe -

1923 -
Jack Briscoe graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in engineering


1929 - 1939


Jack Briscoe became an instructor in 1929 at Harvard in English, 18th century literature, per his wife, Martha Holway (Hinckley or Higley) Brown Briscoe as mentioned by Martha Briscoe in this "Oral History Project
Briscoe, Martha" 1989 interview https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha ...




1939
Silent Meadow Farm in Lakeville, Connecticut
My great uncle and aunt Jack and Martha Briscoe bought Silent Meadow Farm, a dairy farm, near in Lakeville, CT near Salisbury, in LItchfield county, Silent Meadow Farm in Lakeville, Connecticut (https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha ) (Scott GK MacLeod - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm )




Alden Frank Briscoe, Jack Briscoe's son, email to me on 8/11/2020

Scott: Thanks. My father, John D’auby Briscoe (he sometimes left off the apostrophe) was born in Detroit in 1902. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in engineering. He studied for some time (at least a semester, perhaps a year) at Cambridge University in England. He got an MA in English at Columbia. He did some teaching (English) at the University of Wisconsin. He was a graduate student in English at Harvard from about 1933 to about 1939 when my parents bought the farm in Lakeville. He decided not to complete the ph. D. in English but was awarded an M.A. in English from Harvard. Yes, he and my mother Martha had two sons (John Alexander Holway Briscoe and Alden Frank Briscoe

Alden F. Briscoe
Executive Vice President
(1) 650 344 8883
www.BrakeleyBriscoe.com
ABriscoe@BrakeleyBriscoe.com


Martha Briscoe -

Martha Holway Brown Briscoe graduated from Vassar College in 1931 (around 7 minute mark - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha)


1912
Martha Briscoe was adopted by the Hinckley (or Higley) family (in the insurance business) in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.

Martha Holway Brown Hinckley Briscoe was adopted by the Hinckley family (in the insurance business) in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.



Briscoe, Martha in an 1989 interview https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha ... Alden Frank Briscoe, his son, writes today 8/11/20 "He was a graduate student in English at Harvard from about 1933 to about 1939 when my parents bought the farm in Lakeville. He decided not to complete the ph. D. in English but was awarded an M.A. in English from Harvard"


1939
My great uncle and aunt Jack and Martha Briscoe bought Silent Meadow Farm, a dairy farm, near in Lakeville, CT near Salisbury, in LItchfield county, Silent Meadow Farm in Lakeville, Connecticut  (https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha ) (Scott GK MacLeod - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm )

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114451242/story



1968
Jack and Martha Briscoe began to look around to find a tenant to farm Silent Meadow Farm, which they had bought and farmed since 1939 (at 10:30 in transcript - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha)

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114451104/story



www.courant.com › news › connecticut › hc-xpm-199...
Jan 29, 1999 - Martha Brown Briscoe of Salisbury,a former University of Connecticut board member and a longtime political and environmental activist, died ...


www.courant.com%2fnews%2fconnecticut%2fhc-xpm-1999-01-29-9901290356-story.html

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjCgIfZm5TrAhUuGDQIHSHxCDcQFjAAegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courant.com%2Fnews%2Fconnecticut%2Fhc-xpm-1999-01-29-9901290356-story.html&usg=AOvVaw2BKC8eBSUkduOxV8giEHS4

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See below.

Alden F. Briscoe
Executive Vice President
(1) 650 344 8883 
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From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:43 PM
To: Alden Briscoe
Cc: Jane MacLeod
Subject: Re: Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)


Alden, thanks so much for this information about your father! I'd like to learn more. I've added some of the information you shared to Ancestry com (Is this alright? I'm assuming it would be). OK I've estimating some dates (like graduation from Michigan as 1923, based on birthdate PROBABLY RIGHT- and did he graduate from Univ of Michigan in Ann Arbor, YES or ?) Any graduation date estimates for your Pa, too? DON’T KNOW ANY OTHER DATES

As I listen to this amazing 1st interview with your mother - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (since there appear to be 2 interviews here) - I'm adding little descriptions about your father and mother to Ancestry .com ... (Again is this alright? I'm assuming it would be) OK. And how do you spell your mother's adoptive maiden name (Hinckley or Higley or? Higley I can't quite understand it from the 1st interview ... ). And what year did she matriculate at Radcliffe in Economics? MUST HAVE BEEN 1927. If she graduated in 1931 from Vassar (I think she said), what year would it have been?



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Alden Briscoe

Tue, Aug 11, 5:23 PM (21 hours ago)
to me



(I think Theodore "Lincoln" Chadbourne may have raised my grandfather, Sandy Brown (ACB), and Martha Brown Briscoe (Janie and Alden's parents), when his father, Alden Hugh Brown, a mining engineer - such as yourself in a way, Mark? - had died in Colombia). Sandy, Martha and Mary Brown's mother (Alden's grandmother) had died in childbirth - ie giving birth to Martha. 
It’s a little more complex than this.
Alden Hugh Brown was indeed a mining engineer. His wife was Martha Chadbourne. (Talk to your mother about Martha Chadbourne. She was  written up in the book Loving Frank which is a minimally fictionalized novel about a woman – a very good friend of Martha Chadbourne – who had an affair with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Yes, Martha Chadbourne Brown died in childbirth – actually a couple weeks after my mother Martha was born. Alden Hugh Brown decided that he couldn’t keep the children so the two older children (your grandfather Alexander “Sandy” Brown, and Mary Chadbourne) were adopted by Theodore “Lincoln” Chadbourne and his wife (whose name I forget), but they felt they couldn’t adopt an infant so my mother Martha was passed around among several families for a couple years and then was finally adopted by the Higley family, who had an older child, Philo, who was born in 1900.

Hopefully, that will give you a little more information.

Alden F. Briscoe

Executive Vice President
(1) 650 344 8883 


From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:43 PM
To: Alden Briscoe


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Tue, Aug 11, 5:40 PM (20 hours ago)
to JanieAlden
Thanks, so so much again, Alden, and for the edits esp.!

Am a bit confused: if you mother Martha graduated from Vassar in 1931 per the interview - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha - would she have matriculated in 1927 at Radcliffe before Vassar, or matriculated at Radcliffe in 1937 per a typo, or .. ? Also, in the second interview, your Ma mentions Benjamin Lincoln, as an ancestor, and as a 'bumbling fool' - how interesting! :) How was this information transmitted in their families? 

Found this about your great brother, John (and it's very helpful to know his middle names! thank you!)
More questions and thoughts later :)

Warmest regards, Scotty


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Alden Briscoe

10:02 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
See below.



Alden F. Briscoe
Executive Vice President
(1) 650 344 8883 

From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:40 PM
To: Alden Briscoe; Janie MacLeod
Subject: Re: Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)


Thanks, so so much again, Alden, and for the edits esp.!

Am a bit confused: if you mother Martha graduated from Vassar in 1931 per the interview - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha - would she have matriculated in 1927 NO. MATRICULATED AT VASSAR IN 1927 AND RADCLIFFE IN THE EARLY 1930’S. at Radcliffe before Vassar, or matriculated at Radcliffe in 1937 per a typo, or .. ? Also, in the second interview, your Ma mentions Benjamin Lincoln, as an ancestor, and as a 'bumbling fool' - how interesting! :) How was this information transmitted in their families? NOT SURE.



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

10:31 AM (4 hours ago)
to Alden
Thanks, so much, Alden, for all this great information.

Your Ma's great interview - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (and about Democracy too! - with such great information about farming Silent Meadow Farm, and the wider community around Lakeville) - inspires me to explore doing interviews with family members, along these lines - and online esp (in Covid-19 pandemic). Am curious too how, brainstorming-wise, it might be possible to involve in this the 'shoebox' of family genealogical information into a digitizaTION process - and thus access further family history details, based on texts+. I wanna digitize my shoebox - and re book citations too even (eg sentences from "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" +). Can we follow up on your history and related graduation dates, etc., and potentially for, and in, Ancestry .com, WikiTree, as well as in other forms (eg emails, etc.) - for the generation of history especially, and accessible by others for further generation of historical conversations. (I may blog about some of this today, as well! - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes - probably with the 'genes' label and maybe GKM MD label too). 

Warm regards, Scott


...

Between my junior &  senior years of high school (at Shady Side Academy), I moved to Scotland to study in the first year sixth form (A levels) at Fettes College, in Edinburgh, & I studied English, History & Geography (& Maths). I  lived in Kimmerghame House & travelled some as well. I've written some about this in the 'Scotland' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scotland.
Cuttyhunk island, Massachusetts, USA

My parents were able to buy Piney's House on Cuttyhunk island in 1987, the house my family had rented since around 1969 or so, & which was so small my brother and I had to sleep outside in a tent (2 tents) every summer for years, an outside address :)




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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

10:39 AM (3 hours ago)
to AldenAnncatherinemuller57DerrickEdithJenniferBruceSandyMacLeodKarenJanieScottPeteJenniferScottSusanerica.blantonGerrardScott
Mark, Alden, Janie, family historians, All, 

Any thoughts about / examples of doing great family history interviews? And similarly, thoughts about digging into the family history "shoebox' - and especially digitizing this? Mark, this could be partly to complement next years' potential MacLeod Family Reunion in Maine, since this years' didn't happen on August 1, 2020 - but thank you so much for seeking to organize this. Alden and I have been emailing in a very generative way about family history of his great (and visionary 'Democratic') parents (Jack and Martha Briscoe), and brother (John Briscoe) ... and am updating Ancestry .com and WikiTree and blog with some of this (see below). 

Warm regards, Scott


Thanks, so much, Alden, for all this great information. 


Your Ma's great interview - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha (and about Democracy too! - with such great information about farming Silent Meadow Farm, and the wider community around Lakeville) - inspires me to explore doing interviews with family members, along these lines - and online esp (in Covid-19 pandemic). Am curious too how, brainstorming-wise, it might be possible to involve in this the 'shoebox' of family genealogical information into a digitizaTION process - and thus access further family history details, based on texts +. I wanna digitize my shoebox - and re book citations too even (eg sentences from the "Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" book +). Can we follow up on your history and related graduation dates, etc., and potentially for, and in, Ancestry .com, WikiTree, as well as in other forms (eg emails, etc.) - for the generation of history especially, and accessible by others for further generation of historical conversations. (I may blog about some of this today, as well! - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes - probably with the 'genes' label and maybe GKM MD label too). 

Warm regards, Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Attachments2:20 PM (17 minutes ago)
to AldenAnncatherinemuller57DerrickEdithJenniferBruceSandyMacLeodKarenJanieScottPeteJenniferSusanerica.blantonGerrardScott
Alden, Brad (MacLeod), Jen (MacLeod), Mark, Family All,

Am attaching a NYTs' article about your grandfather, Alden Hugh Brown, mining engineer, with quotes, who just had returned from Colombia, South America - 
"Germany's Agents Busy in Colombia: Propaganda Still Thrives Among Latin Americans -American Traveler Recommends an Effort to Counteract Falsehoods", 17 Feb 1918 NYTs.

And am also attaching this Washington Post article about your great, visionary & smart brother, Alden:  
All, here's Brown/Briscoe family Scottish connection (evidence): I was excited to hear at the end of the 2nd interview here with my Great and smart Aunt Martha at about 12 minutes - https://www.salisburyassociation.org/archives/oral-history/briscoe-martha - that the Browns came from Scotland in the '40s (the 1840s, and not 1640s or 1740s per interview:), and worked as a canal digger and wainwrights (carpenters). I think it's Alexander "Sandy" Chadbourne Brown MacLeod's grandfather named James A. Brown, where Sandy Brown (ACB) is Janie's Pa, and Sandy MacLeod's, Annie Brown;s and Cathy Brown Mueller's, and my grandfather (and Great Aunt Martha's eldest sibling and only brother, and Alden's Uncle) and where ACB went to Exeter and then MIT to study chemical engineering and had around 9 patents to his name, ACB had found intellectual opportunities in America! (Please add to this narrative, or share more accurate information - you who can :) !) More in Great Aunt Martha's interview recordings!

Appreciating Great Aunt Martha's thoughtful guidance to youngsters around the 8 minute mark in 2nd interview too!

Brad (MacLeod), as a computer scientist, am curious why I get a bounceback from my scott@scottmacleod.com email address to this GROUP thread only, but not when I individually email from sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org to scott@scottmacleod.com . Could it have something to do with the domain name itself - scottmacleod.com ? Or could this be on the Thunderbird email client side of things?  The error message below for group email, but not for individual emails. My hypothesis is that this is Thunderbird email client-side issue re this thread's group email aspecd - which is testable even (eg with a new email client:)

Jen (in ND), I'm sharing your James Edward MacLeod (kilt maker and tailor on Prince Edward Island) paper here too, who also came from Scotland about the time of James A Brown, I think - and from whom many of us get our last name! Appreciating too the emphasis on work in Great Aunt Martha's interview throughout ... and with implications for intellectual work for later generations! :)

Warm regards, 
Scott
Blog entry to come today from all of this, and probably in this 'GKM MD' label, and also with the 'genes' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD



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Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden, 

How are you all? 

An US east-coast west coast ticket with Kamala Harris, as VP running mate, and Elizabeth Warren remains a US senator increasing the possibility that Democrats might win a majority in the Senate: "2020 Election Live Updates: Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Be His Running Mate" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/11/us/biden-vs-trump . 

Might this mean that Biden, while not necessarily getting Harvard Law and Harvard thinking-networks directly, that their campaign gets Stanford's, and Stanford Laws :)? 


It looks like Howie Hawkins is the Green Party candidate ... 



Here are the parties running for president in 2020: 

Candidates with ballot access to at least 270 electoral votes
Jo Jorgensen, Libertarian Party.
Howie Hawkins, Green Party.
Rocky De La Fuente, Alliance Party.
Don Blankenship, Constitution Party.
Gloria La Riva, Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Brian Carroll, American Solidarity Party.
Bill Hammons, Unity Party.

It's historic and great, I think, that the US has a black female VP running mate, another first! And it seems like they might win, but it ain't over until it's over! 

Scotty 
PS
Appreciating the focus on labor among the Greens, and it's interesting to me too that 'striking' is still a viable form of protest in the information age. Here's family friend Lillian Thomas's "Solidarity" Tweet regarding the current strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which she was former managing editor of its city desk.




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11:20 AM (3 hours ago)
to AnnDickLucyJanieAlden
Alden, Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann,

Was it in Oregon in June of 2018, Alden (with Janie, Ann, Marianne, Sandy, Kate, Tim & myself visiting in a min-family reunion), when you mentioned the possibility of Kamala Harris as running for president? Very prescient! 

here's Kamala's sister's Twitter - https://twitter.com/mayaharris_ 

and some related Kamala Harris articles - 




Re Kamala Devi Harris's names: 

The names of Kamala and Devi are from India and Kamala refers to Lakshmi 

"Kamala" is Sanskrit for "lotus" [or pale red] and an alternative name for the Goddess Lakshmi who is often depicted with the aforementioned flower; whereas "Devi" is Sanskrit for "goddess" and the name of the female deity who protects ....[18]

"In Hinduism, Lakshmi is the Goddess who leads to one's goal, or lakshya, and was first mentioned in the Śrī Sūkta of the Rigveda" https://www.shabdkosh.com/dictionary/english-hindi/Lakshmi/Lakshmi-meaning-in-hindi

Kamala - It is said that one of the postures of Goddess Lakshmi is a lotus flower, hence her name is Kamala.

As a bit of a Lacanian (psychiatrist psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan MD), am appreciative of the significance of names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Father and http://cahiers.kingston.ac.uk/concepts/proper-name.html )

Fascinating that her father taught at Stanford, and was from Jamaica originally (https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a28259825/who-is-donald-harris-kamala-harris-father/). 

Will Democrats win the senate in 2020 with elizabeth warren and a new democratic senator (post Kamala Harris) from California? Swing states for senate 2020?
- "Democrats are seeing a much better chance of retaking the Senate in 2020" ... https://www.vox.com/2020/5/18/21243174/most-competitive-senate-races-2020

I hope this finds you all well! (Am wondering if I could somehow come into this property at 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon, CA 94516 even).

How are you all doing? And what's new on the aging reversal front genetically in the Boston area? Just found this 2016 video of Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/saussurea-obvallata-brahma-kamal-flower.html - and see, too, the 'longevity' label in blog. 

Warm regards, 
Scott

Here's Swarthmorean Lillian Thomas' "Solidarity" Tweet again - https://twitter.com/lbeththomas/status/1293015081320620032?s=20 -
and some related articles:




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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 1:44 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden,

How are you all? 

An US east-coast west coast ticket with Kamala Harris, as VP running mate, and Elizabeth Warren remains a US senator increasing the possibility that Democrats might win a majority in the Senate: "2020 Election Live Updates: Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Be His Running Mate" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/11/us/biden-vs-trump . 

Might this mean that Biden, while not necessarily getting Harvard Law and Harvard thinking-networks directly, that their campaign gets Stanford's, and Stanford Laws :)? 


It looks like Howie Hawkins is the Green Party candidate ... 



Here are the parties running for president in 2020: 

Candidates with ballot access to at least 270 electoral votes
Jo Jorgensen, Libertarian Party.
Howie Hawkins, Green Party.
Rocky De La Fuente, Alliance Party.
Don Blankenship, Constitution Party.
Gloria La Riva, Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Brian Carroll, American Solidarity Party.
Bill Hammons, Unity Party.

It's historic and great, I think, that the US has a black female VP running mate, another first! And it seems like they might win, but it ain't over until it's over! 

Scotty 
PS
Appreciating the focus on labor among the Greens, and it's interesting to me too that 'striking' is still a viable form of protest in the information age. Here's family friend Lillian Thomas's "Solidarity" Tweet regarding the current strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which she was former managing editor of its city desk.


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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 2:20 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Janie, Ann, Alden,

Nov. 3 polls look good for J.B. at this time, - and what about the Senate for Dems? And what are key analyses ahead for Elizabeth Warren in the Senate or as VP candidate, I wonder? (I'd listen further to Stanford Political Science Professor Dave Brady about all of this, but I haven't heard that he's talking publicly any time soon). What are your thoughts about these questions ahead?

And how are you doing, Dick? How are all of you doing with summer weather where you are? 

Nice to have participated in a Cuttyhunk Town Meeting (BoS - Board of Selectmen) yesterday, and even regarding an emerging 'virtual Cuttyhunk' (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Cuttyhunk). And I had a good video conference meeting regarding my big educational project with CEO Yvain at MOOCit France on 7/22/20, for 45 minutes, and we're on the same page. It seems that MOOCit France will help WUaS develop courses on an upcoming WUaS Open edX platform (by migrating CC-4 MIT OCW courses), and they'll also host my big educational project's new Open edX site on their computers. I've emailed Yvain 3-4 courses to adapt or migrate from CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare into Open edX (where MOOCit France will act as the service partner or service provider here). (More about these recent upcoming WUaS Open edX developments in blog eg - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/green-pheasant-congratulations-rifai.html too, as well as regarding my conversation with CEO Yvain at MOOCit France).

I hope you're all doing well, and staying cool this summer if it's hot where you are!

Warm regards, Scotty

More in an ongoing way about Coronavirus pandemic in 'genes' and 'meme' labels in my blog as well. 


eg
Good morning, Ma Mere,
Switzerland, as it opens, is taking temperatures at its borders, where Swedes traveling there are in a different category - https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/grenzoeffnung-einkaufstourismus-kommt-in-fahrt-ld.1561452. And the Corona tracing App per Germany is done and does this - https://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2020-06/corona-app-tracing-datenschutz-faq .
Could relating geopolitically with China be informing developments in Corona App, and related memes?
Saw a photo on the front of the Helsinki, Finland newspaper echoing Yogini Angela Farmer and which reminded me of her teaching 'inner openings' in this virus time when lots of closings have emerged, and border-wise. Will explore opening personally too when I sit soon, even as I head further inwardly here where I live meditative in a sense. 
Seeking to open to a life partner. Where would we live together? Here, possibly - could work. 
Love, Scott

PS from a few weeks ago:
For direct flights from Sweden, all passengers are measured for fever - the latest developments in corona virus in Switzerland
So far, according to the cantons, 31,116 people in Switzerland have tested positive for the corona virus, and 1939 infected people have died.
https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/grenzoeffnung-einkaufstourismus-kommt-in-fahrt-ld.1561452

The Swiss national borders have been open to EU and EFTA citizens as well as travelers from Great Britain since Monday (June 15th). This means that there is once again full freedom of movement for these countries. Citizens of third countries living in these countries can also enter. However, in addition to your passport, you must provide proof of residence. When the borders open to third countries is still being clarified. Germany officially opens its borders to Switzerland 24 hours later - in the night from Monday to Tuesday. According to the State Secretariat for Migration, the reason is formal and legal.
According to its own statements, Zurich Airport is at the “beginning of a return to the new normal”. On Monday (June 15th), about 50 arrivals and departures were planned, as the airport announced. That is only a little more than at the weekend. Compared to Sunday, when the borders were still largely closed, there was no big difference in eye traffic. The stores were almost fully open on Monday, albeit with shorter opening hours. The range of shops behind the boarding pass control, however, is still greatly reduced. The airport is now expanding steadily, but the airport does not expect the shops to open fully until July 6th.
With direct flights from Sweden to Switzerland, all passengers are measured for fever. For the time being, Sweden is the only country affected by this border sanitation measure, as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) announced on Monday (June 15th). Switzerland reserves the right to take border sanitary measures if people are arriving from a country that has a ...

PPS
Corona app:
What takes a long time finally becomes an app
The German Corona warning app is coming, this time really. It should warn you if you have been in contact with an infected person for too long. What you should know now
By Meike Laaff 700 comments
https://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2020-06/corona-app-tracing-datenschutz-faq


PPPS
Since in the Cuttyhunk town meeting we spent the first 30 minutes talking about Cuttyhunk preparedness for covid-19, - how to go from a) genetic tests into b) the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing App into c) electronic medical records with remarkably high accuracy and speed is a fascinating question, ... if not for this pandemic, then for the next one per Harvard and MIT Prof. of Genetics George Church:

george church @geochurch · Feb 11
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20

Am appreciative too of how many MASK Tweets George Church has posted in recent months.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/horton-plains-national-park-sri-lanka.html -

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 8:32 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann and Alden, 

Will we all be talking for an infinite more number of 4-year US presidential elections due to genetic engineering aging reversal? 

The best short 1 minute version of this question with Harvard / MIT Genetics' Prof George Church:
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
(with a transcription of this interview and more - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08/)

How are you doing with the many protests I see happening in Boston via the Boston Globe, Dick and Lucy? And how will 'Black Lives Matter' and the death of George Flloyd change things this November, given that Pres Rump was unsuccessful at imposing martial law. I'd think that science will continue on beyond the November 2020 election, but see the Guardian article below in these regards. What are you thinking regarding the November election?

(Am missing my Dad, GKM MD a bit now and then, and who was very interested in politics; thanks, again, Dick and Lucy, for coming to his Memorial Service at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh!)

I found this recent genetics' article inspiring, partly George Church focused:
After the Madness—Pandemic Silver Linings in Bioscience
Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?
By David Ewing Duncan
Illustration by Kelsey Wroten
George Church, MIT and Harvard Professor of Genetics, was a panelist in this related fascinating conference (which I attended online), now in video:
Neo.Life Boston (April 9 2020)
https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E
" ... startling and positive visions for humanity through the lens of NEO.LIFE’s expert ... Boston innovators from bioengineering, neuroscience, design and venture capital, who contributed to our book, Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species" "
Am curious too regarding science ahead re my big educational project and in realistic virtual earth for genetics ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click ... and for everything including Lego Robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforLego?src=hashtag_click - and even in Google Street View with Time Slide, and re my #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Here's the Guardian article I mentioned re upcoming election which you might be interested in as well: 
The George Floyd murder and Covid-19 have hurt Trump, but maybe not fatally:
The president’s approval ratings have dipped sharply but he could still beat Biden
Simon Tisdall
Published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 15.15 EDT

Voter disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, plus the accompanying economic meltdown, have undoubtedly hurt the president’s re-election chances.
But it’s unclear whether the damage is fatal. Could Trump, despite everything, still stage a comeback and beat the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden?
Things are looking bad for Trump right now. His job approval rating has dipped sharply in recent days. Based on an average of 12 polls taken since 25 May the day Floyd was killed, it stands at about 43%, with 54% disapproving.
Trump’s loyalist “base” is said to comprise 25-30% of voters. The remainder of the 46% who backed him in 2016 will not necessarily do so again. There are signs that key voter groups are less committed – or more fiercely opposed.
A recent survey of white Christian evangelicals showed a 15% drop in support for Trump support. Among white Catholics, it dropped by 27%.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans could provide him with winning margins in swing states
Many white suburban women deserted the Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms. This group may be further alienated by the health crisis, economic uncertainty, and Trump’s divisiveness. Older voters suffering the brunt of the pandemic are said to feel abandoned while the electorate as whole is getting younger. And for the first time, a third of eligible voters are non-white.
Revived fury over racial injustice may galvanise the black vote – a crucial 12.5% of the electorate – against the president. In 2016, black turnout declined for the first time in 20 years.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans, demonstrated in the primaries, could reverse that trend and provide winning margins in swing states. Among all voters, Biden’s current lead is 11%.
Yet Trump has been written off before. He has the advantage of incumbency and an enormous war chest. He plays dirty. By autumn, the economy may have revived, and the pandemic subsided. And gaffe-prone Biden carries much baggage.
The protests may have scared as many Middle America voters as they energised. Nobody knows how Trump’s Nixonian appeals to the “silent majority” and “law and order” will play in Peoria.
One thing is certain: he’s a long way from beaten.
Interesting British perspective from across the water, with 4 months to go before the election. 
Biden seems to be looking around some as the news' announcement of his running mate timing, perhaps, is thought through. Could Biden pick up important swing states depending on VP choice - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/quiz-biden-vice-president-pick/ & "Election outcomes in key states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona all come down to the same thing: the percentage of Democrats and left-leaning independents that end up casting ballots compared with the percentage of Republicans and right-leaning independents that do so. Republicans understand this campaign math and learned to solve this equation a long time ago. The only question is, have Democrats finally solved it too?" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/joe-biden-running-mate.html? Maybe not ...
Am still inclined toward Elizabeth Warren regarding the Biden campaign also getting Harvard thinking (and in all the swing states too) as having merit (but am not sure about the possible loss of the Mass. Senate seat) - and since 8 Harvard Alums / similar have been presidents - which is probably a higher number than most other institutions / organizations / networks / universities too - in this country.
... What do you think?
And China? Was the Sars-CoV-2 novel coronavirus COVID-19 a game changer in nation states' boundaries popping up in new ways, now around a biological threat, and regarding China getting rich quickly, and a shifting balance of power questions internationally? Effects on the Nov 2020 US election?
Warmly,
Scott
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:55 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden, 

Looks like the coronavirus 'memes' in the News have morphed into the #BlackLivesFirst "memes' ... 

Open mouth, insert foot re Pres Rump? ?? 
He appears to be on the run - thanks to the protesters: 
"Trump during protests in the security bunker"
"Trump während Protesten im Sicherheitsbunker" 

How could Democrats win the Senate in November, I wonder (and if Elizabeth defected to the vice presidency and Biden/Warren won:)?

Scotty


I just now renewed my CYC membership - https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org/ ... I figure it'll be great too for when I begin a family :)

Am hoping travel potential emerges too re heading to Massachusetts later in the summer. :) 

Love, Scott

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Our spirits all are free.
And no one knows the time of day,
Or cares, that's why we,
Love this isle of Gosnold,
and every wind that blows.
In rain or shine we all have fun,
From spring to summer's close."
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On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 2:00 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
I predict Green US presidential candidate Howie Hawkins' won't become US president in November! (But I could be wrong:)

Here, however, is 

"Instead of Challenging Joe Biden, Maybe the Green Party Could Help Change Our Democracy"

By Bill McKibben
April 15, 2020
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/instead-of-challenging-joe-biden-maybe-the-green-party-could-help-change-our-democracy

which actually mentions Howie Hawkins' name in a main stream publication. :)

Scotty

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On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 1:47 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dick, Lucy, Ma, Alden, Ann,

How are you all doing in this coronavirus pandemic; state of CA's shelter in place directive - https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ - although CA appears to be entering phase 2 in these regards - "Coronavirus FAQ: What does it mean to enter California’s ‘Phase 2’ and which parts of the state qualify?: Reopening ahead, behind or on schedule? It depends on the county" ... https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/15/coronavirus-faq-what-does-it-mean-to-enter-californias-phase-2-and-which-parts-of-the-state-qualify/ .

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Am curious whether & in what ways Biden and Warren will come together - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/15/nation/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-complex-history-gives-way-new-alliance/ - (I have to view this in the Tor browser due to the pay wall).
A bit dated, and no mention of ways in which I think Harvard thinking would help them get elected further:
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From a few weeks' ago in Minnesota's Star Tribune: 
"Wider testing drives up virus count, but most recover"
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From the left-leaning major German newspaper TAZ - die Tageszeitung (taz):
something about asking for 2 Trillion Euros in Eco-Green Money ...
"EU Parliament demands fresh money: Two trillion in green:
Parliamentarians are calling for the largest and greenest budget the EU has ever seen. It is intended to finance eco-development in the corona crisis."
VON
ERIC BONSE
"EU-Parlament fordert frisches Geld: Zwei Billionen in Grün:
Die Parlamentarier fordern das größte und grünste Budget, das die EU je gesehen hat. Es soll den Öko-Aufbau in der Coronakrise finanzieren."
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With a bunch of horn players in picture, breaking social distancing:
"Somerville extends state of emergency, cancels events through December"
So many Harvard and MIT students live in Somerville! What's the significance of this, I wonder?

Here's Canadian Gary Bartanus on Trump and women (which is an awful history) - 
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Here's your fellow Bostonian professor Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again):
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
- which you'll also find a couple of times in these longevity label blog posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ... 

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What are your thoughts about the November election? 

Warmly, Scotty




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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:04 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Alden, and Ann, ...

How are you? How are you in this coronavirus pandemic especially? Am hoping we elect a change in November, re current 'climate' in media in US. J.B. & E.W.? Appreciating E.W. as possible VP.
Psychiatry for US president could have merit (long ago even) ... and potentially in the very curious coronavirus coved-19 pandemic, especially .... and perhaps Dr. Tony Fauci MD is playing this role in part in a very public way somehow .. ... and we'll see what the people think in November. If E.W. becomes VP, one gets much of Harvard's thinking, as well as Harvard Law School networks in ~13-18 contested electoral college states ... which could help them increase their chances significantly of getting elected.

Some further ideas regarding November election: 

Hawkins on an alternative Green party platform, as outsider - 
Howie Hawkins' Interview
https://youtu.be/2PR94A5dR5E
Hawkins' Pitch for Governor
https://youtu.be/-q1mNwZZ_90
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Voter registration - 
Share of Americans (by age) who favor automatically registering all eligible citizens to vote:

18-29: 70%
30-49: 73%
50-64: 71%
65+: 62%

https://pewrsr.ch/3f1fMXh

https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1255591948917899264?s=20

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Mail-in Ballot polls
New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Voting By Mail Amid Pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/28/847383460/new-poll-americans-overwhelmingly-support-mail-voting-amid-pandemic


For many Americans, Election Day is already here
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/21/for-many-americans-election-day-is-already-here/
Journalist Eichenwald on Biden allegations

Wanted to share with you one further item, but it's slipped my mind.

I'd be interested in learning your thinking, how you're doing and feeling, and your news  ...And greetings from the SF Bay Area, and East Bay MUD woodlands (Canyon 94516 during a state of California shelter-in-place directive that began around March 18, 2020 ... Here are 5 "Hypothetical News' items, at bottom, re my inquiries and questions about the coronavirus pandemic, from April 1, 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html - and more than 40 in the genes' label to date). Seeking in an ongoing way to begin a family here - but with whom.? And it's an ongoing creative time with my big educational project - I have a Zoom video conference meeting on Friday with a head of MIT's Office of Digital Learning, and regarding this letter to MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - as well as a virtual Scratch programming MeetUp with the Boston group on Saturday. And am playing toward my first Scottish small pipes' album tentatively entitled "Honey in the Bag" :) How are you all? 

Warmly, Scott






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On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 3:24 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, and Alden, 

How are you faring regarding the fire drill coronavirus pandemic quarantine (I think)? That Norway and Denmark are moving on after the 'epidemic' is further evidence for this, to my way of thinking - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247324352514650112?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247324560942182402?s=20 . How are you?

This seems significant regarding the November election:
"Sanders drops out of presidential race, making Biden the Democrats’ presumptive nominee" -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/08/nation/bernie-sanders-drops-out-presidential-race/

Massachusett's
J. P. Gownder @jgownder · 5h
"I'm a leftist. The very progressive left: Green New Deal, M4All, UBI, a whole bunch of social democracy.
I'm also a pragmatist who fears for democracy itself right now.
Being Bernie or Bust doesn't make you a better leftist than me. It just makes you a less practical one."
https://twitter.com/jgownder/status/1247930459331465216?s=20

(I looked up M4All, and found that it refers to Medicines for All).

Yet, again - 
The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe · 6h
"Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race"
https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1247909223511588869?s=20

Could B.S.'s heart disease have lead to this decision in part? I think a Biden / Warren ticket (if possible) has just improved its chances in the November election. 


One question I haven't explored explicitly in now 27 blog posts about the coronavirus pandemic is whether it could be a massive disinformation campaign, which this fascinating55 minutes' interview, that John Palfrey shared on Twitter this morning - "Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" ... https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1247935249134292992?s=20
 - lead me to inquire about. And I wonder about this in terms of the memes (replicating cultural units) of a 'radical action' (perhaps to address the following 5 issues - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html ) - too, as well as an exercise in learning about how successfully to create a directed or focused internet viral 'meme" (imitable word as meme here - "coronavirus") - and in order to study these processes academically too.
But I do here now - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html

Dr. Tony Fauci MD seems to be communicating successfully and top expertly regarding the American people navigating this pandemic - and even acting in a way as a very public psychiatrist for Pres rump. Am curious to what degree one could attribute our upturned American society to T's (not good) mental health in some ways too. 

In the above blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html - I also explore much else including ways of thinking about the coronavirus pandemic emotionally, and continuing to navigate with agency in our upturned society or world. What do you think? 

And how are you doing/ Thinking of you, and would love to hear from you. 

Fondly, 
Scott


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On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:40 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ma, Dick, Lucy, Ann, and Alden,

Happy birthday to Ma Mère!

I made this animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial this morning (https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ from 3/26/20, as well as the next livestream, also by Z.B., today, 4/2/20 - https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw).  

This card is animated, or programmed, (and may still be a work in progress ... :) 

... 'homemade' programming as birthday card, could one say? :) (And it may be as close as it gets to a 'physical' gift for her today:)

Happy BIRTHDAY, Ma! 

Click on the green flag to send heart to the middle!
Click on the space bar to send it back.
Click the heart to hear a birthday song.
And click on the stop sign to end the song.



And for a moment of hilarity in the middle of this 'national emergency,' from Monty Python's John Cleese (who's quarantining in LA:) - 

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1245798680306860033?s=20

Warmly, Scotty 

5 Tweets in a beginning new "Hypothetical News" re the 'coronavirus' 
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:08 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden, 

This picture - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/wer-liefert-wann-das-corona-medikament-und-zu-welchem-preis-16696479.html (https://translate.google.com/) - in the article "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly about competition, and lack of sharing of data ... Hopefully my big project - for example ONE realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals / everything - will change some of these contours regarding CC-4 licensing too, and of MIT OCW in 4 languages as well, and regarding clinical trials planned with machine learning - for speakers in all 7,117 known living languages (the number rose from 7,111 recently).

Am not clear how this shelter-at-home approach in much of USA, with current coronavirus meme pandemic, will affect the November election, or online pharmaceutical drug development, or for that matter data-sharing, but 'society' seems a bit different newly, and growing fulsomely online. Was there some precipitating radical action that has informed these changes? Am developing "coronavirus" meme 'radical action' inquiries here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html (and in some of 18 recent blog posts - my mother has encouraged me to keep a journal in these times, and my blog is this in some ways) - and I wonder what implications for November there might be here re shelter at home and radical actions too. (Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church continues to call for lock downs - https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1240795005524086785?s=20 ).

Was a little started to observe Dr. Tony Fauci MD suggesting on front page of Sunday Boston Globe yesterday that 100,000 people could die from coronavirus, and here too: 
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU"
https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1244275909944885248?s=20

(And am appreciating both Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's support of Fauci, here again - Here's Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's "Thoughts on the Pandemic" - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html.- as well as am also a little startled at the 'severe' language both he and John Palfrey, President of MacArthur Foundation, and former Harvard Law Prof, are using regarding the 'battle' with coronavirus). Am also startled regarding the possible quarantine - Boston Globe yesterday again - or lock down even of all of New York, CT, MA ... or "strong" advisory not to travel from these states). What's happening - and regarding what? 

And have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language - (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ? ? ?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? And how are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :) I am as well here in Canyon 94516, and the internet is making possible many new forms of sociality (which I partly teach about in this course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - as well as study). :) Lucy, Alden, Dick? 

Fondly,
Scott


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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:10 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Alden, Dick, Ma, Lucy, Ann, 

How are you all in this barrage of "coronavirus" memes (the word being imitated by nearly infinite numbers of writers in online media, and threatening disease and sickness)? And what does November 2020 hold for less of this barrage? 

I found this article about Sweden to be another helpful antidote, and am appreciative of a number of lines of reasoning in these regards: 
It concludes (translated from German): 
Why do kindergartens and primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? Why is there no contact block like in Germany? Tegnell answers these recurring questions almost always the same: the epidemiological benefit of school closures in the case of the coronavirus is doubtful. Neither in Italy nor in China have schools proved to be hotspots for the virus to spread.
According to studies by the World Health Organization WHO in China, there has not been a single documentable case in which an adult has infected a child. Then why should you keep tens of thousands of healthy children at home? Especially since a lot of parents who work in important jobs to fight crises could no longer go to work? Tegnell's credo: "All measures that we take must be feasible over a longer period of time." Otherwise, the population will lose acceptance of the entire corona strategy. 

I created some Tweets in these regards - 

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.comhttps://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242825476789243910?s=20

Out of the coronavirus #COVID-19 pandemic, we appear to have gotten 24,000 searchable related AI academic papers per MIT, a significant generation of thinking.  

And this PBS NewsHour yesterday - March 24, 2020
https://youtu.be/0INsb8HiN4I
... suggests that Hubei, China, the epicenter of the genetic COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) event, is now a model for hope in returning to a semblance of normalcy. Also, there was some mention too of $1200 / month re B.S. in this - which sounds like it could be the beginnings of Universal Basic Income experiments.

And both Harvard and MIT are holding their graduation ceremonies on the internet which are amazing openings for my big project -
"Harvard postpones commencement amid coronavirus pandemic, plans online event May 28" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/nation/harvard-holding-online-commencement-may-28-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/
... and may make possible protecting youth and students in new ways - that is with online education, and somehow culturally. But hopefully too excellent new kinds of university and high school degree education will emerge, in addition to wiki-education for open teaching and learning. How to help facilitate this to flourish in a flowering of new ways, and much regarding conversation? 

Am thinking that the culture and identity and language of Sweden in this coronavirus pandemic is a kind of bastion regarding mainstream internet media, and am wondering in what ways my big project in all ~200 countries' main languages can create similar online 'places' of sanity (ie less fear in the air) or semblances of 'cultural' normalcy, or absence of war mentality, - and uniquely emerging from each of these cultures online. Without knowing German, and reading the German papers, I wouldn't have otherwise found this article about Sweden - which expresses too a kind of alternative, that is, countering the culture of the mainstream internet media as counterculture (regarding novel coronavirus as memes ... in contrast to the novel coronavirusCOVID19 SARS Cov2 epidemic genes) ??? In what ways could my big project generate culture anew, - and in the way Harvard, MIT and Stanford generate knowledge-generation help-the-world culture on-the-ground, I wonder? 

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? How are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :)

Scotty
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/09/bottlenose-dolphin-jacques-lacan-md-and.html (with Jaques Lacan and George Vaillant, which I found again in these Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations I wrote a few years ago - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html )  




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On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:09 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Alden, Dick, Lucy, Ma,
Harvard's 369th commencement will be online this year thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic - "Harvard postpones commencement amid coronavirus pandemic, plans online event May 28" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/nation/harvard-holding-online-commencement-may-28-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/. What an amazing opportunity for the big academic project I'm working on to learn from - e.g. how to do online graduations - and potentially even collaborate with Harvard and MIT in these regards, with all this online creativity and productivity as they both take all of their classes online. What a windfall for learning from! 


Here's Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's "Thoughts on the Pandemic" - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html.
And the Pew Research Center - "U.S. public sees multiple threats from the coronavirus – and concerns are growing" - https://mailchi.mp/pewresearch.org/americans-see-multiple-threats-from-the-coronavirus?e=4188253c1e I think the picture speaks louder than words. 
And is this the beginning of online hospitals in Google's / Verily's Project Baseline with information technologies ? ....
(which I recently added to this Agenda from today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/dryas-octopetala-march-21-2020-wuas.html)
And with so many people in this country sheltering at home, I bet people are reading newly many many books, and learning in other ways too!
Thoughts about 2020 November? A Biden / Warren ticket???
Fondly, Scotty
For your reading interest ...

... in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 12 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?,  'pan'-demic?  and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~


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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:47 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Dick, Lucy, Ann, Ma, Alden,
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> What are your focuses these days re novel corona virus ? And how are you?
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> Here's the beginning of a new story:
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> 2020 was the year I began hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in a digital mask, and actually in the back of the lenses of my glacier glasses. It was on the ridge road, also a fire road, near where I live in Canyon 94516, and all because of the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) actually. I don't know how many times I walked back and forth on that ~ 2 mile long road, but I must have hiked all of the whirlIng John Muir Trail in the high Sierra in March that year, and some of the PCT near Tahoe. Amazing - since the snow pack was pretty heavy this year at 10,000 feet. :)
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> Warm regards, Scott
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> > Well, I should say that the state senator said airplane flight, getting take out food from restaurants, etc., is ok ... all 'essential needs' he said ...
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> > Love, Scott
> > - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes -
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> > Mirabilis jalapa: Greece World Univ & Sch in Greek 3/16/20 Q & A and News * * Seeking highest achieving English-speaking Greek students this autumn for free-to-students' undergraduate Bachelor's degrees, MIT undergrads  #COVID19 https://youtu.be/JDxHB2aiEKI
> >  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html ~
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> > https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240032104106184704?s=20
> > https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1240032468813484032?s=20
> > https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1240033348929478656?s=20
> > https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1240034551247691777?s=20
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> > > Warm greetings from CA. Are we in a run thru for an 'in case of emergency' bio-weapons event?
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> > > A CA state senator, in the second telephone town hall I attended with him yesterday, basically said "all clear" in it re Californians carrying on daily life.
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> > > And is the following the beginning possibly of UBI experiments for workers and the poor in the USA or Massachusetts, - and better on cards and smartphones than on checks, and esp. in the state that voted for Joe Biden in a recent primary? ...
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> > > Trump administration proposes $850 billion stimulus bill to blunt economic damage
> > > The Trump administration is expected to propose a roughly $850 billion emergency economic stimulus to address the free-fall while considering checks to American workers trying to make their way in an economy deeply unsettled by the outbreak.
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> > > > https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/17/nation/trump-changes-his-tone-briefly-response-coronavirus-threat/
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> > > "Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus?
> > > With “social distancing” now widely adopted nationwide, a small group of contrarians urge a more careful weighing of the harm as we ..."
> > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-hype-overreaction-social-distancing.html
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> > > How best to manage, and what do think this National Emergency declared  will do to the election, in November? Facilitate online voting backup planning re novel CoronaVirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2) pandemic. And re reversing growing inequality in it too - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/europe/coronavirus-inequality.html ?
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> > > Here's a perspective on Biden from Germany - "Thinking about Joe Biden" - https://taz.de/Entscheidung-im-US-Vorwahlkampf/!5668288/ - which you can check out, if interested, with Google Translate (if necessary).
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> > > Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? How are all of you?
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> > > Regards, Scott
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> > >
> > > ... in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 9 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?,  'pan'-demic?  and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ...
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> > > Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
> > > Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
> > > Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
> > > Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
> > > Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
> > > Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
> > > Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
> > > Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
> > > Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~
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> > > > This novel coronavirus in the media could be a great run through for an outbreak of something, - and internet-communications-wise in all 200 countries' languages, especially.
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> > > > Who's creating it and how? And what's its relationship to intact democratic governments in potentially a growing number of all 200 countries too, I wonder? We may be getting a preview news' and information- or data-wise, of what we might see in a war, or in the 1918 Spanish flu in 2024 too, or a nuclear accident, or an asteroid hitting the planet, etc.
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> > > > Re intact democratic governments, am appreciating that Elizabeth Warren - and regarding Harvard as knowledge generator - is Tweeting health sources for novel CoronaVirus ... https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1237042208366305281?s=20 ... might she run for VP?
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> > > > What are your thoughts about COVID--19 and society - and regarding its current ripples - and the election in Nov too?
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> > > > Fond regards, Scott
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> > > > 6 related recent blog posts:
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> > > > Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
> > > > Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
> > > > Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
> > > > Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
> > > > Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
> > > > Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html
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> > > > - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod -
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> > > > On 5:20PM, Tue, Mar 10, 2020 Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > >> Hi Dick, Lucy, Ma and Alden, and Ann,
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> > > >> Dramatic! - it seems 1) as if some of the 92 cases in Massachusetts of CoronaVirus thus far could have been Covid-19 (but I remain a skeptic too, for thinking purposes), and 2) all MIT classes are moving online, with 3) students asked not to come back after spring break:
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> > > >> MIT will be moving all classes online by Monday 3/30. Undergrads living on-campus have been asked to vacate their dorms by noon on Tuesday 3/17.
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> > > >> https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1237511053212147714?s=20
> > > >> http://news.mit.edu/2020/letter-regarding-escalating-response-covid-19-0310
> > > >> http://web.mit.edu/covid19/
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> > > >> MIT moving to online classes; university reports visitor with coronavirus
> > > >> MIT is moving all classes online and expecting undergraduate students to move out of their dormitories by Tuesday, as universities throughout New England step up their efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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> > > >> https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/nation/mit-moving-online-classes-university-reports-visitor-with-coronavirus/
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> > > >> Meanwhile people are working on developing a vaccine
> > > >> The latest The SynBioLogist! https://paper.li/Socrates_Logos/1306934563?edition_id=5f71b090-62f4-11ea-99c6-002590a5ba2d Thanks to
> > > >> @jordi_nito @prometheusgreen #synbio #genomeediting
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> > > >> https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1237429817651363840?s=20
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> > > >> How to develop approaches in a time of pandemic? Let's stay in communication!
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> > > >> Am wondering what possible subtexts there could be, like purges to the sex offenders, or similar, or protecting MIT undergrads for reasons other than Covid-19? Thoughts, questions, ideas?
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> > > >> Sincerely, Scott
> > > >> 412 478-0116
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> > > >> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
> > > >> https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
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> > > >> --
> > > >> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >> - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:45 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>> Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma and Alden,
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> > > >>> Who knows, but perhaps I'll or we'll get to vote for Elizabeth Warren as Vice President - "Biden will pick a woman as his running mate. But who?" ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-bidens-vp-pick-is-so-important/2020/03/08/81c22fb2-5fe3-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html ? And perhaps too she'll run for President again in 2024 and win for a term or two. If Biden chose her, he'd not only get all of Harvard (re thinking), but Harvard would get another first (first woman VP candidate, I think), and from what I've observed Harvard seems to like its firsts, and writes about them a fair amount too (and these go back a number of centuries:).
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> > > >>> (I had thought Pres T's daughter was attending Harvard Law School, but it turns out she graduated from Georgetown Law not long ago, and just toured Harvard Law - https://abovethelaw.com/2017/05/tiffany-trump-has-picked-her-law-school/ - I think. What a Harvard Law communication loop that would have been regarding her current Papa Pres).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Looks like the person in this Boston apartment is doing the Yoga pose 'Vasisthasana Side Plank Pose and Variations' -
> > > >>> "As coronavirus cases mount, just how paranoid — or cautious — should we be?
> > > >>> Different people are responding to the sudden outbreak — and the resulting worry and uncertainty — differently, with some adopting great caution while others are more easy-going."
> > > >>> https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/nation/coronavirus-cases-mount-line-between-paranoid-cautious-is-blurring/
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> > > >>> Meditation and Yoga seem sensible in this infodemic, which may be scaring people in different ways (all of Italy is in lock down, not just 16 million people in northern Italy, for ex.), where meaningless 'memes' per Dawkins - see “Richard Dawkins and the meaningless meme” https://gu.com/p/3gzcq/stw (as a fascinating clarification of what memes mean for him, and regarding his playing the clarinet into a swirl of related color and shape behind him and all around at video's close ... all as memes) - are going viral as #ViralMemes (replicating cultural units). Dawkins coined newly the word meme in his 1976 "Selfish Gene" book drawing a comparison to genes, but on the cultural side of life, in contrast to the biological side, and mentioning in particular, as example, the 'aggressive' rabies' virus as genes which replicate themselves by making the host mammal thirsty and aggressive/attacking - and for the the way ideas propagate from mind to mind (ranging from a favorite novel to a pretty summer dress were examples he gave, I think).
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> > > >>> Memes would also be meaningless regarding genes which replicate, and these COVID-19 ones which do so aggressively.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Appreciated yesterday too the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article
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> > > >>> "UPMC testing, but still no positive COVID-19 tests"
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> > > >>> https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2020/03/09/UPMC-still-has-no-positive-COVID-19-tests/stories/202003090104
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> > > >>> with its explicit focus on COVID-19, and testing (and that Pgh hasn't seen any cases yet).
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> > > >>> In all the press I've read (and it's been a fair amount, and in 2 languages), there's been no clear distinction between novel COVID-19 virus and known coronaviruses (see, for example, this NYT's article which mentions 4 known coronaviruses )
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> > > >>>
> > > >>> "Inside China’s all-out war on the coronavirus"
> > > >>> Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the W.H.O., got a rare glimpse into Beijing’s campaign to stop the epidemic. Here’s what he saw.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Excerpt from article ...
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> > > >>> NYT's Question -
> > > >>> "What about children? We know they are rarely hospitalized. But do they get infected? Do they infect their families?
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> > > >>> We don’t know. That Guangdong survey also turned up almost no one under 20. Kids got flu, but not this. We have to do more studies to see if they get it and aren’t affected, and if they pass it to family members. But I asked dozens of doctors: Have you seen a chain of transmission where a child was the index case? The answer was no.
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> > > >>> NYT's Question -
> > > >>> Why? There’s a theory that youngsters get the four known mild coronaviruses so often that they’re protected.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> That’s still a theory. I couldn’t get enough people to agree to put it in the W.H.O. report."
> > > >>>
> > > >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-aylward.html
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Waiting to see what happens today with the road to November ...
> > > >>> "Our Final Forecast For Today’s Primaries:
> > > >>> Biden is a clear favorite in three states, but there’s room for a Sanders upset in three others"
> > > >>> https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-final-forecast-for-todays-primaries/
> > > >>>
> > > >>> What do you think?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Warm regards, Scotty
> > > >>>
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
> > > >>>
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> > > >>> “Richard Dawkins and the meaningless meme” https://gu.com/p/3gzcq/stw #richarddawkins #science #meme #dawkinsmeme and #CoronavirusCovid19 Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE -https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 For a take on the #ViralMeme side of these #Covid19 developments
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> > > >>> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1235278201842094080?s=20
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1235279248576802816?s=20
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1235279413257703425?s=20
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235280174440009728?s=20
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1235313272536158209?s=20
> > > >>> https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1235313485078286337?s=20
> > > >>> --
> > > >>> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>> - http://scottmacleod.com
> > > >>>
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> > > >>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:17 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>> Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma and Alden,
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> > > >>>> With regard newly to the CoronaVirus COVID-19 InfoDemic -
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> > > >>>> MIT Technology Review
> > > >>>> @techreview
> > > >>>> Social media has zipped information and misinformation around the world at unprecedented speeds, fueling panic, racism… and hope.
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1236156573715701760?s=20
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> > > >>>> Am finding again this reasoned approach to it relevant -
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> > > >>>> VIRUS TEST
> > > >>>> "Corona virus: How does the Sars-CoV-2 virus test work?"
> > > >>>> by Tanja Banner
> > > >>>> https://www.fr.de/wissen/coronavirus-wie-funktioniert-test-virus-sars-cov-2-13582810.html (video works here, but in German) #CoronaVirusCOVID19 #GoogleTranslate https://translate.google.com/ for text. Video concludes with as long as MDs remain CALM, we can also relax
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236017643284381697?s=20
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236017992506302464?s=20
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236018653969043456?s=20
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1236029580554539008?s=20
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> > > >>>> Auf das #Coronavirus #SARS_COV_2 wird in Deutschland nicht jeder getestet, der Symptome aufweist. Wer auf das Virus getestet wird und wer nicht.
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/fr/status/1235926559875350528?s=20
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> > > >>>> Appreciating too this return to normalization perspective from a German engineer in Shanghai, China:
> > > >>>> https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/plus206381663/Coronavirus-Isoliert-in-Shanghai-Mein-Leben-mit-der-Kein-Kontakt-Politik.html (use Google Translate - https://translate.google.com/)
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> > > >>>> And very speculatively, am wondering too about a possible radical action regarding this info-demic, to use this new word from MIT, regarding the idea of 'meme' (replicating cultural unit) in the following 2 ways:
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> > > >>>> 1) Reversing Global Warming, since people have apparently stopped flying, and 2) even somehow reversing the global sex trade (???) and possibly too regarding my ethics inquiry into Stanford University and some of my 6-8 ethics' whistle blowing-s in recent years.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Have just posted on Twitter -
> > > >>>> Online MD psychiatry planned @WorldUnivAndSch >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry
> > > >>>> (psychiatry for #QuakerMeetings from Friends' Hospital
> > > >>>> https://friendshospital.com 215-831-4600 https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Friends_Hospital #NontheistFriends) #CoronaVirusCOVID19 Psychiatry > https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatrists-beware-impact-coronavirus-pandemics-mental-health #WUaSPsychiatry ~
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> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236332250020458496?s=20
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236332505667534849?s=20
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236333540075163648?s=20
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> And last year, I Tweeted in a related vein:
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> > > >>>> Preventive psychiatry?
> > > >>>> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry
> > > >>>> In what ways could MD faculty in online WUaS Med Schools teach this in 200 countries' main languages
> > > >>>> https://psych.hms.harvard.edu - https://hsph.harvard.edu/npe/ -
> > > >>>> https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=336&sectionid=39717884&jumpsectionID=39719833 -
> > > >>>> https://experts.com/Articles/What-is-Preventive-Psychiatry-By-Gilbert-Kliman - https://psychiatrictimes.com/career/considering-edisons-predictions-prevention-next-frontier-psychiatry -
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1101667343170658304?s=20
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Thoughts, suggestions, questions, ideas?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Warm regards,
> > > >>>> Scotty
> > > >>>>
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> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> --
> > > >>>> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>> - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>> Harrumph and wriggle-snort, regarding 2020 envisioning as well -
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> > > >>>>> "How political ideas keep economic inequality going"
> > > >>>>> https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated
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> > > >>>>> Am glad he touches on Universal Basic Income (experiments?) but am wondering how long into the future Piketty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty) is envisioning this for nation states, especially regarding developments in aging reversal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity. Not very much analysis of the significance of the internet here whatsoever, although am wondering whether his parents could have known Manuel Castells in 1968 in Paris.
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> > > >>>>> PS
> > > >>>>> relevant article regarding CoronaVirusCOVID19 developments -
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> > > >>>>> VIRUS TEST
> > > >>>>> "Corona virus: How does the Sars-CoV-2 virus test work?"
> > > >>>>> by Tanja Banner
> > > >>>>> https://www.fr.de/wissen/coronavirus-wie-funktioniert-test-virus-sars-cov-2-13582810.html (video works here, but in German) #CoronaVirusCOVID19 #GoogleTranslate https://translate.google.com/ for text. Video concludes with as long as MDs remain CALM, we can also relax
> > > >>>>> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236017643284381697?s=20
> > > >>>>> https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236017992506302464?s=20
> > > >>>>> https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236018653969043456?s=20
> > > >>>>> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1236029580554539008?s=20
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> > > >>>>> Auf das #Coronavirus #SARS_COV_2 wird in Deutschland nicht jeder getestet, der Symptome aufweist. Wer auf das Virus getestet wird und wer nicht.
> > > >>>>> https://twitter.com/fr/status/1235926559875350528?s=20
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> > > >>>>> --
> > > >>>>> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>>> - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>>> Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, and Alden,
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> > > >>>>>> ("Remarkable turn of events," I wrote my mother yesterday, "as 3 candidates drop out of Democratic presidential race and Biden gets their delegates. Am continuing to appreciate Warren's thinking, but also that Biden is a skillful seasoned pragmatist who seems to have best chances of winning in November").
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> It looks like Howie Hawkins won in the Green Party CA presidential primary -
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> > > >>>>>> "See the California presidential election results for the March 2020 primary"
> > > >>>>>> https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/presidential-election/article240827666.html
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> > > >>>>>> (and - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/results-california-primary-elections.html - but behind a pay wall)
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> PRESIDENT, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE
> > > >>>>>> CANDIDATE
> > > >>>>>> VOTES
> > > >>>>>> PCT.
> > > >>>>>> Howie Hawkins
> > > >>>>>> 2,255
> > > >>>>>> 35.6%
> > > >>>>>> Dario Hunter
> > > >>>>>> 1,242
> > > >>>>>> 19.6%
> > > >>>>>> Dennis Lambert
> > > >>>>>> 1,211
> > > >>>>>> 19.1%
> > > >>>>>> S. Moyowasifza-Curry
> > > >>>>>> 1,158
> > > >>>>>> 18.3%
> > > >>>>>> David Rolde
> > > >>>>>> 466
> > > >>>>>> 7.4%
> > > >>>>>> 100% of precincts reporting
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> > > >>>>>> And it looks like Gloria La Riva beat Howie Hawkins in the Peace and Freedom CA presidential primary -
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> > > >>>>>> https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/03/santa-clara-county-election-results-march-2020/
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> I found this perspective from the contempoary left-orienting "Democracy Now" online news' site interesting -
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> "Then There Were Two: Sanders Wins California with Latinx Support as Biden Sweeps Southern Black Vote"
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/4/super_tuesday_chuck_rocha_bernie_sanders
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> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Appreciating, too, and fellow Brookline's Harvard Professor
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Hey regardless of what happens today, we DO NOT want Warren to drop. We NEED another SUPER SMART progressive voice on stage at the next debate vs THEM.
> > > >>>>>> https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1234802726376263682?s=20
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Elizabeth Warren's remaining in this race would definitely help generate a presidential candidate vision conversation in ongoing great ways.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins' taking 35.5 percent of the Green Party primary vote in California, far beyond everyone else - suggests he's on to something. :)
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Am wondering how the knowledge in this article will make it to the voters in upcoming primaries, and which gives me great pause regarding B.S. (shouldn't we be voting concurrently for a B.S. V.P. since there's a 50-50 chance he'll die before the end of the first term?) -
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> "The Uncomfortable Question of Bernie Sanders’s Life Expectancy
> > > >>>>>> Studies suggest he has a 50/50 chance of dying in office if elected."
> > > >>>>>> by Paul Glastris - February 28, 2020
> > > >>>>>> - https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/02/28/the-uncomfortable-question-of-bernie-sanders-life-expectancy/
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Thanks for your thoughts about the medical analysis, Dick.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? Alden - Elizabeth Warren's electability now, and regarding your previous analysis?
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Warm regards, Scott
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Robb%20MD -
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> > > >>>>>>> Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma and Alden,
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> > > >>>>>>> This article which I just saw yesterday evening gives me great pause regarding B.S. -
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> > > >>>>>>> "The Uncomfortable Question of Bernie Sanders’s Life Expectancy
> > > >>>>>>> Studies suggest he has a 50/50 chance of dying in office if elected."
> > > >>>>>>> by Paul Glastris - February 28, 2020
> > > >>>>>>> - https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/02/28/the-uncomfortable-question-of-bernie-sanders-life-expectancy/
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> > > >>>>>>> What do you think of the medical analysis, Dick?
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> Glad the Boston Globe has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for President - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/26/opinion/globe-endorses-elizabeth-warren/ (with an interesting perspective on contemporary issues in this election) - and the NYTs too. I continue to think she's the best candidate, but don't know if she could win in this competitive presidential election. So am glad too Biden won S.C. - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/01/nation/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary-propelling-him-into-super-tuesday/
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> > > >>>>>>> I found too this Richard Dawkin's NYT's post germane:
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> > > >>>>>>> To Beat Trump, Democrats May Need to Break Out of the ‘Whole Foods’ Bubble
> > > >>>>>>> https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233075289070227462?s=20
> > > >>>>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/27/upshot/democrats-may-need-to-break-out-of-the-whole-foods-bubble.html
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> Thoughts, questions, ideas?
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> Warm regards, Scott
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
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> > > >>>>>>> - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1234167965584519168?s=20
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> > > >>>>>>> --
> > > >>>>>>> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>>>>> - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>>>> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 5:12 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>>>> > Hi Dick, Lucy, Ma, and Alden,
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> > > >>>>>>> > Well, it seems like the local, or at the least the state (a specific US state), is still significant in internet, and US national, politics:
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> > > >>>>>>> > Top 10 South Carolina Daily Newspapers by Circulation
> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.agilitypr.com/resources/top-media-outlets/top-10-south-carolina-daily-newspapers-circulation/
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> > > >>>>>>> > Joe Biden declared winner of SC Democratic presidential primary moments after polls close
> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article240764496.html
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> > > >>>>>>> > Joe Biden declared winner of SC Democratic presidential primary moments after polls close
> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.islandpacket.com/news/politics-government/election/article240764496.html
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> > > >>>>>>> > Joe Biden wins South Carolina primary, momentarily stopping Bernie Sanders’ rise
> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary-momentarily-stopping-bernie-sanders/article_8e3b506c-5966-11ea-b608-d770d5452070.html
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> > > >>>>>>> > AND from North Carolina
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> > > >>>>>>> > Joe Biden declared winner of SC Democratic presidential primary moments after polls close
> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article240764496.html
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> > > >>>>>>> > Joe Biden declared winner of SC Democratic presidential primary moments after polls close
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> > > >>>>>>> > https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article240764496.html
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> > > >>>>>>> > from the -
> > > >>>>>>> > Top 10 Daily Newspapers in North Carolina
> > > >>>>>>> > The Charlotte Observer – 146,511
> > > >>>>>>> > The News & Observer – 129,698
> > > >>>>>>> > News & Record – 57,274
> > > >>>>>>> > Winston-Salem Journal – 55,752
> > > >>>>>>> > The Fayetteville Observer – 49,163
> > > >>>>>>> > Star-News – 39,058
> > > >>>>>>> > Asheville Citizen-Times – 30,111
> > > >>>>>>> > Gaston Gazette – 23,823
> > > >>>>>>> > Daily Reflector – 23,051
> > > >>>>>>> > The Herald-Sun – 21,367
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> > > >>>>>>> > Four of the five headlines are the same :)
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> > > >>>>>>> > Fond regards, Scotty
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> > > >>>>>>> > - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>>>>> > - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>>>> > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 3:45 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> What are your thoughts about November 2020 at this stage? Am thinking Biden is still the Dem candidate most able to beat a Pres T. Here's related analysis from fellow Pennsylvanian Ed Rendell:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> Advice for fellow Democrats: Don't count out Biden, don't fear a brokered convention
> > > >>>>>>> >> BY FORMER GOV. ED RENDELL, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/19/20 09:00 AM EST
> > > >>>>>>> >> https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/483389-advice-for-fellow-democrats-dont-count-out-biden-dont-fear-a-brokered-convention
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> > > >>>>>>> >> (South Carolina Democratic DEBATE resources -
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> > > >>>>>>> >> Watch full South Carolina Democratic debate | CBS News
> > > >>>>>>> >> https://youtu.be/klDbFuxmXrA
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> > > >>>>>>> >> The Democratic Debate in Three Minutes
> > > >>>>>>> >> https://youtu.be/ndGc08Dgf-c
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> > > >>>>>>> >> https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/25/watch_live_cbs_news_democratic_debate_in_charleston_sc.html
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> > > >>>>>>> >> https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/democratic-debate-south-carolina/?amp)
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> > > >>>>>>> >> And here are some further Christian Science Monitor-related Biden posts -
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> > > >>>>>>> >> https://twitter.com/csmonitor/status/1231779502340165633?s=20
> > > >>>>>>> >> https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/0223/Why-moderate-rivals-attack-Sanders-as-Super-Tuesday-looms
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> > > >>>>>>> >> https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/0210/We-have-to-have-hope-right-Democrats-grasp-for-momentum
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> > > >>>>>>> >> Back to US presidential candidate Andrew Yang's legacy ... regarding even ...
> > > >>>>>>> >> UBI experiments ... and 1 digital currency post Euro and Dollar?
> > > >>>>>>> >> Here's a Swiss article on - Digital taxes and OECD?
> > > >>>>>>> >> https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-oecd-als-moderner-steuervogt-ld.1535748
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> > > >>>>>>> >> Regulating the Pi cryptocurrency in the Google Play Store in Europe with online law classes teaching about this re GDP there ? - here are some thoughts and resources ...  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/centaurea-cyanus-bachelors-button-plans.html...
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> > > >>>>>>> >> And what do you think of this Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church 60 Minutes interview where he says that age reversal has been PROVEN in 8 different ways - https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk #longevity
> > > >>>>>>> >> - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/supermoon-aging-reversal-first.html - and that he's looking at adding an enzyme genetically back to DNA, which decreases in the aging process?
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> > > >>>>>>> >> The prospects of living beyond 122 are increasing, (as I see this)!
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> > > >>>>>>> >> Fondly, Scotty
> > > >>>>>>> >> - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/hippeastrum-world-univ-schs-monday-news.html -
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> > > >>>>>>> >> --
> > > >>>>>>> >> - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>>>>> >> - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>>>> >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:07 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> > Biden and Warren are putting in a good 2nd and 3rd place showing in Nevada, with 85% of precincts reporting (https://www.reviewjournal.com - glad the US has a great active fairly free press, and here its top 10 papers by circulation - https://www.agilitypr.com/resources/top-media-outlets/top-10-nevada-daily-newspapers-by-circulation/ ):
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> > > >>>>>>> >> > 85 of 2,097 precincts reporting Final Alignment (4.05%)
> > > >>>>>>> >> > CANDIDATE
> > > >>>>>>> >> > DELEGATE EQUIVALENTS
> > > >>>>>>> >> > PERCENT
> > > >>>>>>> >> > FIRST ALIGNMENT
> > > >>>>>>> >> > PERCENT
> > > >>>>>>> >> > FINAL ALIGNMENT
> > > >>>>>>> >> > PERCENT
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Bernie Sanders
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 522
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 54.1%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 2,806
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 41.7%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 2,959
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 50.0%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Joe Biden
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 172
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 17.8%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 1,105
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 16.4%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 1,008
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 17.0%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Elizabeth Warren
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 97
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 10.1%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 816
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 12.1%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 618
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 10.4%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Pete Buttigieg
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 85
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 8.8%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 828
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 12.3%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 669
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 11.3%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Tom Steyer
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 62
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 6.4%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 606
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 9.0%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 343
> > > >>>>>>> >> > 5.8%
> > > >>>>>>> >> > Click here fo
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> > > >>>>>>> >> > Scotty
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> > > >>>>>>> >> > --
> > > >>>>>>> >> > - Scott MacLeod
> > > >>>>>>> >> > - http://scottmacleod.com
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> > > >>>>>>> >> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 10:30 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Searched on Howie Hawkins in "Democracy Now" and much Ralph Nader (whom I voted for as Green Presidential candidate too) comes up, as key thinker for the Green Party potentially too -
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.democracynow.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=howie+hawkins
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> And in a now for something completely different vein, it looks like the first primary for the Green Party is in California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Green_Party_presidential_primaries (but it's not entirely clear from this updatable Wikipedia article). And it's the big day of Nov 3rd that counts in this upcoming US presidential election here. (I continue to think that Biden has the best chances of winning on the Democratic side, and found it interesting that he Biden says he was arrested on the way to visit Nelson Mandela - could this mean 'stopped' by security forces at a check point during Apartheid, for ex.? - see, too https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/biden-south-africa-arrest-mandela.html, and see, too - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/06/17-inspiring-facts-about-nelson-mandela.html and "The 1970s: The Anti-Apartheid Movement's Difficult Decade. The 1970s were a pivotal decade in the Southern African liberation struggle" - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070902919991 ).
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> And the Green Party of Britain plans to introduce a Universal Basic Income of 89 pounds per week by 2025 - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-50439961/green-party-unveils-plan-for-universal-basic-income-by-2025 . As an international party, the Green Party is interesting re US politics too.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Some further thoughts about big November election ahead:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Am keeping my eye on those MIT programmers calling out smartphone Apps relying on very young Blockchain ledger voting technologies e.g.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> "Today, myself and co-authors @jimmykoppel and @djweitzner released a paper discussing a slew of vulnerabilities we found in @voatz, a blockchain voting app that's been used in US federal elections. You can read about it in the @nytimes !" - https://twitter.com/mspecter/status/1227870800327462912?s=20 ... It seems like similar MIT programmers could be significant in keeping the (every growing in small ways) computing aspects of voting fair this autumn. I found this above Twitter post on Neha Narula's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/neha - and she's the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative (and wonder if this Mike Specter is any relation to Arlen Specter a PA US Senator in the 1980s, beginning his term 2 years after my father was Secretary of Health during the TMI nuclear meltdown catastrophe in 1979). 
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> I looked up Andrew Yang's UBI - Universal Basic Income - recently too, just to see where he brought this conversation in the US presidential Democratic debates - and found the articles below. Seems like digital currencies with blockchain ledger could interrelate with other blockchain ledger systems (such as voting systems) - so am glad MIT and Harvard coders and law schools are watching these developments.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> One question I wonder about here is: if the poor in the US, and around the world, could be freed from poverty in the transition to a single digital currency in many of ~200 countries' official languages - with something off the shelf like the Pi cryptocurrency created by Stanford graduates and with a lightning button for mining it with algorithms (off the Google Play Store shelf :), then could that be something Biden, or Elizabeth Warren, could successfully run on?
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> * * * (And how too to navigate the 'hunters' in the US system too - the would be US assassins, and from both sides of the aisle, is another thing I wonder about, and which the US secret service seems to have had a fairly successful track record with since Kennedy, it seems). So how to keep them away from Pres T, and a possible Dem contender, a J.B. for example? * * *
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> I'm also curious how to prevent UBI experiments to end poverty getting eaten up - for ex. by ginormous health insurance cost rises, in the transition from ObamaCare to new payment approaches for maintaining enrollment in Kaiser Permanente health coverage - but in all ~200 countries around the world, and in their official languages.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> What do you think in all these regards?
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> And for something with more survey data regarding the American people in a sense, here's Lee Rainie's Pew Research Center from today:
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> February 22, 2020
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Weekly Roundup
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> The latest findings from Pew Research Center
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://mailchi.mp/pewresearch.org/what-us-adults-know-about-the-2020-census?e=4188253c1e
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Fond regards, Scotty
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >>
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> The Freedom Dividend, Defined
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> The Freedom Dividend
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Andrew Yang's UBI problem
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://theweek.com/articles-amp/858097/andrew-yangs-ubi-problem
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Push for universal basic income will outlive Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4751726002
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> As Andrew Yang drops out, here’s what other 2020 Democrats say about universal basic income
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/6B8C4FD6-A1D2-11E9-943F-DA199D5CC6B2
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Would Andrew Yang’s UBI Plan Actually Help Women?
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.thecut.com/amp/2020/02/would-andrew-yangs-ubi-plan-actually-help-women.html
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Democratic candidate Andrew Yang just promised to give 10 American families $12,000 over a year of 'universal basic income.' Here's how the radical policy plan would actually work.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-basic-income-2016-8?amp
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> The math is clear: Universal basic income is a terrible idea
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.businessinsider.com/yang-warren-universal-basic-income-idea-bad-2019-11?amp
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Is Yang Doing More Harm Than Good to the Case for a Universal Basic Income?
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2019/10/16/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-229847
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> Andrew Yang wants to sell you universal basic income. Beware if you have disabilities.
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first-person/2019/12/19/21026925/andrew-yang-disability-policy
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> --
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> - World University and School
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
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> > > >>>>>>> >> >> - 415 480 4577
> > > >>>>>>> >> >> - http://scottmacleod.com
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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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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

11:31 AM (3 hours ago)
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Alden, Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann,


Perhaps it was July 2018 ... was it then Alden at Wisdom Creek Ranch that you floated the idea of Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate? 

And who would take Kamala Harris's CA senate seat if Biden wins?

Here's who could fill Kamala Harris's Senate seat if she becomes VP
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/511610-heres-who-could-fill-harriss-senate-seat-if-she-becomes-vp

The veepstakes are over — now whom might Newsom pick to replace Kamala Harris in Senate?
https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/08/kamala-harris-replacement-newsom-california-senate/


Katie Porter? 



Warmly, Scotty



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