Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Fairy duster (Calliandra eriophylla): Harumph & wriggle-snort (have always wanted to start an email with these words - now have :) ... re further thinking out of the box (which he talks about, and is conscious of doing as a scientist) ... more Harvard and MIT Prof George Church, - how would all of George Church's examples work in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for STEM (think Google Street View with time slider and TensorFlow AI) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ? * * * Harbin Hot Springs & Harumph & wriggle-snort

Head to #HarbinHotSprings NOW w #Covid19 still a risk & to do #AnthropologicalFieldWork? Onsen https://t.co/PxnvNGjDrk in #SmartPhone & co-create #virtualHarbin in #GoogleCardboard in bath re #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

Head to #HarbinHotSprings NOW w #Covid19 still a risk & to do #AnthropologicalFieldWork? Onsen https://t.co/vXXqm7QoL0 in #SmartPhone & co-create #virtualHarbin in #GoogleCardboard in bath re #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1328023983053103104?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1328024036362788864?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1328024093895979010?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1328023440004063232?s=20

Head to #HarbinHotSprings NOW w #Covid19 still a risk & to do #AnthropologicalFieldWork? Onsen https://t.co/EG5TqrCZFj in #SmartPhone & co-create #virtualHarbin in #GoogleCardboard in bath re #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin~
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328023828576931841?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1328023909438877698?s=20

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Sunheart, jaima!

What would you add -

How to Do Transcendental Meditation

Sit in a comfortable chair with your feet on the ground and hands in your lap. ...
Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths to relax the body.
Open your eyes, and then close them again. ...
Repeat a mantra in your mind. ...
When you recognize you're having a thought, simply return to the mantra.

https://www.mydomaine.com/how-to-do-transcendental-meditation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique

... Or subtract?

Mathematically yours, ;)

How are you doing?

Jaima, Scott

Head to #HarbinHotSprings NOW w #Covid19 still a risk & to do #AnthropologicalFieldWork? Onsen https://t.co/PxnvNGjDrk in #SmartPhone & co-create #virtualHarbin in #GoogleCardboard in bath re #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1328023440004063232?s=19

The sociality of picture in blog title https://t.co/4a1AuXRv5R (behind it) appeals in #Covid19 time (prob like STEAM #FieldSites #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook) Am seeing parallels between S.A. Blombos Cave & where I live https://t.co/3xTyb3VPX4 in #SFBayArea ~

The sociality of picture in blog title https://t.co/4a1AuXRv5R (behind it) appeals in #Covid19 time (prob like STEAM #FieldSites #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook) Am seeing parallels between S.A. Blombos Cave & where I live https://t.co/3xTyb3VPX4 in #SFBayArea~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1323764368283111425?s=19

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Harumph & wriggle-snort, Jane, Ed, Dorota, Marc, (have always wanted to start an email with these words - now have :)

re further thinking out of the box (which he talks about, and is conscious of doing as a scientist) -

... more Harvard and MIT Prof George Church,

George Church - The Future of Humanity | Xapiens Symposium

https://youtu.be/oQV_1b_sC_g

Now how would all of George Church's examples work in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for STEM (think Google Street View with time slider and TensorFlow AI) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ?

And these 2 recent blog posts contain some of this email thread -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/so-nice-to-get-your-email-comparison-of.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/pennyroyal-mentha-pulegium.html

And re 'centering' in this age of rapid of change - the information technology age & re the network society - I just this morning shared the below with Sunheart, a Harbin friend (& main informant in my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ visit a realistic virtual earth here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) the following ... and it's the sociality, Marc, of the Blombos Cave example in South Africa (below) which I'm curious about how to create online in ways that are flourishing :)

Fond regards, Scott