Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Ķemeri National Park (Latvia): Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia * What role could furthering a single worldwide cryptocurrency (in most of ~200 countries: think the Euro in 19 out of 28 EU countries) - and think ‘Stanford Mine Pi Coin’ with BLOCKCHAIN ledger - play in giving Latvia a new leadership role in the EU? * "Ram cichlid: Electric church music ... Blockchain ledger and one specific book title "Naked Harbin Ethnography" . . . " * * * 'Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond' - https://quakerfahe.com/2021/04/02/qlhe-quaker-academics/ - Question for Cara Curtis from your FAHE Quaker Academics' presentation * FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker social ethics, and ethnographic approaches makes me wonder whether one could use photos as evidence or textual resources for identifying flourishing. :)


Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia


Dear Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, (Ambassador McFaul, Sonia Lee), 


Greetings, and thank you for your fascinating webinar just now - https://library.stanford.edu/events/prime-minister-krisjanis-karins-republic-latvia (and 

Here are the questions I asked in your Latvia-Stanford video conference: 

Thank you for your excellent talk, Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš. What role could furthering a single worldwide cryptocurrency (in most of  ~200 countries: think the Euro in 19 out of 28 EU countries) - and think ‘Stanford Mine Pi Coin’ with BLOCKCHAIN ledger - play in giving Latvia a new leadership role in the EU, & with regards especially to Russia and China, and further for new approaches to 1 climate change 2 technological development and regulation 3 rules based international trade (but also in many ways regarding 4 international security 5 values)? 

All the best, Scott MacLeod 
(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - am developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a single cryptocurrency for all 7.8 billion people combined with free wiki universal education - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html (see the UBI - Universal Basic Income - label here too as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency to many of all 7.8 billion people on planet, brainstorming-wise) - which Latvia & the EU could benefit from in multiple ways). Thank you.

Science in Latvia? What role might STEM education play in energy independence in Latvia? 

Latvia World University and School will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in the Latvian language, and as a major online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online university offering free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school (or sim) degrees, and newly as WUaS partners with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard). And if you know anyone in the wider Latvian community, who speaks English, and is interested in an online free PhD or 4-year Bachelor degree beginning 9/1/21 at MIT OCW-centric World University and School, please let me know. 

Thank you, 
Scott
PS
If you might be interested, please see the 'Bay Area Stammtisch" Google Meet link here for this Saturday, May 1, 2020 at 10:30 am Pacific Time, in German and English - 


- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, President, CEO & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577



World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
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Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).



Notes

values - 

freedom, democracy and the rule of law

5 'values' 

1 climate change 
2 technological development and regulation 
3 rules based international trade 
(4 international security,  
5 values)


energy independence



-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- 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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What is blockchain ledger? I like this Vermont house sale ex: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472 where the ledger itself could be sold to museums or insurance cos. See too https://twitter.com/valaafshar/status/967559165555167234?lang=en & https://twitter.com/valaafshar/status/920468448446173184 ~

#BlockchainForArt #WUaSBlockchainForArt > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Banking_and_Money ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046479576069681152?s=20


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What is blockchain?

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472


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#Blockchain is changing the way we do business

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/920468448446173184?s=20


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Blockchain explained

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/967559165555167234?s=20


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See, too:

Ram cichlid: Electric church music ... Blockchain ledger and one specific book title "Naked Harbin Ethnography" - explored further, How blockchain ledger works, A) Vermont house ex. video, B) 1,2,3 things blockchain ledger does, C) When block chains start to work for a particular automobile's resales, and then with replacement parts inside over time, it begins to get complex, D) Blockchain with robotics' systems ex. video re MIT conference, E) And I'd bet that TRUST through coding can be maintained even with - "MIT Technology Review - Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked" - Thinking through both blockchain, as well as some implications for the WUaS bookstore and WUaS hospitals * * * Also re a realistic virtual earth and WUaS online hospitals, to digitize both of Stanford's hospitals, some of Kaiser's Hospitals, Brown University's Butler psychiatric hospital, - for Electronic Health Records with real time video into the future for tele-robotic brain surgery at the atomic level before and after, with a single cryptocurrency in all ~200 countries' with blockchain ledger for hospital technologies, Medical School's publications etc. * * * Blockchain ledger is potentially revolutionary (and possibly as revolutionary as the Internet itself I've heard) * * * Thanks, Peter Norvig for getting back to me ... Have you ever visited Harbin Hot Springs ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ ?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ram-cichlid-electric-church-music.html



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'Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond' - 

Question for Cara from your Friends' Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Quaker Academics' presentation



Dear Cara, (and David),

Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and thank you. (Do you happen to know perhaps Caleb Alexander MD in Baltimore Yearly Meeting? - Our families met for a Xmas meal over about 2+ decades in Pittsburgh, PA,  and it's through the Alexanders partly that I became involved with Quakers). Thanks, David, also for moderating this timely and topical Friendly FAHE Quaker Academics' conversation. 

And do you happen to know, too, MIT Professor of Anthropology, Heather Paxson, who is a Friend, I think, and a Haverford alumna too?


From the text chat: 

Thanks for your wonderful Light-filled Friendly thinking, Cara (and thanks too Sa'ed).

Cara, am curious how or if - in your ethnographic research methodologies regarding flourishing motherhood in the Emory, GA, prison or affluent church, for your PhD - the questions you're asking are developing online or digitally in new ways? What kinds of new opportunities for Quaker scholarship, if any, have online ethnographic research modalities made possible for you? And how are you also exploring 'walking in the Light' in emerging ONLINE campuses (if such opportunities have emerged over the past coronavirus pandemic year) and even regarding if online virtual places are emerging in your studies? What is authentic online flourishing motherhood in your research or thinking?



Friendly regards, Scott 


PS
World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) is conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, and here are the 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes just completed today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html. 

PPS

My Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography also had a slight Friends' Quaker focus, since I identified as a Friendly ethnographer in part, while doing field work, for example, and kept in communication, and connected with Quakers in Lake County (one of whom had been participating for many years in the oldest group at Harbin - an AA group), northern California, too, while 'in the field.;


Thank you, Cara, and David!



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-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- 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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Hi Scott,

Thanks so much for coming last night, and for your question. In terms of the people you mentioned: I don't think I know the Alexanders, at least not by name...always possible I would recognize a face. :) And I don't know Heather Paxson personally, but my spouse, who is an anthropology PhD student, knows her--she works on topics similar to him, and they have connected through that. Various small worlds interconnecting!

In terms of your question about how things have pivoted online: it's a very good one, and I'm afraid I don't have the best answers! As far as my research goes, I was fortunate to have finished most of my research in-person before the pandemic started (though some on the non-prison side did get cut off--I didn't feel it made sense to keep connecting with new folks online at the start of the pandemic as everything was in chaos...though I did do a couple of follow-up interviews over Zoom). And as for the prison, they have virtually no internet access at all, so we have been largely cut off from them, which has been hard. I also work for the theological studies program in a teaching/directing capacity, and we have been able to send in photocopied packets of readings/letters, but that's about it. In a year when many of us relied heavily on online formats for connection, incarcerated folks (at least in states like Georgia) have been largely left behind. In addition to their dramatically increased risk for the virus--it's very frustrating.

But thinking about your question more broadly, I think I see lots of places where online worlds are helping us live better lives right now--if not quite "flourish," perhaps. I know online mothers groups have been extremely important for many folks. And while I was an online teaching skeptic before the pandemic, I will say that I have come to see how it can work well at least in some instances for building community. I'm teaching right now in Candler's Doctor of Ministry program, which is always online, as folks are working pastors and chaplains located in churches/communities throughout the US. The online format allows them to come together and build community, as well as stay rooted in their own context.

Anyway,  I hope this is helpful food for thought, at least! Thanks again for your question and engagement last night. I hope your work is going as well as possible in our continuing strange times!

All best,

Cara



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Hi Cara, (David, Research Professor at Bryn Mawr! - I've been thinking you are an Emeritus Professor, but didn't realize you are still active!),

Thanks so much for your prompt email reply, Cara. My Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book comes into conversation with 'Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human' (Princeton UP 2008) by Tom Boellstorff, also with Stanford PhD like Heather Paxson. Has your spouse engaged these resources or a digital focus anthropologically or in his PhD studies? (I don't have a spouse yet:). While my Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book is bit out of the box, since it seeks to actually create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for comparative ethnographic study ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and here's a beginning in the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate in Google Street View with time slider, where you can walk down the road a spell toward Middletown CA, as a possible emerging ethnographic and STEM field site and classrooms too, or campus even ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) - it also engages fully the anthropological academic literature regarding emerging virtual worlds. You and your spouse might find interesting this emerging possible research group - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - in a related vein. (Harbin is also a church - Heart Consciousness Church, since 1975 - albeit unaffiliated with other churches, and whatever church means). 

Online over the past year seems like it could be taken as an opening to study the Web ethnographically perchance flourishing in new ways, - in Friendly flourishing too. I also have a specific #ActualVirtual comparative focus - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click. I've also given some thought to the idea of flourishing here in the flourishing label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flourishing?m=0 - and here in my 'eudaimonia' web page -

(Regarding eudaimonia, as flourishing, see - 

Eudaimonia (personal flourishing)
is 'Flow' and Bliss

Dear Friends,

While bliss may be experienced by evoking or exploring good spiritedness, I'm curious about the following.

 

How to experience eudaimonia, flow, and bliss naturally?

FLOW

What is 'flow' ~ the psychology of optimal experience?



http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm - with an explicit focus on Friends esp.). 

and here again too, in this blog label - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html?m=0 - (and Friends-wise further, here, too, esp. - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which I began writing - might need editing:) - in Scotland around 2003:).

It seems like the ongoing creation of a myriad virtual worlds is a remarkable aspect of a kind of flourishing, I'm thinking and writing about.


(The image on your Twitter feed is a bit macabre - 

Qu'est-ce c'est?)

But your FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker social ethics, and ethnographic approaches makes me wonder whether one could use photos as evidence or textual resources for identifying flourishing. :) How do you examine academically the idea of flourishing, Cara? For example, the picture in your Twitter profile I could read ethnographically as exhibiting flourishing. What do you think? Helpful 'evidence' - another approach to reading 'flourishing' even, and ethnographically, if you chose to interpret photos with similar flourishing as such, and contextualize this perhaps in terms of what gave rise to such flourishing? I'd be interested in learning further your thoughts to many of these questions. 

Did you happen to study 'social ethics' or similar at the Harvard Divinity School with any of these philosophers - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html (where you'll also find some of my non-theistic Friendly thinking, and in a related blog label).

You both have what could be quite Scottish last names re it can be a small world indeed regarding connectedness and identity (I became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, Quaker Meeting:).

Friendly regards, 
Scott


PS 
Caleb Alexander's father, George L Alexander MD, may have had some Scots' background as well - and was also a brilliant Yale & McGill trained Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatrist, and a bit of a philosopher & linguist too. (I mention him in my blog, since I learned much from his thinking, as family friend - in the Jacques Lacan MD label, for one). Not a Friend, I think he may have met his wife who lives at Kendall Crosslands in Quaker circles in Cambridge or New Haven, for example. David, do you know any of the Alexanders, by any chance? :)

PPS 
And you'll see I mention Heather Paxson's work on open source publishing at the bottom of the 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from yesterday: 
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html

 


World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod


“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).




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