Saturday, February 28, 2026

Camellia japonica: Sat 2/28/26 ~ Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * * * First exploration of Gemini AI to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic book project # 2 - https://aistudio.google.com/ - and SO MUCH potential for all of us to co-make a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (w a #RealisticVirtualEarth) . . . Google AI Studio Gemini AI Nano Banana

 

Sat 2/28/26 ~ Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? 


Dear Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), UU Chris Michaels, Annie, Alden, Donna, George and Maitreyi (both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Ma/Janie, Peter (Norvig AI), Yogis, All,   


On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 8:40 PM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), UU Chris Michaels, Annie, Alden, Donna, George and Maitreyi (both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Ma/Janie, Peter (Norvig AI), Yogis, All,   

Yoga greetings! A little restorative Yoga exploratoration tomorrow, Sat Feb 28, 2026 at around 8 am PT, 11 am ET 8:30 pm India time and in your zone ... Seeking to explore inside meditatively ~ 

A 
Explore from this with Angela for 5 minutes or so at first - 
Angela Farmer : Savasana : Letting go and Returning
https://youtu.be/6T9TtxPEGZw
B 
And then explore some of this same video seating in easy cross-legged pose, or half-lotus, or especially sitting on a chair, for a few minutes - 
(adapting the video for sitting up?)

C
I found this 
Yoga tree of 8 limb Yoga great in Pinterest ... and with its allusions to genetics even, implied - 
A way to explore Yoga philosophy in many ways ~

D 
And then another 5 minutes of so with a kind of introduction to 
Pranayama - breathing explorations Yogically with Angela too - 


E
And I found this book new Yoga book for me recently, and actually met one of its authors, Marlynn, whom I appreciated a lot, in a Data & Society webinar from near DC, yesterday morning, Th 2/26/26  - 


The #HarvardMedSch #GuideToYoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, & Flexibility by #MarlynnWeiMDJD, & #JamesEGrovesMD, 2017.

The #HarvardMedSch #GuideToYoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, & Flexibility
by #MarlynnWeiMDJD, & #JamesEGrovesMD, 2017.
Introduction to yoga: the chair sequence
Modified Sun Salutation










F 
And Dick and Chris, and all, check out and do the first Harvard Yoga pose chair Yoga video - 

Introduction to yoga: the chair sequence


G
And further, this Harvard Yoga pose might interest people who want to eventually try Sun Salutation 
Modified Sun Salutation


AND 
H 
And as we may live to 150 and well beyond:), 

I came to wonder further how we and scientists could Yogically even study or explore our cells relating to the Yoga poses and meditations we do and even the cells in our brains.

And when Stanford Law and Bioethics' professor Hank Greely posted the following this morning, I asked the following too - 

how else is it possible to study brain cells & neuron cells w #brainwaveHeadsets, & in their cells, through the cranium, besides by EEG & MRI processes scientifically: 
https://g.co/gemini/share/1089acbe4a4a & how to add these data to an iterating #RealisticVirtualEarthForCells? #WUaScellBio ~



Retweeting - 

Long @undarkmag story on human neural organoids undark.org/2026/02/26/bra… Conflict of interest warning: it quotes me. A lot.


Check out the Undarkmagazine article ...


I 
How to study the cells and neurons of the brain, and meditation and even loving bliss, and with headbands and brainwave headsets too, in my 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project, while soaking in the Harbin warm pool or in our homes in a virtual Harbin hot springs, and with STEM research on the brain and body mind planned too - and re Yoga and asana and breathing and meditation?


J
And in these regards, here are some related research queries - 

Which databases to draw from first @GeoChurch #PeterNorvig in dev #LLMmodels for "#CellularTransitions #AcrossHumanLifeStages" #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforExtremeLongevity #RVEforCells in our #PhysicalDigital #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords (& re
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/kokio-keokeo-or-hawaiian-white-hibiscus.html ?)

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2025267685572182468

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2025267346122985906


AND again - 
K 
How to dev databases & #LLMmodels for "#CellularTransitions #AcrossHumanLifeStages" from #HarvardMedicalSchool @ embryo, 10, 20, - 90+ yo re dates @ #HarbinHotSprings' #GateHouse in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider: 2007, 2012, 2024: https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ?



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Which databases to draw from first @GeoChurch #PeterNorvig in dev #LLMmodels for "#CellularTransitions #AcrossHumanLifeStages" #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforExtremeLongevity #RVEforCells in our #PhysicalDigital #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords (& re
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/kokio-keokeo-or-hawaiian-white-hibiscus.html ?)

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2025267685572182468

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2025267346122985906


M
Looking forward to exploring some of this all together tomorrow as individuals on our own Yoga journeys ... and as we grow stronger, with awareness, and fitter too .. and as we may live to 150 years of age and well beyond. (And here's a fascinating rigorous clinical trial out of Brown University, with Brown Professor John Sedivy as the PI, I think, and other universities in New England studying slowing aging - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/asparagus-gharoensis.html). Know of other clinical trials in process in a related longevity vein, and with possible Yoga explorations too? Please let us know in this developing Yoga and Longevity conversation.

Namaste, all the best, Happy Yoga explorations, warm regards, 
Scott




On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 9:51 AM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School) Annie, Alden, Donna, George and Maitreyi (both professors in Harvard Medical School), Ma/Janie, Byron, Peter (Norvig AI), Yogis, All,   

Yoga greetings from the Yoga van in the SF East Bay hills. A little further what I'm calling Jnana Yoga (thinking yoga, I'm calling this - re asking questions) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B1%C4%81na_yoga) ... Could imaging of cell types for machine learning predictive purposes be construed as a kind of Yoga and re connecting with or joining with cells (brainstorming -wise)?


Ann Brown <annieb@gorge.net>, Jane MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Alden F Briscoe <ABriscoe@brakeleybriscoe.com>, Donna Leet MD <donna.leet@ucsf.edu>, Ed Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Pin - Siddartha Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Tom Hess <yogitom@comcast.net>, fracka@gmail.com, George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>, Joan Kidder <kidderjoan@gmail.com>, Sandy MacLeod <sandysculpture@hotmail.com>, Shawn T Flaherty <pgh.shawn@yahoo.com>, Marti - Maitreyi Mazumdar <maitreyi.mazumdar@childrens.harvard.edu>, Elliott Thurston <esthurston@hotmail.com>, Peter Norvig <pnorvig@google.com>, robert@neffs.net, Timmothy & A Brown <timmothybrownbrown@gmail.com>, Abigail Sophie Burnyeat <ab2.smo@uhi.ac.uk>, Linda Argote <argote@andrew.cmu.edu>, Brad & Arlene MacLeod <macleod@usm.maine.edu>, Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com>, Dick & Chris Michaels <christine.michaels4@gmail.com>, Kathryn Norgang <yebo.kathryn@gmail.com>, Lillian & Ruben Thomas <lillianbthomas57@gmail.com>, "Hugh M. Thomas" <h.thomas@miami.edu>, drvaria.gegindia@gmail.com, Linda Meacci Yoga <info@lindameacciyoga.com>, Marc Dupuis <marco.dupuis@gmail.com>, Matthew King <king.matthewt@gmail.com>, doortjevankooten@yahoo.com, bill.gates@gatesfoundation.org, Barbara van Schewick <schewick@stanford.edu>, Gerry & Mary Lou Kennedy <geraldkennedy1155@gmail.com>, John & Gretchen Kidder <jkidder@vtc.edu>, Joichi Ito <Joiito@gmail.com>, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Nick Thompson <npt134@gmail.com>, Charles Nesson <nesson@gmail.com>, Stephon Owens <StephonO87@gmail.com>, Erica Robb Thaler <erica.thaler@uphs.upenn.edu>, Doug & Zoe Billman <dbillman@rcn.com>, "David S. Kong" <dkong@mit.edu>, Jillian Chelson Briscoe <yogapac@yahoo.com>, info@pranayogawellbeing.com, Dick Robb <rrobbmd@verizon.net>, Lucy Robb <lucylrobb@gmail.com>, Henry Robb <robb-h@comcast.net>, Cliona Robb <clionarobb@comcast.net>, John Sargent MD <jsargent@tuftsmedicalcenter.org>, Cherry Thun <c_thun@yahoo.com>, Eric Thun <eric.thun@sbs.ox.ac.uk>, Pete Thun <peter_thun@yahoo.com>, Chris Thun <chris_thun@yahoo.com>, Kirsten Thun Dunn <dunnvt@comcast.net>, MacLeod Mark and Roberta <mark_k_macleod@yahoo.com>, Scott MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com>, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>, "rappleberry@aya.yale.edu" <rappleberry@aya.yale.edu>






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First exploration of Gemini AI to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic book project # 2 - https://aistudio.google.com/ - and SO MUCH potential for all of us to co-make a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (w a #RealisticVirtualEarth)  . . . 


Google AI Studio Gemini AI Nano Banana 


Dear Ma, Peter, Byron, Pin, Ed, 


Wow, and incredibly  - Seeking to generate a 
First exploration of Gemini AI to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic book project # 2 -  - and SO MUCH potential for all of us to co-make a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (w a #RealisticVirtualEarth) ...

with the 'prompt' text below 

and needing an API key, twice ...


There's a "Connect API Key for Nano Banana 2" option in the top right of the main window ... which I haven't clicked on yet ...

Thoughts?

Warm regards, 
Scott








First exploration of Gemini AI to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic book project # 2 - 


Prompt in 

Google AI Studio Gemini AI Nano Banana 

"I'd like to start building an iterating realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs in Google Street View with time slider, GMaps, TensorFlow AI and particularly from sitting on the bench near the front steps of the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool - about 300 yards up from this Harbin Gate House in Street View - ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ and with something like this ONSEN's perspective  - which is in a relatively new  'tilt-able' Youtube interactive immersive #InfoTech
竹取亭円山 有馬温泉湯めぐりVR
 https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI ... and viewable in a digital mask, and for Yoga meditation from our home bathtubs (and eventually for a 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic study and creation of a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs for History - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs%20history ... and building from also Scott GK MacLeod's 1st Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book, perhaps even later by adding this book to text in the sidebar in Google Street View with parallels to the images in Sundar Pinchai's tweetX here - SO MUCH potential for all of us to co-make a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (w a #RealisticVirtualEarth) in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider & even w new #WUaSscience & #SocialScience  #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy theory #TextInTheSideBar & for 2nd #HarbinEthnography @HarbinBook ~

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2027510138828165562

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2027509495564538158

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2027506932974817540

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2027507100444987813

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2027508816309571704

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2027506074295955812

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2027506307562127764?s=20



Retweeting -

Sundar Pichai

@sundarpichai

Introducing Nano Banana 2, our best image model yet 🍌🍌

It uses Gemini’s understanding of the world and is powered by real-time information and images from web search. That means it can better reflect real-world conditions in high-fidelity.

Check out "Window Seat," a demo using Nano Banana 2’s world understanding to generate more accurate views from any window in the world, pulling live local weather info with 2K/4K specs. The precision is mind blowing.

Rolling out today as the new default in the @Geminiapp, Search (across 141 countries), and Flow + available in preview via
@GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI. Also available in Google
@Antigravity.

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2027057726170509724 ). "






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SO MUCH potential for all of us to co-make a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings (w a #RealisticVirtualEarth) in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider & even w new #WUaSscience & #SocialScience  #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy theory #TextInTheSideBar & for 2nd #HarbinEthnography @HarbinBook ~

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2027510138828165562

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2027509495564538158

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2027506932974817540

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2027507100444987813

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2027508816309571704

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2027506074295955812

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2027506307562127764?s=20



Retweeting -

Sundar Pichai

@sundarpichai

Introducing Nano Banana 2, our best image model yet 🍌🍌

It uses Gemini’s understanding of the world and is powered by real-time information and images from web search. That means it can better reflect real-world conditions in high-fidelity.

Check out "Window Seat," a demo using Nano Banana 2’s world understanding to generate more accurate views from any window in the world, pulling live local weather info with 2K/4K specs. The precision is mind blowing.

Rolling out today as the new default in the
@Geminiapp
, Search (across 141 countries), and Flow + available in preview via
@GoogleAIStudio
 and Vertex AI. Also available in Google
@Antigravity.


https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2027057726170509724





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Ma, Peter, Byron, Pin, Ed, 

clicked on the 

"Connect API Key for Nano Banana 2" option in the top right of the main window

and got to -  

"Choose a paid key for Virtual Harbin Hot Springs
You have no Paid Project. Please view the Projects Page to choose a Project and Upgrade. Go to Projects Page"

Will explore further later ... 


returnable to I wonder, and could I start up again from there, having tried twice already ending with a link like the above? 

In the meantime, I still seem to get past the invisible barrier in Google Street View at the Harbin Gate House (for years now) in 2007, 2012 or 2024 ...


 and to begin to "walk" up to the pool area ... although it is possible still to walk the '4 miles' down to Middletown California.

Thoughts on getting up to the warm pool, or creating it even?

Scott 



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Onsen tiltable Youtube video information technology - 

竹取亭円山 有馬温泉湯めぐりVR

VR180

Official - 竹取亭円山 - Taketoritei Maruyama

https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI


https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI  


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Ma, Peter, Byron, Pin, Ed, AI readers, all, 

Greetings. This momentous incredible Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' link - https://aistudio.google.com/apps/e1119e28-f710-4d23-9f21-0b659eb31d8c?showPreview=true&showAssistant=true - toward an iterating #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings and #ForHistory too, didn't work on my smartphone, so 

I'm going to wait a spell longer ... since I also think AI Studio Gemini AI Nano Banana is iterating and it might take a while to code for all the implications of my lengthy prompt ... and it might also take a while to get good datasources / code bases for many many AI and ML angles on the Harbin warm pool and for developing from this tiltable Onsen Youtube information technologies too - https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI  ... Develop this #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings with a #RealisticVirtualEarth on Stanford computer servers, since implicit in this ginormous project are a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCells #RealisticVirtualEarthForMolecules a #RealisticVirtualEarthForBrains a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal a #RealisticVirtualEarthForExtremeLongevity and #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery & related #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords too? 

Thoughts? 


Scott 

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