Friday, April 24, 2026

Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis): Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~ Sat April 25, 2026

 


John Seifert

Apr 23, 2026, 9:28 PM (15 hours ago)
to me
I will try to tune into the yoga class, but I will probably be on my way to Lake Tahoe, but I might not leave till Sunday…
Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 2, 2026, at 7:39 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:


John, 
Thanks so much for your email and interest in the Restorative Yoga explorations on Saturday's at 8 am Pacific Time ...

And great, John, if I've moved forward the WUaS Academic Medical Center and the Yoga hall into a vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 by tomorrow morning, but it's not looking like it yet  ... Maybe Saturday May 2 ... Have a great trip to Tahoe! 


Scott
Here's 
Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis): Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~ Sat April 25, 2026 

Seeking to update this Yoga in Canyon page -

Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations - 


Dear Yoga friends, and family in their 80s and 90s' ~ Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), Unitarians' Chris Michaels and Ma/Janie,  Alden (Briscoe.- who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), ~ Quakertarian & Veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon), Donna (Leet MD), George (Church) and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Peter (Norvig, Stanford AI), Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility"), Doortje (Van Kooten), Vivek (Hutheesing, - "Meditation and Yoga" your father said  ... from India to the world as its greatest 'exports' - great (at around the 37 minute mark - https://vivekhutheesing.com/india-past-present-and-future/ in the great Q&A), Sandy (MacLeod, brother),  Pin/Siddhartha (Mazumdar HHS), Ed (Smyth MD in Berkeley),  All, 

Yoga greetings! How are you? Some restorative Yoga explorations this Saturday April 25, 2026 at 8am Pacific Time. Not having moved forward into 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 yet California 94516 and to potentially get together in a Zoom call Yoga hall for teaching and a Yoga conversation ...

A  
Would you like to explore 3 Yoga meditations of your liking or finding from this yoga video 
Angela Farmer : Living Fully In Our Bodies (Full Class)
https://youtu.be/wCJfXwm97rw 


Also asked Gemini 
What restorative Yoga asanas could people do - (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? - that 80 and 90 year olds could do at age 135 some of which effects would also be measurable in our avatar agent electronic health records as digital twins emerging from little Google Pegman in Google Street View with Time Slider interoperable in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYogaAsana, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga and in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything re 8 limbs Yoga and say starting with 3 inner body (as a kind of consciousness or awareness) yoga meditations without tennis balls with yogini Angela Farmer selected from - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJfXwm97rw ?

https://gemini.google.com/share/60a380b8e0fe 




C
... and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? 
this interesting Harvard conversation just came onto my smartphone ... Check it out Yoga-wise :)  
Harvard Thinking: The secret lives of super-agers (2026)



D
Explore restorative Yoga first thing upon rising - and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) - (which I find very salutary) 


Yogic-ally (re 8 limbs. ofYoga), Namaste, warm regards, 
Scott 

Here are last Saturday and Sunday's Restorative Yoga explorations, and much more (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ~




PS

And check out again this incredible interview of George Church by Dwarkesh Patel - 
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church (6/26/25) 
https://youtu.be/olmHHxFQwxo
partly on aging reversal genetic drug therapies, and with implications for extreme longevity (re further Harvard Thinking:)






https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.561.1.6





https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2022/10/saussurea.html





https://www.sci.news/biology/saussurea-khunjerabensis-11287.html







Snow lotus (Saussurea khunjerabensis)


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

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


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Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Congo Forests of Central Africa: Re WUaS Wikidata - Wikidata - Phabricator - [Maniphest] [Updated] T371520: graph for hits to Linked Data Endpoint (Special:EntityData) is broken * Implications for wiki World Univ & Sch, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in its 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/ - for free online WUaS degrees from home in each of all ~ 200 countries and in their main languages, and as major world class universities, - and in 7159 living languages as wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, ... and in WUaS planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet ? * * where @WorldUnivAndSch is heading with #WikidataWUaS #Wikimedia's #BackendStructuredKnowledgeDatabaseForAI, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages?



where @WorldUnivAndSch is heading with #WikidataWUaS #Wikimedia's #BackendStructuredKnowledgeDatabaseForAI, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/
https://ocw.mit.edu/ for online #freeWUaSdegrees in 200 countries
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-congo-forests-of-central-africa.html ~

WITH MIT OCW image - 
 

Retweeting -

UNEP-WCMC
@unepwcmc
📢 UNEP-WCMC has published a report summarising five years of research into the Congo Basin peatlands, under the
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Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28kmayvf

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* * 

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to: Lena_WMDE <T371520+public+814b026faf5c4f6f@phabricator.wikimedia.org>,
Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>,
Markus Krötzsch <Accounts@korrekt.org>,
Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic@gmail.com>,
Pin - Siddartha Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>,
Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>,
"Hann, Byron" <Byron.Hann@ucsf.edu>,
karen_brennan@gse.harvard.edu,

Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> 


Re WUaS Wikidata - 

Wikidata - Phabricator - [Maniphest] [Updated] T371520: graph for hits to Linked Data Endpoint (Special:EntityData) is broken


HakanIST added a comment.View Task


The dashboard itself is fine, but the script that feeds data into Graphite (analytics/limn-wikidata-data repo, personal crontab on stat1007) stopped running when that host was decommissioned and was never migrated. The raw data in wmf.webrequest is still there, so this needs someone with stat1011 access to set up a new pipeline (e.g. via analytics/wmde/scripts + statsd-exporter, T392599).



Implications for wiki World Univ & Sch, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in its 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/ - for free online WUaS degrees from home in each of all ~ 200 countries and in their main languages, and as major world class universities, - and in 7159 living languages as wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, ...  and in WUaS planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University  in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki - and to end poverty worldwide and with free universal education ?

(World University and School is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program).

Best regards, 
Scott


all 200 each a major online research and teaching university, and with AI and ML, from - 

all 7,159 living languages in these languages from - 




PS

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- World University and School

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

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


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the wildness that remains

37 Wilderness Areas

from Conservation International's



Tropical Rainforest

1. Amazonia

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela


2. The Congo Forests of Central Africa

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo


3. New Guinea

Papua or Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea


Wilderness image

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) on a collpa along the Manu River, Manu National Park, Peru. © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre

Tropical Woodlands, Savannas and Grasslands

4. The Chaco

Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay


5. The Caatinga

Brazil


6. Miombo-Mopane Woodlands and Grasslands

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe


7. The Serengeti

Kenya, Tanzania


8. Cape York

Australia


9. Arnhem Land

Australia


10. Kimberley

Australia


Wilderness image

Mount Hagen Highlands Show performer, Papua New Guinea. © Cristina Mittermeier

Wetlands

11. The Pantanal

Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay


12. The Llanos

Colombia, Venezuela


13. Bañados Del Este

Uruguay


14. The Sundarbans

Bangladesh, India


15. The Sudd

Sudan


16. The Okavango

Botswana, Namibia


Wilderness image

Warriors from the upper Xingú region of Brazil participating in the Quarup ceremony. The event pictured here was held in the village of the Kamayurá and involved at least seven tribes of the Xingú region. © Russell Mittermeier

Deserts

17. Baja Californian and Sonoran Deserts

Mexico, USA (Arizona, California)


18. The Greater Chihuahuan Desert

Mexico, USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)


19. The Mojave Desert

USA (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah)


20. The Colorado Plateau

USA (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)


21. Costal Deserts of Peru and Chile

Chile, Peru


22. The Sahara/Sahel

Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara


23. The Kalahari Desert

Botswana, Namibia, South Africa


24. The Namib Desert

Angola, Namibia


25. Arabian Deserts

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen


26. Asian Deserts

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan


27. Australian Deserts

Australia


Wilderness image

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado as seen from the Toroweap Overlook, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA. © Larry Ulrich

Temperate Forests

28. The Northern Rocky Mountains

Canada, USA (Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming)


29. Pacific Northwest

Canada, USA (Alaska)


30. The Appalachians

Canada, USA (Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia)


31. Magellanic Subpolar Rainforests

Argentina, Chile


32. European Mountains

Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia


33. Tasmania

Australia


Wilderness image

Mountain Goat (Oreammnos americanus). © Craig Blacklock/Larry Ulrich Stock

High Latitude Wilderness Areas

34. The Boreal Forests

Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska)


35. Patagonia

Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands (UK)


36. The Arctic Tundra

Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska)


37. Antarctica




Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places

(2002)

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/9686397698.html

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Helianthus californicus (California sunflower): YouTube Video platform and other #FreeVideoPlatforms are amazing for #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch in #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program & in #RealisticVirtualEarth (in #GSV) AND Q: #GeminiAIreTeaching & #FreeITPlatforms & #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning' - Are people teaching & learning w AI by adding photos & videos to #GoogleStreetView w #GTimeSlider, even, in the same way that they do with #GoogleYouTube? * * * retweeting new Google TPUs - Excited @WorldUnivAndSch in #GrowWithGoogleWUaS @WUaSPress for these TPUs in dev a #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForBrains a #RealisticVirtualEarthForChips & for #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneDrugTherapies where brain is CHALLENGING for aging reversal * Looking good! TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference ... where "Inference is the logical process of reaching a conclusion based on evidence, reasoning, and prior knowledge rather than direct observation"

 


YouTube Video platform and other #FreeVideoPlatforms are amazing for #PeopleToPeople '#WikiTeaching' & '#WikiLearning' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch in #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program & in #RealisticVirtualEarth (in #GSV) 

AND  

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We're launching the national Working Families Guarantee.

We can win a real agenda for working people — but only if we fight for it.

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AND

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retweeting new Google TPUs / Chips / semiconductors -

Sundar Pichai
@sundarpichai
TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference.

Looking good!

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2046981627184902378







Inference is the logical process of reaching a conclusion based on evidence, reasoning, and prior knowledge rather than direct observation. It involves "reading between the lines" to form an educated guess or deduction. Synonyms include deduction, conclusion, reasoning, implication, and assumption






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https://calscape.org/Helianthus-californicus-(California-Sunflower)







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

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


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