Stars Up Redwood: The Night is Light, Human Move from Troglodytes to Paniscus, Compelling {Social?} Index Investing Video

The night is light & not too cold. Clear tomorrow. Indian valley & the redwoods are magnificently, quietly there. Look around. Enjoy :)


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... would like to move from troglodytes (humans as common chimps - war, aggression, violence) to paniscus (humans as bonobo chimps - peaceable, egalitarian, matriarchal and very sexual -- as narratives) of the mind vis-a-vis worlduniversity.wikia.com.


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How can we develop PRACTICES, as fundamental as being a Friend, that respect & honor digital privacy & freedom from interference, for related benefits. There is great good in respecting digital privacy, and privacy, in general. Why don't the 'state,' individuals and others see that, in addition to it being in the spirit of U.S. law, which is another 'good' worth respecting, in many cases (e.g. except for war tax resistance, etc.)? Humans' common chimp behavior (troglodytes) gets me down. I'd like to create contexts and language for extraordinarily great behavior, while not forgetting human tendencies to 'troglodytism' (much human history?).

How would you, who have not respected others' privacy (legally or not), or interfered with others (whether through harming, stealing, etc.) change your behavior, and invite others to change their behavior, simply because it makes sense, and is good for the other person and for you (e.g. non-punitively)? I'd like my privacy and rights, please, and restitution from past consequences of the loss thereof. Thank you.

Language, education, culture and material resources ... seem to be part of the answer, when conscience fails ....


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(To anyone among my FB friends who might know who took my computer and backpack:)

May I please have back my knapsack with computer, soon, which was stolen on June 23 in SF - esp. the manuscripts - and the replacement costs?

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appreciates the yamas (yoga) - nonharming, truthfulness, restraint of sexuality, nonstealing, and restraint of greed. They can protect from a lot.


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Here's a compelling argument for index investing, - and socially conscious? - forbes.com/2009/01/09/intelligentinvestingbogle.html . See Vanguard's Jack Bogle's interview with Steve Forbes here, too: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/american-dipper-nontheist-friends.html, as well as an argument, by extension, for socially responsible index investing. And check out Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds in your local library.

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... a flourishing worlduniversity.wikia.com? a 'thing thinging' & How? And why don't people gravitate to loving bliss elicitation? More research IS needed.


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... wants to make possible ongoing innovation of ideas for millennia with worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29 esp. re: e.g. loving bliss neurophysiology



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I blog about bliss fairly frequently : http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - click on the 'loving bliss' category. Here's are exploratory Guidelines for Eliciting Loving Bliss vis-a-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument {scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm}

With friendly greetings, Scott


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Game changer? An open, free World University & School wiki where we can all teach and learn? Let's make it so at worlduniversity.wikia.com. I hope World University & School will expand and extend, as well as innovate.



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Beethoven's music is incredible ... listen closely ... :) lean back ... and let the music pour down your inner back bodymind like honey ... cascades of upwelling music ... from the 5th and the 8th symphonies ... to: just put on the 9th - here we go - bliss tripping ahead :) ...











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/stars-up-night-is-light-human-move-from.html - November 30, 2009)

Redwoods Up: Co-Authoring World Univ & Sch, Getting into WUaS, Clerestory

... would like to co-author worlduniversity.wikia.com with YOU.

ADD something - TEACH what you like.

It's open, and it's helpful. Let's share ideas ...

here & now ...

Teach & Learn ...


Gain fluency with WUaS and with a subject you're fascinated by, through engaging the subject fully.

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Get into it ...

Get into World University ...


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Clerestory: cloud hovered yesterday in Indian valley. Today is clear - and so cool among the redwoods. Look up and enjoy :)















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/redwoods-up-co-authoring-world-univ-sch.html - November 29, 2009)

Medusa Jellyfish: Light at Harbin, Fluency in Language, Art and esp. Music is Fun, Beethoven or Mozart as 'Technologies' for LEARNING Loving Bliss?

On Wednesday, I stepped out from the Fern building at Harbin Hot Springs, and the light on the trees over the sun deck was stunning, ~ glorious.

Then, in the hot pool, the colored glass in the clerestory shown amazingly on this week's very colorful flowers, in the woman's bust above the whale's spout.


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What happened to all the art in the streets e.g. in Berkeley, in the 1960s & 70s?

Art teaches useful skills, - it also needs markets to thrive.


Teach and learn art at World University and School...


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... fluency in language, art and esp. music is fun, and comes through practice, and generating a milieu for its cultivation.


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... wonders in what ways listening to e.g. Beethoven or Mozart can be a 'technologies' for LEARNING loving bliss. Might yoga poses have related effects as kinds of 'technologies' which affect bodyminds health-wise. And in conjunction with 'loving bliss?'


I also wonder in what ways listening to, for example, Beethoven or Mozart can be a 'program' for learning loving bliss or beauty. How can this change mind? Do the memories of great symphonies, that bring you great pleasure, do so repeatedly?


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Besides all the remarkable, free, open content at World Univ & Sch, where YOU can teach, I wonder how further to generate GREAT courses and creativity. Teach about this to your web cam and post it to worlduniversity.wikia.com


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How to cultivate specific qualities of focus vis-a-vis loving bliss & worlduniversity.wikia.com also ... neurophysiology-wise ... with agency? I posit that humans have agency. For example we can choose what symbols to engage, e.g. books to read, and blogs to write. Start a blog here about loving bliss - http://blogger.com.

I think we can cultivate qualities of loving bliss, and through practices ... think I'll work on my Harbin ethnography ...


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Mountains in the distance - dark tonight - the air is changed by the rain in Canyon - & the world smells good and fertile

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/medusa-jellyfish-light-at-harbin.html - November 28, 2009)

cloud hovers in indian valley

cow owl evening concert


cloud hovers
in Indian valley,
twilight above

cow moos,
then two
then calls
an owl

night is coming ~
the air
smells fertile

heading for dinner ~
cow owl
evening concert
















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/cloud-hovers-in-indian-valley.html - November 27, 2009)

Cloud Circulation: The Weather is Warm on Thanksgiving, relaxationresponse.org/steps, Redwoods

The weather is warm on Thanksgiving, and people are gathering with their families - relaxationresponse.org/steps - here near the redwoods.





































(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/cloud-circulation-weather-is-warm-on.html - November 26, 2009)

Alaskan Rainbows: Loving Bliss Neurophysiology - Easily, Naturally & Creatively?, S.F. Bay Area, Rainbow Movement

... curious how to richly elicit loving bliss neurophysiology - easily, naturally & creatively - in the milieu of the S.F Bay Area vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs ...


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The Rainbow movement {Rainbow Gathering, Rainbow Grocery: A Worker Owned Cooperative in San Francisco ... } is beautiful ...

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/alaskan-rainbows-loving-bliss.html - November 25, 2009)

Ridge Lines: Video Cameras in 25-ish-plus Great Universities, Healthful Practices, When the Contact Improv Jams are Cancelled

... would like to put video cameras in 25-ish-plus great universities' classes for worlduniversity.wikia.com, and not just in Stanford's, for example for this WUaS wiki


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One ridge line, two ridge lines, third ripple mountains under cumulus, in the distance. Middle ridge line has rich, green growth on it


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sings the benefits of eliciting the relaxationresponse.org/steps & of flax seed oil (for omega fatty acids) & a good, low-fat diet, exercise & sleep


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Two birds, in the light, soar over the little ridge between - they found the wind current's updraft. The redwood ridge is illuminated.


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The morning is cool, and illuminated tree tops peak over my window sill lightening the day - o, this sun is beautiful ...


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When the contact improv jams are cancelled, to yoga asana & dancing (at home) for the neurophysiological health benefits & changes (yamas)





















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/ridge-lines-video-cameras-in-25-ish.html - November 24, 2009)

Chestnut-capped Blackbird: How to Make LEARNING Really Enjoyable with So Much Information? Excitement in Talking, World Univ & Sch Opportunities

How to make LEARNING really enjoyable with so much accessible information, throughout life, for many?


What is learning in the human context?

In the aggregate, people learn how to read, write and in different subject matters, so learning involves the varied use of symbols neurophysiologically.

In the U.S. there's a pragmatic aspect to education, and a very sophisticated and imaginative approach to knowledge and learning, especially in great universities. The computer revolution, for example, is remarkable.



How can people (culturally) create excitement about ideas, as there was not only in Silicon Valley, when people were developing information technologies in the 1950s and '60s.


People were excited to talk with each other about innovation! Let's keep innovating.



Get excited about talking about and listening to fascinating ideas.

So consider engaging World University and School as an opportunity :)

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses


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Some recent postings in twitter and facebook:

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Teach to your web camera about what people can do about Global Warming or an 'Ocean & Climate Management Plan' worlduniversity.wikia.com/Subjects

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


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World University & School worlduniversity.wikia.com is a new (vegetarian) table

Come have a seat - this potluck is great - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware


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Plant a seed in the garden of WorldUniversity.wikia.com - add a great link e.g. librivox.org - which will grow

or

teach 4 minutes to your web camera


And here's a related link
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home


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Besides all the remarkable, free, open content at World University & School, where YOU can teach, I wonder how further to generate GREAT courses and creativity


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Bodyminds as musical instruments metaphor & loving bliss neurophysiology as music. How would this work? Zil-lions of motifs & rifs. Musicians?

Let's talk about this :)



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I'm curious how to richly elicit loving bliss neurophysiology - easily, naturally & creatively - in the milieu of the S.F Bay Area vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs.


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Invitation to nonhuman primates to add links or teach at worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interpecies_Communication - Kanzi? Koko? Sue Savage-Rumbaugh :)


I think we might be able to learn a lot from other primates, symbolically ...



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Agelaius ruficapillus (Vieillot, 1819)

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Chestnut-capped Blackbird



{Shiny cowbirds use learned song, I think, to select mates. Do chestnut-capped blackbirds, as well?}












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/chestnut-capped-blackbird-how-to-make.html - November 23, 2009)

Frozen Blueberry Flowers: Communicative Action Theory, LibriVox.Org, OLPC Mission, Somethings Delicious

Communicative Action Theory: This is what makes internet multimedia unique - hypermedia, integration of media elements, immersion (e.g. with digital hoods and gloves), interactivity, and new forms of narrativity (Packer and Jordan)


New opportunities to create with these here: - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


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added "Biochemistry of 'Now" as a 'subject' - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biochemistry_of_%27Now%27 to World University


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Added 'VisualComplexity.com' - VisualComplexity.com

'OpenLearn' (from Open University UK - openlearn.open.ac.uk) and

'LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain' (librivox.org) to

to worlduniversity.wikia.com/


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added iSSRN for iPhone access to SSRN - Social Science Research Network - to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software


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Great exhibit on WW I in Second Life - slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/647 with video & audio and virtual perspectives, - get an avatar and visit. It's cool.


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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Mission: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Mission

About 1 billion kids.

Please invite: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child


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I hope World University & School will be the software 'circulatory' system vis-a-vis One Laptop per Child's mission:

To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
—OLPC Mission Statement


It's an education project, not a laptop project.
—Nicholas Negroponte

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities


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added LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain http://librivox.org to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources#Academic_Archive_or_Library


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It's Darwin's "Origin of the Species" 150th birthday - literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/chapter-03.html

librivox.org/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin/


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Here's something delicious: thawed TJ frozen, sweetened cherries, nonfat yogurt, a little cardamom (just a little:), and the music 'Psychograss: Live Minds' .... soon to bed ... MMmmm ...


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the night is cool, almost cold, and a crescent moon hangs over the redwood ridge, hovering in its beauty ...

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/frozen-blueberry-flowers-communicative.html - November 22, 2009)

California Oaks: Come to the Oakland Courthouse on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 to Support Berkeley Protesters.

Come to the Oakland courthouse on Monday afternoon to show support of three of the Wheeler occupiers who have been bogusly charged with "Felony Burglary." What did they burglarize? Nothing. Monday November 23, 2009 12 pm rally on Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 1:30 pm gathering at the Oakland Courthouse 661 Washington Ave (near 12th st. BART), Oakland, Room: 112, Time: 2pm