Chard: EMFs, Hybrid vehicles & Batteries, "Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk" (2008), "Health Hazards from Hybrids?" (from the People's Pharmacy, which is at WUaS), "Mythbuster: EMF levels in hybrids" (with actual milliGaus measurements), (Also: DIY Replacing a Toyota Prius Battery), Adding these articles vis this blog entry to WUaS in "Battery Technologies" and "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles" wiki subjects/schools, Don't really like the feeling of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) - they're kind of draining

Hi J and G :),

I've been noticing a little more fatigue/tiredness than a week ago after getting this used 2005 Toyota Prius - enough to look up some articles (which I'm sharing below). I'm curious if you have any similar anecdotal experiences after getting yours, G?

That said, I did feel a lot of similar fatigue in my Subaru Legacy a month or so ago, - but perhaps not quite as strongly.

The articles say that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are significantly measurable with Priuses, but beyond a possible link to childhood leukemia, there isn't any evidence of harm for these heightened EMFs ... and now 7 years after many of these articles were written, and Priuses are possibly around 15 years' old ... I may learn to live with the extra fatigue from EMFs but we'll see ... swimming in EMFs ... hmmm ...

The first NYTs 2008 article speaks to me the most vis-a-vis sleepiness and selling their's after 6 months ... possibly ... but the effects of high levels of EMFs (over 3 mG (milliGaus) ) are again not proven to be deleterious ...

Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk (2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/automobiles/27EMF.html

Health Hazards from Hybrids? (from the People's Pharmacy, which is at WUaS)
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2008/04/28/health-hazards/

Mythbuster: EMF levels in hybrids (with actual milliGaus measurements)
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2010/08/mythbuster-emf-levels-in-hybrids/index.htm

(Also: DIY Replacing a Toyota Prius Battery - http://youtu.be/4ZygEiXw5uE).


Adding these articles vis this blog entry to WUaS in "Battery Technologies" and "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles" wiki subjects/schools ...

Battery Technologies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Battery_Technologies

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles


G, have you felt anything from EMFs or know anything further?


I camped outside at Harbin Hot Springs last night for the first time in years because I don't really like the feeling of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) - they're kind of draining ... and feeling vis-a-vis Angela and Victor's yoga is something I'm exploring.

But I'm glad to get about 44 miles per gallon, possibly double what I was getting before. And it's reducing CO2 output, vis-a-vis global warming, a lot as well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan.

I may have to do more movement and Yoga {a kind of all-bodymind movement} as a response, as well as eat lots of leafy greens.

Cheers,

Scott

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Marbled Polecat: Online Friends School Arabic language World University and School, IB Ramallah Friends School, MIT OpenCourseWare in Persian and Turkish but not yet in Arabic, that I know of, Arabic Wikipedia, Here's WUaS's International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme beginning online school

Dear Joyce,

I enjoyed your presentation at Palo Alto Friends Meeting on Sunday a lot in many ways, and it was very nice to meet you as well. Thank you too for your card. I'm emailing to follow up for a number of reasons. I'd like to explore possible collaboration potentials between Friendly-informed World University and School and Ramallah Friends School in a variety of ways.

Here's the beginning Arabic language World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language - which is the beginning of an online best STEM-centric university and school planned in Arabic.

I've added the Ramallah Friends School to WUaS here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language#Select_Schools.2C_Universities.2C_etc. - for example. Please check out the Arabic language Wikipedia in Arabic part way down too, as a model for developing WUaS as a wiki (editable web pages). Have you by chance edited an Arabic Wikipedia page - http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/الصفحة_الرئيسية ? (And here are MIT OpenCourseWare in Persian -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian - and Turkish, - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/turkish/ - but not yet in Arabic, that I know of).

Do you know of contacts at FUM, Joyce, who might be involved in Ramallah Friends' School's International Baccalaureate accreditation and especially vis-a-vis the Bethesda, Maryland, address on your RFS business card? Bethesda is where a IB program headquarters is, and it may also be where the IB Pamoja online program is based. Friendly-informed World University and School would like to

a) collaborate with Quaker schools for the I.B.,
b) but uniquely online,
c) in English and United Nations' languages first (IB exams are already in French and Spanish, besides English, I think, but not in Russian, Arabic or Mandarin Chinese),
d) in Arabic online particularly, and
e) for engaging MIT OCW highlights for High School (http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/index.htm) eventually in Arabic, -

and Ramallah Friends School and even your potential delegation to a RFS or FUM staff member here seems potentially ideal, and especially from the "inside" in that RFS is an IB school. In what ways might we explore this further?

World University and School is also a potential online college opportunity for Ramallah Friends School student graduates as we accredit first in California -
Admissions at World University and School ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links.

I wish you all the best in your Ramallah Friends School fundraising goals, and in a challenging context - you're great at what you do as the Director of RFS, and a good example for me as founder, president and presiding clerk of WUaS. I put a small contribution in the mail to RFS to FUM on Monday.

I'm also going to put you in touch with David Deeds, an educational technologist who has worked at many IB schools internationally, and could be a candidate for the academic dean position at RFS - and worth Skyping with, if only to learn some interesting ideas about online IB education.

Looking forward to further communication and seeing you at a next Friendly Meeting. :)

Friendly greetings,

Scott





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Dear Joyce and David,

I'd like to introduce you to one another via email. Joyce Ajlouny is the Director of Ramallah Friends School (http://fum.org/staff/joyce-ajlouny/), and International Baccalaureate school, and David Deeds (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7916995) is the educational technologist at an IB school, I think, in Guatemala currently, and knows much about IT and virtual worlds for learning as well. David has worked at many IB schools internationally, and could be a candidate for the academic dean position at RFS - and with whom together it might be worth Skyping together, if only to share some interesting ideas about online IB education.

David, here's Ramallah Friends School Academic Dean position with a focus on information technology: http://palfriends.org/view_announc.php?id=211 (http://www.palfriends.org/rfsdean.pdf). As I wrote earlier, I met and heard Joyce at Palo Alto Friends Meeting on Sunday, when she gave a presentation about RFS after Meeting.

I think it would be a learning opportunity, again, for both of you to talk in Skype or similar, since you've lived, David, in so many different countries working with IB schools, and know virtual worlds and online learning technologies very well, and Joyce has been Director at RFS for 11 years. (I'd be interested in hearing the IT and curriculum part of this conversation as well even ... in a Google + group video Hangout? :).


Also, here are some questions for both of you as International Baccalaureate professionals:

Does an IB diploma at the high school level involve basically taking 3 lower level courses and 3 upper level courses over 2 years, and then sitting the IB exams? Would you say it's an important and helpful international, inter-lingually even, academic standard?

I met an IB online math teacher (and former teacher / former near head of Quaker high schools in Maryland), E.L., after I shared during Quaker Meeting about World University and School in Berkeley (BFM) some months ago, and we met later for a coffee, where she further shared some information about teaching math IB online (through Pamoja), and showed the technologies they were using. She and the IB Pamoja also weren't engaging online spaces very dynamically. (Here's WUaS's International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - beginning online school).

That you, Joyce, are the Director of RFS and that it's significantly taught in Arabic and as both an IB and a Friends School in K-8 - and which is both not yet online (and also not MIT OCW-centric) - and which could become an online Friends' IB school (with WUaS?) in Arabic is exciting.

All the best if you find time for conversation.

With F/friendly greetings,
Scott







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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.

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Eruca sativa: Some F/friendly morning ideas: Humbleness and World University, Nontheistically F/friendly meditation in among Quakers?

Hi Donald,

Some F/friendly morning ideas:

World University and School as a nontheistically F/friendly calling / leading
( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) )
is indeed perhaps a novel idea emergence in the Quaker world/among Friends - and now in part for around 7 years. Does it emerge out of F/friendly conversation & thinking, as well as from f/Friendly daily sitting in a kind of releasing action meditation {partly inspired by Quaker Meeting itself}, from nature / evolutionary biology and goodness? I'd humbly affirm a yes answer to this self-query, and also vis-a-vis my 4 time clearness committee at San Francisco Friends' Meeting some years back. Thank you ...

How to grow Quaker community further around WUaS, I wonder - and in flourishing {loving bliss-generative} ways - and in many languages? (I enjoyed hearing Joyce Ajlouny from Ramallah Friends School speak at Palo Alto Friends Meeting)

(This email to you emerges in part in response to an email this morning from Ben Lomond Quaker Center entitled "Walk Humbly - Serve Boldly" (http://www.quakercenter.org/walk-humbly-serve-boldly/) about an upcoming workshop there near Santa Cruz).

(WUaS also explicitly emerges from a course I was teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL in 2008, and the links to the transcripts are in this blog as well).

Friendly regards and cheers,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Newfoundland: University Funding Program Partnerships, Graduating geologists, geophysicists, scientists and engineers at WUaS, MIT OCW-centric Geology subject/school at World University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at WUaS, Petrology course from MIT OCW, And for students whose English is poor, here's a "Learn English" Google + Hangout - which you'll find here at WUaS's "English as a Second Language" school, Would it be possible to ask for $50,000? Timeline and BPPE accrediting agency? Substituting "best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare" for all outreach

M,

Very nice to talk with you on Saturday, and thank you for your phone call.

I'd like to outline a pitch to a representative of the University Funding Program Partnerships at your company for your thoughts, if it's possible that I might meet someone for a cup of coffee about this:


World University is planning to graduate geologists, geophysicists, scientists and engineers based on MIT OCW online. World University would like to make possible applied science courses online to make prospective geologists better educated than they are - and at your company. For example, World University would like to offer online (MIT OCW) geology and petrology courses to Nigerians and Bangladeshis who are working for your company to improve their training.

Here is the MIT OCW-centric Geology subject/school at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Geology.


You can find this here at Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at WUaS:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences.

And here is a Petrology course from MIT OCW-
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-109-petrology-fall-2005/ - as an example, which you'll find on the World University Geology department.

And you can find MIT OCW Geology courses here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/ - and where I just newly found this Petrology course, which I added to the Geology subject/school, with courses not yet for credit.


And for students whose English is poor, here's a "Learn English" Google + Hangout -
https://plus.google.com/communities/116896170154804056086/ - which you'll find here at WUaS's "English as a Second Language" school - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language.


A high school graduate could learn English and take many geology courses presented by MIT profs first in English classes Google group video Hangouts. WUaS is planning to hire graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale, Harvard and Stanford, for example, to do the grading, and interactively teach the material to complement the MIT OCW and Yale OYC professors in video.

Would it be possible to ask your  University Funding Program Partnerships for $50,000?

If this is possible what kind of timeline might we be looking at? World University would like to get the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) registration?


Scott


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M,

As a followup about licensing, WUaS (and you too) can use CC licensed MIT OCW and Yale OYC, and World University can accredit upon them, but WUaS is now substituting "best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare" for all MIT OCW per the MIT Name Officer. And anyone who engages MIT OCW itself can't use their name in any kinds of out reach.

Here's a recent "Licensing Clarification" in a blog post -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/01/licensing-clarification-from-mit-ocw.html - 
(and also here -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/01/mit-use-of-name-officer-creative.html) if you're interested.

CC MIT OCW (and in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC are amazing STEM resources, - and WUaS can accredit upon them, and offer them online around the world!

Best,
Scott

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiolite

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Bar-tailed godwit: Minutes for Feb 14 2015 WUaS open monthly business meeting (and agenda)

Minutes for Feb 14 2015 WUaS open monthly business meeting (and agenda)


February 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for World University and School

Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod (head clerk and recording clerk)

(Feb 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html)


Minute –

Larry suggested beginning to get undergraduate students’ names and a commitment

Scott will explore beginning to develop, first in Google Forms, a sign up process …

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

And get students’ names and a commitment


Here are the initial best STEM-centric WUaS degrees ...

Electrical Engineering (typically 14 classes toward a major over 4 years)
General Science
General Engineering

... and for BPPE accreditation.


Minute –

Outreach –
a.
WUaS will give a talk at FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education (between M&W June 18-21, 2015, in Newberg, Oregon - http://quakerfahe.com/annual-conference/)

b.
WUaS will make an ISSIP Presentation (online at 7:30 am on March 11, 2015 viz. http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/)

c.
WUaS (Scott) will take the 12 week HarvardX/edX course JuryX - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x#.VN4v37DF__V - with Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson beginning March 10. ...

d.
WUaS (Scott) will attend the talk on February 15, 2015 at Palo Alto Friends Meeting with Joyce Ajlouny (http://fum.org/staff/joyce-ajlouny/ and http://fum.org/field-staff-reports-joyce-ajlouny-december-2012/) from Friends United Meeting / Ramallah Friends School / Ramallah Friends Meeting, and explore collaborating with them about online International Baccalaureate (IB) high school diplomas in conjunction ... and in many languages ...



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February 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
February 14, 2015
9 a.m., Pacific Time


Email here if you'd like to participate: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com


1. Welcome and Greetings


1.1 News:

NEWSFLASH: Happy Valentine's Day

News:

a
WUaS's OPEN monthly business meeting meets this Saturday 2/14 at 9 am PT. Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested in participating - and see WUaS's blog below for further WUaS business meeting information.

b
WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html ... (and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html).

c
WUaS is ready to submit the BPPE documents with its curriculum this month (February now) to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California. WUaS needs to raise the $5,000 fee (as a tax-exempt donation). This is WUaS's main initial step to accreditation. Please donate to WUaS for this here -http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. (See too: https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx). Your donations are much appreciated.


Universitians:

This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call.

Free Conference Call number change - it is - (712) 775-7031 - and the
Access Code is - 271-412-030.


The agenda for the upcoming February 14th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html.


1.2 Minutes




2. Committees


2.1 Planning committee

see Master plan and Business plan below

2.1.1



2.2 Finance

a.
Treasurer's report for January 2015


b.
Guidestar.org

WUaS has the Guidestar (affiliated with the IRS) Gold Label -
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx.


2.3 Information Technology

a.

In Google Forms, get student name and a commitment

"Are you interested ... ?"

"Submit your name and email address and when you'd like to start this ... "

WUaS will contact you again when WUaS is closer to the starting date ...


Here are the initial WUaS degrees ...

3 pages ... each a degree and 4th page outreach to undergraduate ..

Electrical Engineering (typically 14 classes for a major over 4 years)
General Science
General Engineering


Apply September 1, 2015 - matriculate September 2016

After the required first year 2 semester Humanities 101 course and 2 semester Biology course with a programming aspect, WUaS's 15 week courses in general will begin on the quarter.


Use course names in Google Forms ...?


WUaS will offer 15 week courses in general 3 semesters a year


b.

Kaiser Permanente / WUaS collaboration for WUaS online Hospital and Medical School? - 3 languages (English, Spanish, Chinese), medically secure databases ... medical diagnosis equipment sent through the mail ... history


2.4 WUaS Outreach

a.
Scott will give a talk at FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education (between M&W June 18-21, 2015, in Newberg, Oregon - http://quakerfahe.com/annual-conference/)


b.
Scott will make an ISSIP Presentation (online at7:30 am on March 11, 2015 viz. http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/)

c.
Scott will take the 12 week HarvardX/edX course JuryX - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x#.VN4v37DF__V - with Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson beginning March 10. ...


2.5 Hiring planning



2.6 Fundraising

in recent email


2.7 Nominating committee

Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders


2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee

a.
plan for students who's English is marginal - please attend these Language Google Hangouts


b.
bilingual degrees? e.g. English - Turkish?


2.9 Accreditation committee

a.
Here's Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu/ - for further CC courses for WUaS degrees.

b.
International Baccalaureate - accredit online IB diplomas in conjunction with Ramallah Friends Meeting / Friends United Meeting- Joyce Ajlouny? ... and in many languages ...


2.9.1
BPPE

2.9.2
WASC senior

2.9.3
Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their list of schools? Costs?

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School


2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application


3. WUaS Master Plan

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan


4. WUaS Business Plan

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan


5.  WUaS Board

- is looking for a new Board member to focus WUaS fundraising




6. New WUaS pages and updates

a. Updates:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity


b. New pages:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity

Acupuncture -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Acupuncture

Zapotec languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages



c. Blog entries:
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university



Black-tailed Godwit: Happy Valentine's Day, WUaS open monthly business meeting on 2/14 (second Saturdays), WUaS at Guidestar as a 501 c 3 : https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/black-tailed-godwit-happy-valentines.html


Red Panda: Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at WUaS, All 7,870 languages, WUaS Universal Translator, Wikidata and Google Translate/Android, NAACL or ACL this year?, Adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning with time

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/computational-linguistics-wiki-subject.html


Big Sur coastline: Esalen and Harbin books, My upcoming book: "Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography – Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Exciting - Google Earth Pro Now Available Free, Hoping we can explore and build a whole virtual earth world interactively with realistic avatars eventually in digital goggles in Google Earth Pro with OpenSim/Second Life ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/big-sur-coastline-esalen-and-harbin.html


Asteraceae: Musical Outreach Talk {for WUaS} in Berkeley, Scottish Country Dancers, Scottish Small Pipes, "The Desperate Battle," "The Battle of Waterloo," Amanda Palmer TED Talk on "The Art of Asking," We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow, All this costs money, Just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/asteraceae-musical-outreach-talk-for.html


Fisher: "Economics," "Chemistry," and "Physics," - and WUaS's Business Plan, and WUaS Monthly Board Meeting (2/14)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/fisher-economics-chemistry-and-physics.html


Chelan Mountains: Reed College and brain wave headsets, "Brain Wave: Psych majors dive into the mind-bending world of sensory substitution," Excited for all of this for brain research in a ... virtual Harbin / virtual earth ... and from our bathtubs, And especially for linguistic and brain research in all 7,870 languages ... with researchers and graduate students traveling all over the world to make the connections between what such developing brain hats/equipment and language use show

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/chelan-mountains-reed-college-and-brain.html


Mohave shoulderband snail: Glad Jimmy Wales is president (*) both of C.C. Wikipedia and Wikia (the wiki where C.C. WUaS is presently hosted), Some Wikidata and Wikipedia links of WUaS, Honor of WUaS (as well as my entry) getting deleted by Wikipedia :), WUaS has had only one reference in Wikipedia for at least a year now here - Nontheist Quakers, Added this upcoming great Wikidata:Wikibooks (in 288+ languages) to the main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/mohave-shoulderband-snail-glad-jimmy_7.html


Mollusca: Social Innovation Manager, Outreach to (e.g. high achieving high school) students for online STEM-centric WUaS, SF EDU startup weekend in 2015?, Help with accreditation?, How best for WUaS to become financially operational, so as to be able to hire interns, accredit, etc, to become the Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and become a significant employer in all 7,870 languages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/mollusca-social-innovation-manager.html


Torrey pine: An ECONOMICS' instructional design video? for graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale or Stanford, for example, and with the Conference Method viz. Reed College ... Economics' courses from Yale OYC and MIT OCW, What instructional resources Reed students found helpful and added to WUaS at Paideia in PHYSICS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY wiki subjects - Khan Academy Organic Chemistry and UC Boulder Quantum Physics' simulations, Playing instructionally is great here at WUaS ... and wiki-wise especially

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/torrey-pine-economics-instructional.html


Long-billed murrelet: "How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" - WUaS should scale up beyond these in all 7,870 languages via artificial intelligence and machine learning generative developments, while keeping PEOPLE at the center of this unfolding university and school, And also especially, to begin, for things like "Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)" and other STEM research

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/long-billed-murrelet-how-and-why-apple.html


Green sea turtle: Friends Association for Higher Education Request for Proposals, Young Friends and World University and School, Western Friend magazine panel on climate change, and a Quaker college's ethos, "What Canst Thou Say about Climate Change?" panel and the "Ocean and Climate Management Plan" wiki subject/school at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/friends-association-for-higher.html


Chinook Salmon: The colors, water in painting, and motifs I was drawn to in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, over the xmas holidays ... These are kind of my palette .. and that which I'd like to explore further ... Ah, French painting ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/chinook-salmon-colors-water-in-painting.html


Hector's Dolphins: Reed College conversation with Professor of Islam leading to re-visiting a summary of Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents," Wanting to rif with these ideas, and even as improvisational social theory, including vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs anthropologically, The oceanic feeling Freud writes of perhaps vis-a-vis oneness and neurophysiology, Civilization as culture (in this blog) and perhaps discontents as counterculture (in this blog, too) although the worlds of Vienna and central Europe 100 years ago, and post 1960's America and California, {and India ~ as religious culture ~ for example}, all as place informing ideas, are very different ... And religion and destructiveness, and ego formation, as ideas, and the conflicts he examines intellectually, Guilt, sexuality and attraction, Implications for what might help therapeutically on-the-ground in real life, Unease and Culture, Offer a critique and alternative analyses about his theses, Neurophysiology

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/hectors-dolphins-reed-college.html


Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html


Martes americana: Cannabis! I had forgotten that particular adventure!, Book manuscript proposal inquiry and first chapter about Harbin Hot Springs, Great ACADEMIC PRESS AT WUaS for all languages, Developing an internet publishing house business plan

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/martes-americana-cannabis-i-had.html


Green Sturgeon: "The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator," The blip.tv version of this video has been removed so I'm posting here the Youtube URL, Just emailed my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs proposal and first chapter to a great academic press, How to be at Harbin virtually from our bath tubs, and deeply? Excited to begin my second Harbin book, Google Earth has been deprecated and so could become the basis for an entire virtual world for everyone ... from those who build architecturally with AUTO CAD to STEM-oriented researchers to anthropologists working in the field, in which a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site for actual / virtual comparison would be a part

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/green-sturgeon-making-of-virtual-harbin.html


West Indian Manatee with calf: Well met! - and Nicaragua_World_University_and_School, as well as Architecture wiki subject, Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, Added Avotcja's Indiegogo appeal to both the Nicaragua WUaS and and the "Assistive Technologies" wiki subject/school at WUaS, Avotcja's great video to the Poetry and Blues' subjects at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/west-indian-manatee-with-calf-well-met.html


Colaptes: “Critical Media Sociology Today” 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association August 25-28, 2015, Interesting social internet theory conference in Prague later this year, Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb 1

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/colaptes-critical-media-sociology-today.html


Spotted Owl: Friendly-informed WUaS Presentation to Quaker Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, "Peace and Social Justice Studies" and "Poverty Action" editable wiki subject/schools for open teaching and learning, Added English, French, Russian and Arabic Language Wikipedias to their World Universities planned for those languages, in addition to Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish World Universities with both Wikipedias and STEM OCW in those languages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/spotted-owl-friendly-informed-wuas.html


Gray wolf: Reed College Paideia "Zombie" films' class, "Film," "Consciousness," and "Philosophy" wiki subjects/schools at WUaS, "Zombies" entry Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/, 18 of the 80 references in this "Zombies"' SEP entry contain the word "Zombies" in them

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/gray-wolf-reed-college-paideia-zombie.html


Tarsier eyes: Thanks for your engaging Paideia workshop on Sunday on "Video Production from Scratch for Beginners" at Reed, "On Music in Film - Ken Burns," Cuttyhunk film, a) Reed College Hum 110 lectures, primarily for the Internet, and b) recording, for instruction, Reed's guidelines for faculty on teaching via the conference method in Hum 110 sections

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/tarsier-eyes-thanks-for-your-engaging.html


Pongo: do you know much about DBPedia?, List of all colleges and universities, institutions of higher education somewhere in this, Team to develop WUaS in WordPress with a database of Universitians, WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan, AI with the CC WUaS Library Resources' wiki page, On the non CC side to the WUaS Bookstore/Computer store side, An ISSIP grand challenge?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/pongo-do-you-know-much-about-dbpedia.html


Vicuña: First WUaS pages with OpenCourseWare and Wikipedias in those languages, Momentous because these are the very beginnings of best STEM-centric universities in those languages with two main CC resources, And, of course, you can teach here, since WUaS is wiki ... Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish World Universities

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/vicuna-first-wuas-pages-with.html


Succisella: Do Bonobo chimpanzees experience love?, I also appreciate especially their peaceableness, emerging from evolutionary biology, which I think of non-theistic. What do you think?, What do you think this "love" neurophysiology or neurochemistry is, to add an aspect to the concept / idea aspect of love which you're exploring?, Here are what I think is love in some of its best senses - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/succisella-do-bonobo-chimpanzees-as.html


Steam rising: where there's steam, there could be warm pools, Non- Alternative / Bohemian / Hippie / Beat feminine norms, from America?, We held our own course reading from Wikipedia, with a really interesting conversation :)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/stram-rising-where-theres-steam-there.html


Coho salmon: How Interns Can Wiki-Teach & Develop WUaS, and How Reedies can wiki-teach here and eventually develop WUaS as interns, SLIDE PRESENTATION, Internship Program at World University and School, WUaS Intern positions and WUaS General Manager pages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-student-interns-can-wiki-teach.html


Oregon slender salamander: WUaS courses of study for degrees as WUaS explores building our next web site with databases, probably in WordPress and potentially MediaWiki/Wikidata, and planning for large languages for degrees

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/oregon-salamander-wuas-courses-degrees.html


Aethionema - Stonecress: Thanks for your email about College of Piping Skype lessons this year, and Happy New Year! Aspirations for playing the Scottish Small Pipes this year, Learning in online lessons, Bagpiping Schools at WUaS - all wiki ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aethionema-stonecress-thanks-for-your.html


Erythronium dens-canis: Talking about WUaS at Reed College and at Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Quakers) this weekend in Oregon, Heading up the northern California and Oregon coasts to Portland - Nice to be on the road, It isn't easy to GROCK this - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - GO SURFING ... on the web for something that you love which is instructive, Find a WUaS subject that relates to this and add this to a WUaS Subject here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects, Will Durant's "The Life of Greece" book as an example, Build an Android app using the IBM Bluemix, Friendly Teens and WUaS degrees

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/erythronium-dens-canis-talking-about.html


Zelkova sicula: "Use of Name Officer Massachusetts Institute of Technology," Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW and CC WUaS, MIT OCW correspondence

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/zelkova-sicula-use-of-name-officer.html


Arabis species: To complement the other all-languages' lists, Watson/Bluemix and WUaS and Wikidata/Wikipedia?, 7,870 languages in Glottolog, Verna Allee's free digital book version "Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration" can be 1) instantly translated into any of the 52 languages and 2) will allow continuous updating and additions of cases and examples provided by users, This is a key coding kernel for an universal translator

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/arabis-species-to-complement-other-all.html


Thamnobryum: Removing the MIT name from CC WUaS's web presence and signatures, Added this sample CC lecture from Professor Anand Agarwal to - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/thamnobryum-removing-mit-name-from-cc.html


Apricot: Minutes for Jan 10 2015 Monthly Business Meeting (and Agenda) for World University and School

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/apricot-minutes-for-jan-10-2015-monthly.html





7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments

a.
AFSC / Linda Sanchez email

Hi Linda (and Pablo),

Following up on these University of California Zapotec teaching resources, would you like to see if you can find a volunteer (someone from 67 Suenos possibly, or someone just coming to AFSC?) to add the following to the Zapotec languages page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages - and also show them how to add them (and eventually in a main first Zapotec language itself)?
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/documents/survey-reports/survey-report-13.06-munro.pdf
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/lillehaugen/CaliChiuRFU1.htm

 And would you like to become WUaS's (first) General Manager -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_General_Manager - which would also involve finding funding for this position for yourself as well as for WUaS in conjunction with me (but I'm still learning how to fundraise)?
Would Laura at AFSC have successful ideas about how to fundraise for this position as well as for WUaS?

Yay Linda - thank you!

Azala,
Scott


b.
Scott will attend the talk on February 15, 2015 at Palo Alto Friends Meeting with Joyce Ajlouny from Ramallah Friends School / Ramallah Friends Meeting.

Ongoing conversation with SFFM and SF Bay Area Friends about WUaS.


8. Closure


9. Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time


Scott MacLeod

President and Head Clerk
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.

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Gentiana: Touched and moved by these childhood photos my mother sent me as a Valentine, Yay for unique and great expressions (symbols?) of love and my mother's understandings ... :)

Touched and moved by these childhood photos my mother mailed to me as a Valentine as an expression of care and love ...

The hard work which the card refers to (and she too) could include World University and School, as well as her own :) ...

... (this picture is probably from the town of Hamden next to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1966, where we had just moved to from Boston, and where my father was joining the faculty at Yale)

... and inside the card ...

... This following picture was taken about 3 years (1963) earlier probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts (my father was doing part of his medical residency/internship/training at Harvard), with me naked in a pool on the roof of where we lived (interesting now vis-a-vis my ethnographic focus at Harbin) ...

Yay for unique and great expressions (symbols?) of love and my mother's understandings ... :)

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Black-tailed Godwit: Happy Valentine's Day, WUaS open monthly business meeting on 2/14 (second Saturdays), WUaS at Guidestar as a 501 c 3 : https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx

NEWSFLASH: Happy Valentine's Day

See: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html

News:

a

WUaS's OPEN monthly business meeting meets this Saturday 2/14 at 9 am PT. Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested in participating - and see WUaS's blog below for further WUaS business meeting information 

b

WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html ... (and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html).

c

WUaS is ready to submit the BPPE documents with its curriculum this month (February now) to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California. WUaS needs to raise the $5000 fee (as a tax-exempt donation). This is WUaS's main initial step to accreditation. Please donate to WUaS for this here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ . (See too: https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx). Your donations are much appreciated. 

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Red Panda: Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at WUaS, All 7,870 languages, WUaS Universal Translator, Wikidata and Google Translate/Android, NAACL or ACL this year?, Adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning with time

Fei Xia and Jim, 

Greetings! Your research interests are very exciting Fei Xia. I've added your name to the Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OCW, such as MIT OCW and Yale OYC. WUaS is also planning to be in each of all 7,870 languages 

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), each a wiki school (where Wikipedia is currently in 288 languages), as well as develop an Universal Translator

 (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator). 

What's the best way to communicate further with you Fei Xia 

(https://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/research/research.html) about computational linguistics, your research interests, such as your aggregation project, and very related WUaS projects? 

All the best, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

PS

This is the LinkedIn conversation where I learned of your work: 

https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=6729452&type=member&item=5971361253677871104&commentID=5971432566698291200&report%2Esuccess=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_5971432566698291200

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Scott, 
Fei's work is still a long way from being of direct applicability, but it does provide a foundation and pathway for reaching the 7000+ language level someday. 

This will take many years, but we will see.  IBM would like to see cognitive systems in all languages. 

Once our cognitive systems are mature, they will be of more help with your ambitious mission of WUaS. 

However, I reiterate - please have patience - this will take many years. 

-Jim

Dr. James ("Jim") C. Spohrer
Director, IBM University Programs (IBM UP) and Cognitive Systems Institute
Innovation Champion (http://www.service-science.info/archives/2233) 

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Hi, Scott,

  It's nice to hear from you. Thank you for your interest. I guess the best way to reach me is via email. 

My schedule for the next few months are pretty full with conference deadlines and teaching. If you plan to go to NAACL or ACL this year, maybe we can find a time to chat during the conference?

  Best wishes.

Fei

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Hi Fei and Jim, 

Thanks for your emails, and it's nice to hear from you as well, Fei. WUaS is a huge project which will take decades + to realize. 

In terms of computational linguistics 

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computational_Linguistics), Fei, I think the new-ish interlingual "linked open data" database C.C. Wikidata/Wikibase - https://www.wikidata.org - designed for C.C. Wikipedia's 288 languages is one place C.C. World University and School will plan to begin to develop in all 7,870 + languages in many many ways (and also building on Google Translate, for example, with its Android + hardware presence). Have you explored Wikidata for computational linguistic reasons, Fei, by any chance? And it's building on this, Jim, that WUaS would explore adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence#World_University_and_School_Links) and machine learning with time as well. 

Fei, have you seen all these language indexes - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages#Language_Code ? What other all-languages' indexes would you suggest adding here as well?

Let's stay in touch by email for now, since I don't have plans to attend any of the meetings you suggest. I'm planning to drive to Portland Oregon, (to deliver a paper on WUaS, as well as visit Reed College) from about June 10-20 and we could conceivably meet sometime in person around this time in the NW. 

Patiently, and best regards,

Scott

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