Canna: Well met at Berkeley, India World University and School and the Hindi language WUaS not yet in Hindi, WUaS's mission, WUaS Foundation, Master Plan, Business Plan, IT and Data Plan, and Fundraising wiki pages, How could the internet economy help the developing world, country by country? Check out Castells' "The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy" (2005) ... To the wiki subjects - "Network Society," "Economics," and "Nation States" - https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts/hqHNvCxefNL - planned in many languages ...

Anu, 

Very nice to meet and talk with you at Cal. 

Here's the India World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India - and the Hindi language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_language - not yet in Hindi. 

Please let me know what questions you may have. 

Let's stay in touch. 

Best regards,

Scott

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Hi Anu, 

Sounds good, and nice to get your email. 

Here are some further social media pages of mine/WUaS's, with much about CC World University and School ... 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com

Among other things, let's explore developing CC India World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India - in the Hindi language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_language - with CC MIT OCW centric university degrees (although WUaS is moving soon to this WUaS MediaWiki wiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki ) together? 

These blog entries in this label include some loose perspectives on India much re WUaS - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/India.

Open WUaS monthly business meeting meets on the 2nd Saturdays of the month at 9 am PT (for an hour only) electronically - if you'd like to participate (conducted loosely in the manner of Friends/Quakers).

Friendly cheers,  Scott

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Hi Anu, 

WUaS's mission ... 

World University and School's mission is free education, courses, and degrees in all known languages. World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best CC OpenCourseWare) seeks also to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning through open, editable wikis. WUaS plans to accredit at the university and high school levels to offer online degrees and diplomas in all countries' main languages. WUaS’s wiki will involve open and editable teaching and learning but also non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. WUaS will facilitate the use of free CC courses as credits toward degrees. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere. WUaS will explore the possibility of using universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language with time.

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

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

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

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

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

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new developments emerge from ... fit with the current processes - communication - 

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What is WUaS?

like Wikipedia in 300 languages with best STEM Creative Commons' OpenCourseWare (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages)

improve website - to focus it ...

but for online free degrees, first for undergraduates.

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business model - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html

To onboard people, WUaS plans to simplify, and focus the web site on one main thing on the web site - to onboard 2000 students. WUaS would like to get 200,000 applicants for free best STEM CC OCW degrees, first in English

Why 2000 students? Because WUaS seeks to collaborate with governments in all 204 countries for costs, and to think about this extremely strategically. WUaS is seeking to build a solid operation and strategic approach.

Namaste, Scott

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Hi Anu, 

Very nice to talk just now, and thank you for calling and for your good ideas, Anu!

Perhaps WUaS will become the Stanford of the Internet in April and can hire you to find highest achieving and smart students in India (many of whom speak English) to apply this autumn as if applying to MIT or Stanford. And perhaps WUaS can develop communications for this including the web site. 

For your information, I post many ideas about WUaS here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university . 

Please let me know how your job search and related endeavors go and looking forward to talking toward the end of April! Very nice to talk with you. 

Namaste, 

Scott

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How could the internet economy help the developing world, country by country? Check out Castells' "The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy" (2005) ... 
http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/research/pdfs/JF_NetworkSociety.pdf ... To the wiki subjects - "Network Society," http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Society "Economics" http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics and "Nation States" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Nation_States ... planned in many languages ...  

https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts/hqHNvCxefNL

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/713393245657542656

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_(plant)

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Creeping thistle: Christine Ortiz, MIT Dean, and "The Research University in the New Millennium | SXSWedu", About CC World University and School, which seeks to accredit in California first (with WASC senior and BPPE) on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free CC best STEM CC OCW online BA/BS, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to students in all nation states' official languages, but first in English, WUaS has 10 main foci areas, WUaS is seeking to collaborate more fully with MIT itself, WUaS seeks to become a major STEM research university in all countries' main languages, and indeed in all 7,097 languages, and as wiki schools too.

Dear Christine (MIT Dean), 

Thanks for sharing information about your fascinating new research university. I enjoyed your recent SXSWedu video here about this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYlXObCah5Q (which I found on G+ here - https://plus.google.com/+DavidIng/posts/Vy8J7aqsCR2). 

The Research University in the New Millennium | SXSWedu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYlXObCah5Q

I want to let you know about CC World University and School, which seeks to accredit in California first (with WASC senior and BPPE) on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free CC best STEM CC OCW online BA/BS, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees to students in all nation states' official languages, but first in English, beginning with students applying this autumn 2016 and matriculating online in autumn 2017. WUaS on the one hand plans to create major universities in all 204+ countries' main languages, and on the other to create wiki schools in all 7,097+ languages for open teaching and learning. Students will basically be studying from their high school and college rooms in countries around the world. 

WUaS has 10 main foci areas - Courses , Subjects, Languages (All), Nation States (All), You at WUaS, Research, Educational Software, Library Resources, Museums, Hardware Resource Possibilities planned in each of all 3000-8000 languages - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html. 

As an open wiki, WUaS is also planning to move soon from WUaS Wikia to WUaS MediaWiki to develop in CC Wikidata / Wikibase (a three year old database developed for CC Wikipedia's ~300 languages) with A.I., machine learning and machine translation software.  

Having recently communicated with Cecilia d'Olivera, former MIT OCW executive director and now Associate Dean of online learning at MIT (and met twice with former MIT OCW External Relations Director Steve Carson in person in Cambridge, MA), WUaS is seeking to collaborate more fully with MIT itself. WUaS is also currently a "client" in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" course to develop legally and financially as a Creative Commons' licensed 501 (c) (3) startup university.  As an outgoing Dean at MIT, I'm writing to inquire how and in what ways, if any, we might explore possibly collaborating further? 

Thank you.

Best regards, 

Scott

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WUaS seeks to become a major STEM research university - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - in all countries' main languages, and indeed in all 7,097 languages, and as wiki schools too.

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

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Angiosperms: 7,097 languages less ~300 languages in Wikipedia leaves ~7,797 languages to grow and build and build wiki schools around ... how best to collaborate with faculty and graduate students who study these individual languages?, Top 10 rarest languages - 1. Taushiro (Pinche/Pinchi) 2. Kaixana (Caixana) 3. Lemerig (Pak, Bek, Sasar, Leon, Lem) 4. Chemehuevi 5. Njerep 6. Tanema (Tanima, Tetawo) 7. Liki (Moar) 8. Ongota/Birale 9. Dumi (Dumi Bo’o, Dumi Bro, Lsi Rai, Ro’do Bo’, Sotmali) 10. Chamicuro (Chamekolo, Chamicolo, Chamicura)

7,097 languages (currently listed in the Ethnologue) less ~300 languages in Wikipedia leaves ~7,797 languages to grow and build and build wiki schools around at WUaS ...  http://worlduniversityandschool.org ...  significantly by hiring graduate students to begin ... How best to collaborate with faculty and graduate students who study these individual languages?

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7,097 languages currently listed at the Ethnologue -
https://www.ethnologue.com/world

7,943 entries in languages currently listed in Glottolog -
http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language

292 languages currently in List of Wikipedias -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

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Here's where you'll find the list of WUaS wiki schools for all languages, eventually, - in English WUaS MediaWiki (eventually in Wikidata)

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Languages

And here's the previous list - 

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

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Top 10 rarest languages - 

1. Taushiro (Pinche/Pinchi)

2. Kaixana (Caixana)

3. Lemerig (Pak, Bek, Sasar, Leon, Lem)

4. Chemehuevi

5. Njerep

6. Tanema (Tanima, Tetawo)

7. Liki (Moar)

8. Ongota/Birale

9. Dumi (Dumi Bo’o, Dumi Bro, Lsi Rai, Ro’do Bo’, Sotmali)

10. Chamicuro (Chamekolo, Chamicolo, Chamicura)

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rarest-languages.php

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Angiosperms

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Dodecatheon: Great Harbin Hot Springs' online photos ... Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in many languages ... here, for example ... Visit the Harbin Gate here, and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View / Earth ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... and re my ... Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html, I wonder too re the photo into animation in my blog entry on Sunday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html - in what ways the above Harbin photos might migrate?

Great Harbin online photos ...

Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in many languages

... here, for example ... 
Visit the Harbin Gate here,
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View / Earth ...

http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: Photo Tour
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsPhotoTour

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: Pools
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsPools

harbinhotsprings>Before The Fire
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/BeforeTheFire

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: The Domes

https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsTheDomes

harbinhotsprings's Gallery Albums (10)

https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave

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Harbin Hot Springs - CLOSED

http://www.yelp.com/biz/harbin-hot-springs-middletown

Photos

http://harbin.org/photos/

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and re my ...

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

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I wonder too re the photo into animation in my blog entry on Sunday - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html -  in what ways the above Harbin photos might migrate? 

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

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Three Sisters, Oregon: WUaS's "knowledge" model? Reed College Hum 110 (re origins of knowledge in Ancient Greece) newly on web as Hum 101 at WUaS (a required course) with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare knowledge, What happens to knowledge when it comes in conversation with the Internet, Google and big data? ... Reed College Professor Jan Mieszkowski (German and Philosophy too) ... and re this New Yorker article on "Google knowledge" ... posted by Harvard Professor of Education, Karen Brennan ... The word "virtual" as "almost" (as a word to translate into Mandarin possibly), or "as if" (another main current definition of mine from my Harbin book), and I'm leaning toward going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book upcoming Harbin Hot Springs' book and re translation in a new Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned in all 7,097+ languages ...

WUaS's "knowledge" model? Reed College Hum 110 (re origins of knowledge in Ancient Greece) newly on web as Hum 101 at WUaS (a required course) with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare knowledge

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/711967703427211265


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Here's the Humanities' wiki subject page at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities

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What happens to knowledge when it comes in conversation with the Internet, Google and big data?

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I find Reed College Professor of German (and a philosopher as well) Jan Mieszkowski's tweets are fascinating of this in terms of western philosophy-oriented humanities < > and 140 characters in Twitter social media philosophizing ... and there are so many potential ways thinkers coming into conversation may head with new forms of knowledge generation and in so many languages and computer science and information technologies.

Jan Mieszkowski in Portland, Oregon
https://twitter.com/janmpdx


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... and re this New Yorker article on "Google knowledge" ... posted by Harvard Professor of Education, Karen Brennan ...

 

Karen Brennan‏@karen_brennan

"When we Google-know, we lack the capacity to see how bits of facts fit into a larger whole." http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts … #t553

https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/711539462862454784

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Hi Peg, Nelson, Li Fei and All, 

I'm writing with a question to all of you in Nelson's "Tourism, Art and Modernity" course at UC Berkeley (and extended circle of academic friends, and of many languages) concerning the title of my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs' book and re translation - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - in a new Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned in all 7,097+ languages. 

After the Tourism Studies' talk last night - thanks, Peg, for an excellent talk ... http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/Swain2016.htm - I was talking with Li Fei, who is from China, and Nelson at dinner at Great China about the word "virtual" as "almost" (as a word to translate into Mandarin possibly), or "as if" (another main current definition of mine from my Harbin book), and I'm leaning toward going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, with its redundancy - repeating the word Harbin in the title - but with its clarity concerning the key concept of "virtual" in the information age:

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

... from ...

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & the Virtual

since this latter title's last word wouldn't translate very clearly into Chinese in terms of "virtual reality" or "computer generated multimedia."

What would you suggest for a best title for my Harbin book for translating this into your languages? (Jie, what's Tina Gong Na's Berkeley or similar email address?) And here are related words Jie and I were talking about translating into Chinese last week - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/crepe-myrtle-3-12-draft-chapters-out-of.html. 

More about this and much more in my blog entry from today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/astatotilapia-burtoni-idea-is-for-you.html - and where you'll find the tiny URL to access the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View, for example! "Walk" down to Middletown here from the Harbin gate!

And thank you again so much, Nelson, for writing the Foreward to my Harbin book - which is much appreciated!

All the best, 

Scott

PS Nice to see you today, Scott Elder at the Presidio Trust book group on tourism studies in SF - and thanks for letting us know about this Presidio Trust event, Amanda Guzman!

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Oregon)

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Mbuna: Animation of a photo of Max Ehrmann reading his Desiderata poem (1927), posted to Youtube in 2011 ... this animation is fascinating re my blog post from yesterday and exploring eventually animating realistic avatars, and historically/ethnographically and for STEM research ... Could WUaS create avatars in a virtual Harbin / earth in Google Street View / OpenSim as "learning spaces" in which I might animate a Heartsong avatar from Harbin Hot Springs in some years, and which would eventually develop forms of agency, independent of initial scripting, and based on Heartsong's far-reaching New Age thinking? * In what ways can I do this ethnographically, and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? ... How many languages is the Desiderata in?

Here's an animation of a photo of Max Ehrmann's reading the inspiring and somehow wise Desiderata poem from 1927, posted to Youtube in 2011:

Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH72Quc9NmI

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Here's the far-reaching "Desiderata" poem itself ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20151224115933/http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html


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... this animation is fascinating re my blog post from yesterday and exploring eventually animating realistic avatars, and historically and for STEM research ...

Astatotilapia: The idea is for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic, and soak in the Harbin warm pool, but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency, but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, University of California Professors Emeriti Dean MacCannell and Nelson Graburn, I hope virtual worlds especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, Going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, with its redundancy but clarity re the key concept of "virtual"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/astatotilapia-burtoni-idea-is-for-you.html

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Could WUaS create avatars in a virtual Harbin / earth in Google Street View / OpenSim as "learning spaces" in which I might animate a Heartsong avatar from Harbin Hot Springs in some years in the future, and which would eventually develop forms of agency, independent of initial scripting, and based on Heartsong's far-reaching New Age thinking?

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In what ways can I do this ethnographically, and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?

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I tried to find out how many languages the Desiderata is in by googling, but didn't find anything so far.

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

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Astatotilapia: The idea is for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic, and soak in the Harbin warm pool, but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency, but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, University of California Professors Emeriti Dean MacCannell and Nelson Graburn, I hope virtual worlds, especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages, will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, Going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, using the word "virtual" twice re clarity re the key concept of "virtual"

The idea in the online version of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - hopefully available in paper from your local online bookstore on April 2, is ...

... for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic (think film transposed into a virtual world/earth), and soak in the warm pool while in your home bath tub ...

... in the meanswhile,
Visit the Harbin Gate here,
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Earth ...

http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg

... but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency ...

but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life ...

and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, and add your research, photos, videos, etc., ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy-wise to this Google Street View Harbin virtual world in any of all 7,097 languages ...

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... was sharing this idea with UC Davis Professor Emeritus Dean MacCannell (author of "The Tourist" - 1976) and Kathy Graburn at dinner last night near UC Berkeley after a Tourism Studies Working Group talk there ...

and I'm so glad to say UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Nelson Graburn will write the Foreward to my 450 page Harbin book ...

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For some centuries, texts have been a key and central focus of analysis in university and academia (it's so helpful to stick to the evidence), and anthropology added traveling to one's field site, and field work, as an important source of data for knowledge generation, and I hope virtual worlds especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, realistic computer modeling and ethnographic participant observation interviewing and data.

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After talking with friends, one of whom is from China, at dinner last night about the word "virtual" as "almost "(her possible working translation into Mandarin), or "as if" (one main current definition of mine from my Harbin book), I'm leaning toward going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, with its redundancy but clarity re the key concept of "virtual":

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

... from ...
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & the Virtual

since this latter title's last word wouldn't translate very clearly into Chinese.

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Stanford scientists identify genetic switch for female sexual behavior

https://youtu.be/ySADjxjNwVg
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/march/fish-mating-behavior-031716.html

See, too:
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/711243493272760321

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

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

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astatotilapia

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

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