Amblyopsis rosae: WorldUnivAndSch's Youtube Channel, World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air on Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC, Friends' Dalton Letter about love/care ... Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations ... "NtFs, Cadbury, Quakers, the British Isles and online free MIT OCW education," for online free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric courses and degrees, ... To British Quaker Members of Parliament Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West, Dr. Tania Mathias, ... To Oxford Professors of the Internet, ... To Stanford President John Hennessy (recent past) Stanford Board Chair (recent past) Stanford Rev Jane Shaw (outgoing)

WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/977959516779167744

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World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116251696406981539440
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC
Topic: Testing Hangouts
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
http://youtu.be/FRGNjpK2YXE
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

-https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/977725991010238465
-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/977747630385057792

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World University and School News and Conversation Live Hangout on Air
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 10 am Pacific Time, 5pm UTC

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Friends' Dalton Letter about love/care ...

http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm

Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations ...

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


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To British Quaker Members of Parliament

Ruth Cadbury,
Catherine West,
Dr. Tania Mathias

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Dear Jeanne (in Oxford), Ruth, Catherine and Tania, and Non-theist Friends,

Thanks again for suggesting contacting Quaker Members of Parliament, Jeanne, re World Univ & Sch in the British Isles - and for Quaker students too. I'm meeting online with Wikidata coders next week, and hopefully World University and School will integrate our new "front end" Friendly-informed WUaS Miraheze Mediawiki with the "backend" structured knowledge Wikidata database soon thereafter, so that we'll have a workable online "Oxbridge" / Haverford / Swarthmore / Harvard / Stanford platform (in Google Education too) for online free-to-students CC-4 MIT OCW-centric courses and degrees ...

to be taken in some of the academic subjects here -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects.

See, too -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends (planned online in ~200 countries' official languages, paralleling Wikipedia)

Here are their contacts -

https://twitter.com/ruthcadbury?lang=en
- ruth@ruthcadbury.org.uk
from https://ruthcadbury.org/Contact-Ruth


https://twitter.com/CatherineWest1
- catherine.west.mp@parliament.uk
from http://www.catherinewest.org.uk/contact_me)

https://twitter.com/tania_mathias
- tania@tania4twickenham.co.uk
from https://www.tania4twickenham.co.uk/contact

(and re Scotland WUaS - https://twitter.com/ScotPolQuaker? More about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/waterfall-climbing-cave-fish-how-to.html - with many related World Univ & Sch ideas in the "global university" label).

World Univ & Sch will continue to remain wiki open - for open teaching and learning - and related creativity, e.g. about NtFs.

Friendly greetings from the SF Bay Area,
Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

PS
The above Meeting WorldUniversity email address is Friendly-oriented. 

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:

THANKS, Jean, and NtFs!

Quaker Members of Parliament seem few and far between, and connecting with them re online (Nt)Friendly-informed World University and School in the British Isles, could be a great boon.

Friendly regards, 

Scott

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Jeanne Warren <Jeanne.Warren@btinternet.com> wrote:

Scott,

I was hoping someone else would answer.  I don't have advice beyond the obvious:  all these MPs have websites or contact details which can be found by googling, I'm sure.  I haven't contacted any of them up to now.

Best wishes,

Jeanne

-----Original Message-----
From: nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com [mailto:nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott MacLeod
Sent: 29 October 2017 19:06
To: nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com
Subject: [NTF-talk] NtFs, Cadbury, Quakers, the British Isles and online free MIT OCW education

Hi Jeanne, David and British NtFs, (and NtFs),

I'm interested in reaching out to the 3 Quaker MPs in Britain - Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West, and Tania Mathias - and re offering free online Friendly-informed World University and School for free online degrees (and with open wiki schools) to British in English (and other languages too, for those who might be interested there). Any suggestions on how best to do so?

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

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

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

http://www.dailymail.couk/debate/article-1244582/Cadburys-Quakers-vision-Utopia-built-British-institution.html

https://ruthcadbury.org/content/your-local-voice-parliament

https://ruthcadbury.org

World University and School is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW.

Our MIT OpenCourseWare-centricity will allow for both an excellent engineering focus (and STEM) but also a very broad academic focus, with MIT's departments as the model for our first majors. (All of MIT's School of Management/Business courses are online too under the the MIT OCW Creative Commons (CC-4) license).

The ~720 WUaS Wikia wiki pages here - e.g.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - are the template for
this as we begin to move into our new great wiki platform here -
wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org - where each of these ~200 countries
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - will
become major universities (Stanfords/Harvards/MITs/Cambridges) in
their official / main languages, with Wikipedia's database called
Wikidata as a "back end" in their 358 languages (and possibly
Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia's affiliated online language
communities).

Here's the beginning of England World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/England .

And here are the beginnings of Scotland WUaS in English -

Scotland World University and School (and for accrediting online CC
WUaS university degrees, in one or more Scottish languages, and in
English to begin) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland

Scottish Gaelic language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language

Scots language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots_language

And here's the beginning of Spain WUaS (planned in Spanish) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spain - where MIT OCW is already
in Spanish - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/ -
as a start, and planned for free online University degrees.

Yours Aye, Scott
scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

NtFriendly regards, 

Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

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To
Oxford Professors of the Internet:

Phil Howard
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-howard/

Helen Margetts
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/helen-margetts/

Victoria Nash
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/victoria-nash/


Dear Phil, Helen, and Vicky,

Thanks for this recent OII newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/oii/oxford-internet-institute-newsletter-hilary-2018?e=5890eb570c (which I received at the email address associated with ~ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodRainbow). And congratulations on becoming the next Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Phil. I'm writing to send my greetings, and to mention too that I met Vicky Nash at Harvard Law Emeritus Charles Nesson's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, more than a decade ago. Greetings, Vicky!

I'm developing MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, with plans to be in all ~200 countries' official languages as major online universities offering Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS is also seeking to develop wiki schools in all 7,097 living languages for open teaching and learning. (I went to Fettes College in the 1st year 6th in '76-77 and studied at the Univ of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-04, so am also a bit familiar with British academics). WUaS is seeking to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, if possible. And I'd love to come talk about World Univ & Sch at Oxford at some point, but WUaS doesn't have any resources yet whatsoever. For your information, here are some recent minutes from our monthly business meeting - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/03/minutes-for-wuas-march-10-2018.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/marsh-minutes-for-wuas-march-10-2018.html &  (conducted loosely in the manner of Friends/Quakers, and which is open and electronically-mediated). I also teach a course on "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" and am a Castellian in part. So I'm writing just to make contact, and say hello here.

Thank you again for your recent OII newsletter, congratulations, Phil, and looking forward to further communication. 

With very best wishes, 

Scott

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each a major online university, the Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Oxbridge of the internet)

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

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To
Stanford President John Hennessy (recent past)
https://web.stanford.edu/~hennessy/

Stanford Board Chair Steve Denning (recent past)
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/denning-chair-trustees-021412.html

Stanford Rev Prof Jane Shaw (outgoing)
https://religiouslife.stanford.edu/people/rev-professor-jane-shaw

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Dear Jane, 

Congratulations on your upcoming position at Oxford - https://news.stanford.edu/2018/02/28/jane-shaw-dean-religious-life-depart-oxford/ - and it was very nice to meet you at Steve Dennings' talk (where I also was glad to have met recent Stanford President John Hennessy for the first time). 

Having studied both at Fettes College (in 1976-1977) and at the University of Edinburgh (in 2003-2004), it would be great to stay in touch with regards to World University and School, which is like CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages and Wikipedia in 298 languages. WUaS would like to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet and hire a large number of faculty in multiple languages, probably beginning with graduate student instructors online - and from Oxford.

I'm including my email to Steve Denning and John Hennessy for your perusal. 

Congratulations, and looking forward to staying in communication. 

Best regards, 

Scott

Dear Steve and John,

Thank you for inviting me to send you some materials about World University and School (and by extension the newly emergent, parallel, forked WUaS Corporation). Thanks also for your far-reaching sharing yesterday at - http://events.stanford.edu/events/736/73663/. And it was great to meet you in person, John, as well. (I'm in awe of your vision for Stanford, John, and what you accomplished in your 16 years as President at Stanford - and both of you it would seem, with you Steve as chair of the Stanford Board from 2004-2017). I'm writing to follow up about my inquiry to you, Steve, - whether you both might have interest in becoming co-chairs of the WUaS Corporation, a startup general stock company planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages (and indeed in all 7,099 living languages as academic markets). I think you'd make extraordinary co-chairs of the WUaS Corporation Board - https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/denning-chair-trustees-021412.html and https://web.stanford.edu/~hennessy/. 

World University and School is like CC Wikipedia (in its 299 languages) with CC-4 MIT OCW (in its 5 languages) and Yale OYC.

WUaS Corporation plans to generate 11.5% annual returns (and also plans to parallel the long term average of the S&P 500) in perpetuity (100 years+ if possible), around these 10 planned for profit revenue streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/06/wuas-corporations-10-planned-for-profit.html (out of 14 total for World University and School) - in each of all ~200 countries and in all 7,099 living languages, each an academic market. While the WUaS Corporation is a separate legal entity with a separate Board and Officers, these are all educational services in support of wiki CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - which has a several trillion dollars’ endowment goal. (WUaS Corporation Business Plan in GDoc is here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GqcLW_PrcCCQpwNKDF8AqNwtWxYMNUG1h-TfnpbPXw/edit?usp=sharing). As a newly incorporated for-profit, the startup WUaS Corporation will be able to offer only shares to Board members. 

I hope much of World University and School, as a STEM field site in all 7,099 languages, for example, will emerge in a realistic virtual earth/universe at the street view, cellular and atomic levels (emerging from my virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - where you can "walk" down the road from the Harbin gate 4 miles to Middletown, for example) - and for materials' science design, and a multitude of other STEM projects as well.  (Think Google Street View w time slider/Maps/Earth/Brain & at the cellular & atomic levels with Minecraft/SL/OpenSimulator too e.g. https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod /status/955218421267841024). 

As a business thinker, Steve, and recent Chairman of the Stanford University Board, how would you further focus the above business plan, and to bring WUaS public? This is a real opportunity for Stanford itself, since A) World University and School is a 501(c)3 and the B) WUaS is a general stock company, both planned in all ~200 nation states' official languages - and with online law and medical schools with online teaching hospitals planned (for robotic tele surgery, for example), and in all living languages. 

Stanford Professor of Medicine Diana Do MD is the lead WUaS Corp board member, and our one other Board member, Kyle Wagner, is in Hong Kong setting up a school there. 

World University and School's Chair and CFO is Larry Viehland, who went to MIT in chemistry as an undergraduate (as did his wife, Kim), and Larry has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Wisconsin. 

I've applied for a MIT Media Lab faculty position, so as partly to be able to grow World University and School out of MIT itself, as well as Stanford, and the University of California - at least by hiring graduate students from these schools who are learning to become online faculty members. 

I hope World University and School will become the MIT / Harvard / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet - in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages - and develop with the information technology revolution 1,000 years+ into the future + (like Cambridge and Oxford are old, and also highest achieving). 

John: while Steve invited me to share some materials with him, and suggested I ask Jane Shaw for his email address, Jane Shaw said she doesn't share such email addresses, so I wonder if you would be willing please to share this email with him? Thank you. 

All the best, 

Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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

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Chocolate: lessons from yoga for westerners? Daily relaxation response / meditation is beneficial for well being / inner easing attunement {a warm pool deepens this naturally}, Movement exercise thru wide range of poses (inversions esp) is helpful, Breath play :) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga ~ WARM POOL brain research? https://mcgovern.mit.edu/research & https://bcs.mit.edu & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ … & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-17-systems-neuroscience-lab-spring-2013/ … Mapping brain at cell/atomic levels into realistic virtual Earth/Brains (Think G StreetView w Time Slider) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity w BRAINWAVE HEADSETS?, Focus first on a brain thumbprint data gram, with brain wave head set, for voting and democracy - and in each of all ~200 countries, and in all 7,097 living languages? What makes all 7.5 billion brains different, and how could we assess this immediately with a brain wave headset, and build out a research program from this - with a focus too on all 7k languages?

lessons from yoga for westerners? Daily relaxation response / meditation is beneficial for well being / inner easing attunement {a warm pool deepens this naturally}, Movement exercise thru wide range of poses (inversions esp) is helpful, Breath play :) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga  ~

lessons from yoga for westerners? Daily relaxation response / meditation is beneficial for well being / inner easing attunement {a warm pool deepens this naturally}, Movement exercise thru wide range of poses (inversions esp) is helpful, Breath play :) https://t.co/qdcU0ywtHq ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977942456057577473


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lessons from yoga for westerners? Daily relaxation response / meditation is beneficial for inner easing attuning {a warm pool deepens this naturally}, Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/hippy-anjali-yoga-notations-ntf-talk.html … & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977942456057577473 … & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977946371364802567 … >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga ~

lessons from yoga for westerners? Daily relaxation response / meditation is beneficial for inner easing attuning {a warm pool deepens this naturally}, Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations~https://t.co/4klzNrYebQ & https://t.co/8BcNqjn541 & https://t.co/AmvJsnDmWe >https://t.co/qdcU0ywtHq~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977963121917640704


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lessons from yoga for westerners? https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8936282 … & http://www.blueosa.com/powerful-life-lessons-learned-from-30-days-of-yoga-in-costa-rica/ … & https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/travel/28personal.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ … &
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/judith-hanson-lasater-3-life-lessons-bks-iyengar … ...
I also enjoy Angela & Victoria's Yoga ~ http://angela-victor.com
... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga  ~ What is/will emerge online re beneficial yoga?

lessons from yoga for westerners? https://t.co/ByDN6swFD7 & https://t.co/KkM9DuKWXz & https://t.co/haHb7aAiqs &https://t.co/DcUsKH5SdI ...
I also enjoy Angela & Victoria's Yoga ~ https://t.co/NExNlPqEpL
... https://t.co/qdcU0ywtHq ~ What is/will emerge online re beneficial yoga?

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977946371364802567

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WARM POOL brain research? https://mcgovern.mit.edu/research  & https://bcs.mit.edu  & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ … & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-17-systems-neuroscience-lab-spring-2013/ … Mapping brain at cell/atomic levels into realistic virtual Earth/Brains (Think G StreetView w Time Slider) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity  w BRAINWAVE HEADSETS?

WARM POOL brain research? https://t.co/U2dkUuDPnY & https://t.co/KeB2VZyGTz & https://t.co/eJjQqgxs73 & https://t.co/s3o1h5KbiJ Mapping brain at cell/atomic levels into realistic virtual Earth/Brains (Think G StreetView w Time Slider) https://t.co/rZk6Bve94f w BRAINWAVE HEADSETS?

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977931097487978496


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Brain research from home? https://mcgovern.mit.edu/research & https://bcs.mit.edu  & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/ … & https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-17-systems-neuroscience-lab-spring-2013/ … Mapping brain at cell/atomic levels into realistic virtual Earth/Brains (Think G StreetView w Time Slider) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity  w BRAINWAVE HEADSETS?

Brain research from home? https://t.co/JRFv3sFsFS & https://t.co/otoGzHHU7P & https://t.co/rSF5uSy8rS & https://t.co/GTJL463MDf Mapping brain at cell/atomic levels into realistic virtual Earth/Brains (Think G StreetView w Time Slider) https://t.co/dRISYwrUGC w BRAINWAVE HEADSETS?

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/977928601403244544

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— Autom Tagsa (@autom8) March 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/autom8/status/977922048969277442


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Focus first on a brain thumbprint data gram, with brain wave head set, for voting and democracy - such as in Google Glass, differentially for 7.5 billion people - and in each of all ~200 countries, and in all 7,097 living languages? What makes all 7.5 billion brains different - e.g. in a "brain print" - and how could we assess this immediately with a brain wave headset, and build out a research program from this - with an explicit focus too on all 7k languages?

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lessons from yoga for westerners? https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8936282 … & http://www.blueosa.com/powerful-life-lessons-learned-from-30-days-of-yoga-in-costa-rica/ … & https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/travel/28personal.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ … &
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/judith-hanson-lasater-3-life-lessons-bks-iyengar …
I also enjoy Angela & Victor's Yoga ~ http://angela-victor.com
> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga  ~ What is/will emerge online re beneficial yoga?

lessons from yoga for westerners? https://t.co/2wWgmEbRP2 & https://t.co/UFDphc09as & https://t.co/V96N7AhlZg &https://t.co/LSrBERIs1S …
I also enjoy Angela & Victor's Yoga ~ https://t.co/ExdLlnFcR1
> https://t.co/Wg2QQecJB3 ~ What is/will emerge online re beneficial yoga?

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) March 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/978131833891139584

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Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park: Yoga, dancing, Scotland (SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING in Berkeley), global university, India, writing, virtual world, Brain, STEM, robotics, programming, MIT, virtual Harbin, Designing a WARM POOL in Google Earth, Site Modeling in Sketchup, ~ VISIT THE HARBIN GATE HERE ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ … SOAKING from home in bathtub at virtual Harbin in Cardboard while hanging in pool area?

Hi M,

Have you visited any Wright Bros.' places on your current trip? Am to the last chapter of the delightfully comic book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" by Kiran Desai, and will get back into "The Wright Brothers' " book by David McCullough you gave me for my birthday soon. Would love to be able to re-live or experience their actual early flight experiments in a realistic virtual earth, think Google Street View with time slider. How far are you staying from Kitty Hawk? (Looks like it's nearly 6 hours away ... )

I built my fifth robot yesterday from the Lego Education WeDo 2.0 robotics' tutorials, and this one is on wheels, and I can make it move on my table from my computer screen remotely, with a little program I put together with programming/coding blocks. Cool ... and fun. Don't know if I'll get to a Wright Bros' plane in Lego which will be flyable, but Lego drone planes are on the horizon probably.

Scottish Country Dancing last night in Berkeley was fun again, after Wednesday SCD in Mountain View. Linda Henderson, who is from near Edinburgh originally, taught the class, which is typically very enjoyable, and somehow quite Scottish. She's written a dance called Saltire (after the Scots' flag), which we danced ... and the origins of the St. Andrew's cross and flag emerge from 832 CE not far from where she grew up in East Lothian (a quite old part of the world) - interesting. Doing such social dancing more frequently gets me stronger / fitter ... which generates wellness as well. Curious about a kind of creation of Scottish Country Dance Yoga - think I'll have to invent this, for range of movement, a kind of moving meditation?, and for articulating various expressions of SCD and Yogic freedom, and well-being neurophysiology, and re what I'll call their "subcultures." And maybe I can build and bring a life-size Lego robot which can Scottish Country Dance next week to a class. :)

Enjoying language-learning Hangouts with Peter Bothe in group video in an ongoing way ... emergent culture there in group video in a sense ... and re World University.

How are your travels going? How are you? Have a good trip home. Talk with you perhaps tomorrow to welcome you home.

L, Scott

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Hi M,

Speaking of flight, check out this Skydio flying drone camera video -

https://youtu.be/gsfkGlSajHQ - which I learned of from this MIT article  https://news.mit.edu/2018/startup-skydio-autonomous-selfie-drone-0313 .

L,
Scott

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Thanks, Linda, for your very enjoyable SCD class last night.

Per my "trivia" question about the oldest Scottish country dance you know of, I looked this up and found:

Maxwell's Rant - 1752

Montgomeries' Rant - 1749

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_country_dances

and that SCD gained in popularity after 1745 ...

"Caledonian Country Dances" became popular in ... London Society in the decades after the rebellion of 1745. [3]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_country_dance

These dances are old. And many groups of people seem to have been enjoying the same figures over many centuries - which seems a bit loopy to me.

Curious how to begin to compare the neurophysiology of happiness / bliss / neural cascades of pleasure - comparatively with brain wave headsets into a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels, for example - between say Scottish Country Dancing (SCD) ... and ...  see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/waterfall-climbing-cave-fish-how-to.html. :)

Thanks too for your great "Saltire" dance!

Cheers, Scott


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Designing a WARM POOL in Google Earth https://youtu.be/HoLIcAXgvvA
Site Modeling in Sketchup https://youtu.be/nVhM3IYMF8o  ~ VISIT THE HARBIN GATE HERE ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Architecture … and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds … SOAKING from home in bathtub at virtual Harbin in Cardboard while hanging in pool area?

Designing a WARM POOL in Google Earth https://t.co/lKsXn2Et2D
Site Modeling in Sketchup https://t.co/Y7uBb1w1tz ~ https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD To https://t.co/S3Bwo3e9VF & https://t.co/zKwVIAHhxJ SOAKING from home in bathtub at virtual Harbin in Cardboard while hanging in pool area?

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 23, 2018

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/977270197382823936

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See related Tweets from this day, and on these related Twitter profiles:

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en
(https://twitter.com/WUaSPress)

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley)

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See, too:

Fish locomotion: MIT Robotic fish, Looks like it comes out of submarine design thinking. Wonder how it could emerge into Harbiniana, a new physical/virtual Robot~I can give & receive Watsu well, How can I make my own google expedition? (and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy … of Harbin soaking @HarbinBook, for ex.?, Designing a building in Google Earth, Site Modeling in Sketchup

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/fish-locomotion-mit-robotic-fish-looks.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyoshidai_Quasi-National_Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine,_Yamaguchi

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Waterfall climbing cave fish: How to begin to compare the neurophysiology of happiness / bliss / neural cascades of pleasure - comparatively with brain wave headsets into a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels - between say Scottish Country Dancing (SCD) and being in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, UC Berkeley and University of California ... How best to plan for faculty and staff retirement / pensions for World Univ and Sch as we grow?, Could World Univ and Sch become part of the University of California system/infrastructure - and in all WUaS's~200 countries' planned languages, UC has 10 separate differentiated campuses and a great name in public education, WUaS Co BEGINNING ONLINE WITH BOOKSTORES AND ACADEMIC PRESSES WITH MACHINE TRANSLATION IN ALL ~200 COUNTRIES' OFFICIAL/MAIN LANGUAGES - ... Makes much sense to seek accreditation (when we have students and money), such as - https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-california-berkeley (WASC and possibly Quaker)

Had fun at a Scottish Country Dance in Mountain View the other evening. Curious too even in what ways one could begin to compare the neurophysiology of happiness / bliss / neural cascades of pleasure, comparatively with brain wave headsets into a realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels, between say SCD and being in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool ... interesting research ahead ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html ... and hopefully brain science-centric a la MIT / Stanford / Berkeley and World Univ and Sch-wise.

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In what ways could @WorldUnivAndSch best begin a Scottish Studies' Institute in the SF Bay Area & re Scotland WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland  (each country a major online university https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States …) inviting speakers to talk & as model for all ~200 countries' universities?

In what ways could @WorldUnivAndSch best begin a Scottish Studies' Institute in the SF Bay Area & re Scotland WUaS - https://t.co/1vIXgVvx0A (each country a major online university https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4) inviting speakers to talk & as model for all ~200 countries' universities?

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2018

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/977223440812818437
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/977223591052828673
- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/977223745575071744

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In what ways could a Scottish Studies' Institute in the SF Bay Area to create Scotland WUaS @WorldUnivAndSch -https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/977223440812818437 … - find its budget from Scotland itself, and to hire Scots as online faculty? Swords into plough shares, Quaker-wise - so from defense spending?

In what ways could a Scottish Studies' Institute in the SF Bay Area to create Scotland WUaS @WorldUnivAndSch -https://t.co/CVBsuygDaI - find its budget from Scotland itself, and to hire Scots as online faculty? Swords into plough shares, Quaker-wise - so from defense spending?

— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) March 23, 2018

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/977231378017234944

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As an example of a parallel project in the US -

2018 Visiting Lectureship

Restore Scottish Highland heritage to American education at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with the 2018-19 Visiting Lectureship.

https://gaelicusa.org/2018-visiting-lectureship/ -

where WUaS's ~200 online e-universities seek to become the Harvard / MIT / Oxbridge of the Internet ...

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WUaS could invite, for example, Fiona McPherson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow ...

Fiona Macpherson

@ProfMacpherson

Philosopher of Mind and Perception, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow

gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…

https://twitter.com/ProfMacpherson

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A REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH - think Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg  ~ with time slider /Maps /Earth/Brain with species at cell/atom levels - VIRTUAL EARTH BUILDING BLOCKS ARE THERE-WHAT TO BUILD EARLY ON? @HarbinBook https://twitter.com/NatCapProject/status/976625735417786374 … re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Environmental_Engineering … ~

A REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH - think Google Street View ~https://t.co/WiPqjyvqYP~ w time slider /Maps /Earth w SPECIES w cell/atoms - will aid developing best environnentally sustainable approaches to natural resources https://t.co/EU0MXeTh2q re  https://t.co/LDNoBaoPd1 @WUaSPress ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2018

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/976846169199595520

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Thu, March 15, 2018

Hi Susan, Jean and Lillian, and All, 

To date, this community radio interview - http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school by Quaker/Friend Mark Judkins Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin - is World University and School's press track record (accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm).

I'm curious, if WUaS could get an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - and I could thereby potentially "land" the MIT Media Lab faculty position - whether WUaS could then contact H.C., also a Pittsburgh high school friend, about something in the WSJ.

Warmly, Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

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Fri, March 23, 2018

UC Berkeley and University of California ...


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March 19-23

Hi M,

Sounds great. Have a fun trip. Hi to T.

I think the WUaS Co business model which would good to build out of would be more Ikea-Amazon than Walmart-Amazon - BEGINNING ONLINE WITH BOOKSTORES AND ACADEMIC PRESSES WITH MACHINE TRANSLATION IN ALL ~200 COUNTRIES' OFFICIAL/MAIN LANGUAGES - but Woolworth 5 & 10 department stores have a more than 100 year history in these regards ... and AGAIN re each of all ~200 countries and their main languages.

Think I may head to working with Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics' kit after I build through the Lego WeDo 2.0's ~24 projects ... and eventually adding newly the Scratch drag and drop programming language out of MIT, to WeDo 2.0 Lego robotics ... fun and interesting ... and it looks like parts of Mindstorms can work in water too ... wow ... good both for WUaS Students and my own hypothetical kids too ... and perhaps would contribute to "landing" the MIT Media Lab faculty position.

Heading to SCD music-making soon.

Have fun in Myrtle Beach, and enjoy the warmth ... may keep in touch in email via your iPhone.

Lots of l,
Scott


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Hi M,

Welcome to Myrtle Beach ... :) sounds like a fun trip, and nice to be with friends.

I just heard from the MIT Media Lab that I was not offered the faculty position. (I think Cambridge MA and MIT could be a very intense place to be a professor, in terms of cultural questions, among many ... and in the way that MIT itself leads the development of information technologies, in so many ways. Perhaps WUaS can do this, however, online in many languages and in all countries in a very different way than MIT as we develop).

How best to plan for faculty and staff retirement / pensions for World University and School as we grow, I wonder (is one question that comes to mind)?

The main road is out in Canyon - a cement truck seems to have fallen off the road at a fairly sharp bend by Theo's house, which means that traffic has to go by an even smaller, quite steep road, which involves two very rustic bridges at the road's low point. As I was coming home last night after SCD music-making, and heading up this road, my tires skidded a bit coming off these bridges 2 or 3 times, so each time I had to back up in the dark onto one of the bridges, to get a running start. Today it's raining a bit, so when I come up this road again, I'll be even more focused on getting a running start.

It's quite a site to see this big cement truck from above it on the road - possibly full - nearly kipped sideways off it - and I have no idea how anyone would be able to get it out. A kind of California road challenge ... have probably been lots of these road challenges over the centuries, - and in all US states. Roads are an old history ... and the US's and Canyon's roads probably are better than ever at any time in history. Ah, living in a rural place.

No Cambridge, MA, for me this autumn ... more WUaS ... and Harbin project ...

and family ... staying focused in finding a friend in these regards ...

I hope you have a wonderful trip ...



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Hi M,

Have you arrived to your destination? How has your travel gone? How are you?

Not traveling to Cambridge MA this autumn could make it easier to find a partner.

...

Cuttyhunk in summer, rather than Cambridge for work ... has appeal.

Here's the MIT Media Lab email:



Greetings Scott MacLeod, 

Thank you for applying to the General faculty search position in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences/Media Lab. The search committee has looked carefully at the (many) applications received, and you are not on our shortlist of candidates.

We appreciate your interest in the Media Lab, however, we will not be able to offer you the position.

We wish you the best in your future endeavors.

-Faculty Search Committee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent this message in reference to your application for Assistant Professor - General Search.


And I'm not a general either - whatever this means in this application.

It would be great for WUaS to emerge from a Stanford, UC Berkeley or UC in general, or similar for financial structure such as retirement / pensions / benefits re hiring grad students, and Ph.D.s,  .... which could be a growth opportunity for these great universities.

I may let Nelson and Dean know soon about my not getting the MIT Media Lab position, and perhaps I could even build on the Media Lab application with UC Berkeley even ... and find a way to get a professor position there.

Now both Canyon roads are blocked - email below.

Rainy day here ... made a Lego WeDo 2.0 robot I built to speak today (simply by recording something to the programming software - interesting).

Happy travels, M! :)

L,
Scott

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Hi M

The main road opened in Canyon around 5pm yesterday! And welcome to Myrtle Beach! How did your trip go?

Am grateful to Nelson for his writing the Foreward to my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - which I think he may have offered to do out of the blue. Having inquired yesterday of Nelson and Dean whether becoming a faculty member at UC Berkeley might be a possibility - having heard back negatively yesterday from MIT Media Lab about my faculty application there  -I wonder if Dean or Nelson could make this happen by, for example, talking with Cal provost Carol Christ (re Ns too), if only with a lecturer position, and income enough to live on annually, to begin.

May head to Scottish Country Dancing in Mountain View this evening!

Happy travels, Ma!

L,
Scott

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Hello M,

How is Myrtle Beach? How are you? How are your travels going?

Chancellor of UC Berkeley Carol Christ who knows ... could be a good person to reach out to re a possible teaching position in the UC Berkeley Anthro Dept re this email I just sent to Larry -

"I didn't get the MIT Media Lab faculty position, I heard the day before yesterday. It would be great if I could now seek out and get an Anthropology faculty position at UC Berkeley, if at all possible - and I've inquired about this possibility with UC Professors Nelson Graburn and Dean MacCannell. I think Nelson wrote the Foreword to my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" somehow out of the blue - with benefits for him and myself - and which I think has been very important for its credibility; perhaps he'll/they'll be able to see my need of this faculty job, - and the growth potential of World University and School in collaboration with the University of California which could come out of this - which would benefit them. And perhaps I could also inquire further about this with the fairly new UC Berkeley Chancellor, Carol Christ, whom I've met and like, and who knows some mutual friends from Cuttyhunk - and re accreditation too.  "

How can Nelson and Dean and President of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, who was raised in Pittsburgh, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ who ...  come to benefit from World University and School by its becoming part of the University of California system/infrastructure - and in all WUaS's~200 countries' planned languages, I wonder. They have 10 separate differentiated campuses, a great name in public education, and, for example, the web site skills among much else IT-wise for scaling, and hiring. And their retirement systems could benefit as WUaS hires graduate students and recent Ph.D.s in all ~200 countries' official languages - and their nation states reimburse WUaS / UC for students.

As Larry said the other day, if only someone would pick up on the idea.

Hope your travels are going well. :)

L,

Scott


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Dear Larry,

I hope this finds you well.

After talking today with a Tunisian in a German language Hangout which I attend regularly, I think it makes much sense to seek accreditation (when we have students and money), such as - https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-california-berkeley (WASC and possibly Quaker), for example - for Tunisians and other international students, and for Americans especially.

Peter Bothe who organizes this language Hangout says he'll help to promote World University and School and in Hangouts and on Youtube - and regularly. Great news, I think. (Big kudos to Peter).

I didn't get the MIT Media Lab faculty position, I heard the day before yesterday. It would be great if I could now seek out and get an Anthropology faculty position at UC Berkeley, if at all possible - and I've inquired about this possibility with UC Professors Nelson Graburn and Dean MacCannell. I think Nelson wrote the Foreword to my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" somehow out of the blue - with benefits for him and myself - and which I think has been very important for its credibility; perhaps he'll/they'll be able to see my need of this faculty job, - and the growth potential of World University and School in collaboration with the University of California which could come out of this - which would benefit them. And perhaps I could also inquire further about this with the fairly new UC Berkeley Chancellor, Carol Christ, whom I've met and like, and who knows some mutual friends from Cuttyhunk - and re accreditation too.

Curious to learn from Mitch Zuklie about his interest in becoming a WUaS Co Board member re your "Let's see what you find out when you talk to him" of March 15 email. Bob Graham has kind of gotten back to say he would like to be a Board member, but that this would be in a limited way; Deloitte where he works probably has access to many resources. But perhaps Mitch and Bob could become Board members together. And could Bob and Mitch invite the other two Stanford Law SVDX -  Anita Sands and Shellye Archambeau - panelists too to join this WUaS Co Board - for instant Board? With Kyle that would leave 2 further slots for them to fill.

As you know, the WUaS Corp is an educational services company, planned in all ~200 nation states (their official / main languages), and in all 7,097 living languages.

And how best further for us to remove ourselves as completely as possible from the WUaS Co - as a Board emerges?

... still enrolled in the College of Piping.

Sincerely, Scott




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- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com


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Dear Larry,

...

As you said the other day, something like: if someone would pick up on the WUaS idea - and how could all of the University of California do so, and Berkeley, in particular, I wonder?

Just emailed this to M:


How could Nelson and Dean and President of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, who was raised in Pittsburgh, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ who knows the Newberrys from Cuttyhunk come to benefit from World University and School by its becoming part of the University of California system/infrastructure - and in all WUaS's~200 countries' planned languages, I wonder. UC has 10 separate differentiated campuses, one of the greatest names in public education at the University level (and offer Med Schs, Law Schs., PH.D. Bachelor degree programs), and, for example, the web site skills among much else IT-wise for scaling, and hiring. And their retirement systems could benefit as WUaS hires graduate students and recent Ph.D.s in all ~200 countries' official languages - and their nation states reimburse WUaS / UC for students.

UC President Janet Napolitano - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano. She's the president I'd think of all 10 campuses.

Sincerely,
Scott

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“Only by working together, looking to the future & committing to our core values of comprehensive excellence & access for all, will we maintain the brilliance of @ucberkeley.”—@ucberkeley chancellor Carol Christ in @dailycal #OpEd #UC150

“Only by working together, looking to the future & committing to our core values of comprehensive excellence & access for all, will we maintain the brilliance of @ucberkeley.”—@ucberkeley chancellor Carol Christ in @dailycal #OpEd #UC150 https://t.co/juoPUEyL7Y

— UC (@UofCalifornia) March 23, 2018

https://twitter.com/UofCalifornia/status/977236480291680257

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

(https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptotora_thamicola

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