Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Verreaux's eagle-owl: Stanford Library Ambassador to Latvia Talk, A Potential Model for Engaging Nation States

Dear Ambassador Teikmanis, Provost Keller, Dr. Viehland (chair of World University's Board) and friends,

It was very nice to meet and talk with all of you Thursday, March 2, at the Stanford library Latvia talk.

I'm including my emails to Ambassador Teikmanis and Ms. Dace S., of the American Latvian Association, below for your edification concerning wiki CC MIT OpenCourseWare- and Yale OYC-centric Latvia World University and School, planned in Latvian, as well as the opportunity for Latvian students this autumn to matriculate online for free CC OCW Bachelor degrees in English, from the comfort of their homes in Latvia, in the U.S. or anywhere in the world.

Looking forward to staying in communication about Latvia and Latvian language World University and School as these grow. Please let me know if you have any further questions, or feel free to edit a wiki page in Latvian after Latvia World University and School is up and running in its new wiki, emerging from CC Wikidata/Wikbase (which is CC Wikipedia's database, developing for its 358 languages).

Best regards,

Scott

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

Dear Ambassador Teikmanis,

Thank you for your Stanford talk yesterday, and it was an honor to meet you (http://library.stanford.edu/events/andris-teikmanis-latvias-ambassador-us & https://events.stanford.edu/events/663/66343/). I wondered as you spoke whether you had ever met a friend of mine in the U.S. State Department, T.L., who is also an ambassador. We know each other from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from the early 1980s, where we both studied.

World University and School is like CC Wikipedia (in 358 languages) with CC MIT OpenCourseWare (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC, and plans to offer online university and high school degrees in all countries' official languages, beginning with English. (WUaS is also CC - Creative Commons' licensed). World University would like to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as International Baccalaureate (I.B.) high school degrees in Latvian, and WUaS is planning to matriculate our very first students for online best CC OpenCourseWare Bachelor degrees beginning this autumn in English - with online Latvian students very welcome if they will likely complete ~36 courses over 4 years for this free CC OCW Bachelor's degree.

World University and School seeks to become the online Stanford of the Internet, with, if possible, our law schools and medical schools emerging out of the Stanford law and medical schools themselves - for free-to-students online CC OCW law and medical degrees - EVENTUALLY in Latvian. In so doing, wiki World University and School seeks to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet for free CC OCW degrees in all ~200 countries' official languages, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages.

What would be the best way to communicate further about this with you or your embassy? I will also get in touch with Dace S. soon, with whom it was very nice to chat about World University yesterday (especially since we both lived in Munich and studied at LMU), about her, and the American Latvian Association, potentially organizing online group video language Hangouts in both a) Latvian and b) English as a beginning to Latvia World University and School in Latvian, as well as a way to inform Latvians about this free CC OCW University opportunity in English beginning this autumn.

Thank you again for your timely and edifying talk yesterday in the Stanford library, and it was very nice to meet you in person.

Sincerely,

Scott

Dear Dace,

It was very nice to meet and talk with you in person yesterday at the Stanford Latvia talk with Ambassador Teikmanis. I'm including below the email I just sent to the Ambassador for your information. How best might we communicate further about World University and School, and possibly Latvian students matriculating this autumn for free CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online Bachelor degrees from the comfort of their homes, and live and interactively as well?

Since you speak German too - it's a small world that we both studied at LMU - I'd like to invite you too to Peter Bothe's Language Communities - https://plus.google.com/+PeterBothe - both in German and English (roughly at 1pm ET on Tu, Th & Sa), because it would be nice to visit again :), and in this live virtual space. I think you might also find inspiration from these group video sessions for potentially beginning or organizing - perhaps in conjunction with the American Latvian Association - weekly group video Hangouts both in Latvian and in English, for the benefit of Latvian students matriculating at World University in English (potentially this autumn), and eventually in Latvian for free CC OpenCourseWare (OCW) degrees. As wiki schools, and with the possibility to create wiki subjects about any subject one loves or is interested in for open teaching and learning - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects (planned in English and Latvian in a new WIKI) - WUaS will be of interest to many Latvians who are NOT planning on or interested in matriculating at WUaS for free CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees (so like Latvian Wikipedians). I suspect you will be able to add creative ways of making these Hangouts and group video sessions very enjoyable that are particularly Latvian.

Thank you again for talking yesterday in the Stanford library, Dace, and it was very nice to meet you in person. In seeking to become the Stanford of the Internet in Latvia in Latvian homes, and as wiki (editable web pages) too, World University also seeks to create education and learning anew, building on the excellence and STEM thinking, of Stanford and MIT and greatest universities in all countries' languages - and with information technologies, such as a universal translator and a realistic virtual earth, as these continue to develop and grow rapidly and with excellence in the coming decades.

What are the best ways to communicate further about this with you, Dace, concerning this remarkable opportunity for Latvians especially, but also with regards to many other things we talked about yesterday? It was very nice to meet and talk with you.

Best regards,

Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This transmission and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable federal or state laws. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux's_eagle-owl

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Diamond: Harbin Hot Springs' articles from recent search, "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook, HarbinBook ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook, Expand or extend this realistic virtual Harbin ... with 4 "MIT Media Lab Light Bulbs" ... in augmented illuminated reality around us ... into a football field stadium? into something the size of Rhode Island at night onto some north Pacific Ocean expanse? into a life size virtual earth in some dark part of the universe with 8 "MIT Media Lab Space Ship Light Bulbs"?

The Original Search Engine. pic.twitter.com/fFm3jO67fC
— Enchantment (@sageandspirit2) March 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/sageandspirit2/status/838894505894035456
{posted here today ... https://twitter.com/HarbinBook}

The Post: Community Updates

http://harbin.org/community/the-post/

Reopening & Rebuilding News

http://harbin.org/community/news/

A year after Valley Fire, visions of Harbin Hot Springs’ new life

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-year-after-Valley-Fire-visions-of-Harbin-Hot-9216334.php

Harbin Hot Springs, a place of renewal, is reduced to ashes by Valley fire

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0915-valley-fire-springs-20150915-story.html

Well-loved Harbin Hot Springs ravaged by Valley Fire; pools survive

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harbin-Hot-Springs-ravaged-by-Valley-Fire-6503417.php

Harbin Hot Springs, N. Calif. ‘hippie’ haven, consumed by massive wildfire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/harbin-hot-springs-nocal-hippie-haven-consumed-by-massive-wildfire/2015/09/22/573c7d38-606f-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

Nude hot springs retreat burns down from wildfire

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/14/harbin-hot-springs-wildfire-california/72284084/

Harbin Hot Springs in Wikipedia (with my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book listed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbinger_Community

California Hot Springs for Any Body

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/travel/escapes/09springs.html

Customers of fire-damaged Harbin Hot Springs in Lake County seek other soaking spots

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5110331-181/customers-of-fire-damaged-harbin-hot?gallery=4489089&artslide=0

Before And After: Harbin Hot Springs Destroyed By Valley Fire

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/gallery/4478807-181/before-and-after-harbin-hot?artslide=0

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A picture of the hot pool, and part of the warm pool, from Google Streetview today ...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7859221,-122.6518797,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s-uTY0jtlfb20%2FVNmOHu7n9_I%2FAAAAAAAAACw%2FCKhM7iovDSErObML6Se6pgWLbMAh_VgrACJkC!2e4!3e12!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-uTY0jtlfb20%2FVNmOHu7n9_I%2FAAAAAAAAACw%2FCKhM7iovDSErObML6Se6pgWLbMAh_VgrACJkC%2Fs203-k-no%2F!7i640!8i480!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315!6m1!1e1

(... tried to add this URL to archive.org but a blank page emerged ...
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7859221,-122.6518797,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s-uTY0jtlfb20%2FVNmOHu7n9_I%2FAAAAAAAAACw%2FCKhM7iovDSErObML6Se6pgWLbMAh_VgrACJkC!2e4!3e12!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-uTY0jtlfb20%2FVNmOHu7n9_I%2FAAAAAAAAACw%2FCKhM7iovDSErObML6Se6pgWLbMAh_VgrACJkC%2Fs203-k-no%2F!7i640!8i480!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315!6m1!1e1)

... but I can't tell whether this photo is likely to be from the 1970s/1980s (without the Hot Pool's roof and building), or even from the past few weeks (without the Hot Pool's roof and building), with this part of the pool area almost ready to open for guests and visitors ... possibly the former, but I haven't ever seen a photo without

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In what ways will we be able to expand or extend this realistic virtual Harbin to come (conceptually from a Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider, and OpenSimulator, and at the cellular and atomic levels) ... with 4 "MIT Media Lab Light Bulbs" ... in augmented illuminated reality around us ...

into a football field stadium?

into something the size of Rhode Island at night onto some north Pacific Ocean expanse?

into a life size virtual earth in some dark part of the universe with 8 "MIT Media Lab Space Ship Light Bulbs"? ... u.s.w. ...

{and for wiki STEM research in all 8k languages ...}

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Naked Harbin Ethnography:

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

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook

HarbinBook

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

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

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Monday, March 6, 2017

Sister clade to the Cetacea: Lothar Ledderose: "The Remarkable Diamond Sutra of Mount Tai and its Carved Colophons", In what ways did these colophon writers at Mount Tai create a 3D interactive actual world - and one which can be built and developed in a realistic virtual earth, conceptually like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider and group build-able like OpenSim / Second Life (but realistic with regard to these virtual worlds too, which are currently cartoon-esque)?, As an virtual ethnographic field site for my next Harbin book, Colophons created out of, or for, ongoing "enlightenment" experiences

Vielen Dank, Professor Ledderose,

Höchst interessant -

Lothar Ledderose: "The Remarkable Diamond Sutra of Mount Tai and its Carved Colophons" ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/623/62335/ ... your Stanford talk on Saturday!

In what ways did these colophon writers at Mount Tai create a 3D interactive actual world - and one which can be built and developed in a realistic virtual earth, conceptually like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Time Slider and group build-able like OpenSim / Second Life (but realistic with regard to these virtual worlds too, which are currently cartoon-esque)? This realistic virtual earth would be WIKI (editable web pages) for STEM and Humanities' researchers, like yourself, and eventually in all 7,097 living languages, and serve as a classroom as well, and planned at the cellular and atomic levels as well. (I'm hoping to help create such a realistic virtual world for World University and School - and as an virtual ethnographic field site for my next Harbin book. As a beginning example of what I mean by a realistic virtual world, you can visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house here - tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible here https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) - to which I've added my own photo of the Harbin Gatehouse, and eventually we'll be able to add our own video/films as well as Youtube videos, I think, and then may be able to convert this into a 3D interactive build-able virtual earth with avatars - like OpenSimulator, which is a 3d interactive group build-able virtual world).

I'm calling this whole process - ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) - a new method of academic research. There's a slide presentation here from an UC Berkeley Anthropology talk I gave on ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy here - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 (accessible here - bit.ly/HarbinBook).

I'm curious which colophons were created out of or for ongoing "enlightenment" experiences if any?

This was the cover of "The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng" I was reading in the late 1970s and 1980s - http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1324004183i/623545._UY200_.jpg . Have we met before?

(Here, by the way, is CC World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - which is like CC Wikipedia in 358 languages with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC).

Thank you very much for your fascinating talk, Professor Ledderose, and very nice to meet you.

Alle beste,

Scott

(Some of my own colophons - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - I suppose; please see the "virtual world" label, for example, the "Mandarin," or the "language" one).

http://iko.uni-hd.de/institut/ledderose_en.html

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

Vielen Dank, Herr MacLeod,

it was very good to see you yesterday and to talk to you. I immediately looked at some of the links you provide. All this is so interesting, and we will try and see, what we can apply to our own work.

Thank you so much,

yours

Ledderose

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Periodical cicadas: WUaS received first academic transcript from first prospective matriculating student who has an AA degree, allowing us to plan to become fully accrediting before 2021, Will she eventually become an instructor at WUaS in addition to becoming the first matriculated WUaS student who is also a woman?, Courses at World University for credit - Course Catalog, "Get to know pioneering chemist Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT's 1st female student and instructor, and cofounder of @AAUW", World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

WUaS received our first academic transcript from our first prospective matriculating student this autumn, who has an AA degree, allowing us to plan to become fully accrediting before 2021. Will she eventually become an instructor at WUaS in addition to becoming the first matriculated WUaS student who is also a woman? (She's is also affiliated with a Quaker Meeting in Pennsylvania, and I met her in SF Friends Meeting, and we subsequently met a few days later at the WUaS Hive Meeting Space at American Friends Service Committee / the SF Quaker Meeting).

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She's interested in majoring in English or Business for a free CC OpenCourseWare-centric undergraduate degree (e.g. BA/BS) -

Courses at World University for credit - Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing

... (accessible here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

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Get to know pioneering chemist Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT's 1st female student and instructor, and cofounder of @AAUW. #WomensHistoryMonth

Get to know pioneering chemist Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT's 1st female student and instructor, and cofounder of @AAUW. #WomensHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/L3YlkPkYzS
— MIT (@MIT) March 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/MIT/status/837737975169568770

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

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

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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Coast redwood: WUaS partnering with Stanford?, Thanks for your edifying Stanford/SFUSD "partnership" talk, Thinking in terms of WUaS hiring teachers and faculty and in all countries' main languages, with time, for free CC MIT OpenCourseWare- and Yale OYC-centric university and high school degrees, Thinking in terms of WUaS seeking to become the online Stanford of the Internet, WUaS seeks to become a major employer worldwide, hiring perhaps 1 million people, with 700,000 of them graduate/undergraduate students in all 8,000 languages, each a school/university (as well as an academic language market)

Hi Laura,

Thanks for your rescheduled very edifying Stanford/SFUSD "partnership" talk - https://ed.stanford.edu/events/csets-pondering-excellence-teaching-1 - last week. It was great to meet Norma as well. (Please give her my greetings).

In what ways could CC World University and School, of which I'm the founder and president, and Stanford, best partner?

I'm thinking in terms of WUaS hiring teachers and faculty and in all countries' main languages, with time, for free CC MIT OpenCourseWare- and Yale OYC-centric university and high school degrees. I'm also thinking in terms of World University and School seeking to become the online Stanford of the Internet, with, if possible, our law schools and medical schools emerging out of the Stanford law and medical schools themselves - for free-to-students online CC OCW law and medical degrees - EVENTUALLY in all ~200 countries' official (and main) languages. This would complement CC MIT OCW's ~2,300 courses in English and its CC OCW in 6 other languages (Chinese and Korean, Persian and Turkish, Portuguese and Spanish). In so doing, wiki World University and School seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet for free CC OCW degrees in all ~200 countries' official languages, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages (in Ethnologue) / 7,943 entries in languages (in Glottolog).

How best might we also communicate further about World University and School with possibly SFUSD students matriculating this autumn for free CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online Bachelor degrees from the comfort of their homes, - and live and interactively as well in group video to begin?

Thank you again for your talk, Laura, and it was very nice to meet you in person. In seeking to become the Stanford of the Internet in California too, and from people's homes, and as wiki (editable web pages) too, World University also seeks to create education and learning anew, building on the excellence, and STEM thinking, of Stanford and MIT and greatest universities in all countries' languages - and with information technologies, such as an universal translator and a realistic virtual earth, as these continue to develop and grow rapidly and with excellence in the coming decades. Perhaps partnering re CSET - https://cset.stanford.edu/ - in these regards would be logical as well.

Could we possibly meet (or talk) please, perhaps with Stanford Professor Janet Carlson, to explore partnership opportunities further? World University and School seeks to become a major employer worldwide, hiring perhaps 1 million people, with 700,000 of them graduate/undergraduate students in all 8,000 languages, each a school/university (as well as an academic language market).

Thanks again for your excellent talk and far-reaching thinking, Laura!

Best regards,

Scott

P.S.

(just finished writing and publishing a 350 page 8 1/2x11 inch actual-virtual ethnographic book, I'm glad to say :) - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook and https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - which will also inform the realistic virtual earth as field site, with more about all of this here in my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - in a variety of labels including "virtual world" and "learning").

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My question in Laura Wentworth's recent Stanford Education talk begins at 104:15 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugmq756OHlI

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

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

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

"The Tree, in various versions, has been called one of America's most bizarre and controversial college mascots." ... re the 1960s & '70s ... See, too, this Stanford Tree article about the Yurok tribe here.

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Plum tree is blooming outside my window, while back to a rainy morning

Plum tree is blooming outside my window,
Back to a rainy morning,
Computing is interesting.

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

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

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Black crowned crane: WILD Terence McKenna -The Evolutionary Importance Of Technology- August 1996 at @EsalenInstitute, Terrence McKenna is not only a far-reaching ethnographer of mind, (WWW+), but also of HIPPY thinking as philosopher, Listen to Terrence's talk and the questions from people ... he touches on many of the labels in this blog - He offers a kind of philosophical well-conceived cosmic and scientific understanding of the world, more far-reaching than many many philosophers working today

Was going to write a wiki encyclopedia article about World University and School, but may post this to yesterday's blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/lanner-falcon-bio-for-sgk-macleod-is.html - soonish (there are some other WUaS wiki encyclopedia article within this blog, I think).

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Terence McKenna - The Evolutionary Importance Of Technology - August 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O93SEOWjE4

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Harbin Book - Naked Harbin Ethnography
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
- http://bit.ly/HarbinBook

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Thanks, Heartsong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O93SEOWjE4 … WILD Terence McKenna - The Evolutionary Importance Of Technology - August 1996 at @EsalenInstitute

Thanks, Heartsong! https://t.co/2qLSV4C39r WILD Terence McKenna -The Evolutionary Importance Of Technology- August 1996 at @EsalenInstitute
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/837720350846668802

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Terrence McKenna is not only a far-reaching ethnographer of mind, (WWW+) , but also of hippy thinking as philosopher http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hippies

Terrence McKenna is not only a far-reaching ethnographer of mind, (WWW+) , but also of hippy thinking as philosopher https://t.co/XtLLOjMtBo
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/837728549242982400

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Esalen informs and inspires Harbin Hot Springs in many ways ...

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

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

1960s -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s

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

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Listen to Terrence's talk and the questions from people ... he touches on many of these -

bodymind, connectedness, Conversation, Counterculture, ethnography, global university, Harbin Hot Springs, hippies, information technology, Internet, learning, philosophy, psychedelics, STEM, trip, Wiki, Wikipedia -

and many more labels in this blog as well.

(I think the nanotechnology label, for example, however in this blog has been removed).

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He offers a kind of philosophical well-conceived cosmic and scientific understanding of the world, more far-reaching than many many philosophers working today.

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

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Lanner falcon: Bio for SGK MacLeod - is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School, (His new "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book is referenced here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_Hot_Springs - too), Singing ~ nice to sing with people and these messages/information technologies in the bodymind are good

Hi M,

How are you?

Just getting together a bio for Wikipedia if the way ever opens there to post it -

Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School. He is currently also the publisher at the Academic Press at World University and School. MacLeod was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up on the eastern seaboard of the U.S., attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He received a Master's Degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information age, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs. He is World University and School's founder, president, CEO and presiding clerk (in the manner of Friends). Wiki World University and School is CC MIT OCW-centric (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,097 living languages; WUaS plans to offer online CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, partly in group video. He is the author of Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin (San Francisco and Berkeley: Academic Press at World University and School 2016).

... and re World University and School.

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(Naked Harbin Ethnography is referenced here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_Hot_Springs - too).

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(My father's Wikipedia page -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod)

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Just heard too by text from EL this morning after being out of touch for quite awhile, suggesting we meet for a cup of coffee or tea, and texted him back:

Good morning, EL, very nice to get your message. Woke up at about 5 yesterday morning to head to Stanford Grand Rounds, but sitting here daily around 7:30 - salutarily. May attend Quaker Meeting online today, and singing now in an UU choir - nice to sing with people and these messages/information technologies in the bodymind are good. Angela Farmer will be in Berkeley October 7th and 8th giving a yoga course - www.angela-victor.com. Any interest? She's great and a trip. Monday for a cuppa sounds good.

L, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com