Green bittern: How to create a flourishing, very fun conversation about ideas on the Web?

How to create a flourishing, very fun conversation about ideas on the Web worlduniversity.wikia.com where YOU can Teach, Add, Learn & Create while participating in this conversation? Sharing ideas can be fun ... especially when the conversation is focused and like musical improvisation ... all of which is possible at WUaS in virtual worlds, video and in ways you create.



















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/green-bittern-how-to-create-flourishing.html - July 31, 2010)

Fimbristylis capillaris: "Nicholas Negroponte Welcomes India's $35 Tablet for Education," WUaS Medical School, Climate Forecasts, Museums at WUaS

added "Nicholas Negroponte Welcomes India's $35 Tablet for Education" article, with his ideas about learning, in two places at World Univ & Sch: "Theories of Learning" subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning
- and Hardware Resource Possibilities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities



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Budding Medical School at World University: added NYT's "Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
World Univ & Sch is a wiki - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW - Teach, Learn , Add, Create.


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World Univ & Sch ... added NYT's 'Lessons From Two Important Climate Forecasts' here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


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Added to World Univ & Sch: American Museum of Natural History -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums I think we'll add Most
Online Museums in World here ... and this will become a Big Collection
:)














(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/fimbristylis-capillaris-nicholas.html - July 30, 2010)

Swamp thistle: Added new MIT OCW courses at World University and School, Would you like to help add more courses to WUaS?

Added new MIT OCW courses at World University and School in



Engineering
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering


Writing
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Writing


Brain Science
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences


Business Management
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management


Urban Studies
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Urban_Studies_and_Planning


Robotics
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics


Energy Technologies
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies


Architecture
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Architecture


Electrical Engineering
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electrical_Engineering


Linguistics
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics


Philosophy
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy


Evolutionary Biology
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology







OPEN

worlduniversity.wikia.com ...


There are so many GREAT courses already on the World Wide Web itself from many universities (and at World University and School).


Would you like to help add more courses to World University & School? By comparison, Wikipedia has around 272 languages and we all did it. Group knowledge production is great!


Let WUaS know at this email address: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com .





















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/swamp-thistle-added-new-mit-ocw-courses.html - July 29, 2010)

Gadus morhua: Impressions of Boston, Massachusetts, Its 'vision' is behind the scenes, As WUaS Vision, Helpful to Others

Boston, Massachusetts: salt in the air, friendly people, an illuminated Boston Bay, a yacht with lovely lines, a different feel to life (from the SF Bay Area), coming home to the city where I was born, blue shirts, light pants, men wearing ties, a lot of red brick, Boston with 'vision' is behind the scenes ...


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In many ways, World University & School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - is a Boston vision with Boston's 60-ish universities & colleges, including MIT & Harvard as well as the FREE, great Boston Public Library.


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Boston and Massachusetts have a very visionary aspect to them. For example, these places, due to their vision, can be very helpful to disadvantaged people and groups. The recent universal health insurance in Massachusetts in one example.

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/gadus-morhua-impressions-of-boston.html - July 28, 2010)

Dune: Harbin as counterculture emerging from modernity, Questions of place & time at Harbin, Harbin Valley, Traveling to Harbin, Immersion & Presence

Harbin ethnography:


... Part I thus offers an overview of the whole of this subject and scope of this inquiry.

In Part II on Harbin as an expression of a kind of hippy life emerging in response to modernity, I examine questions of place and time at Harbin. In chapter 4, I look at visuality and Harbin, the Harbin Valley, traveling to and from Harbin, immersion and presence. In chapter 5, on personhood, I examine questions about the self and identity vis-a-vis the pools, the 1960s and clothing-optionalness as milieu. In this chapter I also examine questions of gender and race, as well as agency. In chapter 6, on practices, I explore questions of language, friendship, intimacy, sexuality, love, family in relation to connectedness, oneness and the 'now.' In chapter 7, on community, I look at events at Harbin, the Harbin community, Heart Consciousness Church (HCC) and New Age Church of Being (NACOB), heart consciousness and its expressions especially vis-a-vis the pool area, and milieus of openness. In chapter 8, on political economy, I examine this business emerging from the 1960's and early 1970's counterculture, Northern California as political economy, money, property, governance, and life in the Harbin Valley.

In Part III of this ethnography on virtual Harbin, I explore Harbin as a virtual world. ...













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/dune-harbin-as-counterculture-emerging.html - July 27, 2010)

Orangutan Face: In the warm Harbin pool this morning, I wondered how to create a loving bliss course, Sunny glades echo in our bodyminds

In the warm Harbin pool this morning, I wondered how one would begin to create a course - say, two hours of focus and idea-exchange per week for 15 weeks - about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, naturally, so that people get there, and learn how to get there, from the beginning?

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29


What are the steps, vis-a-vis Rorty, vis-a-vis Happy Oasis's book, vis-a-vis this neurochemistry?

At Harbin?


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The Harbin pool area seems roughly glade-like in size. It was sunny and beautiful today there. I wonder how much sunny glades echo in our bodyminds from ancestral environments of our primate ancestors in Africa.















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/orangutan-face-in-warm-harbin-pool-this.html - July 26, 2010)

Gibbon: In this actual / virtual draft version, I engage the 'structure' of classic ethnographies, Multiple Ethnographers

Harbin ethnography:



... I thus begin with terms in the first chapters, and allow the reader to choose in which order to read the chapters.

In engaging Boellstorff's “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human” in this draft, I also engage the 'structure' of the classic ethnographies by Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Mead and multiple other ethnographers. In chapter 2, I examine histories of Harbin, from modernity to counterculture, from actual to virtual, from experiential to the virtual, visionary, countercultural Harbin, emerging from the 1960s. In Chapter 3, on method, I both examine reflexively the methods I engaged to write this, as well Harbin on its own terms. Anthropology, and ethnography, through participant-observation and field work, interviews, pool work and virtual developments as method, makes possible kinds of understanding not found in other knowledge-oriented, human processes of inquiry. I also examine here questions of ethics, while further developing the claims about Harbin that I'm making, especially vis-a-vis counterculture and hippieness. In the process I further compare and contrast actual and virtual Harbin. Part I thus offers an overview of the whole of this subject and scope of this inquiry.


In Part II on Harbin as counterculture emerging from modernity, I examine questioins of place and time at Harbin. ...

















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/gibbon-in-this-actual-virtual-draft.html - July 26, 2010)

Lycopus Virginicus: Free Degrees will engage some at World Univ & Sch, Ideas will engage others, Friends will engage other friends in discussing ideas

Degrees (free, I hope) will engage some at World University & School:

(see the free Harvard doctoral degree worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s) ...

ideas will engage others ...


friends will engage other friends in discussing ideas in-world (in a virtual world) ...


and all of us can teach & learn what we want, openly.


And there are the beginnings of a Music School
(worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School),

with musical + jamming possibilities,

and everything else at World University & School ...


Come play :)











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/lycopus-virginicus-free-degrees-will.html - July 25, 2010)

Old Olive: Tan Le - Headset that reads your brainwaves, Who's working on Headsets & Virtual Worlds (e.g. SL), Entheogens or Operatic Experiences?

A friend from France writes:


This is real, this is live, this is commercially viable. Your new mouse reads your mind.


Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves | Video on TED.com


(http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8T6S)


Scott:

Have you seen http://brainfingers.com ? There are a few of these devices around :) (Andrew Junker's Brainfingers specifically engaged letters for word formation).


But Tan Le's 'A headset that reads your brainwaves' is one of the most sophisticated I've seen ... Merci



BH:

Hers has two aspects that make a big difference: it easily can be set up to have as many controls as what most people use with their mouse (two dimensions, one alternative state), and it has a similar set-up (no abrasion, gel; only one atte...mpt for the software to learn—not more than what you'd do to test a known device). Adoption and use can follow affordances left by the trackpad, and surf on marginal improvement (take less space than a mouse, add one control dimension) while spreading through the most spectacular it-thing factor I've seen in a long time.


Scott:

Who's working on such headsets and virtual worlds (as in SL) or entheogen or operatic experiences, for example, that you know of?



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Let's explore this here:

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














(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-olivetan-le-headset-that-reads-your.html - July 24, 2010)

Marin Huckleberry: Beginnings of Ph.D.s, check, Medical School, Law School, check, Incorporation, check, open World Univ & Sch, check, Explore Bliss

Beginnings of Ph.D.s, - check

Beginnings of Medical School, Law School, - check

Incorporation (on April 30, 2010), - check

Open World University and School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com, - check ...

Loving Bliss Eliciting teaching, learning & exploration - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29, - check



check this wiki ...

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/marin-huckleberry-beginnings-of-phds.html - July 24, 2010)