Scott GK MacLeod's Blog, page 20
May 6, 2021
Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica): Topical Lessons ~ Re: Order Confirmation (9588-327982) - Stuart Liddell Piping :) * * playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals wor
Topical Lessons ~
Re: Order Confirmation (9588-327982) - Stuart Liddell Piping :)
Thank you so much for these bagpiping Topical Lessons' opportunities. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to learn from you. I mentioned the dates of MWF next week (of May 10, 2021) at 5pm Scotland time (which may be 9am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area), when I registered, but Tuesdays and Thursdays could work as well (and Mondays might not be so good after all, since I hold a WUaS News and Q&A in the hour after this possible Topical time), and other times would be possible too at your convenience.
I'm playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals work (learning most 'lyrical' Piobaireachd?, eg Desperate Battle of the Birds for me; how to play expressively like you do :); questions even about band playing, but in this case a Scottish Country Dance band in Berkeley, with Small Pipes?; exploring playing also with the SSP baritone drone?; even improvising or riffing with Piobaireachd with other music eg Allman Bros in 1973, very experimentally, and even with this with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in the future :); real, real time online music-making - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html ; conversation, thinking & networking with the group in the lessons?; are recordings of these lessons possible, for future learning, possibly please?). I'm glad to have recorded, experimentally too, my first Scottish small pipes' light music album in December of 2020 - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ - (all on the A mixolydian chanter, although I have and play the D mix and B flat mix SSP chanters). Piobaireachd possibly to begin, or?
(I've lived in Edinburgh for 2 full years, in 1977-78 and in 2003-04 studying at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, so am familiar from the inside a bit with Scottish culture). And I see that you're familiar with North America west coast culture too, having played with the Simon Fraser University pipe band for many years.
Thank you so much, Stuart! Am very appreciative of your extraordinary piping, and I look forward very much to learning from you.
Best regards, Scotthttp://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping
(World Univ & Sch - WUaS - is a project I'm developing, and here are some wiki piping 'schools' as part of this: Piobaireachd ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r
Scottish Small Pipes ~
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
Great Highland Bagpipes ~
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe
Bagpipe Tutorials ~
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
Subject ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).
Thank you for your order. You can view and print your order here
http://www.stuartliddell.com/invoice.php?s=9588&id=327982&t=1620002446
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(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
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- 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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Dear Scott,
Thank you very kindly for purchasing a topical lesson online.
You have caught me off guard a little as things are still settling on the website in terms of which direction I’d like to take it.
I was intending running monthly sessions at the end of each month which would be announced on the news section. They would be very general and individual topics such as tuning, embellishments, perhaps a particular tune, practice techniques, etc along with some kind of handout.
Your request is probably a bit more personalised and would likely be more beneficial as a one to one lesson.
I would be happy to meet up on zoom for half an hour at one of the times you suggest or perhaps you would like to suggest a generalised topic that would be beneficial to yourself and others and go with a group session at the end of the month?
Either way, please do let me know and thank you again.
Best wishes,
Stuart
https://www.stuartliddell.com/about
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Thank you, Stuart,
Would both possibly be possible, please - a lesson early in the month, and a topical as you describe toward the end of the month? I recently read something in a piping article about teacher-student relationships, and that someone went to their teacher for 25 years or so. I would learn so much from you and your virtuosic bagpipe playing if this could develop.
How would Tuesday, 5/11/21, Wednesday,, 5/12 or Thursday, 5/13, for 30 minutes next week at 5pm Scotland time work for you? Thank you.
Kind regards, Scotthttp://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
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Scottish Country Dancing band (Berkeley)
[RSCDS Berkeley] dancing again?
Regarding coronavirus gene vaccinations, and your Scottish Country Dance Berkeley survey, Bruce, I've read that one can't choose the brand of one's vaccine at Kaiser Permanente, for ex., and with all the various Vaccines creating blood clots, death, brain injuries, etc - and that they didn't go through rigorous FDA clinical trials in the US, for ex., before administration by the medical profession, - I found this Swedish newspaper article about Denmark eye opening (for 2 other countries' perspectives, and regarding kinds of unscientific unthinking authoritarianism too) ...
"Live. Danes must voluntarily choose to take abolished vaccines "https://www.dn.se/sverige/det-nya-coronaviruset-folj-utvecklingen-live/
(It's so difficult as a prospective concerned scientist to get such data of vaccine injuries in the US, I'd think too. Caveat emptor, and philosophical skepticism regarding coronavirus genetics and vaccines?)
Yay, for virtual SCD dancing and music-making ? The lack of widespread testing too, in the SF Bay Area (that I've observed), makes me think the genes for SarsCoV2 have done a major disappearing act :)
I'd think that, however, the Coronavirus gene meme (replicating cultural unit) in the internet News' media could be being used for other reasons, like protecting victims - (and these others, plus more reasons in blog over past 13 months) http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0 - and that, for example, abolishing (in a Friendly Quaker sense, re slavery, - exactly too) and not just for significantly lessening the illegal sex industry, as part of this, - could have much benefit (to protect the innocent particularly - and regarding effective law enforcement esp.).
I haven't heard of any (of 200) countries enacting laws requiring vaccination, of unscientifically-tested vaccines either. But I bet they're out there ... Anyone?
I signed up for a Topical Lesson with PM Stuart Liddell ... Will see if there's an opportunity to ask questions about band music besides multi-GHB bands.
All clear to dance? :)Scotthttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html?m=0
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1284701015317417985?s=20
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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Dear Bruce, All,
Am glad to have heard back from the extraordinary piper and great musician PM Stuart Liddell, and regarding his availability for lessons (below). Yay! I asked these questions (below too).
Taking the long view of lessons, and Stuart's virtuosity ... (and here's a new Harvard Medical School video about aging reversal genetic drug therapies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/kakadu-national-park-australia-aging.html) ... how to engage Stuart idea-wise for Scottish Country 'dancing again' - to bring further jubilation to our Open Band St. Clement's dancers ?:) (Way far out of the box, could see adapting Piobaireachd with the Allman Brothers '73 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - with artificial intelligence and machine learning, as it might learn from and adapt the energy and keys of this music for even riffing with Piobaireachd - and especially regarding Bo Diddley and the tune before .... for a very different kind of Scottish Country Rock and Roll Piobaireachd Dancing :) ... but that his mother played in a Ceileidh band "The Fine Folk," and that Stuart does remarkable things with teaching bands to play together regarding too his wise
The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013
https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM
as well as his wise, too, -
'Piping The Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film' - https://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4 - am inclined to learn a bit from him. Thoughts, questions, suggestions, ideas, 'dancing again'-wise? :) Scott(PS Linda Henderson - what's the historical memory you carry in you from the town of North Berwick, Scotland regarding - "Here, but no longer, Englishmen! This is the border that could mean the end of the whole of Britain."
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/56dzRe/hit-men-ikke-lenger-engelskmenn - in Norwegian, but try Google Translate in Chrome for the beginning of this ... and Scottish Independence? ... or Freedom for Scotland? ... the freedom word being potent democratically around the world :)
From Stuart: Dear Scott,
Thank you very kindly for purchasing a topical lesson online.
You have caught me off guard a little as things are still settling on the website in terms of which direction I’d like to take it.
I was intending running monthly sessions at the end of each month which would be announced on the news section. They would be very general and individual topics such as tuning, embellishments, perhaps a particular tune, practice techniques, etc along with some kind of handout.
Your request is probably a bit more personalised and would likely be more beneficial as a one to one lesson.
I would be happy to meet up on zoom for half an hour at one of the times you suggest or perhaps you would like to suggest a generalised topic that would be beneficial to yourself and others and go with a group session at the end of the month?
Either way, please do let me know and thank you again.
Best wishes,
Stuart
Dear Stuart,
Thank you so much for these bagpiping Topical Lessons' opportunities. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to learn from you. I mentioned the dates of MWF next week (of May 10, 2021) at 5pm Scotland time (which may be 9am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area), when I registered, but Tuesdays and Thursdays could work as well (and Mondays might not be so good after all, since I hold a WUaS News and Q&A in the hour after this possible Topical time), and other times would be possible too at your convenience.
I'm playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals work (learning most 'lyrical' Piobaireachd?, eg Desperate Battle of the Birds for me; how to play expressively like you do :); questions even about band playing, but in this case a Scottish Country Dance band in Berkeley, with Small Pipes?; exploring playing also with the SSP baritone drone?; even improvising or riffing with Piobaireachd with other music eg Allman Bros in 1973, very experimentally, and even with this with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in the future :); real, real time online music-making - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html ; conversation, thinking & networking with the group in the lessons?; are recordings of these lessons possible, for future learning, possibly please?). I'm glad to have recorded, experimentally too, my first Scottish small pipes' light music album in December of 2020 - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ - (all on the A mixolydian chanter, although I have and play the D mix and B flat mix SSP chanters). Piobaireachd possibly to begin, or?
(I've lived in Edinburgh for 2 full years, in 1977-78 and in 2003-04 studying at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, so am familiar from the inside a bit with Scottish culture). And I see that you're familiar with North America west coast culture too, having played with the Simon Fraser University pipe band for many years.
Thank you so much, Stuart! Am very appreciative of your extraordinary piping, and I look forward very much to learning from you.
Best regards, Scotthttp://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping
(World Univ & Sch - WUaS - is a project I'm developing, and here are some wiki piping 'schools' as part of this: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:42 PM Stuart Liddell <noreply@webfactorysite.co.uk> wrote:
- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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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Harvard Medical School: "Treatment restores blood vessel growth, muscle vitality, boosts exercise endurance in aging animals" 3/22/18 https://hms.harvard.edu/news/rewinding-clock
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk #WUaSAgingReversal ~
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Let's build 1 interactive #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth for #WUaSAgingReversal (to complement - #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity :), at #WUaSCellAtomLevels & way beyond the relatively simple graphic in this #HMS video https://vimeo.com/261202564 (https://hms.harvard.edu/news/rewinding-clock)
Let's build 1 interactive #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth for #WUaSAgingReversal (to complement - #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity :), at #WUaSCellAtomLevels & way beyond the relatively simple graphic in this #HMS video https://t.co/8MKfm4lIkn (https://t.co/qFmxvN87iV)
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architecture of the 21st century
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Ma, Sandy, All,When I heard you were taking a (n online?) course on 'architecture of the 21st century' last night, Ma, I was reminded of Granny Brown's love of architecture, and talking about it (in Cincinnati esp.) a lot!, as well as having a curiosity about SF East Bay architecture, and even regarding WUaS. Could WUaS eventually begin to get houses for faculty and staff in the east bay, and in all 200 countries (since WUaS educationally seeks to be all online - with a big box, medium box, little box actual-virtual bookstores/cafes / computer stores / robotics stores / hospital technologies distribution centers - as the only physical aspect of WUaS currently), - and have these be interesting (or make this such) architecturally especially. (And how could a single realistic virtual earth for architecture - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture?src=hashtag_click - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1325896085961728000?s=20 - help too). Sandy?
So I looked up, out of curiosity, 'architecture of the 21st century' to see what I found, and:
"Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century, no single style is dominant; contemporary architects are working in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new interpretations of traditional architecture to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_architecture
The best architecture of the 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/16/best-architecture-of-the-21st-century
The 16 Best Architecture Projects of the 21st Century (So Far)
https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/best-architecture-projects-21st-century/
15.3: Architecture for the 21st Century
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/A_World_Perspective_of_Art_Appreciation_(Gustlin_and_Gustlin)/15%3A_The_New_Millennium_(2000_-_2020)/15.03%3A_Architecture_for_the_21st_Century
But none of these mention residential architecture, interestingly, and which I could be most interested in even ... and possibly with robotics too (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click)!
Fondly, Scott
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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am re-sending, with some additions, :) after an email bounce-back:Ma, Sandy, All,
When I heard you were taking a (n online?) course on 'architecture of the 21st century' last night, Ma, I was reminded of Granny Brown's love of architecture, and talking about it (in Cincinnati esp.) a lot!, as well as having a curiosity about SF East Bay architecture, and even regarding WUaS. Could WUaS eventually begin to get houses for faculty and staff in the east bay, and in all 200 countries (since WUaS educationally seeks to be all online - with a big box, medium box, little box actual-virtual bookstores/cafes / computer stores / robotics stores / hospital technologies distribution centers - as the only physical aspect of WUaS currently ), - and have these be interesting (or make this such) architecturally especially. (And how could a single realistic virtual earth for architecture - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture?src=hashtag_click - and - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1325896085961728000?s=20 - help too). Sandy?
So I looked up, out of curiosity, 'architecture of the 21st century' to see what I found, and:
"Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century, no single style is dominant; contemporary architects are working in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new interpretations of traditional architecture to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_architecture
The best architecture of the 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/16/best-architecture-of-the-21st-century
The 16 Best Architecture Projects of the 21st Century (So Far)
https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/best-architecture-projects-21st-century/
15.3: Architecture for the 21st Century
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/A_World_Perspective_of_Art_Appreciation_(Gustlin_and_Gustlin)/15%3A_The_New_Millennium_(2000_-_2020)/15.03%3A_Architecture_for_the_21st_Century
But none of these mention residential architecture, interestingly, and which I could be most interested in even ... and possibly with robotics too (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click)!
Fondly, Scott
PSMa, I completed walking up to the UU Church of Kensington / Berkeley after talking - on my frequent 1.8 mile walk up the hill, and 1.8 mile walk back down, in the middle of ongoing self-quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic :)
PPSBuild and remodel Quaker Meeting Houses and Unitarian Churches in all ~200 countries too?
PPPS(How to remodel in a Julia Morgan style possibly, I wonder, and in the SF East Bay and in CA even? - https://twitter.com/hashtag/JuliaMorgan?src=hashtag_click)
(And how could a single realistic virtual earth for architecture - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture?src=hashtag_click - and -
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1325896085961728000?s=20 - help too).AMAZING - & could this be beginnings of #FilmTo3D App from #SmartPhone (& into #GooglePoly even) into esp. 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth (think #StreetView #TensorFlow), #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture & be combined with #MotionCapture & for #EWVWG #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy ? https://t.co/TU3OB60GtQ
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 9, 2020
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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Ma, Sandy, Ann, Cathy, Alden,More about this here, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/kakadu-national-park-australia-aging.html :) ... and ... (brainstorming-wise, or for further envisioning ... )
little MITs, too?, And combined beautiful Yoga Halls, possibly virtual Harbin Hot springs, or at least virtual reality beautiful physical halls ... and schools and hospitals and medical schools too in all 200 countries physically - in addition to WUaS Educational Services' Stores - and in their official / main languages - but still with a distributed study-for-free-MITOCW-centric-degrees from home, and with virtual medicine in online teaching hospitals' focus, with tele-robotics surgery, for ex. ...
Scott
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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Ma, Sandy, Ann, Cathy, Alden,More about this aging reversal here, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/kakadu-national-park-australia-aging.html :) ... and ...
Harvard Medical School: "Treatment restores blood vessel growth, muscle vitality, boosts exercise endurance in aging animals" 3/22/18 https://hms.harvard.edu/news/rewinding-clock
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
#WUaSAgingReversal ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1390027142642102272?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1390028500870991873?s=20
#RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSAgingReversal
Let's build 1 interactive #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth for #WUaSAgingReversal (to complement - #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity :), at #WUaSCellAtomLevels & way beyond the relatively simple graphic in this #HMS video https://vimeo.com/261202564 (https://hms.harvard.edu/news/rewinding-clock)
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1390030745985421314?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1390031073074053120?s=20
All here, and much more:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/kakadu-national-park-australia-aging.html
Fondly Scott
PSFrom a Pittsburgh MD friend (and where our fathers, Ken Thompson MD also, and Gordon K MacLeod MD - both MDs too - were good friends, and a research opportunity for World Univ & Sch in all 200 countries' languages ... with Kaiser Permanente even?? :)
Kenneth Thompson
@visiblehands
I have been practicing psychiatry for almost 40 years. The amount of research actually done on the practice of psychiatry-how to do it well-it essentially non-existent.
I have been practicing psychiatry for almost 40 years. The amount of research actually done on the practice of psychiatry-how to do it well-it essentially non-existent. https://t.co/JQk4y848j1
— Kenneth Thompson (@visiblehands) May 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/visiblehands/status/1389766766864355329?s=20
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
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'Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond' -
https://quakerfahe.com/2021/04/02/qlhe-quaker-academics/
Question for Cara from your Friends' Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Quaker Academics' presentation
Sa’ed, did you by any chance attend the Ramallah Friends School growing up? Is it taught in Arabic, in part (I've heard that it is), also an International Baccalaureate school (and by some accounts, the best high school in the Middle East), as well being one of the oldest/older Quaker schools, since 1869, in the world?
Thanks for your timely and topical Friendly "Quaker Academics' conversation on April 27, 2021:
FAHE 4/2021 video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7Rv29L4osQdepMEUbQoXt1bjAqkLF0V/view
Text chat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Op2ef1AcjLIp5mZi0Nw1YD7IaY0yVzLL/view
https://quakerfahe.com/quaker-leadings-in-higher-education-series/#April-2021
Here are some of my and Cara's (and David's) communications about this from my April 28, 2021 blog post -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/kemeri-national-park-latvia.html (at bottom, and posted below) - and even potentially regarding hiring Quaker graduate students to teach 'to' MIT OpenCourseWare at WUaS.
Sa’ed, as NtFriendly-informed CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School grows (and as WUaS partners with edX, also founded by MIT, and Harvard), it would be great to stay in touch about growing free-to-students' online degrees (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school - in Arabic - and in all 26 or 27 countries, out of ~200 countries per Olympics, that speak Arabic as their official language).
Sa’ed, did you by any chance attend the Ramallah Friends School growing up? Is it taught in Arabic, in part (I've heard that it is), also an International Baccalaureate school (and by some accounts, the best high school in the Middle East), as well being one of the oldest/older Quaker schools, since 1869, in the world?
Friendly greetings in the coronavirus pandemic.
Friendly regards, Scotthttp://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Quaker
PSHere's a recent 5/3/21 WUaS News and Q&A, for where further World Univ & Sch is heading, in the big picture (and as its head / presiding clerk): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DW84r1cuo11LspZKOFV5NEuPPR0AEZOs/view
(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/razna-national-park-latvia.html)
Sa’ed Atshan - https:// www.swarthmore. edu/faculty-sa’ed-atshan
https://twitter.com/Dr_Atshan
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/moralagency2019/2020/07/27/cara-curtis/
https://twitter.com/caracurtis
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
David, Donn, Walter - are you on Twitter :)?
'Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond' -
https://quakerfahe.com/2021/04/02/qlhe-quaker-academics/
Question for Cara from your Friends' Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Quaker Academics' presentation
Dear Cara, (and David),
Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and thank you. (Do you happen to know perhaps Caleb Alexander MD in Baltimore Yearly Meeting? - Our families met for a Xmas meal over about 2+ decades in Pittsburgh, PA, and it's through the Alexanders partly that I became involved with Quakers). Thanks, David, also for moderating this timely and topical Friendly FAHE Quaker Academics' conversation.
And do you happen to know, too, MIT Professor of Anthropology, Heather Paxson, who is a Friend, I think, and a Haverford alumna too?
From the text chat:
Thanks for your wonderful Light-filled Friendly thinking, Cara (and thanks too Sa'ed).
Cara, am curious how or if - in your ethnographic research methodologies regarding flourishing motherhood in the Emory, GA, prison or affluent church, for your PhD - the questions you're asking are developing online or digitally in new ways? What kinds of new opportunities for Quaker scholarship, if any, have online ethnographic research modalities made possible for you? And how are you also exploring 'walking in the Light' in emerging ONLINE campuses (if such opportunities have emerged over the past coronavirus pandemic year) and even regarding if online virtual places are emerging in your studies? What is authentic online flourishing motherhood in your research or thinking?
Friendly regards, Scott
(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
PS
World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) is conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, and here are the 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes just completed today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html.
PPS
My Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography also had a slight Friends' Quaker focus, since I identified as a Friendly ethnographer in part, while doing field work, for example, and kept in communication, and connected with Quakers in Lake County (one of whom had been participating for many years in the oldest group at Harbin - an AA group), northern California, too, while 'in the field.;
Thank you, Cara, and David!
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Hi Scott,
Thanks so much for coming last night, and for your question. In terms of the people you mentioned: I don't think I know the Alexanders, at least not by name...always possible I would recognize a face. :) And I don't know Heather Paxson personally, but my spouse, who is an anthropology PhD student, knows her--she works on topics similar to him, and they have connected through that. Various small worlds interconnecting!
In terms of your question about how things have pivoted online: it's a very good one, and I'm afraid I don't have the best answers! As far as my research goes, I was fortunate to have finished most of my research in-person before the pandemic started (though some on the non-prison side did get cut off--I didn't feel it made sense to keep connecting with new folks online at the start of the pandemic as everything was in chaos...though I did do a couple of follow-up interviews over Zoom). And as for the prison, they have virtually no internet access at all, so we have been largely cut off from them, which has been hard. I also work for the theological studies program in a teaching/directing capacity, and we have been able to send in photocopied packets of readings/letters, but that's about it. In a year when many of us relied heavily on online formats for connection, incarcerated folks (at least in states like Georgia) have been largely left behind. In addition to their dramatically increased risk for the virus--it's very frustrating.
But thinking about your question more broadly, I think I see lots of places where online worlds are helping us live better lives right now--if not quite "flourish," perhaps. I know online mothers groups have been extremely important for many folks. And while I was an online teaching skeptic before the pandemic, I will say that I have come to see how it can work well at least in some instances for building community. I'm teaching right now in Candler's Doctor of Ministry program, which is always online, as folks are working pastors and chaplains located in churches/communities throughout the US. The online format allows them to come together and build community, as well as stay rooted in their own context.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful food for thought, at least! Thanks again for your question and engagement last night. I hope your work is going as well as possible in our continuing strange times!
All best,
Cara
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Hi Cara, (David, Research Professor at Bryn Mawr! - I've been thinking you are an Emeritus Professor, but didn't realize you are still active!),
Thanks so much for your prompt email reply, Cara. My Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book comes into conversation with 'Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human' (Princeton UP 2008) by Tom Boellstorff, also with Stanford PhD like Heather Paxson. Has your spouse engaged these resources or a digital focus anthropologically or in his PhD studies? (I don't have a spouse yet:). While my Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book is a bit out of the box, since it seeks to actually create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for comparative ethnographic study ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and here's a beginning in the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate in Google Street View with time slider, where you can walk down the road a spell toward Middletown CA, as a possible emerging ethnographic and STEM field site and classrooms too, or campus even ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) - it also engages fully the anthropological academic literature regarding emerging virtual worlds. You and your spouse might find interesting this emerging possible research group - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - in a related vein. (Harbin is also a church - Heart Consciousness Church, since 1975 - albeit unaffiliated with other churches, and whatever church means).
Online over the past year seems like it could be taken as an opening to study the Web ethnographically perchance flourishing in new ways, - in Friendly flourishing too. I also have a specific #ActualVirtual comparative focus - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click. I've also given some thought to the idea of flourishing here in the flourishing label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flourishing?m=0 - and here in my 'eudaimonia' web page -
(Regarding eudaimonia, as flourishing, see -
Eudaimonia (personal flourishing)
is 'Flow' and Bliss
Dear Friends,
While bliss may be experienced by evoking or exploring good spiritedness, I'm curious about the following.
How to experience eudaimonia, flow, and bliss naturally?
FLOW
What is 'flow' ~ the psychology of optimal experience?
http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm - with an explicit focus on Friends esp.).
and here again too, in this blog label -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html?m=0 - (and Friends-wise further, here, too, esp. - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which I began writing - might need editing:) - in Scotland around 2003:).
It seems like the ongoing creation of a myriad virtual worlds is a remarkable aspect of a kind of flourishing, I'm thinking and writing about.
(The image on your Twitter feed is a bit macabre -
https://twitter.com/caracurtis_/status/1387066536272277505?s=19 - an antithesis of flourishing?
Qu'est-ce c'est?)
But your FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker social ethics, and ethnographic approaches makes me wonder whether one could use photos as evidence or textual resources for identifying flourishing. :) How do you examine academically the idea of flourishing, Cara? For example, the picture in your Twitter profile I could read ethnographically as exhibiting flourishing. What do you think? Helpful 'evidence' - another approach to reading 'flourishing' even, and ethnographically, if you chose to interpret photos with similar flourishing as such, and contextualize this perhaps in terms of what gave rise to such flourishing? I'd be interested in learning further your thoughts to many of these questions.
Did you happen to study 'social ethics' or similar at the Harvard Divinity School with any of these philosophers - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html (where you'll also find some of my non-theistic Friendly thinking, and in a related blog label).
You both have what could be quite Scottish last names re it can be a small world indeed regarding connectedness and identity (I became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, Quaker Meeting:).
Friendly regards,
Scott
http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
PS
Caleb Alexander MD's father, George L Alexander MD, may have had some Scots' background as well - and was also a brilliant Yale & McGill (and Harvard residency) trained Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatrist, and a bit of a philosopher & linguist too. (I mention him in my blog, since I learned much from his thinking, as a family friend - in the Jacques Lacan MD label, for one). Not a Friend, I think he may have met his wife who lives at Kendal Crosslands in Quaker circles in Cambridge or New Haven, for example. David, do you know any of the Alexanders, by any chance? :)
PPS
And you'll see I mention Heather Paxson's work on open source publishing at the bottom of the 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from yesterday:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/kemeri-national-park-latvia.html
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624 Hektor (Jupiter Trojan asteroid): Thnx @HesterPeirce @neha for great talk https://mitbitcoinexpo.org/speakers.html Thoughts abt #StanfordMinePi & #BlockchainReg & re #WUaSUBIexperiments to end poverty for 7.8 billion people in ~200 countries to DISTRIB
Thnx @HesterPeirce @neha for great talk https://mitbitcoinexpo.org/speakers.html Thoughts abt #StanfordMinePi & #BlockchainReg & re #WUaSUBIexperiments to end poverty for 7.8 billion people in ~200 countries to DISTRIBUTE #SingleCryptocurrency backed by most central banks https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html?
Thnx @HesterPeirce @neha for great talk https://t.co/uZ0DBQ9sVu Thoughts abt #StanfordMinePi & #BlockchainReg & re #WUaSUBIexperiments to end poverty for 7.8 billion people in ~200 countries to DISTRIBUTE #SingleCryptocurrency backed by most central banks https://t.co/7FlRvdgbpW? https://t.co/2ZG676HMtz
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389662388362694656?s=20
Today, “Let’s talk Blockchain regulation! EU/SEC/Coindesk/Stanford - Blockdata” @joinClubhouse I’ll speak along with @LeConcurrential @NoelleInMadrid @jpknegtel @HesterPeirce
— Pēteris Zilgalvis (@PZilgalvis) May 4, 2021
I’ll address legislation, regulatory sandboxes, innovation, the European Blockchain Partnership, EBSI pic.twitter.com/2o4LR40n84
https://twitter.com/PZilgalvis/status/1389511759573159938?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389662759235710976?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389663140850196482?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389663471105544196?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389663930868396033?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389664363733131265?s=20
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1 #DigitalCurrency in <200 countries w 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... like #StanfordMinePi #PiCryptocurrency w #WUaSBlockchainLedger >mining space re heavy industries with #WUaSRobotics >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego for ALL
1 #DigitalCurrency in <200 countries w 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse >https://t.co/YqZrXYKBhA like #StanfordMinePi #PiCryptocurrency w #WUaSBlockchainLedger >mining space re heavy industries w #WUaSRobotics >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego for ALL https://t.co/boaKjFSKfA
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) May 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389020268513816583?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389061899854094343?s=20
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Sooo much resources to mine.
— Aswin (@akrv1) March 12, 2020
Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.pic.twitter.com/cDeeUUEP1P
https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389062226477084674?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389062443091984387?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389062594204377088?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389062709052727302?s=20
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200 countries w 1 #DigitalCurrency in 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html like #StanfordMinePi #WUaSBlockchainLedger dist. via #WUaSUBIexperiments for 7.8 billion people to end poverty >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics for ALL
200 countries w 1 #DigitalCurrency in 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse >https://t.co/7FlRvcYAyo like #StanfordMinePi #WUaSBlockchainLedger dist. via #WUaSUBIexperiments for 7.8 billion people to end poverty >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics for ALL https://t.co/9maUpHQJ0I
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389021346324168705?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389063166177415170?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389063630440722433?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389062895003074562?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389063750242553856?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389063535070646273?s=20
- Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html
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A #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #RealisticVirtualUniverse in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM & #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEAM in comb. with #edXOnlineCampus with which at edX
@WorldUnivAndSch
is officially partnering?
A #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #RealisticVirtualUniverse in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM & #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEAM in comb. with #edXOnlineCampus with which at edX @WorldUnivAndSch is officially partnering? https://t.co/JqcgM5NtTn
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1320081391581753345?s=20
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May 3, 2021
Rāzna National Park (Latvia): Here is the video recording-... QQ9-7/view - from today's 5/3/21 @WorldUnivAndSch News and Q&A, which touches on edX-WUaS partnering & further questions abt WUaS collaborations w MIT & Stanford Law & Medicine, & Stanford EPIC'
Here is the video recording- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NF0pMX_iG-B8LH2jlS-cXwxjdWpQQ9-7/view -from today's 5/3/21 @WorldUnivAndSch News and Q&A, which touches on edX-WUaS partnering & further questions abt WUaS collaborations w MIT & Stanford Law & Medicine, & Stanford EPIC's global community colleges 5/22/21 open conf
Here is the video recording-https://t.co/Z2CnnALuuC -from today's 5/3/21 @WorldUnivAndSch News and Q&A, which touches on edX-WUaS partnering & further questions abt WUaS collaborations w MIT & Stanford Law & Medicine, & Stanford EPIC's global community colleges 5/22/21 open conf
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389292519020646400?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389292692002074627?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389293022693642243?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389293182207205377?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389293345487294464?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389293508968681473?s=20
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Dear Prasanth, Imad, Aviv, Chinmay, Tanya, Universitians, All,(In English - )Here is the video recording - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NF0pMX_iG-B8LH2jlS-cXwxjdWpQQ9-7/view - from today's 5/3/21 WUaS News and Q&A - which touches exploratorily on edX 'turning its ship' questions,, as well as further WUaS collaborations with MIT and Stanford Law & Medicine, and Stanford EPIC re global community colleges regarding the 5/22/21 online Stanford EPIC conference (And anyone can attend this 2021 EPIC Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula, which will be hosted by Stanford Global Studies and will take place on Saturday, May 22, 2021, 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m register here Register in advance for this meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-yqqDssGNdLTRBmufClJNMmFGXPqP-H ).
Blog link for today's 5/3/21 WUaS News and Q&A - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/razna-national-park-latvia.html - with . . .
Here is the video recording- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NF0pMX_iG-B8LH2jlS-cXwxjdWpQQ9-7/view - from today's 5/3/21 @WorldUnivAndSch News and Q&A, which touches on edX-WUaS partnering & further questions abt WUaS collaborations w MIT & Stanford Law & Medicine, & Stanford EPIC's global community colleges 5/22/21 open conf
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389292519020646400?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389292692002074627?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389293022693642243?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389293182207205377?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389293345487294464?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389293508968681473?s=20
(In German - )And here's the first recording of the open (WUaS) "Bay Area Stammtisch" - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DW84r1cuo11LspZKOFV5NEuPPR0AEZOs/view -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/african-wild-dog-lycaon-pictus-could-we.html -
(Saturdays at 10:30am Pacific Time) - with Fritz in Munich, and all in German (regarding WUaS seeking to be in all 200 countries' official and main languages). It's the first WUaS-fully-in-a-language-other-than-English recording (please excuse me for my intermediate German)
(In Tamil - ???, and in your language as well?)
The next WUaS News and Q&A is May 10, 2021 at 10 am Pacific Time - meet.google.com/vic-dxxs-wrf (which Google Meet can accommodate up to 100 participants)
All best, Scott
Questions, ideas, suggestions, thoughts ... come join the conversation in just a few hours:
Open WUaS News and Q&A M 5/3/21 10am PT meet.google.com/azy-zbwa-jwb >free CC4 OCW BA/BS & PhD degrees taking edX courses beginning 9/1/21: #WUaSFreeToStudents' online #WUaSPhDdegrees & 4-year #WUaSBachelorDegrees > growing with edX, & esp MIT beyond OCW.mit.edu & Stanford
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389098799503593473?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389099028344819714?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389099197022937091?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389099320020852737?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389099499000193025?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389099644999716865?s=20
Cheers, Scott- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html
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Dear Bruce, All,Yes, and ... Breakthrough, Bruce? - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html?m=0 and with Taylor - is this like moonwalking, but needs further iterations, and without need of a vaccine ... would wear masks in SCD phone(for transmission speed)-video conference too (& tie dye for extra protection as the coronavirus genes with intense testing seem to disappear around the world :) ... And this can include people from anywhere music-making-wise esp. September (possibly before)? ... it would help if St. Clement's hall were open, re comfort of getting in - and people there :)
I may invite PM Stuart Liddell, who really likes Scottish Bands, and band music, I've read (and his Inveraray District and Pipe Band won the Worlds in Glasgow for the first time!), ... to share his thoughts (and with sheet music? - since his mother played in a ceilidh pipe band called 'The Fine Folks" too!) about Open Band potentially .... and if not his physical presence, (since it would be in the wee hours for him) from Argyllshire, Scotland, his thinking, conversation and ideas, - and perhaps his virtual distributed thinking esp ... Am planning to take some Topicals with him, and would ask about his thoughts about new possible focuses for Open Band!
Cheers, Scott
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) ~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
@sgkmacleod
~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ~
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1388526152482885632?s=20
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing
Would or could be cool to get into some Wake the Dead (http://www.wakethedead.org/the-band/57-2/) action per Kevin Carr up in the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, I think ... perhaps to explore with him too ... for those who might be interested? ")
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
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Dear Bruce, All,Regarding coronavirus gene vaccinations, and your Scottish Country Dance Berkeley survey, Bruce, I've read that one can't choose the brand of one's vaccine at Kaiser Permanente, for ex., and with all the various Vaccines creating blood clots, death, brain injuries, etc - and that they didn't go through rigorous FDA clinical trials in the US, for ex., before administration by the medical profession, - I found this Swedish newspaper article about Denmark eye opening (for 2 other countries' perspectives, and regarding kinds of unscientific unthinking authoritarianism too) ...
"Live. Danes must voluntarily choose to take abolished vaccines" - https://www.dn.se/sverige/det-nya-coronaviruset-folj-utvecklingen-live/
(It's so difficult as a prospective concerned scientist to get such data of vaccine injuries in the US, I'd think too. Caveat emptor, and philosophical skepticism regarding coronavirus genetics and vaccines?)
Yay, for virtual SCD dancing and music-making ? The lack of widespread testing too, in the SF Bay Area (that I've observed), makes me think the genes for SarsCoV2 have done a major disappearing act :)
I'd think that, however, the Coronavirus gene meme (replicating cultural unit) in the internet News' media could be being used for other reasons, like protecting victims - (and these others, plus more reasons in blog over past 13 months) http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0 - and that, for example, abolishing (in a Friendly Quaker sense, re slavery, - exactly too) and not just for significantly lessening the illegal sex industry, as part of this, - could have much benefit (to protect the innocent particularly - and regarding effective law enforcement esp.).
I haven't heard of any (of 200) countries enacting laws requiring vaccination, of unscientifically-tested vaccines either. But I bet they're out there ... Anyone?
I signed up for a Topical Lesson with PM Stuart Liddell ... Will see if there's an opportunity to ask questions about band music besides multi-GHB bands.
All clear to dance? :)Scotthttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html?m=0
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1284701015317417985?s=20
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'Canyon bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenades athletes at Canyon Road and Camino Pablo'
Bagpiping near home in Canyon 94516 ~
Some pics popped up in Google Photo from which I created some Tweets ...
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Stanford Univ, Leland Stanford portrait, My GHB piping near Canyon 94516~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8@scottmacleod
This lead to my recalling and finding an article about my piping here in Moraga in 2013 -
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf(which Canyon neighbor and resident Christine Lavin wrote, and which mentions World University and School) - near my home in Canyon.
Could this lead further to a home in Canyon 94516 even (with Byron & Cindy living about 4 miles away:)? Thanks to the AI selectors of these photos at Google.
Good I think to share these on Twitter TOO - about 'my home in Canyon 94516'
Warm regards, ScottCanyon blog label, in daily Blog ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Canyon?m=0
Have moved onto the Scottish small pipes now, and glad to have produced my first album in December 2020 ~http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
(and 5 Harbin-inspired books later, with pics of covers, a few poems from which I just read at a MIT Libraries' Open mic - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html?m=0).
First found, in searching for article ...
Yumpu -
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/24776043/moraga-lamorinda-weekly
May 8, 2013 — Chris Lavin has the ... www.lamorindaweekly.com Wednesday, May 8, 2013 ...
Canyon bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenades athletes at Canyon Road and Camino Pablo in ...
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf
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Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
@sgkmacleod
~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ~
Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://t.co/dsigf7LOrn)
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 1, 2021
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
~ https://t.co/78N4ikVyAN @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod ~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://t.co/XUUQNlPtUm ~
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388526500761112582?s=20
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) ~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
@sgkmacleod
~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ~
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://t.co/2dAvTBq24F) ~ https://t.co/OnqJeY9vhI @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod ~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://t.co/XdFkAQID2O ~
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) May 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1388526152482885632?s=20
8 years ago today (May 1, 2013) Stanford University, Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516, in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) - https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
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8 years ago today (May 1, 2013) Stanford University, Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516, in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://t.co/rIbP4eKqVQ) - https://t.co/HvbuBZKfLP @scottmacleod ~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) May 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1388524651677057027?s=20
Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@sgkmacleod
8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
@WorldUnivAndSch
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Dear Ma, Ed, pin, Tym, Larry, All,
Am wondering how this home of mine in Canyon 94516 could become a vibrant World Univ & Sch multimedia center as well - to help grow WUaS in offering online Wiki schools, and free-to-students' online degrees, in ~200 countries and 7,139 living languages, in a project-able interactive single realistic virtual earth:
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1376881713217867780?s=19.A #RealisticVirtualEarth for everything w #AugmentedReality - #WUaSAugmentedReality that #WUaSstudents could create (with #MachineLearning in background) - The Verge: Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps.https://t.co/4jgHtzATj8 & re #ActualVirtual devs
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) March 30, 2021
Could its shop become digital virtual STEAM field sites and classrooms for music-making, hospital-'teachnologies,' brain science (begin to look inside the brain FROM the inside) and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and so much more related to the physical world made digital, the actual earth, transposed virtually and made interactive and learnable in new ways (see the #realisticvirtualearth for ... links here worlduniversityandschool.org) with Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI translate+? Here's the idea of capturing a room in 3D -https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/heres-an-actual-3d-indoor-map-of-a-room-captured-with-googles-project-tango-phone/amp/ . And now how to project this, for ex., inside the shop at 670 Ridgecrest Road?
Just got a haircut recently, and went over yesterday near Canyon 94516 to the Valle Vista Staging Area for a hike, and took these related pics - https://photos.app.goo.gl/sehQ8PVnQbTBo2NHA. Could one even project these pics of the head I think of the Upper San Leandro Reservoir into the shop at 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon CA (or your living room) with slightly moving water to be able to revisit this walk, and do field work too, ie naturalist, artistic, photographic etc ?
Here's another way to think about it - by entering into the art itself in the Louvre
- https://twitter.com/AnnaDreamBrush/status/1381624220443156488?s=19.The first ever (and only) live VR performance
— Anna Zhilyaeva (@AnnaDreamBrush) April 12, 2021
at the 🔥🔥 Louvre museum in Paris 🔥🔥
My 3D interpretation of "Liberty Leading the People"
Now on @SuperRare💎
👉https://t.co/Jn88V0IiZI
Thank you @trevorjonesart for the first offer!🚀 pic.twitter.com/GOPT36EuuK
Again, thanks to Google AI for these pics too:'Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8@sgkmacleod 8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials@WorldUnivAndSch ~ 'https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388527098130694148?s=20
Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions re moving back into a safe, 'cleaned-up' Canyon 94516?
Happy Greek Easter! :)Scott
Upper San Leandro Reservoir from hike on May 1, 2021 (~2 miles from Canyon 94516), and before & after haircut pics -https://photos.app.goo.gl/sehQ8PVnQbTBo2NHA
Happy early Mother's Day (and Happy Easter in Greece, Russia & similar:)
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Virtual Worlds & UBI
SEC's Hester Peirce on #EarthDay mentioning "#MiningTechniques" at 1:12. #StanfordMinePi Coin may be one of the best at this too - & even regarding possible #WUaSUBIexperiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for ex: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
Some Earth Day thoughts from a capital markets regulator: https://t.co/OXEWxpydhl
— Hester Peirce (@HesterPeirce) April 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1385410886353969159?s=20
SEC's Hester Peirce on #EarthDay mentioning "#MiningTechniques" at 1:12. #StanfordMinePi Coin may be one of the best at this too - & even regarding possible #WUaSUBIexperiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for ex: https://t.co/4NwosIzas8 ~ https://t.co/4xqXNODn6q
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) May 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1388928143457538055?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388926278225457153?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1388925987757248512?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1388927922916913154?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1388928793163702274?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1388928975280373768?s=20
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Sri Lanka WUaS
Thu, Apr 22, 10:09 AM (10 days ago)
to me
Hi !
Hope everyone is doing good. These links will be interesting.
https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/vid...
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...
https://www.metapurse.fund/investment...
Regards,
Rifai
SL WUaS
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Hi Sri,Great to hear from you - and great outreach.
Check out the conversation between Neha and Hester here - https://mitbitcoinexpo.org/ - if you can find it, and other videos.
https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1383491000148979716?s=20Congratulations, Gary Gensler, on getting sworn in as Chairman of the SEC: https://t.co/FnchDvwdHk
— Hester Peirce (@HesterPeirce) April 17, 2021
The MIT Bitcoin Expo, put on by the @MITBitcoinClub, is a must watch if you have any interest in Bitcoin or other digital assets.
— Neha Narula (@neha) April 3, 2021
Live this weekend but also available asynchronously!https://t.co/cvO0wSJn4h
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1378346595582939138?s=20
Neha is the Director of the MIT DCI Digital Currency Initiative, and Hester is a key regulator and lawyer, working with new SEC Chair Gensler:
Hester talks much of a token focus per your - https://www.metapurse.fund/investments.html - but I don't see a token focus with 'Stanford Mine Pi Coin' cryptocurrency.
I searched on 'stanford mine pi cryptocurrency us federal reserve tokens' - and found -
https://moblizeit.medium.com/pi-coin-the-next-bitcoin-developed-by-stanford-phd-c2cfa6503f97
and this from the Stanford Graduate School of Business GSB - which may be some theory behind "Pi"https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/fin_11_19_cong.pdf
Am still thinking that Stanford Mine Pi Coin' may become adopted by the US central bank, the European Central Bank, and many of the other 200 countries' central banks, with the other 10000s of cryptocurrencies, becoming like numismatics.
Cheers, Scott
The MIT Bitcoin Expo, put on by the
@MITBitcoinClub, is a must watch if you have any interest in Bitcoin or other digital assets.
Live this weekend but also available asynchronously!
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1378346595582939138?s=20
Scott
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Sri Lanka WUaSMon, Apr 26, 8:11 AM (6 days ago)
to meHi !Thanks for the share. The future of cryptocurrencies might be Digital Yuan.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-20/digital-yuan-gives-china-a-new-tool-to-strike-back-at-critics
Regards,
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Hi Rifai,
Thank you. Am curious how Stanford Mine Pi Coin will combine with other countries' cryptocurrencies, and in their languages! Mentioned this re Tagalog language and the Phillipines in the Minutes from March Monthly Business Meeting here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/synchiropus-splendidus-32021-wuas_1.html.
Regards, Scott
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Sri Lanka WUaSTue, Apr 27, 8:14 AM (5 days ago)
to meHi !It will depend whether the coin will be standalone or be a part of an exchange. Pi might become a good alt coin.
Regards,
Rifai
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Hi Rifai,
I'm wondering, as you've possibly read, whether Stanford Mine Pi Coin might become listed on the emerging long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, in these regards - and thus be listed on an American exchange. The emerging long term Silicon Valley stock exchange has recently been cleared by the Security and Exchange to become the 14th US stock exchange - "Silicon Valley-Backed Venture Cleared to Become 14th U.S. Stock Exchange:
Long-Term Stock Exchange, which could appeal to tech startups, wins SEC approval"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-backed-venture-cleared-to-become-14th-u-s-stock-exchange-11557511056.
Regards, Scott
World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes, just completed today, touch on this too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
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Hi !I was referring to crypto exchanges like Coinbase which happens to be on NASDAQ now. Also the concept of stock tokens.
You can check on these links too:
https://www.binance.com/en/stock-token
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/ether-futures.html
Regards,
Rifai
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Hi Rifai,
Thanks for keeping me in the loop (other loops).
I've searched on tokens and Stanford Mine Pi Coin, but nothing has come up. I'm keeping my eye also on Hester Peirce (sp?) and similar Federal Researve regulators ... who seemed to be speaking the language of tokens with MIT DCI director Neha Narula in that interview ... So let's see how and where Stanford Law and Pi head, and how Stanford Mine Pi Coin develops. I continue to mine Pi daily (thanks to Tanya S, a WUaS Bachelor's degree student with a Business Major, who may graduate soon if the WUaS-edX develops toward legal documents soon too, and you). Thank you.
Regards, Scott
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>
11:44 AM (1 hour ago)
to Sri
Rifai,
here's Hester Peirce with some earth day thoughts - https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/stat... - and she mentions "mining techniques" at about 1minute 30 seconds, which are one unique and remarkable aspect of digital currencies. Stanford Mine Pi Coin may be one of the best, (eg anticipating technology developments, countries' legal and IT infrastructure issues, security aspect) at this too - and even regarding possible UBI experiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for example. What do you think?
Regards, Scott
SEC's Hester Peirce on #EarthDay mentioning "#MiningTechniques" at 1:12. #StanfordMinePi Coin may be one of the best at this too - & even regarding possible #WUaSUBIexperiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for ex: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~
https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1385410886353969159?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388926278225457153?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1388925987757248512?s=20
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What significant here about cryptocurrencies, and their related blockchain ledgers here, is the role they could play, for example, in mining outer space and even robotically in a realistic virtual universe - as one integrated system even.
See my Neha Narula and MIT mining space and block chain ledger blog posts ...
Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20… #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://t.co/zdh1RAnWVL #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20
Sooo much resources to mine.
Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.
Sooo much resources to mine.
— Aswin (@akrv1) March 12, 2020
Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.pic.twitter.com/cDeeUUEP1P
https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20
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and the image again here (re Neha Narula and Arvin's MIT presentations esp.) -
Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237... #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20
and in a related vein -
Glad to learn Aswin in this MIT Symposium - at about 4:40:00 - that your amazing robotics' facility and for blockchain is your DANCE FLOOR ...
https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU
In ...
Tunguska Russia Asteroid (1908) & Cheljabinsk (2013) meteorite fragments: Glad to learn Aswin in this MIT Symposium - at about 4:40:00 - that your amazing robotics' facility and for blockchain is your DANCE FLOOR ... Thnx Aswin, Renita, @Neha & MIT for the Blockchain with Robotics Systems Symposium! (on Wed, Dec. 5, '18) Aswin how could we best develop your research & Martian wind https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1071184799522586625 in Google StreetView w/ time slider/#RealisticVirtualEarth building from Sara Falcone's space robot & lattice, Am curious how best to move Scratch with Lego WeDo2 robotics into developing #RealisticVirtualEarth, perhaps building from Sara Falcone's space robot and lattice examples, Autonomy, Agency, Avatar Agency re #Robotics & Cars #Airplanes will be newly explorable in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarth with BLOCKCHAIN - & re #UniversalBasicIncome too - Think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER / Earth, Coding for SmartHub in Lego WeDo2 Robotics INTO Google StreetView w time slider/Earth & at cellular & atomic levels (batteries/computer chip) >learning by play & engineering in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego with BLOCKCHAINhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html
and, see, too -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
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Ethics of accepting a prize by philosopher Jürgen Habermas:
Habermas first accepted a prize of $225,000 Euros (which word 'prize' was translated from the German by Google Translate as price) from a UAE Sheik, Mohammed bin Zayed, and later Habermas declined it, due to
"to human rights violations and the poor democratization in the Emirates" ... and the"very close connection between the institution that awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi and the existing political system was not sufficiently clear to him."
The role of a large sum of prize money and conscientious objection (in a Quaker sense too) of it is fascinating to me here, since morals and ethics, based on newly learned knowledge, seem to be informing philosopher Habermas' decision - and in the context of a EU country, Germany, and an Arab country, UAE - and between these languages, and ethical and legitimizing 'systems' and histories, too. Am not a professional philosopher, as I observed in my questions at the close of a recent series of Harvard Philosophy talks - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/african-grass-owl-harvard-philosophy.html - but thinking about the implications of where money comes from and what it symbolizes, and even 'buys' seems relevant here.
If somehow I could come into possession of the Canyon 94516 home I refer to before, legally and legitimately, I think this could very well improve the ethics of Canyon, and be consistent ethics-wise for me, and even re my conscientious objection in a variety of (Friendly Quaker-informed) situations too. Ethics and money have moral implications, and even regarding the 'international illegal sex industry' for example - and possibly regarding Canyon 94516. How to significantly lessen such crime and criminality is an interesting question too, and conscientious objection could be one approach, and removing perpetrators from the scenes of the crimes could be another.
Having lived and studied in Germany for a year (1981-82), and been active in an unprogrammed Quaker Meeting there, am appreciative of the role of conscientious objection there too (eg Die Weise Rose - aka 'The White Rose') - and with regard to learning from its history, and good German ethics in general - and about money-issues too.
Jürgen Habermas: German philosopher does not want to accept the Arab book price
Jürgen Habermas was supposed to receive the highly endowed Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May. After researching the "Spiegel" he now refrains from doing so.
Jürgen Habermas:German philosopher does not want to accept the Arab book priceJürgen Habermas was supposed to receive the highly endowed Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May. After researching the "Spiegel" he now refrains from doing so.May 2, 2021, 4:39 p.m.Source: ZEIT ONLINE, jos 51 comments HEAR ARTICLEJuergen Habermas"A wrong decision that I am correcting here": Jürgen Habermas has changed his attitude towards an upcoming honor. © Simela Pantartzi / dpa
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas does not want to be honored after all: Habermas should actually have received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May, an extremely high endowed award with 225,000 euros, but also extremely debatable thanks to its patron Mohammed bin Zayed. Bin Zayed is the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and one, if not the most influential person in the United Arab Emirates.
In an article published on Sunday text had mirror pointed to human rights violations and the poor democratization in the Emirates. According to a checklist by the non-governmental organization Freedom House, the country only achieved 17 points on a democratization scale of a maximum of 100 points. Habermas himself is quoted as follows in the Spiegel article: "Of course I was suspicious and I found out about the institution and the award winners before I accepted the award," he writes. He received his information largely from Juergen Boos, the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and also a member of the scientific committee of the Sheik Zayed Book Award.
In a second report on Sunday afternoon, Der Spiegel documented Habermas' change of heart: "I have declared my willingness to accept this year's Sheikh Zayed Book Award. That was a wrong decision, which I am here to correct." The very close connection between the institution that awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi and the existing political system was not sufficiently clear to him.
According to the news magazine, Habermas initially stated that he had "familiarized himself with the last four winners in my category" and that he had "not found a fly in the ointment". Der Spiegel also points out that Habermas implicitly mentioned the Palestinian author Salma Khadra Jayyusi, the Arabists Suzanne and Jaroslav Stetkevych, the Paris Institute du monde arabe and the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. However, despite clear demand, he did not mention the "cultural personality" of 2015, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the lyrically ambitious and hard-handed Emir of Dubai
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African wild dog (Lycaon pictus): Bay Area Stammtisch May 1, 2021 (2021-05-01 at 10:28 GMT-7)
Zum ersten Mal ist hier eine Aufnahme aus dem heutigen offenen 'Bay Area Stammtisch' (auf Deutsch) - https://t.co/KDqn2sw6aR Und hier sind die WUaS-Protokolle (schließlich auf Deutsch) - https://t.co/hXnRH2QXqY & https://t.co/Pvw3cyYs84 - in denen dieser Stammtisch erwähnt wird.
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Bay Area Stammtisch May 1, 2021 (2021-05-01 at 10:28 GMT-7)
Liebe Fritz, Simone, Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea,Bitte entschuldigen Sie mein mittleres Deutsch, aber zum ersten Mal ist hier eine Aufnahme aus dem heutigen 'Bay Area Stammtisch' - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DW84r1cuo11LspZKOFV5NEuPPR0AEZOs/view - zu der Fritz in Bayern freundlicherweise beigetreten ist. Danke, Fritz, dass du mitgemacht hast. Und hier sind die WUaS-Protokolle - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html - in denen dieser Stammtisch erwähnt wird, sowie der Blog-Beitrag von heute damit.
Simone und alle, darf ich Sie hier zum Bay Area Stammtisch der nächsten Woche einladen -meet.google.com/fqa-ryfz-efc
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Simone, ich denke, wir haben möglicherweise ähnliche Interessen in Bezug auf Medienanthropologie (und auch in Bezug auf das ethnografische Projekt meines Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs) - und möglicherweise auch in Bezug auf das MIT OCW-zentrierte Wiki World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology (Siehe auch MIT OpenCourseWare auf einigen dieser Seiten - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology#World_University_and_School_Links - im neuen oder alten Wiki, eventuell für die Anrechnung von Studienabschlüssen auf der edX-Plattform).
https://twitter.com/pfeifer_simone
https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-ifeas-eng/simone-pfeifer/Der nächste Stammtisch in der Bay Area findet am 8. Mai 2021 um 10:30 Uhr pazifischer Zeit statt - meet.google.com/fqa-ryfz-efc .
Mit besten Grüßen, Scott
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Aus dem Text-Chat mit einigen zusätzlichen Überlegungen zu "Flow: Die Psychologie der optimalen Erfahrung" - und wie man die Kodierung dafür auf neue Weise an der World University and School erforscht - und sogar zu Abschlüssen, die für Studenten frei sind.
You10:56 AMHow to create specific to German researchers' and student's flow experiences, academically, differently from American student's, for example ?Flow :the psychology of optimal experience
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flow%20the%20psychology%20of%20optimal%20experience
(What is flow, per Csikszentmihalyi? see this points - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.FlowYou11:00 AMDr Elinor Karlsson - https://twitter.com/eenork/status/1374216872384724993?s=20You11:05 AMFebruary 17, 2021 – Speakers: Detlev Arendt & Celina Juliano March 17, 2021 – Speakers: Ellen Rothenberg & Jan Huisken April 21, 2021 – Speakers: Tzumin Lee & Dana Pe’er May 19, 2021 – Speakers: Kristy Red-Horse & Bob Waterston June 16, 2021 - Speakers: Prisca Liberali & Chris Walsh This week's recordings can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrszkCFQtagROYcbqv2lxuQ You11:12 AMhttps://twitter.com/geochurchYou11:19 AMhttps://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secret-of-life-3?index=product&queryID=3079e4758c4facfce500fd9f7c081710&position=1Fritz Lebowsky11:22 AMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson
Ich suche großartige Studenten und Professoren, die möglicherweise zunächst über die edX-Plattform lernen und lehren können.
Alles Gute, Scott
Zum ersten Mal ist hier eine Aufnahme aus dem heutigen offenen 'Bay Area Stammtisch' (auf Deutsch) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DW84r1cuo11LspZKOFV5NEuPPR0AEZOs/view Und hier sind die WUaS-Protokolle (schließlich auf Deutsch) - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html - in denen dieser Stammtisch erwähnt wird.
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1388578760308400128?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1388578927287828480?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1388579042551427075?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388580967489568768?s=20
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“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Fri, Apr 30, 10:35 PM (14 hours ago)
to Gerd, Peter, Lydia, Denny, Magnus, Christian, Julian, Andrea, Fritz, sarah.uttendorf, IulianLiebe Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea, Fritz, Freundliche Grüße aus der SF Bay Area.
Der Link für den Bay Area Stammtisch diesen kommenden Samstag, 1 Mai 2021, um 10:30 am pazifische Zeit, ungefähr jetzt, wenn Sie spontan beitreten möchten:...
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Um etwas Neues auszuprobieren, habe ich diesen "Bay Area Stammtisch" als 10. Minute des letzten offenen monatlichen Geschäftstreffens von World Univ & Sch am 17. April 2021 aufgenommen. Je nachdem, wer an diesem Google Meet teilnimmt, werde ich versuchen, einige dieser Protokolle zu teilen Deutsch - und möglicherweise auch in einer Videoaufnahme.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html?m=0
Mit besten Grüßen, Scott
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Liebe Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea, Fritz,Philosophie auch heute (interessante Philosophiegespräche der Harvard University gestern und am Vortag) ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/african-grass-owl-harvard-philosophy.html ?
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Um etwas Neues auszuprobieren, habe ich diesen "Bay Area Stammtisch" als 10. Minute des letzten offenen monatlichen Geschäftstreffens von World Univ & Sch am 17. April 2021 aufgenommen. Je nachdem, wer an diesem Google Meet teilnimmt, werde ich versuchen, einige dieser Protokolle zu teilen Deutsch - und möglicherweise auch in einer Videoaufnahme.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html?m=0
Mit besten Grüßen, Scott
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Fritz Lebowsky9:34 AM (3 hours ago)to Christian, Julian, Iulian, me, Gerd, Peter, Lydia, Denny, Magnus, Andrea, sarah.uttendorfLooking forward to this Event - Ich freue mich darauf, Scott, Alle!Themen des Tages? — Aufbau in Nutzen eines kreativen internationalen Netzwerks von Experten und Studenten, um diverse Kompetenzen vorbildlich, effektiv, effizient und enthusiastisch zu teilen.
Fritz
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Fritz, All,Dieses Thema geht schon
— Aufbau in Nutzen eines kreativen internationalen Netzwerks von Experten und Studenten, um diverse Kompetenzen vorbildlich, effektiv, effizient und enthusiastisch zu teilen.
... mit Offenheit für andere Themen, wenn sie auch auftreten
Scotthttps://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
Looking forward to this Event - Ich freue mich darauf, Scott, Alle!
Themen des Tages? — Aufbau in Nutzen eines kreativen internationalen Netzwerks von Experten und Studenten, um diverse Kompetenzen vorbildlich, effektiv, effizient und enthusiastisch zu teilen.
Fritz
On May 1, 2021, at 6:24 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Liebe Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea, Fritz,
Philosophie auch heute (interessante Philosophiegespräche der Harvard University gestern und am Vortag) ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/african-grass-owl-harvard-philosophy.html ?
in ungefähr einer Stunde:
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Um etwas Neues auszuprobieren, habe ich diesen "Bay Area Stammtisch" als 10. Minute des letzten offenen monatlichen Geschäftstreffens von World Univ & Sch am 17. April 2021 aufgenommen. Je nachdem, wer an diesem Google Meet teilnimmt, werde ich versuchen, einige dieser Protokolle zu teilen Deutsch - und möglicherweise auch in einer Videoaufnahme.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html?m=0
Mit besten Grüßen, Scott
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:35 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Liebe Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea, Fritz,
Freundliche Grüße aus der SF Bay Area.
Der Link für den Bay Area Stammtisch diesen kommenden Samstag, 1 Mai 2021, um 10:30 am pazifische Zeit, ungefähr jetzt, wenn Sie spontan beitreten möchten:...
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Um etwas Neues auszuprobieren, habe ich diesen "Bay Area Stammtisch" als 10. Minute des letzten offenen monatlichen Geschäftstreffens von World Univ & Sch am 17. April 2021 aufgenommen. Je nachdem, wer an diesem Google Meet teilnimmt, werde ich versuchen, einige dieser Protokolle zu teilen Deutsch - und möglicherweise auch in einer Videoaufnahme.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html?m=0
Mit besten Grüßen, Scott
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 10:35 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Liebe Gerd, Julian, Denny, Magnus, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Christian, Andrea, Fritz,
Der Link für den Bay Area Stammtisch diesen kommenden Samstag, 24 April 2021, um 10:30 am pazifische Zeit, ungefähr jetzt, wenn Sie spontan beitreten möchten:
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African grass owl: Harvard Philosophy 55th Annual Whitehead Lectures: Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth College) * * * Am glad and surprised that the head of MIT Libraries' Chris Bourg (he or she????) - https://twitter.com/mchris4duke - retweeted my MIT OpenMic
Whitehead Lectures: Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth College)Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021, 3:00pm to 5:00pmLocation: Zoom Webinar
55th Annual Whitehead Lectures: Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth College)
April 29th & 30th, 3pm - 5pm EDT
Please join the Harvard University Department of Philosophy as we present the 55th Annual Whitehead Lectures. Our guest lecturer this year is Prof. Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth College).
Both lectures are from 3pm - 5pm EDT.
April 29th:
Lecture 1: "Misdirections in Metaphysics"
April 30th:
Lecture 2: "Redirecting Metaphysics"
https://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/event/whitehead-lectures-amie-thomasson-dartmouth-tba-0
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I asked the last questions in the Q&A on Friday, April 30, 2021 - to Amie Thomasson:
Here are my questions, which I’ll ask in voice, if there’s time, and for preliminary reflections:
Thanks so much for your excellent Harvard philosophy talks, Amie! You've mentioned the terms 'world,' and 'language' and 'conceptual engineering' a number of times, regarding redirecting metaphysics. In an out of the box way, - and in seeking to examine multi-functional language - if we were to operationalize or engineer your talk in a single realistic virtual earth for everything (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate - with Text-in-the-Sidebar, and at the cellular and atomic levels, and conversational artificial humans aka Samsung Neons), and even with a #film-to-3D App, which could be used to bring philosophers talks into 3D for subsequent conversational interactivity with the said philosopher in avatar bot form, how would modals, for example, work? In what ways could we far-preachingly explore "Redirecting Metaphysics" in the ways you argue? In what ways could the new connections or links between the text in the sidebar and the world serve to help further create a single realistic virtual earth for philosophy and metaphysics (epistemology and ethics too)? This would potentially engage the ideational, interpersonal, and textual approaches you heralded as well.
I'm not a professional philosopher and you may not be familiar with these potential virtual world digital directions for philosophy, so I hope this will be an open-ended freeing question you freely 'riff' with. Thank you.
Thank you so much. All the best,
Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
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Dear Larry, Ed, Jim, David Ross, Walter, Donn, All,
Am glad and surprised that the head of MIT Libraries' Chris Bourg (he or she????) - https://twitter.com/mchris4duke - retweeted my MIT OpenMic Tweet regarding the 3 poems I read yesterday evening from some of 5 of the recent books that the Academic Press at WUaS has published since 2016. This could also bode very well for the WUaS planning major online universities' libraries for 7,139 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources re Languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - AND in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries?src=hashtag_click (where one could scroll back to the Library of Congress building in a single realistic virtual earth, to 1810, for example, and pick a copy of the Declaration of Independence off of its historic virtual shelf, and read it there in PDF form:) ...
Here's the Tweet the MIT Libraries' head retweeted (or perhaps it was the MIT Libraries' convener, Steph Kohler) - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1387925070442500100?s=20 :
'Thanks to @mitlibraries for this #MITOpenMic: Glad to have just read a few poems from 5 books, in a new poetry press @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch.
'Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021' https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htm ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~'
Thanks to @mitlibraries for this #MITOpenMic: Glad to have just read a few poems from 5 books, in a new poetry press @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch.
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) April 30, 2021
'Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021' https://t.co/p4kHHXPwnx ~ https://t.co/whv5dDhfX1 ~ https://t.co/7KL0INJl4j ~ https://t.co/tV50YbW1xP
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1387924667751567364?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1387925070442500100?s=20
Am currently seeking to add pictures of the covers of all 5 books to this blog entry too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html - which also has the poems I read / planned to read (including one about consciousness, philosophically - with a Harvard Medical School / MIT Professor Genetics' George Church in it).
Thoughts about connecting further with edX CEO Anant, MIT President Rafael (Reif), MIT VP of Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma and former Stanford President for 16 years' and Alphabet Chairman John Hennessey? I think it would be great if we could explore somehow turning the 'ship' of edX in a California and World Univ & Sch 'big ship' heading. What do you think?
Sincerely, Scott
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 4:35 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Larry, Ed, Jim, David Ross, Walter, Donn, All,
No further word back yet regarding my "EdX-WUaS Impasse?" Email - from Anant Agarwal, or WUaS's edX representative Matthew, regarding his writing that edX is standing by, after reaching out to edX CEO Anant, MIT President Rafael (Reif), MIT VP of Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma and former Stanford President for 16 years' and Alphabet Chairman John Hennessey.
Following up with EdX before 5/10/21, and also, brainstorming-wise, exploring WUaS engaging graduate students in Quaker circles, for ex., to teach to CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare such as newly Cara Curtis (a Haverford and Harvard Alumna), studying for her PhD at Emory Univ, who's enjoying teaching, and perhaps her spouse too, (an Anthropology PhD student), beginning 9/1/21 (albeit not STEM subjects for our 4 current prospective PhD students) ... And re Stanford EPIC CONFERENCE on 5/22 ... seem to have potential.
David Ross, as a Bryn Mawr College Research Professor Emeritus, Donn Weinholtz, Walter Sullivan, can you see ways to engage the Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE)? Would there be a way to find now graduate students of Quaker faculty who could teach ONLINE to MIT OCW Cognitive Science (for Prasanth in India), Electrical Engineering (Chinmay in India), Statistics (Aviv in Indonesia) and Computer Science (for Imad in Morocco)?
Scott
Thank you!
Minutes from WUaS Monthly Business Meeting 4/17/21 - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/V6FYAWwQFpftRmew7In the poetry and academic press at @WorldUnivAndSch ~ @WUaSPress ~http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ @HarbinBook~ #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388270045298511873?s=19MacLeod cover for "Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss" (2018)https://t.co/05WnvYl07l
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) April 30, 2021
In the poetry and academic press at @WorldUnivAndSch ~ @WUaSPress ~https://t.co/lXdSBzZisL ~https://t.co/nQF9Iok4F9 ~ @HarbinBook~ #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~
Circling around to -
Pagosa hot springs (southern Colorado): Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021 * Thanks to MIT Libraries, MIT Open Mic, MIT Reads, and to ... MIT Reads celebrates National Poetry Month | MIT Libraries * * Many of my poems have an Actual–Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ focus. Harbin is a hot springs’ retreat center in northern California, and my actual-virtual ethnographic field site for a long term unfolding ethnographic projecthttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html - with these photos -
names of book covers for all 5 of my books:
MacLeod Light Float Sit Watsu Virtually book cover Photo Front Jan 2021
MacLeod To the Dance or the Pools Virtually book cover Front 2019
MacLeod Winding Road Rainbow book cover Front 2018
MacLeod Haikuish Other Loving Hippy Harbin poetry book cover Front 1st ed 2017
MacLeod Naked Harbin Ethnography book cover Front 2016
see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html ~
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Pagosa hot springs (southern Colorado): Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021 * Thanks to MIT Libraries, MIT Open Mic, MIT Reads, and to ... MIT Reads celebrates National Poetry Month | MIT Libraries * * Many of my poems have an Actual–
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MIT Open Mic poems,
Th., April 29, 2021
Thanks to @mitlibraries for this #MITOpenMic: Glad to have just read a few poems from 5 books, in a new poetry press @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch.
'Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021' https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htm ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~
Thanks to @mitlibraries for this #MITOpenMic: Glad to have just read a few poems from 5 books, in a new poetry press @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch.
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) April 30, 2021
'Scott MacLeod, MIT Open Mic poems, Th., April 29, 2021' https://t.co/p4kHHXPwnx ~ https://t.co/whv5dDhfX1 ~ https://t.co/7KL0INJl4j ~ https://t.co/tV50YbW1xP
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1387924667751567364?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1387925070442500100?s=20
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Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth with us on April 29 by joining us at our second annual open mic!
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Many of my poems have an Actual–Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ focus. Harbin is a hot springs’ retreat center in northern California, and my actual-virtual ethnographic field site for a long term unfolding ethnographic project which I’m developing. Many of my poems were written at or on the road to Harbin, and some of my poems also focus on traveling as well as the Rainbow Gathering itself, (a hippy gathering, which began in 1973 in Boulder Colorado, and is still happening). A kind of hippy voice comes out in my poetry – and hence my tie dye coronavirus mask. Some poems touch on an exploration of consciousness, and even ways in which we might visit and realize Harbin virtually – in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and from our home bath tubs too, for a meditative aspect paralleling soaking in the Harbin warm pool. My poetry also explores eliciting the neurophysiology of loving bliss.
I'm going to read a few poems from my 5 books in a new poetry and academic press at World Univ & Sch.
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~
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I read the first 3 poems here, in the 5 minutes we had, having prepared about 8 of them ...
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book ~
Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems (2021)
(Watsu is water shiatsu, a form of therapeutic healing dance, originating in the Harbin warm pool; d’eau is French for water).
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poem ~
Light, Float, Sit
Light
lights
Harbin
harmony
in one, waters warm,
immense, immersion, milieu d’eau.
Float
flies
in warm
watery
ease-me-in present,
a gift of flight in fluid d’eau,
where freedom finds releasing in among hug nude friends.
Sit,
roots
around,
touch all cells,
water pool food
intimate naked yes exchange,
of mind body suit seamlessly freeing we who connect under stars, skies, Harbin-wise.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/swimming-iguana-email-to-cynefin-and.html
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book ~
To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality (2019)
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poem ~
Under Stars
Under splendid stars,
the smells of oaks
and northern
California tilth,
coming over
the hill from
Napa Valley
to Middletown,
suffuse all air with
earthy fragrance,
welcoming me
back to Harbin land, ~
into the waters soon.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/01/under-stars.html
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poem ~
Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale / 78
I came upon a feast of lights
spread speckle 'cross hill and vale,
and reveled
in their evening softnesses.
And from Harbin's redwood,
sleeping deck, below,
I saw Gazebo's
octagonal lights,
on Mainside, -
a tasty, illuminated pie, -
ready to spin-off
in a wee-wee :)
psychedelic-whirligig,
through starry cosmos,
but, instead,
centers this
Harbin-light,
beauty gaze,
in winter,
at night,
from here.
I walked in on that dark,
empty, village path, at night.
No one was around ...
It would have been easy
to stumble upon
some jutting rock,
but I didn't,
and so came to this
way-place
of glimmering,
night-light beauty, -
this redwood deck,
which, so full in the day
with resting,
naked bodyminds,
in solace-ease
from stresses of modernities,
gives forth these
welcoming visions
of la lumière.
Heading now
into the pool area,
I bring this light
show with, and in,
my bodymind,
to venture deeper
into mysteries
of aliveness, -
naked, warm and free -
in Harbin's watery warmth.
Where are you now,
my love,
with whom this all to share,
and rock out in with,
all together?
And, oh, what beautiful orchards
of ripe, fruit, human living! ...
Pools now,
in warm-oneness-ease ...
Heading on in now ....
What delight this night,
in this very warm pool!
Why this particular,
bodymind joy,
this eve?
Nothing special ... don't know ...
Was it because I talked,
and connected,
with a smart, receptive friend,
in words, about loving bliss,
on the phone coming up?
We thought out loud about
this bliss-love:
Ecstasy is MDMA,
methylene di oxy meth amphetamine, -
theoretically,
a love-everything-in-the-world-intensely,
for 5-8 hours,
biochemical, bodymind,
reference experience
for 75% of we ingesters, -
for affective euphoria, -
and one,
of so, so many,
replicable qualities of bliss,
for we who are biological beings, -
symbolizing, human primates,
shaped by evolution
by natural selection.
And we talked further about
Scottish Country Dancing,
which we've done together,
quite long ago,
with bliss,
via its ebullient
series of tones,
its music, movement,
and sociable interactiveness.
It's a related, also replicable -
like technology, - example.
Was it, too, the Ginseng tea,
earlier today, of which
I hadn't drunk in a while?
Still, the weather of my bodymind
hasn't yet found its
cello bow strokes
of loving bliss agency,
of this music-making,
here and now,
when desired.
And as I write,
and while in concert hall,
of this Harbin warm pool, -
my bodymind, yes,
is conducive to such bliss,
yet, I haven't caused
these joys.
What can cause bodymind,
loving bliss, whenever, but,
especially, here now?
I do, though,
like this weather,
here tonight,
in winter,
at Harbin.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/firefly-i-came-upon-feast-of-lights.html
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Poems I had gathered together for this, but didn't read
poem ~
Amboseli: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it virtually
How different it is
to soak at Harbin,
than to realize it
virtually,
or in bodymind,
by reading,
thinking,
or viewing
multimedia,
interactively.
Writing in Maine,
over a Christmas visit, -
with long walks on beaches,
and family friends,
and red brick Portland,
and the Wadsworth-Longfellow house,
which invited me
in,
to Longfellow's poetry,
'Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea ... '
virtually, -
I hearken
to Harbin's waters,
and warmth,
and wholeness
of being there,
from afar, ...
but, while traveling,
I'm not present,
in that place,
in those
warm
waters,
in that milieu.
As I return
west coast-wise,
I draw closer,
but Harbin's
presence,
and oneness,
are in that
fluid,
geothermal
emergence
from the earth,
in that valley,
remote from the metropole, ~
and yet still far.
A virtual Harbin
is emerging, -
like Harbin's waters, -
to generate warmth,
in multimedia,
from your bathtub,
from home,
developing with the internet, ...
but emerging organically,
as process,
in writing an
actual / virtual Harbin ethnography.
Waters of wholeness, ...
an inner immersion,
in bodymind fluids,
with relaxation response, -
and at times deeply -
is happening, all the time,
yet unparalleled,
and still awaiting,
the concert
of the Harbin pool.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/amboseli-how-different-it-is-to-soak-at.html?m=0
Saturday, December 31, 2011
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poem (and book, so this is the title poem of book) ~
To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality
Drive them back to the wine-dark taste of home,
The smell of damsons simmering in a pot,
Jam ladled thick and steaming down the sunlight.
- Seamus Heaney
To the dance, then the pools,
first at actual Harbin, over years,
dancing free, dancing be,
dancing bee, buzzing, its own honey ~
this movement-freedom grows
with warmth and energy
in concert with the music.
Connecting with dancing begins,
connecting with dancing beings,
singing inside with freedom in rhythm,
I delight in this liberation, ~
but depends on the music too ~
Blues, Grateful Dead, jamming, Rock & Roll,
make it happen for me, actually.
Heat comes, the music closes at evening's end,
and people head to the pools,
to cool down,
to complement the body-movement jam,
with serene soaking under starlight
- and the warm waters - ease.
These Harbin warm pool waters,
this elixir of encompassing body suits ~
one's whole being received by
this geo-thermally warmed liquid, ~
we like.
Virtually?
Dancing at home - wearing the Glasses -
I'm there, and so are you,
in the Harbin Conference Center,
and people be jamming,
this be-music is hop-happening,
virtually.
I start to move here at home,
Glasses revealing new openings
through which to glide,
and around my body goes,
dancing at home, dancing my home.
How Different it is to dance at home in virtual Harbin, ~
and cool - a realization.
... "Question:
whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
(https://poets.org/poem/hamlet-act-iii...)
Or, to head to Harbin actually or virtually,
different it is,
to seek and find freedom,
by traveling from the SF bay,
the way, the Napa Valley
wine way to Harbin,
or to find one's way
there, Virtually there,
'as if' and by multimedia,
with gorgeous visuals
on a screen, currently
what a scream!
Yet beyond this traveling difference -
a big difference - this venturing out
in bodymind, locomotively, to move through,
to see, to interact with, the world,
The Soaking in warm pool
actually, in waters there,
while being in Harbin all around,
communicating silently, communing that is,
with fellow naked soakers, is wondrous.
The Soaking in one's bathtub,
virtually, from home, Glasses on,
digital screens behind the glass,
newfangled things,
while surround-seeing in Harbin ~
Brainwave headset too to come
for communication,
Tan Le's* or
Brainfingers* (only works when able to relax) or
EEG* brainwave 'dreadlocks' ~
still wondrous
yet you don't hang out actually ~
by mingling silently in warm pool ~
or visiting quietly naked
Sunning on the Sun Deck.
Immersive both, in different ways,
the warm waters help
meditation deepen ~
release inwardly deeply ~
a relaxation response in both,
and all is one in the here and now,
consciousness changes.
Yet there's more space too
in the actual Harbin's warm pool
than in this bathtub.
How best to understand consciousness,
and this consciousness,
this Harbin consciousness,
this Harbin Heart Consciousness
of HCC - Heart Consciousness Church?
Subjective-Objective accounts,
1st person-3rd person scientific narratives ~
in the warm waters, with the Glasses,
re visually observing,
and beginning to examine neural processing ~
as sentience,
awareness,
perception and
feeling
in the brain the mind, the BodyMind?
So is this, the Body-Mind problem,
moot in the warm pool,
and consciousness all one?
Yet, poetry-wise, we be studying
how brains give rise to mind,
re neural processing,
with brainwave headsets ~
thinking about it.
So then, can minds be bodies, and
is sentience brain-meat or bodyminds?
Virtually!
And how is bodymind
consciousness - importantly - virtual,
or in what ways can we make this more so - to learn?
Further, are these neurophysiological e-states
in these hypothetical virtual brains,
conscious - digitally?
And how far does sentience extend
down the phylogenetic tree?
Won't study this here now at Harbin,
yet Tononi's integrated information theory - IIT - holds promise
- 'that consciousness is identical to a certain kind of information' -
and measurable as Phi, the symbol for integrated information.
How could we code this in virtual brains,
yours and mine,
film-to-3D app at the street level, cell and atomic levels,
where the 'digital' corresponds 1-1
to the brain cells and neurons and processing,
and the 'virtual' - as if with multimedia,
to the mind, - somehow conscious.
Thus we might distinguish between the
Actual-Virtual, and the Physical-Digital.
And how could brainwave headset devices best turn their
information gathering inwardly
in these regards - and from the Harbin warm pool?
Phi! ~ actual, physical, that is ~
how can we simulate this?
To virtual Phi?
And further to digital Phi?
Qualia, infinite qualities,
('the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions,
arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena' too),
perceived by many,
in myriad ways, in many bodyminds?
At actual Harbin in the warm pool,
with brain wave headsets monitoring the brain,
might one be able to study these anew?
At home with Glasses,
and brainwave headsets,
people could talk more readily,
adding a language element
to the 'subjective,'
their 1st person accounts, - and
in studying the brain technologically,
actually-virtually & physically-digitally,
where the 'as-if' virtual experience
created by multimedia and
perceived in the brain could be
digitally developed
in virtual brains ~
in a realistic virtual earth for STEM
and brain science,
and of species, and individuals,
like you and me,
soaking, soaking, soaking
in the warm pool at Harbin,
in the bath tub at home
in real virtual Harbin,
... and yet conscious:
"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!
How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs,
than to realize it in virtual reality"!
And loving bliss neurophysiology,
uniquely Harbin warm pool generated
as it bubbles up, While soaking,
how to model thee ~
and to learn from, like a musical score?
So how to measure this with headsets,
distinguishing even between,
objectively,
the relaxation response,
the relaxation response
in the Harbin warm pool,
and brain chemistry
of neural cascades of pleasure,
and then also, Subjectively, I say,
in words?
And with machine learning, further,
on the objective, 3rd person
scientific accounts' side,
could we add cameras to cells,
wee antennae, or cameras, to atoms,
articulate DNA with awareness,
(and have George Church,* Ed Boyden* and
Karl Deisseroth* already done this?),
as well as send opto-genetic signals
in from the headsets,
by further examining consciousness,
via the virtual and the real thinking,
thanks to David Chalmers*
while
in the warm pool,
or In the bath tub ~
at Harbin soaking?
And subjectively, when we're blissing,
after releasing into meditation,
after eliciting the relaxation response ~
self reported, ~
use language to talk about this?
I know it consciously when I'm blissing
in the Harbin warm pool,
when bliss is simply bubbling up.
So can we measure such,
like your conscious bliss for sure,
and bring this together with what we say about this ~
with our awareness, consciousness that is,
in an account of infinite qualities, as information?
Long way to go to measure
integrated information Phi in the brain,
to code it in virtual brains,
to hypothesize this further,
and then objectively and 3rd person-wise
observe this scientifically (& consciously)
in the brain,
but maybe nakedness,
Actually, and
Virtually,
and examining desire,
further, too, will open ways ...
So first the dance, then the pools
this time, and,
How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality.
Understanding consciousness
and realizing bliss further,
connectedness,
in complement with scientific sentience,
thanks to Harbin.
To the Dance or the Pools? ~
Virtually!
How different it is to soak at
Harbin Hot Springs,
than to realize it in virtual reality.
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html
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book ~
Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss
(2018)
(where Rainbow here refers much to the Rainbow Gathering, that hippy gathering which began in 1973 in Boulder Colorado)
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poem ~
In The Night I Traveled North To Harbin
In the night,
I traveled north
to Harbin,
to Harbin.
Crescent moon,
starry night,
I traveled along
a new way,
from Canyon,
to Harbin.
Redwood tunnels,
now misty night,
the road opens,
from Canyon,
to Harbin.
Come now,
in-world,
and explore
the place
which is Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
It's freeing here ~
such beauty, too ~
in the waters,
at Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
Take off your clothes,
and enter the water
in the warm pool, ~
feel the warmth
in the heart pool,
at Harbin,
oh, Harbin.
Be with these folks ~
these hippies,
these brothers
and sisters,
these children
of hippies,
these flower~loving beings ~
who cuddle,
naked,
and snuggle,
in the water,
at Harbin, ~
be, at Harbin.
Into the hot pool,
now slow,
so slow ~
for, from
the whale's mouth
flow waters hot
at Harbin,
from Harbin.
The woman's bust,
that sculpture
above the whale's
water spout,
sprouting forth
beautiful,
fresh flowers
from her head,
inspires, ~
earth's fires,
~ the water
is hot!
Too hot, too hot, ~
to the cold pool,
to plunge,
amidst forest
and flowers
all around,
in the water, ~
to tingle,
oh, mingle.
MMmmm ...
Now back to
the warm pool,
to your love,
to cuddle,
with your love,
and snuggle,
at Harbin,
yes, Harbin.
What emerges
from our
bodyminds
is bliss ~
oh, bliss ~
bringing us
close, together,
oh, gather
together.
Welcome, bliss,
as you come,
when you come, ~
that neurophysiology ~
this lovely
neurophysiology,
in our bodies,
oh, our bodies.
To the tent now,
to our tent,
to live love,
to touch ease, ~
to make love,
together, ~
to our tent, now,
at Harbin,
be, at Harbin.
To our tent, love, ~
To love ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-night-i-drove-north-to-harbin.html
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book ~
Haiku~ish: And Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry
(2017)
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poem ~
Whale: Harbin Poem Haiku-ish
A Harbin poem
Light in the whale room
Hot water! – cool – go deep inside
Up to the cold pool.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/08/whale-harbin-poem-haiku-ish.html
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book ~
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin
(2016)
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poem (and the beginning of chapter 9, too) ~
(from the poem "Bodymind electricity sings to me, o thee, who are pair)
Chapter 9
HARBIN AS A VIRTUAL, ACTUAL WORLD
Harbin virtuality in the pools and the erotic - This Harbin, alternative culture in virtual Harbin – Simulation – Fiction and design – Many Harbin residents in-world – Toward an anthropology of actual and virtual Harbin in the Information Age.
In the warm pool,
This vision vessel,
Nudity frees,
And they cuddle~puddle,
Dance Watsu Contact Improv,
Breasts, bottoms,
Bodymind shapes,
Skin and curves,
Beautiful people,
One man and three women
With nice bosoms,
Happy, naturally, nature-ally,
Erotically, and serene,
Otter-like, -
Haven't seen this in a while, -
Play,
And I sit,
Relaxation-'sponse-wise, ~
And, aware, find a kind of
Unfolding freeing oneness.
O, warm waters,
And beauties of Harbin.
The mind, the bodymind, as 3-D
Holographic, imaging machine, ...
How to turn it on, welcome it, electricity-alive,
With a cello bow stroke,
With loving bliss,
In all these myriad qualities? …
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/04/bodymind-electricity-sings-to-me-o-thee.html
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- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagosa_hot_springs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagosa_Springs,_Colorado
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hot_springs_of_Colorado
...
April 28, 2021
Ķemeri National Park (Latvia): Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia * What role could furthering a single worldwide cryptocurrency (in most of ~200 countries: think the Euro in 19 out of 28 EU countries) - and t
Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia
Dear Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, (Ambassador McFaul, Sonia Lee),
Greetings, and thank you for your fascinating webinar just now - https://library.stanford.edu/events/prime-minister-krisjanis-karins-republic-latvia (and
https://twitter.com/krisjaniskarins/status/1387432113507651587?s=20).Today, 19:00 Riga time (EEST, GMT +3) https://t.co/yBMIqlctrT
— Krišjānis Kariņš (@krisjaniskarins) April 28, 2021
Here are the questions I asked in your Latvia-Stanford video conference:
Thank you for your excellent talk, Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš. What role could furthering a single worldwide cryptocurrency (in most of ~200 countries: think the Euro in 19 out of 28 EU countries) - and think ‘Stanford Mine Pi Coin’ with BLOCKCHAIN ledger - play in giving Latvia a new leadership role in the EU, & with regards especially to Russia and China, and further for new approaches to 1 climate change 2 technological development and regulation 3 rules based international trade (but also in many ways regarding 4 international security 5 values)?
All the best, Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - am developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a single cryptocurrency for all 7.8 billion people combined with free wiki universal education - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html (see the UBI - Universal Basic Income - label here too as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency to many of all 7.8 billion people on planet, brainstorming-wise) - which Latvia & the EU could benefit from in multiple ways). Thank you.
Science in Latvia? What role might STEM education play in energy independence in Latvia?
Latvia World University and School will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in the Latvian language, and as a major online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online university offering free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school (or sim) degrees, and newly as WUaS partners with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard). And if you know anyone in the wider Latvian community, who speaks English, and is interested in an online free PhD or 4-year Bachelor degree beginning 9/1/21 at MIT OCW-centric World University and School, please let me know.
Thank you, ScottPSIf you might be interested, please see the 'Bay Area Stammtisch" Google Meet link here for this Saturday, May 1, 2020 at 10:30 am Pacific Time, in German and English - - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html (see UBI label here too, for ex.)
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Notes
values -
freedom, democracy and the rule of law
5 'values'
1 climate change 2 technological development and regulation 3 rules based international trade (4 international security, 5 values)
energy independence
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(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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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What is blockchain ledger? I like this Vermont house sale ex: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status... where the ledger itself could be sold to museums or insurance cos. See too https://twitter.com/valaafshar/status... & https://twitter.com/valaafshar/status... ~
#BlockchainForArt #WUaSBlockchainForArt > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~
What is blockchain ledger? I like this Vermont house sale ex: https://t.co/EgDu5XqG8o where the ledger itself could be sold to museums or insurance cos. See too https://t.co/16VemTwjHW & https://t.co/9UEMqNOx4w ~#BlockchainForArt #WUaSBlockchainForArt > https://t.co/gkBYeUphOK ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046479576069681152?s=20
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What is blockchain?
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472
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#Blockchain is changing the way we do business
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/920468448446173184?s=20
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Blockchain explained
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/967559165555167234?s=20
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See, too:
Ram cichlid: Electric church music ... Blockchain ledger and one specific book title "Naked Harbin Ethnography" - explored further, How blockchain ledger works, A) Vermont house ex. video, B) 1,2,3 things blockchain ledger does, C) When block chains start to work for a particular automobile's resales, and then with replacement parts inside over time, it begins to get complex, D) Blockchain with robotics' systems ex. video re MIT conference, E) And I'd bet that TRUST through coding can be maintained even with - "MIT Technology Review - Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked" - Thinking through both blockchain, as well as some implications for the WUaS bookstore and WUaS hospitals * * * Also re a realistic virtual earth and WUaS online hospitals, to digitize both of Stanford's hospitals, some of Kaiser's Hospitals, Brown University's Butler psychiatric hospital, - for Electronic Health Records with real time video into the future for tele-robotic brain surgery at the atomic level before and after, with a single cryptocurrency in all ~200 countries' with blockchain ledger for hospital technologies, Medical School's publications etc. * * * Blockchain ledger is potentially revolutionary (and possibly as revolutionary as the Internet itself I've heard) * * * Thanks, Peter Norvig for getting back to me ... Have you ever visited Harbin Hot Springs ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ ?https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/ram-cichlid-electric-church-music.html
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'Quaker Academics: Walking in the Light on Campus and Beyond' - https://quakerfahe.com/2021/04/02/qlhe-quaker-academics/Question for Cara from your Friends' Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Quaker Academics' presentation
Dear Cara, (and David),
Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and thank you. (Do you happen to know perhaps Caleb Alexander MD in Baltimore Yearly Meeting? - Our families met for a Xmas meal over about 2+ decades in Pittsburgh, PA, and it's through the Alexanders partly that I became involved with Quakers). Thanks, David, also for moderating this timely and topical Friendly FAHE Quaker Academics' conversation.
And do you happen to know, too, MIT Professor of Anthropology, Heather Paxson, who is a Friend, I think, and a Haverford alumna too?
From the text chat:
Thanks for your wonderful Light-filled Friendly thinking, Cara (and thanks too Sa'ed).
Cara, am curious how or if - in your ethnographic research methodologies regarding flourishing motherhood in the Emory, GA, prison or affluent church, for your PhD - the questions you're asking are developing online or digitally in new ways? What kinds of new opportunities for Quaker scholarship, if any, have online ethnographic research modalities made possible for you? And how are you also exploring 'walking in the Light' in emerging ONLINE campuses (if such opportunities have emerged over the past coronavirus pandemic year) and even regarding if online virtual places are emerging in your studies? What is authentic online flourishing motherhood in your research or thinking?
Friendly regards, Scott
(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
PSWorld Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) is conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, and here are the 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes just completed today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html.
PPS
My Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography also had a slight Friends' Quaker focus, since I identified as a Friendly ethnographer in part, while doing field work, for example, and kept in communication, and connected with Quakers in Lake County (one of whom had been participating for many years in the oldest group at Harbin - an AA group), northern California, too, while 'in the field.;
Thank you, Cara, and David!
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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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Hi Scott,
Thanks so much for coming last night, and for your question. In terms of the people you mentioned: I don't think I know the Alexanders, at least not by name...always possible I would recognize a face. :) And I don't know Heather Paxson personally, but my spouse, who is an anthropology PhD student, knows her--she works on topics similar to him, and they have connected through that. Various small worlds interconnecting!
In terms of your question about how things have pivoted online: it's a very good one, and I'm afraid I don't have the best answers! As far as my research goes, I was fortunate to have finished most of my research in-person before the pandemic started (though some on the non-prison side did get cut off--I didn't feel it made sense to keep connecting with new folks online at the start of the pandemic as everything was in chaos...though I did do a couple of follow-up interviews over Zoom). And as for the prison, they have virtually no internet access at all, so we have been largely cut off from them, which has been hard. I also work for the theological studies program in a teaching/directing capacity, and we have been able to send in photocopied packets of readings/letters, but that's about it. In a year when many of us relied heavily on online formats for connection, incarcerated folks (at least in states like Georgia) have been largely left behind. In addition to their dramatically increased risk for the virus--it's very frustrating.
But thinking about your question more broadly, I think I see lots of places where online worlds are helping us live better lives right now--if not quite "flourish," perhaps. I know online mothers groups have been extremely important for many folks. And while I was an online teaching skeptic before the pandemic, I will say that I have come to see how it can work well at least in some instances for building community. I'm teaching right now in Candler's Doctor of Ministry program, which is always online, as folks are working pastors and chaplains located in churches/communities throughout the US. The online format allows them to come together and build community, as well as stay rooted in their own context.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful food for thought, at least! Thanks again for your question and engagement last night. I hope your work is going as well as possible in our continuing strange times!
All best,
Cara
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Hi Cara, (David, Research Professor at Bryn Mawr! - I've been thinking you are an Emeritus Professor, but didn't realize you are still active!),Thanks so much for your prompt email reply, Cara. My Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book comes into conversation with 'Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human' (Princeton UP 2008) by Tom Boellstorff, also with Stanford PhD like Heather Paxson. Has your spouse engaged these resources or a digital focus anthropologically or in his PhD studies? (I don't have a spouse yet:). While my Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book is bit out of the box, since it seeks to actually create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for comparative ethnographic study ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and here's a beginning in the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate in Google Street View with time slider, where you can walk down the road a spell toward Middletown CA, as a possible emerging ethnographic and STEM field site and classrooms too, or campus even ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) - it also engages fully the anthropological academic literature regarding emerging virtual worlds. You and your spouse might find interesting this emerging possible research group - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - in a related vein. (Harbin is also a church - Heart Consciousness Church, since 1975 - albeit unaffiliated with other churches, and whatever church means).
Online over the past year seems like it could be taken as an opening to study the Web ethnographically perchance flourishing in new ways, - in Friendly flourishing too. I also have a specific #ActualVirtual comparative focus - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click. I've also given some thought to the idea of flourishing here in the flourishing label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flourishing?m=0 - and here in my 'eudaimonia' web page -
(Regarding eudaimonia, as flourishing, see -
Eudaimonia (personal flourishing)
is 'Flow' and Bliss
Dear Friends,
While bliss may be experienced by evoking or exploring good spiritedness, I'm curious about the following.
How to experience eudaimonia, flow, and bliss naturally?
FLOW
What is 'flow' ~ the psychology of optimal experience?
http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm - with an explicit focus on Friends esp.).
and here again too, in this blog label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html?m=0 - (and Friends-wise further, here, too, esp. - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which I began writing - might need editing:) - in Scotland around 2003:).
It seems like the ongoing creation of a myriad virtual worlds is a remarkable aspect of a kind of flourishing, I'm thinking and writing about.
(The image on your Twitter feed is a bit macabre -
https://twitter.com/caracurtis_/status/1387066536272277505?s=19 - an antithesis of flourishing?Can I just submit this as my (overdue) end-of-year report to my department? pic.twitter.com/hYHKYq87QB
— Cara Curtis (@caracurtis_) April 27, 2021
Qu'est-ce c'est?)
But your FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker social ethics, and ethnographic approaches makes me wonder whether one could use photos as evidence or textual resources for identifying flourishing. :) How do you examine academically the idea of flourishing, Cara? For example, the picture in your Twitter profile I could read ethnographically as exhibiting flourishing. What do you think? Helpful 'evidence' - another approach to reading 'flourishing' even, and ethnographically, if you chose to interpret photos with similar flourishing as such, and contextualize this perhaps in terms of what gave rise to such flourishing? I'd be interested in learning further your thoughts to many of these questions.
Did you happen to study 'social ethics' or similar at the Harvard Divinity School with any of these philosophers - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html (where you'll also find some of my non-theistic Friendly thinking, and in a related blog label).
You both have what could be quite Scottish last names re it can be a small world indeed regarding connectedness and identity (I became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, Quaker Meeting:).
Friendly regards, Scotthttp://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
PS Caleb Alexander's father, George L Alexander MD, may have had some Scots' background as well - and was also a brilliant Yale & McGill trained Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatrist, and a bit of a philosopher & linguist too. (I mention him in my blog, since I learned much from his thinking, as family friend - in the Jacques Lacan MD label, for one). Not a Friend, I think he may have met his wife who lives at Kendall Crosslands in Quaker circles in Cambridge or New Haven, for example. David, do you know any of the Alexanders, by any chance? :)
PPS And you'll see I mention Heather Paxson's work on open source publishing at the bottom of the 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from yesterday: - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).
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Ķemeri National Park (Latvia): Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia * * * Question for Cara Curtis from your FAHE Quaker Academics' presentation * FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker
Stanford talk - Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of the Republic of Latvia
Dear Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš,
Greetings, and thank you for your fascinating webinar just now - https://library.stanford.edu/events/prime-minister-krisjanis-karins-republic-latvia (and
https://twitter.com/krisjaniskarins/status/1387432113507651587?s=20).Today, 19:00 Riga time (EEST, GMT +3) https://t.co/yBMIqlctrT
— Krišjānis Kariņš (@krisjaniskarins) April 28, 2021
Here are the questions I asked in your Latvia-Stanford video conference:
Thank you for your excellent talk, Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš. What role could furthering a single worldwide cryptocurrency (in most of ~200 countries: think the Euro in 19 out of 28 EU countries) - and think ‘Stanford Mine Pi Coin’ with BLOCKCHAIN ledger - play in giving Latvia a new leadership role in the EU, & with regards especially to Russia and China, and further for new approaches to 1 climate change 2 technological development and regulation 3 rules based international trade (but also in many ways regarding 4 international security 5 values)?
All the best, Scott MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a single cryptocurrency for all 7.8 billion people combined with free wiki universal education - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html (see the UBI - Universal Basic Income - label here too as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency to many of all 7.8 billion people on planet, brainstorming-wise) - which Latvia & the EU could benefit from in multiple ways). Thank you.
Science in Latvia? What role might STEM education play in energy independence in Latvia?
Latvia World University and School will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in the Latvian language, and as a major online CC04 MIT OCW-centric online university offering free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school (or sim) degrees, and newly as WUaS partners with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard). And if you know anyone in the wider Latvian community, who speaks English, and is interested in an online free PhD or 4-year Bachelor degree beginning 9/1/21 at MIT OCW-centric World University and School, please let me know.
Thank you, ScottPSIf you might be interested, please see the 'Bay Area Stammtisch" Google Meet link here for this Saturday, May 1, 2020 at 10:30 am Pacific Time, in German and English - - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html (see UBI label here too, for ex.)
- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, President, CEO & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).
Notes
values -
freedom, democracy and the rule of law
5 'values'
1 climate change2 technological development and regulation 3 rules based international trade (4 international security, 5 values)
energy independence
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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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Question for Cara from your FAHE Quaker Academics' presentation
Dear Cara, (and David),Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and thank you. (Do you happen to know perhaps Caleb Alexander MD in Baltimore Yearly Meeting? - Our families met for a Xmas meal over about 2+ decades in Pittsburgh, PA, and it's through the Alexanders partly that I became involved with Quakers). Thanks, David, also for moderating this timely and topical Friendly FAHE Quaker Academics' conversation.
And do you happen to know, too, MIT Professor of Anthropology, Heather Paxson, who is a Friend, I think, and a Haverford alumna too?
From the text chat:
Thanks for your wonderful Light-filled Friendly thinking, Cara (and thanks too Sa'ed).
Cara, am curious how or if - in your ethnographic research methodologies regarding flourishing motherhood in the Emory, GA, prison or affluent church, for your PhD - the questions you're asking are developing online or digitally in new ways? What kinds of new opportunities for Quaker scholarship, if any, have online ethnographic research modalities made possible for you? And how are you also exploring 'walking in the Light' in emerging ONLINE campuses (if such opportunities have emerged over the past coronavirus pandemic year) and even regarding if online virtual places are emerging in your studies? What is authentic online flourishing motherhood in your research or thinking?
Friendly regards, Scott
(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
PSWorld Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) is conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, and here are the 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes just completed today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html.
PPS
My Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography also had a slight focus on Quakers, since I identified as a Friendly ethnographer in part, while doing field work, for example, and kept in communication with Quakers in Lake County, northern California, too, while 'in the field.;
Thank you, Cara, and David!
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- Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & ProfessorWorld Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 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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Hi Scott,
Thanks so much for coming last night, and for your question. In terms of the people you mentioned: I don't think I know the Alexanders, at least not by name...always possible I would recognize a face. :) And I don't know Heather Paxson personally, but my spouse, who is an anthropology PhD student, knows her--she works on topics similar to him, and they have connected through that. Various small worlds interconnecting!
In terms of your question about how things have pivoted online: it's a very good one, and I'm afraid I don't have the best answers! As far as my research goes, I was fortunate to have finished most of my research in-person before the pandemic started (though some on the non-prison side did get cut off--I didn't feel it made sense to keep connecting with new folks online at the start of the pandemic as everything was in chaos...though I did do a couple of follow-up interviews over Zoom). And as for the prison, they have virtually no internet access at all, so we have been largely cut off from them, which has been hard. I also work for the theological studies program in a teaching/directing capacity, and we have been able to send in photocopied packets of readings/letters, but that's about it. In a year when many of us relied heavily on online formats for connection, incarcerated folks (at least in states like Georgia) have been largely left behind. In addition to their dramatically increased risk for the virus--it's very frustrating.
But thinking about your question more broadly, I think I see lots of places where online worlds are helping us live better lives right now--if not quite "flourish," perhaps. I know online mothers groups have been extremely important for many folks. And while I was an online teaching skeptic before the pandemic, I will say that I have come to see how it can work well at least in some instances for building community. I'm teaching right now in Candler's Doctor of Ministry program, which is always online, as folks are working pastors and chaplains located in churches/communities throughout the US. The online format allows them to come together and build community, as well as stay rooted in their own context.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful food for thought, at least! Thanks again for your question and engagement last night. I hope your work is going as well as possible in our continuing strange times!
All best,
Cara
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Hi Cara, (David, Research Professor at Bryn Mawr! - I've been thinking you are an Emeritus Professor, but didn't realize you are still active!),Thanks so much for your prompt email reply, Cara. My Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book comes into conversation with 'Coming of Age on Second Life: An Anthropologist Explored the Virtually Human' (Princeton UP 2008) by Tom Boellstorff, also with Stanford PhD like Heather Paxson. Has your spouse engaged these resources or a digital focus anthropologically or in his PhD studies? (I don't have a spouse yet:). While my Actual-Virtual Harbin Ethnographic book is bit out of the box, since it seeks to actually create a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for comparative ethnographic study - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - here's a beginning in the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate in Google Street View with time slider, where you can walk down the road a spell toward Middletown CA, as a possible emerging ethnographic and STEM field site and classrooms too, or campus even ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~). You and your spouse might find interesting this emerging possible research group - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - in a related vein. (Harbin is also a church - Heart Consciousness Church, since 1975 - albeit unaffiliated with other churches, and whatever church means). It seems like the ongoing creation of a myriad virtual worlds is one remarkable aspect of this flourishing.
Online over the past year seems like it could be taken as an opening to study the Web ethnographically perchance flourishing in new ways, - in Friendly flourishing too. I also have a specific #ActualVirtual comparative focus - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click. I've also given some thought to the idea of flourishing here in the flourishing label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flourishing?m=0 - and here in my 'eudaimonia' web page -
(Regarding eudaimonia, see -
Eudaimonia (personal flourishing)
is 'Flow' and Bliss
Dear Friends,
While bliss may be experienced by evoking or exploring good spiritedness, I'm curious about the following.
How to experience eudaimonia, flow, and bliss naturally?
FLOW
What is 'flow' ~ the psychology of optimal experience?
http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm - with an explicit focus on Friends esp.).
and here again too, in this blog label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html?m=0 - (and Friends-wise further, here, too, esp. - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which I began writing - might need editing:) - in Scotland around 2003:).
(The image on your Twitter feed is a bit macabre -
https://twitter.com/caracurtis_/status/1387066536272277505?s=19 - an antithesis of flourishing?Can I just submit this as my (overdue) end-of-year report to my department? pic.twitter.com/hYHKYq87QB
— Cara Curtis (@caracurtis_) April 27, 2021
Qu'est-ce c'est?)
But your FAHE Quaker Academics' talk about flourishing, motherhood, Quaker social ethics, and ethnographic approaches makes me wonder whether one could use photos as evidence or textual resources for identifying flourishing. :) How do you examine academically the idea of flourishing, Cara? For example, the picture in your Twitter profile I could read ethnographically as exhibiting flourishing. What do you think? Helpful 'evidence' - another approach to reading 'flourishing' even, and ethnographically, if you chose to interpret photos with similar flourishing as such, and contextualize this perhaps in terms of what gave rise to such flourishing? I'd be interested in learning further your thoughts to many of these questions.
Did you happen to study 'social ethics' or similar at the Harvard Divinity School with any of these philosophers - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/crested-partridge.html (where you'll also find some of my non-theistic Friendly thinking, and in a related blog label).
You both have what could be quite Scottish last names re it can be a small world indeed regarding connectedness and identity (I became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, Quaker Meeting:).
Friendly regards, Scotthttp://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod
PS Caleb Alexander's father, George L Alexander MD, may have had some Scots' background as well - and was also a brilliant Yale & McGill trained Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatrist, and a bit of a philosopher & linguist too. (I mention him in my blog, since I learned much from his thinking, as family friend - in the Jacques Lacan MD label, for one). Not a Friend, I think he may have met his wife who lives at Kendall Crosslands in Quaker circles in Cambridge or New Haven, for example. David, do you know any of the Alexanders, by any chance? :)
PPS And you'll see I mention Heather Paxson's work on open source publishing at the bottom of the 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from yesterday: - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/04/41721-minutes-for-wuas-open-monthly.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/hyacinth-macaw.html
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).
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