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Fennec fox: Free #Stanford mine-able "Mine Pi" #cryptocurrency Use this reference code: minepi.com/sgkmac & How will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks? "What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like?" * Have you set up your Stanford Mine Pi account

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Hi !

Hope all of you are doing well. Have we applied for this?
https://campus.edx.org/essentials

Also I got my Stanford Mine Pi account setup.
minepi.com/mjmrifai
Regards,
RifaiSL WUaS

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Hi Sri, and All, 
I just signed up with both (edX & Mine Pi) successfully, initially, and, on smartphone - minepi.com/sgkmac (using telephone number and passport name, and address) - and have earned .25 Pi currency, or similar, in Mine Pi ... will return tomorrow at 4pm (adding to calendar even) to hit the button again for another .25 Pi, as Mine Pi develops, and as I explore - and regarding World University and School especially.
I hope a single cryptocurrency will be a way to alleviate poverty worldwide ... for the poorest people among all 7.8 billion people. 
Thank you, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html - 


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Sri Lanka WUaS7:23 AM (12 hours ago)to Andrzej, MariuszS, Petros, Shahbaz, Info, Marisol, WUaS, Rohit, Rohit, Rohit, Scott, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, WUaS, Peter, mazumdarp, Hostsave, meHi ! I thought Pi would be a good start as it is open for development.
Regards,
Rifai

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Hi All ...

In these regards, 
I just shared the following with my high school best friend's mother (and Partha in these email thread is Siddartha's younger brother), and family: 
Mrs. Mazumdar, Pin, Marti, Pat, Ma, Tym, Mr. Mazumdar, All, 
Here's a new cryptocurrency, Stanford's "Mine Pi" digital currency, and you can begin mining it (with algorithms) today and everyday and earn "Pi" - later convertible into fiat / cash. Happy Birthday and Happy Thanksgiving. And the head of WUaS in Sri Lanka just emailed this morning saying it was under development (and I had tried to sign up for "Mine Pi" in September 2019 with an old smartphone, unsuccessfully) - and the sign up process went well yesterday. A statistical wonderland, Mrs. Mazumdar (who's a statistician) - how can we plan for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - in all ~200 countries - and perhaps on bank cards or similar for the folks in 300,000 people refugee camps in east Africa for example?  
I just signed up with Mine Pi successfully, initially, and, on smartphone - minepi.com/sgkmac (using telephone number and passport name, and address, etc. - and please use my user name as a reference code, or Rifai's) - and have earned .25 Pi currency, or similar, in Mine Pi ... will return today at 4pm PT, which is 24 hours after I signed up yesterday, (and I added to my calendar even) to hit the 'Mine Pi' button again for another .25 Pi (what Harvard Professor BF Skinner behaviorism experimental potential is there here? :)), as Mine Pi develops, and as I explore it - and regarding World University and School especially, and even regarding WUaS seeking to alleviate poverty among the poorest of the 7.8 billion people.
We can also learn in new ways about the power of networks here, re this information technology (and re a course I teach on the Network Society - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and hope to teach again in 2021 freely, and online!). But please remember this digital cryptocurrency isn't worth very much at all - yet. :)
I hope a single cryptocurrency will be a way to alleviate poverty worldwide ... and Happy Birthday, Marti and Pat! :)
Friendly regards, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html - 

Co-op coin images (Co-op coinage - also called scrip - is one of the main ideas here, where a Co-operative legal entity creates their own money, but eventually WUaS seeks to make available a single cryptocurrency backed by central banks of most of ~200 countries, and in their official languages, and fiat or cash is authorized money, defined as "a formal authorization or proposition; a decree" - so for example, from central banks :  )
Free #Stanford mine-able "Mine Pi" #cryptocurrency Use this reference code: minepi.com/sgkmac & How will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks? "What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like?" https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

Free #Stanford mine-able "Mine Pi" #cryptocurrency Use this reference code: https://t.co/hgt1q9aNk5 & How will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks? "What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like?" https://t.co/Xasa5sgTnw #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332758812990779398?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332759013356924930?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332757243587145728?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332756925814018051?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1332757449426808832?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1332757784237105158?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755956422336512?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332756641138302977?s=20



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how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded & connect to networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ https://www.howtogeek.com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WUaSPress ~

how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded & connect to networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://t.co/Xasa5sgTnw https://www.howtogeek. com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WUaSPress ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332753696879497219?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332754183360012292?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755162402869249?s=20



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how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ https://www.howtogeek. com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChainLedger #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332754556552421378?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755062377025539?s=20



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how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ https://www.howtogeek.com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChainLedger #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch~

how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://t.co/Xasa5rZhYW https://t.co/VX0RJbU1sr #WUaSBlockChainLedger #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332773477208653824?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332773854435966976?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332776871361130506?s=20

how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://t.co/pMK7CVd7CQ https://t.co/oH4b6XvI7u #WUaSBlockChainLedger #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch~

— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) November 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332777357241815041?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1332777763825074177?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1332777982256058369?s=20

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2 steps forward, 1 step back

Dear Larry,

Well I thought we'd be working on all 29 majors newly with unfolding edX partnering - thanks to your helpful recent update ... worlduniversityandschool.org and with the recent installation of the WUaS Database Wikibase by Houcemeddine (Abdelwaheb Turki) et moi ... but it seems like we're taking a step back to the 6 majors (thanks to your planning a few years ago re WUaS CC-4 MIT OCW courses) ...  in these recent major '2 steps forward, 1 step back' developments.  Abdelwaheb seems to be riding, metaphorically, a fine Arabian maverick low on the side, and also, metaphorically, seems to excel in the 'engine room' of WUaS Wikibase databases in so many ways. And there are about 27 out of 206 countries (per the Olympics) where Arabic is the official language ... so I'm glad he didn't recuse himself. Am also glad Lydia, Markus and Denny may be having a glance at our emerging multilingual database too, and that Larry Michalak (a Berkeley Anthropology faculty member, with whom I went on Semester at Sea with in 2005) has Tunisia as his field site, and has colleagues and friends at University of Sfax in Tunisia where Abdelwaheb is based. 
Would be great if Abdelwaheb could enter the WUaS Medical School in some years; however credential-wise I think he has only a high school Baccalaureate degree from a Tunisian Baccalaureate high school (and not I.B.), since I don't think he's finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Sfax ... but he seems to have got the innards of Wikibase down, and speaks 4 languages (also Italian and French) :) Perhaps he could get a Bachelor's degree first at WUaS as he creates the course catalog database ... (since we decided in WUaS monthly business meeting to accept transfer students with Tanya ) ... How's your Arabic in reading a Tunisian undergraduate transcript? 
Am not sure what other identity questions (re Anthropology / Sociology analyses) will emerge, but he's never yet been to the Ramallah Friends School (Quaker) in Ramallah Palestine (founded in 1869 or so), and fairly recently an I.B. school, taught in Arabic and English. His north African base in Tunisia would make him very relevant for the whole African continent too, but possibly not in the Swahili language. 
Two Edinburgh higher educational events on Monday at 10am Pacific Time - 1) Fettes College high school, also I.B., and possibly re WUaS outreach for our free college, and @) University of Edinburgh Medical School debate, and re our online Medical Schools, possibly specific to Scotland in the future ...  and I haven't' decided what to do with the WUaS News, Q&A on Monday at 10 am Pacific Time, when I first met recently at length last week with Houcemeddine ...
2 steps forward, 1 step back

Sincerely, Scott

Some recent remarkable Mine Pi developments, which you can get, as you may have seen, and will it become the currency too of World Univ & Sch from nation states (Sati Mazumdar is a statistician :)????
Mrs. Mazumdar, Pin, Marti, Pat, Ma, Tym, Mr. Mazumdar, All, 
Here's a new cryptocurrency, Stanford's "Mine Pi" digital currency, and you can begin mining it (with algorithms) today and everyday and earn "Pi" - later convertible into fiat / cash. Happy Birthday and Happy Thanksgiving. And the head of WUaS in Sri Lanka just emailed this morning saying it was under development (and I had tried to sign up for "Mine Pi" in September 2019 with an old smartphone, unsuccessfully) - and the sign up process went well yesterday. A statistical wonderland, Mrs. Mazumdar - how can we plan for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - in all ~200 countries - and perhaps on bank cards or similar for the folks in 300,000 people refugee camps in east Africa for example?  
I just signed up with Mine Pi successfully, initially, and, on smartphone - minepi.com/sgkmac (using telephone number and passport name, and address, etc. - and please use my user name as a reference code) - and have earned .25 Pi currency, or similar, in Mine Pi ... will return today at 4pm, which is 24 hours after I signed up yesterday, (and I added to my calendar even) to hit the 'Mine Pi' button again for another .25 Pi (what BF Skinner behaviorism experimental potential is there here? :)), as Mine Pi develops, and as I explore it - and regarding World University and School especially, and ever regarding WUaS seeking to alleviate poverty among the poorest of the 7.8 billion people.
We can also learn in new ways about the power of networks here, re this information technology (and re a course I teach on the Network Society - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and hope to teach again in 2021 freely, and online!). But please remember this digital cryptocurrency isn't worth very much at all - yet. :)
I hope a single cryptocurrency will be a way to alleviate poverty worldwide ... and Happy Birthday, Marti and Pat! :)
Fond regards, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html - 

Some recent Tweets in these regards too ... 

Free #Stanford mine-able "Mine Pi" #cryptocurrency Use this reference code: minepi.com/sgkmac & How will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks? "What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like?" https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332758812990779398?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332759013356924930?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332757243587145728?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332756925814018051?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1332757449426808832?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1332757784237105158?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755956422336512?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332756641138302977?s=20



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how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded & connect to networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ https://www.howtogeek. com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChain #MinePi @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332753696879497219?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332754183360012292?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755162402869249?s=20



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how will digital cash, bills, coins be encoded re networks re #SingleCryptoCurrency? What would a Co-op Coin ICO look like? https://open.coop/2018/01/25/co-op-coin-ico-look-like/ https://www.howtogeek. com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/ #WUaSBlockChainLedger #MinePi @WorldUnivAndSch~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1332754556552421378?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332755062377025539?s=20

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Happy Thanksgiving! (and happy birthday, Pat & Marti!)

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Fri, Nov 27, 12:01 PM (1 day ago)

to Pin, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp, Janie, Mainak, Tym

Hi Pin, Marti, Pat, Mrs and Mr Mazumdar, Tym and Ma, 

I'm writing to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving and hope you are celebrating enjoyably on the eastern seaboard, if in group video. 

Also, Happy Belated Birthday, Marti and Pat (which I noticed in my calendar recently).

Here are some related happy birthday and happy Thanksgiving ideas - 

genetic engineering with Google until the year 2,999?

Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR -THINK #StreetView w #TimeSlider, read email in 800 years?

Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversalhttps://t.co/NV5YQqc5fV becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR -THINK #StreetView w #TimeSlider, read email in 800 years? https://t.co/mYgGIX7Ipr

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332114956871823361?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332114568802234368?s=20

Gmail lets you snooze messages until December 31, 2999 (it’s a Tuesday)

https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1330586221781905408?s=20

Re #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal in Google ecosystem, Tensorflow AI is doing gene adding & editing with different species in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, while STEM researchers are living for centuries too?

Re #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal in Google ecosystem, Tensorflow AI is doing gene adding & editing with different species in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, while STEM researchers are living for centuries too? https://t.co/jzkSQeBbHb

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332372725009055744?s=19

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332381636260818945?s=19

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1332380488162447360?s=19

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332382401637433344?s=19

Might we be celebrating Thanksgiving, sometimes together, sometimes in group video, for the next 1000 years? :)

Scott

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html

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Mazumdar, MainakFri, Nov 27, 12:24 PM (1 day ago)to meScott
Thank you for your good wishes. Best to you.
MM

Sent from my iPhone

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Mazumdar, SatiFri, Nov 27, 12:39 PM (1 day ago)to Pin, Marti, mazumdarp@gmail.com, Janie, Tym, me, MainakThank you Scot. We had a nice time last year. Hope you are doing well. Stay safe and see us when the pandemic will be over.
SatiSati Mazumdar

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 27, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Fri, Nov 27, 1:32 PM (1 day ago)

to Sati, Pin, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp@gmail.com, Janie, Tym

Hi Pat and Marti, Mr. and Mrs. Mazumdar and All, 

Thanks so much Mr. and Mrs. Mazumdar for your emails just now. 

Here's a related birthday idea to alleviate poverty and via UBI experiments, worldwide, to distribute a single cryptocurrency, and by planning to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - 

In seeking to create major online universities in all ~200 countries in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & WIKI schools in all 7117 living languages,

@WorldUnivAndSch

 seeks too to code for 7.8 Billion people #WikidataQitem # #SingleCryptocurrency via #UBIexperiments re #DataGovernanceAct ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1332356424077242368?s=20

All 7.8 billion living people would get a Wikidata Q-item # for both editing / adding to their own genetics, and regarding a single mineable cryptocurrency (like Mine Pi), backed by most of ~ 200 countries' central banks (but not possibly by Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, England, - if the Euro is a model adopted by 19 out of 28 nation states in the EU currently). And initially for these 5 reasons - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... - and Season's Greetings, too! :)

Warm regards, Scott

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

9:58 AM (12 hours ago)

to Sati, Pin, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp@gmail.com, Janie, Tym

Mrs. Mazumdar, Pin, Marti, Pat, Ma, Tym, Mr. Mazumdar, All, 

Here's a new cryptocurrency, Stanford's "Mine Pi" digital currency, with which  you can begin mining it (with algorithms) today and everyday and earn "Pi" - later convertible into fiat / cash. Happy Birthday and Happy Thanksgiving. And the head of WUaS in Sri Lanka just emailed this morning saying it was under development (and I had tried to sign up for "Mine Pi" in September 2019 with an old smartphone, unsuccessfully) - and the sign up process went well yesterday. A statistical wonderland, Mrs. Mazumdar - how can we plan for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - in all ~200 countries - and perhaps on bank cards or similar for the folks in 300,000 people refugee camps in east Africa for example?  

I just signed up with Mine Pi successfully, initially, and, on smartphone - minepi.com/sgkmac (using telephone number and passport name, and address, etc. - and please use my user name as a reference code) - and have earned .25 Pi currency, or similar, in Mine Pi ... will return today at 4pm, which is 24 hours after I signed up yesterday, (and I added to my calendar even) to hit the 'Mine Pi' button again for another .25 Pi (what BF Skinner behaviorism experimental potential is there here? :)), as Mine Pi develops, and as I explore it - and regarding World University and School especially, and ever regarding WUaS seeking to alleviate poverty among the poorest of the 7.8 billion people.

We can also learn in new ways about the power of networks here, re this information technology (and re a course I teach on the Network Society - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and hope to teach again in 2021 freely, and online!). But please remember this digital cryptocurrency isn't worth very much at all - yet. :)

I hope a single cryptocurrency will be a way to alleviate poverty worldwide ... and Happy Birthday, Marti and Pat! :)

Fond regards, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/fruit-dove-genetic-engineering-with.html - 

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

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

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Fruit Dove: genetic engineering with Google until the year 2,999? Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversal https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGen

 

genetic engineering with Google until the year 2,999?

Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversalhttps://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR -THINK #StreetView w #TimeSlider, read email in 800 years?

Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversalhttps://t.co/Jd3DVmxUQN becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR -THINK #StreetView w #TimeSlider, read email in 800 years? https://t.co/3M3shKpiUU

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1332115706104541184?s=20

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Dear Ma, Sandy, Kate, Scott, Annie, Tim, Cathy and Steve and Alden,

So nice to visit with you, - and with you Sandy especially!
Sorry I didn't have a way to increase the focal length of my laptop computer - a little clip on to a laptop's camera for laptop tour guide reasons even? - to be able to show you the Golden Gate Bridge view, and new mast & rigging architecture of the Bay Bridge+ ... (perhaps using a smartphone would have been a good idea) in the mini tour in my new place.
Alden, and All ... re the other "Happy Birthday, Alden! :)" thread today, and aging reversal ... here below saying Google extended it's calendar 1000 years is the brilliant Tufts' University Anthropology professor Nick Seaver (who went to Yale as an undergrad, UC Irvine for Ph.D., studies anthropology of computing / algorithms, and his wife is a PhD in Genomics in Boston area) -  
So I ask - genetic engineering with Google until the year 2,999?

Holy Moly - why would Google let you snooze messages for 1000 years? if #AgingReversal #WUaSAgingReversalhttps://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk becomes successful & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR -THINK #StreetView w #TimeSlider, read email in 800 years?
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332114956871823361?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1332114568802234368?s=20

Nick Seaver -Gmail lets you snooze messages until December 31, 2999 (it’s a Tuesday)
https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1330586221781905408?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1332115349756551169?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1332116669582372864?s=20

Happy Zoom Thanksgiving, All!
Warm regards, Scott
PSFrom text chat (which I find useful as a 2nd channel for simultaneous real time communication, and which creates a text document even)
From Me to Everyone: (10:09 AM)

Appreciating Biden’s great experience as VP to Obama for 8 years (and senator before)


From Me to Everyone: (10:19 AM)

Ma, do you think hygiene has improved by leaps and bounds, in your new home, because of Covid-19 compared with before your move in, and now in the past 8 months?

Do you think Covid-19 might ALSO be bioterrorism preparation, in addition to gene management?

From Me to Everyone: (10:23 AM)

I was interested to see MIT Medical Community (and its Yoga class) also offers WELLNESS stress-reduction classes with a bit with a Coast Guard focus - https://medical.mit.edu/community/wellness/instructors/nancy-bellantoni-ma - to complement the Yoga classes

From Me to Everyone: (10:27 AM)

It’s so nice, Cathy, how much you remind me, in the connecting way you talk, of Granny Brown! :)

From Me to Everyone: (10:34 AM)

Grandpa Sandy Brown (ACB) - 4 of our grandpa’s, and my mother’s father - lived through the 1918 Spanish Flu (where I’ve seen online many people wearing masks)
 Glad we’re more prepared now!


From Me to Everyone: (10:45 AM)

My veggie turkey just came out of the oven!






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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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Twinflower (Linnaea borealis): World University and School's MBM Minutes, POETRY book and PIPING album * To explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscot...

 

Wanna take this free online 'MIT Medical' Yoga class together on Thanksgiving Day Th 11/26 (& maybe beyond)? Register with MIT Medical as an affiliate, for an early 7am class in the SF Bay Area! #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #InnerBodyExplorations Yoga notations https://t.co/M9FbXag4bU ~ https://t.co/zCXREvdV34

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1331054256531464192?s=20

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Good morning, Ma, and happy upcoming Thanksgiving!

I invited Ed and his family over for Thanksgiving, but they won't come. Nice to be touch and hear back further from him about N too. In...
A little bit of cabin fever yesterday, am glad to be making headway on my educational project's database for course selection for students for January. Meeting with Houcemeddine in Tunisia again at 10 this morning. 
On with the MBM Minutes (probably around Dec 1 2020), upcoming POETRY BOOK and PIPING ALBUM. I may explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks -https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/
 - before December 4 on which day they waive the 15% they take otherwise when my musical recordings are bought, and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search?q=Bandcamp&m=1. (Then friends could potentially buy some digital recordings, and I'd get all of the money, rather than ~85% of the money).  THIS 12/4 DATE PROVIDES BOTH A GOAL TO POST THESE MY SCOTTISH SMALL PIPING RECORDINGS, AND A RUN THROUGH BEFORE COMMITTING TO THE COST OF STUDIO TIME TO CD RECORDING. (Or maybe even Bandcamp will eventually facilitate creating a CD or recording to other physical media in the future). It's interesting recording as a solo musician, re a kind of isolation - where a sense of fans or CREATING paying  audience could transform this sense of isolation. Can Bandcamp I.T. make such community building for my small piping possible in a brand new way, since it's free otherwise for artists to post? C'est possible! ... And a good dress rehearsal ...
Getting into and thinking through the psychology of being a SSP musician (poetry book writer too) and new possibilities thanks to Web. 
GREAT TO REVISIT MY POETRY FROM 2012-2013 as I bring this my next upcoming book to fruition (and pay for the costs of publishing it in the WUaS Press) ...  recordings per re - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ...
It's lovely poetry of Harbin and Cuttyhunk and India, and so much more + re the experience of being there :)
Do I want to create larger communities as well as (paying) audiences for WUaS, SSP album, next poetry book, re an internal sense of not knowing how? It's all possible newly on WEB and re my own conflicts about this creative process, psychology of goal achievement, and growing (artistic and learning) communities for these - and feeling like I'm connecting in the process  ... (George Alexander's thinking about individualism AND AGENCY - choice or action or intentional causation  - come to mind here too).
APPRECIATING  Ma  your wonderful card saying "you are brave bold kind proud courageous fierce strong determined inspiring loved" :) (with echoes too for me of J.K.) ... As I navigate here in writing too questions of psychology, and fruitfully a bit.
Larger communities for the above? What kinds of communities? What qualities? And newly via the Web I wonder - in what ways? Would a partner be part of this developing community? Hmmm ... :)
See you all - family community :) - at 10 a on Thursday for > 40 minutes. 
Love, Scott

Hi Ed, would you and your family like to come over for a mostly outside, socially distanced, masked  Thanksgiving this Thursday around 2. It looks like the temperature will be around 66 in the afternoon, and I'll have prepared a vegetarian turkey (like last time) but this time with Dutch potatoes and celery, a salad, and maybe some other yummies, including coffee ice cream and pumpkin pie. There are 8 chairs outside too. ...  inside the hospital (which in a very serious epidemic could be one of the worst places on the planet to be:) ... but if this is a coronavirus pandemic, masks and social-distancing could work well. Cheers, Scott


Scott:It might be more sensible too to wait until Covid-19 threat is past, Ed (whatever kind of IN CASE OF EMERGENCY threat it is, I'll posit ... am amazed by the dearth of newspaper articles about US bioterrorism preparedness developments in recent months!) Thoughts? :) Happy Thanksgiving! Fondly, Scott



Ed:I was puzzling over your gracious invitation.   I think it would be awkward.  


Ed: More later.  Nice too to see a picture of N...!


Scott: Sounds good! [image error]

Twinflower (Linnaea borealis): World University and School's MBM Minutes, POETRY BOOK and PIPING album * To explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscot...

 

Wanna take this free online 'MIT Medical' Yoga class together on Thanksgiving Day Th 11/26 (& maybe beyond)? Register with MIT Medical as an affiliate, for an early 7am class in the SF Bay Area! #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #InnerBodyExplorations Yoga notations https://t.co/M9FbXag4bU ~ https://t.co/zCXREvdV34

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1331054256531464192?s=20

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Good morning, Ma, and happy upcoming Thanksgiving!

I invited Ed and his family over for Thanksgiving, but they won't come. Nice to be touch and hear back further from him about N too. In...
A little bit of cabin fever yesterday, am glad to be making headway on my educational project's database for course selection for students for January. Meeting with Houcemeddine in Tunisia again at 10 this morning. 
On with the MBM Minutes, POETRY BOOK and PIPING  album. I may explore first recording my album from home and to Bandcamp (simply by uploading tracks -https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/
 - by December 4 on which day they waive the 15% they take otherwise when my musical recordings are bought, and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search?q=Bandcamp&m=1. THIS 12/4 DATE PROVIDES BOTH A GOAL TO POST THESE MY SCOTTISH SMALL PIPING RECORDINGS, AND A RUN THROUGH BEFORE COMMITTING TO THE COST OF STUDIO TIME TO CD RECORDING. It's interesting recording as a solo musician, re a kind of isolation - where a sense of fans or CREATING paying  audience could transform this sense of isolation. Can bandcamp IT make such community building for my small piping possible in a brand new way, since it's free otherwise for artists to post? C'est possible! ... And a good dress rehearsal ...
Getting into and thinking through the psychology of being a SSP musician (poetry book writer too) and new possibilities thanks to Web. 
GREAT TO REVISIT MY POETRY FROM 2012-2013 as I bring this my next upcoming book to fruition (and pay for the costs of publishing it in the WUaS Press) ...  recordings per re - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ...
It's lovely poetry of Harbin and Cuttyhunk + re the experience of being there :)
Do I want to create larger communities as well as (paying) audiences for WUaS, SSP album, next poetry book, re an internal sense of not knowing how? It's all possible newly on WEB and re my own conflicts about this creative process, psychology of goal achievement, and growing (artistic and learning) communities for these - and feeling like I'm connecting in the process  ... (George Alexander's thinking about individualism AND AGENCY - choice or action or intentional causation  - come to mind here too.)
APPRECIATING  Ma  your wonderful card saying "you are brave bold kind proud courageous fierce strong determined inspiring loved" :) (with echoes too for me of J.K.) ... As I navigate here in writing too questions of psychology, and fruitfully a bit.
Larger communities for the above? What kinds of communities? What qualities? And newly via the Web I wonder - in what ways? Would a partner be part of this developing community? Hmmm ... :)
See you all - family community :) - at 10 a on Thursday for > 40 minutes. 
Love, Scott

Hi Ed, would you and your family like to come over for a mostly outside, socially distanced, masked  Thanksgiving this Thursday around 2. It looks like the temperature will be around 66 in the afternoon, and I'll have prepared a vegetarian turkey (like last time) but this time with Dutch potatoes and celery, a salad, and maybe some other yummies, including coffee ice cream and pumpkin pie. There are 8 chairs outside too. ...  inside the hospital (which in a very serious epidemic could be one of the worst places on the planet to be:) ... but if this is a coronavirus pandemic, masks and social-distancing could work well. Cheers, Scott


Scott:It might be more sensible too to wait until Covid-19 threat is past, Ed (whatever kind of IN CASE OF EMERGENCY threat it is, I'll posit ... am amazed by the dearth of newspaper articles about US bioterrorism preparedness developments in recent months!) Thoughts? :) Happy Thanksgiving! Fondly, Scott



Ed:I was puzzling over your gracious invitation.   I think it would be awkward.  


Ed: More later.  Nice too to see a picture of N...!


Scott: Sounds good! [image error]

Butterfly Pea Double Flower (Clitoria Ternatea): TREASURE HUNT: See if you can find & 'WALK TO' Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, Molyvos on the isle of Lesvos, in Greece, from nearby Eftalou Hot Springs ~ ~ #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #ActualVirtual #Phys

Dear Angela, Victor, All, 
The very bottom image here - https://t.co/xVGqftA9uf - is a virtual Eftalou world, in Greece, where you can 'walk' along the coast road, and. to the 'turn off' to your Yoga Hall. I think I Found the side road here - 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hot+Springs+EFTALOU/@39.3772526,26.2096911,3a,75y,235.9h,76.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9CRnnwYMpTHfJoiArVaOkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x14ba9b47419dc273:0xead4ab010e328b46!8m2!3d39.3794237!4d26.2162816 
- but it's been many years since I've visited you for a Yoga course on Lesvos, so must do some more exploring in-world to be certain of finding at least the road to your Yoga Hall virtually!

Created some Tweety Tweets re a Treasure Hunt for this too, and best viewed in Twitter itself, for the Hashy #HashTags to 'come alive' and connect with other - Hashy #HashTags
TREASURE HUNT: See if you can find & 'WALK TO' Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, Molyvos on the isle of Lesvos, in Greece, from nearby Eftalou Hot Springs ~ https://t.co/xVGqftA9uf ~ #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/Wg2QQecJB3 @HarbinBook~

TREASURE HUNT: See if you can find & 'WALK TO' Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, Molyvos on the isle of Lesvos, in Greece, from nearby Eftalou Hot Springs ~ https://t.co/xVGqftA9uf ~ #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/Wg2QQecJB3 @HarbinBook~

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1331276851650695168?s=19

TREASURE HUNT: See if you can find & 'WALK TO' Angela & Victor's Yoga Hall in Eftalou, Molyvos on the isle of Lesvos, in Greece, from nearby Eftalou Hot Springs ~ https://t.co/8UeIW3pPmk #AngelaAndVictorsYoga #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/qdcU0ywtHq @scottmacleod~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1331277073336332288?s=19+

Would you consider exploring teaching Yoga streaming forth from MIT Medical, Angela and Victor? (And do you get bored when you explore taking other Yogini's classes, like Zan Barry's or is it Berry Zone , or Very Zen Berry? :)
ScottSimilarly, the very bottom image here of the Harbin Hot Springs' Gate ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) is a virtual world too in Street View (best viewed on a laptop screen rather than a smartphone), and while we still can't enter into Harbin itself virtually for soaking or for a Yoga course with you, we can explore 'walking' down the 'road' 4 miles to wander around Middletown, CA, which is not nearly as beautiful as Molyvos (but Harbin seems like it's getting beautiful again)... and where this Street View virtual earth is growing like a living ecosystem or organism, and we're all the gardeners, as well as Yoga nurturers. (Am realizing on Lesvos, internet connectivity may be lacking ... and these Yoga and Harbin worlds are all worth exploring with decent broadband connectivity:)
Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~

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Angela and Victor Yoga course "The Light That Hides in Darkness" upcoming ... 

The Light That Hides in Darkness 

*https://everymomentprecious.com/shop/product/the-light-that-hides-in-darkness-online-course-november-29-december-20

Greetings dear friends and students,
We would like to invite you to a special offering this cycle . . . 
Down into the underworld! . . . at the perfect time of the year, as we are spinning towards the shortest day and longest night (in the northern hemisphere).
Beginning on the eve of the full moon (November 29) and culminating on the eve of the winter solstice (December 20), we will journey together into the darkest time of the year, as we dive deep into our own underworld to uncover parts of ourselves that hid in terror, or got lost and forgotten. What evolves from this exploration invariably brings us to a sense of wholeness and presence in our lives.
For those of you living ‘Down Under’ . . . moving towards  the longest day and most sun-light of the year can be an equally deep and even scary experience ... birthing out of the safe, dark womb into bright hospital lighting . . . for example. Your journey is the same . . .  for in our cells we hide so much, even though all is bright on the outside!

There will be a different theme each week, shared 3 days before each class, that you can think about, explore, and play with in your practice and everyday experiences.

Tia has set up a private Facebook group where we can, if moved to do so, share, ask questions, send in little writings, poems, drawings, photos connected with, or evolving out of the theme and what we personally discover.
On Sundays, each of the four weeks leading up to solstice, we shall have a class. Hopefully it is at a time that is not impossible for you or you can of course join via the recording anytime. During the class we shall go more deeply into the theme through the practice so that each of you finds something truly personal in your own process, and then we have three more days for comments, questions, and sharing of our experience and creativity, before announcing the next week’s theme. We have lengthened the classes to allow more time for guided meditation, breath and inner work.
When you register you will immediately receive an audio recording of the myth of Inanna's journey into the underworld.
I believe that in meeting ourselves authentically and powerfully as we move through, open up, and clear out debris of the past, we come to the essence of a yoga practice. I look forward a lot to this journey with you all!Now here is Tia with more details . . . 
Love and sparks of Delight!
Angela 

Live classes on Sundays November 29th- December 20th (6pm Greece, 5pm Europe, 4pm UK, 11am USA EST, 8am USA PST) Find the time in your zone. Or via recordings at your convenience. 
Four 1-hour and 45 minute classes plus unlimited access to the recordings for 1 week from each class, private Facebook group with daily postings, weekly emails with themes, additional audio recordings and offerings throughout the course. $145
All questions can be sent to AngelaVictorYogaShop@gmail.com 
To register visit: The Light That Hides in Darkness
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"If we ignore our inner underworld, as is happening now in our human world, everything gets worse. People are waking up to what is happening in our human underworld and seeing the danger of ignoring the suffering and pain that too many people have because the upper world has become too powerful, too controlling. Every time we attend to our own inner underworld, we have the energy and insight for how we can put a little dew drop on a small part of the planet’s underworld, the human underworld, and that helps us to feel more whole, more powerful, more clear. But we can only do this when we have done it inside ourselves; allowed ourselves to meet something that feels like a pain but turns out it's a holding over, an emotional fear, anxiety, memory that we are now ready to meet."
-Angela

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Angela & Victor's Yoga Shop

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Angela, Victor and All, 

Thanks so much for offering these "The Light That Hides in the Darkness" Yoga courses - https://everymomentprecious.com/shop/product/the-light-that-hides-in-darkness-online-course-november-29-december-20 - from 11/29-12/20/20, on Sundays, and everyday in a new Yoga modality! Way out of my price range, I'm grateful you're offering them nevertheless - and online! I have found this free online 'MIT Medical' Yoga class on Thanksgiving Day Th 11/26 (and maybe beyond) - by registering with MIT Medical as an affiliate, but at 7am in the morning that day in the SF Bay Area - early! I'm unfamiliar with the Wellness Instructor who is teaching this Yoga class, Susanna (Zan) Barry - https://medical.mit.edu/community/wellness/instructors/susanna-zan-barry - but appreciating the focus on wellness! Am appreciative also of MIT's thinking approach to some aspects of life, and will see what comes up inner body exploration-wise! :) Thank you!
Namaste, ScottAngela and Victor Yoga 'label' in daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yoga ... Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html 

PSHere's how to access the free Yoga class with Zan, and also join the MIT Medical community, it would seem ... 
Join Community Wellness at MIT Medical for a virtual Thanksgiving Day class combing movement, relaxation, and gratitude. No experience necessary. Please invite family and friends to join you! [image error]

Wood avens (Geum urbanum): World Univ & Sch, Miraheze MediaWiki, and Wikidata / Wikibase installation, Planning for ONE major, a computer science major

 

Dear Universitians, Houcemeddine, 

The open WUaS News and Q & A will meet in this Google Meet in about 40 minutes - https://meet.google.com/nkj-kzow-cbw

WUaS News and Q&A M 11/23/20 10a PT i) Majors for FREE-to-students' Bachelor's degrees in Jan '20 ii) Developing with WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation iii) MINUTES from 11/21 MBM Agenda & News, To join talk email: info@ worlduniversityandschool.org @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1330736288350183424?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1330737432145248256?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1330737591935664128?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1330738035311341570?s=20

Thanks so much to Houcemeddine for proposing to install Wikibase for WUaS and develop our WUaS website anew, so that WUaS can start to reach out to prospective undergraduate students in early December, potentially with a professional website, in combination with Wikidata. 
Sincerely, Scott

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The open WUaS News and Q & A will meet in this Google Meet in about 40 minutes at 10a Pacific Time - https://meet.google.com/nkj-kzow-cbw 'WUaS News and Q&A' M 11/23/20 i) Majors for FREE-to-students' Bachelor's degrees in Jan '20 Qs? info@ worlduniversityandschool.org @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s...

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WUaS News and Q&A M 11/23/20 10a PT i) Majors for FREE-to-students' Bachelor's degrees in Jan '20 ii) Developing with WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation iii) MINUTES from 11/21 MBM Agenda & News, To join talk email: info@ worlduniversityandschool.org @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1330736288350183424?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1330737432145248256?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1330737591935664128?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1330738035311341570?s=20

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Dear Lydia, Markus, Denny, Houcemeddine, All, 
Thanks for attending the WUaS News and Q&A on Monday, Houcemeddine, and for talking for about 1.25 hours. I'm writing to offer to share with you the hosting information for our computer server for - worlduniversityandschool.org - per our conversation, and if that would be helpful. Thanks too for saying you think you might be able to have the beginnings of a new WUaS web site with a Wikidata / Wikibase installation in about 2 weeks from last Monday, I think - so Monday November 30th. And thanks also for showing me the University of London website as a kind of template from which to build the new WUaS website, beginning with this updated information -- worlduniversityandschool.org - and our wiki, here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for example, and potentially for our new 29 majors. Please remember that WUaS is seeking to plan for our matriculating students in all ~200 countries, wiki Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and, brainstorming-wise, wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people on the planet with time. And WUaS is seeking to retain our students' names, contact information, registrations and similar, even as we partner with edX, and potentially each a Wikidata Q-item # or related forked Wikidata Pin #, and for accreditation and licensing purposes in the state of California, among the 5 reasons I've already shared with you - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - to begin. WUaS is seeking to matriculate 50-400 students for free-to-students' Bachelor (licensing and accrediting) degrees beginning in January 2021, so we'd love to get this new WUaS web site development up soon, so we can reach out to the 8 or so heads of WUaS is a variety of countries, in seeking about 50 students from each of their countries who speak English then. 
Is there any other information I can provide you potentially? Thank you so so much!
All the best, Scott

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Dear Houcemeddine, 

Thanks so much, - and your coding plans look good as a starting point, since these 'variables' could be adjusted with time, and I think also that HarvardX and MITx courses will increase in number, and in possible academic majors, with time as well.  
I had thought to reply to you with thank you, and include a small group of Peter Norvig, Denny Vrandecic, Lydia Pintscher, Markus Kroetzsch, Matthew Gusching (of edX) and Larry Viehland (chair of the board World University and School) who might be of service or help to you in different ways, but will explore doing so in the future (ie in planning for machine learning, or even in fixing "your data now for when quantum computing is fully ready" - https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1330280834570579968?s=20 - https://youtu.be/6owgfE2r5Fo - where Robert Zembowicz is the Chief Technology Officer of the great and large Philadelphia-based Vanguard Mutual Fund group, and even for Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed  by most central banks, albeit with WUaS starting very small, as you suggest). As WUaS proceeds with planning, brainstorming-wise, for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each living person not a Wikidata Q-item #, but a related forked Wikidata Pin # or similar, WUaS is also seeking to interoperate with WikiTree, as you may have read in item 4 here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - (eg https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524) with its plans for a SINGLE family tree, presumably of 7.8 billion people, and regarding genetic and avatar bot electronic medical records, information too.  
How many academic undergraduate majors might you envision, Houcemeddine, beginning with MITx and HarvardX courses, if not newly our 29 planned majors (based on the 2,550 courses in the edX courses' spreadsheet), or the previous 6 majors?
World Univ & Sch is seeking to matriculate our first undergraduate class beginning in early January 2021 - 50-400 students from all ~200 countries in English - 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (~200)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (7,117 known living languages)

- and since this is soon, WUaS would be interested in reaching out to large groups of prospective students with a professional online university website fairly soon after M November 30th (and public and private high schools in the USA and around the world could begin to share this website with their students during Covid-19 if it was heading in the direction of becoming WASC accredited and BPPE licensed in the state of California, as we've talked about). Do you think WUaS could begin to reach out to a large group of people about this in early December please?
And will the WUaS wiki Subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki, with what you suggested updating on Mon. Nov. 16 2020 regarding WUaS Majors and the CC-4 MIT OCW on these pages - become integrated with Wikidata after the Wikibase installation, as OPEN WIKI SCHOOLS (a bit like Wikipedia) too? 
So may I share with you the hosting information for our computer server for - worlduniversityandschool.org - per our conversation, and if that would be helpful?

And if you would like to talk further, I'll be in the WUaS News and Q&A tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 at 10 am PT like last week. 
Thank you for your incisive thinking, great ideas, and understanding in this next big development for World Univ & Sch (as well as potentially for Wikidata / Wikibase, since WUaS seeks to scale in all 200 countries and all 7117 known living languages, for wiki teachers and learners), and by starting small. Thank you, Houcemeddine!
Sincerely yours, ScottWorld University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for November 21, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/11/nov-21-2020-wuas-agenda-news-both-np.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/popcorn-flower-plagiobothrys-agenda.html

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Robert Zembowicz @rzembo
Don’t delay, fix your data now for when quantum computing is fully ready
#Security #CyberSecurity #QuantumComputing / video via @ZDNet
https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1330280834570579968?s=20

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Dear Houcemeddine, and Larry, 

Thanks for your reply, Houcemeddine. I'd like to introduce you and Larry to one another; see your web pages below. Larry is the head of the Academic (Accreditation) Committee at World Univ & Sch (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation), and has been directly involved in all of the past WUaS course catalogs (with 6 majors, based on MIT OCW courses, and most recently 29 majors, based on the edX searchable catalog), and related course development approaches. Thank you, Houcemeddine for offering to install Wikidata / Wikibase for WUaS and potentially regarding academic majors. Thank you too Houcemeddine for suggesting that WUaS focus on MITx and HarvardX courses in our recent WUaS partnership with edX and regarding edX's catalog of ~2500 courses, per your: 

" ... I have several proposals concerning the entry requirements and the undergraduate curricula.

Entry Requirements: As WUaS will begin delivering courses in English, it should have a language requirement for the undergraduate students. I propose to have 61 out of 100 in the EF SET Certificate (https://www.efset.org/ef-set-50/) as an entry requirement.Recognized courses: I think that we should put more emphasis on selecting courses delivered by the same institutions to prevent courses' overlapping. I propose that WUaS focus on HarvardX and MITx Courses.

When answering this email, please do not send it to many users." 

(I've rewritten 1 or 2 of your sentences for clarity, Houcemeddine, for Larry). And your ideas here Houcemeddine - to use HarvardX and MITx courses - may also help with selecting courses with a similar course length.

Thanks, too, Houcemeddine for focusing on ONE specific academic major in your email this morning, Computer Science, in your coding planning for the WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation, and using the University of London website (https://london.ac.uk/) as a kind of template for WUaS coding with Wikidata / Wikibase and for our WUAS upcoming majors. Since I think the HarvardX and MITx courses will change in upcoming years a lot, I'd like to focus on just the first years' worth of courses at WUaS at the introductory level. 
Larry, what are your thoughts, and what courses would you choose from edX's catalog, and in conversation with Houcemeddine's helpful 4 years' Computer Science program (attached), for our WUaS 1st year undergraduate courses for a CS major?  
Similarly, Larry, what 10 courses or so (like MIT OCW courses) would you choose from edX / MITx / HarvardX for the FIRST YEAR for our other 5 majors (back to the initial 6 majors - in this coding planning for the WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase installation), namely, besides EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English literature, History, Business - so Houcemeddine can begin to develop our new WUaS website? Larry, this will allow you to VET the WUaS first year intro courses further as we talked about in the WUaS monthly business meeting on Saturday. 
In seeking for WUaS to become world class, I'm particularly looking for a kind of Stanford ethos in courses per former Stanford CS chair Nils Nillson's response to my question (below) at Stanford - and for our WUaS students in January 2021 - over a MIT ethos - and many of our WUaS first year students will be speaking English as a second language too. 
"African flower mantis: Romania WUaS A) @WorldUnivAndSch B) @WUaSPress, Online culture at WUaS? - ie. to become world class - I think one of former chair of Stanford CS Nils Nilsson's points is that Stanford CS ADAPTED to what students wanted/what kept their interest, whereas MIT, for example, might not have (see his transcribed text in my blog post), It's a kind of excellence, smart empathy and connecting academically
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/05/african-flower-mantis-romania-wuas.html?m=1

Houcemeddine, in your coding planning for the WUaS Wikibase installation, could you please come into conversation with Larry about WUaS's first year of a Computer Science major? I'm seeking too here to set up a communication process re Larry selecting WUaS edX courses, and you Houcemeddine coding the World Univ & Sch website for January 2021. I'll be in the WUaS News and Q&A in an hour to talk further about all of this, if you'd like to talk.  
And how is the installation of WUaS Wikibase coming along, Houcemeddine? And when would you need the first year of about 10 15-week long courses in each of the initial WUaS 6 majors for website development from Larry? Thank you so much.
Sincerely, Scott

Houcemeddine - https://www.linkedin.com/in/houcemeddine-turki-80305834/Larry - https://chatham.edu/academics/undergraduate/chemistry/faculty/larry-viehland.html

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Dear Houcemeddine and Larry,
Thanks for our conversation today.
Per your suggestion, and to begin a WUaS Wikibase installation, I just emailed the following request:
Hi, at Houcemeddine Turki's suggestion, and after video conferencing this morning, I'm writing to apply for an invite code to create a WBStack Instance for WUaS. (Houcemeddine Turki said he met you online at EMWCon Spring 2020 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020) . What's the best way, please, to proceed with this? Thank you. Best, Scott

to"https://addshore.com/contact/Applying for an invite code to create a WBStack Instance Houcemeddine Turki met you Adam online at EMWCon Spring 2020https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020 "
Houcemeddine, the high school degree I mentioned is really the GED or general equivalency degree. But an AP Computer Science high school background is what WUaS would be looking for from US students, partially. (And a Baccalaureat as you were using it, I think, is a high achieving high school degree in most of Europe, and around the world). WUaS is also seeking to begin innovation online IB high schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in all ~200 countries and in their official languages with time too, FYI.
Larry, let's begin to put together a list - for coding purposes - of about 10 first year introductory HarvardX and MITx + courses in our old 6 majors, and include courses for distribution requirements for a WUaS Liberal Arts' Bachelor's degree (like Reed College's distribution requirements - https://www.reed.edu/computer-science/requirements.html) . Any missing edX courses necessary for a WUaS degree, like a required first year 'Discrete Mathematics'' course per Houcemeddine, we can begin to get from here - https://ocw.mit.edu/search/ocwsearch.htm?q=discrete%20mathematics - for CODING purposes. Thank you.On with beginning to install Wikidata's Wikibase, then developing info boxes (which read Wikidata) in our 725 WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki pages - and focusing on our 6 majors at first - in the The_College_at_World_University_and_School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School . https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business_Management
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)Seeking to get a professional website up and running for student registration, and majors' selection, - with a database, by December 1 or so - to begin to reach out to prospective students. Thanks so much, Houcemeddine!Sincerely, Scott

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M, November 16, 2020

Dear Universitians, 

Join with Google Meet 11/16/20 in 5 minutes at 10 am Pacifice Time here - meet.google.com/xgz-nwhx-kmq ~

Glad to have just found 2 robotics' courses in edX.org, by searching in its catalog - https://www.edx.org/course/coding-a-scuola-con-software-libero

https://www.edx.org/course/project-march-behind-the-technology-of-robotic-exoskeletons

https://www.edx.org/search?q=Lego%20Robotics 

More will come, and are part of the WUaS Engineering major, and others - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering ~
The first one shows Lego robotics, and where WUaS Educational Services' Store is an authorised carrier - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - 
Cheers, Scott

"What's your major? The WUaS News, Q&A begins in about 1.45 hours at 10am PT. Email sgkmacleod@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join & please check out our updated WUaS website for our new 29 majors studying https://www.edx.org/ courses for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees in Jan 2021"

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1328371968647720963?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1328371749977681929?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1328372067410997255?s=20

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

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Cairngorms National Park (Scotland): Bagpiping and beauty (continued)? ~ Scottish Small Piping - 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry' Piobaireachd

Scottish Small Piping - Nov 12, 2020 - 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry' Piobaireachd

Sat., November 14, 2020

Hi Taylor, 

Good playing of "Mackintosh's Banner" on Thursday!
Am appreciating Neil Clark's "Alasdair Dearg" on the practice chanter here - https://youtu.be/S53Kd1WEZB0 - for assuredness of non-mensural 'beat' (per Ian Whitelaw).
And here is a Neil Clark Scottish small pipes' duets with another reed instrument - https://www.falkirkpiping.com/gallery/ - but am particularly appreciating his fingering in his practice chanter videos for learning. 
Regarding musical expression (item 7 - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm) of Piobaireachd (which we were talking about on Thursday with regards to "Mackintosh's Banner") which is somehow 'CAPTIVATING,' ...
I was reminded again of this interview with “David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra” by William Fitzpatrick on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/445062006?ref=em-share which I shared with you before, - and vin which ery early on in video, both of them mention their very great teacher Dorothy Delay, also of Yo Yo Ma, 
who apparently taught 3 things - 
beautiful sound 
beautiful intonation ('accuracy of pitch in playing or singing, or on a stringed instrument such as a guitar' - and the GHB is a radical here in its own separate piping culture world over centuries, and pipers as kind of 'bad boys' in a sense, even as Scottish society and pipers at the same time head to quite beautiful and most formal and elegant dress? - Prince Charles' doublet and kilt + :)
beautiful phrasing 
(Dorothy Delay Centennial Part 1
https://youtu.be/YHtoeS0aecY ) 


So what is musical expression in classical music (and I have Piobaireachd in mind here too as) - "dynamics, phrasing, timbre and articulation to bring the music to life" (from Wikipedia), and how best to learn this? I think Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines are good starting places currently ... but to learn them is the key ...  So how to play Piobaireachd expressively and captivatingly, and then potentially even creatively in a new way that's out of the box ? Let's explore ...
And here are some new further related Alasdair Dearg videos - Different covers or different versions ? 

Lament or Alasdair Dearg MacDonald
Pipe Major Robert Brown - Topic
https://youtu.be/dj6NPNElJs8


Lament For Alasdair Dearg Mcdonald Of GlengarryPipe Major Robert Brown - Topic
https://youtu.be/1ION1PEK758

Musical cheers, Scott

-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

 

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Scottish Small Piping - 11/26/20 - Thanksgiving (in many ways ...) - Alasdair Dearg

Thursday, November 19, 2020
Hi Taylor, 

Good playing this evening of "Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"!
Here again below are "Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Interpreting Piobairreachd" in the body of an email, below. 
I think it would be interesting to focus on a number of his points explicitly next week with "Alastair Jearg" further. 

And here are the interpretations, I mentioned, besides Angus MacLellan's in the Piobraireachd CoP Yellow Tutor Vol. 4's CD: 
Neil Clark's "Alasdair Dearg" on the practice chanter here - https://youtu.be/S53Kd1WEZB0 -

Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd
"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"
https://youtu.be/5mrSdRPVY0A


(are these 3 the same?)Bob Brown 
Lament or Alasdair Dearg MacDonald
Pipe Major Robert Brown -
https://youtu.be/dj6NPNElJs8

Bob Brown 
Lament For Alasdair Dearg Mcdonald Of GlengarryPipe Major Robert Brown -
https://youtu.be/1ION1PEK758
Bob Brown Lament For Alasdair Dearg MacDonald (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/60foYtXrx_I
About Bob Brown and the Bobs of Balmoral The Bobs of Balmoral – Robert U Brown and Robert B Nicol
https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/the-bobs-of-balmoral-robert-u-brown-and-robert-b-nicol/


Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnel of Glengarry
https://youtu.be/Ih3Dr7MUyMM
AndrewCelticPiper - Andrew Dickinson

(and this is more a lesson than an interpretation, by Jimmy McIntosh ... )Jimmy McIntosh, M.B.E.Alasdair Dearg
A lesson on the short tune "Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry", with Jimmy McIntosh, M.B.E.
https://vimeo.com/11388661
Jimmy McIntosh

Which "Alasdair Dearg" is most compelling? Which has the most beautiful expression in a relative way for you (and regarding both Ian Whitelaw's guidelines, as well as Ma's and Marsalis's guidelines)?
And here's the reel "Loch Carron" in sheet music- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C2CnTLsYYe2GoZGTkCPh2kiHj8Rr8_U_/view?usp=sharing

And let's begin to explore the Piobaireached "Glengarry's Lament next week as well. 
Musical cheers, Scott


Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Interpreting Piobairreachd


1. Establish a beat (nonmensurally)! The 1st is strong, the 4th is the strongest. (For Piobairreachds in ¾, the third note is the strongest beat).

2. Show contrast between the long and short notes, emphasizing the long notes and really shortening (de-emphasizing) the short notes.

3. Watch for mirrors? - where the same theme is played on different notes. (Call and answer).  

4. If you're already on a note before a cadence, give the following note, after the grace note, the time, to link phrases together.

5. When playing a 'he heran' (cantairreachd for ...) always hold the E.

6. If the note has embellishments, accent it! Hold it.

7. Give space longer to a note before and after the cadence, and before and after a double echo.

8. Always hold the A after a birl.

9. Two notes are never the same, and usually the 2nd note is longer than the first.

10. If the note has a doubling on it, you always hold it.

11. When a cut note is the first beat in the bar, make the first note of bar absolutely on the beat.

12. In a Braebach (Piobairreachd) tune, in a crunluath singling, count to 3 before playing the crunluath, and make the following two notes even.

13. In a Braebach doubling, count to two before playing the crunluath movement.

14. In the taorluath movement, play the melody notes in this order: long, longer, longest. Make each note a different length, and make the third the longest!





Piobairreachd

Structures:

Primary
a a b
a b b
a b

Secondary
a b c d
b c

Tertiary

Regular

Irregular



Types of Piobairreachd

Braebach tune

Strong, sing song rhythmic beat


Fosgailte tune

Instead of Taorluoth, play GDF for crunluath

Play the theme note followed by short note followed by eedree

Also, in fosgailte, never play the crunluath a mach (open)


Standard


Cheers, Scott




-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

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Thanks, Scott. I’ll review those.
I just remembered that next Thursday is Thanksgiving and I’ll be at a socially distanced dinner that evening, possibly too full of after-dinner scotch to play well. :)
Mind if we reconvene on the following Thursday, Dec 3? Thanks. 

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Sounds good to me! See you then, Taylor! - Cheer, Scott

-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

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Is whiskey an acquired taste for you, Taylor? (It has been for me). Piobaireachd can be a little like whiskey. Is great rock & roll, or JS Bach, an acquired taste for appreciators? Taste is something we've explored only a little before in terms of beauty, - and culture / identity informs taste, I'd posit, but how to learn a new taste, and then how to learn to play Piobaireachd beautifully - almost like computer coding, in or for playing this? What is greatest Piobaireachd, and also between these interpretations of Alasdair Dearg?

Some Further Piobaireachd ideas ... :)
Cheers, 

Scott

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Taylor WarrenNov 21, 2020, 9:31 PM (1 day ago)to meIt was somewhat of an acquired taste; I’m more of a gin guy but there’s nothing like a nice smoky Islay paired with pumpkin pie. 
Some thoughts: I still feel Bob Brown is the king of expression here: Clark’s even pacing works as a tutorial (which is his goal), and Stoddard transitions well between tunes and doesn’t turn the piece into a lullaby. I noted how he moved throughout the room as to not fall into too even of a beat. That Andrew fellow performs the piece competently but rushes the tarlouaths and crumluaths a bit too much and his transitions between movements are a bit jarring. Still not bad for what looks like a thirteen year old kid. 
I’ll give them subsequent listens throughout the week and let you know if I pick up anything else. 
Music appreciation is definitely part of the process of learning to perform well. With appreciation comes cultivation of taste. When I was singing I listened to a number of operatic tenors in order to assist in developing my high range. I was actually advised to steer clear of Caruso during this because he often sung far above his natural range (he was a baritone who often “pushed up” and lacked the powerful squillo that natural tenors like Pavarotti tend to exhibit best). All provided a range of interpretations that helped me develop my own style and appreciate the craft that goes into singing. Did I ever mention I was lukewarm on opera until I began singing classically and appreciated what went into it? I feel the same about piobaireachd in many ways. 

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Great, Taylor - 

thanks for your critical thinking here regarding these Piobaireachd interpretations of Alasdair Dearg. (I like gin too, more than Scotch or single malts, but you're much more eloquent about this than I am here). 
Cheers, and more later, Scotthttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping


-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

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

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Pasqueflower: virtual Harbin - with US Govt ? * * Cool: A possible approach to build out a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook for #VirtualSoaking & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #GoogleStreetView wi #TimeSlider & other STEM #WUaSFieldSites In #Realisti

 

Cool: A possible approach to building out a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider & other STEM #WUaSFieldSites IN a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM even #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics WITH US GOVERNMENT?

Cool: A possible approach to build out a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook for #VirtualSoaking & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #GoogleStreetView wi #TimeSlider & other STEM #WUaSFieldSites In #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM even #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics WITH US GOVT?

Just ran across this fascinating 2013 look at a fake Afghan village used for US military training at Fort Irwin in the Mojave (long story, involving Google Maps and Goldstone space communications site). https://t.co/kpOMCkWIg9 Were public tours, at least in 2013. Odd!

— Hank Greely (@HankGreelyLSJU) November 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1330230647290540035?s=20

Cool 

Cool: A possible approach to build out a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook for #VirtualSoaking & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy in #GoogleStreetView wi
#TimeSlider & other STEM #WUaSFieldSites In #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM even #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics WITH US GOVT? https://t.co/1fo2Y3sAQ8

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1330236780407349248?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1330235286954106881?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1330235120708673542?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1330235503157932036?s=20

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Thanks, Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh, for "It's Artificial Afghanistan" piece, & which Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely just Tweeted ~Cool: Dev. a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking in #GoogleStreetView & STEM #WUaSFieldSites in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM WITH US GOVT?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1330256297661521921?s=20

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Thanks, Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh, for "It's Artificial Afghanistan" piece, & which Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely just Tweeted ~Cool: Dev. a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking in #GoogleStreetView & STEM #WUaSFieldSites in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSPACE WITH US GOVT?

Thanks, Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh, for "It's Artificial Afghanistan" piece, & which Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely just Tweeted ~Cool: Dev. a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking in #GoogleStreetView & STEM #WUaSFieldSites in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSPACE WITH US GOVT? https://t.co/1fo2Y3sAQ8

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) November 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1330257537120276480?s=20

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Thanks, Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh, for "It's Artificial Afghanistan" piece, & which Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely Tweeted ~Dev a #PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualUniverse in #GoogleStreetView & STEM #WUaSFieldSites in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSPACE W US GOVT?

Thanks, Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh, for "It's Artificial Afghanistan" piece, & which Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely Tweeted ~Dev a #PhysicalDigital #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualUniverse in #GoogleStreetView & STEM #WUaSFieldSites in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSPACE W US GOVT? https://t.co/BAFtVUSq7O

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1330258544168460290?s=20

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Music 

Good news! ~"Jeremih transferred out of ICU after testing positive for COVID-19, TMZ reports"  https://twitter.com/i/events/1330243427120803840 &, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine" https://youtu.be/QtYnCmw2CWE #JoyToTheWorld ~ #1970s #JeremiahWasABullfrog ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing #WUaS ~

Good news! ~
"Jeremih transferred out of ICU after testing positive for COVID-19, TMZ reports" https://t.co/mPyWjS77nI &, Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine" https://t.co/Oacv9PaVCv #JoyToTheWorld ~ #1970s #JeremiahWasABullfrog ~ https://t.co/11MlNydS6t #WUaS ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1330268859883024396?s=20

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"Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine" 

https://youtu.be/QtYnCmw2CWE

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Nice Ukulele music & to play with! https://t.co/3h1ORM8l9G  & https://t.co/cAXPlxdEvZ To the Ukulele wiki subject https://t.co/JcDUpfOyJK World_University_Music_School @WorldUnivAndSch - https://t.co/rxewstrzmv and https://t.co/BAlSpL4osM ~

Nice Ukulele music & to play with! https://t.co/3h1ORM8l9G & https://t.co/cAXPlxdEvZ
To the Ukulele wiki subject https://t.co/JcDUpfOyJK
World_University_Music_School @WorldUnivAndSch - https://t.co/rxewstrzmv and https://t.co/BAlSpL4osM ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1330369764439502848?s=19

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https://t.co/3h1ORM8l9G

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11/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (conducted loosely in the manner of Friends) 

Ahmed GUENAOUISat, Nov 21, 12:55 AM (1 day ago)to Info, meThank you for the information. Yes i'm interessed
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, 21:38 Info WorldUniversity, <info@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Universitians and friends, 

Our open World Univ & Sch monthly business meets on Sa 11/21/20 at 9am PT if you might be interested in joining the hour-long conversation.

And thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the financial reports for the NP World Univ and Sch, AND the FP WUaS Corp.


Please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch 
@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) Monthly Business Meeting this Sat 11/21/20, at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET, electronically: Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining! & from time zones in Asia, Africa & Europe too!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329846097343254528?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329846364285505536?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329846922853564418?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1329847512392372224?s=20


World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for November 21, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/11/nov-21-2020-wuas-agenda-news-both-np.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/popcorn-flower-plagiobothrys-agenda.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on December 19, 2020.


Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

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

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (~200)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (7,117 known living languages)

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Ahmed,

Many thanks and glad you can join us. I'll send a link to a Google Meet video /audio conference call in about an hour and a quarter at 9am Pacific Time. 
Scott
-- - Scott MacLeod Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

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Ahmed,
See you soon. I'm including below how World University and School seeks to conduct our hour long monthly business meeting (on 3rd Saturdays of the month).
ScottWorld University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for November 21, 2020:
-https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/11/nov-21-2020-wuas-agenda-news-both-np.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/popcorn-flower-plagiobothrys-agenda.html


Friends, and World University and School, have a unique way of doing business rooted in attentiveness and in listening (but in a secular and non-theistically friendly way) ...

https://www.fgcquaker.org/resources/quaker-meetings-toolbox-friendly-business


including ...

"Have a written agenda. Spend time before the meeting considering just what needs to be done. Remember to hold it in the Light, not just think it through. 
 Ask for written reports and proposals. This will encourage advance preparation, and keep Friends focused on what is under consideration. An enormous amount of time is wasted if Friends are confused about what they are being asked to decide. 
 Have each report or proposal presented by the person most involved This will provide a personal touch and an infusion of energy. (If you find you are doing all the presentations, you need to get more members actively involved in the work!) 
 Present each item as if it were a question for worship sharing. Explain the guidelines for worship sharing. Make clear that you expect Friends to approach the business in hand in a way that is radically different from ordinary discussion. Here are the basics: 
1. Allow silence before and after each person speaks. 
2. Listen attentively and respectfully. 
3. Do not react to or critique what others have said, but express your own concerns and Insights as deeply and honestly as you can. 
4. Speak as much as possible from your own experience. 
5. Expect to speak only once during consideration of a given item."

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English sundew (Drosera anglica): WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this? - " "How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief" * * Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' k

WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this, too? 

"How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief 

Hi Jen Gilbert, and Leanna,
Greetings!
I couldn't find your email online, Jen, so am emailing Leanna, hoping that you might know each other. https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact Could I possibly please see your detailed CV? 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/msgilbertrocks/Could you please forward this to Jen, if you can, Leanna? Do you happen to know Leanna Prater ?

Thanks for your helpful presentation today, Jen. Unfortunately the audio and internet signal weren't working very well at all. While I just connected with you on LinkedIn, I'd be interested in learning more of your thoughts about play-based learning with Lego, and especially with Lego robotics - and brainstorming-wise, even in an edX course. 
Thank you. I'm including a related email I sent to people at the high school I went to in Pittsburgh, PA, with some thoughts about Lego robotics and play, 
How might we best communicate further about some of this? 
Regards, ScottCV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

Please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 




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Shady Side Academy (Pittsburgh, PA) high school - 

Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter

Thursday, Nov. 19
Noon ET

#SSAalumni are invited to the Live Zoom Webinar, Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter on Thursday, Nov. 19 at Noon. Check your email for the registration link or contact Lisa Page at lpage@shadysideacademy.org to sign up! pic.twitter.com/fdKWJLiTXG

— Shady Side Academy (@shady_side) November 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/shady_side/status/1327637603961757697?s=20

Hi Jesse, Lisa, Jamie, and President Griffith, 
Thanks for your informative "Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter" just now. And nice to e-meet you. 
I'm curious about the now 3 Lego Robotics' Kits, with the free Scratch programming language, and both actually, and virtually (potentially in MineCraft), and how Shady Side could develop classes in Robotics even, and online, for SSA students (possibly during Covid-19 and after as well). 
I write in developing MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and in seeking to offer even online robotics' courses (emerging from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/) at the college and high school levels, beginning with the 3 Lego Robotics' kits, with Scratch programming (out of the MIT Media Lab), mostly virtually, but with students working doing home robotics with physical Lego kits. If possible, such courses for 1st year undergraduate students toward undergraduate Engineering and other degrees, this January, will find form on the edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT), with which World Univ & Sch is newly partnering. And in the process of WUaS developing such courses - in conjunction with you, Jesse and SSA? - WUaS would seek to build into an edX course platform a learner-centric approach, eg see Harvard GSE Prof. Karen Brennan's recent paper - 
https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490675533471745?s=20 and 
Educators identified six actions as important to negotiating their pedagogical aspirations and the realities of online learning at scale: (1) giving up control, (2) distributing facilitation, (3) being live, (4) amplifying, (5) modeling, and (6) being explicit.

Educators identified six actions as important to negotiating their pedagogical aspirations and the realities of online learning at scale: (1) giving up control, (2) distributing facilitation, (3) being live, (4) amplifying, (5) modeling, and (6) being explicit. pic.twitter.com/CNrhH9fCUq

— Karen Brennan (@karen_brennan) November 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490682009444352?s=20. (Currently I found only 2 robotics courses when I searched in edX on Lego Robotics).
How might we best communicate about this further, Jesse and All? Could SSA students begin to program their Lego robots to travel in MineCraft (as it develops and MIT has an educational version of Minecraft) from the virtual SSA main campus to the SSA middle school campus, and to do all kinds of interesting robotics things, like autonomous driving, and exploring the boundaries of what autonomy is and means? And could SSA become a remarkable leader in developing and teaching high school Lego robotics and related programming? (Might SSA and WUaS even explore collaborating offering online Robotics' courses - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - at the high school level?).
One of my further main interests is how to develop Lego Robotics in a Google Ecosystem which we can all build together, eg: 
Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of
#RealisticVirtualHarbin w
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/nature-create-realisticvirtualearthforg.html ~

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1316789966207287301?s=20

Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of#RealisticVirtualHarbin w#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~https://t.co/1KTUEd4Y18~ https://t.co/6GjvfG6z9K

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1325114675575488512?s=20

And here's the idea for building courses, first with Lego WeDo 2.0 with SCRATCH programming ...  How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses
@WorldUnivAndSch
 Found only http://legoengineering.com/scratch-ing-the-lego-wedo/ -https://cubeforteachers.com/folders/qXHFn6qcDMd0CqMi1eRjXTnxnEljy8kXIDf0gdiRFbTDbwOFPoMzrrJPFqBBlKnp & https://robocamp.eu/en/lessons/citycamp-wedo2-scratch/ ~

How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses @WorldUnivAndSch Found only https://t.co/jY2FYnPpH7 -https://t.co/q6YY98vfw4 & https://t.co/iuJAK99Y6v ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328783841276792833?s=20


Also, President Griffith and All, if you know of any SSA graduates who are interested in free-to-students' licensing and accrediting CC-4 MIT OCW-centric onlineBachelor degrees beginning in January 2021, please let me know. Please stay tuned as our WUAS web site develops further in the upcoming weeks - worlduniversityandschool.org. Thank you again.
Looking forward to communicating further about this, and perhaps as a way for the great SSA to develop in remarkable new ways. :)
Regards, Scott
PSWUaS is now an authorized carrier of the 3 Lego robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but the WUaS Educational Services' Store is not yet earning any money from these Robotics' kits.
PPSAnd please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 

PPPSEventually our new 29 majors will emerge from these wiki subject pages, and with courses and free university degrees online in all ~200 countries and in their official / main and in many languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science
STEM education - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

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

PPPPSInteresting to learn of 
Inkscape

Fusion 3D

Rhino & Grasshopper
similar to Fusion 3D with tweaks

as well as
Overwatch - https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/
League of Legends - https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/

There's also a First Lego League for Lego Robotics and STEM - https://www.firstlegoleague.org - I haven't explored very much yet, and am not sure how it might be developing online during Covid-19 either.


Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress  
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook  
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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Hi Jen, 

Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile. 
Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.  
Cheers, Scott

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Hi, Scott,
Sorry about that. Here’s my email address. 
In my work with Tufts University I have seen them use a variety of LEGO solutions and they primarily focused on the Mindstorms EV3 kits within their engineering program. I am not sure if that will shift a bit more now that the SPIKE Prime kits are available. I do think WeDo 2.0 is a nice place for those with little to no experience. 
Online, I agree it is challenging. I think the Scratch apps for LEGO integration are awesome. Depending on your goals, the web-based simulator with Root is great too. Their coding platform offers three levels (level 2 is closest to Scratch), but most importantly there is a simulator to run the code right in Chrome, so not having a physical robot is less of a barrier. There are also options like CoderZ that has simulations for LEGO as well. 
I can certainly send along an updated CV if you would like to have one on hand. I will get it updated ASAP and email it over. 
So glad you were able to be part of the webinar. It was nice to share ideas and learn from the other panelists as well. Thanks for reaching out and connecting.
Have a nice weekend,
Jen
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:03 PM Squarespace <form-submission@squarespace.info> wrote:

Sent via form submission from msgilbertrocks

Name: Scott MacLeod

Email Address: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Subject: Follow up re Lego robotics' course possibilities' brainstorming

Message: Hi Jen,
Greetings!
Got a bounce-back just now from this too to you and Leanna:
Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile.

Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.

Cheers, Scott

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Jen Gilbert, LBS, MS

Educator and STEM Specialist

www.msgilbertrocks.com

Twitter: @msgilbertrocks

Instagram: @msgilbertrocks

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Thu, Nov 19, 5:19 PM (21 hours ago)to JenHi Jen, 
Thanks too for your email.
Root looks awesome, if this is Root - https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com 
And CoderZ too - https://www.robot-advance.com/EN/actualite-lego-ev3-compatible-with-coderz-107.htm - and I've tried out their one month free, but didn't see Scratch like in the image here.
MIT's educational version of MineCraft with a developing Google rǝ for Lego robotics even and in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER + (re Brick Street View) would be an awesome thing to do ...
Google rǝ

Go back in time with rǝ, an open source suite of tools that leverages deep learning to enable developers, map enthusiasts, and creatives to generate historical reconstructions of cities in 3D using crowdsourced historical maps and photos. Learn more at https://t.co/1CSvW8vB5k pic.twitter.com/BMWz4s3q0x

— Google AI (@GoogleAI) October 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1316789966207287301?s=20
( ... and re :) - 

Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of#RealisticVirtualHarbin w#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~https://t.co/723TiidXmk~ https://t.co/S4NcBxRKqy

— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) November 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1325116215606456326?s=20 )
World Univ & Sch is seeking for departments of education in all ~200 countries to reimburse WUaS for CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch free-to-student degrees, and potentially for each of the 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the poorer countries, if students matriculate for 4 years' degrees or similar - and for 'WUaS Home Robotics' - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeRobotics?src=hashtag_click - combining both actual and virtual. See, too - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click - and - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click.
Have you found this helpful - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - or even explored making a course in something like edX (either at college or high school level?)
 Looking forward to checking out your CV. 

Any Gilberts from Colorado in the past for you? My mother's mother's maiden name, my Granny Brown, was 'Gilbert,' from Boulder, CO, then Cincinnati, OH :)
Cheers, and thanks, Scott--

-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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Jen Gilbert7:26 AM (6 hours ago)to meHi, Scott,
I will take a look at what you shared. This is the Root robot I mentioned:
https://www.irobot.com/en/Root
Thanks,Jen

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Hi, Jen,

Very cool! 

Brainstorming-wise, a few further questions: 
Playful learning with Lego robotics in edX courses? 
Peter Norvig, head of Google's AI, and his Lego Institute - https://norvig.com/LI2/ - and re the Google ecosystem for a realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics ?
I enjoyed the Lego WeDo 2.0 tutorial and block programming language some time ago, and wonder how to build on this? for 15 week-long college and high school Lego robotics' courses for credit, which would also be playful. How to explore writing playful learning - which you touched on yesterday - as well as STEM playful learning, first in an Engineering undergraduate major at WUaS?
Thank you!
Cheers, Scott
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/?

https://twitter.com/msgilbertrocks/status/1328476141263466496?s=20

Courses in each of 3 physical Lego Robotics' kits for #WUaSHomeRobotics' combining both actual & virtual - #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual w #Scratch3 in #GoogleTranslate' ~100 langs : #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://t.co/PTga0kR237? https://t.co/VTdmyVAAnW

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329597205506736128?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329598568324235264?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1329599168382259200?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1329599816649719811?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1329600991679770624?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329601592631324672?s=20

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

...

English sundew (Drosera anglica): WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this? - " "How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief"

WUaS Home Robotics & Playful Learning - and great courses for this, too? 

"How to engage students through playful learning," presented by LEGO® Education and SmartBrief 

Hi Jen Gilbert, and Leanna,
Greetings!
I couldn't find your email online, Jen, so am emailing Leanna, hoping that you might know each other. https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact Could I possibly please see your detailed CV? 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/msgilbertrocks/Could you please forward this to Jen, if you can, Leanna? Do you happen to know Leanna Prater ?

Thanks for your helpful presentation today, Jen. Unfortunately the audio and internet signal weren't working very well at all. While I just connected with you on LinkedIn, I'd be interested in learning more of your thoughts about play-based learning with Lego, and especially with Lego robotics - and brainstorming-wise, even in an edX course. 
Thank you. I'm including a related email I sent to people at the high school I went to in Pittsburgh, PA, with some thoughts about Lego robotics and play, 
How might we best communicate further about some of this? 
Regards, ScottCV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

Please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 




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Shady Side Academy (Pittsburgh, PA) high school - 

Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter

Thursday, Nov. 19
Noon ET

#SSAalumni are invited to the Live Zoom Webinar, Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter on Thursday, Nov. 19 at Noon. Check your email for the registration link or contact Lisa Page at lpage@shadysideacademy.org to sign up! pic.twitter.com/fdKWJLiTXG

— Shady Side Academy (@shady_side) November 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/shady_side/status...

Hi Jesse, Lisa, Jamie, and President Griffith, 
Thanks for your informative "Lunch Bytes – A Demo: Modeling Parametric Furniture with the Epilog Laser Cutter" just now. And nice to e-meet you. 
I'm curious about the now 3 Lego Robotics' Kits, with the free Scratch programming language, and both actually, and virtually (potentially in MineCraft), and how Shady Side could develop classes in Robotics even, and online, for SSA students (possibly during Covid-19 and after as well). 
I write in developing MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and in seeking to offer even online robotics' courses (emerging from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/) at the college and high school levels, beginning with the 3 Lego Robotics' kits, with Scratch programming (out of the MIT Media Lab), mostly virtually, but with students working doing home robotics with physical Lego kits. If possible, such courses for 1st year undergraduate students toward undergraduate Engineering and other degrees, this January, will find form on the edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT), with which World Univ & Sch is newly partnering. And in the process of WUaS developing such courses - in conjunction with you, Jesse and SSA? - WUaS would seek to build into an edX course platform a learner-centric approach, eg see Harvard GSE Prof. Karen Brennan's recent paper - 
https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490675533471745?s=20 and 
Educators identified six actions as important to negotiating their pedagogical aspirations and the realities of online learning at scale: (1) giving up control, (2) distributing facilitation, (3) being live, (4) amplifying, (5) modeling, and (6) being explicit.

Educators identified six actions as important to negotiating their pedagogical aspirations and the realities of online learning at scale: (1) giving up control, (2) distributing facilitation, (3) being live, (4) amplifying, (5) modeling, and (6) being explicit. pic.twitter.com/CNrhH9fCUq

— Karen Brennan (@karen_brennan) November 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1328490682009444352?s=20. (Currently I found only 2 robotics courses when I searched in edX on Lego Robotics).
How might we best communicate about this further, Jesse and All? Could SSA students begin to program their Lego robots to travel in MineCraft (as it develops and MIT has an educational version of Minecraft) from the virtual SSA main campus to the SSA middle school campus, and to do all kinds of interesting robotics things, like autonomous driving, and exploring the boundaries of what autonomy is and means? And could SSA become a remarkable leader in developing and teaching high school Lego robotics and related programming? (Might SSA and WUaS even explore collaborating offering online Robotics' courses - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - at the high school level?).
One of my further main interests is how to develop Lego Robotics in a Google Ecosystem which we can all build together, eg: 
Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of
#RealisticVirtualHarbin w
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/nature-create-realisticvirtualearthforg.html ~

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1316789966207287301?s=20

Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of#RealisticVirtualHarbin w#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego &#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~https://t.co/1KTUEd4Y18~ https://t.co/6GjvfG6z9K

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1325114675575488512?s=20

And here's the idea for building courses, first with Lego WeDo 2.0 with SCRATCH programming ...  How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses
@WorldUnivAndSch
 Found only http://legoengineering.com/scratch-ing-the-lego-wedo/ -https://cubeforteachers.com/folders/qXHFn6qcDMd0CqMi1eRjXTnxnEljy8kXIDf0gdiRFbTDbwOFPoMzrrJPFqBBlKnp & https://robocamp.eu/en/lessons/citycamp-wedo2-scratch/ ~

How to build #LegoRobotics in #WeDo2 with #Scratch3? I enjoyed #LegoWeDo2 tutorials & block programming language, but am also seeking some edX intro #WUaSLegoRobotics courses @WorldUnivAndSch Found only https://t.co/jY2FYnPpH7 -https://t.co/q6YY98vfw4 & https://t.co/iuJAK99Y6v ~

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328783841276792833?s=20


Also, President Griffith and All, if you know of any SSA graduates who are interested in free-to-students' licensing and accrediting CC-4 MIT OCW-centric onlineBachelor degrees beginning in January 2021, please let me know. Please stay tuned as our WUAS web site develops further in the upcoming weeks - worlduniversityandschool.org. Thank you again.
Looking forward to communicating further about this, and perhaps as a way for the great SSA to develop in remarkable new ways. :)
Regards, Scott
PSWUaS is now an authorized carrier of the 3 Lego robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but the WUaS Educational Services' Store is not yet earning any money from these Robotics' kits.
PPSAnd please check out the Robotics' label in my daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - with much brainstorming, and many ideas, about teaching and learning WUaS Home Robotics ... and eventually with machine learning and AI as well. 

PPPSEventually our new 29 majors will emerge from these wiki subject pages, and with courses and free university degrees online in all ~200 countries and in their official / main and in many languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science
STEM education - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics

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

PPPPSInteresting to learn of 
Inkscape

Fusion 3D

Rhino & Grasshopper
similar to Fusion 3D with tweaks

as well as
Overwatch - https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/
League of Legends - https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/

There's also a First Lego League for Lego Robotics and STEM - https://www.firstlegoleague.org - I haven't explored very much yet, and am not sure how it might be developing online during Covid-19 either.


Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch  
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress  
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook  
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
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Hi Jen, 

Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile. 
Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.  
Cheers, Scott

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Hi, Scott,
Sorry about that. Here’s my email address. 
In my work with Tufts University I have seen them use a variety of LEGO solutions and they primarily focused on the Mindstorms EV3 kits within their engineering program. I am not sure if that will shift a bit more now that the SPIKE Prime kits are available. I do think WeDo 2.0 is a nice place for those with little to no experience. 
Online, I agree it is challenging. I think the Scratch apps for LEGO integration are awesome. Depending on your goals, the web-based simulator with Root is great too. Their coding platform offers three levels (level 2 is closest to Scratch), but most importantly there is a simulator to run the code right in Chrome, so not having a physical robot is less of a barrier. There are also options like CoderZ that has simulations for LEGO as well. 
I can certainly send along an updated CV if you would like to have one on hand. I will get it updated ASAP and email it over. 
So glad you were able to be part of the webinar. It was nice to share ideas and learn from the other panelists as well. Thanks for reaching out and connecting.
Have a nice weekend,
Jen
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:03 PM Squarespace <form-submission@squarespace.info> wrote:

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Message: Hi Jen,
Greetings!
Got a bounce-back just now from this too to you and Leanna:
Am trying this email address as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks@msgilbertrocks.com as an adaptation from your msgilbertrocks.com LinkedIn profile.

Might I please see your CV per your https://www.msgilbertrocks.com/contact ? Thank you. Where might you head with creating a Lego Robotics' course for 1st year undergraduates in an Engineering major on the edX platform at WUaS, brainstorming-wise, potentially even with doing so with Lego WeDo 2.0 with Scratch Programming, since most of these hypothetical 18 year olds online could be newbies to WUaS Home Lego Robotics? Thank you.

Cheers, Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Thu, Nov 19, 5:19 PM (21 hours ago)to JenHi Jen, 
Thanks too for your email.
Root looks awesome, if this is Root - https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com 
And CoderZ too - https://www.robot-advance.com/EN/actualite-lego-ev3-compatible-with-coderz-107.htm - and I've tried out their one month free, but didn't see Scratch like in the image here.
MIT's educational version of MineCraft with a developing Google rǝ for Lego robotics even and in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER + (re Brick Street View) would be an awesome thing to do ...
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World Univ & Sch is seeking for departments of education in all ~200 countries to reimburse WUaS for CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch free-to-student degrees, and potentially for each of the 3 Lego Robotics' kits in the poorer countries, if students matriculate for 4 years' degrees or similar - and for 'WUaS Home Robotics' - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeRobotics?src=hashtag_click - combining both actual and virtual. See, too - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click - and - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click.
Have you found this helpful - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - or even explored making a course in something like edX (either at college or high school level?)
 Looking forward to checking out your CV. 

Any Gilberts from Colorado in the past for you? My mother's mother's maiden name, my Granny Brown, was 'Gilbert,' from Boulder, CO, then Cincinnati, OH :)
Cheers, and thanks, Scott--

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Jen Gilbert7:26 AM (6 hours ago)to meHi, Scott,
I will take a look at what you shared. This is the Root robot I mentioned:
https://www.irobot.com/en/Root
Thanks,Jen

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Hi, Jen,

Very cool! 

Brainstorming-wise, a few further questions: 
Playful learning with Lego robotics in edX courses? 
Peter Norvig, head of Google's AI, and his Lego Institute - https://norvig.com/LI2/ - and re the Google ecosystem for a realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics ?
I enjoyed the Lego WeDo 2.0 tutorial and block programming language some time ago, and wonder how to build on this? for 15 week-long college and high school Lego robotics' courses for credit, which would also be playful. How to explore writing playful learning - which you touched on yesterday - as well as STEM playful learning, first in an Engineering undergraduate major at WUaS?
Thank you!
Cheers, Scott
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