Scott GK MacLeod's Blog, page 49
August 30, 2020
Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry): Shaing with you this online free-to-students' Bachelor degree opportunity (emerging from CC-4 MIT OCW, and accrediting/licensing in CA with BPPE and WASC in all likelihood) - which is Friendly-informed too! Students cou
Paul, and All, Thanks for the poetry yesterday!
Since many are Friends/ Quakers in this email thread, I want to share with you this online free-to-students' Bachelor degree opportunity (emerging from CC-4 MIT OCW, and accrediting/licensing in CA with BPPE and WASC in all likelihood) - which is Friendly-informed too! Students could begin taking edX courses this autumn. And one student who's beginning on 1 September, from India, is an English major, and taking 2 edX courses, both with a poetry focus in part!
Here, too, is the Harvard Woodberry Poetry Room link I shared with you in text chat yesterday -
Congratulations to WPR Creative Fellow Tracie Morris for being appointed full-time faculty at Iowa Writers' Workshop: "the first tenured African American full professor of poetry in the history of the Workshop."https://twitter.com/WPRHarvard/status/1299705469188136960?s=20 - with, re your "Chirps and Pings' poem, great percussion in accompaniment. Congratulations on the upcoming launch of your "When an Atheist Says Bless You" poetry book, and perhaps we can have a lunch launch for this too! (Have you let the NtF - Nontheist Friends' email folks know about your upcoming book?)
Watch Morris's performance at Harvard: https://t.co/Mgvn2nzqBX pic.twitter.com/MdZAfzxyKg— Woodberry Poetry Room (@WPRHarvard) August 29, 2020
Friendly regards, Scott3 books of poetry here - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - all Harbin Hot Springs' inspired
Dear World Universitians, and friends,
edX opportunity:
Term begins on Tu 9/1/20 for free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor degrees, but email re #WUaSRollingAdmissions info@ worlduniversityandschool.org re students you may know who might be interested in beginning to study by taking edX courses:
Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress -https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/chilean-firebush-embothrium-coccineum.html
Term begins on Tu 9/1/20 for free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor degrees, but email re #WUaSRollingAdmissions info@ worlduniversityandschool.org~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1300083404801622016?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1300083634372706304?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1300085385746284544?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1300085801049489411?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1300097963872509952?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1300105281406267392?s=20
So, again:
here and attached are the Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for 1) World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting, & 2) the WUaS Corp:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/chilean-firebush-embothrium-coccineum.html
I'm posting them in the body of this email too for the vision impaired.
The next OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting is on Sat., September 19, 2020, at 9 am PT (and please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to participate), if only to ask questions, or share your ideas or thinking.
Sincerely, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Monthly Business Meeting
Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting
Present:- Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)- Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/chilean-firebush-embothrium-coccineum.html
Minute 1
World University and School matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.
World University and School has begun to send out World University and School Letters of Acceptance for this, and since students will be taking edX courses at first, and online, WUaS is offering a rolling admission approach as well. Please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested, or if you know of someone who might be interested in studying for a free-to-students’4-year best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelors’ degree.
See, too: Harvard Commencement 2016, President Drew Gilpin Faust -https://youtu.be/rr1gJ8WByXU Much to learn from for @WorldUnivAndSchas World University matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Mind ~https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1299760248891174913?s=20
- WUaS is seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics for English majors in particular, and eventually with the Scratch programming language.
- Also, see: World Univ & Sch News and Q & A 8/10/20 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/2020 MBM Minuteshttps://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA (and other recent videos here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)
Minute 2Matriculating WUaS students will be studying on edX (which requires broadband Wi-Fi video streaming access from all countries) this September 2020. WUaS will begin to look into developing WUaS Open edX for students with limited video streaming opportunities (from MIT OpenCourseWare courses, for example), potentially via Open edX service provider MOOCit France, for January. WUaS seeks to build an online learning community as well, and offer advising / mentoring / other course possibilities in group video too in these regards. (Thanks to MOOCit France for their startup kit - https://app.moocit.fr/courses/course-v1:WUAS+002+1/course/ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/lotus-corniculatus-glad-to-announce-new.html. WUaS is going to cancel our proceeding with WUaS Open edX via MOOCit France for the time being. WUaS will explore developing again with MOOCit France for January 1, 2021, contingent on developing/ adapting /migrating CC-4 MIT OCW into WUaS Open edX in our 6 majors, potentially with the expertise of graduate student instructors (MIT?), splitting the 15-week long MIT OCW courses into 7-8 week courses, and potentially even adding a seminar approach for 1st year undergraduates (via Riff Analytics), planning for BPPE licensing in CA, and accreditation (with WASC senior probably) and getting enough students. WUaS is also seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, as wiki-Universitians for a variety of reasons, and potentially regarding the Open edX money transfer mechanism (regarding reimbursement to WUaS for CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses too).
(Thanks much also to Beth Porter, CEO of #Riff Analytics, discussing course-wide and small group interactions at scale. Find all details here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1680049837/August+13+2020+community+meetup@ebport of @RiffLearning for her overview of Riff Analytics’ innovative AI for improving small-group educational dynamics - https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1293983506343890948?s=20 - and regarding the potential for WUaS to develop the Conference Method online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning- or SEMINAR, and via building on best STEAM CC-4 OCW in its 4 current languages).
Minute 3
Sri Lanka WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - will seek to matriculate Sri Lankan high school graduates and other Sri Lankans interested in free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021.
Sri Lankan high school students haven’t also taken the national exam yet.
Minute 4
World University and School will submit a claim in the Google Plus Class Action suit.
Minute 5
“The Universitian” which is World University and School’s school newspaper, planned in ~200 countries’ official / main languages, and potentially in all 7,117 known living languages, with machine translation, is on hold until WUaS has enough students to begin to develop this.
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Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Present:- Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)- Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)
Here and attached are the Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for the WUaS Corporation:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/chilean-firebush-embothrium-coccineum.html
Minute A
WUaS plans to develop a number of Lego Robotics’ oriented courses. We can try to get our matriculating students into this if you’re interested.
Seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics and for science majors for this September 1, 2020 even - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and eventually for English and History majors .
Lego Robotics’ kits are available for this here – in the WUaS Educational Services’ Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
Minute BIn WUaS planning to code for students in all ~200 countries, their official/ main languages, and wiki-Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #
WUaS is continuing to further explore facilitate a #Single Crypto Currency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries. See the following Twitter posts from the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in these regards:Neha Narula @nehaOur post on the collaboration between@MITDCI and@BostonFed to design and build a hypothetical digital currency
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20
Neha Narula RetweetedBostonFed @BostonFedThe #BostonFed today announced a multiyear collaboration with@MIT researchers to research central bank digital currency. The project will explore the use of existing and new technologies to build and test a hypothetical digital currency platform. Rightwards arrow https://bit.ly/3iF4J6Zhttps://twitter.com/BostonFed/status/1294006823503134721?s=20
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1293991658518974464?s=20
Minute C
In WUaS seeking to facilitate, too, Universal Basic Income experiments #UBIexperiments, and TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY worldwide, and with regards to distributing a single cryptocurenncy backed by most of @00 countries’ central banks, at You at WUaS? - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - WUaS will continue to monitor this.
See, too, a recent state of California panel with the Aspen Institute:
Thanks so much for your excellent "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel today - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/californias-approach-to-recovery-and-resilience-centering-equity-and-job-quality !
Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitians, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20 - with the Boston Federal Reserve.
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.
How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward?
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/cleome-serrulata-rocky-mountain.html
Minute D
WUaS Corp is seeking to develop many musical products, including a musical earpiece and software for harmonizing, so to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung (eg in a car), and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony…@WorldUnivAndSch - @WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293702570548948992?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293702757010964487?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293702634868629504?s=20
In a related vein, theWUaS Corp real-real time broadband Wi-Fi for the developing world for group music making.
See, too: 15 planned WUaS Revenue Streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html
Minute E
The WUaS seeks to REINVENT publishing: Print from #RealisticVirtualEarth (from Google Street View, #TextInTheSidebar @WUaSPress) to paper BOOK #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing re this 'Paper Phone,' https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1193125242312568833 … https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School … @sgkmacleod #MachineTranslation 7117 languageshttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1299745971379691533?s=20
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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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buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter
What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/30/20
and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
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Coronavirus Su 8/30/20 Black Lives Matter
Harvard University
@Harvard
COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say
COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say https://t.co/QwyzKdLKWb— Harvard University (@Harvard) August 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1300197860978364416?s=20
For some college students, this school year begins in an unusual way: in quarantine in their dorm rooms
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/metro/welcome-college-please-stay-your-room-alone/
Virus thrusts college presidents into hot seat
Traditionally, university presidents are behind-the-scene managers and fund-raising gurus, most often seen welcoming students in the fall and sending them off with their degrees during graduation ceremonies in the spring. But the pandemic has thrust them to the forefront and made them the public face of their institution’s decision on how to reopen for the fall.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/30/metro/virus-thrusts-college-presidents-into-hot-seat/
-- - 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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Coronavirus Sa 8/29/20 Black Lives Matter
GERMANY CORONA DEMO IN BERLIN https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214632160/Corona-Demo-in-Berlin-Schock-nach-dem-Sturm-auf-den-Reichstag.html
Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. AloneMost colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/metro/welcome-college-please-stay-your-room-alone/
How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak, a disaster that spread hundreds of milesThe town of Millinocket had not recorded a single case of coronavirus. One celebration would change all of that.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/nation/how-an-intimate-wedding-rural-maine-led-states-largest-covid-outbreak-disaster-that-spread-hundreds-miles/
Pre-Historic |Research: The original Stonehenge served as a huge sound amplifierSciencehttps://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000006618011.html
-- - 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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Coronavirus F 8/28/20 Black Lives Matter
‘Another world is possible.’ Ayanna Pressley calls for political change at March on Washington
Representative Ayanna Pressley expressed confidence in the ability of the recent racial justice movements to translate into lasting political change as she addressed the 2020 March on Washington on Friday.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/nation/another-world-is-possible-ayanna-pressley-calls-political-change-march-washington/
Gamification keeps the consumer engagedhttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/18018-gamification-keeps-the-consumer-engaged.html
Some weird games Finns like to playLIFESTYLE 28 AUGUST 2020
Finland is known for its long, cold winters, its beautiful landscape and its extensive welfare system. Furthermore, low corruption, high-levels of trust and an exemplary education system has led to what many now refer to as the roots of Finnish contentment. It will come as no surprise that Finland has once again topped the UN's 2020 World Happiness Report. At this point, the shock will arrive once it does not feature at the top of the list. The UN World Happiness Report is based on a variety of factors, including autonomy, equality, life expectancy and mental health.https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/157-lifestyle/17995-some-weird-games-finns-like-to-play.html(Yoga picture ... another one in Nevada???)Canyon Ranch spa in Lenox extends furloughs for more than 200 workershttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/metro/canyon-ranch-spa-lenox-lays-off-more-than-200-workers/
( Great photo wading in the reflecting pool )
JENEÉ OSTERHELDT
From the King’s Dream to a call for America to get its knee off our necks: We March on Washington
We’ve been fighting this fight for generations. America has eaten our young while feeding off our labor. We can no longer be your buffet. We were there not just to fight for our lives, but to benefit from the balm that is radical togetherness. We need healing.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/metro/kings-dream-call-america-get-its-knee-our-necks-we-march-washington/
-- - 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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Coronavirus Th 8/27/20 Black Lives Matter
Anders Tegnell at Thursday's press conference.Photo: Amir Nabizadeh / TT
Tegnell: Critical situation for the infection gaining new momentum
The state epidemiologist is most concerned about not detecting new local outbreaks quickly enough.https://www.dn.se/nyheter/anders-tegnell-kritiskt-lage-for-att-smittspridningen-tar-fart/
"Teachers can become super spreaders" https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214477592/Corona-an-Schulen-Da-koennen-Lehrer-zu-Superspreadern-werden.html
Geisel defends ban on demonstrations. And its controversial reasonhttps://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214508500/Coronademo-in-Berlin-Geisel-verteidigt-Verbot-und-seine-Begruendung.html
Warns against Hong Kong activists receiving the Peace Prize. Promoted new theory about the origin of the coronavirus.https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/0ne08o/kinas-utenriksminister-til-aftenposten-vil-reagere-kraftig-hvis-hongk
Federal-state summit on corona measuresCommon ground usedThe heads of government of the countries wrestle with the Chancellor for hours about common paths in the corona crisis. It's gotten complicated. PASCAL BEUCKERhttps://taz.de/Bund-Laender-Gipfel-zu-Coronamassnahmen/!5710349/
New reforms are taking place in Kazakhstan under the leadership of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayevhttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/18013-new-reforms-are-taking-place-in-kazakhstan-under-the-leadership-of-president-kassym-jomart-tokayev.html
Merkel agrees with countries on new corona regulations: No relaxation of the measuresMerkel einigt sich mit Ländern auf neue Corona-Regelungen: Keine Lockerungen der Maßnahmenhttps://www.fr.de/politik/corona-treffen-merkel-ministerpraesidenten-laender-tests-reise-erste-vorschlaege-soeder-90031551.html
social change:The unbearable indolence of beingThe baby boomers determine the fate of the country, but sleep through the crises of the present, wrote ZEIT. Contradiction: Realism is better than revolution. A guest contribution by Armin Nassehihttps://www.zeit.de/2020/36/sozialer-wandel-veraenderungsresistenz-babyboomer-generation-realismus-statt-revolution
Sea-Watch:Banksy gives away refugee rescue shipThe street artist donated a ship for sea rescue to the German organization Sea-Watch - and painted it right away: pink, with a heart-shaped lifebuoy.https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2020-08/sea-watch-banksy-seenotrettung-schiff-fluechtlinge
Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore: ‘We must take a stand’https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/08/powells-says-it-wont-sell-books-on-amazon-anymore-we-must-take-a-stand.html
Oregon’s marijuana sales continue to soar during coronavirus pandemic https://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/2020/08/oregons-marijuana-sales-continue-to-soar-during-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Smart LEGO storage is coming to IKEA: Here’s where to find other toy bins, boxes now https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2020/08/smart-lego-storage-is-coming-to-ikea-heres-where-to-find-other-toy-bins-boxes-now.html
Lawyers, clergy urge Atlanta officials to drop 600 protesters’ chargeshttps://www.ajc.com/news/crime/lawyers-clergy-urge-atlanta-officials-to-drop-600-protesters-charges/BTFLWCAP65CF3D6FERVYZ4F6PM/
-- - 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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Coronavirus W 8/26/20 Black Lives Matter
Houston’s hospitals juggling hurricane prep with COVID carehttps://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/houston-hospitals-weather-storm-hurricane-covid-15513669.php
Virtual schools spur real change in what Houston parents buyhttps://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Houston-families-trade-clothes-for-computers-15509925.php
This summer is a scientific revelationhttps://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/plus214304144/Klimawandel-Was-bedeuten-die-Hitzerekorde-weltweit.html
"The thing is happening" - Corona skeptics want to travel to Berlin despite the banhttps://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214329666/Querdenken-711-Anhaenger-wollen-trotz-Verbot-in-Berlin-demonstrieren.html
Hardly any infection in buses and trains - where Germans are infected with Coronahttps://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/plus214302100/Covid-19-Wo-sich-die-Deutschen-mit-Corona-infizieren.html?source=k240_plusdichte.default.sondergruppe-lage-1.1.214302100
A total of 14 different places were raided in Sweden, prosecutors for DN state.https://www.dn.se/kultur/internationellt-tillslag-mot-filmpirater-svenska-servrar-stangs/
Photo: Maria WestholmThis is how it feels to "change body" with a friend Psychology professor about the experiment: When the brain is deceived, the self-image is affected.https://www.dn.se/vetenskap/sa-paverkas-din-sjalvbild-nar-hjarnan-tror-att-du-har-bytt-kropp-med-din-kompis/
Prohibited corona demo:New hardnessThe ban on the corona demo in Berlin is correct. For epidemiological, but also for political reasons. Politicians should no longer be afraid of the right.A comment by Christian Bangelhttps://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2020-08/verbotene-corona-demo-berlin-rechtsextreme-hanau-gedenk-demo
Black Lives Matter Protesters Shot At While Marching in Pennsylvaniahttps://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/26/headlines/black_lives_matter_protesters_shot_at_while_marching_in_pennsylvania
CORONA SKEPTICS
Counter protests to the forbidden anti-corona demonstration in Berlin are allowed to take place
The police's decision to ban demonstrations against the corona policy in Berlin has led to controversy. The Berlin Senate Administration defends itself against the charge of having made a political decision. The counter-protests are still allowed. Right-wing extremists meanwhile incite the "storm on Berlin".
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DEUTSCHLAND CORONA-SKEPTIKER
Gegenproteste zu verbotener Anti-Corona-Demo in Berlin dürfen stattfinden
Die Entscheidung der Polizei, Demonstrationen gegen die Corona-Politik in Berlin zu verbieten, hat zu Kontroversen geführt. Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, eine politische Entscheidung getroffen zu haben. Die Gegenproteste bleiben weiterhin erlaubt. Rechtsextreme stacheln derweil zum „Sturm auf Berlin“ an.https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214387480/Gegenproteste-gegen-Anti-Corona-Demos-in-Berlin-duerfen-stattfinden.html
Survey shows most office workers still won’t be coming back in January
It sure feels like this work-from-home thing is lasting a lot longer than we expected, right? Well, now we have some stats to back it up.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/26/business/survey-shows-most-office-workers-still-wont-be-coming-back-january/
The 2020 Massachusetts primary voter guide
This fall Massachusetts voters will select candidates for nine different congressional races and one Senate race. Here's what to know about the candidates.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/24/metro/voter-guide-2020-massachusetts-primaries/
The world
Major damage after Hurricane Laura - three deadhttps://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/orkanen-laura-slar-till-pa-morgonen-kan-bli-varre-an-katrina/
- 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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Coronavirus Tu 8/25/20 Black Lives Matter
COVID-19 cluster in Mass. traced back to bachelorette party in R.I.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/25/nation/covid-19-cluster-mass-traced-back-bachelorette-party-ri/
Air travel
coronavirus |Is Helsinki-Vantaa leaking from the coronavirus again? Obsolete quarantine instructions distributed to passengers, compliance with the instructions is not monitored
Homeland
26.8. 6:04https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006613714.html
Last year, yellow vests created chaos in the streets. Now a bandage rebellion is spreading to all of Europe.https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/Ad4G2r/i-fjor-skapte-gule-vester-kaos-i-gatene-naa-er-et-munnbindopproer-i-fer
HS: Foreign-language speakers over-represented in coronavirus cases in Uusimaahttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18006-hs-foreign-language-speakers-over-represented-in-coronavirus-cases-in-uusimaa.html
Navalny exposes the hypocrisy of the Russian elite - making him an enemy of the statehttps://www.nzz.ch/international/russland-alexei-nawalny-der-feind-des-kremls-ld.1573095
-- - 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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Coronavirus M 8/24/20 Black Lives Matter
TikTok Files Suit Challenging U.S. Ban
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-to-file-suit-challenging-u-s-ban-11598281193
Johanne (35) feared the darkness alone. This is how she got rid of the fear, and got to enjoy the hiking life.
https://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i/lAp7AG/moerkredd-i-naturen-egentlig-er-det-urhjernen-som-proever-aa-hjelpe-de
UN warns on coronavirus plasma treatment, says ‘still experimental’
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/un-warns-on-coronavirus-plasma-treatment-says-still-experimental-results-not-conclusive/story-R48JA2Hgv2vGzYIkqjRuMO.html
CORONAVIRUS LIVE TICKER CORONAVIRUS: ALL CARDS AND NUMBERS
PANORAMA
DATES AND NUMBERS
R values continue to drop below 1 for the second day in a row - RKI worriedhttps://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article206504969/Corona-Karten-und-Daten-1278-registrierte-Corona-Neuinfektionen-in-Deutschland.html
MONEY
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
The EU discovers Bitcoin - and wants to tame it with bureaucracyhttps://www.welt.de/finanzen/article214222482/Bitcoin-Ethereum-und-Co-EU-Kommission-will-Kryptowaehrungen-zaehmen.html
corona:
Returnees have to be quarantined again
Because the capacities of the laboratories are insufficient, there is no test obligation for vacationers from risk areas. Health ministers are instead relying on mandatory quarantine for travelers from risk areas. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/seite-1-li.100822
(What can't I translate this with Google Translate, I wonder?)Baltic Sea????https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000006611880.html
-- - 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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buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-cymbalaria-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. circinatus): What I've been reading - 8/23/20 week - Coronavirus - Black Lives Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
buttercup (R. cassubicifolius): What I've been reading - 8/16/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...buttercup (R. carinthiacus): What I've been reading - 8/9/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
buttercup (R. californicus): What I've been reading - 8/2/20 week -Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-californicus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. bullatus): What I've been reading - 7/26/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bullatus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bulbosus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. austro-oreganus): What I've been reading - 7/12/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-austro-oreganus-what-ive.html
buttercup (R. auricomus): What I've been reading - 7/5/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-auricomus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. asiaticus): What I've been reading - 6/28/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-asiaticus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatterhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aquatilis-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. amplexicaulis): What I've been reading - 6/7/20 week - + George Floyd + BlackLivesFirsthttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-amplexicaulis-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-alismifolius-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. aestivalis): What I've been reading - 5/24/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aestivalis-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acris-what-ive-been-reading.html
buttercup (R. acraeus): What I've been reading - 5/10/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-aconitifolius-what-ive-been.html
buttercup (R. acaulis): What I've been reading 4/26/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-acaulis-what-ive.html
buttercup (R. abortivus): What I've been reading - 4/19/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-abortivus-what-ive.html
buttercup (R. abnormis): What I've been reading - 4/12/20 week - Coronavirushttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-ranunculus-abnormis-what-ive.html
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GREG MANKIW'S BLOGRandom Observations for Students of EconomicsSUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020What I've been watchingOver the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America , which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_cymbalaria
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_cymbalaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ranunculus_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_genera_of_flowering_plants
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August 29, 2020
Chilean firebush (Embothrium coccineum): Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting * * * * Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Monthly Business Meeting
Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting
Present:- Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)- Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
Minute 1
World University and School matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.
World University and School has begun to send out World University and School Letters of Acceptance for this, and since students will be taking edX courses at first, and online, WUaS is offering a rolling admission approach as well. Please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested, or if you know of someone who might be interested in studying for a free-to-students’4-year best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelors’ degree.
See, too: Harvard Commencement 2016, President Drew Gilpin Faust -https://youtu.be/rr1gJ8WByXU Much to learn from for @WorldUnivAndSchas World University matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Mind ~https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1299760248891174913?s=20
- WUaS is seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics for English majors in particular, and eventually with the Scratch programming language.
- Also, see: World Univ & Sch News and Q & A 8/10/20 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/2020 MBM Minuteshttps://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA (and other recent videos here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)
Minute 2Matriculating WUaS students will be studying on edX (which requires broadband Wi-Fi video streaming access from all countries) this September 2020. WUaS will begin to look into developing WUaS Open edX for students with limited video streaming opportunities (from MIT OpenCourseWare courses, for example), potentially via Open edX service provider MOOCit France, for January. WUaS seeks to build an online learning community as well, and offer advising / mentoring / other course possibilities in group video too in these regards. (Thanks to MOOCit France for their startup kit - https://app.moocit.fr/courses/course-v1:WUAS+002+1/course/ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/lotus-corniculatus-glad-to-announce-new.html. WUaS is going to cancel our proceeding with WUaS Open edX via MOOCit France for the time being. WUaS will explore developing again with MOOCit France for January 1, 2021, contingent on developing/ adapting /migrating CC-4 MIT OCW into WUaS Open edX in our 6 majors, potentially with the expertise of graduate student instructors (MIT?), splitting the 15-week long MIT OCW courses into 7-8 week courses, and potentially even adding a seminar approach for 1st year undergraduates (via Riff Analytics), planning for BPPE licensing in CA, and accreditation (with WASC senior probably) and getting enough students. WUaS is also seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, as wiki-Universitians for a variety of reasons, and potentially regarding the Open edX money transfer mechanism (regarding reimbursement to WUaS for CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses too).
(Thanks much also to Beth Porter, CEO of #Riff Analytics, discussing course-wide and small group interactions at scale. Find all details here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1680049837/August+13+2020+community+meetup@ebport of @RiffLearning for her overview of Riff Analytics’ innovative AI for improving small-group educational dynamics - https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1293983506343890948?s=20 - and regarding the potential for WUaS to develop the Conference Method online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning- or SEMINAR, and via building on best STEAM CC-4 OCW in its 4 current languages).
Minute 3
Sri Lanka WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - will seek to matriculate Sri Lankan high school graduates and other Sri Lankans interested in free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021.
Sri Lankan high school students haven’t also taken the national exam yet.
Minute 4
World University and School will submit a claim in the Google Plus Class Action suit.
Minute 5
“The Universitian” which is World University and School’s school newspaper, planned in ~200 countries’ official / main languages, and potentially in all 7,117 known living languages, with machine translation, is on hold until WUaS has enough students to begin to develop this.
Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod
World Univ & Sch is developing toward free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric universities and degrees in all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages, accessible from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages.
worlduniversityandschool.org- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
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Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Present:- Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)- Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)
Here and attached are the Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for the WUaS Corporation:
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Minute A
WUaS plans to develop a number of Lego Robotics’ oriented courses. We can try to get our matriculating students into this if you’re interested.
Seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics and for science majors for this September 1, 2020 even - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and eventually for English and History majors .
Lego Robotics’ kits are available for this here – in the WUaS Educational Services’ Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
Minute BIn WUaS planning to code for students in all ~200 countries, their official/ main languages, and wiki-Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #
WUaS is continuing to further explore facilitate a #Single Crypto Currency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries. See the following Twitter posts from the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in these regards:Neha Narula @nehaOur post on the collaboration between@MITDCI and@BostonFed to design and build a hypothetical digital currency
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20
Neha Narula RetweetedBostonFed @BostonFedThe #BostonFed today announced a multiyear collaboration with@MIT researchers to research central bank digital currency. The project will explore the use of existing and new technologies to build and test a hypothetical digital currency platform. Rightwards arrow https://bit.ly/3iF4J6Zhttps://twitter.com/BostonFed/status/1294006823503134721?s=20
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1293991658518974464?s=20
Minute C
In WUaS seeking to facilitate, too, Universal Basic Income experiments #UBIexperiments, and TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY worldwide, and with regards to distributing a single cryptocurenncy backed by most of @00 countries’ central banks, at You at WUaS? - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... - WUaS will continue to monitor this.
See, too, a recent state of California panel with the Aspen Institute:
Thanks so much for your excellent "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel today - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/californias-approach-to-recovery-and-resilience-centering-equity-and-job-quality !
Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitians, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20 - with the Boston Federal Reserve.
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.
How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward?
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/cleome-serrulata-rocky-mountain.html
Minute D
WUaS Corp is seeking to develop many musical products, including a musical earpiece and software for harmonizing, so to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung (eg in a car), and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... - @WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/stat...
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status...
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/statu...
In a related vein, theWUaS Corp real-real time broadband Wi-Fi for the developing world for group music making.
See, too: 15 planned WUaS Revenue Streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html
Minute E
The WUaS seeks to REINVENT publishing: Print from #RealisticVirtualEarth (from Google Street View, #TextInTheSidebar @WUaSPress) to paper BOOK #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing re this 'Paper Phone,' https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1193125242312568833 … https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School … @sgkmacleod #MachineTranslation 7117 languageshttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1299745971379691533?s=20
Agenda and News for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press
WUaS Corporation
Agenda and News for Sat August 15, 2020 World University and School Monthly Business Meeting
Thursday, August 15, 2020
Dear Universitians and friends,
Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting on Sa 8/15/20 at 9am PT if you might be interested.
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 FFP WUaS Corp.
Please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) Monthly Business Meeting this Sat 8/15/20, 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/s...
World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 15, 2020:- https://worlduniversityandschool.blog...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on September 19, 2020.
Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUni...
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
World University and School
1World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students by Sept 1, 2020, which some of you have expressed interest in (or for prospective students you may know of). Please register by August 18, and by sending me an email.
World Univ & Sch is seeking to offer online on the WUaS Open edX platform free-to-students' 4-year best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees (licensing and accrediting) beginning around Sept 1, 2020 in ENGLISH.
Please let me know too if you have further questions or thoughts in these regards.
Regards, Scott worlduniversityandschool.org
2Conference method, or seminar, anew - and like musical jamming even?
In about 20 minutes live (and which will be recorded) - Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics, will describe how #Riff provides course-wide and small group interactions to anyone using #edX or Open edX, during the next Open edX Online Meetup event. Join this presentation, next Thursday, 8/13 at 1 PM (EDT): https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/sp... ?
The Open edX community meeting where I first met MOOCit France's CEO Yvain Demollière, and it's because of this Open edX talk by Yvain, MOOCit France's winning the Instructional Design Prize (at Open edX), and MOOCit France being on the service partner list (1 of 52 service providers last time I checked) - https://open.edx.org/marketplace-cate... - that WUaS is exploring their 1-course MOOCit France startup kit. Since WUaS doesn't have the expertise to develop further "WUAS 002 Circuits and Electronics Introduction" - but a EECS graduate student edX CEO & MIT Prof of EECS Anant Agarwal probably would (and likewise an English graduate student of MIT Prof. Wyn Kelley probably does too); WUaS is seeking to migrate a few more best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to the emerging WUaS Open edX platform - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - regarding our WUaS initial majors of EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English, History and Business, but 9/1/20.
And, again, WUaS is seeking to get these ~ 6 initial courses from CC-4 MIT OCW into the emerging WUaS Open edX platform, cut in half to 7-8 weeks long, and working by around September 1, 2020, for up to 50 students (potentially per MOOCit France's pricing structure). Am hoping (MIT?) graduate students can further help with this and all in the next 3 weeks - and to make them 'rocking'! "Riffing" as in university seminars and musical jamming metaphorically will be part of this - and regarding, too, the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning - .https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool....
3Sri Lanka World University and School will postpone enrollments to the next intake as the WUaS Open edX platform is just becoming ready, and the National High School Exams have been postponed due to Covid-19.
4World University and School is going to submit some claims to be eligible for the Google Plus class action suit regarding
"Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus – Your Rights May Be Affected,
Option 1 - Submit a Claim Form to Be Eligible for a Cash Payment"
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5Wiki newspapers at WUaS? - and - "The Universitian" school newspapers
Wiki Newspapers - #DigitalNewspapers designed as wikis where we can write our own headlines & articles? is Twitter this somehow? Beyond "The Universitian" school newspapers https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
@WorldUnivAndSch
In all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... w #MachineLearning?
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/...
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WUaS Press / WUaS Corp
AThe World Univ & Sch Press is preparing further our WUaS Educational Services' Store, bookstore and with Lego Robotics for September 1, 2020 - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A...
B#SingleCryptoCurrency backed by most of 200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries?
What implications for a #SingleCryptoCurrency backed by most of 200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries? "Warren Buffett said this metric signaled the 2001 crash — now it’s sounding the alarm on global markets" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/war... - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... -
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CUniversal Basic Income #UBIexperiments at You at WUaS? - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments "New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March" https://twitter.com/i/events/12938923... TO DISTRIBUTE #SingleCryptoCurrency for those who can't access unemployment office physically or digitally? @WUaSPress #ActualVirtual -
Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments "New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March" https://twitter.com/i/events/12938923... TO DISTRIBUTE #PhysicalDigital #SingleCryptoCurrency for those in 200 countries to alleviate poverty? @WorldUnivAndSch #ActualVirtual -
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DMusical earpiece and software for harmonizing
WUaS would love to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung, and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...…
@WorldUnivAndSch -
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https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status...
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Singing Walking Bass Lines - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Singing Descant - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Singing Harmony - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
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August 28, 2020
Japanese honeysuckle: A beginning virtual Gradara village in Google Street View, which we - and all tourists - could further add to, as a preamble to an Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ TSWG talk here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/se...
4 Tourism Studies’ talks in recent years - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/blue-borage-4th-harbin-hot-springs.html with many Harbin Hot Springs' pictures - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - scottmacleod.com)
A beginning virtual Gradara village in Google Street View, which we - and all tourists - could further add to, as a preamble to an Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ TSWG talk here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/tour - soon.
Dear Nelson and Dean, All,
If I could, I would make a brief presentation today about facilitating tourists creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies, with a case study of actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - with Gradara, Italy as an example, for today. This would be a prelude to a presentation about actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs for tourists and tourism studies' researchers later this autumn.
I probably won't be playing this Vivaldi (partly since Vivaldi came from Venice, a little north of Gradara on the Adriatic) -
Four Seasons Vivaldi - 10 Hours - Relaxing Classical Music For Studying, Concentration And Sleeping
https://youtu.be/PzJIvYNFN6c
but when not exploring the realism of video from Gradara in Google Street View (with audio) with time slider, and someone did add one Gradara video here -
Gradara, Italy (east of Florence) in Google Street View - https://www.google.com/maps/place/61012+Gradara,+Province+of+Pesaro+and+Urbino,+Italy/@43.9379985,12.7604146,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x132ce1afcb9a1073:0xe49e9f20f4ad2421!8m2!3d43.9395805!4d12.7710328
I might encourage researchers and virtual tourists to play this (for example, after today's TSWG organizing meeting) and when exploring virtual Gradara in Street View.
Further resources - I found this Gradara Tweet -
A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN THE MARCHE
Gradara is a lovely little village in the region Marche, listed among the most beautiful villages in Italy.https://t.co/7TL64FYkKR#BeautyfromItaly #Gradara #Guides #Italy #Marche #travel pic.twitter.com/13bsRBg4CR— BEAUTY FROM ITALY (@BeautyfromItaly) August 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/BeautyfromItaly/status/1299195001931522049?s=20 - earlier today and retweeted it here - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod:
BEAUTY FROM ITALY
@BeautyfromItaly
A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN THE MARCHE
Gradara is a lovely little village in the region Marche, listed among the most beautiful villages in Italy.
https://tinyurl.com/y67klyru
https://www.beautyfromitaly.it/2020/04/30/a-beautiful-village-in-the-marche-by-laura-teso/
#BeautyfromItaly #Gradara #Guides #Italy #Marche #travel
A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN THE MARCHE
Gradara is a lovely little village in the region Marche, listed among the most beautiful villages in Italy.https://t.co/7TL64FYkKR#BeautyfromItaly #Gradara #Guides #Italy #Marche #travel pic.twitter.com/13bsRBg4CR— BEAUTY FROM ITALY (@BeautyfromItaly) August 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/BeautyfromItaly/status/1299195001931522049?s=20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradara
https://www.lifeinitaly.com/tourism/art-cities/gradara/
I don't see however in this virtual Gradara in Street View, a way to walk through its village, like walking from the Harbin Hot Springs' Gatehouse '4 miles' down the 'road' to "Middletown, CA" to 'amble' around the streets there ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (at bottom in the sidebar) ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ and I also don't see many or any 'artificial humans' in virtual Gradara yet either.
See you soon, Scott
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4 Tourism Studies’ talks in recent years -
Blue borage: 4th Harbin Hot Springs' actual-virtual ethnographic talk on 2/23/2018 at UC Berkeley TSWG this Friday.http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/blue-borage-4th-harbin-hot-springs.html with many Harbin Hot Springs' pictures - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - scottmacleod.com)
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Hi Rohit, Sri, Marisol, Peter, Partha,
I'd like to share with you an email conversation with Poland World University and School's Mariusz (a diplomat from Poland) and Andrzej (a professor at the Univ of NH) regarding developing an online World Univ & Sch for Poland, beginning with:
Th, Aug 27, 2020Dear Mariusz, Andrzej, Larry,
In this one blog post from March, at bottom, you'll see costs of going to MIT as well as what MIT looks for in its student applicants - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html - and which WUaS will eventually engage as we grow our classes of students.
Kind regards, Scott
Dear Mariusz, Andrzej, Larry,
Thanks for your email and your questions. Students learning computer-based Machine Learning AI, and the related Reinforcement Learning - so machines actually learn - is what the Google Research Football Environment makes possible in an entirely different way and newly interactive way. This has very significant ramifications for all ~200 countries and companies, as well as Universities. I'll seek to go down the list of your questions in what follows.
One business concept regarding our potential collaboration - and WUaS is open to further conversation about this in many innovative ways - relates to the reimbursement WUaS is seeking as we grow as a university - and from countries' departments of education. In this scenario, you, Mariusz and Andrzej, could conceivably receive 10% of the monies you were able to find or get from departments of education to reimburse World University and School per student per semester / term, along the lines of what a Polish student would pay to go to MIT on-the-ground (about $55,000 per year). This reimbursement would cover WUaS faculty costs as we grow, licensing and accreditation costs, platform development, as well as to build out research infrastructure on the 1) World University and School side (as a legal entity). Polish students would get the knowledge generation benefits of MIT-centric degrees, as well as the career benefits of these ... and with a focus on innovative STEM first in English, then in Polish (knowledge and career-wise too). It's the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing which says WUaS can 1) share, 2) adapt, but 3) non-commercially MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 4 languages currently) and thus, as a developing set of Universities, seek reimbursement from departments of education rather than tuition from private students. WUaS will add licensing and degrees to "1. CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx and 2. via edX and open edX" and much.much more - such as live seminars online with faculty, with live virtual laboratory simulators etc. - as we grow as major online universities with these revenues. So, 10% of $55,000 is $5,500 dollars, so if you found 10 Polish students for January 2021, and related reimbursement to WUaS from Polish departments of education, you could conceivably get $55,000 in January, and if you found 100 students with funding, $550,000 split between you. Please remember that our 6 initial majors (from the 32 MIT OCW departments) are EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English, History, and Business - first in English, then in Polish - all of which might be very practical, yet theoretical too, majors, for Poles who speak English. (This is what American students' families pay in tuition to attend America's highest achieving universities, such as Harvard, MIT and Stanford, and WUaS would seek to improve even on these educational models thanks to the Internet. (No links in this paragraph, with their further information).
Regarding the 3 Universities - initially - I would think that what WUaS could offer to their high achieving university students is subsequent degrees and majors as well - which are MIT OCW-centric for Bachelor and Ph.D.s (in 32 departments), as well as potentially Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine centric, first in English then in Polish.
At present, other collaborations, if US university collaborations are any model, can be challenging (e.g. Harvard and MIT, both in Cambridge, MA, both excellent in the world, are very separate institutions, and collaborations have been hard earned, I'd think). However WUaS is very open to new possibilities in these regards. On the other hand, World University and School first in English, and Poland World Univ & Sch in Polish (eventually), which you both could head, could collaborate much more fulsomely than Harvard and MIT, for example. Please suggest other examples of successful collaboration which might inform WUaS and any one of the three Polish universities you've mentioned.
1 reputation? If these Polish universities 'send' graduates to Harvard and MIT, they benefit from this reputationally - and when the student returns to Poland, these universities and Poland itself benefit from the knowledge learned (but some, like Andrzej, don't return much to Poland), so these 3 Polish universities students who might matriculate at MIT OCW-centric World University and School ,online, would likely remain in Poland after receiving their WUaS degree.
2 Besides eventually hiring their graduates as professors at Poland WUaS for example, and to help adapt MIT OCW into Polish, and thus gain this knowledge, WUaS is open to conversing about this and to proposals too, but remember that WUaS is very young, and it will take a while to graduate our first Ph.D., Law and Medical students online, regarding Poles from these 3 universities who might seek further degrees at WUaS online in English or eventually in Polish!
3 See #1, but MIT OCW-centric WUaS has to build this prestige, partly by attracting the highest achieving Polish students, and graduating them.
4 At this point, students ... but open to proposals. Licensing and accreditation with BPPE (see their Twitter feed - link shared if you are interested) and WASC senior, both based in California, are ahead for our Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees - and WASC senior (see their Twitter feed - link shared too if you are interested) is the 'gold standard' of accreditation (and accredits Stanford and Berkeley), and adds much value but is also costly. It's when WUaS begins online MIT OCW-centric Poland WUaS in Polish (and with MIT OCW) that libraries's contents (and Museums too) in Polish would be helpful, from WUaS's perspective, as one example of possible institutional collaboration potential. Open to your suggestions.
5 WUaS seeks to make our degrees as valuable as MIT, Harvard and Stanford degrees (accreditation will help), and thus if a Polish student applies to, gets into, and graduates from one of these universities, and returns to Poland, their career potential may be enormous, and Poland as a country benefits from this knowledge-generation ability too.
6 Building their own reputation further - and especially in the brand new Internet space, with MIT OCW in 4 languages - and with all the internet can offer for new approaches to learning, idea exchange, basic research, and thanks partly to computing. MIT OCW has so many computer science courses, and many of its other 32 departments are informed by computer science and the internet in multiple ways. (Both MIT and Stanford and have been among the most generative of universities in the digital age).
Andrzej, let's communicate further about service science and ISSIP.
Mariusz, regarding your:
"I would see complementary to Your attempts with Google the contribution of polish Simulation center in the field of modern, non existing but short term missed occupations of the future. We have here professional teams/ companies working in the background of INTEL or Google able to develop every needed electronic , fotonic or ICT entity on demand. I stay in touch with those top experts."
A significant aspect of the information technology age has involved creating computer science for it ... and this is an unfolding process, and MIT OCW offers 'building blocks' in these regards that are unparalleled, and which perhaps the professionals, or Poles, you know haven't had experience with, or knowledge of. MIT OCW-centric WUaS seeks to educate for future information technology computer science developments, as well as create careers in these regards, in Polish too. Simulations will be part of this, and for robotics early on for example.
Again, students learning computer Machine Learning AI, and Reinforcement Learning - so machines actually learn - is what the Google Research Football Environment makes possible in an entirely different way and newly interactive way. (Think head of Google AI, Peter Norvig, who wrote the textbook on this, for example).
RE "Could You explain that idea of licensing please? How it works? Who is selling the licese to whom? Unther what conditions? What is the business for every member of this prozess? ."
Creative Commons' licensing is a new form of licensing begun about 20 years ago, and in the case of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare, again, allows CC-4 World Univ & Sch to 1) share, 2) adapt, but 3) non-commercially MIT OCW resources (in its current, 4 languages). The idea is about licensing sharing, which is a rewrite for the law in most countries, so please ask further specific questions. And see the bottom of the MIT OCW main page (and the WUaS pages too) to read about this license from their perspective. MIT OCW has successfully raised monies from the Hewlett and Mellon foundations ($US 3-4 million per year, I once read), so they are in the fundraising business in the context of US charities. CC-4 licensing has a non-commercial attribute, which further makes WUaS sharing of MIT OCW possibile and legal, but we both have had to develop our own business models. (And remember that WUaS has 2 wings, as separate legal entities in CA and in the US, the latter of which - the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation, isn't CC-4 licensed).
Regarding your "On the Stock market in Warsaw I have my own contacts. I know personally the president of the fond of the fond at the Stock market"
- that's a great contact (and potentially re Poland law too). The 3 Polish universities you mention might be able to facilitate a legal base in Poland for WUaS for our for-profit wing, and benefit financially from this too. If and when WUaS begins Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital online AND on-the-ground bookstores/computer stores/robotics' stores/ hospital technologies' distribution stores, and in Polish, and regarding the law - and which become profitable, and serve out WUaS Polish students well - these Polish universities could benefit significantly. But this would involve matriculating many high achieving Polish students (which you both would benefit from esp.).
After I get a sense of some of your thoughts and questions about the above, let's schedule another chat.
Re the degrees that WUaS seeks to offer initially, in these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - for free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees, first in English, then in Polish, I'd think that Catholic Poland could find these relevant. Where WUaS heads in Polish and English, and as we begin Ph.D.s with the ~32 departments at MIT in MIT OCW, partly will be informed by a WUaS research agenda that seeks to comparatively study how students learn across languages, and between cultures even. So WUaS may well develop new departments after building from the MIT OCW, and regarding studying online learning with machine learning and AI even. (With my own issues with feminism) I think WUaS will develop new majors not only in English and in Polish at Poland WUaS, but in many other societies, which will seek to address helpful aspects for societies in which WUaS grows. As a Castellian (Manuel Castells) - re social theory informing World Univ & Sch even - I would seek to highlight the IT innovation aspects of his far-reaching thinking and not other aspects, for example, and in these regards. But social science and social theory can also become a huge employer, and generator of faculty even, so I wouldn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, regarding social theory in Poland, for example.
Thanks again so much for your questions, and thoughts, and looking forward to learning what you next think and how this leads us conversationally, and collaboration-wise, ahead. Your knowledge of Poland here is enormously valuable here, and it's a culture I know only a very little about. But I think the excellence of WUaS, and in its MIT and Stanford-centricity, if it can attract high achieving smart Polish students will benefit Poland enormously!
Thank you.
Kind regards, Scott
> > > And this, importantly, has Mariusz's questions in response to a previus email in color:
Ma STue, Aug 25, 3:36 AM (3 days ago)
to Andrzej, me, LarryDear Scott, Dear All,I appreciate keeping base with You and exchanging our views to the potential cooperation.In order to apply a useful form and better transformation of thoughts please allow me to take position inside of your text.
I have a few questions about the business concept behind, actually I am asking for the business model of our potential cooperation. As far as I am informed form the many links I tried to look it up, the courses at WUaSare supposed to be conducted in two ways. 1. CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx and 2. via edX and open edX.Is that correct? Too many links are not helpful but confusing. What is all that for and what is the difference occurres the rhetoric question.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:01 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Mariusz, Dear Andrezj, (& Larry)
Good to be in communication with you. I also apreciate our communication a lot. World Univ & Sch is waiting for the next steps regarding edX or Open edX (re CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) and for one of our matriculating students in India on September 1, 2020 - and how WUaS or edX could provide a letter to prospective employers that this student was matriculated officially at WUaS / edX and similar. I've emailed edX CEO Anant Agarwal about this, and haven't heard back yet. Such WUaS edX / Open edX / MITx courses for Poles who speak English - and letters for prospective employers too - beginning around January 1, 2021 would be important in our communications too. What are your thoughts?
And what are your thoughts about helping WUaS find 50-500 Polish students who speak English to matriculate for free-to-students' Bachelors' degrees on January 1, 2021 too?
I have informed You about my contacts with three polish universities. Before I would approach them with the idea starting cooperation with WUaS and MIT OCW I need to know what is the advantage of the cooperation with you for:
- the universities, why should they cooperate with you?1. what is the financial advantage for them regarding the scope from one student till 500 students?2. in what fields is there extended cooperation of polish universities with the WUaS possible?3. Is there a prestige related advantage of such cooperation possible?4. Are you interested more in students or in institutional cooperation?5. What is the international value of such matriculation diploma?6. Why should they carry about the cooperation with WUaS and not about their own studies and name?
On the answers to these questions are depending the next related to my person and my role in the WUaS cooperation with Poland.
I would like to discuss with you, when You allow me, the scope of studies offered to polish students. When we offer MIT related studies someone would expect the technical or STEM and or space/ aeronautics studies.You know, Poland is extremely catolic. Do You think, keeping on the web side scio-philosophical gender studies would be helpful or not to attract polish students?I think, I am well informed about the roots of the Frankfurter Schule, they have prepared the thought construct ( not idea) called gender to conduct world wide cultural changes.I have many excellent contacts with scientists of catholic church and not catholic provenience and those people inform me, that the consequence of introducing gender studies is lower level of education and less thinking freedom. Te same conclusion I was able to find on the two pages of Neue Zuricher Zeitung. One of the swiss Nobel prize winners, alumni of Harvard after 20 years has complained about the education level at the Harvard university and pointed out the political correctness as a direct agens leading to the lowering of the educational level at the university and the gender ideology as a main idea behind.
Questions would be most welcome about abbreviations and other specifics. (If you'd like to meet again in a video conference for clarifications, please let me know). I like that idea.
To try to respond to each of your sentences:
"There are at least three universities, of different scientific foci and specializations."
> In planning for Poland World University and School - and regarding career generation too - I could see graduate students at these 3 universities as being potential excellent translators of MIT OCW courses into Polish, and in facilitating online seminars (teaching 'sections' in the American system - and in order to gain experience in becoming professors and faculty). The linguistic students would like that perspective.
"The most convenient or best cooperation model we can apply is the T-Shape, Andrzej Ruciński`s service science most preferred method. Because of his heritage and expertise, he could be a master guru of that Idea helping the polish universities by proper implementation and taking maximum advantage of the cooperation with You"
> Andrzej, it would be great to communicate further about this. Bringing ISSIP and service science T-Shape approaches to bear to some of these questions regarding collaborating with Polish universities could be great. Please advise. Scott and Andrzej please talk together and inform me about the agreed results of your talk.
"I am working now on organization and establishing a simulator for remote users from Poland and different countries. The leading Idea of that simulator is providing access to people/ organizations/ companies willing to assess the leadership qualities. In my opinion we could take into consideration the usage of this simulator idea in the CC 4 MIT OCW framework as a more advanced stage. It would be a practical approach to the "T-shape" method."
> I'm likely going to give a UC Berkeley Anthropology talk this autumn on a single realistic virtual earth for everything (including tourism studies and tourism; see bottom here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/rosa-californica-california-frontier.html - and below), - and regarding building out of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate, with Samsung Neons aka 'artificial humans' and group build-able with avatars like Second Life, but realistic, and into Google Poly (a library of virtual objects) - all very Google platform-centric. Mariusz, this would also include a single realistic virtual earth for these academic fields here - worlduniversityandschool.org - so I'm wondering what areas or aspects in these contexts for simulators you'd see as helpful in building out. I would see complementary to Your attepts with Google the contribution of polish Simulation center in the field of modern, non existing but short term missed occupations of the future. We have here proffesonal teams/ companies working in the background of INTEL or Google able to develope evry neded electronic , fotonic or ICT entity on demand. I stay in touch with that top experts. I'm wondering, for example, in particular, whether a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics simulation https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click and regarding a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos simulation - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos?src=hashtag_click and even for AI machine learning or Reinforcement Learning - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1273316053976678401?s=20 - regarding Google Research Football could be helpful for Polish students at WUaS first in English and then in Polish? The idea with the football i didn`t catch.
"A) The next point of our discussion could be, taking advantage of MIT OCW and so broad access to the students globally, B) and turning the contacts into the business projects in cooperation with the local entities/ academic technology transfer offices/ VC and so on."
A)
This is one approach CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - but would probably for WUaS have to happen after WUaS heard back about WUaS edX letters for prospective employers from edX CEO Anant Agarwal or when WUaS builds out again for January in Open edX via MOOCit France as course service provider. And for this WUaS is seeking 6 MIT or similar graduate students to adapt MIT OCW into courses on Open edX in our WUaS 6 majors for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees. (edX isn't easy to work with, I've found so far, but am hoping collaborations grow, as WUaS offers licensing and accrediting free to students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees) Could You explain that idea of licensing please? How it works? Who is selling the licese to whom? Unther what conditions? What is the business for every member of this prozess? . World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop as its own legal entity in Poland.
B)Where WUaS is heading with business projects is first with our WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and in Poland (English, Polish) too for students' books, robotics' stores, computer stores (and perhaps even eventually list this Polish WUaS Educational Services' Store on the Polish stock market).On the Stock market in Warsaw I have my own contacts. I know personaly the president of the fond of the fond at the Stock market. VC will be important here, and as WUaS develops our technological innovations, we'll probably parallel the MIT TEchnology Licensing office http://tlo.mit.edu - but under WUaS auspices (for which we'll hire career positions). The WUaS Press / WUaS Corp is similarly seeking to develop as its own legal entity in Poland. But collaborations in the beginning may be important and invaluable too! What may be the advatages for the colaborating universities?
"I am not sure because of so many abbreviations in Your text that I fully comprehend Your meaning.Am I allowed to ask You some particular questions in order to better understand your proposal?""
> Again - Questions would be most welcome about abbreviations and other specifics. (If you'd like to meet again in a video conference for clarifications, please let me know too). I would love to, so we would go over the most importent parts of the text together, and I would get a full picture of Your idea.
Hope, You don`t mind my direct style and different look on the current leading ideology at the universities?
World Univ & Sch is seeking Polish students for January 2021 first in English. Very nice to be in communication!
Kind regards
Mariusz
Please let me know your further thoughts and questions about WUaS regarding the above, Rohit, Sri, Marisol, Peter, Partha.
Best regards, Scott
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August 27, 2020
Diplacus aurantiacus (orange bush monkey-flower): Stress - De-Stressors? Continuing to record piping music daily, experimentally, toward my first Scottish small pipes' album for learning ... Re Desiderata too - am keeping interested in my own career, regar
Hi Ma,
Nice to talk last night.
Continuing to record piping music daily, experimentally, toward my first Scottish small pipes' album - (https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com - http://www.scottmacleod.com/piping.htm).
Good first steps in this direction re learning from recording ... Seeking to hear the 'Honey in the Bag' in the note duration (with metronome on ear phones) ...
Re Desiderata too ... https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - am keeping interested in my own career, regarding "Keep interested in your own career, however humble" (as in SSP bagpiping, - as well as guiding World Univ & Sch, Actual-Virtual Harbin ethnographic project).
Re Yoga, movement (for stress reduction too), and LANGUAGE, I find this Learn Scots Gaelic Tweet germane re putting things in perspective -
LearnGaelicScot@LearnGaelicScot·5h
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August 26, 2020
Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain beeplant/beeweed): 2nd Undergraduate Class at World Univ & Sch matriculating September 1, 2020 * Distribution Requirements for a 4 year program * * * California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Jo
2nd Undergraduate Class at World Univ & Sch matriculating September 1, 2020
Scott MacLeod
9:58 AM (11 hours ago)
to Larry, Rohit, Rohit, Anant, Sri, Shahbaz
Dear Shahbaz and Larry,
Thanks for your ongoing interest in matriculating at World University and School on September 1, 2020, Shahbaz. Should you need a letter of some kind for prospective employers overseas, and you are enrolled in classes as a matriculated WUaS student, WUaS can provide this for you. (Larry's the chair of the Board at World Univ & Sch, and the presiding clerk of the Academic Accreditation committee, as WUaS proceeds with the licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE - and concurrently - https://twitter.com/wascsenior - accrediting process, probably in 2021). For accreditation purposes, WUaS will probably ask you what results you (INITIALLY, and for accreditation purposes) got from the edX courses you'll take this autumn.
Roughly, and in terms of a free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor's degree at WUaS - as if going to MIT, Stanford or Harvard on-the-ground - WUaS is seeking for Bachelor's degree students to take approximately 40 15-week long CC-4 MIT OCW-centric courses (think edX courses here) over 4 years. This would translate to 10 15-week long courses per year (or 3.3 15-week long courses per 4 month term), - and if a WEEK of an edX course is a credit unit, you would need to study or take 150 credit units in the course of a year. For the 2 courses below, you would receive approximately 13 credit units (where a 'full load' this autumn would be 50 credit units). Please see, also, the (Reed College) English major and distribution requirements' email, which I emailed you, in these regards too. I hope you enjoy the edX courses you'll take beginning soon; it's looking like the "Shakespeare Matters" course has an ongoing rolling admissions, so that you'll likely be able to begin this on 9/1/20. Please remember that having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal, you'll be studying the edX courses on your own initially, and letting WUaS know your results about what you learn from edX. (I'll create a blog with all of this soon).
For your information, you're part of the 2nd matriculating undergraduate class at best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. Thank you again, Shahbaz, for your planning to matriculate at World University and School on September 1, 2020. Enjoy!
Thanks, Scott
From Monday, August 17, 2020
So ... Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course -
Poetry in America: Modernism
https://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-... .
and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) -
Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.
https://www.edx.org/course/shakespear...
(or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)
toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.
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Hi Scott,
I don't have to show the proof of my enrollment in India but overseas. I just need something to backup my interview answers (if required) in terms of my education. It may be as little as a registration number or a letter of acceptance.
I would love to start the courses in September that would qualify me for a bachelor's degree. I just want a simple BA degree.
Thanks
On Mon 24 Aug, 2020, 9:07 PM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Shahbaz, and Anant,
Greetings. Shahbaz, having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal concerning your request for a letter from edX (or from WUaS developing courses in Open edX via MOOCit France, which WUaS has cancelled for the time being) for any prospective employers of yours in India, that you're officially matriculated at WUaS, I think WUaS will likely have to plan to launch our licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees for around January 1, 2021.
Shahbaz, you may still take the 2 edX English courses (from HarvardX and AdelaideX), and for free I think, which you and I have talked about beginning September 1, 2020, but WUaS can't guarantee that these would apply to your free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degree and transcript (and they might not). Taking these courses, however, would likely be a very good experience for you in becoming familiar with online Open edX, edX (and especially CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx) courses. These questions are also a bit in flux still, so please stay tuned. Thank you for your interest in matriculating at WUaS on September 1, 2020.
Sincerely, Scott
From Monday, August 17, 2020So, with Anant's guidance here, Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course -
Poetry in America: Modernismhttps://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-america-modernism .
and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) -
Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-matters (or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)
toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:42 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Dear Shahbaz, and Anant,
Thank you for your email just now:
"Thanks for the update. I would like to begin the recommended courses starting September 1st.
Kindly walk me through the process of registering for the 4 year BA Degree program as I might have to show the proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer.
Shahbaz" (in India)
So, with Anant's guidance here, Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course -
Poetry in America: Modernismhttps://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-america-modernism .
and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) -
Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-matters (or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)
toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.
Anant: Shahbaz, and one other prospective student (whom Larry and I haven't heard back from yet), have expressed interest in matriculating at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, on September 1, 2020. (As you may have seen, WUaS is canceling our WUaS Open edX platform via MOOCit France for the time being, - and in planning for matriculating our next class on or around January 1, 2021). In what ways, please, could Shahbaz matriculate at WUaS in these courses - toward this 4-year English major - and show evidence of this to his prospective employer in India ("proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer")? And in what ways could WUaS begin to show related proof of Shahbaz Sanjer's enrollment at WUaS for a 4-year Bachelor's degree to CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior regarding accreditation (and related WUaS platform, and enrolled students, questions).
Some of Shahbaz's, Larry's and my recent previous correspondence is here (at bottom) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/ridgways-rail-heat-came-to-this-land-in.html - including regarding distribution requirements, and Reed College's approach to an English major, seminar / the conference method and more.
Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:34 AM Shahbaz Sanjer <sanjerbaz@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Scott,
Thanks for the update. I would like to begin the recommended courses starting September 1st.
Kindly walk me through the process of registering for the 4 year BA Degree program as I might have to show the proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer.
Thanks
On Mon 17 Aug, 2020, 2:07 AM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:And, with Anant's guidance, if you want to begin today, here's a 5 week course on Shakespeare from AdelaideX, edX -
Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-matters
- for your consideration.
Sincerely, Scott
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 1:00 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:But I just noticed that this "Shakespeare on the Page and in Performance: Young Love" course is archived, so Shahbaz, if you'd like to take 2 courses simultaneously, beginning September 1, 2020, please have a look further here - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature - at what you might be interested in.
Cheers, Scott
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:58 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Shahbaz and Larry,
Shakespeare on the Page and in Performance: Young Love
Explore Shakespeare's plays of young love, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to learn what makes them so compelling and magical.
https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-on-the-page-and-in-performance-young-l
- https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature -
Seems like this might be a wonderful subject, as well as an amazing way to read and think about 2 of Shakespeare's greatest plays - in just 3 weeks. Studying the genius of Shakespeare is another remarkable opportunity.
This could be a good way to take 2 courses at the same time, with the Poetry in Modernism course, to see what this might be like. (WUaS would start figuring out what kind of units of credit toward a Bachelor's degree you'd received upon completion of this 3 week long course, and the 8 week long course).
Wellesley, like Harvard, is a great university!
Regards, Scott
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:10 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Dear Shahbaz and Larry,
Thanks for your reply, Shahbaz.
Re your mentioning Humanities, and regarding an English major at World University and School as WUaS proceeds with CA licensing and (WASC senior) accreditation planning, I think it would be great if you have the time this autumn for you to take 2-3 courses that would lead to an online free-to-students' Bachelor's degree, with your taking approximately 40 semester-long courses - think 15-week long MIT OCW courses - over 4 years, with the MIT OCW courses potentially divided in half.
This degree would include your taking courses in your English major, as well as distribution requirements. As an example of distribution requirements, and which WUaS will seek to build upon, see these Reed College distribution requirements - https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/distribution-requirements-effective-fall-2019.pdf . (I graduated from Reed College in the first half of the 1980s).
Regarding your interest in majoring in English, WUaS will seek too to build from the English major requirements here - https://www.reed.edu/english/requirements.html . And since "The department strongly recommends that all majors take at least one course in each of the principal literary genres: poetry, drama, and fiction," here, I would suggest you explore taking some introductory courses in poetry, drama, and fiction from MIT OCW, and possibly this autumn, as well as perhaps a literary theory course. While WUaS seeks also to offer a required first year Humanities 101 - with many parallels to Reed's required Hum 110 course, but newly online so will be quite different too I hope that WUaS can have this happening for January 2021. This will inform WUaS's approach to teaching and learning even - facilitating online seminar for engaging in the conference method of teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - with implications for all of the courses you'll take over 4 years. And perhaps WUaS Hum 101 courses will emerge newly in edX with Riff Analytics even!
So while I found this MIT OCW course - "Introduction to Literary Theory"https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-451-introduction-to-literary-theory-fall-2014/ - which could be a good starting course for you,
it's not yet in this MIT OCW into MITx format - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/.
And so, perhaps, with edX CEO Anant Agarwal's guidance, you could take courses from edX with the above in mind (from these courses):Literature Courses
Learn about literature and more from the best universities and institutions around the world.
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature
How does this sound for you?
And so, further, and as an example, here's an eight week long course from HarvardX at edX -
Poetry in America: Modernismhttps://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-america-modernism .
With this course in mind - and with Anant's guidance too - would you like to consider taking this course beginning September 1, and then after 4 weeks or so, we could begin to add another edX, or CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx, course - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature - of your choosing, so you'd then begin taking 2 courses beginning around October 1, 2020. All of this would allow you to begin gradually, and build up to studying a 'full load' of 3-4 MIT OCW into MITx (or similar) courses per semester (re becoming a full time student) gradually at WUaS. If you'd like me to recommend this approach to you, I'm happy to do so. Beginning with this "Poetry in America: Modernism" course - or another similar one from edX of your choosing, around September 1, 2020, would allow you to get your 'feet wet,' and begin to study toward your online English major Bachelor degree at WUaS. Please let me know your thoughts about this.
Regards, Scott
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:18 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Hi Shahbaz,
Monthly Business Meeting for World Univ & Sch just closed, and WUaS would like to ask if you have any credit for college courses? And how many courses do you want to take this semester?
And how many courses do you want to take this autumn 2020 (thinking in terms of full MIT OCW courses, but possibly divided into 2, and conceptually like ones on the edX or Open edX platform, but possibly from other platforms)?
Are there any specific courses you'd like to take?
(And, as WUaS begins to seek these courses out, in something like edX, WUaS would like to inquire if you have any specific courses you'd like to take at this stage, eg from here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/ or other OCW brainstorming-wise - https://ocw.mit.edu/).
Please tell me immediately. (WUaS may recommend some courses after hearing from you ... including possibly Lego Robotics' English courses, as well as - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ).
Best regards, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 7:59 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Shahbaz,
I am hoping a) writing creatively in English, b) studying English literature and c) teaching English as a second language will be part of the upcoming 4-year free-to-students' online CC-4 OCW-centric English Bachelor's degree at WUaS. I hope too this may include using the Scratch programming language - https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1292460756513034248?s=20 - and Lego robotics even too! How best to begin 'reading' English literature from the computer too while listening to it? Have a look at "Tom Jones" here in particular - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/malabar-parakeet-bishopton-scotland-dog.html - which can be so funny it may bring tears of mirth to your eyes :)
Friendly regards, Scott (You'll find some of our recent correspondence here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/indian-rose-chestnut-world-univ-sch.html - if that's alright).
World Univ & Sch is waiting until August 14 to hear back from Open edX regarding their invitation to WUaS to work with MOOCit France as a service partner, since WUaS doesn't yet have any (MIT?) graduate student instructors to help adapt the MIT OCW (with MIT professors) into WUaS Open edX.
Regards, Scott (Just re-Tweeted the Lego Tweet here https://twitter.com/scottmacleod :)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Creative_Writing
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Writing
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 6:52 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:Got it, thanks, Shahbaz!
Sincerely, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature -
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 2:24 AM Shahbaz Sanjer <sanjerbaz@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Scott,
Here's my LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahbaz-sanjer
On Fri 7 Aug, 2020, 11:35 PM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:You are welcome. (What's your Linked In profile if you have one? And what are your Twitter profiles as well?)
You're registered for English, as well. Thank you!
Regards, Scotthttps://www.linkedin.com/company/world-university-and-school https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
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California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality
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Dear Angela and Julie, Meghan and Maureen,
Thanks so much for your excellent "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel today - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/californias-approach-to-recovery-and-resilience-centering-equity-and-job-quality/ !
Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitans, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20 - with the Boston Federal Reserve.
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.
How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward?
Thank you, Angela and Julie, Meghan and Maureen, ScottUBI blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI -
I followed and retweeted your Tweets - https://twitter.com/conway_maureenhttps://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/maureen-conway/https://twitter.com/conway_maureen/status/1298655301168758787?s=20
https://twitter.com/JulieSuCAhttps://www.labor.ca.gov/about/secretary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Su_(attorney)
https://twitter.com/agb4equityhttps://www.policylink.org/aboutUs/staff/angela-glover-blackwell
https://www.livingcities.org/people/angela-glover-blackwell
https://forwomen.org/staff/angela-glover-blackwell/
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/angela-glover-blackwell
(https://twitter.com/Prof_MPastor
https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/staff/manuel-pastor/
https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/pastor/ )
https://twitter.com/meghamamahttps://www.marketplace.org/author/meghan-mccarty-carino/https://muckrack.com/meghan-mccarty-carino/articles
https://tsrc.berkeley.edu/news/scooters-could-improve-mobility-low-income-areas-they-have-image-problem
https://calmatters.org/california-dream/2018/04/how-california-car-culture-killed-the-promise-of-a-20-minute-commute/
(from https://twitter.com/WUaSPress and https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod).
MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - worlduniversityandschool.orghttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
PSFor example, here is Kenya World Univ & Sch's beginnings - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya - planned in Swahili and other main languages in east Africa there.
PPSAnd here are WUaS's 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.
...
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
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August 25, 2020
Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus): SRI International - Live Session Confirmation "Navigating the New World of Work" * * * Quaker FAHE August Event: Reconsidering Quaker Higher Education (Friends Association of Higher Education)
Live Session Confirmation "Navigating the New World of Work"
Webinar Speakers
Frode OdegardCEO @Post-Lean InstituteFrode L. Odegard is a thought leader in post-industrial management science. His major focus is on how corporates, investors and policymakers can best navigate humanity’s transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a deep background in organizational design and a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, and philosophy. When not at work on post-industrial management tools, he is in the dojo practicing traditional Iwama style Aikido.
Dr. Jim SpohrerDirector of Cognitive Open Technologies @IBMAs the Director of Cognitive Open Technologies, Jim's portfolio includes open source intelligence augmentation (IA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL). Previously, he was Director of IBM Global University Programs and IBM’s Cognitive Systems Institute Group. Jim co-founded IBM’s first Service Research group, ISSIP Service Science community. He was the founding CTO of IBM’s Venture Capital Relations Group in Silicon Valley. In the 1990’s, he was awarded Apple’s Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technology title for his work on next generation learning platforms. Jim’s current team and system building focus is T-shaped innovators working to rebuild rapidly from scratch digital cognitive systems for smarter/wiser service systems. Jim is also the Chairperson of the Linux Foundation AI, Technical Advisory Council. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science/AI from from Yale. Jim is a member of the Post-Lean Institute advisory board.
Dr. Manish KothariPresident @SRI InternationalManish jointly develops strategy with the CEO and ensures that resources and talent are aligned with SRI’s research needs. He also directly oversees SRI Ventures, Global Partnerships, Marketing and Communications, and International offices, including the Japan office. Prior to joining SRI, Manish co-founded and was CEO of Mytrus (acquired by Medidata), which utilized NLP and ML to offer a cloud-based service platform for direct-to-participant clinical trials. He has also held a series of executive roles in a number of successfully exited startups, including Sales & Marketing as well as in R&D. Manish received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biomechanical engineering from Cornell, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the UCSF. His undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering (summa cum laude) is from IIT. He holds multiple patents and is the author or co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Manish has served on the boards of multiple DeepTech startups.*
Scott MacLeod
10:35 AM (12 hours ago)
to Jim, frode.odegard, mkothari
Dear Jim, (Manish and Frode),
Thanks for sharing this on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SRI_Intl/status/1296835989722333185?s=20, Jim (and Frode - https://twitter.com/Odegard/status/1295861784327458817?s=20). I signed up, received a confirmation email, but then Zoom asked for a password, which the email hadn't provided. Is there a video recording perchance of https://www.sri.com/deeptech-everywhe... ? Congratulations on your 5 years' Presidency at SRI, Mamish (but I'm not sure I have your email address correct).
I wanted to ask about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in its 4 languages) wiki World Univ & Sch, which is planning to create major online Universities in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in 7,117 known living languages, and regarding a WUaS Universal Translator which was my ISSIP Grand Challenge presentation in 2015 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201... - for example. And World Univ & Sch also has a "WUaS home robotics" ' focus emerging with courses from - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - (and is an official 'carrier' of 3 Lego Robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A...). I see, Manish, that you've served on a number of Boards of Robotics' companies - https://www.sri.com/bios/manish-kothari/. WUaS's robotics focus is even for facilitating learning machine learning:
Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod
BEGINNING 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & with #LegoRobotics via #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1298028276334526465?s=20
Thank you,
Scott
WUaS 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
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- 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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Frode Odegard11:03 AM (12 hours ago)
to Jim, mkothari, meDear Scott,Thank you for this. We have heard from two other people who had the same issue. Out of about 90 people registered, we had just under 30 people live. Usually we get about 50% attending live, but with LinkedIn registrants that ratio is lower because LinkedIn doesn’t make it easy to see when the event is being held.
So not everyone had this problem and we will be on the case to find the root cause and prevent going forward. Zoom has a bunch of usability issues, to put it mildly, , and Zoom’s behavior can also change depending on whether people are running the very latest version of their client.
But rest assured, we will get to the bottom of it, and there is a recording, so don’t worry.
We will probably be contacting you to get some data as we debug the issue.
Kind regards,
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Frode, Jim, Manish,
Thanks so much for your reply, Frode. MIT OCW-centric Denmark World Univ & Sch will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in Danish, for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD (and IB high school degrees). And since MIT has neither a law school nor a medical school, the online MD degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - (and for clinical research too), and online law degrees, may emerge from Stanford Law and Medicine. For India too, and first in Hindi (but planned for all 22 official / scheduled languages in India). See, the beginning online Law schools here:
Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaSBrazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaSChina Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaSEgypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaSIndia Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaSJamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaSMexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaSWorld University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School
How best to communicate further about this, and regarding your panel this morning on "Navigating the New World of Work."
Jim, could you please forward my emails to Manish? Thank you.
Kind regards, Scott
Dear Jim, (Manish and Frode),
Thanks for sharing this on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SRI_Intl/status/1296835989722333185?s=20, Jim (and Frode - https://twitter.com/Odegard/status/1295861784327458817?s=20). I signed up, received a confirmation email, but then Zoom asked for a password, which the email hadn't provided. Is there a video recording perchance of https://www.sri.com/deeptech-everywhere-building-disruptive-micro-organizations/events/ ? Congratulations on your 5 years' Presidency at SRI, Mamish (but I'm not sure I have your email address correct).
I wanted to ask about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in its 4 languages) wiki World Univ & Sch, which is planning to create major online Universities in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in 7,117 known living languages, and regarding a WUaS Universal Translator which was my ISSIP Grand Challenge presentation in 2015 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/orchidaceae-wuas-1000-proposed-issip.html - for example. And World Univ & Sch also has a "WUaS home robotics" ' focus emerging with courses from - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - (and is an official 'carrier' of 3 Lego Robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html). I see, Manish, that you've served on a number of Boards of Robotics' companies - https://www.sri.com/bios/manish-kothari/. WUaS's robotics focus is even for facilitating learning machine learning:
Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod
BEGINNING 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/frangula-californica-california.html in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & with #LegoRobotics via #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1298028276334526465?s=20
Thank you,Scott
WUaS 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
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FAHE August Event: Reconsidering Quaker Higher Education
(Friends Association of Higher Education)
My apologies for duplication if you have already registered and received your Zoom link; just making sure that everyone on our mailing list has received word of the next event in the FAHE Quaker Leadings in HIgher Education Series:
Education has two roles that exist in a creative tension with each other: one role is to perpetuate the culture, and the other role is to stand in critical reflection on the culture. Quaker values stand in a similar creative tension in relation to the dominant structures of mainstream higher education. In this session, the presenters will share some thoughts on how Quaker thought and practice might help transform higher education and our wider society so that we, collectively, might better address the issues of social, racial, environmental, and economic justice facing our world today.
To Register: https://tinyurl.com/FAHE-O8-25Not too late to spread the word about this event and FAHE more generally. David
David RossDepartment of Economics Bryn Mawr College101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010(610) 526-5180 dross@brynmawr.edu
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Dear David, Gray, Jim, Walter, Laura, Stephen, Donn, and Walter,
Thanks very much for your excellent FAHE meeting today in Zoom, and great to hear and meet some of you anew.
Gray, with regards to online courseware, and even online Friendly-informed, universities and high schools, in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, what are your thoughts further about bringing, brainstorming-wise, a Friendly approach to MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 4 languages), and edX in its many languages? I appreciate you having mentioned Khan Academy in these regards, and I think the edX CEO and MIT Prof of EECS Anant Agarwal may look to Khan Academy in the development of edX. In developing MIT OCW-centric wiki World University & School, with plans to create online (Friendly-informed too) universities in ~200 nation states, and wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages (whereas Wikipedia is in 300 languages), WUaS seeks reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of Education, for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD, as well as IB high school degrees, along the lines of what it costs to go to Haverford, Swarthmore, MIT, Stanford, Wesleyan, and similar great schools for free-to-students' university degrees. It's the CC-4 licensing of CC-4 MIT OCW which would allow WUaS to build on this OCW, which CC-4 licensing says one can 1) share it, 2) adapt it but 3) non-commercially. And it could benefit FAHE too, if FAHE were able to help focus, and regading people of color, and Blacks in Africa too, in Quaker higher education, the development of Kenya and Bolivia World Universities and Schools since Friends are numerous in these countries, I've read.
How might we ALL best further come into Friendly conversation about all of this?
Friendly regards, Scott worlduniversityandschool.orghttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
PSFor example, here are Kenya World Univ & Sch's beginnings - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya - planned in Swahili and other main languages in east Africa there.
PPSAnd here are WUaS's 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.
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https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
-- - 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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Frangula californica (California coffeeberry): Matriculating undergraduates, now, for 1/1/21, Realistic Virtual Earth for Machine Learning - WUaS News, Livestream, Q&A - i) Seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class Jan 1, 2021, and potentially wit
How to BEGIN 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & w #LegoRobotics? #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning sim #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc ~
How to BEGIN 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & w #LegoRobotics? #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning sim #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://t.co/OwxtZ9UxjE ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1297974872891564033?s=20
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BEGINNING 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & with #LegoRobotics via #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc~
BEGINNING 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth > https://t.co/MWeZT3xMue in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for learning #MachineLearning & with #LegoRobotics via #FilmTo3D App >#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
Google open-sources soccer #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE https://t.co/je6bHL2nae~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1298028501090459648?s=20
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WUaS News: Matriculating undergraduates now for 1/1/21, Realistic Virtual Earth for Machine Learning
https://youtu.be/n9qgNwz-cvw
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch
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World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students for 1/1/21 >Online via the WUaS Open edX platform for FREE-to-students' 4-year best STEAM CC-4 OCW Bachelors in English - For information, email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~
World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students for 1/1/21 >Online via the WUaS Open edX platform for FREE-to-students' 4-year best STEAM CC-4 OCW Bachelors in English - For information, email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1297951891834286080?s=20
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WUaS News: Matriculating now undergraduates for 1/1/21, Realistic Virtual Earth for Machine Learning
World Univ & Sch Livestream ... https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ... https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch ...
WUaS News: Matriculating now undergraduates for 1/1/21, Realistic Virtual Earth for Machine Learning
WUaS News:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/frangula-californica-california.html
Monthly Business Meeting minutes, and UBI experiment to alleviate poverty by distributing single digital currency in all ~200 countries, all 7,117 known living languages, and planning for 7.5 billion people on planet:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/twinflower-linnaea-borealis-minutes-for.html
Realistic Virtual Earth for Machine Learning:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/cloudberry-poland-world-university-and.html
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So, how to begin to create a single #RealisticVirtualEarth beginning w #GoogleResearchFootball for learning machine learning / AI, and with Lego Robotics too?
Begin with
Google Research Football Environment -
https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc
Get started with machine learning here:
https://github.com/google-research/football
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning simulator
#MachineLearning #Re
Google open-sources soccer reinforcement learning simulator#MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #GRFE #Google via @VentureBeat https://t.co/mQu3brswRj— Robert Zembowicz (@rzembo) June 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1137763790387326976?s=20
Then, idea-wise, with Dev Khanna #AI powered #football #recording! ⚽Movie camera InnovationStation -
Dev Khanna #AI powered #football #recording! ⚽Movie camera InnovationStation (IG)https://t.co/Or9ceNGUf2 Collab. with #MITScratch for 1-1 #FilmTo3D #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #HomeLegoRoboticsWithScratch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos #ReinforcementLearning re #GRFE ~ https://t.co/nb4A91FHee— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1273313234716520449?s=20 - and 2 video cameras on one's (foldable?) smartphone, for stereo depth, let students video soccer games, and import these in Google Research Football Environment - with Film-To-3D App - and then learn machine learning.
Add Lego Robotics with similar Film-To-3D App, such as -
6.270 MIT Lego Robot Competition 1999 -
https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
And with Lego weDo 2.0 too -
Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
WorldUnivandSch
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Dev Khanna #AI powered #football #recording! ⚽Movie camera InnovationStation (IG)
https://twitter.com/CurieuxExplorer/s... Collab. with #MITScratch for 1-1 #FilmTo3D #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #HomeLegoRoboticsWithScratch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos #ReinforcementLearning re #GRFE ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1273313234716520449?s=20
Dev Khanna #AI powered #football #recording! ⚽Movie camera InnovationStation (IG)https://t.co/Or9ceNGUf2 Collab. with #MITScratch for 1-1 #FilmTo3D #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #HomeLegoRoboticsWithScratch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos #ReinforcementLearning re #GRFE ~ https://t.co/nb4A91FHee— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1273313234716520449?s=20
See, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/frangula-californica-california.html -
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Scott MacLeod
7:58 AM (0 minutes ago)
to Rohit, Rohit, Nicolai, VJ, Ajit, Mircea, Peter, Julian, Andrzej, Iulian, Mohamed, Milos, Ants, Koh, Joan, Tomato, Fritz, Scott, Bill, Sainani, Larry, ks3649, Govind, Jayni, Kyle, tito, Yuping-CASPA, Yuping-CASPA, Juan, Juan, Scott, egerwer1989, Shahbaz, Petros, Lukas, Scott, Info, Charles, Nidahas, mazumdarp, Sid, WUaS, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Sri, Jonathan, Rohit
Dear Shahbaz, Rohit, Universitians,
In about 2 hours: WUaS News, Livestream, Q&A - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live - with an invitation to join the conversation in the new 8x8 video conference platform (which I would email you the link to, if you emailed me that you'd like to join this conversation):
i) Seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class this September 1, 2020, and potentially with students taking edX courses
ii) How WUaS or edX could provide a letter to prospective employers that a student is matriculated officially at WUaS / edX and similar - and in India, and in many other countries too?
- Seeking to hear back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal - and even his doctoral advisor, John Hennessey (former President of Stanford, and current Chairman of Alphabet) - about both of these, Shahbaz! (What kind of edX letter would work best in India for this, Rohit?)
iii) Creating a single #RealisticVirtualEarth beginning w #GoogleResearchFootball for learning machine learning / AI, and with Lego Robotics too
iv) MBM Minutes for 8/15 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/twinflower-linnaea-borealis-minutes-for.html
WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/24/20 10a PT i) Creating a single #RealisticVirtualEarth beginning w #GoogleResearchFootball https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/cloudberry-poland-world-university-and.html To take part>info@ worlduniversityandschool.org https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live ii) MBM Minutes for 8/15 @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~
WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/24/20 10a PT i) Creating a #RealisticVirtualEarth w #GoogleResearchFootball https://t.co/69FlY8YMtl To take part>info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 https://t.co/hgcfhhHnEj. com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live ii) MBM Minutes for 8/15 @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1297745599618400261?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1297746011813683200?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1297746351048912896?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1297747133513138176?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1297747756925120512?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1297748027990368259?s=20
... with an invitation to join this conversation with your thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions.
Am hoping you're all doing well in the coronavirus pandemic!
Cheers, Scott
- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch -
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Could the above Google Football Research Environment also become the basis for field sites for teams of archaeologists, some of whom might be people, and others, at first, Lego Robots into scaled archaeological robots?
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Brainstorming-wise, for example, something like this:
In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?
In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft? https://t.co/hjYVgNjeRM— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265380611553849344
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Dear Scott,
Glad you are doing this work.
It is unlikely that I will get to contribute to this work. So please take me off all your mailing lists. Thank you and all the best.
Warm regards,
VJ
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Dear VJ,
Will do, VJ. And thanks for your email. (Please remember that World Univ & Sch is wiki, so you can teach here, for example, - to Youtube, or by wiki-adding resources).
Kind regards,
Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
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Thanks, too, VJ!
Hae blogged about this here a bit as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/frangula-californica-california.html ... Wiki adds much potential for people to openly teach and learn - and in all 200 countries and 7,117 known living languages at WUaS!
Warm regards, Scott
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Sri Lanka WUaS
8:06 AM (41 minutes ago)
to Info, WUaS, Rohit, india, Rohit, Scott, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Marisol, Hostsave, me
Hi ! Hope everyone is doing good. Are we all set to launch the degrees on 01/09/20?
Regards,
Rifai
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Sri Lanka World University and School, and All,
Thanks for your email. Having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal concerning WUaS's planning-to-matriculate student Shahbaz Sanjer's request for a letter from edX (or from WUaS via Open edX via MOOCit France, which we've cancelled for the time being) for prospective employers in India, that he's officially matriculated at WUaS, I think WUaS will likely have to plan for January 1, 2021. Shahbaz may still seek to take the 2 edX English courses (from HarvardX and AdelaideX) he and I have talked about beginning September 1, 2020, so these questions are a bit in flux still. Stay tuned.
Regards, Scott
* Hi Shahbaz, and Anant,
Greetings. Shahbaz, having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal concerning your request for a letter from edX (or from WUaS developing courses in Open edX via MOOCit France, which WUaS has cancelled for the time being) for any prospective employers of yours in India, that you're officially matriculated at WUaS, I think WUaS will likely have to plan to launch our licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees for around January 1, 2021.
Shahbaz, you may still take the 2 edX English courses (from HarvardX and AdelaideX), and for free I think, which you and I have talked about beginning September 1, 2020, but WUaS can't guarantee that these would apply to your free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degree and transcript (and they might not). Taking these courses, however, would likely be a very good experience for you in becoming familiar with online Open edX, edX (and especially CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx) courses. These questions are also a bit in flux still, so please stay tuned. Thank you for your interest in matriculating at WUaS on September 1, 2020.
Sincerely, Scott
From Monday, August 17, 2020
So, with Anant's guidance here, Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course -
Poetry in America: Modernism
https://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-america-modernism .
and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) -
Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.
https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-matters
(or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)
toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.
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Nemophila menziesii (baby blue eyes): If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here, ...? - Harvard and MIT's George Church - 60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?
Ma, Sandy (mon frère),
If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here,
Harvard and MIT's George Church - 60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
- and which was FDA approved (so we understood the science thanks to experimentation, and it was safe and effective), would you do so? :)
I think I'd prefer a capsule :) ... which still seems some ways off in the future ... and am not holding my breath either ... but there seems reason to be optimistic perchance :)
L, Scott
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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Aug 14, 11:03 AM (9 days ago)
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Marc!
How are you? Are you 'holed up' in your mountain hideaway exploring the intricacies of the immune system virtually, - and due to coronavirus pandemic memes (since the viral / virus expression seems to be quite limited, and in all ~200 countries ... SARS in China and Italy initially, and introduced???, and then the Swedes took the 'herd immunity' approach successfully to a somewhat mild coronavirus Covid-19 virus ... and tests may become available in supermarkets soon - & vaccines too)???
In what ways could this best be done further in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click?
I enjoyed this glimpse into academic life in Zurich! -
Visual Tour: Studying at ETH Zurich
https://youtu.be/n49K-DAf7IY
In what ways will it be possible for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch to collaborate remarkably with ETH Zurich, I wonder. Do you work with / hire ETH Zurich graduates in great numbers?
Warm regards, Scott
Academic Mind -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Mind
STEM -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)
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- http://scottmacleod.com
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Marc Dupuis
Aug 22, 2020, 3:37 AM (1 day ago)
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Hey Scott!
Happy to hear from you! The immune system has evolved and adapted to eliminate pathogens, and pathogens have adapted and evolved to escape it.
The game has been going on For ages, even though virus do seem to use minimal gene expression to create havoc within organisms and populations. In the end it’s an equilibrium so there is hope it should stabilize at some point. And yes, our behavior or memes are the main cause for spread, as virus are very effective at exploiting our weak spots.
How are you? I see your University and Harbin projets moving forward, that’s great. We heard about the fires in California, and people staying at the beaches, hope it’s not too bad. Viruses are likely to survive heat waves and climate change...are we?
Places In the mountains and cool woods in the hills are likely to become highly sought for...
Work is fine, our Company is French-centric so lots of frenchies and rarely do we see Zürich students... lack of diversity is the surest way to extinction.
So little we can do to grapple with important issues...
So let’s preserve what we have and celebrate long lasting friendships.
A ta Santé Scott, et à la prochaine
Marc
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(communicative BEHAVIOR, as in the media? ... re MEMES as replicating cultural units)
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Scott MacLeod
12:09 PM (2 minutes ago)
to Marc
Marc,
So great to hear from you too!
Sounds like you're exploring a variety of 'conversations'! Evolutionary, immune system-wise, viral, company-identity-wise ... evolution biology goes on ... and beginning a family is on my mind, so dating would be great ... and while I have a great 'pad' ... the 'new normal' complicates things.
World Univ & Sch is moving forward, OUI ... is developing step by step, SOMETIMES with a side step or two along the way :) ... and WUaS has made some great recent advances ... like OFFICIALLY carrying Lego Robotics for WUaS 'home robotics' - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ... (but so far only for US students).
Harbin Hot Springs' projet aussi moves forward - oui - but not yet in a realistic virtual Harbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click (with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics or Brain science yet https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click !) - so more in blog - eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin - and see upcoming talk I'll likely give in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department this autumn - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/rosa-californica-california-frontier.html - at bottom. (And Harbin newly appears to be open-closed - https://harbin.org/ - even regarding California's stay at home directive - https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/ - since there's fire in Lake County, California closing it again now, apparently, but one can still make reservations) ... I emailed Sunheart at Harbin Happy birthday recently ... see Rosa Californica-California Frontier blog post again - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/rosa-californica-california-frontier.html ... my daily blog and 6 Twitters are ongoing creative endeavors.
Living in a well-designed little house-let in a beautiful spot in the hills near Berkeley is amazing in some ways, but am living in some solitude here too, which could change with dating ... it could be great if I could even come into 'ownership' of this property somehow ... )
Amazing that WUaS has this daily free newspaper -
The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://t.co/e1SrbGQrCk— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1296984123647709186?s=20 - characterizing too the MIT OCW CC-4 licensing arrangement with WUaS ... Am hopeful edX CEO & MIT Prof of EECS Anant Agarwal can further open the way for WUaS to work with edX -
We’ve come a long way from the hype that #MOOCs generated in 2012. As 2020 becomes known as the time of online learning’s ‘second coming,’ I believe that this time is different: https://t.co/i7czixXmxp— anant agarwal (@agarwaledu) August 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1296806235749187586?s=20 - and perhaps not just via Open edX.
Am teaching Scottish small piping now (have given 20 lessons so far) ... and am just getting into teaching SSP composing interestingly ... Are you making music these days? Are you exploring other aspects of evolutionary biology, besides the immune system and viral processes en français sans les ETH? What is equilibrium in a multidimensional single realistic virtual earth for genetics too (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click) I wonder? :)
Thoughts about aging reversal re George Church as well? (see below:)?
Oui, oui, oui
So let’s preserve what we have and celebrate long lasting friendships.
A ta Santé Marc, et à la prochaine
Fond regards,
Scott
MIT Scratch programming teacher, Zoe Bentley, in the Boston area
It’s time to set the stage! This week in Scratch Camp, we’re drawing backdrops for #ScratchtheMusical. Want to draw your own? Check out our new tutorial on how to draw simple backdrops in Scratch! pic.twitter.com/BOYr22Aksg— Scratch Team (@scratch) August 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1295792109971283970?s=20
Ma, Sandy, (mon frère)
If you could get a monthly aging reversal shot like this spaniel is getting a shot here,
Harvard and MIT's George Church -
60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
- and which was FDA approved (so we understood the science thanks to experimentation, and it was safe and effective), would you do so? :)
I think I'd prefer a capsule :) ... still seems some ways off in the future ... am not holding my breath either ... but there seems reason to be optimistic perchance :)
L, Scott
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Marc,
Have you seen these Genomics' leadership interviews?
george church @geochurch
Aug 14
https://genome.gov/leadership-initiatives/History-of-Genomics-Program/HGP-30th-Anniversary/h5f7sh3K7L0
Human Genome project Interviews
https://t.co/k4iAKSJAMy
Human Genome project Interviews— george church (@geochurch) August 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1294325028616634368?s=20
Cheers, Scott
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Scott MacLeod
11:10 AM (1 hour ago)
to Jane
Ma,
Smoke is back thick in the morning, so shut windows covered by curtains in front room at 7 am , 75F ... at 10:30 78F ...
Am amazed by these digital technologies we live among ... and use (smartphone, internet, laptop computer, house-let, Evaporative cooler, refrigerator, microwave, smart TV, hybrid car) and appreciative ...
The great book "Always Coming Home" (1985) by Ursula K. LeGuin takes place 400 years in the future, after the oceans have risen, and in the Napa Valley (where Ursula grew up as a child) where in the Valley the main character's mother who is of the Kesh people Dance the Wine, and other seasonal ritual dances (and where they have computers, in underground Heyimas) - and where the main character Stone Telling's father is from the warlike Condor people, who keep trying to put war technologies into the air as flying machines, but fail. It offers an interesting perspective on technologies and cultures - peace, too - and Ursula's family as well?, and since Ursula's father was Alfred Kroeber, after whom the UC Berkeley Anthropology building is named, and where he was a founding professor. (And her mother, Theodora, wrote the book Kroeber, Theodora (1961). Ishi in two worlds: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22940-2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi. They were living in Berkeley, California around 1900, since the Cal Anthropology Department was founded in 1901. What a different world that would have been, and in the Napa Valley too - culturally and anthropologically in its own right! (Will we be able to revisit in in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and a realistic virtual earth for anthropology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology?src=hashtag_click)?
Am wondering too about the role of psychiatry to help people at the time, around 1900, and how one could plan for psychiatry 10 or 100 years from now online, in the SF Bay Area, and AROUND THE WORLD!
What are you up to today? And how are you doing?
Love,
Scott
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Cuttyhunk Yacht Club - CYC End of Season Information and News!
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>2:53 PM (5 hours ago)
to Janie, DavidMa, David, I haven't seen this CYC "August Virtual Party Awards Video" 'film' yet ... have either of you? ... and I wonder if there's a kind of production element happening, beyond the recording of it to Youtube idea .. am not sure it's my cup of tea, but it could be a way for the CYC to raise money from all the Cuttyhunk Yacht Clubbers of this 'crazy' summer, for ex.
Reminds me of a Cuttyhunk film I'd like to make some day, and here in the 2nd blog entry especially are some scenes from it. It would be wonderful if Ken Burns could make it. Will you be a consultant, David? Ma? :) ... (I bet there'd be a lot of good Cuttyhunk consultants! ... David? :))
Seals: Cuttyhunk Island in the 1970s’ Documentary Film Proposal, WUaS teacher training all day and homework at night next summer?, For WUaS to become the MIT / Harvard of the Internet with time, and in all languages and countries
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/seals-cuttyhunk-island-in-1970s.html
Cuttyhunk bayberry: I've made at least one Cuttyhunk video before, the Cuttyhunk Historical Society profile page on Google Plus, Thinking through a Cuttyhunk documentary of the 1970shttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/cuttyhunk-bayberry-i've-made-at-least.html(from 2014 in July in the Cuttyhunk label, in daily blog)
Very smokey here today! Have added some further thoughts about this, and related emails to my blog post today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/nemophila-menziesii-baby-blue-eyes-if.html :) Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
Warm regards, Scott
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>3:15 PM (5 hours ago)
to Janie, DavidDavid, Ma, Interviews might be a big part of such a Cuttyhunk in the 1970s' film project, and ethnographically even in a way!
In these regards, check out these Genomics' leadership interviews?
george church @geochurch
Aug 14
https://genome.gov/leadership-initiatives/History-of-Genomics-Program/HGP-30th-Anniversary/h5f7sh3K7L0
Human Genome project Interviews
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1294325028616634368?s=20
Cheers, Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemophila_menziesii...
buttercup (R. circinatus): What I've been reading - 8/23/20 week - Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter
What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/23/20
and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
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Coronavirus Su 8/23/20 Black Lives Matter
Justice Department is increasing attacks on affirmative action in college admissionshttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/23/metro/justice-department-is-increasing-attacks-affirmative-action-college-admissions/
Sweden
Tegnell was pressured about infection tracinghttps://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tegnell-pressades-om-smittsparning/
world
Zero reported deaths in Mongolia - thus preventing the spread of infectionhttps://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/noll-rapporterade-dodsfall-i-mongoliet-sa-forhindrades-smittspridningen/
Behind the Belarusian revolution, Telegram
EASTERN EUROPE
The mobilization against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues thanks to a handful of almost unknown bloggers, who electrify and coordinate the protest actionshttps://www.letemps.ch/monde/derriere-revolution-bielorusse-telegram
PLANETUNITED STATES
In California: Coronavirus has limited use of inmates to fight fires
The inmate-firefighters have become indispensable for the Golden State, faced with a runaway of disasters under the effect of rising temperatures.
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/08/24/en-californie-le-coronavirus-a-limite-le-recours-aux-detenus-pour-lutter-contre-les-incendies_6049728_3244.html
Rocker crime:
How the rocker hunter became a hunted man himself
The Berlin public prosecutor's office spent eight years investigating a high commissioner who was taking action against the Hells Angels. In the end, nothing came of it - except that one of the best investigators is now incapacitated. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/wie-einem-polizisten-sein-engagement-zum-verhaengnis-wurde-li.100420
The United States opens up for the use of blood plasma for corona patientshttps://jyllands-posten.dk/international/usa/ECE12362590/usa-aabner-for-brug-af-blodplasma-til-coronapatienter/
The coronavirus pandemic is still raging in Texas. Its mental health toll will only get worse.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/coronavirus-pandemic-mental-health-toll-tx-covid-15497856.php
george church @geochurch
Aug 14
https://genome.gov/leadership-initiatives/History-of-Genomics-Program/HGP-30th-Anniversary/h5f7sh3K7L0
Human Genome project Interviews
https://t.co/k4iAKSJAMyhttps://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1294325028616634368?s=20
Human Genome project Interviews— george church (@geochurch) August 14, 2020
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Coronavirus Sa 8/22/20 Black Lives Matter
How to gear up for a year of long-distance remote learninghttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/21/metro/mass-ed-leaders-want-teachers-back-classrooms-remote-learning/
Here Navalny is fighting for his lifehttps://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/har-kampar-navalnyj-for-sitt-liv/
Do-it-yourself coronavirus testing sparks kudos, and cautionhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/22/metro/do-it-yourself-coronavirus-testing-sparks-kudos-caution/
Finland reinstates travel restrictions for 10 countries, authorities to decide on Skopje flightshttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17979-finland-reinstates-travel-restrictions-for-10-countries-authorities-to-decide-on-skopje-flights.html
Confronting the Black homeownership gap in Minnesotahttps://m.startribune.com/confronting-the-black-homeownership-gap-in-minnesota/572181702/
This Market Is a Tech Market. If Bond Yields Rise, Watch Out.
There is danger in a market overly reliant on a group of companies that are so similarhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/this-market-is-a-tech-market-if-bond-yields-rise-watch-out-11598101689
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Dear Alden, Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, All,
You can hear Kamala Harris (b. 1964) speak at about the 2 hour mark:
DNC 2020: Kamala Harris, Barack Obama to speak at convention Day 3 | USA TODAY
https://youtu.be/SJqIRlTQZbs
An historic and symbolic vice presidential candidate !
Some thoughts from Andrew Yang https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2020/8/20/21394924/dnc-joe-biden-andrew-yang-magic (and regarding Universal Basic Income UBI experiments, and re You at WUaS for all 7.5 billion wiki teachers and learners too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University)???
A powerful alternative voice, AOC, seconding the nomination of a different Dem president than Biden
"In fidelity and gratitude to a mass peoples' movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights – including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States."
– @AOC#DemConvention pic.twitter.com/KbFL5xl0Uw— 2020 #DemConvention
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