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Rosa californica: California frontier - Harbin Hot Springs, another California frontier? Just wished long time resident, friend, and anthropological informant Sunheart, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and with 30 other birthday party celebrants:) * How are you both on the

Scott MacLeod
8:48 AM (3 hours ago)
to Scott, Sunheart, Eric, Barbara, Alexa, Scott, Edwin, Dean, Juliet, Scott, Tym, Elliott, Rosemary, Shahrzad, Mary, Scott, Kai, Patti, Sunheart, Angela, victor, Ed, s, sajjad, Byron, JoAnne, Lynn, Roz

Happity, Hippity Birthday, Sunheart, Heartsong!

I just noticed your birthday was on Sun., August 20th so I'm writing with birthday greetings, and birthday party email celebrants!

There are about 10 photos of us - https://photos.app.goo.gl/n8iGrLVrAZb79LPk6 - in the Blue Room cafe at Harbin from 2011 around Valentine's day here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/porcupine-needlegrass-sunheart-scott.html. Would love to be able to 'time slide' back in a realistic virtual Harbin ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and even, with Peter Norvig's help (Peter Norvig: We Are Seduced by Our Low-Dimensional Metaphors | AI Podcast Clips - https://youtu.be/y0c1yrPDLN8) - make these photos come alive, and interactively - and to wish you a happy birthday then, now, and in the future virtually too!

To your lucid dreaming! :)
Scott
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



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Peter Norvig: We Are Seduced by Our Low-Dimensional Metaphors | AI Podcast Clips

https://youtu.be/y0c1yrPDLN8



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Scott MacLeod
9:03 AM (3 hours ago)
to Jane, Ann

Ma, Ann,

Harbin Hot Springs, another California frontier? Just wished long time resident, friend, and anthropological informant Sunheart, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and with 30 other birthday party celebrants:) ...

Happity, Hippity Birthday, Sunheart, Heartsong!

I just noticed your birthday was on Sun., August 20th so I'm writing with birthday greetings, and birthday party email celebrants!

There are about 10 photos of us - https://photos.app.goo.gl/n8iGrLVrAZb79LPk6 - in the Blue Room cafe at Harbin from 2011 around Valentine's day here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/porcupine-needlegrass-sunheart-scott.html. Would love to be able to 'time slide' back in a realistic virtual Harbin ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and even, with Peter Norvig's help (Peter Norvig: We Are Seduced by Our Low-Dimensional Metaphors | AI Podcast Clips - https://youtu.be/y0c1yrPDLN8) - make these photos come alive, and interactively - and to wish you a happy birthday then, now, and in the future virtually too!

To your lucid dreaming! :)
Scott
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



Smokey outside here, with windows closed, and fan on, - and the new inside thermometer said 79F as a low for today, when I got up, and is now up to 81. How's the weather by both of you? Awaiting the portable swamp cooler's arrival today, but which apparently involves open windows, so I will see when it first gets used ... !  (Am still concerned about illegal break ins and entries, and theft, in the night - and of spare car key? ... and haven't been able to change the lock yet, with landlady's written permission, and since unwell dad doesn't seem to be able to control himself :( ... ) Am hoping to take the Cal Sailing Club first test today, since the CSC day leader yesterday was helpful with conversation about learning for this test. And the Berkeley Marina is a great place to get away from the smoke. On with my big educational project, upcoming Scottish small pipes' "Honey in the Bag" album (taught 20th great lesson last night with Taylor!), and my next book (poetry again ~ and Harbin inspired!)

Am appreciative of the vision of both Biden and Harris (Joe Biden Acceptance Speech at 2020 Democratic National Convention - https://youtu.be/pnmQr0WfSvo), and think they have a chance re the incumbent ineffectual despot wannabe. What do you think?

Love, Scott




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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Aug 20, 4:20 PM (20 hours ago)
to Ann, Jane

Ma, Ann,

How are you both on the Oregon frontier, and on the Pennsylvania frontier too? :)

I am a bit headachey today probably due to the smoke in the air. There continues to be quite a lot of smoke in the air, even more perhaps than yesterday morning (but not yesterday evening), and perhaps ironically, N95 masks are supposed to be useful for smoke, per this KP message this morning - "There are some important differences between masks that protect you from smoke (N95 masks) and those that protect you and others from COVID-19" (& look: KP video visits - https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/videovisit/ - re emergent telemedicine!). It continues to be hot inside too with the windows closed at 88F at 4 pm, which is also cooler than the last 3 or 4 days in the afternoon, however.

Staying in, drinking lots of cold fluids, keeping the fan running with the windows shut ... (landlord hasn't left yet, so am staying in re protecting against another illegal break in and entry, potentially with theft too, at least by lessening the chances that this occurs) ... would head out to study further for the Cal-Sailing tests in the Berkeley Marina (and to lessen the smoke and the heat) - and regarding all those frontiers too ... Maybe with what I learn at Cal Sailing, I might become commodore of the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club, when kids come along even :) Heading out now ... :)

Fondly, Scott






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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Thu, Aug 20, 11:08 AM (1 day ago)
to Jane, AnnHi Ma, Ann,

For your interest: some further 'California frontier' history I've been sharing with Ed, too: 
The Oakland hills fire was in October of 1991 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991 - and who knows what were its compounding causes etc? (What might Kaiser Permanente medicine know in these regards too - in electronic medical records esp. - and differentially from the media, and other accounts, I wonder?)

And the Loma Prieta earthquake was in October 1989, affecting Oakland, and 'downing' the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake. 
I think I had just matriculated at the Iyengar Yoga Institute on Taraval in SF in the autumn of 1991, moving out from the Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation near Philadelphia, and Swarthmore College, then. So I wasn't around for that big earthquake. 

Scott


Further follow up: seems like too that if I brought my old ceramic or plastic plant pots or containers to https://berkeleyhort.com that I'd be able to store my upcoming portable evaporative cooler aka a swamp cooler - for the extreme heat here - in that corner outside under a roof, with a cover - quite nicely. Thanks for letting me know about the Berkeley Horticultural Nursery near you!
Warm regards, Scott 


Per the book which Ed gave me over the weekend: John McPhee's "The Crofter and the Laird" (1969) (and I gave Ed too The Klamath Knot (1983, but which begins in 1969) by David Foster Wallace), and in which there is a lobster getting description - 

This is the lobster I associate with the British Isles (searching on UK spiny lobster), with no claws to speak of for lobster meat, whereas in the Crofter and the Laird, the lobsters McPhee sees are like Maine lobsters (journalistic licence? ... the ability to raise Maine lobster-species in Scotland for commerce, and so possibly imported for aquaculture???) - 
https://www.nature.scot/plants-animals-and-fungi/invertebrates/marine-invertebrates/european-spiny-lobster

May have to look into this natural history story of possibly 2 species! :)

Scott

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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Aug 20, 9:20 AM (1 day ago)
to Ann, Jane

Hi Jane and Ann,

VERY NICE TO GET A call from Ed yesterday evening on a brief walk in a slightly smokey world, on the hill up to what I'll call the rusty hot tub. Feels like a first friendly call I've gotten in years even in curious California (having seen Ed 2 times over the weekend at his place). Thanks too for your 'All's Well' email, Ann, from last Friday but which I only read (and replied to) yesterday. Curious unfriendly? Canyon too (with the 'unwell' landlord). Nice to talk with him as an old friend, and maybe things are changing here at 670 Ridgecrest Road Canyon CA, 94516 (legally ? - and even re landlord moving on to a retirement center, I'd like to think). It would be great to come into this property, and it could possibly be good to raise a family here even.

Fondly, Scott


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 symbolically significant vice presidential candidate !

Love, Scott



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Wed, Aug 19, 9:04 PM (2 days ago)
to JaneHi Ma,

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 ! 

Love, Scott



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Scott MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 7:47 PM (2 days ago)
to Jane

Ma,

It was 73-74F here at Cal Sailing - Berkeley Marina - and with internet access to learn with for some of the tests sort of ... which initial internet HANDSHAKE of signing on took about 10 minutes (of not connected, then connected) ... but then it started working fine. Was able to surf at Cal Sailing, and make progress in preparing for these tests.

And very nice to talk - am listening to Barack Obama now, and he's sensible, experienced, and inspiring - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/watch-live-barack-obama-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-to-speak-at-dnc.html!

Air was clean there in Berkeley but in heading back, it was 100F in my place, fan on, and with air seeming slightly clear, I opened all the windows and the thermometer now reads 92F. Getting better, but I may close windows later, since my eyes are stinging ever so slightly.

What are you enjoying / did you enjoy about the Democratic National Convention? :)

I hope you have a great week and weekend ahead!

Love,
Scott




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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Wed, Aug 19, 3:41 PM (2 days ago)
to JaneMa,

96F in house, fan on, windows closed, with nrw thermometer when I left at 3:30, but smoke appears to be clearing
102F car said
94F at top of Skyline Blvd Pinehurst Rd, Shepherd"s Canyon Rd
On to Call Sailing to study for test since they have internet for members - cooler too
73F PREDICTION at Berkeley Marina :)
Maybe can open windows tonight if smoke has cleared 
California frontiers! I'm 2020! :)
Love, Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Wed, Aug 19, 1:45 PM (2 days ago)
to JaneThanks, Ma,

I may try to head to Cal Sailing in the Berkeley Marina this afternoon again. I have to take a paper test first, and then around 3-4 small on-site tests including rigging, sailing, and similar. But it's hot here, so it's a bit hard to study for this paper test, although the fan helps. (Am not a fan of tests either, although this one should be pretty easy). 
Glad your heat has abated! And thanks for your email! :)

Love, Scott

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Jane MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 1:17 PM (2 days ago)
to me

Sounds like you’re being very sensible.  Sorry about the heat and smoke.  When do you go next to the place where the lasers are?

Heat has abated for the moment, but more due this weekend.

Love, Ma



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Scott MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 1:12 PM (2 days ago)
to Jane

Hi Ma,

Got out the fan for about the 3rd time in 13 years I'd think ... with windows closed (due to smoke outside) ... and it helps. House thermometer up to 92F (with fan on it)! Am drinking lots of fluids, waiting for unwell landlord to leave for the day (lessening the possibility of another break in and entry / theft) ... which could be done effectively possibly either legally, or if he decided to leave on his own (per even his daughter's encouragement / conversation) ...  all on the California frontier here in Canyon.

Would be cooler on Cuttyhunk! (But if some sort of legal movement could be afoot re landlord, it's probably better to be here)!

How's your day going?

Love, Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Wed, Aug 19, 10:53 AM (2 days ago)
to JaneMa,

Cold fluids, and using my current reliable efficient little car for day traveling and AC to get out of smoke and heat, have merit!

Love, Scott




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Scott MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 9:05 AM (2 days ago)
to Jane

Ma,

The Berkeley Marina, and the Cal Sailing Club - https://www.cal-sailing.org/ - are a gateway to another amazing California frontier - the Pacific ocean - which I haven't explored whatsoever (and the SF Bay Delta too!) ... a kinda cool opportunity

Further California frontiers:
The hypothetical van, which I'm interested in getting, which could sleep 4, has AC and is amazingly fuel efficient (to leave AC on all night when needed, which isn't usual in CA), would allow me to Scottish small pipe in it, get away from the smoke, and heat, and also get to Harbin when it opens (both physically - and virtually, while traveling!). I'd like to be able to stand up in it too! (I don't think the current Sprinter Mercedes vans - which probably top the list of vans - would be that fuel efficient). Am waiting for the hypothetical Toyota Proace to become available in the US, for design and fuel-efficiency reasons + (I'm hypothesizing it will become available) ... but when? Maybe never!

Inside temperature presently in the house-let is 83F with the new thermometer. I think in the future, I'm going to try to leave my place when it gets over 80 or 85F ... and before I get the evaporative cooler. New thermometer has also max and minimum readings for 24 hour periods - and I hate to think how hot it might have been yesterday here - 110? It seems like it can be 10 degrees hotter than outside temperature inside, but now I can learn more about this!

Are you thinking about getting out on a kayak or in a canoe on the Allegheny river at all - with a friend too? For movement, and for coolness, and exploration ... a different kind of walk!

Love, Scott



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Scott MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 8:23 AM (2 days ago)
to Jane

Ma,

You might enjoy this little poem-let:


Heat came to this land
In summer California
And dry inland driftwood
Looked like bleached cattle skulls
Lining the wAy to scorch.
Time to head to Harbin
At least #VirtualHarbin
For online soaking
#VirtualSoaking
In #RealisticVirtualHarbin
From home
In fragrant waters
So cool

Heat came to this land
In summer California
And dry inland driftwood
Looked like bleached cattle skulls
Lining the wAy to scorch.
Time to head to Harbin
At least #VirtualHarbin
For online soaking#VirtualSoaking
In #RealisticVirtualHarbin
From home
In fragrant waters
So cool— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) August 15, 2020

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1294473260327776256?s=19

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1294473572400771074?s=19 ...
Written first on this Twitter while on a short evening walk in recent heat ! :)




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Scott MacLeod
Wed, Aug 19, 7:50 AM (2 days ago)
to Jane

Hi Ma,

How are you?

There's smoke in the air this morning, from wildfires I think - due to recent hot weather? - with echoes of a recent previous year of what seemed like 10 days of intense smoke in air from wildfires (unhealthy to breathe!) ... Can see the smoke in air now that it's light, and I hope it doesn't last that many days (until the wood fuel burns down???), - and perhaps I can get away from this smoke by heading to the Berkeley Marina for example. I closed my windows at 4:30 am which is Already getting warm inside now. Evaporative cooler comes on Friday too - ( and which seems to involve open windows). The coolness generation will be welcome.

...

Time for my morning meditation :)

Appreciating so much that you're my mother, Ma, from my western frontier settler in California's Canyon 94516 perspective, in a well-deaigned house-let in a beautiful spot. Virtual telemedicine to come, to complement Kaiser Petmanente's health efforts??? (re for ex. ??? Travis the RN living in - as night nurse even? - for many months now).

Sending love,
Scott

4 MIT / Harvard Prof of Genetics' George Church aging reversal related videos here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/greenland-shark-wuas-news-q-livestream.html?m=0 - in yesterday's blog post, for your interest, and the first 3 of which you may already have seen (since I think I've shared them with you before) ... A new frontier as well! :)





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TSWG 2020-2021: Planning Meeting and Call for Presentations
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>12:32 PM (7 minutes ago)
to Nelson, Dean, newsHi Nelson, Dean, All,

I hope you're well. Am exploring the idea of making a TSWG presentation this autumn 2020 about creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies, with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - as a case study, and in the context of WUaS facilitating developing one realistic virtual earth for everything and with a film-to-3D App (for mass tourism?) into Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow with Samsung Neons aka artificial humans (and for 'tourism robotics' too) and via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, and why this isn't yet begun. #RealisticVirtualEarth #hashtag ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click ... whereas the https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualUniverse&src=typed_query has more of a traveling component inherent already with space travel for example (than realistic virtual earth for oceans, for ex.)
I recently updated MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's home page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - with many realistic virtual earth #hashtags. See, too the Cal Anthro libraries' map of field sites here - 
Map of #FieldSites 1901-2001 for
Anthropology dissertations in the  #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary How to move these into #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for ongoing research even & via http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=0 ? & re My @HarbinBook in library's collection

World Univ-Languages - 

Map of #FieldSites 1901-2001 for
Anthropology dissertations in the #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary How to move these into #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for ongoing research even & via https://t.co/Zju4211PXw ? & re My @HarbinBook in library's collection pic.twitter.com/SUKvVYpp4G— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) September 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1176985961848135680?s=20

Map of #FieldSites 1901-2001 for
Anthropology dissertations in the #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary How to move these into #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for ongoing research even & via https://t.co/JyRQkuhReJ ? & re My @HarbinBook in library's collection pic.twitter.com/qy05z1yd9H— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1176985651398373376?s=20
Best wishes, Scotthttp://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2018.htmTour label in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/tour~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
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

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! #ThankaTeacher @karen_brennan for #GettingUnstuck & @SpeakkVisually @zoebentley_ for Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators+ https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html) & does this #SpikePrime heart even have #ActualVirtual potential in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ?

! #ThankaTeacher @karen_brennan for #GettingUnstuck & @SpeakkVisually @zoebentley_ for Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators+ https://t.co/xXkKGEuyKr (https://t.co/6HAr9niS3s) & does this #SpikePrime heart even have #ActualVirtual potential in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego? https://t.co/bPp56sWplR— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 20, 2020

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As we go back to school either in-person or virtually, we wanted to send some

Iris aphylla: Poland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... * * So as a preliminary document regarding becoming "1. education partners, 2. official support from the government side, and 3. financial sources," pl

W August 19, 2020

Scott MacLeod
10:10 AM (3 hours ago)
to Mariusz, Larry, Andrzej, bcc: Sri, bcc: Peter, bcc: mazumdarp, bcc: Marisol

Dear Mariusz, Andrzej, and All,

Glad we were all able to video-conference for an hour or so, and about Poland World University and School. Very nice to see you again, Andrzej! I'm writing regarding partnering and World University and School.

Regarding further information about World Univ & Sch: as a WIKI, World Univ & Sch welcomes wiki-additions and edits from individuals in all languages that are excellent, free and open (ie someone can teach to their web camera / youtube about something they love, and add this to an existing wiki page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... - or begin a new wiki page). People can aggregate new open online courses too of course. And for example, as WUaS's Engineering wiki subject page, with its MIT OCW - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering - develops in Polish, how will Poles engage, teach to and learn from this emerging open school (there are currently about 735 wiki pages at WUaS)?

And since, on the free-to-students' degree side, WUaS is CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric, where MIT OCW's CC-4 licensing allows CC-4 World Univ & Sch to 1) share, 2) adapt, but 3) non-commercially MIT OCW resources (in its current, 4 languages), and this is how WUaS is 'working' with MIT OCW, you as an individual, Mariusz, could partner with CC-4 World Univ & Sch by WUaS adding your name here in the 'Partners' section" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - regarding your question of partnering. The CC-4 MIT OCW non-commercial attribute is what makes WUaS have to be free-to-students, and thus seek reimbursement on our free university degrees side. World Univ & Sch is seeking, newly, to offer our WUaS licensing and accrediting degrees via the edX platform (by adapting CC-4 MIT OCW), first in English. If you know of any Polish students who speak English, Mariusz or Andrzej, who might be interested in a free-to-students' Bachelor's degree beginning September 1, 2020, please let me know.

WUaS seeks to develop major online universities in all ~200 countries' official, and main, languages offering free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric degrees (because of the CC-4 non-commercial attribute), and in Poland especially at Poland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poland - and with time in the Polish language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Polish_language - (in Polish! - a major online MIT OCW-centric university) in addition to English +. If you would like to attend the open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on the 3rd Saturdays of the month at 9am Pacific Time (California), you'd get a sense of what our next steps are.


So as a preliminary document regarding:

1. education partners
2. official support from the government side
3. financial sources

1.
See above regarding WUaS-partnering at the present time.

2.
Governments, both at the nation state, or federal, and county levels in Poland, would be involved through their departments of education and similar, as well as potentially with WUaS reaching out directly to Polish high schools and high school counselors in Poland themselves (paralleling Poland's University application process for university-bound students). WUaS also seeks the highest achieving Polish students, the 'Olympic academic athletes' of Poland, for example, who may have been at the top of their classes in high school. So WUaS seeks Polish students who would otherwise apply to MIT / Harvard / Stanford and get accepted, for example, but WUaS also seeks to be accessible to all Polish students who might as individuals seek an excellent University education, now online. The degrees World University and School plans to offer Polish students, first in English and then in Polish, are Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. (and eventually I.B. high school or similar), - all online, and in WUaS seeking to become the online MIT / Harvard / Stanford of the internet not only in Poland (but in all ~200 countries).

3.
World Univ & Sch seeks per student per year reimbursement from nation states' governments, contingent on GDP, eventually at what tuition costs at MIT itself (currently about $55,000 per year per student). Students would be studying from their homes, and be responsible for the costs of their own books, robotics kits and other home electronics's supplies, and similar.


The idea for Polish partners behind the cooperation is that Poland would get MIT-centric degrees for free, with all the innovative potential of MIT's STEM knowledge generation potential, career-wise especially for graduates. So Polish partners would give reimbursement to WUaS per student per year, and Poland would get MIT-centric degrees by Poles. WUaS seeks to create 2.2 million careers as well, in all ~200 countries (so to become about the size of Walmart), and so Poland World University and School in Polish will create an enormous number of Polish academic faculty and staff positions - 10s of 1000s potentially, which is what Polish partners would also get.

As we spoke about too, World University has two wings, 1) the non-profit C-4 MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and 2) the for-profit general stock company the WUaS Press / WUaS Corporation. In this 2nd wing, WUaS seeks to create an Academic Press at WUaS with WUaS Educational Services' stores - both on the ground and virtually, and these bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores / hospital technologies' distribution centers, would eventually become 'big boxes' regarding the creation of careers in Poland, and WUaS Corporation would also seek potentially to list on the Polish stock exchange with time - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/warsaw_stock_exchange.asp - if this were viable. (Here are the WUaS 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings).

Here are the 2 WUaS wings (with related WUaS licensing in the US at bottom):

worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

So in terms of under what conditions? WUaS would seek to create all of the above under legal conditions, and potentially with time from the Poland Law School at World University and School and see related beginning WUaS law schools here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School#World_University_and_School_Links - in Polish with Polish law faculty (regarding the careers WUaS seeks to generate via Poland World Univ & Sch).

So as a preliminary document regarding becoming "1. education partners, 2. official support from the government side, and 3. financial sources," please let me know your thoughts, questions, suggestions as we codify this further in writing. Thank you.

Best regards, Scott


PS
Some practical first steps we could take further, in developing Poland WUaS in Polish would be to translate this - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool
in to Polish (like this per Sri Lanka WUaS in the Sinhala language - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka) and for Polish students who speak English to matriculate online at WUaS around January 1, 2021 via edX (re CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) in English potentially.

Poland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poland

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)





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M August 17, 2020Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Mon, Aug 17, 12:14 PM (2 days ago)to Larry, Ma, AndrzejDear Mariusz and Andrzej, 
Very nice to talk with you both for this hour about partnering and with regard to Polish students who speak English at first. I'm including the chair of the World Univ & Sch board, Larry Viehland, (who is also a MIT alum '69, and a professor emeritus of physics).  
My question, initially, after our meeting:In what ways could CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch best matriculate 50-500 Polish Bachelor's degree students in English in a 4 year program, beginning January 1, 2021, (and even for some beginning September 1, 2020, if you know of any students) - worlduniversityandschool.org? (Please ask interested students to enroll by sending me an email). In the process, if you both organized this, and could also organize reimbursement too, potentially via an Open edX money transfer mechanism, I think you both would benefit. Thank you for meeting!   
Regards,Scott
worlduniversityandschool.orghttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htmlhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress



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Ma SMon, Aug 17, 1:23 PM (2 days ago)to Larry, me, AndrzejDear Scott and Andrzej,
I feel sorry that the connection got interrupted at a very crucial moment of our discussion.The connection was broken I asked You Scott to prepare for me a document, a kind of offer what I could take with and check for You the proper:1. education partners2. oficial support from the government side3. financial sources.
To Your questions, very interesting proposal to clear are only the conditions for such cooperation, with regard to my previous request.
Look forward to the documents they help me to explain in a easy form to the Polish partners the IDEA behind the cooperation. What have they to give, what would they get, under what conditions.It would help me to precede it further.Thank you for our open and cooperation oriented discussion.
Best regardsMariusz (Sawinski)







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Poland Wikipedia in Polish -
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polska








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Pulsar: [NTF-talk] Erik Darling - True Religion (1961) * nontheist Friends, Composing or writing bagpiping music

Nontheist Friends (atheist, pacifist Quakers), NtFs, all, 
This is quite nice - is it Non-theistically Friendly true religion:): 
Erik Darling - True Religion (1961)https://youtu.be/eFTBlb_yFpw
Perhaps! 
It emerges in the context of the folk scene in the early 1960s.
NtF Cheers, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend




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WUaS - World University and School1:49 PM (1 hour ago)
to nontheist-friendsHi NtFs, Dave, Claire, Iain, Bill, Trevor, Gisela,

For me, I think the 'True Religion' idea from this folk music involves a feeling which emerges from listening to great folk music like this (and perhaps informed by the 1960s especially) - re NtFs too - but I'm curious what ethnomusicologists (both amateur and academic - and see ope WUaS wiki subjects below) would say about why Erik Darling named this album "True Religion"
Here again is - Erik Darling Coo-coo

https://youtu.be/_tmUuSy47VQ
I hadn't heard of him before this serendipitous Web find ... and interesting re creative universities, Dave and Bill, Claire and Iain.
When I just Google-searched, I couldn't find any Quaker connections regarding Erik Idle, but Friends were deeply into the folk scene too I'd think in the 1950s and '60s. Pete Seeger has much more Quaker connectedness, and re pacifist political consciousness raising too, for example. And here are some of them explicitly, thanks to Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson (creators of the great "Rise-Up Singing"), interviewing Seeger as recently as 2013-2014: 
PETE SEEGER AND FRIENDShttps://www.riseupandsing.org/anniepeter/quakers/seegerhttps://www.riseupandsing.org/anniepeter/quakers
And Seeger's "How Can I Keep from Singing" is great in all of these regards and per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_music too. 
Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? - Live, 1982. https://youtu.be/AH72dgNSAsw
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Quakers-to-honor-folk-singer-Pete-Seeger-5405572.php
Looks like Pete Seeger and his wife brought their kids to First Day School in Poughkeepsie NY for a number of years even - Pete Seeger and Friends
January 31, 2014
By Peter Blood
https://www.friendsjournal.org/pete-seeger-friends/
FWC - Friends World College - was another innovative Quaker educational experiment (of which Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and Guilford in the US seem to be navigating the winds of 'modernity' with most aplomb - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Modernity ) ... And here's a recent (Friendly-informed, NtF too) WUaS News, Livestream, Q&A
World Univ & Sch News and Q&A 8/10/20 - Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/2020 & MBM Minutes

https://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA
WUaS is already registering students for 9/1/20, but no Friends yet. If you know of any 18 yo NtFs, Quakers or similar who might be interested in a free-to-students' online best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, in a 4 year licensing and accrediting program, please let me know!
Here are the (developing) Monthly Business Meeting minutes from 8/15/20's open MBM at 9 am PT electronically (on 3rd Saturdays)https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/twinflower-linnaea-borealis-minutes-for.html 
NtF Cheers, Scotthttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ethnomusicology
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)






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Composing or writing bagpiping music


Piper of Drummond (reel, bagpiping tune)


Taylor WarrenMon, Aug 17, 8:30 PM (1 day ago)to meHere's some seconds for Piper of Drummond I drew up. I've been experimenting with slightly wider harmonies. I like the almost major-minor sound of this one. Thoughts? 

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>11:10 AM (10 hours ago)to TaylorLove it! It appears to be in the key of E major (per the 4 sharps of the key signature), but I'm not sure what this would be in mixolydian scale (like 2 sharps on the staff signifies the key of D major, which is also A mixolydian, and a 'fudge' for the bagpipe A chanter, where the key of A major would have 3 sharps in the staff). Did you notate this in E major of the D chanter (which is a mixolydian scale?)
So first I played this new setting of "The Piper of Drummond" from MuseScore - and it sounds great! Love the major-minor, and the melody line is the high one beginning on E, and you've added a kind of alto voice or line beginning on A.
Then I got out the Green Tutor Vol. 1 (my New Revised Edition, date???, whereas it was originally published in 1953), and played this first with my D chanter (with D bass drone and A tenor) - as if I was playing an A chanter - and it sounded great, with drone chord working for me sound-wise. 
Then I played the Green Tutor version with my A chanter, and I liked this tune again. 
Then from your MuseScore, with my D chanter, I played both lines, separately (obviously), and the lines are also lovely. (But what notes am I playing)
Then I tried playing with my A chanter from MuseScore ... and nice too. 
Am liking the overall sound of the harmonies in MuseScore much. I also appreciate the higher pitched notes together. 
Then I put in D chanter again, to play from your MuseScore, with the D chanter's scale (C up to high D - with these notes), and this lower line worked well, where the first A on the D chanter (would be the E on the A chanter), and the other two notes add the harmony. Then with the D chanter also I tried to play the melody (with the D chanter's scale - C up to high D - with these notes) - and it's more complicated! 
Congratulations on your second composition with SSP seconds or harmonies - and related creativity, Taylor!
More feedback and thoughts later. How would you explain what you wrote? 
I wanna begin to write harmonies too ... and with the D chanter especially! :)
Musical cheers, Scott


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Taylor, 

In brief, it occurs to me that the key of E major with 4 sharps such as in your Piper of Drummond could be the staff notation for B flat major (or possibly minor, with 5 sharps) mixolydian . :)
Let's talk further about this with time.

Cheers, Scott







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

Greenland shark: WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/17/20 10a PT i) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1 Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org, ii) MBM Minutes for 8/15 DIDN'T HAPPEN * * * INSTEAD, World Univ and Sch met in video conference an hour later wi

WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/17/20 10a PT i) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1 Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/indian-rose-chestnut-world-univ-sch.html > https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live ii) MBM Minutes for 8/15 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/twinflower-linnaea-borealis-minutes-for.html @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch !

WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/17/20 10a PT i) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1 Email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 https://t.co/JZXRFrcyko >https://t.co/hgcfhhHnEj. com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live ii) MBM Minutes for 8/15 https://t.co/tHq8tMnokY @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch !— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1295234876745031680?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1295235436646825985?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1295235609452113920?s=20



. . . DIDN'T HAPPEN, DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH 8X8 VIDEO CONFERENCE PLATFORM ....
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/



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INSTEAD,
World Univ and Sch met in video conference an hour later with 2 Polish academics about Poland World University and School ...



Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Sun, Aug 16, 1:17 PM (2 days ago)
to Dorota, Andrzej, Ma, AndrzejDear Mariusz and Andrzej, (Dorota and Andrzej O),

Thanks so much for your email, and your invitation to videoconference tomorrow at 5 pm Eastern Time (US), and 2 pm Pacific Time (SF Bay Area). That time works for me (and I could invite you either from 8x8 video conference software, which would record to World University and School's Youtube channel - - or from Google Meet, which does not).
Besides your great introduction, and agenda, I would be interested in talking about: 
A) WUaS seeking Polish undergraduate students in English from September 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 for free-to-students' online MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degrees in a 4 year program (https://ocw.mit.edu/ probably on the edX platform).
B) CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Poland World University and School planned in Polish for free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and I.B. high school degrees online (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poland).
C) a single realistic virtual earth for everything - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - and for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) too - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click - and as classrooms (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, with Samsung 'Neons' aka artificial humans and group build-able like SL)
Please let me know what video conferencing software you'd like to meet in, Andrezej (Rucinski) and Mariusz, if this time works out for all of us. (I'm including 2 Polish friends of mine here, where Dorota lives in the SF Bay Area, and Andrzej Olszak lives in Warsaw and works, I think, in City Hall, or similar! :)
How best to create a major online MIT OCW-centric Poland World University and School in Polish? 
Best regards, Scott- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - worlduniversityandschool.org- scottmacleod.com




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Aging reversal, longevity, and MIT / Harvard Professor of Genetics George Church - 

4 videos


Hi Pin (Sid Mazumdar),

Nice to talk with you!
While I may have shared this with you before: 
Here's George Church - 60 Minutes: "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" (1 minute)
https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
I'm not sure whether or not I've shared this with you - "George Church - Cognition Genes. Aging Reversal. Lab-built Brain Components" https://youtu.be/jH87sfVD36M
And here's a new video I found of George Church from 2016 where at about 4:40 he talks of species living 2-10 times their normal lifespans, and shows photos of people older than 110 ... he's been thinking about aging reversal for awhile!
George M. Church - Age Reversalhttps://youtu.be/4um6fs--NSI
Regards, Scotty



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


& with video -

Featured / Genomics / Longevity
George Church on reversing aging | ApplySci @ Harvard
https://applysci.com/george-church-on-reversing-aging-applysci-harvard/




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

Ridgway's rail: 'Heat came to this land In summer California And dry inland driftwood Looked like bleached cattle skulls Lining the wAy to scorch. Time to head to Harbin At least #VirtualHarbin" * * * Add #JohnMcPhee's geology books into 1 #RealisticVirt

Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org
Aug 14
Heat came to this land
In summer California
And dry inland driftwood
Looked like bleached cattle skulls
Lining the wAy to scorch.
Time to head to Harbin
At least #VirtualHarbin
For online soaking
#VirtualSoaking
In #RealisticVirtualHarbin
From home
In fragrant waters
So cool

Heat came to this land
In summer California
And dry inland driftwood
Looked like bleached cattle skulls
Lining the wAy to scorch.
Time to head to Harbin
At least #VirtualHarbin
For online soaking#VirtualSoaking
In #RealisticVirtualHarbin
From home
In fragrant waters
So cool— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1294473572400771074?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1294473260327776256?s=20




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AUTHOR JOHN MCPHEE STILL FINDS WONDER IN THE OUTDOORS, CHOCOLATE AND CIRCUS BEARS
https://time.com/5472309/john-mcphee-writer-interview/
The Mind of John McPhee
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html (in Tor?)
Begin McPhee's geology books into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM, - text in sidebar in #StreetView with TIME SLIDER

AUTHOR JOHN MCPHEE STILL FINDS WONDER IN THE OUTDOORS, CHOCOLATE AND CIRCUS BEARShttps://t.co/ODh9UANfwE
The Mind of John McPheehttps://t.co/ut9jWnIIWN (in Tor?)
Begin McPhee's geology books into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM, - text in sidebar in #StreetView with TIME SLIDER— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 16, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1295060284906733568?s=20


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Add #JohnMcPhee's geology books into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology, text in sidebar in #StreetView w #TimeSlider + & for archaeology esp, & with #AvatarBots #ArtificialHumans eg as individual archaeologists ... with a #FilmTo3D app? & re a #RealisticVirtualHarbin too! :)

Add #JohnMcPhee's geology books into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology, text in sidebar in #StreetView w #TimeSlider + & for archaeology esp, & with #AvatarBots #ArtificialHumans eg as individual archaeologists ... with a #FilmTo3D app? & re a #RealisticVirtualHarbin too! :)— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 16, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1295061389094957056?s=20





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Greats from Oakland CA: #JimiHendrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix -#KamalaDeviHarris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris with #OaklandRadicalism & #1960s-informed too #LongHairLeadership ? (am growing my hair long in developing @WorldUnivAndSch & am not from Oakland!)  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/1960s ~

Greats from Oakland CA: #JimiHendrix https://t.co/J87qPcZ8Q6 -#KamalaDeviHarris https://t.co/bUG4IxukNt with #OaklandRadicalism & #1960s-informed too #LongHairLeadership ? (am growing my hair long in developing @WorldUnivAndSch & am not from Oakland!) https://t.co/G02EC4XXnS ~ https://t.co/Cqx6swNggR— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) August 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1294389414991339520?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1294387678784315392?s=20

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#JimiHendrix a Road to success pic.twitter.com/SSp4LoSe7Z— ‏◌ كامد (@fzizc) August 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/fzizc/status/1293662050955059200?s=20






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Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & the Global University" @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries

Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - https://t.co/uhtkN8rO7E & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & the Global University" @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries https://t.co/Lih9quGjIv— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1295205568907419654?s=20

https://twitter.com/aepasek/status/1295015359146151936?s=20


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Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/I... @WorldUnivAndSch & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & Global University" @sgkmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries

Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - https://t.co/ViFylP9H4J @WorldUnivAndSch & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & Global University" @sgkmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1295205994696282118?s=20


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Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html @WorldUnivAndSch & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & Global University" @scottmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries

Would love to teach "Society & Information Technology" - https://t.co/yxi0SQICek @WorldUnivAndSch & am seeking to teach "Network Society, Information Technology & Global University" @scottmacleod this fall to WUaS's 2nd online matriculating undergraduate class from ~200 countries— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) August 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1295206335777107970?s=20




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World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students


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

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Hi Scott,

I don't have any credit for college courses in Humanities.
I would like to know about the courses that are available and how would they qualify me to earn a degree in English Literature.
Shahbaz


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Scott MacLeod
12:10 PM (10 hours ago)
to Larry, Shahbaz

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/requirem... . 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: Modernism
https://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



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Scott MacLeod
12:58 PM (9 hours ago)
to Shahbaz, Larry

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



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Scott MacLeod
1:00 PM (9 hours ago)
to Larry, Shahbaz

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





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Scott MacLeod
1:36 PM (8 hours ago)
to Shahbaz, Larry

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






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buttercup (R. cassubicifolius): What I've been reading - 8/16/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/16/20


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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The Great Divide
Your child’s a no-show at virtual school? You may get a call from the state’s foster care agencyhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/your-childs-no-show-virtual-school-you-may-get-call-states-foster-care-agency/
Coronavirus is making Corporate America realize that child care isn’t someone else’s problem https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/business/coronavirus-is-making-corporate-america-realize-that-child-care-isnt-someone-elses-problem/

OPINION
BELARUS
The freedom fighters need our support - not only in Minskhttps://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/plus213629610/Weissrussland-Die-Freiheitskaempfer-brauchen-unsere-Unterstuetzung.html
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
PROTEST MARCH THROUGH MINSK
“Go!” Shouted over 100,000 opposition supporters to Lukashenkohttps://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article213684230/Weissrussland-Zehntausende-Menschen-fordern-Lukaschenkos-Ruecktritt.html


STHLM
The problems with pirate ports in Stockholm live onhttps://www.dn.se/sthlm/problemen-med-pirathamnar-i-stockholm-lever-vidare/

GERMANY
CORONA RISK CERTIFICATES
Federal Minister of Education warns countries against excessive stress on teachershttps://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article213632880/Corona-Bundesbildungsministerin-warnt-Laender-vor-zu-hoher-Belastung-von-Lehrern.html

What do Boston Marathon bombing survivors want federal prosecutors to do next?https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/what-do-boston-marathon-bombing-victims-want-federal-prosecutors-do-next/


-- - 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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GERMANY
CORONA RISK CERTIFICATES
Federal Minister of Education warns countries against excessive stress on teachershttps://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article213632880/Corona-Bundesbildungsministerin-warnt-Laender-vor-zu-hoher-Belastung-von-Lehrern.html


Coronavirus: Return from the islands "scares" the specialists - In the ICU a 17-year-old HELLAS
15.08.2020 22:55
 Last update
15.08.2020 22:57
Newsroom
From Monday the new measures for 16 regions of Greece - The only encouraging element is the controlled situation with the ICUshttps://www.ethnos.gr/ellada/119774_koronoios-i-epistrofi-apo-ta-nisia-tromazei-toys-eidikoys-sti-meth-mia-17hroni

Agenda: Working in isolation to change the world: why so many PhD students drop outhttps://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18651852.agenda-working-isolation-change-world-many-phd-students-drop/



-- - 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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Economy
The dam that can secure clean electricity to Africa is waiting to be builthttps://www.dn.se/ekonomi/dammen-som-kan-sakra-ren-el-at-afrika-vantar-pa-att-byggas/

POLITICS ABROAD
CORONA CRISIS US ELECTIONS 2020 DONALD TRUMP EUROPEAN UNION
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
PROTESTS AGAINST LUKASHENKO
A country rises - spectacular images from Belarushttps://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article213587400/Weissrussland-Die-Fotos-des-friedlichen-Protests-gegen-Lukaschenko.html

Finland seems to become the European champion in the fight against the corona recession - How did it go so well?
HS gathered six reasons why the decline in the Finnish economy in the spring was confusingly small. Some of the difficulties reached Finland's other countries later, but Finland also succeeded in many things.https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000006602658.html

EVOTEC BOSS LANTHALER
"In six months there will be the Covid-19 test for 30 euros in the supermarket"https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/plus213601222/Evotec-Chef-Ich-werde-mich-immer-impfen-lassen.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 Th 8/13/20 Black Lives Matter


(rather than solo Univ prof rock star) ... 
Teacher as musical conductor https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article213468076/Schulen-Viele-Lehrer-aus-Corona-Risikogruppen-muessen-unterrichten.html

As Kamala Harris faces racist and sexist online attacks, women’s groups and Democratic operatives say they have her backhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/12/nation/kamala-harris-faces-racist-sexist-online-attacks-womens-groups-democratic-operatives-say-they-have-her-back/

Harris pick sparks delight in India and Jamaicahttps://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2020/08/12/harris-pick-sparks-delight-india-and-jamaica/0RQWn9ofQfhNgrueR7df4L/story.html

LOCAL
3 Nigerians indicted in cyber-fraud case involving stolen Ceridian W-2shttps://m.startribune.com/3-nigerians-indicted-for-stealing-personal-information-from-minn-company-then-filing-fake-tax-returns/572092792/

World
The coronavirus
Fewer deaths. Minor infection. Anders Tegnell points to three reasons.
Several Swedish regions have turned red due to increasing infection in the last two weeks. But since the early summer, a lot has gone in the right direction for Sweden.https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/e8b9JR/Farre-dodsfall-Mindre-smitte-Anders-Tegnell-peker-pa-tre-arsaker




-- - 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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OPINION
US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
With the election of Kamala Harris, Biden follows Barack Obama's pathhttps://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article213378342/US-Praesidentschaftswahl-Mit-der-Wahl-von-Kamala-Harris-folgt-Biden-dem-Weg-Barack-Obamas.html

FOREIGN COUNTRIES
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN POLITICIANS
These are the women behind Kamala Harris's successhttps://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article213371700/Kamala-Harris-Das-sind-die-Frauen-hinter-ihrem-Erfolg.html


OPINION
Kamala Harris is both a historic and flawed candidate
The Democratic vice presidential nominee made history as the first woman of color on a major party ticket, but she and Joe Biden still have to answer to a growing racial justice movement.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/12/opinion/kamala-harris-is-both-historic-flawed-candidate/



-- - 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 8/11/20 Black Lives Matter

Biden’s running mate is Kamala Harris, first woman of color on major party’s tickethttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/11/nation/joe-biden-picks-kamala-harris-his-running-mate/
5 things to know about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for the vice presidential nominationhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/11/nation/5-things-know-about-kamala-harris-joe-bidens-pick-vice-presidential-nomination/
Home politics US election Five things you should know about Kamala Harris
August 12, 2020, 2:54 a.m.
Biden runner-up:
Five things you should know about Kamala Harris https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/joe-biden-kamala-harris-vizepraesidentin-us-wahl-2020-1.4996982

world
Björn af Kleen: Harris can speak with credibility about racism in the United Stateshttps://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/bjorn-af-kleen-harris-kan-tala-med-trovardighet-om-rasismen-i-usa/

CORONAVIRUSIn a test, Delta checks passenger temps at LAX
https://m.startribune.com/in-a-test-delta-checks-passenger-temps-at-lax/572081292/


City |
Coronavirus
“At the level of society, this causes huge losses” - Nearly 400 people responded to the survey, such as the consequences of coronavirus testing congestion
You may have to wait for the coronavirus test result in the Hus area even after the first call of the week. People who responded to the HS survey describe the problems caused by congestion.https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000006598970.html

HelsinkiTimesFAD newCOVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES IN FINLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES(MOVE MOUSE OR TOUCH TO SEE THE TREND IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES) 
Source: Our world in data
IS THE PARTY OVER?FINLAND  11 AUGUST 2020People enjoy meals and drinks on a large open-air food court in the centrally-located Senate Square in Helsinki, Finland, late on July 17, 2020, the first Friday after lifting the COVID-related restrictions.DOMESTICWith the first wave of coronavirus having receded into history, Finns are partying like there’s no tomorrow. But there is a tomorrow—it’s called autumn—and once again it’s time to pay attention to the pandemic that isn’t going away.
July 1st was an ordinary summer day. In midafternoon, I walked a couple of kilometers to meet a friend at a wine bar in Kamppi. When it started to drizzle, everyone who had been sitting on the terrace fled to the bar’s intimate interior. It was still raining when we finished our wine, and I decided to take a tram home.
Crowded wine bar, crowded metro—but like everyone else I saw that afternoon, I was not wearing a maskhttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17956-is-the-party-over.html


Internal strife in a Somali mosque forced the police to move out. The collision was filmed.
Police had to intervene when angry members tried to squeeze into the Somali mosque in Oslo this weekend. A conflict over power in the country's largest single mosque dates back several years. https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/aw56AO/Intern-strid-i-somalisk-mosk-gjorde-at-politiet-matte-rykke-ut

TikTok skirted a privacy safeguard in Google’s Android operating system to collect unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices, data that allows the app to track users online without allowing them to opt out, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found.https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-tracked-user-data-using-tactic-banned-by-google-11597176738

Why Being Kind Helps You, Too—Especially NowResearch links kindness to a wealth of physical and emotional benefits. And it’s an excellent coping skill for the Covid-19 era.https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-being-kind-helps-you-tooespecially-now-11597194000


HONG KONG
Agnes Chow: The former Hong Kong teen activist China wants to silencehttps://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/11/agnes-chow-the-former-hong-kong-teen-activist-china-wants-to-silence/

Baker: Mass. communities with low coronavirus risk are in a ‘perfectly appropriate place’ to send kids back to schoolhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/11/metro/baker-mass-communities-with-low-coronavirus-risk-are-perfectly-appropriate-place-send-kids-back-school/


When will the $400 start for unemployed? It could be months. The president’s memo directs Federal Emergency Management Agency money to help make up the gap left by the expired $600 benefits, but state unemployment agencies don’t have any mechanism to distribute the new assistance.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/economy/article/Why-it-could-take-the-Texas-Workforce-Commission-15475896.php


Return to class:A tricky start to school
School starts this week in another four federal states. The main argument is about the compulsory mask - and the first school closings.https://taz.de/Rueckkehr-zum-Unterricht/!5702094/

Coronavirus updates: UCSF doc: Masks may reduce severity of virus, leading to mild or no symptomshttps://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/Coronavirus-updates-Updated-watch-list-will-mean-15475113.php


"We've been here for a month already": In Minsk, security officials beat a journalist and driver of "KP-Belarus" with a truncheonhttps://m.kp.ru/daily/217168/4268637/


The Alpine peaks, cradles of unsuspected floral diversity
The Vertical Ecology program explores the flora of high altitude, in the Alps, to find the thread of its evolutionary history.https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/08/10/les-sommets-alpins-berceaux-d-une-diversite-florale-insoupconnee_6048562_1650684.html


"Ten years after the election of Alpha Condé, it is time to mourn the promised Guinea"
TRIBUNE
Fabien Offner
For Amnesty International, the probable candidacy of the current president for a third term is the culmination of a “fierce repression” which has caused many deaths.https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2020/08/09/dix-ans-apres-l-election-d-alpha-conde-il-est-temps-de-faire-le-deuil-de-la-guinee-promise_6048523_3212.html


OPINIONS
SOCIAL NETWORKS
"We must learn to see the Internet as a political actor"
Web psychologist Sherry Turkle believes the pandemic, despite selfless digital initiatives, has not removed the risk of us being manipulated by technologies that seek to capture our attention.https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/08/10/pour-combattre-la-fragmentation-de-la-societe-il-faut-revenir-a-une-technologie-que-nous-connaissons-bien-nous-memes_6048553_3232.html

Asahi Shimbun Digital>article
"Suspect linked to the international community via SNS" Q&A https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN8D2TV2N8DUHMC001.html?iref=sptop_photo


Cherokee closing Etowah High until Aug. 31 after rise in COVID-19 caseshttps://www.ajc.com/education/cherokee-closing-etowah-high-until-aug-31-after-rise-in-covid-19-cases/AKVISQE7NBFA3A3KH46SX6FXFE/.




-- - 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 8/10/20 Black Lives Matter

In a bleak economy, these companies are flourishing
The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping spending patterns, creating new winners and losershttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/10/recession-coronavirus-pandemic-winners/

*Police body camera video in George Floyd's killing released57 MINUTES AGOTwo body-worn camera videos from the day George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police will be publicly released Monday by the court.Thomas Lane's bodycam video of George Floyd killingJ. Alexander Kueng's bodycam video of George Floyd killinghttps://www.startribune.com/police-body-camera-video-in-george-floyd-s-killing-released/572066402/

*GOVERNMENT ADVISOR HEINZ BUDE
"Something is burning!"
Published on 08/10/2020 | Reading time: 9 minutes
https://www.welt.de/kultur/plus212915204/Regierungsberater-Heinz-Bude-ueber-Corona-Proteste-Da-brennt-etwas-an.html?source=k240_plusdichte.default.sondergruppe-lage-1.1.212915204




-- - 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. 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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Twinflower (Linnaea borealis): Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for 1) World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting, & 2) the WUaS Corp

Dear World Universitians, and friends,

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-august-15-2020-minutes-for.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/twinflower-linnaea-borealis-minutes-for.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 email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to participate),

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



World Univ & Sch


1WUaS 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

Seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics for science and English majors this September 1, 2020
and even with Scratch programming  for English majors ...  

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A 8/10/20 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/2020 MBM Minuteshttps://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA


2Thank you for your MOOCit startup kit - https://app.moocit.fr/courses/course-... - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/lotus-corniculatus-glad-to-announce-new.html . The Monthly Business Meeting for World Univ & Sch just closed, and 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?), cutting the 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 for your excellent MOOCit France platform. FYI, WUaS will seek to offer our very small number of registered students courses, and beginning Bachelor degrees' opportunities beginning September 1, 2020 from MIT OCW itself, and related. Thank you.
Regards, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org


Thanks so much to @ebport of @RiffLearning for her overview of Riff Analytics’ innovative AI for improving small-group dynamics!https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1293983506343890948?s=20

The next Open edX Online Meetup event is only 2 days away. Join us this Thursday, 8/13 at 1 PM (EDT), for an exciting presentation by 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
https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1293186943593746434?s=20


3Sri Lanka WUaS
Sri Lankans have taken the national exam yet ... 
Individuation ... 


4Google Plus Class Action suit 


5WUaS Universitian school newspaper is on hold until WUaS has enough students ... 



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AA new course has been developed Lego Robotics’ oriented. We can try to get you into this if you’re interested … 
Seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics for science and English majors this September 1, 2020



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Our post on the collaboration between
@MITDCI
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@BostonFed
 to design and build a hypothetical digital currency

https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20


The #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/3iF4J6Z
https://twitter.com/BostonFed/status/1294006823503134721?s=20

https://twitter.com/neha/status/1293991658518974464?s=20



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https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html





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Swainson's Hawk: Sa 8/15/20 Agenda and News for open World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting

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/status/1293939998304043014?s=20


World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 15, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/sa-81520-agenda-and-news-for-open-world.html

- 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, Scott

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

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

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States




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 just under one hour - 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/spaces/COMM/pages/1680049837/August+13+2020+community+meetup

https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1291373559806414848?s=20 ?

It's in the Open edX community meeting where I first met MOOCit France's CEO Yvain Demollière, after which we video-conferenced for 45 minutes (Paris-SF Bay Area), 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-category/service-partners/ - 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, - by 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.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning. 

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"
- https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/62897745?hl=en - 

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.org/wiki/The_%22Universitian%22_Newspaper_at_WUaS
@WorldUnivAndSch
 In all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages w #MachineLearning?
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1293576929287659520?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293575962831937536?s=20




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/AcademicPress.html 


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/warren-buffett-said-this-metric-signaled-the-2001-crash-now-its-sounding-the-alarm-on-stocks-around-the-world-2020-08-12 - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293905188764307456?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1293905681754382337?s=20


CUniversal Basic Income #UBIexperiments at You at WUaS? - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University
Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments "New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March"  https://twitter.com/i/events/1293892335596576772 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/1293892335596576772 TO DISTRIBUTE #PhysicalDigital #SingleCryptoCurrency for those in 200 countries to alleviate poverty? @WorldUnivAndSch #ActualVirtual -
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1293915409066860550?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293915485336006656?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293915284357525507?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293915354171727875?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293915214983831555?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293914155506790400?s=20


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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.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony…
@WorldUnivAndSch -https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293702570548948992?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293702757010964487?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293702634868629504?s=20
Singing Walking Bass Lines - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Walking_Bass_Lines
Singing Descant - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Descant
Singing Harmony - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony



-- - 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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Ecology of the Himalayas: WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/10/20 10am PT: 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/20 on emerging WUaS Open edX PLATFORM via MOOCit * * * Agency? (robot free will?) "In the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, the t

WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/10/20 10am PT: 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/20 on emerging WUaS Open edX PLATFORM via MOOCit https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/indian-rose-chestnut-world-univ-sch.html https://youtu.be/k3wlb4TlXtc 2) Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to participate 3) open MBM Minutes from 8/5/20 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/legges-hawk-eagle-minutes-for-sat-jul.html ~

WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/10/20 10am PT: 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/20 on emerging WUaS Open edX PLATFORM via MOOCit https://t.co/JZXRFrcyko https://t.co/QE8cycAeCF 2) Email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 3) open MBM Minutes from 8/5/20 https://t.co/pdlA6YuitZ ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1292647710210719744?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1292647975932407808?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1292648314488238080?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1292648474136080384?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1292648762700005377?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1292649183631962118?s=20




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Hi Rohit and Universitians, 

In about 30 minutes, the WUaS Livestream - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live (from https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch) via 8x8:
WUaS News Q&A Livestream 8/10/20 10am PT: 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/20 on emerging WUaS Open edX PLATFORM via MOOCit https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/indian-rose-chestnut-world-univ-sch.html https://youtu.be/k3wlb4TlXtc 2) Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join video conversation, ask questions, share ideas 3) open MBM Minutes from 8/5/20 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/legges-hawk-eagle-minutes-for-sat-jul.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1292647710210719744?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1292647975932407808?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1292648314488238080?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1292648474136080384?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1292648762700005377?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1292649183631962118?s=20
Again, World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students by Sept 1, 2020, which I think you have expressed interest in (or for prospective students you may know of). Please register by August 14, 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



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David, Ma,

Much more about agency in today's blog post and regarding robotics - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/ecology-of-himalayas-wuas-news-q.html - with this definition in a way of agency: "In the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, the term “autonomy” is generally used to mean the capacity of an artificial agent to operate independently of human guidance" (https://philpapers.org/rec/TOTFAA). So isn't this robot in the video in the blog post picking yellow green peppers exhibiting autonomy or agency in locating and picking the peppers without human assistance?

And wore a tartan tie for the first time with a checkered shirt in today's https://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA .0); (Nice to see you in the Cuttyhunk BoS meeting in Zoom this morning, Ma!:)

Fond regards,
Scott

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- http://scottmacleod.com






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Agency? (robot free will?) "In the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, the term “autonomy” is generally used to mean the capacity of an artificial agent to operate independently of human guidance" https://philpapers.org/rec/TOTFAA - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Agency #PhilosophicalAgency~

Agency? (robot free will?) "In the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, the term “autonomy” is generally used to mean the capacity of an artificial agent to operate independently of human guidance" https://t.co/LrD8uIBd0H - https://t.co/Ns3iskhLas #PhilosophicalAgency~ https://t.co/4aYkI1E8Xo— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1292867932762980352?s=20
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In very general terms, an agent is a being with the capacity to act, and 'agency' denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity. The philosophy of action provides us with a standard conception and a standard theory of action. From this, we obtain a standard conception and a standard theory of agency.

Agencyhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agency/


Actionhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/


Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Roboticshttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/


Artificial Intelligencehttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/


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