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buttercup (R. abortivus): What I've been reading - 4/19/20 week - Coronavirus

What I've been reading this week through Sunday,  4/19/20

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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With the fall semester a big question mark, students are considering alternatives
By Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/18/metro/with-fall-semester-big-question-mark-students-are-considering-alternatives/
Controversy over corona tracing: the Swiss epidemiologist Salathé announces the exit from the pan-European project
A team of researchers from ETH Lausanne and ETH Zurich, who was involved in the pan-European project for a tracing app, is irritated. Its approach, which it regards as more secure under data protection law, appears to be questioned.
Jenni Thier
April 17th, 2020https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/streit-um-das-corona-tracing-der-schweizer-epidemiologe-salathe-verkuendet-den-ausstieg-aus-dem-paneuropaeischen-projekt-ld.1552279


Peter Norvig - MITMIT Tech Review

Q&A: Peter Norvig
Google’s director of research talks about the evolution of Web search.
by Kate Greene - archive page
December 18, 2007
As director of research at Google, Peter Norvig is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world’s information. He’s a good match for the job, having spent much of his life thinking about how computers think and making them do it more efficiently. An expert on artificial intelligence, he has taught at universities, held research jobs in the corporate world and at NASA, and cowritten the influential textbook AI: A Modern Approach.https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/12/18/222680/qa-peter-norvig/

RoboticsWhen coronavirus created a gap in the PPE supply chain, Northwest high school robotics teams came to the rescue
Updated Apr 21, 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/teamoregon/2020/04/when-coronavirus-created-a-gap-in-the-ppe-supply-chain-northwest-high-school-robotics-teams-came-to-the-rescue.html

Therapists, counselors go online as patients postpone visits
Photo of Gwendolyn Wu
Gwendolyn Wu April 17, 2020 Updated: April 21, 2020 7:04 p.m.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Therapists-counselors-go-online-as-patients-15206630.php

Virtual Tourism ‘Virtual tourism’ is suddenly everywhere in coronavirus era. Will it stick?
Photo of Gregory Thomas
Gregory Thomas April 12, 2020 Updated: April 12, 2020 3:53 p.m.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Virtual-tourism-is-suddenly-everywhere-in-15195780.php

LegoGRACE NOTES
A parent can never pack away the Lego years
By Jeremy Eichler Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/18/lifestyle/parent-can-never-pack-away-lego-years/



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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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buttercup (R. abnormis): What I've been reading - 4/12/20 week - Coronavirus

What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 4/12/20

and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):





https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/



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Coronavirus articles Th Apr 9 2020
Education "A social experiment with uncertainties and opportunities" - what the pupils of the Zumikon primary school particularly miss in the third week of distance learning
Instead of on the playground, the children meet in virtual classrooms across Switzerland. After the first few weeks the advantages and disadvantages of home schooling become apparent.Nils Pfändler, Linda Koponen
09.04.2020
https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/coronavirus-in-zuerich-den-schuelern-fehlen-die-sozialen-kontakte-ld.1550364

Mourning senior year 2020
As we approach summer and a recession, graduating seniors face further job insecurity. Anxiety replaces the joy of senior year as we fight to find balance without resources.
By Timothy Scalona - Updated April 8, 2020, 2:24 p.m.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/08/opinion/mourning-senior-year-2020/

Report card from Zoom University
Students are trying to make the best of a troubling situation, as they peer into a future that is much murkier than any of us could imagine when the spring semester began.
By Joan Vennochi Globe Columnist,Updated April 8, 2020https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/08/opinion/report-card-zoom-university/

EconomicsEU CORONA AID
Lagarde mentions alternatives to corona bonds
The ECB chief believes that there must be other forms of solidarity. Italy's Premier Conte says Europe is at stake.
from 04/09/2020
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/europa/2056970-Lagarde-nennt-Alternativen-zu-Corona-Bonds.html

Air travel ECONOMY
No plane in the empty sky
Only vaccination or effective medication will make normality possible again, says airport board member Ofner.
from 04/08/2020,
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/oesterreich/2056901-Kein-Flieger-am-leeren-Himmel.html

Pharmacology"Heinsberg Protocol" by Hendrik Streeck:
The Corona Investigators: How researchers are now collecting unique data on the original German outbreak
Heinsberg was the epicenter of the corona crisis in Germany early on. A team of researchers is now examining the citizens of the district very closely. "The Heinsberg Protocol" is intended to provide data on how we can be infected and which measures against it made any sense and are still effective from now on.
https://mobil.stern.de/gesundheit/-das-heinsberg-protokoll---forscher-wollen-herausfinden--welche-massnahmen-gegen-corona-sinnvoll-sind-9215378.html

Sars-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2:
When does the vaccination come?
One or two injections and you would be immune: the whole world is waiting for the life-saving corona vaccination. But it still takes. These are the candidates in the race.
By Jakob Simmank , Edda Grabar and Linda Fischer - April 9, 2020https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-04/sars-cov-2-impfstoff-forschung-beschleunigung-coronavirus

QuarantineBundesliga:
Football is foreign to us like never before
An entire country is at home, many are afraid for their jobs. But footballers are training again and extending their contracts. And now they want to play too.
By Oliver Fritsch - April 9, 2020
https://www.zeit.de/sport/2020-04/bundesliga-fussball-spiele-corona-krise-spielbetrieb-geisterspiele
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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
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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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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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Water hyacinth: June 11: Reed Legal Network Virtual Meet and Greet * * * How can I help / Why would you like to meet?: Talk about edX & World Univ & Sch, & today's Open edX questions * * * What is hummingbird consciousness (and regarding cattle or cow cons

June 11: Reed Legal Network Virtual Meet and Greet
https://events.reed.edu/event/reed_legal_network_virtual_meet_and_greet


Dear Avy and David, and Reed Legal Network, 
Thanks so much for your excellent Reed Legal Network talks just now.
With your FinTech experience, Avy, and your US government and courts' experience, David, let's stay in touch about UBI experiment questions, & regarding the word 'universal' & regarding too the Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states; am thinking in terms of ~200 countries’ official languages too as Law Schools https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States, each to become major online universities) to facilitate and teach about UBI experiments in the public interest even. 
Wikdata, by the way, is Wikipedia's 'back end' structured knowledge database, and in ~300 languages, a great start for coding for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and regarding online law schools in all ~200 countries' official / main languages. 


Thanks, Amy, Darlene, Andrew, and everyone so much!
Reed regards, Scott
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orgWUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htmlhttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPressdirect: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

PSI've blogged much about UBI experiments here in recent years - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - and regarding matriculating students at World Univ & Sch from all ~200 countries, each a Wikidata Q-item # or preferably, a Wikidata PIN #, - and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages, a Wikidata PIN #, and then, brainstorming-wise, all 7.5 billion people on the planet a Wikidata PIN #. (World Univ & Sch, of which I'm the founder and head, donated itself to Wikidata as "back end" for co-development, in 2015, and got the "front end" WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - but they aren't yet interoperable). UBI experiments would partly be for distributing a single cryptocurrency, with block chain ledger, backed by some number of their central banks, to people in all ~200 countries, in order to alleviate poverty. All this could involve, too, bringing the Federal Reserve together with the European Central Bank with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, of which the Executive Director is Neha Narula, and with lawyers and congresspeople in the US government (hence my email to you). (Here are 5 initial reasons that WUaS seeks to code for all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata PIN # - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html).
PPSAlso, World Univ & Sch would seek for the WUaS Law Faculties in all ~200 countries' official languages to teach about single cryptocurrency, for example, and perhaps faculty and students could also help code for it, in a variety of ways:

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaSBrazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaSChina Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaSEgypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaSIndia Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaSJamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaSMexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaSWorld University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_SchoolPPPSA WUaS Law School in Oregon too? 
How might we explore this further? 

Thanks again so much, David and Avy, and the Reed Legal Network.


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Thanks, David, for your reply. Let's stay in touch abt FinTech UBI experiment questions, & regarding the word Universal & re the Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states; am thinking in terms of ~200 countries’ official langs too as Law Schs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States Scott
(Thanks, Avy - will email you further about some related UBI experiment questions … and regarding the word Universal - and re the Euro - in 19 out of 28 nation states; am thinking in terms of ~200 countries’ official languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each a major University with a law school). Thank you, Avy!
Would love to follow up with you too, David, given your great US govt. experience, about UBI experiments. Thanks for talking today! - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgossett/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avy-mallik-8684a449/ 


(Bear Wilner-Nugent ’95)
From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (4:05 PM)

Hi everyone!

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (4:05 PM)

Hi everyone!

From Andrew Schpak to Everyone: (4:05 PM)

Hi!

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:05 PM)

80 participants is very impressive

From Stephanie Striffler to Everyone: (4:06 PM)

Hi, everyone, Reed 77, just retired after 30 years at Oregon Department of Justice

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:06 PM)

Great work by Darlene and Andrew

From Carol Ellerby to Everyone: (4:06 PM)

Carol Ellerby '71 Retired from being a Public Defender in Seattle for 22 years.

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:06 PM)

Paul Levy '72, at Public Citizen Litigation Group for 42 years and counting

From Ray Zuniga to Everyone: (4:07 PM)

Daniel (Ray) Zuniga ’15, current litigation paralegal at a plaintiff side labor law firm in Los Angeles, about to enter UCI Law in the Fall

From Roger Williams to Everyone: (4:07 PM)

Roger Williams, ’81, private practice in Austin, Tx, patent law, IP and litigation

From Mark Mosley to Everyone: (4:07 PM)

Hi everyone.  I’m Mark Mosley, Class of 1981, a civil trial lawyer on the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987.

From Me to Everyone: (4:07 PM)

Hi All, Scott GK MacLeod, ’85, World Univ & Sch (like best STEM CC-4 OCW in its 4 languages, with Wikipedia in ~300 languages) … seeking to develop online Law Schools in all ~200 countries, and potentially in 50 US states - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School (worlduniversityandschool.org/)

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (4:07 PM)

Reed Legal Network info https://alumni.reed.edu/board_of_alumni/legal-network.html

From Sabrina Steel to Everyone: (4:09 PM)

Hi! Sabrina Steel, class of 05, and i work on the Hill for Congressman Andy Levin as his Legislative Counsel

From Me to Everyone: (4:09 PM)

(More here about Law Schools + - https://iris.reed.edu/directory/alum/123192 )

From Howell Lankford to Everyone: (4:09 PM)

Howell Lankford, '65, still working as a labor arbitrator, where people actually pay me to explain to me how things work!  Doesn't get much better than that.

From Kiki Hawley to Everyone: (4:10 PM)

Kiki Hawley ’16, professional dancer, considering going into public interest law

From Alice Harra to Everyone: (4:10 PM)

beyondreed@reed.edu

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (4:11 PM)

The Center for Life Beyond Reed: https://www.reed.edu/beyond-reed/

From Andrew Schpak to Everyone: (4:11 PM)

Andrew Schpak, class of '01, poli sci major, now practicing employment law on the management side in downtown Portland.  aschpak@barran.com.

From Braden Dong to Everyone: (4:12 PM)

Hello everyone.  I'm Braden Dong, '86 Political Science, in-house product lawyer here in the greater SF Bay Area.

From Sagan Green-Horner to Everyone: (4:13 PM)

Hello! My name is Sagan R. Green-Horner, and I just graduated this year in ICPS-Political Science. I've worked in paralegal before, and am looking to get a law degree as a career path. Currently I'm job searching for legal assistant positions while working on job applications.

From Carolyn Walworth to Everyone: (4:13 PM)

Hi everyone! Carolyn Walworth, ’20 in psychology, considering law school & have some past experience as a paralegal in patent law. Currently in the bay area!

From Bear Wilner-Nugent to Everyone: (4:14 PM)

I’m so blown away by this great turnout! Thanks, everyone.

From Denika Martin to Everyone: (4:15 PM)

Hello, Denika Martin, class of ’18, from  Honolulu Hawai’i. Not a lawyer but interested in law school and learning more about any financial aid available.

From Darlene Pasieczny to Everyone: (4:15 PM)

Sagan, are you looking for positions in the Portland-area?

From Bear Wilner-Nugent to Everyone: (4:15 PM)

I’m Bear Wilner-Nugent ’95, Lewis & Clark Law ’04. I have been self-employed for 12 years. I do criminal defense, appeals, and civil and administrative litigation, both in Oregon and federally. Before I went to work for myself, I was a public defender in Multnomah County. Before that, I was a law clerk with the Federal Public Defender for two years.

From Sagan Green-Horner to Everyone: (4:15 PM)

Definitely yes.

From Evian Oosthuizen to Everyone: (4:16 PM)

Evian ’21 Env. Studies - Economics

From Darlene Pasieczny to Everyone: (4:17 PM)

For Sagan (and all) - we have a Reed Legal Network Facebook group, and job search posts very much welcome!

From Azure Sensabaugh to Everyone: (4:17 PM)

I'm Azure, a current political science major at Reed. I'm looking for internships and opportunities to learn more about the legal field.

From Rafael Monkarsh to Everyone: (4:17 PM)

Hi all! I’m actually a current English student at Reed (’22) and had an internship at a firm this summer locked down before COVID happened. I’m looking into going into law after Reed, and this seemed like a good opportunity to learn more!

From Samantha Hordyk to Everyone: (4:19 PM)

I’m Sam, Reed physics ’22. Just started a job working in environmental policy and outreach, and have now started thinking of working in policy!

From Jacob Canter to Everyone: (4:19 PM)

Hi all - I’m Jacob (’14, political science).  I graduated from Berkeley in ’18.  I’m finishing up a clerkship in the SDNY in July, and then I’ll be at a firm in San Francisco.  I’m not senior enough to get anyone a job, but I’m very happy to speak with people interested in the LSAT / law school / whole process

From Thomas Barr to Everyone: (4:19 PM)

I’m Thomas. Class of ’20 in Philosophy. Intent on starting law school fall ’21. Interested particularly in environmental law.

From Chae Park to Everyone: (4:19 PM)

Chae Park, ’20 Political Science (theory). Currently working as a research fellow. Interested in labor, public interest, and/or consumer protection law. Committed to Berkeley Law and looking to defer, so would appreciate any leads on legal assistant positions in the Bay! (Unfortunately no Facebook)

From Rita Melnikova to Everyone: (4:21 PM)

Hi all! I am a current Philosophy student at Reed ('21). I am particularly interested in Criminal Law and am looking for any and all legal internships and job shadows in the field. I am hoping to go to Lewis and Clark Law school once I get my degree.

From Jeff Kelson to Everyone: (4:24 PM)

Howdy Reedies All!  I’m Jeff Kelson, graduated in 1981.  Of course, I majored in Poli Sci.  I’m in my 29th year working as a career law clerk to a US district judge.  We do everything but domestic relations.  For me, the perfect docket!

From Me to Everyone: (4:24 PM)

Anything about Universal Basic Income experiments - UBI - on the docket in the House, Avi?

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (4:25 PM)

If anyone has questions for Avy, we’ll have a Q&A at the end. Feel free to type in your questions and we’ll keep track and address them later.

From Kiki Hawley to Everyone: (4:28 PM)

For Avy: What does a typical week look like for you? In other words, just how overworked? :)

From Stephanie Striffler to Everyone: (4:30 PM)

So true, I went to law school planning to do labor law, and never did. I ended up in much of my career practicing Indian law, which I loved, but never anticipated

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (4:30 PM)

Hi everyone, my email is Avy.mallik@gmail.com, feel free to reach out if you want to connect after

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:31 PM)

In DC, if you want a good and fulfilling job, you can expect to work long hours!  Work life balance is very hard to achieve here!

Still, David Gossett has young children, and my wife and I raised children throughout my years of public interest law.

From Darlene Pasieczny to Everyone: (4:31 PM)

Love seeing the backgrounds and interests described on this chat!  I'm class of '01, art history, then took a few years to law school (Lewis & Clark '12).  Culinary school was in the middle there.... I'm based in Portland at Samuels Yoelin Kantor LLP and do securities litigation, FINRA arbitration (investor claims against stockbrokers), financial elder abuse, trust and estate disputes.  Still cook a little, too :)

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:34 PM)

Chicago is an intensely intellectual law school

From Stephanie Striffler to Everyone: (4:35 PM)

I went to Chicago also, total culture shock after Reed

From Laura Graser to Everyone: (4:35 PM)

I went to law school for all the wrong reasons (daddy would pay for it; no better ideas), and after some fumbles at the small boutique plaintiff's firm, the Big Firm, the DA's office, stumbled into being asked to write an appellate brief, and I found my spot.  It's writing Hum papers for a living.  I still love it, been doing it since 1986 or thereabouts, no plans to retire.  My own firm, consisting of me.  In Portland.  Now speak fluent Spanish, that's my biggest accomplishment lately.  Laura Graser, Reed 1973, Lewis & Clark Law (the best law school in Portland) '79.

From Me to Everyone: (4:36 PM)

(I got into the Univ of Chicago undergrad, but went to Reed instead:)

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:37 PM)

And David has done a great job of finding jobs for Reedies!

From Stephanie Striffler to Everyone: (4:39 PM)

I had Scalia at Chicago, not Obama!

From Darlene Pasieczny to Everyone: (4:45 PM)

Even if staying at the same firm / location, a common theme with folks in the law seems to be the natural evolution of interests, focus, subject matter....   You can become an expert in the most unexpected things!

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (4:46 PM)

Question for David: any lessons learned from helping start a regulatory agency (the CFPB)?

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:46 PM)

I now do a fair amount of IP law, something I would never have imagined in law school

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (4:47 PM)

I can’t unmute

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:48 PM)

Like a union!

From Denika Martin to Everyone: (4:49 PM)

Questions for anyone: Is it true that it is best to attend law school where you are thinking you’d like to practice? How did you factor in the cost of law school? We have one law school here in Hawai’i, and financial aid available from the school itself is a small package. Finally, do you suggest working/interning (and if so how long) before applying for law school? Thank you!

From Thomas Barr to Everyone: (4:49 PM)

For David, if not remaining a lawyer, what are some professional areas for someone with a law degree? (generally and specifically you)

From Me to Everyone: (4:50 PM)

(Thanks, Avy - will email you further about some related UBI experiment questions … and regarding the word Universal - and re the Euro - in 19 out of 28 nation states; am thinking in terms of ~200 countries’ official languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each a major University with a law school). Thank you, Avy!

From Jacob Canter to Everyone: (4:51 PM)

Question for David: How do you predict the economic downturn will impact the legal market (particularly for associates) and how will it impact (if at all) law school admissions?  Is there anything you could say about how the FCC or DWT is responding?

From Roger Williams to Everyone: (4:51 PM)

Responding to Denika’s question: avoiding (or minimizing) debt is huge.  State school with no debut gives you so many more options and paths to happiness.

From Howell Lankford to Everyone: (4:52 PM)

David's hiring experience has a moral for everybody at or near the beginning of a career:  If you interview but don't get the job, at least send a thank you note to the interviewer.  Maybe you really did impress her even though somebody was a better fit for that job.  The follow up note is your chance to be more chatty and, potentially, to at least be a name that sticks in her memory when somebody asks, next year, Do you know anybody who...

From Darlene Pasieczny to Everyone: (4:53 PM)

Totally agree, Howell.  And hand-written notes still make an impression!

From Chae Park to Everyone: (4:56 PM)

As someone who just went through the application process (in the midst of a pandemic…..), I am happy to answer questions about the LSAT/applying etc. As a general tip though, if you are thinking of applying to schools in the next year, you should be paying attention to how schools have responded to COVID

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (4:56 PM)

I can’t unmute again

From David Gossett to Everyone: (4:59 PM)

My personal email address is david@dgossett.net.  Everyone should feel free to contact me, anytime.

From Paul Levy to Everyone: (4:59 PM)

I'm finishing a brief tonight, gotta go.  But thanks to Darlene and Andrew for  organizing this, and to Avy and David for talking to us all.

From Me to David Gossett: (Privately) (4:59 PM)

Would love to follow up with you too, David, given your great US govt. experience, about UBI experiments. Thanks for talking today! - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

From Bear Wilner-Nugent to Everyone: (5:01 PM)

Thanks to Amy and Olga, too!

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (5:01 PM)

Please stay in touch with us!  Here’s the website to learn more about the Reed Legal Network: https://alumni.reed.edu/board_of_alumni/legal-network.html

From Me to Everyone: (5:03 PM)

I noticed recently that Harvard Law School’s tuition is about $67,000 per year, and Stanford Law’s is 47,000 - what role should this play in decision-making?
Thank you, David, Avy, All!

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (5:05 PM)

It’s great to have some many people (including STUDENTS!) here together

From Me to Everyone: (5:05 PM)

Thanks - am interested in Law School tuition costs in developing approaches to reimbursement at World Univ & Sch’s Law Schools - for matriculating students from all ~200 countries … and perhaps with WUaS CC-4 Law OCW emerging out of Stanford Law CodeX …

From Alan Walworth to Everyone: (5:06 PM)

Thanks very much—interesting and informative

From Olga Moriarty to Everyone: (5:06 PM)

We’d love to receive your feedback on our event today. Use this link to access our survey: https://forms.gle/T7Z4FiTVxhuKya4z7

From Amy Hesse to Everyone: (5:07 PM)

For any questions that were not answered, we are going to make sure we record them from the chat bar, and will try to follow up with you.
Or feel free to email the people you want to ask!

From Sagan Green-Horner to Everyone: (5:07 PM)

Question for Avy, I'm thinking about Georgetown law and was working on the LSAT last year. The best I was able to get was a 159, but  my GPA I got to 3.31. Apart from what you already mentioned for letters of recommendation, any advice for applying to Georgetown law?

From Andrew Schpak to Everyone: (5:09 PM)

I apologize that I need to run to take over coverage of my daughter.  It was great to see you all, please don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions or suggestions!

From Sagan Green-Horner to Everyone: (5:11 PM)

Another general question, and maybe David could answer this, any benefits for getting a dual masters/JD (such as MPP/JD), and could such a dual degree be applied outside of law?

From Nerissa Wright to Everyone: (5:11 PM)

Hi Avy! Would you mind typing your email in the chat again?

From Rafael Monkarsh to Everyone: (5:11 PM)

Question for anyone, and perhaps pertinent to what Howell is saying right now— As I said above, I’m a current student interested in law but not sure if it exactly fits me (although I think it would). I’m planning on interning somewhere before I (possibly) go to law school, but besides interning, what are some good ways to understand a) what lawyers’ day-to-day lives look like and b) what differentiates types of lawyers (with different specialties) from each other?

From Avy Mallik to Everyone: (5:11 PM)

Hi Nerissa, my email is avy.mallik@gmail.com

From Roger Williams to Everyone: (5:13 PM)

Mark Srere, ’81, at Bryan Cave in DC, has dual JD and Public Policy degree from U.Texas

From Sagan Green-Horner to Everyone: (5:15 PM)

Thanks for the meeting. Need to get to work on job searching. Best wishes!

From Kiki Hawley to Everyone: (5:17 PM)

Thank you all so much!

From Rafael Monkarsh to Everyone: (5:17 PM)

Thank you very much David!

From Noa Kaumeheiwa to Everyone: (5:17 PM)

Thanks so much for organizing. Great to hear inspiring speakers and students!

From Me to Everyone: (5:17 PM)

How many Reedies want to go to Law School here in this Meeting, how many can’t perhaps due to finances, or haven’t gotten in … ? In a Reed Legal Network meeting in June 2019 at Reed, I broached the idea of an online Oregon Law School at WUaS … and for Reedies potentially! (There was a Reedie Oregon Supreme Court Justice at that Meeting - Chris Smith, or similar was his name - will check?)

From Ray Zuniga to Everyone: (5:18 PM)

Thank you so much to the organizers and speakers! This was greatly informative!

From Stephanie Striffler to Everyone: (5:18 PM)

Chris Garrett is on the Oregon Supreme Court

From Evian Oosthuizen to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thanks for this event, was really valuable!

From Me to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thanks, Chris Garrett ‘96

From Braden Dong to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thanks all.

From Rafael Monkarsh to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thank you all! Very informational.

From Roger Williams to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thank you to everyone!

From Denika Martin to Me: (Privately) (5:19 PM)

I would be interested in such classes! My email is Martindenika@gmail.com

From Me to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Thanks so much, Dave and Avy and All

From Adrienne Ratner to Everyone: (5:19 PM)

Great forum!! Many thanks!

From Me to Everyone: (5:20 PM)

(Will keep people posted)

From Amy Hesse to Everyone: (5:22 PM)

bwnlaw@gmail.com
(Bear Wilner-Nugent ’95)

From Me to Everyone: (5:28 PM)

Thank you!




-- - 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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How can I help / Why would you like to meet?: Talk about edX & World Univ & Sch, & today's Open edX questions
Scott GK MacLeod and Marco Morales




Hi Marco, 

Thanks for letting me know. And yes re-scheduling for next week would be great. I'm still unclear about whether I would invite you (with Google Meet, for ex. which WUaS is in) or you invite me to video-conference with Google Hangouts (per your calendar). 
Regarding, Meeting Goal - How can I help / Why would you like to meet?: Talk about edX & World Univ & Sch, & today's Open edX questions
Could we also please talk about the 6 WUaS majors WUaS seeks to offer, potentially via some edX courses (i.e. these 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) to our matriculating WUaS undergraduates, about which I've communicated some with edX's CEO Anant Agarwal. (It would also be great to touch on a realistic virtual earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - per your background image in the OpenEdX meeting yesterday, and regarding Ned Batchelder's observation that edX often integrates - and regarding too, conceptually, Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, and even with realistic avatar bots - for STEM field sites, and for classrooms. And could we possibly please touch on also WUaS in the Spanish language via edX?).
Would 30 minutes be better to talk about all of the above, Marco (than 15 minutes)? And 12;45 pm ET / 9:45 am PT, Friday, June 19th? Shall I invite you from Google Meet to video, or will you invite me? 
Looking forward to communicating further about this in the meantime via email as well. Thank you, Marco!
Regards, Scott
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orgWUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htmlhttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPressdirect: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages. Glad WUaS just updated  both WINGS http://worlduniversityandschool.org & http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
@WUaSPress
 info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to connect further

World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages. Glad WUaS just updated both WINGS https://t.co/OedDI3yhSu & https://t.co/YWks7sQ9mU @WUaSPress info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to connect further— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1271110296707272704?s=20

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World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w & just updated both WINGS http://worlduniversityandschool.org & http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
@WUaSPress
 info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://t.co/ySvic2m5ye & just updated both WINGS https://t.co/OedDI3yhSu & https://t.co/YWks7sQ9mU @WUaSPress info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1271111031905869824?s=20


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




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Hi Ma,

Good in some ways to connect with people at Reed and Shady Side. These cultures come through time. Am appreciative of George A's kids all going to diff Sch's than he & B went to, and to public schools for high school, & Henry Cutter going through SSA's 3 schools. All are high achievers.

Really good piping lesson again with Taylor, yesterday evening! Was out walking later after heading down thru beautiful valley on level road on other side of the massif - also after Shady Side Academy and Reed College Legal Network video meetings online today ... life partner meeting possibilities in both (but didn't meet her yesterday) & it could help if she lives in Bay Area!  ... will know it when I meet her as you observe ... how was your day ?

I have a new hummingbird friend on the far side of the massif, or one was feeding on orange flowers, aware of me, showing its red chest a bit, then sitting on a branch a minute later aware of me, as I then walked by ... I got the sense it was connecting and social even as it fed ... so I'm calling it a friend, :)... What is hummingbird consciousness (and regarding cattle or cow consciousness, philosophically in a sense? :)

Desiderata ahead - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - as a kind of philosophy or guiding code even in this somewhat complex internet world, with my big interesting projects, (education/universities/schools, actual-virtual Harbin/earth/universe, bagpiping, book writing  ... Where is my beautiful, receptive friend who might become my life partner, and wife even, and for family, I'm continuing seeking, - a beautiful, radiant A or a S (of shared culture too) of today in Canyon to begin?

What are you up to this weekend? And how are you?

Sending love, Scott


scottmacleod.com






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World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w & just updated both WINGS http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ & http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WUaSPress info@worlduniversityandschool.org ~

World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://t.co/ySvic2m5ye & just updated both WINGS https://t.co/OedDI3yhSu & https://t.co/YWks7sQ9mU @WUaSPress info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 11, 2020

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The Academic Press @WorldUnivAndSch has just updated both WINGS https://t.co/s9nin4B99h & https://t.co/RRHGM591qF & is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages https://t.co/DBjorUIJe6 info@ https://t.co/zWM3I40ntE ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 11, 2020

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World University and School - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/




World University and School
~ Studying Online ~

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(Licensing (with CA's BPPE) & accrediting (with WASC) potentially)

Matriculating students will be studying best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses

https://oyc.yale.edu/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/

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~ Free-to-Students' Degrees ~

Course Catalog at World University & School - Courses for Credit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing Email - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - for further information.***


World University and School - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/






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Academic Press @ World Univ & Sch, and WUaS Educational Services' Store ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~



Academic Press atWorld University and School(like Wikipedia with best STEM CC-4 OCW-OpenCourseWare)&WUaS Educational Services' Store~ Robotics ~

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400
EV3 Resources (Software, compatibility, tutorials, lesson plans): https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3


SPIKE Prime Core Set (Middle School 6th-8th): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product


WeDo 2.0 Core Set (Elementary Grades 2nd-5th): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300


Non-US Based Students need to contact a local distributor found here: https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor* * * #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
(WUaS: educational Minecraft, and Brick Street View with Google Street View, and even with a #Filmto3D app into Google Poly, as well as for learning machine learning)

* * *~ Books ~in the Academic Press at WUaSTitle:To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?:How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality
 (Poetry Press at World University and School 2019 - ISBN-13: 978-0578625492)


Title:

Winding Road Rainbow:Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (Poetry Press at World University and School 2018 - ISBN-13: 978-0-578-43518-3)


Title:

Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry (Poetry Press at World University and School 2017 - ISBN-13: 978-0-692-04903-7)
http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html


Title:

Naked Harbin Ethnography:Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (Academic Press at World University and School 2016 - ISBN-13 978-0-692-64613-7)~ Visit the Harbin Gate here: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~& walk down the road to Middletown, add a photo or video to Street View~ accessible from: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html***Purchase these books here too:
- http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity -
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  For information  about the Academic Press at World University and School,

please contact info@worlduniversityandschool.org
***WUaS Educational Services' Storesare seeking to facilitate a marketplace for 3rd party resellersfor Books, Computers, Robotics, Hospital Technologies, etc.,in all ~200 countries' languages:(WUaS Bookstores / Computer Stores / Robotics' Stores / Hospital Technologies' Distribution Centers)
****Realistic Virtual Earth For Publishing(Please add a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing Tweet):https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing?src=hashtag_click#RealisticVirtualEarth3DPrinting****NEW @WUaSPress (WUaS Corp) planned in all 7,117 living languages,with machine translationhttp://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html***The WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press is a for-profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California
(C401805 - 04/21/20-  ACTIVE -  WUAS CORPORATION -  CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/)
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
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the WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WorldUnivAndSch
 is now carrying:

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300 ~

the WUaS Educational Services' Store - https://t.co/s9nin4B99h @WorldUnivAndSch
is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://t.co/1bSttp7i4Y
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://t.co/6nUTOJFnOt
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://t.co/MyCRVMfaOv - https://t.co/ATQDlb3DqR— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270915084068417536?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270495080462389249?s=20

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Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland ...


Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod
https://fettescommunity.org/user/778519 (a high school I attended)
11 June, 2020, 09:12

Hi Fettesians,

Greetings from the SF Bay Area. Am glad to announce that World University and School is seeking its 2nd undergraduate class for free-to-students' online Bachelor's degrees this autumn 2020 as WUaS proceeds with licensing and accreditation. World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w & just updated both WINGS http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ & http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WUaSPress info@ worlduniversityandschool.org ~
(https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1271111031905869824?s=20). WUaS is also WIKI for open teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects.

With best regards,

Scott GK MacLeod (Kimmerghame '78)




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Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... 
(the high school I attended)

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>2:52 PM (54 minutes ago)to edeal, ksmith, Lisa, jscott, president, CatherineDear Lisa, Kyle, Allison, Karen, Laura, Lauren, Adam, Gene, Cari, Sue, President Griffith, Catherine, SSA Faculty, All,
As a followup to my email a few minutes ago (below), I'd just like to add that World Univ & Sch will likely offer online edX courses (emerging from best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare - OCW) this autumn toward free-to-students' online 4-year Bachelor's degrees (as WUaS proceeds with licensing and accreditation, first in California).
Also, as a wiki, WUaS also facilitates open teaching and learning, and so, with time, faculty (and students!) in the SSA Country Day School and the Junior School will be able to both share and learn about excellent free online resources, here, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Educational_Software (or from other relevant subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).
In addition, and regarding WUaS planned 'Home Robotics,' I'm very glad to announce that the WUaS Educational Services' Store just became a carrier of Lego Robotics - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.
(Am an active daily blogger, and here's a recent blog post about Pittsburgh, Shady Side Academy, and much more, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/squaw-run-wuas-livestream-may-18-2020.html ! )
Congratulations to you all with your successes in online education in this coronavirus pandemic time! And thanks again for sharing your great faculty panel conversation! 
All the best,Scott- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orgWUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.htmlhttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPressdirect: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics (for 'Home Robotics' regarding Engineering oriented degrees at WUaS)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming (planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforLego?src=hashtag_click  - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics?src=hashtag_click


Allison, Karen, Laura, Lauren, Adam, Gene, Cari, Sue, President Griffith, Catherine, SSA Faculty, All,
Thanks so much for your great faculty panel discussion, and very nice to e-meet you. I'm appreciating the great online SSA community I saw here in many ways. The questions as well as information I shared are below. 
All the best, Scott


Scott GK MacLeod ’79 - If SSA is mostly online in 2020-2021 (due to Covid-19), how do you think you’ll help students navigate the college application process (if they’ll be online in upcoming years even)? Thank you so much for this great SSA panel conversation. Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

I’d just like to let you know about a college and university - World Univ & Sch - I’m developing based on the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (in 4 languages) which will offer free-to-students’ online degrees. (Seeking our 2nd undergrad matriculating class this autumn).
(More info here: World University & School is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages, with the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (OCW) in its current 4 languages - https://youtu.be/vZcp2zqkI9w & just updated both WINGS http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ & http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WUaSPress info@ worlduniversityandschool.org ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1271111031905869824?s=20)
To Jamie Scott (privately) - 
YW! :)
Jamie: is there Scratch programming, or even Lego robotics, happening at SSA? WUaS seeks to offer and develop Home Robotics even!
Jamie: There is a robotics team at the senior school. John Wizzard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-wizzard-14a93946) is the advisor there.
Thank you!







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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Common_jassid_nymph.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mutualism_(biology)...

Pollination: Connecting ~ & re bagpiping (Scottish small pipes) ... upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album :) * * * Scottish small pipe and GHB keys all in the A chanter (about 5-6 keys in 9 notes?) * * * the German Corona warning app * * * the WUaS Educationa

Connecting ~ 


Good morning, Ma,
Nice to talk and connect, Ma, yesterday evening on wooded way.
Playing - bagpiping - first thing rather than last thing in day? Just after sitting. Time to explore this. Computing is very fascinating ... but playing creatively, and to connect - toward upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' Scottish small pipes' album has much merit too.
Here are the Lego Robotics' kits, which my big educational project in its somewhat newly named 'WUaS Educational Services' Store' & academic press (in 7117 languages) is newly  carrying -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and which is momentous! Lego rep in Lousville KY Leanna Prater helped, as well as nice Alexandra in Chicago. Am wondering if there could possibly be a UU connection. Do you know any Praters from Cincinnati, Ohio, or Kentucky & UUs? :) There was a kind of good connecting process re this Lego development yesterday too.
Put 3 carrots in my pocket, but didn't see the 5 horses in EBMUD, which came up to me recently, whatsoever while walking on a very beautiful evening. So in seeing a little rabbit head into the bush later, I tossed some carrot pieces in its path - as a possible treat.
Riverfront park - for virtual kayaking? - in Google Street View's for upper body movement from home, while on the Allegheny River. Put on a digital mask at home - re "Were you visiting in this Aspinwall Riverfront Park - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aspinwall+Riverfront+Park,+285+River+Ave,+Aspinwall,+PA+15215/@40.4891881,-79.9042272,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3153eebade943564!8m2!3d40.4891881!4d-79.9042272 ? Were people kayaking too? " ... how to make Google Street View excursions in digital masks great (and for movement from home too?). Appreciating your 'exploring' Pittsburgh anew with Chris while heading out shopping too! 
Interesting to think about practicing a musical instrument further re questions of connecting - and not being too hard on myself (per "Guidelines for ..." http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm). Last night I stayed up newly until 11:30 considering whether to practice - and am seeking to understand and think this further through - when I have often played daily (the word 'sail' popped up) & enjoyably albeit briefly recently around 10:45 pm, but last night ambivalence won out ... hmmm :) Will explore piping first thing after sitting or meditating this morning (which I do daily first thing - because it's salutary). 
So I started piping first thing after sitting, and - like the 'morning Raga' idea - it's good to play early, and without diurnal rhythm tiredness setting in too. Fingering is crisper ... time to wash my hands. Play until about 11:30 - before it gets hot? On with playing! :)
Appreciating you, Ma, much and from whom I learned to connect .
Love, Scott
PS
A further argument for 'in case of emergency' - improve the science dramatically in this window of opportunity - and re my other 4 hypothetical news' items (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html), and re science industry too? ...
"Anthony Fauci warns that ‘nightmare’ pandemic isn’t close to over"
By Vincent Barone
Anthony Fauci warns that ‘nightmare’ pandemic isn’t close to overhttps://nypost.com/2020/06/09/anthony-fauci-warns-that-covid-19-pandemic-isnt-close-to-over/amp/
The 'nightmare' word is a little disconnecting for me in a number of respects. 
Am wondering further how coronavirus pandemic 'memes' could be used to significantly lessen the illegal sex trade - culturally even (which it may have done too) and in white, brown and black communities too!
Combine with contact tracing - (which has already been happening for my smartphone anyway per a monthly report I get, - but people around the world all need more advanced smart phones too!) - per the German article I mentioned ... 
"Digital solution
What can the German Corona warning app do?
Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced the release this week. Where does the app have its strengths, where are the weaknesses? An overview."
Digitale Lösung: Was kann die deutsche Corona-Warn-App leisten?Gesundheitsminister Jens Spahn hat für diese Woche die Veröffentlichung angekündigt. Wo hat die App ihre Stärken, wo sind die Schwächen? Ein Überblick. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/zukunft-technologie/was-kann-die-deutsche-corona-warn-app-leisten-li.86461
And further engage the recreational / medicinal cannabis Massachusetts' law? distinction too per signficantly lessening the illegal sex trade - with Corona App? (I also touch on this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html - and in April 1, 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html - post:)


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>11:52 AM (19 minutes ago)
to JaneHi Ma,

How's your day going? Am following up re this earlier 'Connecting' email and thread ... 
As I listen thru and watch my video lessons with Connor Sinclair (with so many wins of top piping competitions) ... and he connected .. and so did I, I like seeing his confidence, his responses (and our connection) ... am learning much again and again ... and about connecting in a learning conversation with spoken language as well as connecting in learning a piping language ... and confidence re my playing too ... the feeling (sometimes bumpy, but sometimes good from daily playing) as I improve .. and the feeling of being little shy, or even embarrassed at times as I seek to improve (which feeling I feel far less these days than I recall feeling even in elementary school years, for example).
Interesting to experience re-connecting with Connor in lesson recordings, where we connected in real time (he in Scotland - and regarding even identity questions - being pipers, Scottish identity too perhaps) in the actual lessons (ie which were recorded). 
One aspect of playing a musical instrument for me is that I have a constant self-critique aspect in there ...
Our lessons are kind of a piping-learning 'blather.'  
Connor's a good, responsive and skillful teacher ... am learning a lot from videos to work with ... a lot of 'building blocks' from Connor ... Stuart Liddell's piping is my inspiration for inspired piping ...

https://youtu.be/pQEJf5XZPL8 ... 
Focused on piping this morning for nearly 2 hours, playing some, but tuning in further to my 19 Feb 2020 lesson with Connor helpfully. 
Love, Scott

Scottish small pipe and GHB keys all in the A chanter (about 5-6 keys in 9 notes?)
Notes from 19 Feb 2020 lesson video recording with Connor Sinclair 

Was very glad to learn the following from 19 Feb 2020 lesson re even thinking about the new E drone, and which tunes could work with it better than others:

Keys in tunes?
44:45


45:30
a bit of uniqueness in (SSP) drone sounds – (potentially with E drone sounding different)


46:45
A major

46:55
B minor

47:10
C sharp, or F sharp minor
(then going into A)


48:10
you could play an A over F sharp minor

((what about an E drone too? – to ask Connor))


49:15
key of D notes, Connor plays (on an ‘A’ GHB practice chanter, which is really in B flat mixolydian, or so called ‘Piper’s A’)


At a push you’ve got
The key of G – and he plays notes on his practice chanter in this keytoward > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html


* Back to this ideas from Guidelines for - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm

2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).
Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.

3 Set goals to chart development.

4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.

5 Relax and practice slowly.

* Sinclair chanters were preferred by top pipe bands for a while, some decades ago I think - "Sinclair is known for their famous chanter, which has been a favorite among top competing pipers and bands for since the 1960's."https://www.thebagpipemuseum.com/Sinclair_William.html
Sinclair pipes may still be being made by a Sinclair son http://www.sinclair-bagpipes.co.uk
(Such 'William Sinclair & Son (Bagpipe Makers)' father and son traditions are long and old in some countries, such as Scotland)
I'll have to ask Connor Sinclair whether there's any relation to him. 



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





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WUaS Educational Services' Store


the WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WorldUnivAndSch is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300 ~

the WUaS Educational Services' Store - https://t.co/s9nin4SKxR @WorldUnivAndSch is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://t.co/1bSttoPHdq
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://t.co/6nUTOJnMWV
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://t.co/MyCRVMwMd5 ~ https://t.co/NReNb7SNGP— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270495080462389249?s=20


WUaS Educational Services' Store ...
> http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


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Ma, 
How's your day going? And how are you? Am glad Chris is now able to visit you in person, newly (with masks and 6 feet distance?).
Came into Berkeley for shopping on a hot day: 
49.2 mpg, about 12 miles and .60 cents in fuel costs my car said ... seems great, and drove a long way along magnificent Skyline Dr.
I hope your weather is cooling down from yesterday ... Berkeley is cooler than on the ridge in Canyon!
Missing actual Harbin a bit, seeking to create an amazing virtual HARBIN ... but seeking a life partner in the process, potentially before too ...
Leanna Prater, Lego Solutions' Architect, based in Louisville, KY, seemed possibly 'churchy' in her online presentation which led to WUaS Educational Services' Store offering Lego robotics ... she could be Methodist too (and re Kim & Larry), but Louisville has 3  ... Unitarian churches. Any Praters in your growing up regarding UUs in Cincinnati? (Name sounds possibly out of UU circles).
Seeking to further develop mastery learning with piping.
And in a BF Skinner (Skinnerian) sense (schedules of reinforcement re animal behavior), in what ways could Cuttyhunk island (which idea emerged in seeing this Tweet by William Mansfield - https://twitter.com/PatentMansfield/status/1270800166732402688?s=20 - who's a patent attorney in the Boston area, and seems like he might have UU connections as well) be a kind of reward for a potential life partner of mine? Seems like an interesting idea to explore. And Skinner was a Harvard professor. 
And both actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs rewards too? :)) 
Stay cool! Turn on AC if needed! May get my fan out soon, although it's hot yet not unbearably so, here now! :)

Love, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/pollination-connecting-re-bagpiping.html - 
Connecting by writing (and blogging:) ...






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

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

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

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Rocky Mountain beeplant: World Univ & Sch AND WUaS Corporation ... & WUaS best STEM CC-4 OCW licensing * * * LEGO Education store & World Univ & Sch / WUaS's Educational Services' Store * * * Stanford Law ESG Resiliency in a Time of Turmoil Webinar Confirm

the WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A... @WorldUnivAndSch is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/prod...
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/prod...
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://education.lego.com/en-us/prod... ~

the WUaS Educational Services' Store - https://t.co/s9nin4SKxR @WorldUnivAndSch is now carrying:
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://t.co/1bSttoPHdq
SPIKE Prime Core Set: https://t.co/6nUTOJnMWV
WeDo 2.0 Core Set: https://t.co/MyCRVMwMd5 ~ https://t.co/NReNb7SNGP— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270495080462389249?s=20



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Dear Larry, Govind, Yuping, Jayni, Kyle, Tito, Juan, Julian, WUaS Board members, & All,

I'm glad to be going to talk with Lego Education's Alexandra Orellana-Vlachakis (https://twitter.com/vlachakisalex) in Chicago in about 2 hours. A Lego Education link looks promising for the potential WUaS Press Bookstore / Robotics' store. How much would WUaS get for each Lego Robotics' kit sold is one question I'll learn in talking with Alexandra potentially. - and regarding this emerging conversation: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/flowering-silversword-lego-education.html.


Partly in anticipation of talking with Alexandra at Lego Education, I've updated the WUaS Press with the following: The WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press is a for-profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California
(C4018051    04/21/2017    ACTIVE    WUAS CORPORATION    CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.

And I've updated World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - removing the MIT name in text throughout, and adding:
World University & School is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 Corporation legal entity in the U.S. and in the state of California
(C3289561 04/26/2010 ACTIVE WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.

Somehow last night I radically edited the Academic Press at WUaS / WUaS Corporation page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and removed some book titles too - https://web.archive.org/web/20191203212947/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html . But I think the web page is better now if Lego Education is going to look at it before I talk with Lego's Alexandra Orellana-Vlachakis (https://twitter.com/vlachakisalex) today, for example, and also regarding:

Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics ~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1268958678444457984?s=20

For both wings, and WUaS pages, I think having added this language is beneficial: 
1(C3289561 04/26/2010 ACTIVE WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.
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(C4018051    04/21/2017    ACTIVE    WUAS CORPORATION    CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/)
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.

...

Regarding best STEM CC-4 OCW licensing communications with MIT legal - 
I've also removed the 'MIT' name from many web sites, and from the following subjects from the current WUaS 'Subjects' ' list (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT AND

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT

- but am not yet able to delete these 2 wiki subjects with the MIT name in them, since I haven't been able to log into WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki for years now as admin, and am not sure why. I may reach out to Lydia Pintscher and Romaine Wiki about this anew, since they were involved in the set up process. Miraheze MediaWiki (in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation) has not been functioning well for years. I may talk to them about what I think is an existent WUaS Template on their end (i.e. Wikidata and Lydia Pintscher, since the licensing language is already on the WUaS ~725 wiki pages in English) - 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.


I haven't figured out what licensing to add to the WUaS Corp / WUaS Press page yet. CC-0 since it has a commercial attribute - or? - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
So I think most of the MIT name removals are up-to-date to the extent that WUaS can do them. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?

Sincerely, Scott





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





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LEGO Education store & World Univ & Sch / WUaS's Educational Services' Store


Alexandra and Benjamin, 

Thanks so much for talking with me today. The WUaS Educational Services' Store would add Lego links to the Lego Robotics' kits here http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. These robotics' kits would include Mindstorms EV3, possibly Spike Prime (if schools could use this STEAM robotics virtually, eg in educational Minecraft, and Brick Street View with Google Street View, and even with a Film-to-3D app into Google Poly), and probably WeDo 2.0 - or esp. kits for these (i.e. Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU) - for even learning machine learning (re the 'adversariality' in these boxing, as well as football, examples - and in the MIT 1999 Lego Robotics' competition below), such as even combined with Google Research Football. 
You can see the beginnings of learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics here (WeDo 2.0 and with a MIT 1999 competition) in this blog entry -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - and potentially with Google Research Football machine learning, brainstorming-wise.

Here's a related Tweet about this:
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning â€¦ -

Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://t.co/eDqhanKgjG
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://t.co/OReK6aJjwl
Google Research Football https://t.co/OwxtZ9UxjE https://t.co/a2Dl4sKp5l -— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20Thanks so much again for talking, Alex and Ben, and very nice to meet you. The WUaS Educational Services' Store also seeks to develop online potentially with TensorFlow AI, and on a Google related platform. Looking forward to the links for Lego robotics' 1) Mindstorms EV3, 2) possibly Spike Prime, and 3) WeDo 2.0 to begin. Thanks.
Best regards, Scott

Scott GK MacLeod
President, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.org
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress
direct: 412 478 0116 
email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org


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Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!

https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU

MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 
https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football 
https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc 


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Hi Ben and Alex, 

Thanks so much to you and Lego Education! I've added the following links to Lego Robotics' kits and resources here to the WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (which is still a work in progress). 
Thank you!

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400EV3 Resources (Software, compatibility, tutorials, lesson plans): https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3
SPIKE Prime Core Set (Middle school 6th-8th): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product
WeDo 2.0 Core Set (Elementary Grades 2nd-5th): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300
Non-US Based Students need to contact a local distributor found here: https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor


It's quite amazing, too, that WUaS Educational Services' Store is able to carry Lego Robotics' kits - for which I thank you much!
Regarding recommending WUaS students learn Python programming language to work, play and learn with Lego Robotics' Mindstorms EV3, I'll check out further for WUaS students the following: 
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-cmputer-science/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/

Introduction to Python: Absolute Beginnerhttps://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-python-absolute-beginner-2
I hope WUaS can develop further a  relationship with Lego Education as a significant reseller with time. Looking forward to further communication about all of these momentous developments for World Univ & Sch! :)! 
Thank you!Scott

Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.org
WUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) -  http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress
direct: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org




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Dear Larry,

WUaS can now start putting some value 'on the books' regarding the products we carry in the WUaS Educational Services' Store.
Mindstorms EV3 Lego Robotics costs about $440.00.

The "Haiku~ish" book costs about $5.50.
And while the WUaS Corporation has made a tiny amount of money off some of the books in the Academic Press at WUaS, WUaS is not yet a reseller of Lego Education products, so WUaS won't make any money yet from these. Happy to list them on our web site nevertheless. 
Listing Lego Education Robotics is a ginormous step for WUaS. :)
Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orgWUaS Educational Services' Store (and Academic Press) -  http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPressdirect: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org


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





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Stanford Law SVDX

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>8:12 AM (17 minutes ago)
to Larry, Govind, Kyle, tito, Juan, Jayni, Yuping-CASPA, NancyNancy,
Thanks so much for adding this question to the list for today's webinar - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar: 


"Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"

... and, for further question context for panelists, such a single cryptocurrency would be backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orghttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPresshttps://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/direct: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org



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Dear Larry, Govind, Yuping, Jayni, Kyle, Tito, Juan, Julian, WUaS Board members, & All, 
One of the panelists today - "Kellie Huennekens is Head of ESG Research at Nasdaq" - is from Nasdaq - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar .  Brainstorming-wise further, could the NASDAQ stock exchange fund, or invest in, the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange, which has passed one SEC hurdle? And could the WUaS Corporation list itself on this emergent stock exchange, 'under the wing of Alphabet/Google'?  Stay tuned (and these SVDX presentations are open I think; I met Yuping in a Stanford Law SVDX meeting, for example).
ESG is an acronym for 'environmental, social, and governance' and refers to socially responsible investing (for which there's 1 + wiki subject at WUaS as well - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Investing_-_Socially_Responsible and relating to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Index_Investing and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies and other f/Friendly concerns).
Sincerely, Scott


Nancy,
Thanks so much for adding this question to the list for today's webinar - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar: 


"Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"

... and, for further question context for panelists, such a single cryptocurrency would be backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and Professorworlduniversityandschool.orghttps://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPresshttps://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/direct: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org





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Monday, June 8, 2020
Yoga ~ 


Ma, Ann, 
How are you both today? Found myself inspired to do further Yoga explorations this morning re chest opening re breathing, beyond morning sitting in half Lotus or Ardha Padmasana - I appreciate the connotations of the Sanskrit names - and bending forward into Yoga Mudrasana on both sides, for infusing in nice ways of a different releasing neurophysiology through the bodymind  And I just now learned a new name for Yoga Mudrasana - Psychic Union Pose - 

https://youtu.be/acXLkig4gYo ... how interesting! :) Then I did a form of Child's pose on knees sweeping back from hands-growing-roots-down like a parachute (Victor's drawing from a Victor van Kooten book) and not Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward facing dog per se, at first), and then chest opener Viparita Karani on block (like shoulder stand, but pelvis supported ... ) ...
Yoga is a learning process - about inner releasing action neurophysiology of the self in a way - and a quite different learning about the mind or self than in Lacanian MD psychoanalysis for example. Yet both involve learning about the self, as well as well-being-wise or therapeutically potentially. 
Was inspired to do Yoga regarding the 'energy' this morning in Canyon as well perhaps ... doing Yoga can change things inside oneself in interesting and attuning ways neurophysiologically ... For example, if irritation, (or anger even), is arising inside, examining oneself and exploring restorative Yoga poses can change this consciousness, through an attuning process, in my explorations.
What's consciousness for you? :) I hope this finds you well.
Exciting developments at WUaS, and phone call with Lego Education tomorrow in Chicago re Lego  Robotics' kits for students this autumn.
Love, Scott







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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleome_serrulata
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Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta): 'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall' * * WUaS LiveStream on Youtube * * WUaS - World University and School main Youtube channel * * * Open edX @OpenE

'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://youtu.be/6jhe3kCgzKo
WUaS LiveStream
-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ
WUaS - World University and School
-https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego @WUaSPress -

'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://t.co/DpozJdDp0b
WUaS LiveStream
-https://t.co/sTycMh0XxE
WUaS - World University and School
-https://t.co/Ga7kahzZU5 - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego @WUaSPress - https://t.co/EAikmSPD2t— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1270060508633153538?s=20


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'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://youtu.be/6jhe3kCgzKo
WUaS LiveStream
-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ
WUaS - World University and School
-https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego @WorldUnivAndSch ~

'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://t.co/QQP84euPty
WUaS LiveStream
-https://t.co/6VzQRzHlpp
WUaS - World University and School
-https://t.co/LjMievs36e - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego @WorldUnivAndSch - https://t.co/TKKJ0S4FX7— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 8, 2020

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Tinkering with rollercoasters @LEGO_Education @LEGOIdeaStudio pic.twitter.com/4B145Y8rgf— KatKelley (@KatKelley16) May 22, 2020

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Hello Stefannia, and All  abstract-technology.de,
Looking forward to your -  
Open edX @OpenEdX
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https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1270049623751757824?s=20
- from the SF Bay Area. 
In an Open Source vein, am interested in facilitating Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital developments in a single Realistic Virtual Earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - (am thinking Google Street with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow and with Google Meet group video) at best STEM CC-4 OCW wiki World University and School, planned in all ~200 countries' official/main languages, and wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages.  See, for example, today's WUaS LiveStream: 

'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://youtu.be/6jhe3kCgzKo
WUaS LiveStream
-https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ
WUaS - World University and School
-https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego
@WorldUnivAndSch -

'WUaS News 6/8/20 - #HomeRobotics with Lego Education Robotics, 6 majors for undergraduates this fall'
-https://t.co/LQoG7IWiLP
WUaS LiveStream
-https://t.co/aeHIXmpLYX
WUaS - World University and School
-https://t.co/D4l7QcQXcF - #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego @WorldUnivAndSch - https://t.co/UkoUBJW2zH— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) June 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1270058620328144896?s=20
Eventually, WUaS seeks to offer online Medical Degrees with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care (and research with clinical trials from home) and for tele-robotic surgery. A film-to-3d application may be part of this (into Google Poly, a library of virtual objects). How best to create such an application in group video and for medicine and tele-robotic surgery is a fascinating technology question - for both education, and clinical care. 
Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Lego Robotics may be where WUaS begins this Film-to-3D app, and realistic virtual earth, - and in thinking in terms of both MIT's educational MineCraft virtual world, as well a Brick Street View, where brick here refers to a Lego brick (and re, again - Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, and with Google Meet group video - so regarding Google protocols, infrastructure, platforms). 
Thoughts, ideas,questions, suggestions? Looking forward to connecting further on Thursday about this. 
World University and School is like 'best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare' (in 4 languages) with Wikipedia (in ~300 languages).
In many ways, this is the idea: 
In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?

In many languages too! ~ How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, and with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft? https://t.co/hjYVgNjeRM— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265380611553849344?s=20

Boston Dynamics' SpotMini can autonomously navigate an office space & climb stairs: https://t.co/71fjaJOmk9 pic.twitter.com/zvUZy1gePv— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) May 11, 2018

https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009?s=20
Does abstract-technology.de want to explore building this? 
Alles Gute, Scott


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Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/direct: 412 478 0116 email: sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics (for 'Home Robotics' regarding Engineering oriented degrees at WUaS)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming (planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforLego?src=hashtag_click  - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics?src=hashtag_click
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! #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobotics w #LegoDuplo may be where WUaS begins #FilmTo3D APP > #GooglePoly, & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego w #MineCraft , #BrickStreetView re a Lego brick in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider, Maps @WUaSPress~

! #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobotics w #LegoDuplo may be where WUaS begins #FilmTo3D APP > #GooglePoly, & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego w #MineCraft , #BrickStreetView re a Lego brick in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider, Maps @WUaSPress~ https://t.co/siyH5sc1Zt— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1270088453724581893?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270092428368687105?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1270088921704050691?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1270089820400844801?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1270091622709997570?s=20

https://twitter.com/AnnaAnna2312/status/1268484771774189568?s=20


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! #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobotics w #LegoDuplo may be where WUaS begins #FilmTo3D APP > #GooglePoly, & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego w #MineCraft , #BrickStreetView re a Lego brick in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider @WorldUnivAndSch~

! #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobotics w #LegoDuplo may be where WUaS begins #FilmTo3D APP > #GooglePoly, & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth, #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego w #MineCraft , #BrickStreetView re a Lego brick in #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider @WorldUnivAndSch~ https://t.co/NReNb7Bcif— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1270092710070726656?s=20

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Dominik is loving his #StayBuildConnect prize! Thanks to @Rapid_Edu and @CreativeHutEdu ! #WinWithRapid #winwithrapid #Lego #LegoDuplo pic.twitter.com/FZlSLovjr4— Anna (@AnnaAnna2312) June 4, 2020

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Thank you, Aparna @AparnaBawa, for your great https://law.stanford.edu/event/rocrock-center-online-episode-5-a-conversation-with-aparna-bawa-chief-operating-officer-of-zoom/ presentation & answer to my question, & re 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM classroom I agree, - and computers were distraction too in the classroom pre Covid-19!:) Best regards, Scott (scottmacleod.com)

Thank you, Aparna @AparnaBawa, for your great https://t.co/W1wa9kguMY presentation & answer to my question, )& re #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM classroom, I agree, - and computers were distraction too in the classroom pre Covid-19!:) Best regards, Scott (https://t.co/D8Sj668UsR)— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1270126959092064257?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1270127425473503232?s=20

Join us for a talk with @AparnaBawa, Chief Legal Officer of @zoom_us, and the Rock's Mike Callahan. The discussion will focus on challenges and opportunities of managing through the #COVID pandemic at scale. #corpgov https://t.co/fxZoLzgnQL pic.twitter.com/IV88VUwKDn— Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford (@StanfordRock) June 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/StanfordRock/status/1268652528096296961?s=20
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnabawa/

https://law.stanford.edu/event/rocrock-center-online-episode-5-a-conversation-with-aparna-bawa-chief-operating-officer-of-zoom/

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Thanks so much, Aparna and Michael. I notice that the image behind you could be from realistic virtual earth (am thinking Google Street View with TensorFlow) even. In the educational context, do you / could you see for Zoom ahead developing a realistic virtual earth for Zoomers - for example, as STEM field sites and classrooms - in interactive ways even, and for furthering your remarkable growth process? Thank you. Best regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) 
Thank you! (Am agreeing, - and computers too in the classroom pre Covid-19!)

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Zoom founder Eric Yuan - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo/#5859d7014af1



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_meadowlark
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Sandhill cranes: How are you doing with the many protests I see happening in Boston via the Boston Globe, Dick and Lucy? And how will 'Black Lives Matter' and the death of George Flloyd change things this November * * * most beautiful walks yet yesterday,

Dear Dick (Richard Robb MD), Lucy, Ma, Ann and Alden, 
Will we all be talking for an infinite more number of 4-year US presidential elections due to genetic engineering aging reversal? 
The best short 1 minute version of this question with Harvard / MIT Genetics' Prof George Church:
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
(with a transcription of this interview and more - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-church-goal-to-protect-humans-from-viruses-genetic-diseases-and-aging-60-minutes-2019-12-08/)
How are you doing with the many protests I see happening in Boston via the Boston Globe, Dick and Lucy? And how will 'Black Lives Matter' and the death of George Flloyd change things this November, given that Pres rump was unsuccessful at imposing martial law. I'd think that science will continue on beyond the November 2020 election, but see the Guardian article below in these regards. What are you thinking regarding the November election?
(Am missing my Dad, GKM MD a bit now and then, and who was very interested in politics; thanks, again, Dick and Lucy, for coming to his Memorial Service at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh!)
I found this recent genetics' article inspiring, partly George Church focused:
After the Madness—Pandemic Silver Linings in Bioscience
Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?
By David Ewing Duncan
Illustration by Kelsey Wroten- https://neo.life/2020/06/after-the-madness-pandemic-silver-linings-in-bioscience/
George Church, MIT and Harvard Professor of Genetics, was a panelist in this related fascinating conference (which I attended online), now in video:

Neo.Life Boston
(April 9 2020)

https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E


" ... startling and positive visions for humanity through the lens of NEO.LIFE’s expert ... Boston innovators from bioengineering, neuroscience, design and venture capital, who contributed to our book, Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species" "

Am curious too regarding science ahead re my big educational project and in realistic virtual earth for genetics ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click ... and for everything including Lego Robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforLego?src=hashtag_click - and even in Google Street View with Time Slide, and re my #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Here's the Guardian article I mentioned re upcoming election which you might be interested in as well: 
The George Floyd murder and Covid-19 have hurt Trump, but maybe not fatally:
The president’s approval ratings have dipped sharply but he could still beat Biden
Simon Tisdall

Published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 15.15 EDT
Voter disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, plus the accompanying economic meltdown, have undoubtedly hurt the president’s re-election chances.
But it’s unclear whether the damage is fatal. Could Trump, despite everything, still stage a comeback and beat the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden?
Things are looking bad for Trump right now. His job approval rating has dipped sharply in recent days. Based on an average of 12 polls taken since 25 May the day Floyd was killed, it stands at about 43%, with 54% disapproving.
Trump’s loyalist “base” is said to comprise 25-30% of voters. The remainder of the 46% who backed him in 2016 will not necessarily do so again. There are signs that key voter groups are less committed – or more fiercely opposed.
A recent survey of white Christian evangelicals showed a 15% drop in support for Trump support. Among white Catholics, it dropped by 27%.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans could provide him with winning margins in swing states
Many white suburban women deserted the Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms. This group may be further alienated by the health crisis, economic uncertainty, and Trump’s divisiveness. Older voters suffering the brunt of the pandemic are said to feel abandoned while the electorate as whole is getting younger. And for the first time, a third of eligible voters are non-white.
Revived fury over racial injustice may galvanise the black vote – a crucial 12.5% of the electorate – against the president. In 2016, black turnout declined for the first time in 20 years.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans, demonstrated in the primaries, could reverse that trend and provide winning margins in swing states. Among all voters, Biden’s current lead is 11%.Yet Trump has been written off before. He has the advantage of incumbency and an enormous war chest. He plays dirty. By autumn, the economy may have revived, and the pandemic subsided. And gaffe-prone Biden carries much baggage.

The protests may have scared as many Middle America voters as they energised. Nobody knows how Trump’s Nixonian appeals to the “silent majority” and “law and order” will play in Peoria.
One thing is certain: he’s a long way from beaten.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/floyd-covid-19-hurt-trump-but-maybe-not-fatally

Interesting British perspective from across the water, with 4 months to go before the election. Biden seems to be looking around some as the news' announcement of his running mate timing, perhaps, is thought through. Could Biden pick up important swing states depending on VP choice - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/quiz-biden-vice-president-pick/ & "Election outcomes in key states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona all come down to the same thing: the percentage of Democrats and left-leaning independents that end up casting ballots compared with the percentage of Republicans and right-leaning independents that do so. Republicans understand this campaign math and learned to solve this equation a long time ago. The only question is, have Democrats finally solved it too?" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/joe-biden-running-mate.html? Maybe not ...

Am still inclined toward Elizabeth Warren regarding the Biden campaign also getting Harvard thinking (and in all the swing states too) as having merit (but am not sure about the possible loss of the Mass. Senate seat) - and since 8 Harvard Alums / similar have been presidents - which is probably a higher number than most other institutions / organizations / networks / universities too - in this country.

... What do you think?
And China? Was the Sars-CoV-2 novel coronavirus COVID-19 a game changer in nation states' boundaries popping up in new ways, now around a biological threat, and regarding China getting rich quickly, and a shifting balance of power questions internationally? Effects on the Nov 2020 US election?

Warmly,

Scott
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8:22 AM (2 hours ago)
to Jane

Hi Ma,

I took one of the most beautiful walks yet yesterday in and near the open valley to the east of me - on the new far side of the massif's level way. It was partly so nice because the weather was cool, but also because I was aware of the loveliness of what I was walking through. Saw lots of new animals. The other day along the far side of the massif, I think an owl swooped down out of a tree limb in front of me, and into the far valley, the other side of the massif. Another cool beautiful day here ahead I think.

How are you? And what do you have planned for today?

Here's my blog post about Pittsburgh again, and Shady Side Academy too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/squaw-run-wuas-livestream-may-18-2020.html !

An article in the German newspaper "The World" ("Die Welt") showed up this morning on neuropsychiatry, regarding my mentioning George Church's mention of this word in the "Neo" (Innovative Synthetic Biology) panel on April 9, 2020. The article mentions a Boris Cyrilnik - will check out further, and also regarding questions of culture. Did Church hear a neuropsychiatrist speak in Boston, and appreciated the thinking, and who was this? Am wondering, as you may observe, about the benefits of psychiatry and re culture, and newly online, for many - especially in the SF Bay Area, and among Quakers, here in Canyon, among Harbin residents, and Lake County folks too.

Another article yesterday in a Swiss paper, I think, mentioned the benefits of patience and discipline (Geduld und Disziplin) in this novel coronavirus pandemic time too; old 'values' in a way, and sensible too perhaps in these curious times. (This isn't the article but its relevant - Disziplin, Geduld, Angst – Urlaub im Schatten von Corona Veröffentlicht am 15.05.2020 - https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus208005751/Urlaub-an-der-Ostsee-mit-Corona-Disziplin-Geduld-Angst.html ).

Changes in awareness - consciousness that is - are interesting to think about and explore idea-wise as well, Ma! :)

Am amazed about the beauty around me here in Canyon 94516, but also think it's interesting I've stayed so far removed from Canyon's (alternative???, unique not-great?) culture, probably with great benefits. How to seek and find a great life partner, and begin a family, based here for the time being, I wonder? Appreciating your thinking in these regards, Ma!

What are you up to today, Ma! Talk with you soon! :)

Love, Scott

Here's a Reed College German Professor (philosophically inclined on Twitter too) related Tweet, (and perhaps re raising a family, but also thinking about consciousness even) -

Jan Mieszkowski @janmpdx · Jun 2
The first rule of Philosophy Club is: Start them early.
German Children's Books

The first rule of Philosophy Club is: Start them early. pic.twitter.com/CROsKnI7au— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) June 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/janmpdx/status/1267882679241867264?s=20


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And to the 'Children's Literature and Wisdom' wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom


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See, too:
NEUROPSYCHIATRIST VIA COVID-19
"The youth will be ruined for the next twenty or thirty years"
As of: 8:45 a.m
NEUROPSYCHIATER ÜBER COVID-19
„Die Jugend wird die nächsten zwanzig, dreißig Jahre ruiniert sein“
https://www.welt.de/kultur/plus209027291/Boris-Cyrulnik-ueber-Covid-19-Ein-isoliertes-Gehirn-erlischt.html
(I don't think the whole article is accessible to use Google Translate with).


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Hello Ed & Val,
It has stayed pretty nice & cool throughout the afternoon. How was your day? And how are you?
I found this recent genetics' article inspiring, partly Harvard / MIT prof of genetics' George Church focused:
After the Madness—Pandemic Silver Linings in Bioscience

Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?
By David Ewing Duncan
Illustration by Kelsey Wroten- https://neo.life/2020/06/after-the-madness-pandemic-silver-linings-in-bioscience/
George Church, MIT and Harvard Professor of Genetics, was a panelist in this related fascinating conference which I attended online, now in video:
Neo.Life Boston (April 9 2020)
https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E

" ... startling and positive visions for humanity through the lens of NEO.LIFE’s expert ... Boston innovators from bioengineering, neuroscience, design and venture capital, who contributed to our book, Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species" "Social distancing seems to working here in Canyon 94516 and with my landlord TW and his daughter LW who may both have a different kind of coronavirus, not SARS-CoV-2, and be in a related Canyon + network, - and perhaps it's good I've been social distancing from Canyon too for nearly all 13 years. Glad too you, Ed, came over 2 Sundays ago re a change in your reAding of Canyon as both scary and intimidating. Nice cool. In George C's Neo 10 minute talk (re above article and video), which again I attended online, he mentioned the need for neuro-psychiatry - am not sure in what context however - but which could be relevant in his Boston circles, and in Canyon / SF Bay Area. Social distancing however is working alright for now.
And I also haven't met a life partner here in all these years ... am keeping seeking ... re my agency re George A ... science ahead re my big educational project in realistic virtual earth for genetics ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click ... 
I think I might be being more social if I were living in the Boston area than here ... maybe in protesting - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/06/nation/protest-with-100000-people-or-more-is-expected-washington-dc/ - than in Berkeley, although maybe I'll head in to Berkeley on Monday to another 'Black Lives Matter' protest - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/western-prairie-fringed-orchid-berkeley.html?m=0 - and when it's supposed to be really hot again!

Found this Guardian article today which you might be interested in as well: 
The George Floyd murder and Covid-19 have hurt Trump, but maybe not fatally:
The president’s approval ratings have dipped sharply but he could still beat Biden
Simon Tisdall

Published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 15.15 EDT
Voter disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, plus the accompanying economic meltdown, have undoubtedly hurt the president’s re-election chances.
But it’s unclear whether the damage is fatal. Could Trump, despite everything, still stage a comeback and beat the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden?
Things are looking bad for Trump right now. His job approval rating has dipped sharply in recent days. Based on an average of 12 polls taken since 25 May the day Floyd was killed, it stands at about 43%, with 54% disapproving.
Trump’s loyalist “base” is said to comprise 25-30% of voters. The remainder of the 46% who backed him in 2016 will not necessarily do so again. There are signs that key voter groups are less committed – or more fiercely opposed.
A recent survey of white Christian evangelicals showed a 15% drop in support for Trump support. Among white Catholics, it dropped by 27%.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans could provide him with winning margins in swing states

Many white suburban women deserted the Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms. This group may be further alienated by the health crisis, economic uncertainty, and Trump’s divisiveness. Older voters suffering the brunt of the pandemic are said to feel abandoned while the electorate as whole is getting younger. And for the first time, a third of eligible voters are non-white.
Revived fury over racial injustice may galvanise the black vote – a crucial 12.5% of the electorate – against the president. In 2016, black turnout declined for the first time in 20 years.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans, demonstrated in the primaries, could reverse that trend and provide winning margins in swing states. Among all voters, Biden’s current lead is 11%.
Yet Trump has been written off before. He has the advantage of incumbency and an enormous war chest. He plays dirty. By autumn, the economy may have revived, and the pandemic subsided. And gaffe-prone Biden carries much baggage.
The protests may have scared as many Middle America voters as they energised. Nobody knows how Trump’s Nixonian appeals to the “silent majority” and “law and order” will play in Peoria.
One thing is certain: he’s a long way from beaten.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/floyd-covid-19-hurt-trump-but-maybe-not-fatally
Interesting British perspective on November US elections, and timely.
What do you think?

Gonna play music - am glad to be connecting with piping onlne student Taylor further, re friends even - and head for a walk as well soon. Did you both get out today? WUaS is connecting with edX, and potentially to offer online edX centric classes toward free degrees in autumn! 
Fond regards,
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Hi Ma,
How was your week, and how are you?
Nice cool weather again this morning and today. It's supposed to get hot again on Monday ... how's the weather by you?
Another reason to think about leaving Canyon, esp when kids come along, is the light-colored mineral in the water. I'd think that I'm ingesting minute amounts daily, given the amount that's accumulated on dish drainer (without heat) and soft boiled egg pan (with heat). And could it even be affecting my breathing, lodging in my upper chest and body? (I'm now drying all my dishes to increase the chance I'll remove more mineral than otherwise). I'd like to live elsewhere to let the mineral l ingest dissipate, and leave my body, - and not ingest any whatsoever! And so my kids too don't ingest it from an early age. Pgh? Massachusetts? Some place good to raise kids. Other reasons include perhaps Canyon culture and mental health issues here esp. The heat too (although that's many places ) ... and I'm looking for good sociality, where here in Canyon I'm a little solitary in these regards. I'd like to live closer to Cuttyhunk too sociality-wise, although flying works ... We may live beyond 122 years of age ... so there's maybe years ahead to explore all of this. :)

And maybe I can create good sociality online in new ways, - and the weather overall is better here than back east, with warmer winters, & no humidity in summers to speak of ... so perhaps I can do even more to make the water here mineral-free with a filter, and add air conditioning to where I'm living out here, and generate good sociality on-the-ground, with a life partner and kids, - but if I were to somehow get the next place along on the ridge here, and build a house (since there isn't one), how would I handle generation of goodness in Canyon, - which might even have a reputation for badness - have heard the saying that "The devil lives in Canyon" - but am not sure. My not engaging in the culture here has probably been good, for goodness sake, as curious as this idea might be ... hmmm ...
Glad to have communicated with not only Lego Education Sales' representatives yesterday re my big educational project's bookstore / robotics' store ahead, but also esp. heard from MIT legal (and as a continuation of hearing from its Exec Dir of best STEM CC-4 OCW Cecilia d'Olivier there 4 years ago re law questions)   ... kinda momentous and making progress.

How to seek out and find a great life partner I wonder? UU extended circles? No word back from Ed in these regards, and even regarding seeking a MD life partner ... welcoming your ideas here :)
Love, Scott


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Ma, 
I suppose I could think of my abode in Canyon as a kind of campsite too (a Lydia Pintscher idea I just gleaned in a Wikidata-related email  - and regarding beautiful spots in crowded Europe too - where??... If I were ever able to invite a friend and potential life partner to visit here, 'camp site' language might be a good way of explaining Canyon to someone good whom I meet online (from Cambridge, MA?), for example, or through Ed. (I'm not only very concerned about ... being unwell, but also ... mental health issues; MD psychoanalysis for both could benefit ...). How to navigate Canyon psychiatric issues that arise ahead I wonder?   
Just responding in draft form to MIT legal, with Larry.
How's your day going?
Love, Scott

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HI Ma, 
It has stayed pretty nice & cool throughout the afternoon. How was your day? And how are you?
I found this recent genetics' article inspiring, partly George Church focused:
After the Madness—Pandemic Silver Linings in Bioscience
Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?
By David Ewing Duncan
Illustration by Kelsey Wroten- https://neo.life/2020/06/after-the-madness-pandemic-silver-linings-in-bioscience/
George Church, MIT and Harvard Professor of Genetics, was a panelist in this related fascinating conference, now in video:
Neo.Life Boston (April 9 2020)
https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E" ... startling and positive visions for humanity through the lens of NEO.LIFE’s expert ... Boston innovators from bioengineering, neuroscience, design and venture capital, who contributed to our book, Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species" "
Social distancing seems to working ... have a different kind of coronavirus, not SARS-CoV-2 and be in a related coronavirus + network, - and perhaps it's good I've been social distancing ... too for nearly all 13 years. Glad too Ed came over 2 Sundays ago re a change in his reAding of Canyon as both scary and intimidating. Nice cool. In George C's Neo 10 minute talk (re above article and video), which I attended online, he mentioned the need for neuro-psychiatry - am not sure in what context however - but which could be relevant. Social distancing however is working alright for now.

And I also haven't met a life partner here in all these years ... am keeping seeking ... re my agency re George A ... science ahead re my big educational project in realistic virtual earth for genetics ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click ...

I think I might be being more social if I were living in the Boston area than here ... maybe in protesting - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/06/nation/protest-with-100000-people-or-more-is-expected-washington-dc/ - than in Berkeley, although maybe I'll head in to Berkeley on Monday to another 'Black Lives Matter' protest - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/western-prairie-fringed-orchid-berkeley.html?m=0 - and when it's supposed to be really hot again! 
Found this Guardian article today which you might be interested in as well: 
The George Floyd murder and Covid-19 have hurt Trump, but maybe not fatally:
The president’s approval ratings have dipped sharply but he could still beat Biden
Simon Tisdall

Published on Sat 6 Jun 2020 15.15 EDT
Voter disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, plus the accompanying economic meltdown, have undoubtedly hurt the president’s re-election chances.
But it’s unclear whether the damage is fatal. Could Trump, despite everything, still stage a comeback and beat the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden?
Things are looking bad for Trump right now. His job approval rating has dipped sharply in recent days. Based on an average of 12 polls taken since 25 May the day Floyd was killed, it stands at about 43%, with 54% disapproving.
Trump’s loyalist “base” is said to comprise 25-30% of voters. The remainder of the 46% who backed him in 2016 will not necessarily do so again. There are signs that key voter groups are less committed – or more fiercely opposed.
A recent survey of white Christian evangelicals showed a 15% drop in support for Trump support. Among white Catholics, it dropped by 27%.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans could provide him with winning margins in swing states

Many white suburban women deserted the Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms. This group may be further alienated by the health crisis, economic uncertainty, and Trump’s divisiveness. Older voters suffering the brunt of the pandemic are said to feel abandoned while the electorate as whole is getting younger. And for the first time, a third of eligible voters are non-white.
Revived fury over racial injustice may galvanise the black vote – a crucial 12.5% of the electorate – against the president. In 2016, black turnout declined for the first time in 20 years.
Biden’s appeal among African-Americans, demonstrated in the primaries, could reverse that trend and provide winning margins in swing states. Among all voters, Biden’s current lead is 11%.
Yet Trump has been written off before. He has the advantage of incumbency and an enormous war chest. He plays dirty. By autumn, the economy may have revived, and the pandemic subsided. And gaffe-prone Biden carries much baggage.
The protests may have scared as many Middle America voters as they energised. Nobody knows how Trump’s Nixonian appeals to the “silent majority” and “law and order” will play in Peoria.
One thing is certain: he’s a long way from beaten.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/floyd-covid-19-hurt-trump-but-maybe-not-fatally
Interesting British perspective on November US elections, and timely.

What do you think?
Gonna play music - am glad to be connecting with Taylor further, re friends even - and head for a walk as well soon. Did you get out today? 
Love,
Scott


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Sioux re wise children's children's books ...


Gentlewoman Susan Fezziwiggilicious,

Doing their ducky thing ... is it we humans who mess with reproduction regularity, due to the hare of culture (re the tortoise of duck genetics - when the turtle doesn't get the duckling eggs!)? Your father in law Paul Claus sr is in 'Make Way for Ducklings' ? :) Wow, quack, quack, quack! ...

Am not sure whether Birute Mary Galdikas's conservationism, inspired by reading Curious George as a kid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html - is kidnapping, or what - since she, I think, lives much of the time in Indonesia in a forest - . :) What does Orangutan mean - "man of the forest" - in Indonesian? But "Ferdinand the Bull," and "Make Way for Ducklings" ... I agree! Very wise ducks. :)

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May 22, 2020Fri, May 22, 12:00 PMto Sioux, SusanSue!
Birute Mary Galdikas was inspired by, in "Curious George," the man in the yellow hat - https://orangutan.org/about/dr-birute-mary-galdikas/ ... and is still seeking to save orangutans (and their habitat) in Indonesia today (and was one of Leakey's main students at UCLA in the late 60s, - although a Canadian, and with LIthuanian roots!). 
It was her birthday recently, and she Tweeted about this Indonesian birthday greetings - https://twitter.com/DrBirute/status/1263367296401063937?s=20 - which I retweeted here - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - right above the Learn Scots' Gaelic Tweet for the word Friend - https://twitter.com/LearnGaelicScot/status/1263839642400493568?s=20 .
Scott~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html - (getting into some Yoga and psychoanalysis thinking, compared, in today's blog post as well! :)



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in case you were wondering, of course ! 

(And since you're a children's librarian, too)

... the value of ideas and images learned in childhood ... here transposed to orangutan conservation ... re inquiry even (per curious George and the yellow hatted hominid), - for we human primateys :)?
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Here they are - for some audio-visuals, well, in reverse, first the text, then the sound, with better color pics :) ...Curious George, by H.A. Rey
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/curiousgeorge.pdf


Kids Book Read Aloud: CURIOUS GEORGE (Original Book) by H.A. Rey
https://youtu.be/EJ9Bz_8_geg
https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJ9Bz_8..." frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

Scotty

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Am not clear if 'Curious George' is a wise book or not ... 
re - Children's Literature & Wisdom -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom

What think you, Sue? :)
Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html - :)


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May 23, 2020

Certainly a classic. It's interesting that it never occured to me (as a little kid) that the man in the yellow hat kidnapped George. And where was George's mom? Killed by the man in the yellow hat, off stage? 
George is relatable to kids because he acts on his desires without any concept of action and consequence.
Susan Claus
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Children & Teen Services
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I like your interpretation:

"George is relatable to kids because he acts on his desires without any concept of action and consequence."
And good questions. (A story of colonialism and zoo-ification too? Modernity comes to Africa?). I like the not absurdity, but the curiosity or whimsy, of the book, as George comes into all these human situations - and is anthropomorphized in a way (since his monkey behavior isn't a focus).
Am curious about 'Children's Literature and Wisdom' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom - and a reading of the idea of wisdom in the whole Curious George series. I draw a blank here. 
And how to generate best wise kids' book titles for this - in all languages - and even as a flourishing wiki conversation? :)
Is "Ferdinand the Bull" a wise kids' book? (I head in this direction:).
Scott

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Ms. Susan Claus, 

Here's Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
https://youtu.be/LBNjJmR5Yzw

Wise? What do you think? I do think there's wisdom in this, since they're looking for a good place to raise a duckling family - and find it, with a policeman who gives them peanuts and watches out for them, calling Clancy to get a police car to protect them! And they also pass by a very cool bookstore. (And there's no man in the yellow hat to kidnap them!) ... and all in a big pretty city! For wild ducks, this is fantastic duckiness! What think you?
Scott-https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom - 
Just added this "Make Way ... " video here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/08/mallard-ducklings-transferring-wuass.html - :)
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Claus, SusanMay 26, 2020, 6:15 AM (12 days ago)to meI agree! Very wise ducks. Also, the friendly policeman is a dead-ringer for my late Father-in-Law, Paul Claus sr.
Susan Claus
Librarian, Manager
Children & Teen Services
Northland Public Library
300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh PA 15237
412-366-8100 ext. 120  northlandlibrary.org

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Claus, SusanMay 26, 2020, 6:30 AM (12 days ago)to meFerdinand? A big YES. Oh my goodness, yes.
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Librarian, Manager
Children & Teen Services
Northland Public Library
300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh PA 15237
412-366-8100 ext. 120  northlandlibrary.org

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Gentlewoman Susan Fezziwiggilicious,
Doing their ducky thing ... is it we humans who mess with reproduction regularity, due to the hare of culture (re the tortoise of duck genetics - when the turtle doesn't get the duckling eggs!)? Your father in law Paul Claus sr is in 'Make Way for Ducklings' ? :) Wow, quack, quack, quack! ...
Am not sure whether Birute Mary Galdikas's conservationism, inspired by reading Curious George as a kid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html - is kidnapping, or what - since she, I think, lives much of the time in Indonesia in a forest - . :) What does Orangutan mean - "man of the forest" - in Indonesian? But "Ferdinand the Bull," and "Make Way for Ducklings" ... I agree! Very wise ducks. :)

GKM Gym III -Scott
- 
- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 





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And re Children's Literature and Wisdom wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom






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Liz Economy, Stanford Hoover Fellow ...


Dear Liz, 
Thank you, Liz, for "Elizabeth Economy: COVID-19 and China
" https://www.hoover.org/events/elizabeth-economy-covid-19-and-china ! What’s the ‘global stage’ for Xi Jinping? In what ways does it include versions of all ~200 countries (per recent Olympics) as nation states - and regarding the internet especially? How could Xi Jinping advance China’s grandeur better regarding both ~200 countries and re the internet?
Did you grow up as a Quaker, since you went to Swarthmore, and are on its Board - https://www.swarthmore.edu/board-managers/elizabeth-economy-84? 
In developing best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World University and School, WUaS seeks to create online major universities in each of all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS and to offer online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and Medicine, as well as IB high school degrees  - and in their official or main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) (not yet in Mandarin or Cantonese, etc.). 
And since it can be a very small world, do you happen to know Elizabeth Cutter Evert, or Henry Cutter (both in NYC), or Swarthmorean Lillian Thomas? They are all friends from high school in Pgh PA.
Thanks for sharing your amazing knowledge of China!
Friendly regards,
Scott
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e-economy? but China e-culturally too ?
ScotlandAnthropology Professor Heather Paxson?Harbin Hot Springs?https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/21/style/weddings-elizabeth-economy-and-david-wah.htmlblog



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Ma, Ann

Cow and calf


Hi Ma,

Glad to have heard from both Mark MacLeod (1st cousin) and Sioux Davis (SCD friend from high school, who visited me here in Canyon last year from Pgh) - and Peter Bothe in Germany today too. Good family and friends re isolation here are nice.


I think I come back to philosophical thinking re this and much (as well as Quaker, UUs -Western analytical, linguistic philosophical thinking re Yoga, and other 'religious' traditions, has much merit, but appreciating too, aspects of good cultures that emerge from same (A&V Yoga, Unitarian Universalism, Quakers, Nontheist Friendliness, Atheistic Quakerism, Agnosticism, Meditation (re relaxation response) and studying this scientifically, Harbin Hot Springs' soaking, Hinduism/New England transcendentalism -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism - read the first paragraph re 'goodness,' the second paragraph re Unitarians ... and add some critical thinking / philosophical skepticism / and open ended thinking creativity to the mix ?:) (...at bottom here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html ).

But what is cattle consciousness re both the hard and 'easy' problems of consciousness (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/hawksbill-sea-turtle-great-family.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html )?

Am glad Ed came over to Canyon on Saturday after some years re his changing understanding of Canyon (as being 'scary' & 'intimidating' - perhaps due the RN Travis doing a night shift in landlord's upper room and even befriending T.W. - so not from an adversarial medical personnel/systems/Canyon perspective), all speculatively, except Ed's coming over. (Quakers do their own wrap-around adversariality or opponent process stuff in human behavior - you do too, Ma :) Pgh and MA have merit in my thinking for schools for my kids, as well re family and friends after my kids are born. (Cuttyhunk 1 room schoolhouse even - re safe nest? ... and having come miles in online education at all levels in the last 3 months?:))
Love, Scott

PS In a 25 minute call with Margo Warnecke yesterday, I seem to have been offered an artist-in-residence position yesterday in Sonoma having attended a Stanford Historical Society presentation online on architect John Carl Warnock by granddaughter - at the Warnecke ranch / Institute - https://www.chalkhillresidency.com/artist-residency. Having published 3 books of poetry and in playing the Scottish Small Pipes, would this be structured & remunerated like a Stanford University artist in residency, I wonder? Could my hypothetical wife to be occupy my place in Canyon while I was in residence? I just looked and it isn't structured like a Stanford artist-in-residency, rather it looks like one pays rent - so am not interested in this one after all. BUT could I instead explore an artist-in-residency position at Stanford University itself, if I were to find one posted, and after Stanford opens again?

Gonna be hot here today again! :)






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Flowering silversword: Adding a link to the WUaS Bookstore with Lego Robotics' kits' links? ... Lego Education event - bringing my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego * * I'll have my Lego WeDo 2.0 robotics' kit, but probably not configured with t

Adding a link to the WUaS Bookstore with Lego Robotics' kits' links? ... for WUaS Engineering undergraduates this autumn ... 



Our products are available on our LEGO Education store. So the easiest way would be to include a link to our site. We would have to talk a little more to be understand your store and see if this works for you.
> https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

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Dear Leanna, 

Thanks for this @LEGO_Education event &  nice to meet you online at the Scratch Meetup SF recently - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qH8KDdRlPvTww0fgCnNSFTbMulgsYx_LdWFYGBUAoyY/edit?usp=sharing . Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires an Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ! Workarounds? Other ways to join this event? Thanks!
Regards, Scott

Thanks for this @LEGO_Education event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

Thanks for this @LEGO_Education event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1268588520018292738?s=20


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Thanks @LEGO_Education for this event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

Thanks @LEGO_Education for this event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ! https://t.co/zxckiTsQwk— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1268588774599979008?s=20


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Join @LEGO_Education on 6/4 at 2PM CDT for an introduction to computer science through unplugged activities. Don't forget to bring your LEGO bricks! All educators are welcome #remotelearning #funhttps://t.co/o2wlaK1peO— Alexandra Orellana-Vlachakis 🤖 (@vlachakisalex) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/vlachakisalex/status/1264250814605987840?s=20


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Dear Leanna, and Alexandra,

Thanks for this @LEGO_Education event - https://reg.abcsignup.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0044-0016-bad2445f0f3a4d9caf5a7b45ee4e031b & nice to meet you, Leanna, online at the Scratch Meetup SF recently - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qH8KDdRlPvTww0fgCnNSFTbMulgsYx_LdWFYGBUAoyY/edit?usp=sharing. And thanks too for your posting, Alexandra - https://twitter.com/vlachakisalex/status/1264250814605987840?s=20. It looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires an Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. I would bring my LEGO bricks re an #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego even! Workarounds? Other ways to join this event? Thanks!

Regards, Scott


Thanks for this @LEGO_Education event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1268588520018292738?s=20


Thanks @LEGO_Education for this event & greetings Leanna Prater @TOTALTeacher
Nice to meet you at Scratch Meetup SF recently. Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires Illinois county sign-in, which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1268588774599979008?s=20

https://twitter.com/vlachakisalex/status/1264250814605987840?s=20




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Alexandra VlachakisJun 4, 2020, 10:15 AM (2 days ago)
to me, LeannaHi Scott,
Thank you for your interest. 
You need to create an account and when it asks if you are in IL chose Non-IL. Also, chose OTHER if you are not an educator or in one of the IL districts. 
Here is the link: https://reg.abcsignup.com/s_reg/reg_registration_maintenance.aspx?na=1
Let me know if that doesn't work.
Thanks again,Alex
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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jun 4, 10:32 AM (2 days ago)
to Alexandra, Leanna


There's nothing in "District" to pick ... a check mark shows up when I click on its down arrow on the side, but the  "District" field doesn't work.  So at this point, I can't register.

Suggestions?

Scott



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Alexandra Vlachakis
Thu, Jun 4, 10:41 AM (2 days ago)
to Brian, me, Leanna

Hi Scott, I'm adding Brian as I see what you mean. Nothing comes up for district when you chose Non-IL, and you get stuck.

Brian, can you help us?

In the meantime, Scott, feel free to choose IL, Cook County. That’s my area. I'll make a note that you are from another state.

Sorry for the trouble, Scott.

-Alex

Alexandra Vlachakis
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LEGO Education
Twitter: @vlachakisalex




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Scott MacLeod
Jun 4, 2020, 10:48 AM (2 days ago)
to Alexandra, Brian, Leanna

Hi Brian,

Looks like this 6/4 meeting @ 2PM CDT requires an Illinois county sign-in - https://reg.abcsignup.com/s_reg/reg_registration_maintenance.aspx?na=1 - which I don't have. Would bring my LEGO bricks re #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ! Workarounds? Other ways to join this event? Thanks!

I found under "County" Non-Illinois, but then under "District" the 'other' option isn't available. Suggestions?

There's nothing in "District" to pick ... a check mark shows up when I click on its down arrow on the side, but the  "District" field doesn't work.  So at this point, I can't register.

Alexandra, there are a bunch of required fields in today's registration form, so if I were to try an Illinois county, it would conflict with the CA address.

Thanks, Scott





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Brian Bates
Jun 4, 2020, 10:57 AM (2 days ago)
to me, Alexandra, Leanna

Hi Scott -

Feel free to use the Zoom link to join the webinar. See you soon!

https://ltcillinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Lpl-6njMQoWCKu02yQuQ5A




Brian Bates
Digital Learning Coordinator ▪︎ Learning Technology Center of Illinois
 309.715.7312
 3358 Big Pine Trail, Champaign, Il 61822
 Schedule a Call - calendly.com/b-bates


The Learning Technology Center is an Illinois State Board of Education program that supports all public K-12 districts, schools, and educators through technology initiatives, services, and professional learning opportunities.




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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jun 4, 11:04 AM (2 days ago)
to Brian, Alexandra, Leanna

Thanks, Brian!

If I can access the Zoom video conference, I'll have my Lego WeDo 2.0 robotics' kit, but probably not configured with the Scratch programming language!

- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click -
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click -

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click
https://twitter.com/hashtag/PhysicalDigital?src=hashtag_click

See you in an hour, I think!

Thanks!
Scott

A #FilmTo3D App too? for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory > #GooglePoly ? with #ReinforcementLearning in #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #LegoRobotics in https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status... & #MachineLearning & https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc #GoogleResearchFootball ~

A #FilmTo3D App too? for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory > #GooglePoly ? with #ReinforcementLearning in #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital 1 #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #LegoRobotics in https://t.co/yCyJjF7dvG & #MachineLearning & https://t.co/OJHCUdSt4o #GoogleResearchFootball ~ https://t.co/BgWyFiRMHn— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1261073336328568833?s=20





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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jun 4, 11:30 AM (2 days ago)
to Brian, Alexandra, Leanna

Brian, Alexandra, Leanna,

You can see the beginnings of learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics here (WeDo 2.0 and with this - - -  1999 competition) in this blog entry -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - and potentially with Google Research Football machine learning.

See you soon,
Scott

Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
- - -  Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXERhttps://t.co/8YPkuoTzR6? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://t.co/D82CmYOQib~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20




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ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXERhttps://t.co/8YPkuoTzR6? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://t.co/D82CmYOQib~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20



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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jun 4, 1:02 PM (2 days ago)
to Brian, Alexandra, Leanna

Wonderful and thank you, Leanna and All,

I learned some new Lego language.

A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks - and the creative computing projects you shared - to Lego machine learning with the WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html  - are a lot of virtual world dots to connect, but would open up vast learning horizons (in so many countries and languages even, and re World Univ & Sch).

Am interested in building a best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level Engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the one best STEM CC-4 OCW Lego resource - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/- as well as curriculum for something like IB high school science majors. Please keep your ears open if you learn of people creating this. (Am reading Karen Brennan's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/karen_brennan - and re Creative Computing with Scratch programming in these regards, but am not seeing much about Lego Robotics with Scratch out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which is a direction WUaS is heading in for major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages! ). Thank you!

I appreciated your coding progression slide - about the 6th to last - in these regards too. Very nice to meet you too, Alex, Brian and Leanna!

Best regards, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

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


Again, brainstorming-wise -
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
- - - Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20



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Hi Leanna, 

I lived in Pittsburgh, PA, during my high school years, not all that far from Louisville, KY. 
Thanks for your excellent presentation, and very nice to meet you virtually again. 
Best, Scott

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Leanna Prater
Attachments
Thu, Jun 4, 1:42 PM (2 days ago)
to me

It’s a small world! I actually grew up in WV- Pittsburgh was our “big city”. :)

Thanks so much for the kind words, I was so glad you could join today!

Leanna Prater
Solutions Engineer
LEGO Education



Sent from my iPhone



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Fri, Jun 5, 10:23 AM (1 day ago)
to LeannaIt's a very small world: my mother was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, and I went backpacking in WV (Dolly Sods) a number of times in high school :)

Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/western-prairie-fringed-orchid-berkeley.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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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Jun 5, 10:34 AM (1 day ago)
to Brian, Alexandra, Leanna

Alex, Brian, Leanna,

Thanks so much for your help yesterday, and for your great presentation, Leanna. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to an emergent #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with a #FilmTo3D App (and into something like Google Poly, which is a library of virtual objects, - so each Lego DUPLO brick, and standard brick, a Google Poly object)? (& also re a #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics)

Regards, Scott

Related Tweet:

Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics ~

Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics! https://t.co/NReNb7Bcif— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1268958943037894657?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1268958678444457984?s=20

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Dominik is loving his #StayBuildConnect prize! Thanks to @Rapid_Edu and @CreativeHutEdu ! #WinWithRapid #winwithrapid #Lego #LegoDuplo pic.twitter.com/FZlSLovjr4— Anna (@AnnaAnna2312) June 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/AnnaAnna2312/status/1268484771774189568?s=20


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Leanna, it's a very small world: my mother was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, and I went backpacking in WV (Dolly Sods) a number of times in high school :)

Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/western-prairie-fringed-orchid-berkeley.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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Alexandra Vlachakis
Jun 5, 2020, 10:43 AM (1 day ago)
to me

Hi Scott,

It is nice to meet you and thank you for your resources. Are you a programmer? What state are you based out of?

Thanks,
Alex









Alexandra Vlachakis

Sr. Enterprise Account Manager

LEGO Education



Check out our LEGO Education Resources:

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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Jun 5, 10:45 AM (1 day ago)
to Leanna, Brian, Alexandra

Hi Alexandra,

It is nice to meet you as well. I code a little HTML and Scratch. Online best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is based out of California.

Thanks, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/programming
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/machine%20learning

Hi Scott,

It is nice to meet you and thank you for your resources. Are you a programmer? What state are you based out of?

Thanks,
Alex



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Hi Alexandra,

Thanks so much for your email.

World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop 'Home Robotics' - potentially with Lego Robotics' kits - where WUaS would send Lego kits to matriculated WUaS students, in an 'engineering' major (or with a high school 'science' focus), in their homes in all ~200 countries - with courses emerging from something like this best STEM CC-4 OCW course - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - into something like edX, and initially at the high school and undergraduate levels (and also with Scratch language programming). The Lego robotics' kits would initially include WeDo 2.0, Spike Prime, Mindstorms EV3 / Mindstreams, etc.). This would be for students learning machine learning eventually as well. WUaS has an #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital focus, and potentially in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics too (e.g. with - - - 's educational version of Minecraft / Brick Street View in Google Street View, where Brick here refers to a Lego brick). While WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class online this autumn, and at present for just a few prospective undergraduate students (in 6 majors), WUaS would eventually seek to have online undergraduate classes of possibly 2,000 students, first in English, and then in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages (since Scratch programming is in these languages too). So in these online (licensing and accrediting) high school and college contexts, in what ways could WUaS let students get such Lego Robotics' kits? Could WUaS make these available in a WUaS online robotics' store, for example? What would you suggest in exploring these ideas further? And how might WUaS best make Lego Robotics' kits be available to our undergraduate Engineering majors beginning this autumn, please?

Thank you so much, and I look forward to hearing from you further about some of these ideas.

Best, Scott




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Hi Scott,
Happy to help answer your questions. I will do so inline below. 
1.So in these online (licensing and accrediting) high school and college contexts, in what ways could WUaS let students get such Lego Robotics' kits? Could WUaS make these available in a WUaS online robotics' store, for example?  Our products are available on our LEGO Education store. So the easiest way would be to include a link to our site. We would have to talk a little more to be understand your store and see if this works for you.
2.What would you suggest in exploring these ideas further? And how might WUaS best make Lego Robotics' kits be available to our undergraduate Engineering majors beginning this autumn, please?  I’m available for a phone call to further discuss your needs. How does next week look for you?Have a great weekend,
Alex

Alexandra VlachakisSr. Enterprise ManagerLEGO Education

From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 1:32 PM
To: Alexandra Vlachakis
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Hi Alexandra,

Thanks for your responses. I'll seek to reply inline in kind: 
Regarding your:- "Our products are available on our LEGO Education store. So the easiest way would be to include a link to our site. We would have to talk a little more to be understand your store and see if this works for you."
A Lego Education store link in WUaS online bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores initially would work. WUaS is planning to develop our online stores with TensorFlow AI potentially, and in many languages with time. Eventually, WUaS seeks to have on-the-ground educational services' stores too in all ~200 countries (am thinking WalMart), so it would be great to talk further about this. If WUaS added a LEGO Education store link, and WUaS students got Lego Robotics' kits for their courses from the WUaS store, how does that work? Would Spike Prime be something the WUaS younger online high schools could get for online STEAM work, since WUaS is planning only to be online schools (and I've heard that only schools can get Spike Prime)?  
And regarding your:- "I’m available for a phone call to further discuss your needs. How does next week look for you?" 
Talking next week could work for me. What are some good times for you?
Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics!

Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics! https://t.co/NReNb7Bcif— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1268958943037894657?s=20 and 

Dominik is loving his #StayBuildConnect prize! Thanks to @Rapid_Edu and @CreativeHutEdu ! #WinWithRapid #winwithrapid #Lego #LegoDuplo pic.twitter.com/FZlSLovjr4— Anna (@AnnaAnna2312) June 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/AnnaAnna2312/status/1268484771774189568?s=20 - 
Thanks so much.
Best regards, Scott



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Lego Duplo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Duplo





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Hi Scott,
Happy to help answer your questions. I will do so inline below. 
1.So in these online (licensing and accrediting) high school and college contexts, in what ways could WUaS let students get such Lego Robotics' kits? Could WUaS make these available in a WUaS online robotics' store, for example?  Our products are available on our LEGO Education store. So the easiest way would be to include a link to our site. We would have to talk a little more to be understand your store and see if this works for you.
2.What would you suggest in exploring these ideas further? And how might WUaS best make Lego Robotics' kits be available to our undergraduate Engineering majors beginning this autumn, please?  I’m available for a phone call to further discuss your needs. How does next week look for you?Have a great weekend,
Alex



Alexandra VlachakisSr. Enterprise ManagerLEGO EducationTel: 312.286.7163Twitter: @vlachakisalex
From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 1:32 PM
To: Alexandra Vlachakis
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Hi Alexandra, 

Thanks for your responses. I'll seek to reply inline in kind: 
Regarding your:- "Our products are available on our LEGO Education store. So the easiest way would be to include a link to our site. We would have to talk a little more to be understand your store and see if this works for you."
A Lego Education store link in WUaS online bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores initially would work. WUaS is planning to develop our online stores with TensorFlow AI potentially, and in many languages with time. Eventually, WUaS seeks to have on-the-ground educational services' stores too in all ~200 countries (am thinking WalMart), so it would be great to talk further about this. If WUaS added a LEGO Education store link, and WUaS students got Lego Robotics' kits for their courses from the WUaS store, how does that work? Would Spike Prime be something the WUaS younger online high schools could get for online STEAM work, since WUaS is planning only to be online schools (and I've heard that only schools can get Spike Prime)?  
And regarding your:- "I’m available for a phone call to further discuss your needs. How does next week look for you?" 
Talking next week could work for me. What are some good times for you?
Thnx Leanna @TOTALTeacher & Alex @vlachakisalex. Am wondering if we could, hypothetically, add your presentation to emergent #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthforLego with #FilmTo3D App (in #GooglePoly for #LegoDUPLO & standard bricks)? & esp #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics!

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1268958943037894657?s=20 and https://twitter.com/AnnaAnna2312/status/1268484771774189568?s=20 - 
Thanks so much.
Best regards, Scott






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Dear Liam, Nicole, Neil, and Roland, 
Thanks for your excellent Stanford Law CodeX presentations - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/06/03/codex-meeting-june-4th-2020/ - and I hope your baby is doing well, Liam.

I was wondering how each of your Legal Tech might be developed in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and, brainstorming-wise, taught even in best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric World Univ & Sch's online Law Schools in these countries' languages. Google Translate, brainstorming-wise, would be developed for related machine translation. What do you think? Looking forward to hearing from you. (WUaS is seeking to emerge from Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine for related OpenCourseWare, since this best STEM CC-4 OCW university has neither a Law School nor a Medical School - and in all ~200 countries' official languages for online free-to-students' Law and Medical degrees). Neil, are you still in communication with - - -  per https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilperetz/?
Thanks too for a stellar close to the quarter with your CodeX legal tech presentations. Have a great summer! 
Best regards, Scott- http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html?view=sidebar- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Law%20Schools


Here are some beginning WUaS Law Schools - 
Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School


*https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilperetz/- https://twitter.com/contractwranglr?lang=en

*https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-a-clark/CEO @Nicole_A_Clark explaining the importance of data and analytics in modern legal research.
@dtlatech19 #legaltech #startupchats
https://twitter.com/trellis_law/status/1098666466855907328?s=20
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/nicole-clark#section-overview
http://hcsc.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=1107

*https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-moriarty/
https://maccelerator.la/en/liam-moriarty/
https://twitter.com/belawgood?lang=en
https://contractworkbench.com/#/welcome









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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea_silversword
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyroxiphium_sandwicense_subsp._macrocephalum
https://www.npca.org/articles/1900-the-national-park-with-the-most-endangered-species

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western prairie fringed orchid: BERKELEY, and there's a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest * * * Learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics with "Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER" Lego kit, "... Lego Robot Competition '99," into "Google Research Football

Hello Ed, Came off ridge to get out of heat: 96 F the car said, 89F the smartphone said (and was probably 95F inside where I live). Found my way to BERKELEY, and there's a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest on MLK and Bancroft near Berkeley High, your kids' alma mater (Amelia's at least so far). People with signs are on both sides of the road, that I saw. Putting on my bandana mask, and may head out to join ... see you there? Have just seen 5 cop cars drive by at corner of Allston & McKinley. How are you? EdX for courses at WUaS is looking promising this autumn! :)

Lots of Black Lives Matter signs, no speeches, no bullhorns, cars are honking as they pass in solidarity, most demonstrators are wearing novel coronavirus masks, about 73F, possibly 50-150 protesters, many kids - with signs

But Telegraph Ave near campus (UC Berkeley) had absolutely no one on it, and no tie die tables, bong and pipe vendors (despite cannabis being more legal than ever, at the state level), or artists displaying their creations for sale.




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Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU

Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg

Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc

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Brian, Alexandra, Leanna, 

You can see the beginnings of learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics here (WeDo 2.0 and with a 1999 competition) in this blog entry - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - and potentially with Google Research Football machine learning. 
See you soon, Scott
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20



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Wonderful and thank you, Leanna and All, 
I learned some new Lego language. 
A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks - and the creative computing projects you shared - to Lego machine learning with the WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html  - are a lot of virtual world dots to connect, but would open up vast learning horizons (in so many countries and languages even, and re World Univ & Sch).
Am interested in building a best STEM Cc-4 OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level Engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the one best STEM Cc-4 OCW Lego resource - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/- as well as curriculum for something like IB high school science majors. Please keep your ears open if you learn of people creating this. (Am reading Karen Brennan's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/karen_brennan - and re Creative Computing with Scratch programming in these regards, but am not seeing much about Lego Robotics with Scratch out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which is a direction WUaS is heading in for major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages! ). Thank you!
I appreciated your coding progression slide - about the 6th to last - in these regards too. Very nice to meet you too, Alex, Brian and Leanna!
Best regards, Scotthttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Roboticshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learninghttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/

Again, brainstorming-wise -
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYUMIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics~
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Here's a draft letter to our current prospective undergraduate students, for this autumn: 
"Dear World University and School prospective students, 

World University and School is delighted to let you know that WUaS will be matriculating students this autumn in August and September. Students will be taking edX courses, many derived from CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare courses, and offering these 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business.
Please stay tuned for the next steps in how you can enroll, and the courses that you can choose from in your first year of studies at WUaS, which you will access from here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Thank you for your interest in studying at World University and School for a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor degree. 
Sincerely yours, Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and ProfessorWorld University and School" 



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Dear Larry,

Looks like Sanjay's email was about both linking edX courses, and licensing/ endorsement clarifications.
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Thinking in terms of Shahbaz Sanjer in India, one clarifying question for MIT legal:Can WUaS add all edX courses, in English lit, for ex., to the WUaS course catalog?
I think Sanjay said we can here.
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In that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC)?

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Reimbursement from countries' Depts of Education, non-student sources via edX - pegged on MIT tuition level?

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Am glad WUaS may be getting in communication with MIT legal (rather than edX legal), since this could open avenues to other questions regarding WUaS matriculating students each a Wikidata PIN # in 300 languages (7117 living languages too regarding WUaS wiki schools too?, & 7.5 billion people re UBI experiments too?), transcripts, - and re questions of money transfer mechanism.This would be a very edX-centric set of developments for WUaS, - and I hope that the MIT LEGAL licensing clarifications re above would include questions of remuneration for WUaS.Am hoping Shahbaz can enroll in the autumn, as example. Quality of WUaS degrees will inform reimbursement from countries' questions. Glad too that Sanjay is beginning to think in terms too of WUaS (and that Rafael Reif has his PhD from Stanford too, like Anant).Sincerely, Scott
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/matilija-poppies-romneya-online-free-to.html?m=0 -



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Tue, Jun 2, 9:50 AM (2 days ago)
to Govind, Kyle, tito, Juan, Jayni, Yuping-CASPA, LarryDear Larry, and Jayni, and Board of Directors,

Re my email to Varun Shukla in India just now, am wondering about the value, with time, of having our WUaS applicants take a standardized exam online like the CLT - https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/10/21/classic-learning-test-aims-challenge-sat ... which currently costs around US $54, probably out of the range of Varun, and many high achieving students from the developing world seeking a better future for themselves. So would WUaS cover the cost of this? To be seen. What do you think?  
In further communication with the MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma, who's uncle or similar is a politician in India I think, am wondering too about reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
FYI, here's where World Univ & Sch stands with licensing currently: 
World Univ & Sch continues to seek to observe the best STEM Cc-4 OCW,  and the edX, licensing terms (and per our communication with OCW director Cecilia d'Oliveira previously, that WUaS may 1) share, 2) adapt, 3) but non-commercially the best STEM Cc-4 OCW (now in 4 languages), - and see the further licensing clarifications here per her: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - 
Best STEM Cc-4 OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )And see too correspondence with MIT's Sanjay Sarma - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html - 
And as WUaS prepares for a possible autumn collaboration with edX, WUaS has listed about 75 CC-4 best STEM CC-4 OCW courses, ~14 edX courses, and about 19 CC-3 Yale OYC courses in our course catalog (but wouldn't yet have access to edX MITx courses from  best STEM CC-4 OCW grades, for example) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/).
WUaS is currently waiting to hear back from MIT Legal per Sanjay with regard to further exploratory steps re linking, licensing and much more. 
Sincerely, Scott

Email today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India: 
Thank you for your mail. And greetings! Is this your Twitter URL - https://twitter.com/varunss2211? And what languages do you speak?  best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World University & School admission's process is in progress. At this stage, World Univ & Sch will likely offer only 4-year Bachelor degree programs, with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -  but since you already have a Ph.D., why might you be interested in a Bachelor degree? And what major might you apply for?

WUaS will likely have space in our Business major for a free-to-students'  best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, providing WUaS could move forward together with edX and regarding the edX platform (which is something WUaS is in communication with edX about). The enrollment process would then be similar to edX's, but stay tuned since WUaS may seek essays, language proficiency, letters of recommendation, & test scores (possibly the CLT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Learning_Test), etc. - as if someone from India were applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) itself on-the-ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to offer our online Bachelor's degree classes in collaboration with edX this autumn 2020, the WUaS Ph.D. degrees would begin the following autumn 2021 at the earliest. Applying would probably occur through - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and I will add you to WUaS's monthly business meetings' emailings. Thank you again for your interest in  best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch.

Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeodFounder, President  & Professor
PS What does D.B.S. stand for? 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 
Varun Shukla in India has written again with an interest in matriculating at World Univ & Sch this autumn in the General Science major. Our recent correspondence is below. 
It's great that WUaS has a prospective student who is interested in our proposed General Science degree, potentially beginning this autumn. Am wondering how the WUaS Admissions' process will grow over the years' ahead. Am wondering too about WUaS seeking a variety of Department of Educations in India for reimbursement, for example; in what ways might WUaS engage MIT Professors, Sanjay Sarma, the VP in the Office of Digital Learning, or Anant Agarwal, edX's CEO in these regards? 
As you'll see in this recent blog post, best STEM CC-4 OCW doesn't have a "Science" page upon searching, but it does have a page for our other 5 majors - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html - and WUaS has alos posted only one edX from MITx from  best STEM CC-4 OCW Science courses so far. 
All the best, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 



*Dear Sir,
I have done Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited).

Yes @varunss2211 is my twitter.
I would like to take major in General Science
My mother tongue is Gujarati. I also speak English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.


Yours,
Dr. Varun ShuklaNavi Mumbai,India

Thank you for your response. Stay tuned as World Univ & Sch develops its admissions' process, as well as our collaborations with edX. WUaS is seeking to offer courses like this over 4 years - Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life:  https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secret-of-life-3 - for World Univ & Sch credit, as we seek to develop online free-to-students' Bachelor degrees, and also to seek reimbursement from nation states, countries, counties, and states' Departments of Education. 
Thank you, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages


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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 

By the way, Varun Shukla in India writes he's completed both a high school degree and an online, it appears, "Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited)" - from Universal Life Church and costing $59 - see: https://store.ulc.net/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=doctor-of-biblical-studies AND https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/ulc-scamage.39628/ - so I can understand perhaps now why he is interested in the WUaS free-to-students' 'accrediting'  best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor's degree. He could conceivably even afford the CLT exam from India. 
The first step of licensing and accreditation for WUaS may be to go through the CA BPPE's "Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited" - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf" but I've read that the related BPPE workshops are cancelled. 
So, in terms of WUaS's licensing (CA's BPPE) which is the first step in then concurrently accrediting (probably with WASC), all of the CA BPPE workshops have been cancelled through the end of 2020 (probably due to the coronavirus pandemic) - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/schools/application_workshops.shtml - this makes it difficult for WUaS to begin to offer online Bachelor (or Ph.D.) degrees that will then become accredited (as WUaS becomes accredited). (Also WUaS doesn't have the BPPE fee money to begin this process anyway). 
So I'm wondering if state of California licensing / accreditation ONLINE is the right direction to head in at this stage - since online licensing / accreditation may be impossible at this stage. And could WUaS collaborate with edX to create potentially our own forms of accreditation, per recent correspondence with Larry: "in that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC)?
In a related vein: am curious if WUaS could eventually request  best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors Heather Paxson (Quaker, I think), and Graham Jones (who's a Reedie - a Reed College Alum), as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . And do you know this Monty Python version of 


Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth
https://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)
Thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions? 
All the best, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
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Browser was shutting down as I was writing the last email, and with a familiar error message was popping up just before the Safari browser shut down - the 3-repeat message happens and then Safari closes - and then the 3-repeat message but Safari didn't close ... is this a Google Apple process? 
So BPPE may have had its highs and lows in recent decades, and may also be saying with 'non-accredited' licensing to end users, like people in India, PERHAPS to BEWARE. Shall WUaS seek edX 'accreditation' or its own creation, or seek BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation for both Bachelor and Ph.D.s (per BPPE, and first in English) - if WUaS had the $5,000 for BPPE and the $10,000 eligibility fee, and then the $1,000 per year per student I think - and then the $10,000 or so to become accredited - with accreditation happening only AFTER we graduate our first undergraduate Bachelor's degree class (but with provisional accreditation in the interim). What  do you think? And what would be best for our students, and seeking reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries (and if we were collaborating with edX as well)? And what about 'the other America' and the non-rich 'developing world'? I'd think if we could guarantee quality of degrees, and make these relevant for India and other countries in the developing world, their Departments of Education might appreciate less of an outlay for WUaS degrees (re accreditation) ... even as WUaS seeks to peg reimbursement on MIT's tuition for studying from home degrees. 
I've also renewed WUaS's Grants.gov password over the weekend for about the 10th or 15th time, - every 6 weeks (WUaS didn't get a $250,000 grant through Grants.gov a few years ago) - and just received today Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's Grants' Newsletter, a few days late after the beginning of the month, which lays out grant opportunities. Would a granting agency fund WUaS NEWLY to license with BPPE and then seek accreditation with WASC senior? (Can't also attend the BPPE workshops if they are closed through year's end). Would a granting agency award WUaS monies to hire graduate student instructors from MIT and Harvard and Stanford, without WASC senior or similar accreditation? 
Where might the CLT play a role in WUaS seeking and finding high achieving students from around the world - https://www.cltexam.com/home ? Princeton's Robert George on this page went to Quaker schools too I think. I've met him at Stanford as well. I don't think accepting the CLT exam would cost WUaS anything.  
Thoughts, ideas, questions, comments? I think a WUaS US degree would have much more value if WUaS was accredited - opening avenues to many careers otherwise inaccessible. 
Cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 



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Dear WUaS Board, 

Each person in the world, all 7.5 billion people, a WUaS Wikidata PIN# (nee Wikidata Q-item #), beginning with matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS - since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development, and got the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence? For ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University .

Just asked these questions, as I registered for this Stanford Law SVDX webinar on Tu June 9, 2020 at 10 am PT - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar: "Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"
... and somehow backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. 
I think the Stanford Law SVDX webinar is open - and its focus is Board Members actually. All of the above would be in the WUaS Corp legal entity in all likelihood. 
Still waiting to hear back about edX licensing and similar from Sanjay Sarma, MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, and re MIT Legal, which he said he would brief regarding best STEM CC-4 OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, and they - MIT Legal - would get back to WUaS. 
Sincerely, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress - 








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