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Lava Beds National Monument: Genealogy software, and new developments - the 'trait' word - and planning for 7.5 billion people re diversity, and a single family tree * "WikiTree: Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and tradition

Genealogy software, and new developments - the 'trait' word - and planning for 7.5 billion people re diversity, and a single family tree:


Mark, Sandy, All


Sandy: What would make a great artist-in-residence position at a university? (see below).


Thanks, Mark (from this morning):

"Scott,

One excellent and free source of genealogical info is "Family Search." A bit clumsy interface but it's run my the Mormon church - a group that takes genealogy seriously! I find their record collection to be excellent.

Mark"

And my reply to Mark this morning:

Mark:

Thanks, and interesting (re Family Search).

Hank Greely re Ancestry .com and DNA yesterday ...

"I've the data download from Ancestry as well as a moderately deep Y chromosome analysis. John & I just haven't figured out a way to compare codes."

I've the data download from Ancestry as well as a moderately deep Y chromosome analysis. John & I just haven't figured out a way to compare codes. https://t.co/A2Spgi7Qha— Hank Greely (@HankGreelyLSJU) May 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1265039249767665664?s=20


Will genetics' textbooks be re-written remarkably for 'trait' language in next 10-20 years per the sentence ...

"To aid in the interpretation and sharing of genomes, Church, in 2005, initiated the Personal Genome Project (PGP),[63] which provides the world's only open-access human genome and trait data sets.[64][65][66] " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist)) ... which I would think will become interoperable with WikiTree eventually (eg https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/MacLeod-2524/5).


... which genealogists will then explore for their own family genealogy/history?  (Have you ever checked out a genetics' textbook for your genealogy research? I haven't yet).

Am glad Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely is Tweeting about Ancestry. Maybe Google / Stanford will get their hands' on Ancestry .com software - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/hawksbill-sea-turtle-great-family.html - with WikiTree, and navigate the genetic information revolution ahead  (I teach a bit about this in http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ie it's as significant as the 3 other IT revolutions, microelectronics, computers, & telecommunications -
The Information Technology Revolution: History and Geography (Scott MacLeod)

https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/black-lace-mushrooms-information.html).

One issue that WikiTree's plans for 7.5 billion people will add re the Mormon Church's genealogy, and others,' is diversity: "WikiTree: Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and traditional genealogical sources." (Am recalling Alex Haley's "Roots" book from the '70s even in these regards).

Will check out Family Search with time, Mark! (But could this be integrated too with a Stanford / Google / WikiTree / Ancestry .com approach to Ancestry family genealogy software (re their entrepreneurialism, and since A is probably making money)?:) Looks like WikiTree possibly has a 256 ancestor limit, I just noticed. Thanks!

Warm regards, 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 - https://mailchi.mp/c1b4dd9afe60/2020-winter-newsletter-4905445?e=d9473d6051 - about architect John Carl Warnecke 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? And could my hypothetical wife-to-be occupy my place in Canyon 945616 while I was in residence? I just looked and this position isn't structured like a Stanford artist-in-residency at all, rather it looks like residents pay rent - so am not interested in this position 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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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Tue, May 26, 5:58 PM (16 hours ago)to margo@warneckeranch.com, ScottHi Margo and Stanford, 
Am not interested in the Warnecke artist-in-residency position after all. Very nice to talk. Let's hope the coronavirus pandemic ends soon. 
Thank you, Scott
- #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries?src=hashtag_click -



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With WUaS planning for all 7.5 billion people, too, each a Wikidata Q-item # or a Wikidata PIN # at - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - is that WUaS will be able to plan for UBI experiments as well.




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Lacanian psychoanalysis online with avatar bots at WUaS?,
the flow experience of optimal experience,
and psychotherapy


Dear Tym, Sid, MDs, All, ...

The video in this Tweet is a good example of 'artificial humans' aka Samsung 'Neons' or realistic avatars as potential MD psychiatrists as well as Lacanian psychoanalysts (or a new California School of Psychoanalysis with artificial human MDs) ... and MD tele-robotic surgeons re the Samsung Hardware too esp.

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch · Apr 19
Smartphone video-to-3D #FilmTo3D with #GooglePoly> #RealisticArtificialHumans aka #SamsungNeons as #AvatarBot psychiatrists & post-Lacanian psychoanalysts (in California School of Psychoanalysis in Med Schs at WUaS) to HELP, & in #RealisticVirtualHarbin

How best in 1 multidimensional #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics to combine Google StreetView w #TIMESLIDER on their servers, w #MINECRAFT for Lego on MIT's servers with #SamsungNeons as #RealisticArtificialHumans with SL for group build-ability with #Scratch w #BrickStreetView? https://t.co/XlQVniPXYf— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1250187619373178880?s=20 ~

Smartphone video-to-3D #FilmTo3D with #GooglePoly> #RealisticArtificialHumans aka #SamsungNeons as #AvatarBot psychiatrists & post-Lacanian psychoanalysts (in California School of Psychoanalysis in Med Schs at WUaS) to HELP, & in #RealisticVirtualHarbin https://t.co/nWwrfpHvM2 ~ https://t.co/rJVnQaui2g— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1251910522116509697?s=20

Would be great to focus in training both people and coding realistic avatars newly on the 'psychology of optimal experience' too - re Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" book - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flow%20the%20psychology%20of%20optimal%20experience with regards to helping people in regards to mental health issues (probably a different word in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages) :)
Cheers, Scotthttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatryhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysishttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychotherapy- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/flow%20the%20psychology%20of%20optimal%20experience -




Ma!

Thanks so much for "Fwd: Beautiful spot - ... " ducks' picture and note.
Glad you're staying sane, and befriending wonderful animal friends. :)



Am recalling George, again, on who he listens to, and whose books he reads, too ... Richard Dawkins, for ex., yes (whom I think is amazing and brilliant too) ... but not to many others in regards to the messaging that goes on among writers who share ideas, thinkers, communicators, media personalities, teachers. I don't see you as being that philosophically skeptical in your 'modus operandi,' and au contraire even, I see you as very trusting, caring, nurturing, but I think skepticism has much merit with regards to how messages can seem 'attractive,' for example... caveat emptor (buyer beware?) and with symbolizers, news' shows, - smart friends even? 
George was a learner, and receptive too (idea-wise), and so philosophical skepticism, and his remarkably wit  regarding his critique thinking, linguistically (as a Lacanian too), was something I learned from as well.
Love, Scott




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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/R0fwa0DCpI— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265380101648072706?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265380611553849344?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265380814650372096?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265381217660055552?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265379757899702272?s=20


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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



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For #ScottishCountryDancing? How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, & with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft?

For #ScottishCountryDancing? How best to facilitate online #ScratchProgramming at the high school / IB level, & with #LegoRobotics, both #PhysicalVirtual #ActualVirtual eg in #BrickStreetView (with Google Street View with #TimeSlider) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & Minecraft? https://t.co/0UVE8bI1eI— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) May 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265382066859896832?s=20








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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_Beds_National_Monument
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Big Sur coastline: WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the MIT Office of Digital Learning? * * * Hi Scott, Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing?

WUaS LiveStream 5/25/2020 Collaborations with the MIT Office of Digital Learning?

https://youtu.be/O1-K6koPnfM

See draft email at bottom here:
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/sugar-cone-pine-pinus-lambertiana-prem.html -



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WUaS #LiveStream from FEATURED CHANNEL add /Live http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch MON 5/25/20 at 10a PT Topic: Your Qs & Free best STEM CC-4 OCW Univ in fall
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Unis in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join

WUaS #LiveStream from FEATURED CHANNEL add /Live https://t.co/owp9MyvvM8 MON 5/25/20 at 10a PT Topic: Your Qs & Free best STEM CC-4 OCW Univ in fall@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Unis in ~200 https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 @ScottMacLeod email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to join— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1264782606907797504?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1264783009401548805?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264783377455910912?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264778310443077633?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1264778536629317633?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1264779334897696768?s=20






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Aditi Raman Shridhar
May 22, 2020, 7:03 AM (3 days ago)
to me

Hi Scott,

Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing?

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:55 AM Scott MacLeod wrote:


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Aditi Raman



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Monday, May 25, 2020
Hi Aditi, 

Thanks for your reply. Where are you based? 
ScottPSI've blogged a little about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/sugar-cone-pine-pinus-lambertiana-prem.html - some of which you might find inspiring. 
PPSAre you familiar with paper.li at all? 
Am amazed too that the WUaS MIT OCW Daily NewspAper - eg https://paper.li/WorldUnivAndSch/1474335157#/ - posts daily to Twitter WUaS - eg https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1264732146171891712?s=20 - with the WUaS licensing clarifications, an image, some articles, - and thAnks in part to A.I. (and I'm not sure who else - what person - is doing this!) Glad for WUaS to be sharing the MIT name esp.!
Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (and MIT OCW CC-4 licensing clarifications are here too - which is so great) - http://ocw.mit.edu :)

- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - 

Am reading this paper - https://www.dn.se/ - and quite a few others (in 10+ languages, some from https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/news.html#record) daily with the help of Google Translate. It's the cultural and linguistics' perspectives / takes I find especially edifying. Also collecting a daily crop of coronavirus articles.






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

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

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

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Quercus chrysolepis (Canyon live oak): Genes and genealogy? - Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again): "How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?" * * * Any chance you see a Peter Norvig (is a director o

Mark, 

Any chance you see a Peter Norvig (is a director of research at Google Inc., and used to be its director of search quality) / Google / Alphabet / Stanford getting their coding hands on Ancestry .com and especially with WikiTree (for all 7.5 billion people's genetic samples ... as well as for archaeology genetic samples) ... and improving and integrating both software (perhaps even in a realistic virtual earth for genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click? :) and DNA sampling, anticipating all species, living and past?
Would still like to add your great DNA-related find of James Edward McLeod's parents from Isle of Raasay in Scotland - Norman MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie - to my tree with a click, but this hasn't worked out any number of times. (A kind of frustration emerges regarding the $20 / month too to A .com that their software seems to be so bad, that there's no feedback loop for improving it, and they don't seem to be on a path to improve it either, whatsoever). Would seek to give people the control of their own narratives in such a related emergent realistic virtual earth for home genealogy - and at WUaS even ... in a way that echoes Google's ethos / culture (re data ownership questions too, re science questions, as well as re narratives) - and with time in 3D conversational interactivity even (eg I'd like to be able to converse with James Edward McLeod on PEI, in the Boston area, and in Scotland - am thinking Google Street View with time slider where the little "Pegman" avatar grows into realistic avatars or 'artificial humans' per Samsung 'Neons' even) - All dovetailing with a single realistic virtual earth for history, realistic virtual earth for geology, realistic virtual earth for archaeology (see related #Hashtags in Twitter ).  
Mark, thanks again for your remarkable Norman MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie DNA discoveries!
Best regards, Scott- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod 
Open Band (Berkeley) @TheOpenBand Mar 4
Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8068893/Church-England-launch-Google-Maps-graves-five-years.html #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics

Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://t.co/4xn3jpS377 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235357771744169985?s=20


Cheers, ScottScott GK MacLeod III - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114291549/facts - Scott GK MacLeod III - https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=MacLeod-2524&public=1 - - http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD - - http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm - 

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Thanks for the note Scott. Ancestry software does indeed suck. But I have found ways to get around some issues and mostly have learned to live with the inefficiencies. I think the reason people stick with Ancestry is their huge worldwide database of information, including the largest DNA database. Somehow I don't think they will freely give that over to Google or anybody else.
As I have said before, simply having the data does not mean you understand how everyone is connected. That still takes work and time. AI could make it easier but I think it will be a while before we can eliminate the tedious work of piecing it all together. I suspect a lot of what Ancestry serves up as 'hints' is driven by some sophisticated software.
Now for a fun fact and an example of just one complexity:
Yesterday I discovered a DNA connection to a Gary Johnson. Jim Alan MacLeod,  you, my sister Jen, my nephew Mark Shoemaker, Mary Bonczek and I are all matches to both Gary and his sister Lori. You'll find both in your Ancestry match list at a low 8 cMs. Jim Alan matches at 24 cMs.
Who is Gary Johnson, you ask!
Do you remember, in 2016, that there was a Libertarian candidate for President, running against Trump and Clinton? It was Gary Johnson, the same person that is our DNA match! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Johnson#CEO_of_Cannabis_Sativa_Inc.
And how are we related, you ask!
It's complicated. His father was adopted and it looks like some wily ancestor of ours got his grandmother pregnant when she was only 19 and unmarried. She gave Gary's father up for adoption. We don't know who this wily bugger was but we may just find out with some more digging a DNA matching. I've been in email contact with both Lori and Gary.
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Thanks, and interesting, Mark, 

Am a bit wary - philosophical skepticism might be another way of saying this - of wily critters, including re knowledge generation, and re emergent narratives too ... (and seeking here even to marry a MD, someone I'm attracted to, a Z.B. possibly? ... or ... re family tree genealogy questions ... 
Am curious in an ongoing way about WikiTree's remarkable potential (and regarding WUaS's focus on coding for 7.5 billion people in a variety of ways - and these 5 to begin, including genes-wise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - and happy New Year again!).
Thanks, 
Scott




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Mark, Family All, 

Genes and genealogy? - Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again):"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk
- which you'll also find a couple of times in these longevity label blog posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ... Am wondering what the implications for family genealogy are if we manage to reverse aging genetically, and live beyond 122 years of age in our bodyminds (... the upper known documented limit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment).

And to follow up on an email I sent this morning to Mark, my mother (Janie ) + ... :
Any chance you see a Peter Norvig (is a director of research at Google Inc., and used to be its director of search quality) / Google / Alphabet getting their coding hands on Ancestry .com and especially with WikiTree (for all 7.5 billion people's genetic samples ... as well as for archaeology genetic samples) ... and improving and integrating both software (perhaps even in a realistic virtual earth for genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click? :) and DNA sampling, anticipating all species, living and past?
Would still like to add your great DNA-related find of James Edward McLeod's parents from Isle of Raasay - Norman MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie - to my tree with a click, but this hasn't worked out any number of times. (A kind of frustration emerges regarding the $20 / month too to A .com that their software seems to be so bad, that there's no feedback loop for improving it, and they don't seem to be on a path to improve it either, whatsoever). Would seek to give people the control of their own narratives in such a related emergent realistic virtual earth for home genealogy - and at WUaS even ... in a way that echoes Google's ethos / culture (re data ownership questions too, re science questions, as well as re narratives) - and with time in 3D conversational interactivity even (eg I'd like to be able to converse with James Edward McLeod on PEI, in the Boston area, and in Scotland - am thinking Google Street View with time slider where the little "Pegman" avatar grows into realistic avatars or 'artificial humans' per Samsung 'Neons' even) - All dovetailing with a single realistic virtual earth for history, realistic virtual earth for geology, realistic virtual earth for archaeology (see related #Hashtags in Twitter ).  
Mark, thanks again for your remarkable Norman MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie DNA discoveries!
Best regards, Scott- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod 
Open Band (Berkeley) @TheOpenBand Mar 4
Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8068893/Church-England-launch-Google-Maps-graves-five-years.html #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235357771744169985?s=20

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Mark, 

here's another take on genetic ownership questions (gene database / narrative ownership, etc.), re other species ... a Wikidata Q-item # for individual species (where I just started adding the Wikidata q-item # relating to my often beginning a daily blog entry with a species - or natural object - at bottom of yesterday's "Sugar cone pine" post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/sugar-cone-pine-pinus-lambertiana-prem.html - which Wikidata Q-items will presumably carry the genome of such species eventually, and be CC-0 licensed ... and presumably carry individual organism's genomes in the future as well. (Wikidata is Wikipedia's back end structured knowledge database in ~300 languages, and to which WUaS donated itself for co-development in 2015, and then received our WUaS front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 - eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects and see /Genetics or eventually /MacLeod_Society_Worldwide wiki subjects for ex., - as a consequence). George Church has long been developing the only crowdsourced opensource database - https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/01/20/229785/the-personal-genome-project-2/ - for research as well.
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Mark, and All, 

Found the language I was referring to re "world's only open-access human genome and trait data sets" (per George Church): 
"To aid in the interpretation and sharing of genomes, Church, in 2005, initiated the Personal Genome Project (PGP),[63] which provides the world's only open-access human genome and trait data sets.[64][65][66] " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist)) ... which I would think will become interoperable with WikiTree eventually (eg https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/MacLeod-2524/5). 
Family regards, Scott
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_chrysolepis (Canyon live oak)with an overlapping but distinct range from{ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_agrifolia (California live oak)
and regarding too ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html ~ }




Canyon live oak Wikidata Q-item #
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_chrysolepis

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Common garter snake: Harbin Hot Springs, poetry, Exploring Wisdom re Philosophy * * * Found these poems of mine relate to these pictures ... re this side road near Harbin Hot Springs ... by searching on "Eupalinos" (as in "Tunnels of Eupalinos" in Greece o

Hi Ma (Jane), David, Ed, Pin, Susan (Sioux), and Tym, 
Shared these pictures this morning with the 1st 4 of you and this email address, from Google Photos, as I learn further about how this I.T. works, and am now wanting to share these photos from my sgkmacleod@gmail.com account, - and regarding taking these pictures on a side road close to Harbin Hot Springs where I sometimes camped in my Subaru Legacy (in pic) when doing field work, and these poems I wrote at the time, partly regarding this hill side. (Am not sure how these particular photos popped up on my smartphone this morning, making it possible to share them - Peter Norvig???)
Found these poems of mine relate to these pictures ... re this side road near Harbin Hot Springs ... by searching on "Eupalinos" (as in "Tunnels of Eupalinos" in Greece on Samos Isle, and the 8th wonder of the world, per Herodotus possibly?) and searching on "Ferdinand" as in ("Ferdinand the Bull," by Munro Leaf, about which I emailed Sioux yesterday):

Poems -
Pinnacle Rock: The Dirt Road in Lake Countyhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/pinnacle-rock-dirt-road-in-lake-county.html
Chillingham wild cattle: Saw a little, playful headbutting between two, baby cows, calves, near Harbin, Hedwig, Culturehttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/chillingham-wild-cattle-saw-little.html
- Ferdinand -
Alpine lakes: Added these 3 views on wisdom to WUaS, Wisdom per Durant, per Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil., per Wikipedia, Ferdinand, Tao Te Chinghttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/11/alpine-lakes-added-these-3-views-on.html
in which I found this Will Durant definition of 'wisdom,' which web site - http://www.willdurant.com/wisdom.htm (when I clicked on it, it took me to a Norwegian domain in Norwegian curiously) - no longer works, so I looked in archive.org and found it here from 2012 - https://web.archive.org/web/20120123104627/http://www.willdurant.com/wisdom.htm ... Interesting illuminating definition (with its focus on holism ).
And there are some other poems from this 2011 year and related in blog, also written partly while camping on this side road (and at Harbin). 
Fairly new 'wisdom' label in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/wisdom - to which I'll add some of these blog posts (and it's interesting to me that Eric Dodson whom I've blogged about -
Bizet sheep: Wisdom @WorldUnivAndSch ?> "Wisdom and Education" video - "Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson" * * Am curious to bring these ideas about "Wisdom and Education" into conversation with A) my actual < > virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project B) MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, developing online in ~200 countries and 7,111 known living languages (and now with the emergence of online learning due to many major universities heading online due to novel coronavirus fears) C) this blog as an idea generator, and regarding its writing / thinking / philosophy even * * * Regarding novel Coronavirus 'meme madness' ('cultural units/words spread by imitation' seeking to mitigate risks from potential deleterious gene replicating) ...am asking myself amid all the hype, is this real? Is any of this real? * * With regards to my A), B) and C), am keeping in mind this line from the Desiderata - "Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time." https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html (which thinking I'm not sure Eric touches on in his "Wisdom and Education" video) * * Is this novel #COVID19 in media a run thru of a worldwide catastrophe? See: ... eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html - uses a holism idea for wisdom as well:). Am appreciative of some of Dodson's philosophy Youtube videos (but not all). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy definition is also interesting. 
How are you? Am hoping this finds you swimmingly! :) It's 81 F here in Canyon today on the ridge (at the verge of too hot, and will be in the high 90s through Saturday when it's supposed to get to 78F, back in the reasonable sphere somewhat ... and re shelter-at-home essential needs, I may find my way in air conditioned car into some of the cooler East Bay MUD valleys in upcoming days). Life partner seeking continues ... :) Z.B.? a MD out here in the SF Bay Area? Am staying tuned! :) What's the weather by you? 
ScottPSEd, per our visit in Canyon yesterday - thanks for coming over, and am glad your sense of Canyon has changed from the words you used "scary" and "intimidating" so that you came over! (after 3-4 years it seems), it seems there are about 10 main languages in Nigeria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria (and not 6-7 as I had mentioned, and had heard too at Stanford, and 206 million people, not 110 million, where CA has 40 million people, and the USA 320 million people) - and English is its official language as well! 

PPS
Ed, I think we saw a version of the Plains Garter snake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_garter_snake and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Plains_garter_snake_%28Thamnophis_radix%29.jpg and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Thamnophis-radix.JPG -  in Indian Valley in East Bay MUD in Canyon 94516 yesterday.



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Hi Ma (Jane), David, Ed, Pin, Susan (Sioux), and Tym, 
Related blog post in the works - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html - with the very yellow-sided garter snake, I think, which we saw drinking water with its little red tongue, in "Indian Valley," as we crossed that nearly dry creek. (I couldn't quite find yellow enough sides when searching in Wikipedia or WikiCommons, so am wondering about variation in speciation, as well as whether the so-called Plains' Garter Snake could be out west as well?)Warmly, Scott



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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Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re @HarbinBook field work in 2011 ("Ferdinand the Bull," by Munro Leaf?)  https://goo.gl/maps/aQntSVwQRbCkViPz9 ~

Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://t.co/hAwChXup6x Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re @HarbinBook field work in 2011 ("Ferdinand the Bull," by Munro Leaf?) https://t.co/FPbg3NLZRq ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265031198843105280?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265029216300527616?s=20

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Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin in Street View - field work in 2011 https://goo.gl/maps/aQntSVwQRbCkViPz9 ~

Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://t.co/mfAvp9BF3S Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin in Street View - field work in 2011 https://t.co/UvVMUrfuaj ~— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265031889833717760?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265032842330824704?s=20


The place where I camped, but I couldn't seem to add the photos to Google Maps here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7810161,-122.6456742,3a,75y,145.4h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMeo55w6QoakCqyvXbpPqkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315




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Nice to talk, and hope you got some water! 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, 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 ?:).










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garter_snakeCommon Garter Snake (Q911786) in Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911786


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_garter_snake
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385759




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Common garter snake: Harbin Hot Springs, poetry, Exploring Wisdom re Philosophy

Hi Ma (Jane), David, Ed, Pin, Susan (Sioux), and Tym, 
Shared these pictures this morning with the 1st 4 of you and this email address, from Google Photos, as I learn further about how this I.T. works, and am now wanting to share these photos from my sgkmacleod@gmail.com account, - and regarding taking these pictures on a side road close to Harbin Hot Springs where I sometimes camped in my Subaru Legacy (in pic) when doing field work, and these poems I wrote at the time, partly regarding this hill side. (Am not sure how these particular photos popped up on my smartphone this morning, making it possible to share them - Peter Norvig???)
Found these poems of mine relate to these pictures ... re this side road near Harbin Hot Springs ... by searching on "Eupalinos" (as in "Tunnels of Eupalinos" in Greece on Samos Isle, and the 8th wonder of the world, per Herodotus possibly?) and searching on "Ferdinand" as in (Ferdinand the Bull, about which I emailed Sioux yesterday):

Poems -
Pinnacle Rock: The Dirt Road in Lake Countyhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/pinnacle-rock-dirt-road-in-lake-county.html
Chillingham wild cattle: Saw a little, playful headbutting between two, baby cows, calves, near Harbin, Hedwig, Culturehttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/chillingham-wild-cattle-saw-little.html
- Ferdinand -
Alpine lakes: Added these 3 views on wisdom to WUaS, Wisdom per Durant, per Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil., per Wikipedia, Ferdinand, Tao Te Chinghttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/11/alpine-lakes-added-these-3-views-on.html
in which I found this Will Durant definition of 'wisdom,' which web site - http://www.willdurant.com/wisdom.htm (when I clicked on it, it took me to a Norwegian domain in Norwegian curiously) - no longer works, so I looked in archive.org and found it here from 2012 - https://web.archive.org/web/20120123104627/http://www.willdurant.com/wisdom.htm ... Interesting illuminating definition (with its focus on holism ).
And there are some other poems from this 2011 year and related in blog, also written partly while camping on this side road (and at Harbin). 
Fairly new 'wisdom' label in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/wisdom - to which I'll add some of these blog posts (and it's interesting to me that Eric Dodson whom I've blogged about -
Bizet sheep: Wisdom @WorldUnivAndSch ?> "Wisdom and Education" video - "Top 10 Indicators of Wisdom by Eric Dodson" * * Am curious to bring these ideas about "Wisdom and Education" into conversation with A) my actual < > virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project B) MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, developing online in ~200 countries and 7,111 known living languages (and now with the emergence of online learning due to many major universities heading online due to novel coronavirus fears) C) this blog as an idea generator, and regarding its writing / thinking / philosophy even * * * Regarding novel Coronavirus 'meme madness' ('cultural units/words spread by imitation' seeking to mitigate risks from potential deleterious gene replicating) ...am asking myself amid all the hype, is this real? Is any of this real? * * With regards to my A), B) and C), am keeping in mind this line from the Desiderata - "Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time." https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html (which thinking I'm not sure Eric touches on in his "Wisdom and Education" video) * * Is this novel #COVID19 in media a run thru of a worldwide catastrophe? See: ... eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html - uses a holism idea for wisdom as well:). Am appreciative of some of Dodson's philosophy Youtube videos (but not all). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy definition is also interesting. 
How are you? Am hoping this finds you swimmingly! :) It's 81 F here in Canyon today on the ridge (at the verge of too hot, and will be in the high 90s through Saturday when it's supposed to get to 78F, back in the reasonable sphere somewhat ... and re shelter-at-home essential needs, I may find my way in air conditioned car into some of the cooler East Bay MUD valleys in upcoming days). Life partner seeking continues ... :) Z.B.? a MD out here in the SF Bay Area? Am staying tuned! :) What's the weather by you? 
ScottPSEd, per our visit in Canyon yesterday - thanks for coming over, and am glad your sense of Canyon has changed from the words you used "scary" and "intimidating" so that you came over! (after 3-4 years it seems), it seems there are about 10 main languages in Nigeria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria (and not 6-7 as I had mentioned, and had heard too at Stanford, and 206 million people, not 110 million, where CA has 40 million people, and the USA 320 million people) - and English is its official language as well! 

PPS
Ed, I think we saw a version of the Plains Garter snake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_garter_snake and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Plains_garter_snake_%28Thamnophis_radix%29.jpg and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Thamnophis-radix.JPG -  in Indian Valley in East Bay MUD in Canyon 94516 yesterday.



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Hi Ma (Jane), David, Ed, Pin, Susan (Sioux), and Tym, 
Related blog post in the works - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html - with the very yellow-sided garter snake, I think, which we saw drinking water with its little red tongue, in "Indian Valley," as we crossed that nearly dry creek. (I couldn't quite find yellow enough sides when searching in Wikipedia or WikiCommons, so am wondering about variation in speciation, as well as whether the so-called Plains' Garter Snake could be out west as well?)Warmly, Scott



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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garter_snakeCommon Garter Snake (Q911786) in Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911786


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_garter_snake
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385759




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Sugar cone pine (Pinus lambertiana): India World University and School planned in all 780 languages in India ... Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20: Some thoughts to - "Can you please give the outline o

India World University and School 
planned in all 780 languages in India ... 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India

Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20: 


Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020


- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html

Some thoughts -

Hi Aditi, 

Am resending this to you and Prem, since I mis-typed your email: 
Hi Prem (and Aditi, from India but possibly in Nigeria), Thanks for your emails. 


Prem: First: WUaS is seeking undergraduate students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - to matriculate online in English for free-to-students' 4-year Bachelor degrees from home in India - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School. This platform will be on something like MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform (of which MIT Professor of EECS and CEO of edX is Anant Agarwal). WUaS is still working on developing these collaborations.
Re your: "Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures?"

Second: WUaS is seeking to develop open wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all of India's ~800 languages (and eventually too to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees in all 22 of India's official languages). Planning for all 7,117 known living languages here to be accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. So how best to cultivate these wiki schools, or teach people how to grow them, a bit like Wikipedia's communities in its ~300 languages, - is a creative open question. And World Univ & Sch donated WUaS to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received the above WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 above, but 'front end' and 'back end' aren't yet interoperable. In the meantime, people can wiki-teach, wiki-learn, wiki-edit the existing languages wiki schools (not yet in their languages). And thus people could create wiki subjects in areas that would help them, or be inspiring to them, - and check if there's any MIT OpenCourseWare or not to add - and then wiki-teach, wiki-create and WUaS wiki-develop away, potentially all on smartphones. An illiterate farmer with a smartphone could potentially teach something about farming to Youtube and share this with other farmers 200 miles away in other languages ... and eventually all via voice input.


Re your: "What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving?"WUaS is currently planning 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' online 4-year Bachelor degrees (as if going to MIT or Stanford on the ground itself)  to begin this autumn with 500-2000 students as WUaS seeks to license with CA's BPPE and accredit concurrently with WASC senior ... on something like edX from MIT OCW into MITx conceptually. If WUaS can collaborate more fully with edX, and engage machine translation, many of the edX courses would become available for certificates in all 7,117 living languages. 


Re your: "I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses. " - I hope so too, Prem!
Aditi: Thanks for your: 

"Hi Scott,

Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing? 

Aditi" 


Would you like to explore wiki-editing one of these pages: - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Journalism or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Marketing (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) ? 
Using this citation practice, explore if you can add the following reference to "Select Books" - 
The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students. 2020. [https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students].  https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ . - 
And then perhaps, if interested, could you find a Youtube video, or virtual world, or similar for the "Marketing" wiki subject, and add this resource there? 
Perhaps, then Aditi, you could explore tutoring interested people (your friends in an Indian language) in how to add resources to World Univ & Sch, and thus to teach in a sense, and thus also how to grow WUaS's communities? It's a little like adding a sentence to a Wikipedia article in a language of the editor's choice. WUaS's focus is on free and highest quality resources - currently mostly in English. I'd think that further new good ideas of yours would emerge as you explore this! What do you think?
Thanks for both of your emails!
With regards, and Namaste!Scott

* Dear Scott,

Thanks for the minutes. I just gone through that and I really appreciate your effort in bringing the WUaS into its wings. The team is really hard working and I praise God for that. Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures. What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving.

I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses. 

With regardsPrem




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#Tasmanian Tiger, #Thylacine


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/थायलेसीन⋠(in Hindi)



Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in  #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... /Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/K4Z8y4A8WP in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK /Genetics #3Dprinting? https://t.co/UVbqEy7dNt— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263995370591248385?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263994997566697474?s=20



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#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN

#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN https://t.co/SK2vdKQ8MN— Melissa M. West Ⓥ (@MellieMarieWest) May 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/MellieMarieWest/status/1262898332051156995



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Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in  #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/ms5s6PHEMB in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/a53n3kl75l /Genetics #3Dprinting ? https://t.co/T1zIxX2phF— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263996879076917248?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1263997508608356352?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1263998354901438465?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1263999470997434368?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1263999997520969728?s=20


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Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData
@MIT_CSAIL
 https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/...€¦ INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT

Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData @MIT_CSAIL https://t.co/0UVE8bI1eI INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) February 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1233808062697197568




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Dear Larry,

Based on, and Sanjay's reply: "Dear Sanjay,

Thanks so much for talking to me regarding my letter to President Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and thanks too for your supportive words.

I noticed in our conversation your interest in the many languages' focus of World University and School.  As a follow up in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I am curious if we could explore further a way to expand this focus by building a platform in collaboration with MIT and Harvard's platforms.  While I think you said there aren't really any collaboration possibilities with edX, conceptually, I wonder if the Office for Digital Learning might be able to bridge something in a new way, and make something happen?
Thank you,
Scott"

"Hi Scott,

Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned.
-S"

... here's a new draft: 
Dear Sanjay, 
Thanks so much for your email "Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned." I'm writing to inquire further: In collaboration with the MIT Office of Digital Learning, in what ways might World Univ & Sch begin to offer the following online 4-year Bachelor degrees this autumn with these 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (free-to-students) - as WUaS begins to license with CA's BPPE and to accredit with WASC senior? In combination with seeking $55,000 reimbursement per country regarding MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform with other edX courses - using the money transfer mechanism on edX? List edX links on the WUaS wiki in related subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/)?
Thank you, Scott
Further related ideas: term or quarter approach at WUaS and also to build cohorts ?

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Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html


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


Pinus lambertiana or sugar cone pine in Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q227779



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Sugar cone pine (Pinus lambertiana): Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20: Some thoughts to - "Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students h

Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20: 

Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020


- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html

Some thoughts -

Hi Aditi, 

Am resending this to you and Prem, since I mis-typed your email: 
Hi Prem (and Aditi, from India but possibly in Nigeria), Thanks for your emails. 

Prem: First: WUaS is seeking undergraduate students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - to matriculate online in English for free-to-students' 4-year Bachelor degrees from home in India - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School. This platform will be on something like MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform (of which MIT Professor of EECS and CEO of edX is Anant Agarwal). WUaS is still working on developing these collaborations.
Re your: "Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures?"

Second: WUaS is seeking to develop open wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all of India's ~800 languages (and eventually too to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees in all 22 of India's official languages). Planning for all 7,117 known living languages here to be accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. So how best to cultivate these wiki schools, or teach people how to grow them, a bit like Wikipedia's communities in its ~300 languages, - is a creative open question. And World Univ & Sch donated WUaS to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received the above WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 above, but 'front end' and 'back end' aren't yet interoperable. In the meantime, people can wiki-teach, wiki-learn, wiki-edit the existing languages wiki schools (not yet in their languages). And thus people could create wiki subjects in areas that would help them, or be inspiring to them, - and check if there's any MIT OpenCourseWare or not to add - and then wiki-teach, wiki-create and WUaS wiki-develop away, potentially all on smartphones. An illiterate farmer with a smartphone could potentially teach something about farming to Youtube and share this with other farmers 200 miles away in other languages ... and eventually all via voice input.

Re your: "What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving?"
WUaS is currently planning 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' online 4-year Bachelor degrees (as if going to MIT or Stanford on the ground itself)  to begin this autumn with 500-2000 students as WUaS seeks to license with CA's BPPE and accredit concurrently with WASC senior ... on something like edX from MIT OCW into MITx conceptually. If WUaS can collaborate more fully with edX, and engage machine translation, many of the edX courses would become available for certificates in all 7,117 living languages. 

Re your: "I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses. " - I hope so too, Prem!
Aditi: Thanks for your: 

"Hi Scott,

Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing? 

Aditi" 

Would you like to explore wiki-editing one of these pages: - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Journalism or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Marketing (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) ? 
Using this citation practice, explore if you can add the following reference to "Select Books" - 
The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students. 2020. [https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students].  https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ . - 
And then perhaps, if interested, could you find a Youtube video, or virtual world, or similar for the "Marketing" wiki subject, and add this resource there? 
Perhaps, then Aditi, you could explore tutoring interested people (your friends in an Indian language) in how to add resources to World Univ & Sch, and thus to teach in a sense, and thus also how to grow WUaS's communities? It's a little like adding a sentence to a Wikipedia article in a language of the editor's choice. WUaS's focus is on free and highest quality resources - currently mostly in English. I'd think that further new good ideas of yours would emerge as you explore this! What do you think?
Thanks for both of your emails!
With regards, and Namaste!Scott

* Dear Scott,

Thanks for the minutes. I just gone through that and I really appreciate your effort in bringing the WUaS into its wings. The team is really hard working and I praise God for that. Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures. What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving.

I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses. 
With regardsPrem




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#Tasmanian Tiger, #Thylacine


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/थायलेसीन⋠(in Hindi)



Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in  #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... /Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/K4Z8y4A8WP in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK /Genetics #3Dprinting? https://t.co/UVbqEy7dNt— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263995370591248385?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263994997566697474?s=20



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#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN

#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN https://t.co/SK2vdKQ8MN— Melissa M. West Ⓥ (@MellieMarieWest) May 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/MellieMarieWest/status/1262898332051156995



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Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in  #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/ms5s6PHEMB in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/a53n3kl75l /Genetics #3Dprinting ? https://t.co/T1zIxX2phF— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263996879076917248?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1263997508608356352?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1263998354901438465?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1263999470997434368?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1263999997520969728?s=20


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Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData
@MIT_CSAIL
 https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/...€¦ INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT

Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData @MIT_CSAIL https://t.co/0UVE8bI1eI INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) February 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1233808062697197568




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Dear Larry,

Based on, and Sanjay's reply: "Dear Sanjay,

Thanks so much for talking to me regarding my letter to President Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and thanks too for your supportive words.

I noticed in our conversation your interest in the many languages' focus of World University and School.  As a follow up in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I am curious if we could explore further a way to expand this focus by building a platform in collaboration with MIT and Harvard's platforms.  While I think you said there aren't really any collaboration possibilities with edX, conceptually, I wonder if the Office for Digital Learning might be able to bridge something in a new way, and make something happen?
Thank you,
Scott"
"Hi Scott,
Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned.
-S"
... here's a new draft: 
Dear Sanjay, 
Thanks so much for your email "Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned." I'm writing to inquire further: In collaboration with the MIT Office of Digital Learning, in what ways might World Univ & Sch begin to offer the following online 4-year Bachelor degrees this autumn with these 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (free-to-students) - as WUaS begins to license with CA's BPPE and to accredit with WASC senior? In combination with seeking $55,000 reimbursement per country regarding MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform with other edX courses - using the money transfer mechanism on edX? List edX links on the WUaS wiki in related subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/)?
Thank you, Scott 
Further related ideas: term or quarter approach at WUaS and also to build cohorts ?

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Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html


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


Pinus lambertiana or sugar cone pine in Wikidata:
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Live oak (Quercus agrifolia): Yoga ~ "I think the inner fruit neurophysiology soup 'cocktail' one can create or generate with Yoga asana or poses is one of the best there is, unparalleled," Just had an interesting dream where I said this to Stanford Law Pr

Ma,

I think the inner fruit neurophysiology soup 'cocktail' one can create or generate with Yoga asana or poses is one of the best there is, unparalleled.

Just had an interesting dream where I said this to Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely in a nice office room where, coming in to get some kind of prize, - was Hennessy there? - he was jokingly in a position to get frisked, and I saw this as 90 degree pose, hands on a bookshelf, started to give him a brief friendly back rub, and then began to do this Yoga pose myself next to him (thinking too in comparison of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 1980 regarding that movement hiking neurophysiology and well being) ... saying to everyone in room: "I think the inner fruit neurophysiology soup 'cocktail' one can create or generate with Yoga asana or poses is one of the best there is, unparalleled."

Curious, good dream ... and will likely do some more Yoga than I usually do this morning. The benefits of movement re neurophysiology are great as well. Happy walking today. And nice to talk with you yesterday evening. Lacanian psychoanalysis riffs with the language of dreams. :)

Love, Scott
Am curious too about the role of culture, and cultural practices) in psychoanalysis (Austrian, French, Pennsylvania - and language-wise German, French, English ... and potentially in any nation state or its main languages, especially in Africa, and the Arab language countries, for example).


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

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

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

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



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Idea-wise, could one generate an inner well being 'fruit cocktail' neurophysiology with psychoanalysis? And how would Yoga's differ from the outcome of psychoanalysis - speculatively? (Am speculating that Stanford Law Prof Roland Vogl, originally from Austria but having emigrated to California USA, went through psychoanalysis, and benefited from this, and seems quite well adjusted as a consequence). Yoga and psychoanalysis as healing practices, freeing too, seem different norms' wise regarding role in society somehow. As I continue to develop my big educational project (WUaS), which is ambitious in its own way, some 'strong energies' come up at times. Am recallibg now-deceased George, as psychoanalyst, appreciating thinking-wise, language-wise, Lacanian psychoanalysis relative to Yoga ... perhaps regarding outcomes too, and him also appreciating Dad for his successes relative to George Alexander MD's own perhaps quiet psychiatric clinical practice / career. (And both Caleb and John developed highly successful careers in academic medicine as MDs, becoming powerful doctors in a sense - like Dad in Pennsylvania, and Freud and Lacan). One thing Yoga adds regarding well being outcomes further regarding the thinking of Lacanian psychoanalysis language-wise, is the benefits of movement. Another might be a different 'moral' vision. (George characterized himself as 'amoral' a number of times, for ex., as he engaged gay rights' thinking - perhaps in the context of Pittsburgh). But Roland, working as law professor, and director of Stanford Law CodeX - and possibly having gone through psychoanalysis, - has the law, and legal thinking, and now re CodeX's legal information technologies and entrepreneurialism and Stanford's California ethics informing related questions. George was engaging moral or ethical questions philosophically and psychoanalytically, and as a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst MD Psychiatrist. Time to do some Yoga asana, as the coronavirus pandemic's 'memes,' as replicating cultural units - a second wAve? - re governments in ~200 countries' languages seek to plan for such an emergency. Lots of 'energy' from the coronavirus seems still to be in the air, - and lots of potential 'FREEING up energies' via Lacanian psychoanalysis language-wise (since 'the unconscious is structured like a language' per Lacan), and from Yoga asana, sitting, and meditation. Time for me to do a little Yoga :)

Sending love, Scotty


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Some interesting thinking about the Lacan, the unconscious +

"Lacan thought that Freud's ideas of "slips of the tongue", jokes, and the interpretation of dreams all emphasized the agency of language in subjective constitution. In "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud," he proposes that "the unconscious is structured like a language." The unconscious is not a primitive or archetypal part of the mind separate from the conscious, linguistic ego, he explained, but rather a formation as complex and structurally sophisticated as consciousness itself. One consequence of his idea that the unconscious is structured like a language is that the self is denied any point of reference to which to be "restored" following trauma or a crisis of identity. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan

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"Jacques Lacan indicates that day-dreams are of secondary importance to Freud, but that their main function is that of wish-fulfillment (Wunscherfullung). ... He adds that these dreams usually remain unconscious, but represent a powerful need for the things that they represent. ..."
- https://www.lacan.com/circe.htm by Paul Murphy (1965- )
- http://www.softblow.org/paulmurphy.html
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8488499?q&versionId=9799625+34618039


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Dear Tym, Sid, Caleb, All,

Here's an example of one online psychoanalyst, as an example, Dr Chris Heath MD - https://twitter.com/AChrisHeathMD (who's a Freudian MD psychoanalyst, based in Texas, and somewhat hippy oriented-even interestingly); He's engaged much with social media as well (Youtube too, for ex.).

As a further followup from my April 17, 2020 email, and regarding making online psychoanalysis and psychiatry available, I suppose it's especially here in Canyon 94516 (as one 'remote' place I'm currently familiar with), for example, that this could benefit people (but cost, quality, and with high achieving MDs are significant issues).


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Am not sure how Kaiser Permanente and SF Bay Area related health care organizations approach to mental health questions in Canyon 94516, if an issue comes up, - and legally even too. I think in general there's much need especially with online psychoanalysis, and psychiatry, in order to study this further academically and rigorously, and I wonder, even, if WUaS could be of help in these regards as well (with emerging opportunities for online psychoanalysis, and psychiatry, in the coronavirus pandemic).

Preventive psychiatry?
I just noted that the former clerk of the SF Quaker Meeting, Chris Mohr, posted his wife's Tweet, (both moved to Philadelphia a few years' ago with their 2 sons as 'professional Quakers' - i.e. they got jobs in Quaker organizations there, and their kids went to Quaker high schools, the oldest heading on to Haverford College not too long ago) about their youngest son who's going to Princeton University this autumn:

"Chris Mohr's youngest son Thanks to Miss Tammy of @FriendsSelect_ for the cupcakes and the super sweet sign from Tracy and Kristen! #Classof2020
@FSSUpperSchool @chrismsf - https://twitter.com/robinmsf/status/1256304129225494528?s=20 ."

Thanks to Miss Tammy of @FriendsSelect_ for the cupcakes and the super sweet sign from Tracy and Kristen! #Classof2020 @FSSUpperSchool @chrismsf pic.twitter.com/V4HAUUkYd3— Robin Mohr (@robinmsf) May 1, 2020

And given my experience in the SF Quaker Meeting with whistle blowing about sexual misconduct with children, and seeing a fair amount of benefits of / need for psychiatry as well as potentially psychoanalysis (in the future potentially for some there too), I wonder somehow even if Chris and Robin's move with their 2 sons somehow even saved their youngest son in particular from serious harm's way.

Psychiatrists like Dr. Karriem Salaam at Friends' Hospital could help! - Again, I was very very impressed with adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Karriem Salaam a few years ago, and I'd think that Friends' Hospital has many excellent head psychiatrists. The video of Dr. Salaam is impressive here in a related Tweet (from 9 Sep 2018):

"How to prepare your kids for life on their own ahead of college - from Friends' Hospital in Philadelphia, one of America's oldest continuously operated mental hospitals:
Dr. Karriem Salaam gives some tips on preparing your children for life on their own. http://fox29.com/good-day/355005577-video … > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School … ~"

How to prepare your kids for life on their own ahead of college - from Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, one of America's oldest hospitals:
Dr. Karriem Salaam gives some tips on preparing your children for life on their own. https://t.co/XSDc9ptVFm > https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 19, 2018

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1042495999061585921?s=20

While Dr. Salaam isn't a psychoanalyst (and did he grow up as a Quaker, a 'birthright Friend'?), I'd think that he'd have some good ideas for psychiatry and psychoanalysis as well among Quakers, Canyon residents, and other people in remote locations, as well as in cities.

All the best,
Scott



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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com



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And how would Yoga's beneficial inner neurophysiology differ from the outcome of psychoanalysis - speculatively? How does psychoanalysis work? How does Yoga work?




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Hi Ma, 

The piping lesson I gave Taylor yesterday evening went well again. (And I now even have 2 recordings from which I learn further about my teaching!)
Blogged about my "Online psychoanalysis ... " email to you and many friends yesterday, as well as my emails to you this morning - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html. 
At this end of this blog entry today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html - I ask: 
And how would the generation of Yoga's beneficial inner neurophysiology differ from the outcome of psychoanalysis - speculatively? How does psychoanalysis work? How does Yoga work?
Here's (a slightly clowning, but edifying and insightful)Chris Heath MD: "How Does Psychotherapy Work? Find Yourself. Freudalicious Mind"
https://youtu.be/X8yG1bVB-nw

And when I typed in "How does Yoga work?" in Google Search, I found:
"Yoga does more than burn calories and tone muscles. It's a total mind-body workout that combines strengthening and stretching poses with deep breathing and meditation or relaxation. There are more than 100 different forms of yoga. Some are fast-paced and intense."
https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/a-z/yoga-workouts


But I'd head toward too: 
"Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations" ~
http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html
I think both Yoga and psychoanalysis head in the direction of ideas about the 'self' too with regard to generation of beneficial 'fruit cocktails' of bodymind and brain neurophysiology. 
And how does music work in some of these regards, in parallel inquiries? 
Love, Scott


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



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Ma, Ann,

Blogged about my "Online psychoanalysis ... " email to you and many friends yesterday, as well as my Yoga & psychoanalysis emails to you, Ma this morning - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/live-oak-yoga-i-think-inner-fruit.html. 
You might find the video of Chris Heath MD explaining how psychotherapy works interesting ...
Warmest regards, Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>10:06 AM (2 hours ago)
to Jane, AnnI don't think I'd have thought about the dream about Stanford Law Prof Hank Greely and giving him a back rub as he was doing a Yoga pose, and then doing a Yoga pose next to him, hands on a bookshelf, without psychoanalytic thinking. Hmmm ... but heading beyond "The Interpretation of Dreams," Yoga gets pretty deeply into dreams and envisioning too and re Angela and Victor's Yoga in particular for me in these regards. Consciousness and awareness questions in many ways too ... language helps. 

Scotty




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Sue!

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 - 

Thrilled to receive Birthday Greetings last week from “Association of Aba dan Ambo Kotawaringin Barat Regency”,a youth organization in the regency of which PangkalanBun is capital.Even though you may not speak Indonesian,you may understand some of the words. Thank you Aba & Ambo! pic.twitter.com/t8Lo8kQEh8— Birute Mary Galdikas (@DrBirute) May 21, 2020

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' -

"Facal an Latha | Word of the Day

caraid – friend

Tha sinn uile ag ionndrainn charaidean an-dràsta | We are all missing friends just now http://bit.ly/1DLicUl #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #cleachdiaigantaigh #WordoftheDay"

Facal an Latha | Word of the Day

caraid – friend

Tha sinn uile ag ionndrainn charaidean an-dràsta | We are all missing friends just nowhttps://t.co/NFyMoMylJ4#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #cleachdiaigantaigh #WordoftheDay pic.twitter.com/08r3umMPy0— LearnGaelicScot (@LearnGaelicScot) May 22, 2020

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! :)





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


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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 :)?


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


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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


Scotty- http://scottmacleod.com 


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


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

Psychoanalysis -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis
(planned in ~200 languages' languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages )

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






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_oak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_agrifolia

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

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Chaparral: Genetic droplets?, Longevity & Aging Reversal per Harvard and MIT Genetics' Professor George Church * George Church @geochurch Testing, testing,... Bioweathermapping * * * "Using Google Earth & Maps Across Five Subject Areas" - Thanks @rmbyrne!

Genetic droplets?

Longevity & Aging Reversal per Harvard and MIT Genetics' Professor George Church


May 14
Waiting for the genetic droplets first for aging eyes' therapies, then potentially gene droplets for R ear eustachian tube dysfunction (but this could even involve waiting for soft materials' nano-robotic therapies, or similar), and then waiting on aging reversal genetic therapies themselves :)


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Ma, Ann,

Waiting for the genetic droplets first for aging eyes' therapies, then potentially gene droplets for R ear eustachian tube dysfunction (but this could even involve waiting for soft materials' nano-robotic therapies in a capsule, or similar), and then waiting on aging reversal gene droplet therapies, but perhaps just a genetic capsule to add back a genetic enzyme to our DNA that lessens as we we age (https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk), from a large drug store, themselves :)

Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again):
"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

- which you'll also find a couple of times in these longevity label blog posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ...

Warmly, Scott


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Into #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5 billion people, each a #WikidataQitem # (w #UBIexperiments) from #Smartphones in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States Univs
@srikosuri @zhangf @jrkelly @JShendure in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR @WUaSPress ~

Into #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5 billion people, each a #WikidataQitem # (w #UBIexperiments) from #Smartphones in https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz in ~200 https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 Univs @srikosuri @zhangf @jrkelly @JShendure in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR @WUaSPress ~ https://t.co/MYT7WrZQT5— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263166563235926018?s=20


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George Church @geochurch 
Testing, testing,... Bioweathermapping

Testing, testing,... Bioweathermapping https://t.co/jhz0CwdxBp— george church (@geochurch) May 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1263152944423329799?s=20




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Using Google Earth & Maps Across Five Subject Areas https://t.co/i0P2khgm4x— Richard Byrne (@rmbyrne) May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1263488401724133376?s=20


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Thanks @rmbyrne!>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualEarth Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for adding PICS and VIDEOs

Thanks @rmbyrne!>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualEarth Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for adding VIDs https://t.co/6bmKOTU8wf— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263525317114605568?s=20


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Thanks @rmbyrne!>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualEarth Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for ADDING pics

Thanks @rmbyrne!>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualEarth Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for ADDING pics https://t.co/2LlYaOnQzN— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263497721555517446?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263498053014573063?s=20
(https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263497209753948160?s=20)
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1263504936152662018?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1263506205051195394?s=20


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Thanks @rmbyrne>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualHarbin Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for ADDING pics

Thanks @rmbyrne>#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory w avatars #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArt >1 interactive #RealisticVirtualHarbin Thinking #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider for ADDING pics https://t.co/vveBCHPrRr— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1263499226903789570?s=20





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NEW: Global greenhouse gas emissions plunged an unprecedented 17% in early April as people around the world stopped driving, flying and producing at factories due to the pandemicvia @chriscmooney, @brady_dennis & @JohnMuyskens https://washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/05/19/greenhouse-emissions-coronavirus/

NEW: Global greenhouse gas emissions plunged an unprecedented 17% in early April as people around the world stopped driving, flying and producing at factories due to the pandemic

via @chriscmooney, @brady_dennis & @JohnMuyskens https://t.co/5Z9tEMtWVE pic.twitter.com/OF5L1zwpE7— Dino Grandoni (@dino_grandoni) May 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/dino_grandoni/status/1262761756969127937?s=20
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#silverlining ... Now how can we make these levels the norm? https://t.co/EWvijRpVks— Dr. Jennifer Selgrath (@JennySelgrath) May 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/JennySelgrath/status/1262789432790315008?s=20




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John Carl Warnecke: His Fascinating Life and Architectural Career [VIRTUAL EVENT] 
MAY 19, 2020 - 4:00PM*NEW EVENT TIME*REGISTRATION REQUIRED. THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM. PLEASE REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE THE WEBINAR LINK IN THE CONFIRMATION EMAIL.Speaker: Paul V. Turner, Wattis Professor of Art, EmeritusJohn Carl Warnecke, class of 1941, was a Stanford football tackle who went on to become one of the most successful architects in America from the 1960s to the 1980s. This talk will explain the importance of Warnecke’s work, especially his pioneering role in the development of “Contextualism” in architecture––as seen, for example, in his work in Washington, D.C., for John F. Kennedy. Warnecke was the president’s favorite architect, and his friendship with JFK will be examined––as well as his remarkable relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy following the president’s death. Another focus of the talk will be on the important, but little-known, role that Warnecke played in the development of Stanford’s architecture after World War II. He wrote an insightful report on the subject in 1949, calling for a new approach to campus design––and introduced it in his plans for the Stanford Bookstore and the campus post office, which helped shape the character of Stanford’s architecture from then on.
https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/events/john-carl-warnecke-his-fascinating-life-and-architectural-career-virtual-event

*Dear Margo, Alice, Leslie, and Paul, 
Here are some of the questions I asked further. And thanks, Leslie, for asking about the physical architectural models.
"Thank you, and terrific, Paul! In what ways have simulations been used to study further Warnecke’s architecture? Could you see digitizing the Warnecke’archives, as well as his buildings, as a beneficial way to study his architecture further (beyond physical model making that architects engage in)? Did Warnecke make physical architectural models?
 Am thinking in terms, even, of a realistic virtual earth for architecture, ideas for which you can see here - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture?src=hashtag_click. Thank you!. Scott

And - Margo and Alice, as a followup, are there any physical architectural models in the archives behind you (or elsewhere)? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"
And - I'd love to stay in touch further about creating a realistic virtual earth for architecture - and for everything (think Google Street View with time slider) - and for viticulture, and so much more. (My actual-virtual ethnographic field site is Harbin Hot Springs - and I'm thinking too in terms of creating in these regards a realistic virtual Harbin - and for its architecture too; and Stanford University's too). I created a Thank you Tweet for this talk - 
Thanks Margo, Alice, Leslie & Paul, for https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/events/john-carl-warnecke-his-fascinating-life-and-architectural-career-virtual-event ! In a #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture & #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory & #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgriculture in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1262910185917595648?s=20
All the best, ScottArchitecture wiki subject at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Architecture 
(Grateful Dead, too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead - re below).- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity -Viticulture blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/viticulture - with only a few posts
See, too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History re the Stanford Historical Society 

Margohttps://www.warneckeranch.com/contact
Alicehttps://www.sutrowine.com/whos-who
https://www.alicesutro.com/about
pvturner@stanford.eduhttps://art.stanford.edu/people/paul-v-turner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carl_Warnecke

Grateful Dead visit Warnecke Ranch and write "Alligator"https://www.chalkhillresidency.com/the-property
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-warnecke-48139752/


* (In the survey form, I added the following: 
https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4INWf5HInj7NstD?Q_DL=0JtwNA9Wc4hcYGu_4INWf5HInj7NstD_CGC_DEZ57zBWvgQ8jPV&Q_CHL=email
Included this, and email above to Prof. Turner et al.: At the Stanford HS, have been glad to meet former Stanford President Gerhard Caspar, and Computer Science chairmans. I've inquired in the past both about a book I plan to write comparing Stanford's STEM and CS ethos since the 1960s with MIT's, as well as about my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project and related resources. Here are a few related blog entries from recent years: 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/northern-spotted-owl-comparing-stem.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/04/alps-2-faculty-senates-for-america.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/04/spring-beauties-bloodroot-violets-and.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/pelican-creating-world-class-computer.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/05/terwilliger-hot-springs-world.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rose-ringed-parakeet-stanford-annual.html 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/05/african-flower-mantis-romania-wuas.html 
- (and also regarding the Cuttyhunk Massachusetts' Historical Society - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/sailing-to-penikese-island.html ) ... and all with regards, too, to developing MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned as major universities in all ~200 countries' official languages, and as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages. Thank you, Scott GK MacLeod (scottmacleod.com and worlduniversityandschool.org) ) 
-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - 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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Madrone: A pair of Mallard Ducks' photo, A pair of valleys out here where I live in Canyon 94516, on a ridge, On one side of the ridge is the wilder side, "Indian Valley," I've heard it called, part of East Bay MUD, On the other side is the Canyon valley,

A pair of valleys ~ Canyon, California


Hi Ma, Sandy, All, 

There are a pair of valleys out here where I live in Canyon 94516, on a ridge. Here's Canyon: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canyon,+CA/@37.8291988,-122.1706483,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808f87ef9ccad4e9:0x41abd803a47fdf7d!8m2!3d37.8306731!4d-122.1658805 ...
On one side of the ridge is the wilder side, "Indian Valley," I've heard it called, part of East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities' District) and which probably long has been used for cattle ranching. 
On the other side is the Canyon valley, with its US Post Office, and K-8 public school, about 1/3rd of a mile apart from each other, and both at the bottom of the valley - where this valley is kinda wild in its own way. There might be another 80-100 dwellings throughout a California sequoia/red wood as well as scrub oak type forest - or "redwood groves and ferns along the creek, through the mixed live oak, bay, and madrone forests on the steep hillsides, up to the chaparral and knobcone pines that grow along the ridge." Check out John van der Zee's 1972 book "Canyon: The Story of the Last Rustic Community in Metropolitan America" - https://www.grizzlypeakpress.com/canyon - https://www.amazon.com/Canyon-Rustic-Community-Metropolitan-America/dp/0615365558 (van der Zee graduated from Stanford around 1970 as well). A bit difficult to fathom, Canyon was supposed to have been bigger than Oakland, CA, population-wise, in the 1850s, due to its timber community, I've heard. According to this Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon,_California - Canyon was colorful history, and was notorious for its rowdiness in the late 1800s. 
I live about 25 minutes away from Berkeley, and 40 minutes from downtown San Francisco, in the left wing of this 3 dwelling house - https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8345507,-122.1633793,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMaDiLSNqf_ExgyPct74zgt8q78HEbyeY68pCiJ!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMaDiLSNqf_ExgyPct74zgt8q78HEbyeY68pCiJ%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i3264!8i2448!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866 . You can see into my front room through the double doors in this picture. 
I haven't seen any pairs of mallards in Canyon however :) 
Both valleys have their own 'wildnesses,' and I live in the middle of this pair - a bit betwixt and between liminality-wise (in seeking perhaps a more civilized 'vision' of life, or of living in community) - and am developing MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School. Click on the photo of the Adobe house here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8345676,-122.1634055,3a,75y,217.09h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMlEYZVV1S7Hsw9Zx322SOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DMlEYZVV1S7Hsw9Zx322SOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D217.08772%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866 - and spin the image around to see "Indian Valley." :)
Thanks again for the photo of the pair of mallards, Ma! 
Warmly, Scott

My actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography has an alternative culture, or countercultural, focus, from the 1960s forward, too - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity



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Ma (Janie), Ann, Sandy, All
If you spin the image of the 'Adobe' house (URL is below again) to the left just a bit, you can "walk" down the road to where I live, about 1/4 of a "mile." I think there's a "764 Ridgecrest Road image" or two - as an Easter Egg to find :) - which is where I live, and you can see my house-let from there too. 
I also found these interesting photos, and Canyon visit, in a blog entry by one Manuel Garcia jr.  -

A visit to Canyon, California (May 2016)https://manuelgarciajr.com/2016/05/06/a-visit-to-canyon-california/

In my ongoing actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, am seeking to facilitate the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison, soaking, visiting, as well as STEM research, and also via a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... 
For example, too, "walk" down the road 4 "miles' from the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) and "wander" around the streets of the nearby "town," Middletown, CA. You can't go in the Harbin gate to visit Harbin itself yet, and at this point.
So here's a new definition of the Harbin experience, from Harbin itself (which I just found here - https://harbin.org):
"Harbin experience ~ New def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, and mental and physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience" > @HarbinBook ~"

Harbin experience ~ New def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, and mental and physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience" > @HarbinBook ~ https://t.co/piE0oIrcaO— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1262211871999844352?s=20

Harbin experience def: "In its most common form, ‘The #HarbinExperience’ can be consciousness-altering and deeply transpersonal, with a feeling of unity, & mental & physical calmness. Many of our guests return to Harbin to reconnect with this experience">#RealisticVirtualHarbin~ https://t.co/hK9V7nX82z— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1262212832528969728?s=20
How to generate the 'Harbin experience' in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - as well as VISIT ANYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH, at any time in history too! ? ... including WUaS in CAnyon 94516 :) 
I haven't sought to find any species in Google Street View yet, like a pair of Mallards, but will keep you posted. And, importantly, Ma and all, you could you add your photo of this pair of mallards to Google Street View (itself), but not to Google Maps, or Google Earth, as I understand this. ... which is kind of the wiki idea ... (who here has added a sentence or a word to Wikipedia ?)
ScottPS'Canyon' blog label in my blog as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Canyon - 
PPSAdobe house here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8345676,-122.1634055,3a,75y,217.09h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMlEYZVV1S7Hsw9Zx322SOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DMlEYZVV1S7Hsw9Zx322SOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D217.08772%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866 ~

PPSAm thinking this is all a kind of 'history'https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Historyor 'virtual worlds' related - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds 
... and you can wiki-edit these, learn from, teach to, these wiki subjects at WUaS too - and check out their MIT OpenCourseWare, eventually for free-to-students' online degrees ... 


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





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