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April 10, 2020

Sea butterfly: Am optimistic for OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch matriculating 500-2000 undergraduate students this fall, & for one #RealisticVirtualEarth at cellular & atomic levels & #RealisticVirtualHarbin Think Google Street View with #TimeSlider & w

Giotto ~ https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/last-supper & "The Role of Perspective in Shaping the Renaissance" https://en.opisanie-kartin.com/description-of-the-painting-by-giotto-di-bondone-last-supper-1304-1305gg/ Giotto & perspective: http://www.webexhibits.org/sciartperspective/perspective1.html & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto @WUaSPress > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Art_History & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geometry & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Architecture ~

Giotto ~ https://t.co/d5GG2QsVkQ & "The Role of Perspective in Shaping the Renaissance" https://t.co/0dwQQeXyps Giotto & perspective: https://t.co/XWWloDbDOX & https://t.co/70O2JrwGHW @WUaSPress > https://t.co/WT1o5bo0VD & https://t.co/sno62nUldP & https://t.co/sYPOaUe9A7 ~ https://t.co/l0C5x1FOVx— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1248276328102551554?s=20

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Thanks so much for your great Neo.Life Boston book conversation! Appreciatively, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Species And /Future - scottmacleod.com)Thank you!

Creating 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution for future of 3-100 mil species #NeoDotLife begin w #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow at cell/atom levels ?

Youtube -
Neo.Life Boston

https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E

This Neo.Life book talk in Cambridge, MA -

Join @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushbb, @okaysteve, @BrianBergstein, @janemetcalfe for a virtual conversation on the future of our species, hosted by @NEOdotLIFE, @manifestbos, @ginkgo +@endlesswestco. Save April 9. RSVP: https://neo.life/manifestvisions/ …

Boston Book Celebration - NEO.LIFE
Join George Church, Christina Agapakis and more for an interactive livestream conversation about the future of humanity. April 9 at 7pm EDT.

neo.life Boston

Join @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushbb, @okaysteve, @BrianBergstein, @janemetcalfe for a virtual conversation on the future of our species, hosted by @NEOdotLIFE, @manifestbos, @ginkgo +@endlesswestco. Save April 9. RSVP: https://t.co/T0fi7oCKWQ— george church (@geochurch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246116674329247744?s=20 -

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Creating 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth re #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies for future of all 3-100 million species #NeoDotLife @geochurch, @siranushbb & all, begin with #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow at cell/atom levels #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1248414669900902400?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1248413814879485953?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1248415748432654336?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1248416001659527169?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1248416520037789703?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1248417031600222209?s=20

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How might we best create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies for the future of all 3-100 million species, hosted by @WorldUnivAndSch? #NeoDotLife @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushbb, @okaysteve, @BrianBergstein, @janemetcalfe, @NEOdotLIFE, @manifestbos, @ginkgo, @endlesswestco?

How might we best create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies for the future of all 3-100 million species, hosted by @WorldUnivAndSch? #NeoDotLife @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushbb, @okaysteve, @BrianBergstein, @janemetcalfe, @NEOdotLIFE, @manifestbos, @ginkgo, @endlesswestco?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 10, 2020

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1248407361892413440?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1248407479685230596?s=20
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1248409777463365634?s=20
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1248410802807164937?s=20

Again -
How might we best create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies for the future of all 3-100 million species, hosted by @WorldUnivAndSch? #NeoDotLife @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushb et al. Thank you!

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Am optimistic for OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch matriculating 500-2000 undergraduate students this fall, & for one #RealisticVirtualEarth at cellular & atomic levels & #RealisticVirtualHarbin Think Google Street View with #TimeSlider & with species & for #TeleRoboticSurgery~

Am optimistic for OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch matriculating 500-2000 undergraduate students this fall, & for one #RealisticVirtualEarth at cellular & atomic levels & #RealisticVirtualHarbin Think Google Street View with #TimeSlider & with species & for #TeleRoboticSurgery~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1248659791771103232?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1248663182622609410?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1248666693716439040?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1248668578749939712?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1248671209455095810?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1248672412624814081?s=20

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To You at WUaS ...

"Apple, Google to build voluntary contact-tracing into their smartphone platforms, with potential to monitor billions":
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/1... - & for #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5 billion people re #Coronavirus & Med Schs/Hospital at WUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ?

Apple, Google to build voluntary contact-tracing into their smartphone platforms, with potential to monitor billions: https://t.co/7JoG72bbCU - & for #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5 billion people re #Coronavirus & Med Schs/Hospital at WUaS https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 10, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_butterfly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacina_rangii

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

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

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Published on April 10, 2020 12:04

April 9, 2020

Bio light: Click the Green Flag and Funky Snail Glowy Snail Robot will introduce snail-self :) - * * * Am wondering about the role of critical thinking in protecting oneself from the coronavirus meme (as 'replicating cultural unit' - and here as a word tha

Click the Green Flag and Funky Snail Glowy Snail Robot will introduce snail-self :) - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/384140970/ -

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/384140970

I started this project by making the first project in Lego WeDo 2.0 - a snail that glows, and programming it with the WeDo 2.0 block programming language. (Great to get into making robots again!). To 'Introduce this Character,' I then, in Scratch, created Funky Snail. (Thanks, Zoë! - Introduce a Character! Create-Along LIVE: Let's make Scratch projects together! - https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/384140970/

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Don, Cuttyhunkers, Unitarian Universalists, and All,

Am wondering about the role of critical thinking in protecting oneself from the coronavirus meme (as 'replicating cultural unit' - and here as a word that's being imitated much).

While MDs can help protect one against viral genes, cultural 'memes' (eg words that get imitated) are different.

In a MIT Scratch programming language #ScratchAtHome conversation this morning, we were first asked what our self-care strategies are in this time - https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1247963466222243842?s=20 - and I replied:

A1. Scott MacLeod Canyon CA (near Berkeley). Critical thinking, Sitting, Blogging (eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/programming…), Communicating / Using language, Developing wiki @WorldUnivAndSch (like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages, with Wikipedia in ~300) #ScratchAtHome Nice to meet all of you ~ >

A1. Scott MacLeod Canyon CA (near Berkeley). Critical thinking, Sitting, Blogging (eg https://t.co/OpWDb8R2K7), Communicating / Using language, Developing wiki @WorldUnivAndSch (like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages, with Wikipedia in ~300) #ScratchAtHome Nice to meet all of you ~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247968392532774913?s=20

What are all of your self-care strategies in this time?

Am inquiring today too whether the coronavirus pandemic could be a massive disinformation campaign - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html - and for a variety of reasons (in 27th blog post in these regards). What do you think?

All the best, Scott
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/

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

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Hi Scott! How’s it going there atop the hill in Canyon? Able to get out and enjoy some good weather?

Getting used to a different rhythm here in Washington, with cleaner air. Glad to have my daughters nearby.
Will we learn the lessons?? Cogitating on what those are.
Stay well, Tym

Sent from my iPhone

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Tym!
Very nice to get your email!
Am asking about the coronavirus / Covid-19 genes, on the one hand, and the internet media / 'memes' on the other - and regarding protecting oneself.
There are 5 hypotheses at the bottom of this post - as queries - in these regards
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0(and about 27 blog posts asking related questions in the genes' label, - all lessons I'm learning too, I think ... keeping thinking is another).
What lessons are you drawing from this, Tym?
It's pretty nice here on the ridge in Canyon, and while sheltering at home, am getting out for a daily walk. Glad you have daughters nearby regarding protecting you and your family. THE Desiderata is one thing I learn from these days - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 (in Sunday's blog post).Am still seeking to have a family (with ZB in Brookline?) - one lesson I learned and haven't forgotten - even as sociocultural societal processes in all 200 countries get crazy. Is this all a reflection somehow of current Pres T's mind? I ask this at bottom here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html?m=0 - today.
Appreciating Fauci MD in all of this too.
What are lessons for you from the coronavirus pandemic and closing down of so many societal processes, Tym?

Fondly, and warm regards,
Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>2:50 PM (7 hours ago)

to Pin, Janie, Tym, David, Sandy, Mainak, Marti, Ed, Byron

This Neo.Life book talk in Cambridge, MA, but online, begins in about 70 minutes -

Join @geochurch, @EvolvingJuan, @siranushbb, @okaysteve, @BrianBergstein, @janemetcalfe for a virtual conversation on the future of our species, hosted by @NEOdotLIFE, @manifestbos, @ginkgo +@endlesswestco. Save April 9. RSVP: https://t.co/T0fi7oCKWQ— george church (@geochurch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246116674329247744?s=20 - and requests a RSVP. Has anyone being able to get their hands on this book Neo Life before this? Who's thinking about attending? See you there! If inspired, I may be Tweeting with the #hashtag - #NeoDotLife - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod (and possibly @WUaSPress!)
Cheers, Scott

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

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You might be able to tune in here -

Neo.Life Boston

https://youtu.be/t3M1hRpSa6E
- directly. Not sure about whether you would be able to chat in text or not.

Scott

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

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I heard Juan Enriquez in this great Neo.Life Boston panel mention the phrase "dress rehearsal" a number of times with regards to the coronavirus pandemic, which I associate with the words "fire drill," and "in case of emergency" - as inquires I've been exploring in these regards too.

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I'm waiting for the coronavirus Opera (am thinking loosely in terms of Hamilton too)

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WUaS Book store ...

Am re-sending to drax@draxtor.com - http://www.draxtor.com/contact - (since Bernhard Drax <soundsgood@bernharddrax.com> didn't work) !
I've taught my "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" course on Harvard's virtual island in SL for nearly 10 semesters - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ...

Dear Draxtor, Peter, Larry and All,
Thanks for your great inaugural interactive in 3D Bookclub in Second Life yesterday, Bernhard (Drax), and here on Youtube:
The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor - Episode 1 - Authors SL Huang, CB Lee, Ken Li & Matt Ruff
- https://youtu.be/KrNARvU8jJw
I attended the very beginning of this in SL (as Aphilo Aarde) and blogged a bit about it here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html - thanks to Peter Bothe (above) for letting me know.

Regarding:

"14 planned WUaS revenue streams, Business plan update" - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html ?
I've begun a new "14 planned WUaS revenue streams - both wings" Google Doc for this - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aWiY70PnUJK98hEapvUazCL59w9BqKe9qyr6ghUVTJo/edit?usp=sharing ...
WUaS Monthly Business Meeting is in 10 days on Sat. April 18, 2020.

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MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is updating - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - our 14 planned WUaS revenue streams (for both WUaS wings, the 1) nonprofit 501 c 3, and the 2) for profit general stock company in California legal entities), and is planning online-on-the-ground bookstores in all ~200 countries' main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages, with machine translation, and with books, too, published by the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch.
WUaS is seeking to get our bookstore operational for our 2nd class of 500-2000 matriculating undergraduates this autumn.
Who wants in on this first for-profit build out (i.e. the WUaS bookstores)?
And how best to reach out to wider audiences with the WUaS bookstores, beyond students, via major social media platforms? What a great turn out, Drax (check out video), and great conversational interviewing tone especially. As you can see from my blog post, I checked out all of the authors (behind their avatars:). Thank you, Drax!
Best, Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation -

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

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Published on April 09, 2020 22:20

April 8, 2020

Leopard frog: Fascinating interview with Law Prof. Kate Klonick: "Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" * One question I haven't explored explicitly in now 27 blog posts about the coronavirus pandemic is whether it could be a massiv

Fascinating interview with Kate Klonick:

"Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" https://spreaker.com/user/gallupstrengthscenter/kate-klonick-social-media-internet-law @Klonick https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1247935249134292992?s=20
To /Internet_Studies, /Law, /Computing_History https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ~ Goodly relevant as @WorldUnivAndSch emerges as platform in ~200 nation states, 7k Langs

"Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" https://t.co/E0UbHvDX4q @Klonick https://t.co/tsxKIjZ8PN
To /Internet_Studies, /Law, /Computing_History https://t.co/dLJc25AHA8 ~ Goodly relevant as @WorldUnivAndSch emerges as platform in ~200 nation states, 7k Langs— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1247956686930731008?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247956991634374659?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247957311965900801?s=20

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One question I haven't explored explicitly in now 27 blog posts about the coronavirus pandemic is whether it could be a massive disinformation campaign, which this fascinating55 minutes' interview, that John Palfrey shared on Twitter this morning - "Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" ... https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1247935249134292992?s=20 - lead me to inquire about. And I wonder about this in terms of the memes (replicating cultural units) of a 'radical action' (perhaps to address the following 5 issues - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html ) - too, as well as an exercise in learning about how successfully to create a directed or focused internet viral 'meme" (imitable word as meme here - "coronavirus") - and in order to study these processes academically too.

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Himalyan Monal: How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' in the USA? * * * New newspaper ... "Hypothetical News" ... with first tentative headlines: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily 1 a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too * * * I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html -

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Thanks, John Palfrey, for Tweeting this -
"Social Media and Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" by All Gallup Webcasts via #spreaker https://spreaker.com/user/gallupstrengthscenter/kate-klonick-social-media-internet-law @Klonick @knightfdn @GallupNews

"Social Media and Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" by All Gallup Webcasts via #spreaker https://t.co/aApMHU6u5j @Klonick @knightfdn @GallupNews— John Palfrey (@jpalfrey) April 8, 2020

> https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1247935249134292992?s=20

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More from Kate Klonick here -
The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speechhttps://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/the-new-governors-the-people-rules-and-processes-governing-online-speech/

https://harvardlawreview.org/authors/kate-klonick/

https://kateklonick.com

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https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/kate-klonick

See, too :
Constitutionalizing Speech Platforms - Featuring Kate Klonick, Thomas Kadri & BKC Community Members

https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/constitutionalizing-speech-platforms

https://www.stjohns.edu/law/faculty/kate-klonick

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here's MIT in Minecraft, re #Covid19 -
https://twitter.com/MIT/status/1247544633086881797?s=20 - & where @WorldUnivAndSch is MIT OCW-centric in its 4 languages, & wiki (in ~300) eg worlduniversityandschool.org & planned in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM research, classrooms & in all 7,117 known living languages

here's MIT in Minecraft, re #Covid19 - https://t.co/0rXcdCJCKL - & where @WorldUnivAndSch is MIT OCW-centric in its 4 languages, & wiki (in ~300) eg https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 & planned in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM research, classrooms & in all 7,117 known living languages https://t.co/BkXF8C1wSO— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1247630426589368321?s=20

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Here's MIT in Minecraft, re #Covid19 -
https://twitter.com/MIT/status/1247544633086881797?s=20 - & where
@WorldUnivAndSch
is MIT OCW-centric in its 4 languages, & wiki (in ~300) eg http://worlduniversityandschool.org & planned in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM research, classrooms & in all 7,117 known living languages

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247664522799636481?s=20

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Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Przyszłości: Lego WeDo 2.0 Świecący Ślimak - Glowing Snail
https://youtu.be/662sNIjpwQA -say with 'Animate a World" https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted? Thx

Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Przyszłości: Lego WeDo 2.0 Świecący Ślimak - Glowing Snailhttps://t.co/baLr2Qzyqp -say with 'Animate a World" https://t.co/9l4TWksTbJ? Thx— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247605114283495424?s=20

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On MIT's servers w educational version
https://twitter.com/MIT/status/1247544633086881797?s=20 re #Coronavirus in what ways can we create MIT with MIT students at the cellular/atomic levels, for #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM research & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics too?

On MIT's servers w educational version https://t.co/IByXb2SjSb re #Coronavirus in what ways can we create MIT with MIT students at the cellular/atomic levels, for #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM research & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics too?— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247668302517686272?s=20

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Regarding Second Life, which some of us (Peter Bothe, Anatoly, and I) visited in-world together yesterday, I think Minecraft has a more explicit relationship with Lego bricks. And with an interest in a realistic virtual earth with Lego Robotics, am appreciative of Brick Street View (where Brick refers to Lego brick) and its relationship with Google Street View, but none of them are far enough along yet, and esp. with regards to physical Lego Robotics' educational kits and even code-able with the free MIT Scratch visual programming language -

Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Przyszłości: Lego WeDo 2.0 Świecący Ślimak - Glowing Snailhttps://t.co/baLr2Qzyqp -say with 'Animate a World" https://t.co/9l4TWksTbJ? Thx— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247605114283495424?s=20 ...

Roberta Kurs 2. Klasse. Schüler „Der Vogel kann ja nichts.“ Ich „ Dann ändert es.“ Ergebnis - Er schlägt mit den Flügeln. Ich liebe kreative Schüler @RobertaIAIS #mint pic.twitter.com/FX1bzzuq9h— Detlef Schmidt (@detlefschmidt) February 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/detlefschmidt/status/1232048477221380103?s=20 ... #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ... Perhaps we can explore some of these other virtual worlds sometime Global Distance-wise.

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Thanks to Peter Bothe and Bernhard Drax aka Draxtor -
(which I only attended the beginning of in Second Life today).

Some screenshots from today's first Second Life Book Club.
Events are every first Wednesday of the month at 17:00 UTC

1:41 PM
Great, Peter!

Peter, 1:42 PM

A recording of the after-show-conversation

Peter, 1:47 PM
There will also be informal events every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC from now on
People can talk about their favourite books. Event duration approx. 90 minutes

Watch the recording of the whole event on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNARvU8jJw
https://youtu.be/KrNARvU8jJw

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The title of Draxtor's SL show here is like Tom Boellstorff's book "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" - with which my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" comes in conversation with -

Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn> https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
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Draxtor introduces authors -

Lisa Huang -
https://www.slhuang.com

CB Lee -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Lee

Ken Liu -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu

Matt Ruff -
http://www.bymattruff.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ruff

Draxtor mentions -

Bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org

11:00 minutes - Amazon is scaling back on books, they're prioritizing food now ...

12:45 be here in our embodiment in Second Life

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We've curated a "Scratch Across the Curriculum" studio to share interdisciplinary project ideas. Bring poetry to life! Make a math mandala!

How might your students use Scratch to support creative learning across the curriculum? #ScratchAtHome

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25882648/

We've curated a "Scratch Across the Curriculum" studio to share interdisciplinary project ideas. Bring poetry to life! Make a math mandala!

How might your students use Scratch to support creative learning across the curriculum? #ScratchAtHome https://t.co/eKUQn7L3Um pic.twitter.com/yjshL1DRqK— Scratch Team (@scratch) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1247593755386863616?s=20

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Great open 'Scratch At Home' Twitter Chat conversation today -

Scratch Team @scratch · 2h
At 3:00 PM ET, join us for a #ScratchAtHome Twitter Chat! We’ll be sharing ideas and resources for teaching #ScratchAtHome

At 3:00 PM ET, join us for a #ScratchAtHome Twitter Chat! We’ll be sharing ideas and resources for teaching #ScratchAtHome pic.twitter.com/xemRFFskf8— Scratch Team (@scratch) April 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1247954864644079618?s=20

Check out what people shared! - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ScratchAtHome?src=hashtag_click ~

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Here are my replies to the posted questions ...

A1. Scott MacLeod Canyon CA (near Berkeley). Critical thinking, Sitting, Blogging (eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/programming), Communicating / Using language, Developing wiki @WorldUnivAndSch (like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages, with Wikipedia in ~300) #ScratchAtHome Nice to meet all of you ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247968392532774913?s=20

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A2 - seeking to facilitate online wiki schools for open teaching & learning in all 7k langs (@WorldUnivAndSch), re Wikipedia's ~300 langs & to facilitate #HomeRobotics with #LegoRobotics' kits, code-able with #ScratchAtHome in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ScratchEdMeetUp ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247969811209936897?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247970206900555776?s=20

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A3 - in seeking to facilitate #HomeRobotics code-able with #ScratchAtHome in free #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics, both #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #LegoRobotics' kits aren't easily available #ScratchEdMeetUp https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics @WorldUnivAndSch~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247972331961507840?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247972465189326848?s=20

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Q4. Besides https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/edit... @scratch, I think #HomeRobotics code-able w #ScratchAtHome in free #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics, #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #LegoRobotics #ScratchEdMeetUp https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics
@WorldUnivAndSch in all ~200 countries' langs
will be

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247973815298093056?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247973982537535488?s=20

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A5: Sounds great Alexis: :No internet, no problem! Ss could storyboard their programs
@scratch is so much about telling a story for my Ss, so why not program a story unplugged. Provide blocks, sprites, and send them packets and let their imaginations do the rest! #ScratchAtHome~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247974571237494785?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247975310957535232?s=20

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A6 Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Pr...: Lego WeDo 2.0- Glowing Snail
https://youtu.be/662sNIjpwQA -say with 'Animate a World" https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247605114283495424?s=20?

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247977363066896389?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247977765527150594?s=20

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Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Przyszłości: Lego WeDo 2.0 Świecący Ślimak - Glowing Snail

https://youtu.be/662sNIjpwQA -say with 'Animate a World" https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted ? Thx

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247605114283495424?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247978090388582401?s=20

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A6 Appreciating Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0 with #ScratchAtHome & Scratch Tutorials in gen. How to code with Scratch the 1st getting started Kod do Przyszłości: Lego WeDo 2.0 Świecący Ślimak - Glowing Snail
https://youtu.be/662sNIjpwQA -say with 'Animate a World" https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/edit... ?

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247978349185470464?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247978699317641216?s=20

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Hello M,
How are you faring regarding the coronavirus pandemic fire drill quarantine (I think)? That Norway and Denmark are moving on after the 'epidemic' is further evidence for this, to my way of thinking -

Swedish paper re #coronavirus :
-Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederikson
Denmark can begin to open after Easter
PM: The first step is to partially open schoolshttps://t.co/KfjvYAKs8H
- Norway: The epidemic is under controlhttps://t.co/QX0bkDl0TE @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247324352514650112?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247324560942182402?s=20 . How are you?

I thought I was going to have a piping lesson yesterday morning, but things are developing with Connor re next lessons now that this NPC series of lessons is almost over, so I took the opportunity to explore thinking and writing about further inspiration and vision in playing pipes and music ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/lava-tubes-in-terms-of-vision.html?m=0 ... and they are inspiring ideas regarding my upcoming album as well. My piping is improving! (And Stuart Liddell who has taken a kind of long view, as well as connecting in Scottish piping groups is a model here too:) ... Check out the 'Ascension' video with Stuart Liddell in blog post where drummer Steven McWhirter is just a kid back in 2005, and is still Stuart's lead drummer, and very skillful. Am finding thinking and daily writing inspiring as well - much in blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/.
Appreciating the making of these art, programming, and creating resources online on Twitter -

We've curated a "Scratch Across the Curriculum" studio to share interdisciplinary project ideas. Bring poetry to life! Make a math mandala!

How might your students use Scratch to support creative learning across the curriculum? #ScratchAtHome https://t.co/eKUQn7L3Um pic.twitter.com/yjshL1DRqK— Scratch Team (@scratch) April 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scratch/status/1247593755386863616?s=20 - which relate to connecting further ...
I'm curious about coding with Scratch programming language some of the fish in Google Smart TV in a realistic photo just earlier :) ... as well as entering into the Google Smart TV photos INTO a realistic virtual earth at the Street View, cellular and atomic levels - and with Google Poly!
Seems like the following could be 'imagined' in a Lacanian sense -
"Why a traumatized nation is having trouble staying home:
The potential consequences of non-compliance are being outweighed by the human desire to find comfort from loneliness and feelings of helplessness by gathering in groups" ( https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/07/opinion/why-traumatized-nation-is-having-trouble-staying-home/ )

- but am appreciating its thinking, and re troop bonding (a John Money exigencies of being human word - http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/sweet-birch-questions-of-determinism-on.html - even, re emotions, in this curious coronavirus 'meme' induced time), and the words 'comfort,' loneliness, of helplessness, and gathering in groups. Am appreciating too Yogini Angela Farmer's explorations of emotions - https://angela-victor.com/content/who-are-we-anyway and https://angela-victor.com/angela-farmer - as well as the Desiderata - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - and Pin's call yesterday, and all regarding ongoing generation of my big projects, (i.e. universities / wiki schools, as well as my virtual - actual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic projects, 4 books, upcoming bagpiping album, - and teaching about the information age. (George A's thinking is relevant here too ... as are the prospects of raising a family even). Appreciating the knowledge from psychology and related from the past ~100 years, - and synthesized too by the excellence of thinking of George Alexander, for example, but many others. In what ways will avatar bots become successful therapists, and similar, I wonder, too - language-wise, as well as interactively with humans - and with excellence? :)
... (after next virtual Harbin book?) Am appreciating too actual Harbin, actual Stanford, the actual beauty of Canyon (albeit am wary of its culture for raising kids) and actual California weather, but think actual Pittsburgh, PA, and MA - Massachusetts, too, - could be healthier for family generation, esp. if we figure out aging reversal and all live a very long time.
Realizing my big project regarding remuneration could be significant in all of the above as well, Ma!
Am hoping you had a good day. Talk with you soon!

Love, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, and Alden,

How are you faring regarding the fire drill coronavirus pandemic quarantine (I think)? That Norway and Denmark are moving on after the 'epidemic' is further evidence for this, to my way of thinking - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1247324352514650112?s=20 - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247324560942182402?s=20 . How are you?

This seems significant regarding the November election:"Sanders drops out of presidential race, making Biden the Democrats’ presumptive nominee" -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/08/nation/bernie-sanders-drops-out-presidential-race/

Massachusett's
J. P. Gownder @jgownder · 5h
"I'm a leftist. The very progressive left: Green New Deal, M4All, UBI, a whole bunch of social democracy.
I'm also a pragmatist who fears for democracy itself right now.
Being Bernie or Bust doesn't make you a better leftist than me. It just makes you a less practical one."
> https://twitter.com/jgownder/status/1247930459331465216?s=20

(I looked up M4All, and found that it refers to Medicines for All).
Yet, again - The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe · 6h
"Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race"
> https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1247909223511588869?s=20

Could B.S.'s heart disease have lead to this decision in part? I think a Biden / Warren ticket (if possible) has just improved its chances in the November election.

One question I haven't explored explicitly in now 27 blog posts about the coronavirus pandemic is whether it could be a massive disinformation campaign, which this fascinating55 minutes' interview, that John Palfrey shared on Twitter this morning - "Social Media & Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick" ... https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1247935249134292992?s=20 - lead me to inquire about. And I wonder about this in terms of the memes (replicating cultural units) of a 'radical action' (perhaps to address the following 5 issues - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html ) - too, as well as an exercise in learning about how successfully to create a directed or focused internet viral 'meme" (imitable word as meme here - "coronavirus") - and in order to study these processes academically too.

But I do here now - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html.

Dr. Tony Fauci MD seems to be communicating successfully and top-expertly regarding the American people navigating this Covid-19 pandemic - and even acting in a way as a very public psychiatrist for Pres rump. Am curious to what degree one could attribute our upturned American society to T's (not good) mental health in some ways too.

In the above blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leopard-frog-fascinating-interview-with.html - I also explore much else including ways of thinking about the coronavirus pandemic emotionally, and continuing to navigate with agency in our upturned society or world. What do you think?

And how are you doing/ Thinking of you, and would love to hear from you.

Fondly, Scott

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

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April 7, 2020

Lava tubes: in terms of vision, inspiration, approaches to daily Scottish Small Pipes' playing (which I'm doing, enjoyably) - Toward upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album " * * * [Wikidata] Wikidata office hour on April 7th, Wikidata list of 'people affected b

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>8:48 AM (1 hour ago)

to Connor, Roddy, Finlay, Andrew, Scott

Hi Connor,
Did we have a lesson scheduled for today a few minutes ago? I took the opportunity to write about piping, which I've sometimes done before the lesson to you, to further help focus my piping learning - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/lava-tubes-in-terms-of-vision.html.
All the best, Scott

Am thinking in terms of vision, inspiration, approaches to daily playing (which I'm doing, enjoyably - and re our lessons ... but am still seeking further inspiration for longer daily playing) for today's lesson, so am writing about these instead (I think).
In terms of vision, am appreciating that you, Connor, developed a shared vision with the 'competition style' GHB - Great Highland Bagpipe - world (or culture) ... and won the amazing Northern Meeting and the Glen Fiddich piping competitions ... and play so very well, and are so capable piping-wise (and are a professional GHB piper). And I was really inspired last week by your playing both in a Gordon Duncan style, and a Stuart Liddell style, comparatively, for example, in these regards. Fabulous!
And am appreciating the difference between Stuart Liddell's playing in the 2010 Piping Live Lunchtime Recital sessions/Youtube videos 1-8 -Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 4 of 8https://youtu.be/e7zvKbl1R54 - which I find very inspiring, with his Inveroran CD - https://www.gaelicmusic.com/album.php?SKU=SKYECD43 - which I don't find inspiring (to be honest, - in fact, a bit uninspiring). Am also appreciating that I find inspiring almost all of Stuart Liddell's piping in recent years on Youtube, very, and more inspiring than almost any other greatest piper out there. Why and how? What's Stuart's method (kind of for getting from point A to point B - and namely in terms of inspiration? I think he comes to express the 'vision' of the GHB bagpiping world, too, like you ... and as in one video, musicality oozes from his pores, to use one phrase for this in a Scottish parlance too) ? I think Stuart makes one approach to his method accessible here in his "Ascension ... " -
The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013- https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM (which I find humorous, smart, even/ esp.in a teaching vein), - and Invererary pipe band won the Worlds for the first time this year!!! And I can see another expression of method in Stuart's "Piping the Way" - Piping The Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Filmhttps://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4
- and even a kind of wisdom. (What??? :)
So further METHOD, for me, to create a fabulous and inspiring and out-of-the-box "Honey in the Bag" album is something I'll learn in an ongoing way from you, Connor, as well as from Stuart's "Ascension ...", these 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument' (http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm), as well as even from the College of Piping's tutors (Green, Blue and Yellow - Vols 1, 3 & 4) wherein I find implicit and explicit method, - and regarding piping, simply in providing an initial approach to playing the inspiring GHB itself, for one.
"Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' album VISION - - make people purr (like Hopkinson Smith playing JS Bach's Sonatas and Partitas - https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U)- (even inspired by a kind of meditation from the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool - am making connections here per the above "Guidelines" - and which is my actual <> virtual ethnographic field site, and which I've also found inspiring),- and some of what's further expressed in this email (re Stuart Liddell and Gordon Duncan's sounds, for example, Duncan Johnstone's and Donald MacLeod's too:)In terms of target audience, however, - and regarding vision - perhaps this is you, Connor, and you four, conceptually :), and re a Highland Piping and Scottish small piping listening audience.
I wanted to focus today in our lesson on the MSR - Johnny Cope, Cameronian Rant, and Johnny Red Rory (which is a change, - am substituting Cameronian Rant for Susan MacLeod, - and I may also drop the MSR beginning with Glenfinnan Highland Gathering, now Susan Macleod, and Thompson's Dirk from my tune list entirely - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html - for HitB album too). I find all 3 of these tunes inspiring. I also wanted to focus on the Hornpipes - Zeto the Bubbleman, The Pumpkin's Fancy, and The Streaker, - all of which I find inspiring tunes, melodically and in other ways, as well as the jig "Honey in the Bag" itself today - also inspiring, but perhaps played up tempo. (I think this is all by way of writing out a schedule and charting goals - but without an explicit focus on my recordings yet - and even from our lessons in a beginning way. I'm thinking I'd like to be ready to play the tunes for Honey in the Bag album recording by May, but will wait to see where I am by then). Perhaps these can wait until our next lesson.
Have begun too a tune list of recordings of you playing tunes from our Skype lessons, and am learning from these some, and am seeking to make further recordings in these regards - for learning.
Seeking too to find my way, vision-wise, into inspiring piping for my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' album - and somehow even methods' wise :)
More later about upcoming lessons. Thank you, Connor (and All).
Appreciatively, and best regards,
Scott

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[Wikidata] Wikidata office hour on April 7th

In what ways could MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School begin to use such a Wikidata list with pictures to structure our matriculating students' lists from all ~200 countries and in all 7,117 known living languages, as well as even for WUaS's planned electronic health records for our planned online Medical Schools and teaching hospitals in all ~200 countries' official and main languages - and regarding You at WUaS?

Hi Universitians, All,

Regarding, as a first step to making interoperable WUaS's Miraheze MediaWiki "front end" with our "back end" in Wikidata/Wikibase and in planning for ~300 languages ... i.e.: You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_Universitythe online WUaS hospitals planned in ~200 countries's languages, and electronic health records - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospitaland online Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School ...

... these are the World Univ & Sch questions, with responses, I asked in these Wikidata / Wikibase office hours (and where these office hours are significant in the Wikidata decision-making process) - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-04-07 :

Scott: Hi Lydia, Houcemeddine, Denny, Wikidatans, and All:

Regarding Denny Vrandecic's recent Tweet which Lydia @nightrose re-Tweeted -

Wikidata query - people affected by COVID-19
https://w.wiki/JzZ

Wikidata query - people affected by COVID-19https://t.co/1QHSKGmtUK— Denny Vrandečić (@vrandezo) March 16, 2020

https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1239587403230113792?s=20

- am wondering how extensive this list of 'people affected by COVID-19' could become in Wikidata / Wikibase. (Only notable people, or any sufferer in hospitals, testing centers?) And in what ways could MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School begin to use such a Wikidata list with pictures to structure our matriculating students' lists from all ~200 countries and in all 7,117 known living languages, as well as even for WUaS's planned electronic health records for our planned online Medical Schools and teaching hospitals in all ~200 countries' official and main languages? (WUaS donated ourselves for co-development to Wikidata in 2015 and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, as you may know). How extensive could the list of 'people affected by COVID-19' become in Wikidata / Wikibase? Thank you.
Lydia:
Yeah it's pretty important work. It'll only cover a very small subset of people affected by the virus as Wikidata can not cover the whole world and shouldn't need to. We're only collecting what's of broad interest after all.

Scott:
Thanks, Lydia.

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Lydia, and Wikdiatans, What's the road map please for making Wikidata interoperable with Miraheze MediaWiki (and perhaps regarding WUaS, if they are already interoperable in other contexts). I don't see this here - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan ... Thank you![image error]

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April 6, 2020

Rings of Saturn: what MIT looks for in undergraduate students - and which will inform MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch in many languages * * "The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total cost includes $53,450 for tu

Hi Ay,

Please read through these emails again to get a sense of what WUaS's process is at this point - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html > Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video
> (because I think I've already answered a number of your questions here in previous emails) - and where the WUaS licensing process with the state of California's BPPE could begin in mid-May at the earliest, and with a BPPE workshop. Application process would follow this, and be informed by the BPPE workshop too, in conjunction with WUaS's developing online platform, - and would likely involve high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and essays, and possibly eventually test scores. Please see too what MIT looks for in undergraduate students (and below) -
"What we look for
The match between you and MIT"
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/
And courses, at this time, would be MIT OCW > MITx informed, where students would be taking about 40 courses over 4 years, so about 10 courses per year - probably via the edX platform.
What state (or specifically county) are you based in, when you're not traveling, in a legal sense, and regarding CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS's exploring seeking reimbursement from departments of education in all 50 states, or federally as well? Books and Lego Robotics, etc., would be costs students are responsible for, whereas tuition would be free-to-students' and something WUaS, again, would seek reimbursement for, probably from counties (please read my previous emails again), and WUaS doesn't have an estimate of these costs at this point.
Here's a perspective on costs of going to MIT for a year, for your reference:
"The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total cost includes $53,450 for tuition, $10,430 for housing, $5,960 for food costs, $2,160 for personal expenses, $820 for books and supplies and $340 to cover the school's student life fee" (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/its-costs-73160-to-go-to-mitheres-how-much-students-actually-pay.html). WUaS seeks to create an online bookstore for books and supplies related specifically to the courses WUaS offers.
Since you've told me a number of times that you're actively a Christian, I'm including Professors Viehland (active in World Univ & Sch), both of whom are active in a Methodist Church in western Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Viehland is a Methodist minister, and both of whom went to MIT in chemistry/physics as undergraduates. Please feel free to ask Larry Viehland questions as well.
Have you taken an edX course before - to see if you'd enjoy taking potentially 40 of them over 4 years? Here's a free "How to learn online" course from edX - https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-learn-online - which is only 2 weeks long. And as you might think, MIT undergraduate students, by way of comparison, are quite active learners, high achievers, have great study skills and are hard workers, and tend to be at the top of their high school classes, - with 4 years of focused academic study in high school on their transcripts. And adding having taken such courses to your application would be sensible.
What do you think?
Scott
PSWorld Univ & Sch is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages (and, in a sense, shares MIT's mission, referred to below)

- https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/ >
What we look for
The match between you and MIT

Ask any admissions officer at MIT, and they will tell you that while grades and scores are important, it’s really the match between applicant and the Institute that drives our selection process.

Here are the key components:

Alignment with MIT’s mission
Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we’re not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the time they’re 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world. Lobbying a senator to amend bad policy changes the world. There are thousands of examples.

Collaborative and cooperative spirit
The core of the MIT spirit is collaboration and cooperation; you can see it all over the Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs are very common. MIT is known for its interdisciplinary research. If you enjoy working alone all the time, that’s completely valid, but you might not be particularly happy at MIT.

Initiative
Opportunities are abundant at MIT, but they must be seized. Research projects, seed money, and interesting lectures aren’t simply handed to students on silver platters here. For those students who take initiative—who take advantage of what’s around them—MIT’s resources are unparalleled.

Risk-taking
MIT wants to admit people who are not only planning to succeed but who are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn resilience—because risk leads to failure as often as it leads to success. The most creative and successful people—and MIT is loaded with them—know that failure is part of life and that if you stay focused and don’t give up, goals are ultimately realized.

Hands-on creativity
MIT is an active, hands-on place. Innovation is risky and messy! Getting your hands dirty and trying something new is often the best way to achieve success. We apply theoretical knowledge to real-world problems here; our Latin motto means “Mind and Hand.” In other words, you shouldn’t just enjoy thinking, you should also enjoy doing.

Intensity, curiosity, and excitement
In a nutshell, you should be invested in the things that really mean something to you (we’re not particularly picky as to what). Explore! Choose quality over quantity—you don’t have to do a million things to get into college. Put your heart into a few things that you truly care about and that will be enough.

The character of the MIT community
Our community is comprised of people who take care of each other and lift each other up, who inspire each other to work and dream beyond their potential. We’re looking to admit people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community.

The ability to prioritize balance
Despite what you may have heard, this place is NOT all about work. To be successful here, you must prioritize some measure of downtime. Therefore, we like to see that you’ve prioritized some downtime in high school as well. Question #1 (Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick question. Answer it honestly.

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

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

- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Ay,

Again, I think, here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) - 1) https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow....socialflow_twitter2) with the article's Twitter connection - https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html
And also especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, but also a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? And how much physics did you study in high school?
Here is astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.
Best, Scott
PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards:
"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"
https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

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Glad to hear it, Joi. Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in realistic virtual earth for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines - and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. Thanks for texts. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done, Joi!

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Thanks, Fred, and likewise - Yes. 24 posts in idea-rich blog explore coronavirus/ COVID-19 in new (radical action?) ways. #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics for medicine in collaboration with Stanford's Duke's Google's Project Baseline for testing, tracking and studying viruses, producing vaccines- and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. What genes (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0), and knowledge of them, have done,

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Hi Adam, Craig and Byron!

How are you, and your families doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home) in the Pacific NW? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

That almost every school in the world is going online is an AMAZING opportunity for the work of MIT OCW-centric Wiki World Univ & Sch - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html?m=0 too ... people are learning how to study online ... hope World Uni can develop a class of 500-2000 online undergraduates this autumn as we license with CA's BPPE! :) Much love! :)

Pacific NW (Oregon where we attended Reed College together) reminders abound in these curious times - and in the SF Bay Area. (Am wondering in blog whether a 'radical action' - eg EarthFirst 30 years later (where I was involved in PDX / western Cascades, with the Cathedral Forest Action Group seeking to save Old Growth forest nonviolently - could be partly cause of coronavirus memes in all ~200 countries even! But who knows? Glad you're all well, getting out in the rain, and nice to read your message. Be well, stay well! - S

Please stay safe!

- Fondly, Scott

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Patti -

Likewise for your text m'honey. You're both so fortunate to have that piano hot tub out back ... would love to have a virtual Harbin Hot Springs happening for your soaking pleasure - in Glacier Glasses (and for hiking the virtual PCT walking on Athol Ave or up on Skyline :) - but it'll be awhile yet :)

Scott

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Kim and Larry,

Glad to hear, Kim! Face-to-Face in person OR Face-to-Face LIVE people? ... how to cultivate live people in group video, until in person becomes possible again, I'm asking myself. Create sociality online anew?

Scott

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Good morning, Ma,
Nice to talk last night. Sorry the Unitarian Universalist service Livestream didn't work - that it sounded like someone was playing last week's service from Youtube at the same time as the live Livestream from the 1st UU Church of Pittsburgh, PA, I think you said. Contact some UU friends in Pgh re LiveStreaming next Sunday ? Possibly let these online UU services' go - since they may not be helpful? Look for an alternative UU Sunday Livestream? Could Rev David Herndon begin even his own Livestream from his home as a UU service, and at a different time, even, and innovation-wise, for example - and re generating further your UU network and community? Or could he lead a covenant group or similar instead in Zoom at a different time, for example? The UU Church can be a good community in these unsettling times. Grow further Unitarian Universalist community since the UU service Livestream didn't work?
... Could MIT Scratch team member, E.S., from Cleveland, somehow know the Cleveland UU community?

Am doing a Livestream soon regarding World Univ & Sch.
Cool weather here ... kinda nice, ... glad to hear back from a few friends after texting quite a few friends yesterday evening a version of the following. Good to stay in communication in these times when everyone's going online due to the coronavirus meme... Ken Thompson asks how you're doing in response to one of these texts.

Have fun exploring connecting online in group video in these unsettling times - telephone too. Am glad too you're settling in, and making friends, both around you, and regarding your wider great Pittsburgh community.

Your many birthdays' picnic on Friday outside in the cold is wonderful in these regards too. Talk with you soon! (Time to begin a family here, Ma, and grow my community this way:)
Love, Scott

Hello, Ken! How are you, and your family doing (and in quarantine, sheltering at home)? ... It was a pretty beautiful day here in Canyon 94516, and it feels like the world may be cooling off even, at least for a few days. Could this be due to dramatically less fossil fuel burning, due to coronavirus 'memes' in all 200 countries? Up to about 24 blog post in 'genes' label re this unusual time - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html?m=0 :).

Please stay safe! -

Fondly, Scott

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Hi Ma,

Use the UU Livestraming challenges recently as an opportunity to connect further with friends and grow your UU community like a garden with lots of rain over the course of the week :) - and for better Livestreaming - but also especially communication power (Castells' book title) - in the future on Sundays? :) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/rings-of-saturn-what-mit-looks-for-in.html (which I touch on at the bottom of this today's post as well!) Lots of rain again today ... spring will be full of flowers!

Love, Scott

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Is the Coronavirus pandemic mostly a worldwide 'firedrill' ?

... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 25 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Rings of Saturn - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/rings-of-saturn-what-mit-looks-for-in.html
Weedy sea dragon - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/weedy-sea-dragon-soaking-from-home-in.html
Cheese tree - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html
Soap bubble - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html
Himalyan Monal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html

Grey seal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html
Lavacicles - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html
Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html
oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html
golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html

Mount Oeta - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html
Desert Quandong - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html
High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html

Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html

Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Diamond - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/diamond-eureka-this-start-up-is-using.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~

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25 posts http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes?m=0 explore #coronavirus anew: #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B peops in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics >#ProjectBaseline to test, track & study viruses, produce vaccines OCW @WorldUnivAndSch? What genes & knowledge of them have done!

25 posts https://t.co/9W7YrRoZ43 explore #coronavirus anew: #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B peops in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics >#ProjectBaseline to test, track & study viruses, produce vaccines OCW @WorldUnivAndSch? What genes & knowledge of them have done!— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

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

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Weedy sea dragon: What new Questions do #coronavirus stay-at-home guidelines create for #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage re 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth * * * Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin

What new Questions do #coronavirus stay-at-home guidelines create for #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage (@sgkmacleod) & re 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness?

What new Qs do #coronavirus stay-at-home guides create for #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage (@sgkmacleod) & re 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness >https://t.co/T3XU9blJrx ~https://t.co/Db5qEZRtd4? https://t.co/TXKkcR94iW— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 4, 2020

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Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~

Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~ https://t.co/CcZjgplLeA— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 5, 2020

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Jan Mieszkowski
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Quarantine Day 1
Quarantine Day 15

Quarantine Day 1
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Soaking from home @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking @ #WUaSPhilosophy ~

Soaking from home @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking @ #WUaSPhilosophy ~ https://t.co/TXKkcR94iW— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 5, 2020

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@scottmacleod
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness ~

most interesting work in philosophy these days? #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy & David Chalmers on Consciousness https://t.co/XJQotFYW4k #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod >https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240359274200444929?s=20 ) ) )

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#BrainInAVat
Mindville: Philosopher David Chalmers on the Evil Genius and the brain in a vat
https://youtu.be/Rx3yIYdNmmQ
The Matrix as Metaphysics
David J. Chalmers
1 Brains in Vats
http://consc.net/papers/matrix.html
-https://wmpeople.wm.edu/asset/index/cvance/matrix
->https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy~

#BrainInAVat
Mindville: Philosopher David Chalmers on the Evil Genius and the brain in a vathttps://t.co/oXZmbwIx6Q
The Matrix as Metaphysics
David J. Chalmers
1 Brains in Vatshttps://t.co/FZQ4EXNTtr
-https://t.co/4UersJCDEN
-https://t.co/S3Fqxe9zv4
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

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What are #BrainInAVat #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness questions?
https://www.iep.utm.edu/brainvat/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-content-externalism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_i...
#PhilosophicalConsciousness
@scottmacleod
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Consciousness ~
& re #RealisticVirtualHarbin?

What are #BrainInAVat #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness questions? https://t.co/GUubYcde1G https://t.co/WqwATaKzTY https://t.co/i4jjn7Afc0 #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~
& re #RealisticVirtualHarbin?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

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Desiderata ... what are the ethics in this prose poem, and regarding the coronavirus meme too?

Keep calm in the time of coronavirus meme - with one's good 'agency' (or free will or intentional action)... ?

DesiderataGO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.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.Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.By Max Ehrmann © 1927
Original text
~ https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

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Poetry of sea dragons?

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Hi M,

Deep in the morning here, and a potential life partner comes to mind .. and so life partner for kids, grandkids, living together ... and how to connect further over 3000 miles? Appreciating your affirmation, - which I think I've heard in recent conversations. How to realize or MANIFEST connecting, I wonder? Talk with friends, - in Pittsburgh?, Mass, Maine, N.Y., California?, SM? JK? KB? JA? ES? Meet this summer, or before? What would you suggest and how to communicate and bridge the distance?

L, Scott

A bit hippy, even, but .. re language ... .

Here are the seven steps to MANIFEST anything you want — including money.

Step 1: Get clear on what you want. ...
Step 2: Ask the universe. ...
Step 3: Work toward your goals. ...
Step 4: Trust the process. ...
Step 5: Receive and acknowledge what you get. ...
Step 6: Keep Your Vibration High. ...
Step 7: Clear your resistance.
- https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7806936 -

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Good morning, Ma Nerd Mere,

Glad you had a good buurrrrthday as in (cold) picnic.

PROCESS re manifesting -
Finding a mate
E's help
Presenting - being creative

And teamwork - Bob Harrington MD's (from MA) Boston Red Sox picture ...
"Thinking of friends and colleagues in NYC and MA as cases climb. In #NorCal we have steady increase. Family wanted me to have break. So they planned virtual #OpeningDay. Sweet Caroline then Fever Pitch. Go @RedSox"

> https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1246280247617585153?s=20

I think I could learn teamwork from my 'individualism' thinking - and I've been a Red Sox fan from an early age (which team plays a big role in Boston culture) and kind of a Boston-person too ... since I was born in the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' (something from the late 1960s) :)

And in a Boston-vein, is my piping album a question of MIND? (regarding concentration - how one focuses - regarding Yoga and philosophy questions too ... I may write out a schedule for playing today, as well as making robotics and programming them with Scratch)

But still no email from her ... Hmmm ... (there's 'being a character' thinking in our family I'd say too :)

L, Scott

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Hi Ma,

Rainy Sunday here. But kinda nice. Thinking about beginning a family ... and questions of modeling consciousness even ... regarding brain-in-a-vat philosophy experiments (going back to Descartes and skepticism questions) but also regarding creating a realistic virtual Harbin for study, and soaking from home ...

... but also modeling brains from within a realistic virtual earth ... (giving new meanings to 'be-in' brain in a vat questions, ontology too) ... so actual - virtual people's brains in their actual-virtual bodyminds while soaking in the Harbin warm pool (or bathtubs as proxy, with digital mask. :) ... and modeling at the cellular and atomic levels too, with brainwave headbands transmitting data from physical people via wifi to virtual people as models ... in this realistic virtual earth ... soaking there is nice ... this philosophical IT modeling complex and innovative and developing ... :)

... and wondering too whether anyone in Canyon might get the coronavirus (people are circulating a lot here even with California stay-home directives) ...

How was your day? :)

Love, Scott

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Ma,

I'm sometimes wondering if there's even a kind of 'reckoning' (ethics' wise too - and as a kind of 'ecology' which I've explored in this blog before, e.g. - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/12/mimulus-guttatus-whats-ecology-of.html) going on - with regard to coronavirus pandemic somehow, and on a global scale regarding perps and offs, for example, and in so many other ways ?

If coronavirus pandemic is emerging from Boston area somehow,

am appreciating this Boston Globe article's consciousness of the advances America has made with regards to race -

Dancing at HOME
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/22/nation/how-clubquarantine-party-that-brought-together-thousands-across-world-including-michelle-obama-oprah-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-gave-us-reason-dance-again/ How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing @WorldUnivAndSch?

Dancing at HOME https://t.co/BC3p01tL3h How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://t.co/Th9NYKGtS0 to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://t.co/jralgPlavK @WorldUnivAndSch?— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241772453296136192?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1241774102483832833?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1241774446114795520?s=20

Love, Scott

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Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo): A trip to Monterey a year ago today :) Happy Sunday-it's been raining a lot-cooling off this world-Global Warming reversal? Scott

... https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM4DLXMFeWoGwJoovc9sBSD5FV4OhOfZkJvvPusN52T6TRilfkMgR3Uh4urimTLXQ?key=ekZ1OTladDRUc2YtRFUtLXRqeERXbTZUVjBMdHpn ...

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Ma, David, Pin, Ed,

The short video in this series of photos is of ocean explorer and environmentalist, and based in DC -

Sylvia Earle at Stanford Hopkins' Marine Center - https://hopkinsmarinestation.stanford.edu/events/sylvia-earle-mission-blue-exploring-deep-ocean-frontier - "Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue, Exploring the Deep Ocean Frontier"
APRIL 5, 2019 -
12:00PM TO 1:00PM
HOPKINS MARINE STATION, MONTEREY BOAT WORKS LECTURE HALL

CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to create a realistic virtual earth for ocean exploration - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click ... like SL with Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow and for STEM research and classes. - Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org and scottmacleod.com and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/oceans)

And I added the above 2 comments to video as well. (Also am learning how Google's 'Discover this Day' which pops up photos one's taken in the past to one's smartphone, then e-mailable, works!)

Happy Sunday, Scott

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_sea_dragon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_seadragon

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/04/60-spectacular-seahorses-and-seadragons-pics/

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Weedy sea dragon: Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEar

Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~

Soaking from home in #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth @ #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness ~ https://t.co/CcZjgplLeA— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 5, 2020

Quarantine Day 1
Quarantine Day 15 pic.twitter.com/8mLm2PqaAJ— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) April 4, 2020

Soaking from home @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth w #SecondLife but realistic like #Neons) gives new meaning to #BrainInAVat #PhilosophicalConsciousness questions & in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking @ #WUaSPhilosophy ~ https://t.co/TXKkcR94iW— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) April 5, 2020

most interesting work in philosophy these days? #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy & David Chalmers on Consciousness https://t.co/XJQotFYW4k #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod >https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 18, 2020

#BrainInAVat
Mindville: Philosopher David Chalmers on the Evil Genius and the brain in a vathttps://t.co/oXZmbwIx6Q
The Matrix as Metaphysics
David J. Chalmers
1 Brains in Vatshttps://t.co/FZQ4EXNTtr
-https://t.co/4UersJCDEN
-https://t.co/S3Fqxe9zv4
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

What are #BrainInAVat #Philosophy #WUaSPhilosophy #WUaSConsciousness questions? https://t.co/GUubYcde1G https://t.co/WqwATaKzTY https://t.co/i4jjn7Afc0 #PhilosophicalConsciousness @scottmacleod
>https://t.co/YUH4QOLlJY ~https://t.co/si2Mo4S0yT ~
& re #RealisticVirtualHarbin?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246976017316466694?s=20

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Desiderata ... what are the ethics in this prose poem, and regarding the coronavirus meme too?

Keep calm in the time of coronavirus meme - with one's good 'agency' (or free will or intentional action)... ?

DesiderataGO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.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.Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.By Max Ehrmann © 1927
Original text
~ https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

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Poetry of sea dragons?

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Hi M,

Deep in the morning here, and a potential life partner comes to mind .. and so life partner for kids, grandkids, living together ... and how to connect further over 3000 miles? Appreciating your affirmation, - which I think I've heard in recent conversations. How to realize or MANIFEST connecting, I wonder? Talk with friends, - in Pittsburgh?, Mass, Maine, N.Y., California?, SM? JK? KB? JA? ES? Meet this summer, or before? What would you suggest and how to communicate and bridge the distance?

L, Scott

A bit hippy, even, but .. re language ... .

Here are the seven steps to MANIFEST anything you want — including money.

Step 1: Get clear on what you want. ...
Step 2: Ask the universe. ...
Step 3: Work toward your goals. ...
Step 4: Trust the process. ...
Step 5: Receive and acknowledge what you get. ...
Step 6: Keep Your Vibration High. ...
Step 7: Clear your resistance.
- https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7806936 -

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Good morning, Ma Nerd Mere,

Glad you had a good buurrrrthday as in (cold) picnic.

PROCESS re manifesting -
Finding a mate
E's help
Presenting - being creative

And teamwork - Bob Harrington MD's (from MA) Boston Red Sox picture ...
"Thinking of friends and colleagues in NYC and MA as cases climb. In #NorCal we have steady increase. Family wanted me to have break. So they planned virtual #OpeningDay. Sweet Caroline then Fever Pitch. Go @RedSox"

> https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1246280247617585153?s=20

I think I could learn teamwork from my 'individualism' thinking - and I've been a Red Sox fan from an early age (which team plays a big role in Boston culture) and kind of a Boston-person too ... since I was born in the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' (something from the late 1960s) :)

And in a Boston-vein, is my piping album a question of MIND? (regarding concentration - how one focuses - regarding Yoga and philosophy questions too ... I may write out a schedule for playing today, as well as making robotics and programming them with Scratch)

But still no email from her ... Hmmm ... (there's 'being a character' thinking in our family I'd say too :)

L, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Hi Ma,

Rainy Sunday here. But kinda nice. Thinking about beginning a family ... and questions of modeling consciousness even ... regarding brain-in-a-vat philosophy experiments (going back to Descartes and skepticism questions) but also regarding creating a realistic virtual Harbin for study, and soaking from home ...

... but also modeling brains from within a realistic virtual earth ... (giving new meanings to 'be-in' brain in a vat questions, ontology too) ... so actual - virtual people's brains in their actual-virtual bodyminds while soaking in the Harbin warm pool (or bathtubs as proxy, with digital mask. :) ... and modeling at the cellular and atomic levels too, with brainwave headbands transmitting data from physical people via wifi to virtual people as models ... in this realistic virtual earth ... soaking there is nice ... this philosophical IT modeling complex and innovative and developing ... :)

... and wondering too whether anyone in Canyon might get the coronavirus (people are circulating a lot here even with California stay-home directives) ...

How was your day? :)

Love, Scott

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Ma,

I'm sometimes wondering if there's even a kind of 'reckoning' (ethics' wise too) going on - with regard to coronavirus pandemic somehow, and on a global scale regarding perps and offs, for example, and in so many other ways ?

If coronavirus pandemic is emerging from Boston area somehow,

am appreciating this Boston Globe article's consciousness of the advances America has made with regards to race -

Dancing at HOME
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/22/nation/how-clubquarantine-party-that-brought-together-thousands-across-world-including-michelle-obama-oprah-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-gave-us-reason-dance-again/ How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing @WorldUnivAndSch?

Dancing at HOME https://t.co/BC3p01tL3h How to innovate with #ScottishCountryDancing #RSCDS #ScottishDancing #DanceScottish #COVIDCeilidh & music-making https://t.co/Th9NYKGtS0 to #SCD DANCE SOLO & yet socially with people in group video https://t.co/jralgPlavK @WorldUnivAndSch?— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 22, 2020

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_sea_dragon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_seadragon

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/04/60-spectacular-seahorses-and-seadragons-pics/

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April 4, 2020

Cheese tree (Glochidion ferdinandi): everyone is now studying online with this coronavirus 'national emergency' which is excellent preparation for students & matriculating them at World Univ & Sch * * * Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coron

. . . would really like my big project, World Univ & Sch, to begin to grow ... and with this 'national emergency' everyone is now studying online ... is excellent preparation for students for World Univ & Sch ). Am out on a walk on a beautiful afternoon ... down the hill and up the hill...

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Everyone is now studying online with #coronavirus 'national emergency' which is excellent online learning preparation for students & matriculating them at
@WorldUnivAndSch for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees this autumn https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - @WUaSPress ~

Everyone is now studying online with #coronavirus 'national emergency' which is excellent online learning preparation for students & matriculating them at @WorldUnivAndSch for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees this autumn https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E - @WUaSPress~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246490974060077056?s=20

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Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - &
@WorldUnivAndSch
seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~

Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"https://t.co/u9Xzq38I19 - & @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages > https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ~ https://t.co/uTN73RzDT5— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246482931243048962?s=20

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george church @geochurch
https://livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.html?utm_source=notification
Yay!

https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
Yay!— george church (@geochurch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246424643159896065?s=20

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Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages
@sgkmacleod
> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ~

Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'
"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"https://t.co/u9Xzq38I19 - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages @sgkmacleod > https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz ~ https://t.co/uTN73RzDT5— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246483241919320064?s=20

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Hypothesis (sociological/historical/anthropological/primatological): Veils in the Muslim world, & historically in western Europe, for ex., emerged to protect the wearers from being 'hit upon' by men #HumanPrimates Could they be used re #coronavirus to protect innocent / victims?

Hypothesis (sociological/historical/anthropological/primatological): Veils in the Muslim world, & historically in western Europe, for ex., emerged to protect the wearers from being 'hit upon' by men #HumanPrimates Could they be used re #coronavirus to protect innocent / victims? https://t.co/L8pDPXZVKk— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246580930786938880?s=20

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How best to begin to explore this in a single realistic virtual earth for history - think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor flow - and where we can all add data via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ?

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Beard masks might have emerged similarly, e.g. in Sikh world, and beards too (i.e. to not abraid women's faces re intimacy and sexuality) ... and in addition to keeping beard hair out of cheese: :)

Heather Parson @heather_paxson · Apr 2
Cheese is perishable and animals can't stop making milk. How Covid-19 is disrupting America's most time-sensitive industry

Cheese is perishable and animals can't stop making milk. How Covid-19 is disrupting America's most time-sensitive industry https://t.co/p99peMfeZY— Heather Paxson (@heather_paxson) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/heather_paxson/status/1245817993269035008?s=20

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Why do we want covid-19 antibody testing? How is this different from the testing we already do? What are the limitations? Here are the biggest things you should know about serological testing.

Why do we want covid-19 antibody testing? How is this different from the testing we already do? What are the limitations? Here are the biggest things you should know about serological testing. https://t.co/pBnbZmimj1— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1246544424290652164?s=20

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Information for testing for Covid-19. https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status... …

Information for testing for Covid-19. https://t.co/5pbZ6Y1o5b— Robert M Califf (@califf001) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1246497671625367552?s=20

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Office of the Governor of California
@CAgovernor · 4h
California has partnered with @verilylifesci to increase #COVID19 testing.

To learn more and find out if you're eligible for testing, watch this video!

California has partnered with @verilylifesci to increase #COVID19 testing.

To learn more and find out if you're eligible for testing, watch this video!pic.twitter.com/bXYu12xB51— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1246493351546777600?s=20

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Thanks for this conversation. What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China. For example, Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China: The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci

The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties.

Please take the screener at https://t.co/yUzyw2lk3n and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci.— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) March 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20
Thanks.

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Global Distance Club starting 04-April-2020 at 18:00 GMT/UTC
Interested to join? Send a short message to Skype-ID: klubtalk

9:37 AM
Vielen Dank, Peter, - Ich lerne ein bisschen Deutsch von Deutsche Zeitungen jetzt in dieser Zeit von Coronavirus, - interessant!

9:44 AM
z.B. https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html ... und re Welt Uni fuer alle 7,5 Billiarden Menschen

10:03 AM
Check out George Church's Tweet here esp - Russia: 'a database for everyone infected with #coronavirus'

"Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten"
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russland-will-eine-datenbank-fuer-corona-infizierte-16711245.html - & WUaS seeks to develop #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people in all 7117 living languages @sgkmacleod > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246483241919320064?s=20 -

Russlands Corona-Überwachung: Eine Datenbank für alle Infizierten
https://www.faz.net

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

A Russian and American issue somehow -

https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
Yay!— george church (@geochurch) April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246424643159896065?s=20 - esp.?

George Church on Twitter:

"Everyone should wear face 'masks' in public, CDC now recommendsBy Laura Geggel - Associate Editor a day agoThis announcement reverses the CDC's previous advice.https://t.co/QttmaojrJu
- https://www.livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.html
Yay!"
https://twitter.com/geochurch

Peter, 10:17 AM
Have you seen my post on Twitter about the new Skype Meet Now service? Up to 50 people in a conference call without sign-up or download of Skype.

10:20 AM
Not yet ... will check it out (where?) .. LightStream changed significantly - all your templates on both LightStreams disappeared it appears ... Am hopefully streaming to YouTube with Petros in Athens, Greece, on Monday (and you?) ... but may have to meet in Google Meet instead (with no livestream or Youtube recording).

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Welcome to Global Distance Club, with Peter Bothe!

Interesting Skype group video conference today, and here's the text chat (for the record too) from this:

Welcome to Global Distance Club!

First GDC on Saturday, 04-April-2020 at 18:00 GMT/UTC

David, 6:01 PM

KLUBTALK, 9:53 PM

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KLUBTALK, 10:09 AM

GDC Topic: Coronavirus - How does it effect your social life?

10:09 AM
:)
actually or virtually?

KLUBTALK, 10:10 AM
Actually!

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10:12 AM
physically or digitally? :)
(both are questions I'm asking much re social theory, and realistic virtual Harbin creation too:)

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Georgy, 11:15 AM
I still have 2/2 kids to make them sleep (screamingfear)
so I'll try to join later if you'll be there still

11:17 AM
Sounds good, Georgy!

How far do you live from Sao Paolo & Rio ? 6 hours flight

Georgy, 11:19 AM

How far do you live from Sao Paolo & Rio ? 6 hours flight
Scott MacLeod, Today at 11:17 AM
Nowadays it's an infinite amount of hours since flights are prohibited :)

David, 11:21 AM

Coronavirus Map
https://www.bing.com

Georgy, 11:21 AM

David, 11:21 AM
hahah true georgy :D

11:22 AM
:)
And infinitely close with virtual travel - Skype face-to-face meetings in person :)
FYI - PBS NewsHour full show, Apr 3, 2020

https://youtu.be/a1xYT0VpG-8

What did you think? The China focus at the close of Dr. Tony Fauci's long interview was timely ... and will China even go further into quarantine for decades even? But is this coronavirus pandemic all a 'fire drill' too I keep asking myself ... (seems like a very viable hypothesis :)

11:30 AM
Ajit, do you teach about supply chains esp? Regarding your Twitter - https://twitter.com/ajitmishra71 - too I wonder about the role of ports, harbor and freight in supply chains - and even with regard to a Realistic Virtual Earth for everything (thinking Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow ...) ... what's happening with supply chain in Indian ports (and when quarantine ends too? )

11:34 AM
Is the port of Calcutta / Kolkata, West Bengal, India, a focus of some of your students, for example?

KLUBTALK, 11:37 AM

Ajit, 11:37 AM
For example Haldiya port Kolkata,. JN Port Mumbai. Kandla at Gujrat etc. We have 24 major ports and near about 100 minor or inland waterways ports.

Ajit, 11:46 AM
Indian doctors has made ventilators in just of MRP $2000 and it boosts capacity of our health and medical services to fight with corona. Our scientists and doctors creatd covid-19 test kit for just $10 and provide results in just 3 hours this help our system to make better medical services in this very crucial time.

So we are fighting with corona in better way.

11:48 AM
coping - face-to-face via Skype versus face-to-face in person ... conversation
?
Great, Ajit!

Kunal Shankar - from India but journalist living in Berkeley (with Columbia school of Journalism) - https://twitter.com/kunalshankar - reported Indians fleeing the coronavirus to the land

Kunal Shankar (@kunalshankar) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

Ajit, I find it interesting that it's somewhat difficult to find a non-veggie restaurant in India (in my experience visiting there)

Ajit, 11:57 AM
Yes, you are right, finding non-veggie restaurant in India is little difficult.

In small city it is more difficult.

11:57 AM
Kunal Shankar - This is no exaggeration: India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus

This is no exaggeration: India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus https://t.co/Hw4FHtzfZc— Kunal Shankar (@kunalshankar) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/kunalshankar/status/1244932412829622272?s=20

... and also back to the land for India (an old pattern regarding modernity?)

Anatoly, 12:19 PM
http://item1000.blogspot.com/2013/06/virtlantis-event-from-shiaida-greece.html

Virtlantis event from Shiaida: Greece and Brazil
http://item1000.blogspot.com

David, 12:19 PM
https://www.firestormviewer.org is this one?

Firestorm Viewer – The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc.
https://www.firestormviewer.org

Anatoly, 12:20 PM
You can see my avatar there

Anatoly

12:20 PM
I've taught a course "Society, Information Technology and the Global Univ" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life for about 10 semesters

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

Hope to teach it again this autumn potentially .. for matriculating students, and also open
Learn MIT Media Lab Scratch visual language programming for free on Thursdays at 1700 GMT / UTC too - https://twitter.com/scratch
-

Scratch Team (@scratch) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

Ajit, 12:23 PM
In India if I am saying about shop, itmeans shop for green vegetables and dry vegitables are different. Shops for grains, pulses and spices are different. Cosmetics store are different. So you have to visit each shop fro each type of commodities. It is not like shop or mini mall.

David, 12:23 PM

COVID-19 Community Mobility Report
https://www.google.com

Ajit, 12:24 PM
Malls are different in India. It means everything in one roof.

David, 12:24 PM
how to I add you in second life?

by e-mail?

12:24 PM
What's your blog, Anatoly, please?

Anatoly, 12:25 PM
About literature mostly last time

12:25 PM
What's the URL please?

KLUBTALK, 12:27 PM
PeterCoach

Anatoly, 12:27 PM

Official Site | Second Life - Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, VR, Avatars, Free 3D Chat
https://secondlife.com

12:27 PM
My avatar is Aphilo Aarde as well, David

Ajit, 12:28 PM
It is very late-night here in India. I have to leave this discussion. So bye for now, will meet next time.

12:28 PM
What are your avatar names Ajit and Anatoly?

Anatoly, 12:28 PM
Anatoliy Learner

12:28 PM
The whole web is virus free, not only SL

KLUBTALK, 12:29 PM
Firestorm

Ajit, 12:29 PM
My avatar name Ajit. But I am not using second Life more frequently.

KLUBTALK, 12:32 PM
Draxtor

David, 12:36 PM
teams?

KLUBTALK, 12:36 PM
Skype Meet Now

12:38 PM
(And Peter is now in World Univ & Sch with an email address and for Google Education with Google Hangouts Meet ... which just increased to 250 people! ....but WUaS's also still doesn't stream to Youtube recordings or do Youtube Livestreams)
Watch Together? will check it out (like going to a movie together but with distance)
- https://www.watch2gether.com/?lang=en -

Watch2Gether
https://www.watch2gether.com
am not sure if it's free or not
Thanks, Peter!
1:00 PM
Thanks, - and bye, All!

David, 1:00 PM
bye

1h 47m 21s

KLUBTALK, 1:02 PM
Here are a few links for the people interested in SecondLife:

Draxtor Bookclub in SL (08-April-2020 at 17:00 GMT/UTC): https://secondlife.com/destination/second-life-book-club

Second Life Book Club
https://secondlife.com
Firestorm Viewer for SL: https://www.firestormviewer.org/os/

SL Operating system « Firestorm Viewer – The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc.
https://www.firestormviewer.org
1:05 PM

Wednesday, I think ... would love to add realistic virtual avatars to Google Street View and

... visit the Harbin Hot Springs' Gatehouse here http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg https://twitter.com/HarbinBook http://bit.ly/HarbinBook :)
(so Pegman in Street View would grow!)

HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) | Twitter
https://twitter.com

KLUBTALK, 1:19 PM
The main Freebie places in SL are: (search Inworld and Teleport to those locations):
Freebies Ajuda SL Brasil Voluntarios Community (good for mesh avatars & clothes)
Freebies Helping Heaven Gateway (good for avatars & clothes & building materials)
Freebies Galaxy (huge collection of freebie clothes)
Freebies Megastore London City (good for mesh avatars & clothes)

1:20 PM
Thnx

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Information about the Global Distance Club you can find by following these links:
MeWe: mewe.com/i/peterbothe
Twitter: twitter.com/peter_bothe
YouTube: youtube.com/peterbothe
SecondLife Username: PeterCoach

Maybe - and thanks, Peter, for creating this 'distant' :) space for all of us to talk together!

Thanks, Anatoly for item1000.blogspot.com blog - interesting reviews (thought Ajit had posted this at first) .. also found the following ...

How to Watch Videos and Movies with Friends Online - https://youtu.be/3VqT3vaPLXs - (Looks like Syncplay is free, but video has to be on someone's hard drive, - not sure about others)
Syncplay: http://syncplay.pl/download/
Watch2gether: http://www.watch2gether.com/
Gaze: http://www.letsgaze.com/#/
Kast: https://kast.gg/download.html
Netflix Party: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/det...
Sync Video: http://www.sync-video.com/
MyCircle.tv: http://www.mycircle.tv/
Plex VR: http://www.plex.tv/your-media/virtual ...

Thanks for mentioning watch2gether.com!

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... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 23 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic ... check out the questions re "radical act"?, 'pan'-demic? and "archery contest in Wuhan, China" ... among other inquiries ... ?

Cheese tree - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/cheese-tree-glochidion-ferdinandi.html
Soap bubble - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html
Himalyan Monal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html
Grey seal - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html
Lavacicles - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html
Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html
oleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html
golden barrel cactus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/golden-barrel-cactus-world-stands-still.html
Mount Oeta - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html
Desert Quandong - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/desert-quandong-medianthro-digital.html
High Sierra snow pack - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/high-sierra-snow-pack-heres-beginning.html
Mandrill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html
Asteroid - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html
Mirabilis jalapa - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mirabilis-jalapa-greece-world-univ-sch.html
Courtship display - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html
Caterpillar - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/caterpillar-teaching-intelligence-how.html
Bizet sheep - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/bizet-sheep-wisdom-worldunivandsch.html
Sexual selection in birds - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html
Rabies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/rabies-dramatic-it-seems-1-as-if-some.html
Diamond - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/diamond-eureka-this-start-up-is-using.html
Glass frog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html
Coronavirus - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html
Teak - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ~

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April 3, 2020

Scallop (Argopecten irradians): Free CC-4 best STEM (MIT) OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' (licensing) Bachelor degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... this fall, -& in ~2

Free CC-4 best STEM (MIT) OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' (licensing) Bachelor degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School this autumn, -& in ~200 countries' languages @sgkmacleod with time: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States > worlduniversityandschool.org > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

Free CC-4 best STEM (MIT) OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' (licensing) Bachelor degrees https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E this fall, -& in ~200 countries' languages @sgkmacleod with time: https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 >https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 >https://t.co/ExHIFfPqkW ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246134205416755200?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246136612062236679?s=20 https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246142367838568448?s=20

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How a STEM or science degree would work at WUaS ... See > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html ~

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FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Sing-alongs online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing? Let's create! FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' Bach. degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School in Langs @sgkmacleod worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Sing-alongs online - https://t.co/3j7NLedeK7? Let's create! FREE Scratch programming Create-Alongs - https://t.co/1411VOLmF3 And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch online free-to-students' Bach. degrees https://t.co/quUYjRX6Ye in Langs @sgkmacleod https://t.co/laEDzMD0vm~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246123225743949824?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246123628309041152?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246124355475529729?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246124762041962497?s=20

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Am wondering when #Scratch3 code-able characters we animate https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw might enter a #RealisticVirtualEarth >Google Smart TV in StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding #LegoRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics scottmacleod.com > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/soap-bubble-happy-birthday-to-ma-mere.html ?

Am wondering when #Scratch3 code-able characters we animate https://t.co/KmufrK4GZQ might enter a #RealisticVirtualEarth >Google Smart TV in StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding #LegoRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics https://t.co/D8Sj668UsR > https://t.co/3GNBwb1uDT ?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246117224831520768?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246117686054027266?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246117371627974656?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246116338545745920?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246116641819123717?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1246119689450696704?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246120234232102913?s=20

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A new Constitution for education in ~200 countries & 7117 known living languages (& WIKI)
'a body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which an organization is acknowledged to be governed'> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States each a major Univ & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth~

A new Constitution for education in ~200 countries & 7117 known living languages (& WIKI)
'a body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which an organization is acknowledged to be governed'> https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 each a major Univ & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246170010730393600?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246174745856315393?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246175031580712960?s=20

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Google taught this robotic dog to learn new tricks by imitating a real one
Conclusion: "The team plans to try using animal videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615440/google-ai-robotic-dog-learns-with-imitation-reinforcement-learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00784.pdf #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

Conclusion: "The team plans to try using animal videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://t.co/Mw1BFKdcgi <https://t.co/zcKVV39kHV #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/a53n3kl75l ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1246198476796391425?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1246198866367500289?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1246199050170298368?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1246200739237527552?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246200999972237312?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1246201714950041601?s=20

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SCD #DanceScottish "The team plans to try using.videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615440/google-ai-robotic-dog-learns-with-imitation-reinforcement-learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00784.pdf #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

SCD #DanceScottish "The team plans to try using.videos instead, which would make their technique far more accessible & scalable" #FilmTo3D https://t.co/e7eLkw89PL https://t.co/2yI4D3A9WJ #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/sCexK9pH4K ~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) April 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1246201463606394880?s=20

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

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

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April 2, 2020

Soap bubble: Happy birthday to Ma Mère! Animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial . . . ... 'homemade' programming as birthday card * * "Click on the green flag to

Hi Ma, Dick, Lucy, Ann, and Alden,

Happy birthday to Ma Mère!
I made this animated birthday card with song for Ma Mère - in exploring this "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" tutorial this morning (https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ from 3/26/20, as well as the next livestream, also by Zoe, today, 4/2/20 - https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw ... as well as ).
This card is animated, or programmed, (and may still be a work in progress ... :)
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382124547
(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

... 'homemade' programming as birthday card, could one say? :) (And it may be as close as it gets to a 'physical' gift for her today:)
Happy BIRTHDAY, Ma!
Click on the green flag to send heart to the middle!
Click on the space bar to send it back.
Click the heart to hear a birthday song.
And click on the stop sign to end the song.

And for a moment of hilarity in the middle of this 'national emergency,' from Monty Python's John Cleese (who's quarantining in LA:) -
When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine

When someone tries to come over during quarantine... #johncleese #montypython #tauntingfrenchman #quarantine pic.twitter.com/g7m1QzaUwj— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1245798680306860033?s=20

Warmly, Scotty
5 Tweets in a beginning new "Hypothetical News" re the 'coronavirus' - Himalyan Monal: How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' in the USA? * * * New newspaper ... "Hypothetical News" ... with first tentative headlines: The novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) pandemic has been primarily 1 a fire drill - i.e. 'in case of emergency' (eg genetic, war, nuclear) - and lead to governments, internet media, and economies working together internally in all ~200 countries, and internationally too * * * I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html -

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https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/

Imagine a World tutorial
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/382283884/editor

Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators

https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w

Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Introduce a Character! Create-Along LIVE: Let's make Scratch projects together!

https://youtu.be/cN5yL0-RmKw

Submit a question to the Scratch Create-Along livestream!
Got a question or a comment? Want help with something? Looking for a project idea? Send it in! I'll answer questions on the livestream.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/viewform

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Hi Zoë,

With another inspiring video by Zoe and Eric, Karen Brennan's Alexa Kutler's Retweet, and Jared Amalong in Sacramento having gotten back to me that he had met and knows Zoe, I followed up with Zoe yesterday in email. Hoping to become email friends and communicate in writing some at first.
April 2, 2020Thanks so much, Zoe! Am curious how characters we animate might eventually enter a Google Smart TV environment in Google Street View ... How to anticipate this somehow - and in Scratch? (And how might such a Google Smart TV environment with Google Street View / Brick Street View regarding Lego Brick Robotics be coded for with Scratch, or how to anticipate this?) Thanks for your inspiring Scratch Create-Along livestream!
Thursday, March 26, 2020: Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ Thanks for making this Scratch Create-Along so social and interactive in a new online way with this question tool :)! Am liking the sociality of your livestream live esp. too. How to make Scratch with 'Home Robotics' (WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3 / Mindstreams:) & Spike Prime) as social and interactive online - and in new ways? (Animate a Greeting Card with a Scratch coded Lego robot???) How to make the making of Scratch coded robots as fun as your "Animate a Greeting Card"? And how to make coding Scratch together somehow newly social and very fun online? Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë ! :) Thank you!https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse -
Zoë: MIT alumnus Jim Spohrer asked in some ways my Scratch with Lego Robotics' interactive, fun and social and making/creating-together online questions in a related way: "Jim Spohrer @JimSpohrer:
Does anyone have an article on telerobotics and future of jobs? Would like to understand the state-of-the-art and projections.
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1243227311681331200?s=20" Happy International Waffle Day, Zoë ! :) Thank you! https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSd00xlAo3bp-Y0di1Mz8be_RjOoQMHNxBJO13S1f4Y8Q7EQZw/formResponse
Zoë: Regarding your great Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together! -
https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... AND Jim Spohrer's "telerobotics and future of jobs,' ' the state-of-the-art and projections' questions, how might a future Create-Along LIVE! focus on Scratch3.0 with Lego WeDo 2.0 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego (Einar Öberg @inear with his Brick Street View in Google Street View - eg https://twitter.com/inear/status/1242374206601465858?s=20 - but for Lego ROBOTICS), #ScratchInPracticeForLegoRobotics and #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?

Related Tweets with more info & LINKS -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243256210033274881?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243257428088512517?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243256856039964672?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243258160241987584?s=20
And especially for MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUALLY - "Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER from Roboriseit!" - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243258899269996544?s=20 - WITH Google Research Football

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1223738618264481793?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1223738898909499392?s=20

Happy International Waffle Day ! :) And thank you!

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Am wondering when characters we animate in Scratch might enter the Google Smart TV environment in Google StreetView / Brick StreetView regarding Lego Brick Robotics & be code-able with Scratch? scottmacleod.com
(https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/)

Could such characters eventually become both realistic and fantastic avatars in Google Street View ?

And even become surgeon robots eventually ... a character I may seek to introduce re

Searched on -

Google Street View in Google Smart TV

Google Street View in Google Cardboard

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Dear Stanford's Hoover Institute, and Tom Gilligan,

Tom,
Thanks for the conversation today with Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D., and Michael Auslin.
Here's the question I asked in the Q&A a little further spelled out: What roles are information technology and machine learning playing with the coronavirus in China? For example, in what ways could Stanford’s and Duke’s and Google’s and Verily’s Project Baseline play a role even in China? - "The Baseline #COVID19 Program is scheduling tests for people at high-risk of infection in San Mateo & Santa Clara counties. Please take the screener at https://bit.ly/2QxLxMR and learn about additional sites coming online by checking @verilylifesci "
- https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 Thanks.

This is the Duke Univ professor, a former FDA commissioner, who's the head of Project Baseline there -
Robert M Califf @califf001 Mar 20
Working with the governor's office to screen for Covid 19. @verilylifesci
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
And Bob Harrington MD, who's the chair of Stanford Medicine, is a colleague and also involved with Stanford's Project Baseline.
Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSchPSI've blogged, in part, about Niall Ferguson's great presentation - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html - (and thanks for the video of Niall's presentation; I had emailed him this question:
Thank you, Niall Ferguson and Tom Gilligan, for - https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science - this morning.
Here are the questions and comments I posted to the Zoom Q&A:
Have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' in new ways as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic (if there were expansion developments occurring), - and China, with their own new legal language (somehow potentially in relation to the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu - which has been translating, in a time of legal reform in China, the fairly new Beijing Supreme Courts' rulings ... and law is a writer's game, - and in Chinese/Mandarin too) - has now apparently 'closed their borders' ?
Thank you, Niall and Tom! - Regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html)
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(I sent the following to http://www.niallferguson.com/contact after Niall's fascinating Stanford Hoover briefing: https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-ferguson-covid-19-light-history-and-network-science) ).

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