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April 1, 2020

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 ha

How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' re the coronavirus pandemic in the USA?

May seek to develop a "how are Harbin Residents' coping?" approach to my actual < > virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project's focus further in a developing realistic virtual earth / realistic virtual Harbin ... visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) - and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, California, and "amble" around the town to visit it in very new ways. It's not possible to go into virtual Harbin here in Google Street View to soak and visit at this point, - and I'm hoping in particular to facilitate this for physical < > digital ethnographic comparison and online study even.
Appreciating too the likelihood of some music-making in the areas around Harbin and Middletown, CA, as ways to cope.
Am playing Scottish small pipes here much as coping strategy ... and in preparation too for my first SSP album, tentatively entitled "Honey in the Bag" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html.
Stay well. Be well.
Warm regards, Scott... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are about 20 recent blog posts regarding the novel corona virus COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) pandemic - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes -

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4th Harbin-inspired book, just published:

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to realize it in virtual Reality" ~ https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490 ~ :)

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

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As I look at and think about the beautiful pictures on my Google Smart TV that pass by, both of nature and intense large cities (all very interesting patterns), I see a number of the aurora borealis, and one looks like a tiny community in Alaska (I think) on a body of water (probably ocean) at dusk with the community alit and borealis above a mountain range behind; this gives me a new perspective on community ... These Google Smart TV photos offer perspective on life too in interesting other ways, and make me appreciate where I live in Canyon 94516 for its beauty. Perhaps the Alaskan community, and Canyon's too, are kinds of native communities with all their historical knottedness which Angela Farmer touches on here - https://youtu.be/qQWieQ2s2eM (aka 'Underground Yoga' here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html) but am keeping both the Desiderata in mind with regard to my big World Univ & Sch project, as well as a kind of good ethics, and possibly philosophically as well. Great ethics even ... Some of the other images are underwater, and of turtles and seals swimming too ... am wondering when all of these great images will emerge in an interactive single realistic virtual earth and for science, as well as exploration, and creation. :)

With the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin, it could be great to turn the pool Sioux and Tim and I found - HERE IT IS ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201... - about 1/2 mile from here into a WARM pool, and bring a digital mask up there - as if to visit Harbin - and still get a nice little walk up there (but I have no idea how it would be managed socially, or even whether nascent robots could eventually make it nice:).
See, too, from 2009 ... :))Deep Canyon: into the pools, into the vision vessel, releasinghttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/deep-canyon-into-pools-into-vision.html

*Maui's dolphin: Poetry book ~ Haiku-ish ... here some are ~ "Haiku-ish and Other Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry" ( http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html )http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/mauis-dolphin-poetry-book-haiku-ish.html
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Camellia japonica: > Hippy Van Bookstore into Ambulance into Hospital ... Your call from Harbin Hot Springs, Deirdre * * * If only Harbin had a Paris Book Stall on wheels - then Harbin could start to earn money on the books it sells right now * * * My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book which lists at $64.95 would bring in $25.98 to Harbin for each copy sold.* * * Planning to publish my 4th partly Harbin-inspired book this autumn as well, price not yet determined: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" * * * WUaS may seek to develop a fleet of bookstores on wheels, or bookstores in a van ... :) ... for the WUaS Press and the WUaS Corporation in particular, Costs to bring down in such vans ... besides fuel? How much revenue could such vans generate in other ways - in addition to book sales?https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/camellia-japonica-your-call-from-harbin.html

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Tea (Camellia sinensis): Bring Eric Dodson's 10 indicators of wisdom - one after the other - to the creation of a musical album (like 'upcoming' "Honey in the Bag" bagpipe album? :) (Do I hear these in YO YO MA playing Bach cello suites? A bit) * * * American Revolution - Boston Tea Party ship * * * Selling my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book in the Harbin Hot Springs' bookstore itself?https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/tea-camellia-sinensis-bring-eric.html

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Searched in Google on:
"Harbin Hot Springs - Coronavirus"

Found
on April 1, 2020:

"We are temporarily closed

In response to increasing public health concerns around the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the difficult decision of closing our facilities for 24 days effective 5 PM Tuesday March 17, 2020. Please read our update below for more information.

Reservations Now Available ... "

https://harbin.org ...

Guest notice:
3/16/20Dear Guests,
In response to increasing public health concerns around the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the difficult decision of closing our facilities for 24 days effective 5 PM Tuesday March 17, 2020. We will be monitoring the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation very closely and have a tentative reopening date of Friday April 10, 2020. The final decision to reopen our facilities will be made based on all the available information including from the federal, state and county health authorities. If your reservation falls within that time frame, it will be cancelled and our office staff will add a credit to your Harbin account. We will post COVID-19 or other updates on our website and Facebook Pages. We apologize for any inconvenience to our guests.
Please stay safe.

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These articles also came up ...

Clothing optional resort Harbin Hot Springs reopens its pools 3 years after wildfireAmy Graff | on January 16, 2019- https://www.sfgate.com/weather/amp/Harbin-Hot-Springs-opening-pools-reservations-fire-13535539.php
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/amp/Harbin-Hot-Springs-opening-pools-reservations-fire-13535539.php

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New Age, clothing-optional Harbin Hot Springs rises from embers in Lake CountyKurtis Alexander | on January 20, 2019https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/amp/New-Age-retreat-rises-from-embers-13546291.php

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Well-loved Harbin Hot Springs ravaged by Valley Fire; pools surviveKurtis Alexander and Evan Sernoffsky Sep. 14, 2015 (Houston, Texas)https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Harbin-Hot-Springs-ravaged-by-Valley-Fire-6503417.php

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Lake County’s Harbin Hot Springs will reopen its pools next yearDecember 11, 2018 (Santa Rosa, California)https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9033096-181/lake-countys-harbin-hot-springs

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Nudist Resort Destroyed By Valley Fire To Reopen
March 9, 2016 at 10:35 am (Sacramento, California)

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/03/09/nudist-resort-destroyed-by-valley-fire-to-reopen/

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Lucid dreaming ...

Blue dacnis: Lucid Dreaming - Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, 'Awakening the Luminous Mind,' David Chalmers on the virtual and the real, Grateful Dead Yoga, Yoga Robotics to teach yoga poses, to help with vegetarian cooking & FREEDOM Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations, Esalen, Harbin Hot Springs, Monty Python's John Cleese, his ex-wife Faye Alyce Cleese, May add 'reading' & 'self-study' words to http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html re ~ 'Cultivate learning consciousness of your own neurophysiology' w more STEM research, In what ways could a realistic virtual Harbin become a site for Yogic "reading" and "self-study" re Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations? - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/11/blue-dacnis-lucid-dreaming-tenzin.html -

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Am curious about this recent Minnesota UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm interview - https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw - with 2 mentions of sauna and 1 of hot tubs ... and re "coronavirus" pandemic . . .

UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm: - https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw

Rich discussion on #COVID19 with @mtoster with analogies on level of preparedness for public health vs. defense (and biggest vulnerabilities are likely supply chains that depend on China...) https://t.co/AoUNUj1ktP— Jonathan H Chen (@jonc101x) March 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/jonc101x/status/1237647356318724096?s=20

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Sexual selection in birds: Thanks to Stanford Professor Jonathan Chen MD (and computer scientist) for sharing this video with an interview with UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm regarding #CoronaVirusCOVID19 * And in a "pan"-demic interpretive vein, thanks, too, to Stanford Law Prof. Greely for sharing this WHO 'pandemic' Tweet: (where Pan could refer to the genus 'Pan' as in Pan Troglodyte or Pan Paniscus ... ) * * And I could interpret this recent Tweet by Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely, with his focus on biosciences, and as an (actual<>virtual, physical<>digital) ethnographer of Harbin Hot Springs in the following ways: "I apologize (ish) for flooding my followers w/retweets. There's just SO MUCH interesting stuff going on. This would be a wonderfully fascinating time..if it weren't real" * * * And ... there's an ... AMAZING opportunity in creating in GROUP VIDEO an online LEARNING CULTURE (due to #coronavirusCOVID19 pandemic in US) eg since MIT & Harvard & all Massachusetts' universities are moving classes online? > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School in fall '20 ~ An algorithms as culture study @npseaver? * * * Cambridge Univ video "Spanish Flu: a warning from history" and related videos * * * * Heartsong and All, Brain to brain blog to blog species to species creativity evolves https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg (Just for Hits - Richard Dawkins ... on genes and minds, - and a bit of a trip) https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/sexual-selection-in-birds-thanks-to.html

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Courtship display: Heartsong and All, "Brain to brain blog to blog species to species creativity evolves" https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg https://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg (Just for Hits - Richard Dawkins ... on genes and minds, - and a bit of a trip) * * UMN Prof of Public Health Michael Osterholm on COVID-19 and with talk about Saunas and Hot Tubs https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/courtship-display-heartsong-and-all.html

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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

2
for keeping kids safe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/how-keep-kids-connected-with-friends-even-when-theyre-housebound/and seeking too to limit F&M sex offenders and perpetrators potentially with the law in new ways eg paralleling the medicinal and recreational cannabis law distinction - & w 1) rapid response, 2) continuous testing & 3) continuous tracking now with machine learning
(has CA has been doing for decades already in one way or another???)

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successful in reversing global warming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place and thus dramatically lessening airplane and automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution

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for nation states' to develop their borders or boundaries in new ways - and newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting any expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in the beginning of the 21st century - as well as potential military aggression.

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has been primarily memetic (replicating cultural unit - the 'coronavirus' word or idea), & not genetic (SARS CoVD - although may have been precipitated by this in Wuhan, China), - and as such an experiment in radical action in the information technology age, and the internet.

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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

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245426567716556800?s=20

(non harming or nonviolent)
... and as an "in case of emergency" situation, and because of the way this situation developed (and the value of treating this as a serious 'fire drill'), no one - the internet media on 10s of 1000s of web sites on a many-to-many information technology - or governments etc ... were in any positions to question this for other kinds of benefits to publics. So critical thinking about this by individuals has much merit ...

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/how-keep-kids-connected-with-friends-even-when-theyre-housebound/
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245427302294384640?s=20

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
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successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428201377001473

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
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for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245428622413848576?s=20

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
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memetic (#coronavirus 'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245429563716284417?s=20

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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

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— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/3...
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
2
for keeping kids safehttps://t.co/PI1TYT8BXG
& seeking too to limit F&M sex offs /perps potentially with the law eg paralleling medicinal & recreational cannabis law distinction & w 1 rapid response 2 continuous testing & 3 tracking— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
3
successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... ~

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
3
successful in #ReversingGlobalWarming by getting people to stay at home or shelter-in-place & thus dramatically LESSENING airplane & automobile travel worldwide, as well as air pollution, for a short period: https://t.co/A7vlAwlyBX ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
4
for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression

The #coronavirus pandemic has been primarily
4
for nation states' to develop their borders in new ways - & newly with law, & legal language - thus thwarting expansionist tendencies of countries getting rich in beginning of 21st century - as well as potential military aggression— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
5
memetic (#coronavirus 'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~

The #COVID19 pandemic has been primarily
5
memetic (#coronavirus 'meme' - as replicating cultural unit), & not genetic although SARS CoV2 may have precipitated this in Wuhan, China & as such is an experiment in #RadicalAction in the #InformationTechnologyAge, & re the #internet ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) April 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...

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Re
How are the Harbin Hot Springs' Residents coping - in this time of 'national emergency' re the coronavirus pandemic in the USA?

I think this question of caring for Harbin Residents comes back to the state of California and Lake County as governmental entities in part ...

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

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monal

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

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

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March 31, 2020

Grey seal: Gordon Duncan and Stuart Liddell 'sounds' - bagpiping-wise? That is 'vision' . . . "Honey in the Bag" upcoming Scottish small pipes' album * * How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 1 of 8

https://youtu.be/ZuvMePr82y8

1998 Gordon Duncan Trophée Macallan Fil Lorient

https://youtu.be/V6LF0S4CWWI

Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron

https://youtu.be/nsWSrDX7zrs

Not only fantastic, metronomic ... but also so assured ...
15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall

https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA

Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie / Ash City / The Inverness Incident / The High Drive
https://youtu.be/xXuRFoweq3I

Gordon Duncan Just for Seamus

https://youtu.be/Qurj6sSLigI
(interesting mix, and photos too - almost kinda hippy:)

J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute played by Hopkinson Smith

https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U

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

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

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Scott MacLeod
Mon, Mar 23, 10:39 PM (8 days ago)
to Connor

Hi Connor,

Looking forward to our lesson soon (and am watching out for the differential Daylight Savings' Time - Scotland re US - for Tu March 23, 2020).

I've been observing and learning from a recording from a lesson - enjoyably and edifyingly - and would be grateful if you'd be willing to play some or all of the tunes I've uploaded so far. I've also be interested in the lesson recordings to hear me play with you there (so socially and as my teacher, and with your confident knowledge of piping) - which gives me new ideas about where to head with recording 'Honey in the Bag' album.

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sAhhfNbJAKmZf3Ibr-PFv1nTcV_qMKe -
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html.

Thank you, and cheers,
Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scott MacLeod
Mon, Mar 30, 10:19 PM (16 hours ago)
to Connor

Hi Connor,

Thanks for a good lesson last week, and thanks too for playing a tune from my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album and then allowing me to play it in a kind of call and response, - learning wise. Thanks also for singing the hornpipe rhythm out loud (appreciating your skillful knowledgeable piping experience and esp. confidence). This lesson, I'm curious to talk about and explore, riffing-wise, how to 'hear a sound in your mind' regarding - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm -
I think regarding playing Scottish small pipes this week, I'm going to focus on hearing every note in my mind per

"2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).

Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind."

- which I've done a little of in recent weeks, but want to go further.

And how to learn to play both in the manner of the very great pipers PM Stuart Liddell and Gordon Duncan, and in conversation with your playing ... What does it mean for Connor to play as Stuart does, or Gordon did? :)

So let's also talk, if we could, about / explore further what is a
Stuart Liddell sound?
Gordon Duncan sound?

(I'm glad to be starting to teach a student soon - from which I'll learn in different ways).

I added further "Honey in the Bag" tunes to -

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sAhhfNbJAKmZf3Ibr-PFv1nTcV_qMKe (and rotated most them this time!)
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html.

I think Scotland had a time change on Sunday, March 29, 2020, so see you at 4pm Glasgow time again, - back to 8am Pacific Time for me (from 9am for a couple of weeks).

Might taking another series of 10 lessons be possible please, as I proceed with this album? I think this one on March 31, 2020 will be the 9th out of 10 .

Cheers, and thank you,
Scott

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

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Connor,

Thanks again ... I have much to play this week (thanks in part too to the lesson recordings). Enjoyed particularly your playing Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie in a Gordon Duncan style, and then by way of comparison in a Stuart Liddell style (so so great! :)

And here's some of the music we talked about: :) ...

1998 Gordon Duncan Trophée Macallan Fil Lorient
https://youtu.be/V6LF0S4CWWI

Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron
https://youtu.be/nsWSrDX7zrs

15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall
https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA
(Not only fantastic, metronomic ... but also such assured bagpiping ... )

Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie / Ash City / The Inverness Incident / The High Drive
https://youtu.be/xXuRFoweq3I
(Gordon Duncan)

Gordon Duncan Just for Seamus
https://youtu.be/Qurj6sSLigI
(interesting mix, and photos too - almost kinda hippy ... where Scots' fiddler Alasdair Fraser who lives in northern California mostly ... is very much a Scottish hippy in 2020 still ... where the 1960s and 1970s, alternative culture, and hippies are an interest and focus of mine, including regarding my actual<>virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project ... interesting how culture informs bodyminds especially re Alasdair, for example :)

(I have about 3 strings of Xmas lights around my place on all the time, one of which is what's behind me during our lessons, FYI, - liking the colorful lights ... kind of like the high notes on the chanter, and in music in general - does something to my neurophysiology :)

Still aiming to bring the other D & B flat chanters into our lessons with drones, as well as explore further, and identify, the various keys in the 9 notes of an A chanter (or B flat:).

May see how to fit the tune Mason's Apron (up to speed, re Stuart Liddell above) onto my upcoming album.

GDoc folder - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_sA...
Tune list - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20....

Strathspeys and reels next week, from my "Honey in the Bag" album?

Appreciating too the 'vision' aspect of Gordon Duncan's and Stuart Liddell's bagpiping, and regarding -
"Legacy of Pitlochry ‘musical visionary’ Gordon Duncan, who played AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on bagpipes"
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/entertainment/1227028/feature-legacy-of-pitlochry-musical-visionary-gordon-duncan-who-played-ac-dcs-thunderstruck-on-bagpipes/ ... and learning from their 'vision' (where there's also a 'vision' label in my blog https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/vision :)

Cheers, Scott

PS
If you listen to this, and it makes you 'purr' too - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - let's explore why in conversation ...

J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute played by Hopkinson Smith
https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U

How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my "Honey in the Bag" album, is a sound I'm heading for :).

Thanks, Connor!

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

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Hi Connor,

Had actually never heard AC/DC play Thunderstruck -
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Official Video)

https://youtu.be/v2AC41dglnM

And here's Gordon Duncan playing his amazing "Thunderstruck" -
Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan
https://youtu.be/_EwDlUHoDFo

Appreciating too some of the language (but not all, since I don't agree with some of the interpretations) of the first few paragraphs of - https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/entertainment/1227028/feature-legacy-of-pitlochry-musical-visionary-gordon-duncan-who-played-ac-dcs-thunderstruck-on-bagpipes/ - re Gordon Duncan's creativity ...

Amazing how Gordon transposed Thunderstruck into piping music, and also rock and roll energy-wise :)

Cheers, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Here are Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, where the picture's interesting of Alasdair, as is "The High Drive" (by Gordon Duncan I think) played nicely ... (but the first tune, not enough drive, a little blasé ... is Alasdair from Uist, I wonder?)

The Wee Man from Uist / The High Drive

https://youtu.be/1rqSow0HdP4

Scott

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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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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)- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
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- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with MIT OCW.
(I sent the following to http://www.niallferguson.com/contact after Niall's fascinating Stanford Hoover briefing: https://www.hoover.org/events/niall-f...)

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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)

Lavacicles: This picture in "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly about competition, and lack of sharing of data ... Hopefully my big project - for example ONE realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals / everything - will change some of these contours regarding CC-4 licensing too, and of MIT OCW in 4 languages as well, and regarding clinical trials planned with machine learning - for speakers in all 7,117 known living languages (the number rose from 7,111 recently) * * * Am developing "coronavirus" meme 'radical action' inquiries here https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html (and in some of 18 recent blog posts) * * * See: Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens - 23 March 2020 Q & A and News ... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 19 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 ... ?- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/lavacicles-this-picture-in-who-delivers.html -

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A #WUaSFarmRobot for every Indian-to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://twitter.com/kunalshankar/status/1244932412829622272?s=20
-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244747753118298113?s=20 ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245085550589050880?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245085926021189632?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1245087506829160448?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1245087376222728192?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1245088306666201088?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245089219091062791?s=20

A #WUaSFarmRobot for every SCOT - to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth

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
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A #WUaSFarmRobot for every Scot - to do all? Like a farm tractor -"As per 2016, agriculture employed 54.4℅ of the Indian work force" - ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://t.co/ly2b4RLD6C
-https://t.co/YvTkd0IKIq ~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1245092150305370112

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In an ibex, or mountain goat, form factor as robot? Digital species ... for on the farm for every aspect of farming, bringing to market etc ...

These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt.

These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt. pic.twitter.com/DBtaywkIfi— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1245087739042828292?s=20

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In an ibex, or mountain goat, #WUaSRobotFormFactor as #Robot? with live ibex? #DigitalSpecies for every aspect of farm work, bringing to market etc. #WUaSFarmRobot ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1245087739042828292?s=20~

In an ibex, or mountain goat, #WUaSRobotFormFactor as #Robot? with live ibex? #DigitalSpecies for every aspect of farm work, bringing to market etc. #WUaSFarmRobot ON the FARM #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth https://t.co/a2lIcWmPBj~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1245130374235078656?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1245131848537100288?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1245133433858187264?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1245133374835945472?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1245135075680727040?s=20
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ONLINE Home #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics in 1 #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning -https://t.co/jFqFpMc89Z
-https://t.co/LWezDzCKvZ
-https://t.co/CfqQtgo6UI https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK -@WorldUnivAndSch ~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244739329919868933

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ON the FARM, combined #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning -https://twitter.com/THEnergyNet/statu... … >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics -@WorldUnivAndSch~

ON the FARM, combined #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals working together in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin #DigitalSpecies #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning -https://t.co/rKj8orM8e4 >https://t.co/Wsccf7YfAO -@WorldUnivAndSch~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1244747357951909888

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Hi Connor,
Blogged a bit about today's piping - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html (and with other ideas too, including robotics :) ... including A #FarmRobot for every Scot and American and Indian - to do everything on a farm? Like a farm tractor ...
And here's the idea of the sideways head in Istanbul Turkey per your playing PM Tom McAllister / Links of Forth sideways -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/20131203_Istanbul_269.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern) - but I don't think it's the one in the so-called 'Grand Cistern' (which I actually was invited to play in, after I was busking for awhile in the main area in front of this, near the very old Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque as well) that I saw years' ago, which I can't seem to find a photo of online.

How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my "Honey in the Bag" album (per the JS Bach played by Hopkinson Smith), is a sound I'm heading for as well :).
Cheers, Scott
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March 30, 2020

Lavacicles: This picture in "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly

Dear Dick, Lucy, Ma, Ann, Alden,

This picture - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/wer-liefert-wann-das-corona-medikament-und-zu-welchem-preis-16696479.html (https://translate.google.com/) - in the article "Who delivers the drug when - and at what price?" - looks like a big homemade ice cream making machine :)) ... and perhaps vis-a-vis pharmaceutical products ... even a bit Alice-in-Wonderland like as well :) ... but it's partly about competition, and lack of sharing of data ... Hopefully my big project - for example ONE realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals / everything - will change some of these contours regarding CC-4 licensing too, and of MIT OCW in 4 languages as well, and regarding clinical trials planned with machine learning - for speakers in all 7,117 known living languages (the number rose from 7,111 recently).

Am not clear how this shelter-at-home approach in much of USA, with current coronavirus meme pandemic, will affect the November election, or online pharmaceutical drug development, or for that matter data-sharing, but 'society' seems a bit different newly, and growing fulsomely online. Was there some precipitating radical action that has informed these changes? Am developing "coronavirus" meme 'radical action' inquiries here -
Mt. Shasta at sunrise: Inquiring here - was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? - and work 'start-age' too? * * * Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronavirus ....https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html - (and in some of 18 recent blog posts - my mother has encouraged me to keep a journal in these times, and my blog is this in some ways) - and I wonder what implications for November there might be here re shelter at home and radical actions too. (Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church continues to call for lock downs -

Decision-makers at the federal, state and provincial levels around the globe: Immediate lockdown for reducing spread of COVID-19 - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/R3PwefTe0U via @Change— george church (@geochurch) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1240795005524086785?s=20 ).

Was a little started to observe Dr. Tony Fauci MD suggesting on front page of Sunday Boston Globe yesterday that 100,000 people could die from coronavirus, and here too:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU"

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/F2MOHY3xl4— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 29, 2020

> https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1244275909944885248?s=20

(And am appreciating both Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's support of Fauci, here again - Here's Harvard Professor of Economics' Greg Mankiw's "Thoughts on the Pandemic" - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html - as well as am also a little startled at the 'severe' language both he and John Palfrey, President of MacArthur Foundation, and former Harvard Law Prof, are using regarding the 'battle' with coronavirus). Am also startled regarding the possible quarantine - Boston Globe yesterday again - or lock down even of all of New York, CT, MA ... or "strong" advisory not to travel from these states). What's happening - and regarding what?

And have China and Russia somehow been successfully 'contained' 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' ? ? ?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? And how are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :) I am as well here in Canyon 94516, and the internet is making possible many new forms of sociality (which I partly teach about in this course - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - as well as study). :) Lucy, Alden, Dick?

Fondly,
Scott

Next week, M 4/6/20, instead: Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://t.co/Uofktmenp8) at 10aPT https://t.co/s26nbFJMCB #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA GSci degrees: https://t.co/M4H2SoUoA9 ~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) March 30, 2020

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March 29, 2020

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

Hi Ay,

Greetings! And 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. To respond to your questions: . . . CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World Univ & Sch is planning to offer first Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English, as we begin licensing with the state of California's BPPE, and then accredit probably with WASC Senior (which also accredits Stanford, UC Berkeley, and many other universities on the west coast and some internationally). Regarding your . . . . . . . . . You'll find our 6 initial planned majors here - worlduniversityandschool.org - and I could see a General Science (GSci) major having an astronomy focus, based on https://ocw.mit.edu/ (search on 'astronomy' courses). Conceptually, students would be studying MIT OCW into MITx courses - "MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/" - and because of MIT OCW's CC-4 licensing (which also WUaS to a) share, b) adapt but c), non-commercially), the degrees would be online tuition-free. (WUaS is planning to seek reimbursement from departments of Education, such as at the state, county or federal level, and along the lines of what it might cost to attend MIT or Stanford). Classes will be online potentially on the edX platform, in group video, and even in a realistic virtual universe for STEM (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow + and which we'll all be able to help build out as well). See - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click ...

Regarding your . . . . . . ... To say much of this another way, World Univ & Sch is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class this autumn 2020 as we license /accredit - worlduniversityandschool.org - and please teach to an open wiki eg by adding a youtube video you make to a related subject https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (and check out twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch). "Testing, essays and also teaching" will emerge, conceptually, from the MIT OCW, which has exams, - into MITx - but WUaS wants to grow with hiring live instructors in group video, for ex. - and probably at first, MIT and Stanford graduate students, potentially, who may be on the way to becoming faculty. Regarding your . . ., given that WUaS is very MIT OCW-centric (with its ~2500 courses in English), and much astronomy, and physics, WUaS may focus our upcoming Ph.D.s explicitly in the ~32 departments of MIT, and, at the undergraduate level, possibly follow MIT's lead "Undergraduates interested in an astronomy focus can major in either Physics or EAPS" (http://web.mit.edu/astronomy/).
While WUaS is separate and independent from MIT, and as WUaS licenses with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior, it's both the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing, as well as developing collaborations with possibly edX (founded by Harvard and MIT) in Cambridge MA that will inform our degrees, and synergies with MIT into the future.
I'll keep you posted for the autumn of 2020 about signing up, registering and regarding the application process et al., but in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Ay? Thank you.
Best Regards, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Astronomy -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Physics -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University -
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I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point.

BengaliAmharicLithuanianGermanRomanianGreekTwiScots GaelicNorwegian - BokmalInuktitutHindiFarsiMalaySpanishTaiwaneseIndonesian

Thanks again for your interest, in this early phase for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. May I ask please how you heard about WUaS?

Best regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- Languages - World University: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...

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- 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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Thanks for your prompt email reply. And yes I'm very ready to keep your emails confidential, and will. And WUaS will develop with time a privacy policy for matriculated students (probably in conversation with MIT's). And please consider adding a confidentiality statement to your email addresses' signature - I can share example if interested - (and please remember too that emails are like postcards, abd companies' employees may have access to your enlmails, and also a stated privacy policy - and re AI etc esp).

At WUaS while tuition eill be free, there will be book, Lego Robotics' kits and other similar costs, FYI. and yes WUaS is planning to begin licensing soon, and accrediting is a concurrent process, with BPPE, for the autumn, but we also don't yet have the monies for this, yet are optimistic.

On the edX platform, the edX, HarvardX, JuryX course is an example of what WUaS courses will be like there - and they'll also be both synchronous in group video, and asynchronous, and seeking to build on the Conference Method newly online. WUaS's academic year will either be 3 terms or 2 senesters, 4 courses, 40 courses over 4 years, for a free to student's Bachelor degree. Seeking too to build a cohort every year or term of people who know each other, and as a network too.

Cheers, Scott

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There's more about the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - and think Socratic dialogue around the 'table' so in group video conference with an instructor (so seminar, in a sense), or in a virtual world like Second Life, as well as lecture with sections too. And there are 2-3 channels newly in group video: ie voice, gesture, and for a parallel 2nd conversation group text messaging. And WUaS is seeking to make classes and the undergraduate year/4 years like this (with parallels, too, to Reed College's approach to the conference method).

And in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Jay? Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
(And please see the confidentiality notice, as an example, from my email's 'signature' below).

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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress

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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress

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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 are 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, ScottPS, 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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"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

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Hi Flying Jay, Kyle, prospective students, Board, and speakers of languages below, and All,

I just want to take this opportunity to introduce Kyle to everyone. I omitted including him yesterday in my email to all of you, and Kyle's on the WUaS Press Board, and shares regularly about transforming education via Project Based Learning, and here's an example of an email he just shared today - https://mailchi.mp/a265e2ea481c/5-dos-and-donts-of-online-class-meetings-4834453?e=ec2d3baa06 in these regards. Kyle works for, or did, a school in Hong Kong, and was also recently hiking the Camino Santiago in Spain.
I'm including the emails I sent to Jay yesterday in this blog post from today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html - but not including his emails in this blog post per his request. It offers an interesting glimpse into where WUaS is heading with physics / astronomy undergraduate studies for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, as well as the building out of a realistic virtual universe potentially as part of this.
And here's a related article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) which I found on Twitter  - https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article206885737/Webb-Teleskop-Bald-koennen-wir-bis-zum-Rand-des-Universums-schauen.html
And with regard also to MIT OCW in astronomy - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click - this is relevant especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and also regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, also to a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? (See, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - regarding to wiki creating a realistic virtual earth / universe, which I think involves an interpretive, even ethnographic approach in all of the science involved, hence ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).
And here are 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 (and none in edX's astronomy). In what ways too I wonder can WUaS explore developing a JuryX / HarvardX / edX approach to astronomy courses - per Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson's great 2016 edX law course (seealso the blog post with my emails to us and Jay - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html )?
Best, Scott- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch 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
PPSHere's the nascent World University Foundation page with the World Univ & Sch Board of Trustee members - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - above in email addressees. WUaS is 2 separate legal entities in the state of California with separate Boards - 1) the non-profit MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, which is also a 501 c3 at the US federal level, and 2) the for-profit WUaS Corp / Press which is a general stock company legal entity in California. Together, there's remarkable potential for parallel growth, planned in ~200 countries' official and main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages.
PPPSLarry Viehland (above) and I are going to update the 14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - for the open April WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. Apr 18 (and on 3rd Saturdays in general).
PPPPSAnd here are the Minutes of March 21, 2020 where you'll see mention of https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/snowshoe-hare-minutes-for-march-21.html
PPPPPSPetros Kalligas, in Athens, Greece, and I will be talking again (see, here our March 23, 2020 talkhttps://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning at 10 am Pacific Time, about Greece World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live
Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning on 3/30/20 at 10 am PT https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live  info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244472798229102592?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244473006270763008?s=20
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244473171081748482?s=20

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I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point.
BengaliAmharicLithuanianGermanRomanianGreekTwiScots GaelicNorwegian - BokmalInuktitutHindiFarsiMalaySpanishTaiwaneseIndonesian
Thank you !

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://t.co/tVlieKL9Ti) in the morning on 3/30/20 at 10 am PT https://t.co/RDDLrvNGDw info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 30, 2020

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Mt. Shasta at sunrise: Inquiring here - was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? - and work 'start-age' too? * * * Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronaviru

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ...

Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church on adding genes:
How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

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Inquiring about the coronavirus meme pandemic potentially as being 'radical acts' or 'radical actions' regarding (as 'alternative' hypotheses to explore further) :

1) Reversing Global Warming, since people have significantly apparently stopped flying, and 2) even somehow reversing the global illegal sex trade (???) and possibly too regarding my ethics' inquiry into Stanford University and some of my 6-8 ethics' whistle blowing-s in recent years (... and 3) securing $8.3 billion in US governmental funding for US virus and genetic research - re aging reversal research too?, and 4) preparing digitally for the next outbreak of 'whatever' - e.g. another virus per Harvard/MIT geneticist Prof George Church https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20, a war etc. and especially in all ~200 countries, and their languages, via the internet ... and on the other hand, an act of bio-terrorism, partly to learn about its effects eg https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1236612955694944256?s=20).

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html

... and with a little further elaboration -
1) Reversing Global Warming, since people have significantly apparently stopped flying, and 2) even somehow reversing the global illegal sex trade (???) and possibly too regarding my ethics' inquiry into Stanford University and some of my 6-8 ethics' whistle blowing-s in recent years (... and 3) securing $8.3 billion in US governmental funding (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/06/812964894/where-that-8-3-billion-in-u-s-coronavirus-funding-will-and-wont-go and https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-response-emergency-spending-bill-183621630.html and https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/trump-signs-8point3-billion-emergency-coronavirus-spending-package.html) for US virus and genetic research - re aging reversal research too?, and 4) preparing digitally for the next outbreak of 'whatever' - e.g. again, another virus per Harvard/MIT geneticist Prof George Church https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20, a war etc. and especially in all ~200 countries, and their languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - via the internet ... and on the other hand, an act of bio-terrorism, partly to learn about its effects eg https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1236612955694944256?s=20).

where you'll find the above observations - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/glass-frog-cochranella-regarding-this.html.

And just came across this today on synthetic biologist Gerd Moe-Behrens' Twitter feed:

"Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus"
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...
- https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/st...
(and Francis Boyle is a consultant to the Quaker American Friends' Service Committee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis... )

and Gerd and I were in a Stanford Coursera Advanced Startup's course together in autumn 2012, and made these 2 Hangout videos http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm on Dec 1, 2012 and Dec 15, 2012 together, as part of this (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/diamond-eureka-this-start-up-is-using.html).

... and newly - Mt. Shasta ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html - as work stoppages or work 'start-ages' ...

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for the message you sent this afternoon. Sounds like you were on a beautiful walk and found lots of other like-minded souls doing the same thing.

Another day here: weather got better as the day went on. Drove into Pgh. and had a chilly picnic lunch with Kathie Logan on a table in Frick park. By sitting at either end of the table and on opposite sides, we achieved 6’ of distance. Saw Maryann, my real estate person, who was also walking in the park. She reminded me how lucky I was to sell when I did; she said the market is completely flat for house sales, and even after she sold one recently, the inspectors were not allowed in; therefore the sale of that house is in limbo. She also told me that the Ayoobs -- house just beyond the Epple’s -- had looked at Frances’ house but Gina decided it would require too much work.

Kathie and I walked about a mile in the park and then I headed home with a drive by of 319 Juniata Court. It looks empty and forlorn. I couldn’t tell if the new owners had moved in or not. So glad I don’t have to worry about that wet basement any more.

Did some weeding in my garden here. I think those of us who have garden areas to work are very lucky. Safe place to be and fun to grow things - practical too.

Sent you a video of a man imitating Trump (Trump impersonator - https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1242852430582341639). He got him perfectly, don’t you think? Hilarious, I thought.

I’m off to bed. Please stay safe.

Love, Ma

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Thanks for the news, Ma!

Your new home sounds super! (Message I sent this afternoon is below as well). Just got a parsley start recently to begin my garden in a box again, - and may try to fence it in in far corner or porch, with picnic table on its side as 3rd barrier, and then figure out a 4th side. What kind of critters got my veggies last year? And I don't want to invest too much gardening time and energy for when I'm away on Cuttyhunk! More later.

L, Scott

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ... Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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Hi Ma,

Thanks much for your email, and am appreciative of a kind of new thinking in your email here. Walk was nice yesterday. Thanks too for the news of your neighbors and 319 Juniata Court, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (the house I lived in in my high school years from 1974-1979). Perhaps it is mentioning your neighbors and 319 that are new (and mentioning something from my email to you!) - and their ongoing connection and neighborliness into the future. Are we making progress? Too bad 319 looked forlorn - your daily thinking about it made it beautiful, - and now your new home is beautiful. Yay!

Re living past 122 years of age, - and questions of 'radical act' about the coronavirus 'meme' pandemic, am wondering too whether a kind of both work stoppage, and work 'start-age' (in the making of ventilators, regarding Ford and other car companies in Michigan - PBS NewsHour F March 27 2020 ... https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/march-27-2020-pbs-newshour-full-episode) - masks, gowns, and digital tools for viral epidemics such as being able to take blood tests from smart phones? ... and developing this also in an actual<>virtual way in a single realistic virtual earth?), could be occurring. Am glad in this time of "national emergency" that the race to build armaments doesn't seem to be occurring in order to keep the economy going, for example. t imitation was funny in many ways, - and was skillful satire too in a sense (imitator reminded me of someone who could be a Larry V relative even). And t is now considering quarantining/locking down all of NY - what is going on, and if this is primarily a question of memes (words such as coronavirus ), and not gene replication? ... And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking?

Am hoping again that the coronavirus meme is a fire drill, and in case of emergency, but wondering too how it could very very significantly lessen sex offs and perps, and lessen making victims of kids (and re my email to you, Caleb and Brig re the SF Quaker Meeting and 'factories' even, very loosely and on a very small scale speculatively??? :(( ), for example ... and in the long run, society-wise especially! There seems to be a window of opportunity for a culture of transformation in some of these regards, but not sure what the thinking would be. California law and culture ??? Too many scofflaws or outlaws, or harmers perhaps?, but CA isn't also following the Nevada route that I know of, but I do wonder what about illegalities that happen under the radar here in CA, and how that is 'policed' as well, for example. Could this national emergency" also be a social justice policing opportunity even. For example, in Massachusetts, legalized recreational cannabis stores have to close, but medicinal marijuana stores can remain open. ... interesting regarding distinctions in policing and law etc. See:
"Mass. marijuana leaders protest Baker’s order to stop recreational sales during ‘stay-at-home’ advisory: Medical marijuana operations and liquor stores to remain open" ...
By Felicia Gans and Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated March 23, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/23/marijuana/mass-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-not-recreational-can-stay-open-during-stay-at-home-advisory/

And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too?

And all regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too (a refrain here:) ...

... Am wondering about the Robb's and regarding a Brookline connection here?

Wondering too how to effectively fence off my garden in a box to grow without getting veggies getting chomped, and re what critters. And if we do live beyond the upper limit of 122 yo, it's great to have great family and friends, and community - and you do, I think, in Pgh per this email - and regarding ways of connecting too in ongoing ways! :)

Sending love, Scott

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Still low risk of catching #coronavirus in Sweden, says Public Health Agency (Tegnell) https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7421538 -https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20 The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben -https://biography.omicsonline.org/sweden/public-health-agency-of-sweden/anders-tegnell-133486 -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Biology -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243780698328027141?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243780019987419138?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243780303929241601?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244005308634001409?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244005601748770821?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244005824789266432?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://t.co/bW1LY7diN5) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244005308634001409?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244005601748770821?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244005824789266432?s=20

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Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronavirus ....

Mandrill: Current hypothesis and line of thinking/inquiry regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) developments is that is this a major fire drill on a worldwide scale in new time of bio-weapons' preparedness??? (and with some 'policing' even subtexts ...) * * * Friendly (Quaker) greetings in this time of novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) * * * For your reading interest ? ... ... in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 11 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 ...- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mandrill-current-hypothesis-and-line-of.html -

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oleracea (Wild cabbage): Humor - “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.” * * Learning programming socially and together in "Create-Along LIVE!" - in the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws) - the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language * Sweden's taking a different approach to the worldwide "coronavirus" meme 'fire drill' (I hypothesize) ... "The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" * * * Was there a kind of 'eco-radical' action, reversing global warming, in Wuhan, China, gene-wise - that could be contributing to far less airplane travel and people staying home, thus burning far less fossil fuel driving cars * * * Some further dancing (potentially with singing) in #VirtualChoir for benefits of movement while 'sheltering-at-home' during the #coronavirus meme pandemic #UnitarianUniversalist @WorldUnivAndSch #RealRealTime #GoogleMeet ~- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.html -

See, too:

Non-theist Friendly greetings, Scott
... mostly in the 'genes' label in my blog, here are 18 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 ... ?

Mt. Shasta at sunrise - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.htmloleracea (Wild cabbage) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/oleracea-wild-cabbage-humor-dont-worry.htmlgolden 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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Sunday, March 29, 2020
The thought just occurred to me that FB (Facebook) could be a great way to locate sexual offenders, perpetrators, and those who perpetrate domestic violence - "When Home Isn’t Safe: Shelter-in-Place Is Putting Domestic Violence Survivors in a “Dire Situation” " - https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/domestic_violence_coronavirus_katie_ray_jones - including sexual predation toward kids, and prostitutes (i.e. people, men and women, who take money for sex, - and in countries or states or nation states where this is illegal) as well. FB has probably generated databases lists, so a collection, in the USA (and other countries???) of a significantly large percentage of such perpetrators (in a legal sense) or offenders, and such lists, in the hands of law enforcement - eg FBI, other federal, or state, county or local police forces (depending on country) - could be engaged to enforce the law or laws of a country (and to further develop law to protect kids and victims, for example).

Re, FB (Facebook) too see at bottom ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html ...

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Friday, March 27, 2020 - Sunday, March 29, 2020

Jane MacLeod
Fri, Mar 27, 6:23 PM (2 days ago)
to me, Sandy, Lucy, Judith, susan, Van, Karen, Kathryn, Cherry, Kristen, Carol, Alden, Catherine, Ann

Begin forwarded message:

From:
Subject: Trump impersonator
Date: March 27, 2020 at 9:15:18 PM EDT
To: "'Jane Macleod'"

Here’s the video I mentioned. VERY funny!

https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1242852430582341639

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:) Ma,

He's a sketch :)

L, Scott

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:) Ma,

He's a sketch :)

Hilariously, Scott

Humor 'label' in blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/humor -

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Catherine Muller
1:35 PM (2 hours ago)
to me, Jane

Enjoyed the much needed humor! If you would like to see what Presbyterians in this area are doing to weather the storm, check out the First Presbyterian Church of Pendleton Oregon website. We have a really great new pastor, someone both Steve and I enjoy working with. My pitch is a little low at the start, but I think I corrected that. Not sure. But I find joy in hearing Steve sing. This piece was part of our wedding, performed by a soprano, flutist and guitarist group. Hope this finds you all doing well. A little nicer weather could help the spirits here. -Cathy

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to Catherine, Jane

Thanks so much, Cathy,

I went here - https://pendletonpresbyterian.com - and the following message popped up, somewhat ominously, when I clicked on the first 2 videos of you -

"Do you want to allow “facebook.com” to use cookies and website data while browsing “pendletonpresbyterian.com”?

This will allow “facebook.com” to track your activity."

(Am not really into FB weather in general, since things 'disappear,' and it feels sometimes like you can get 'attacked' in little ways even, and the list goes on ... and cookies in general have been benign, but am not sure about other kinds of FB tracking, and I'm very glad I never downloaded FB onto my smartphone for example - and regarding tracking too!).

But I found the lovely video of your service eventually from the 1st link here - https://www.facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian/videos/1017051722022288/ - and enjoyed your music-making, and singing, very much, beginning at about the 9:30 minutes' mark (and since I have a FB account - oh no, I just just lost my internet connection briefly as I was typing this for the second time - https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper and also /macleod ), but I also appreciate social media and social networking sites in general as a new form of communication (eg seeing what friend Peter Norvig posts in FB) ... :)

Seeking to develop online music-making in real, real time with time probably on the Google platform ... let's explore! Thanks so much for your email, Cathy! (17 blog posts here now about the 'coronavirus' pandemic, accessible from - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html - but you might enjoy the 'humor' label in blog more ... for which it involves a little reading : )

Warmly, Scott

Further musical ideas and sharing here - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
(See, too -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/)

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In the name of such victims corona virus, - and at the height of this 'National Emergency' in the USA, when the testing for, and diagnosis of, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) is still a little ambiguous, 'crown' the perpetrators (e.g. by moving them to other states, away from their victims, and let them live out their old age in retirement homes? and regarding something like ""Officials are emptying nursing homes across Mass. to create coronavirus recovery centers" - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/28/metro/officials-emptying-nursing-homes-across-state-create-covid-19-recovery-centers/?)

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Hi Cathy, and Ma,

Regarding your nice email, and music-making:
Catherine Muller
1:35 PM (3 hours ago)
to me, Jane

Enjoyed the much needed humor! If you would like to see what Presbyterians in this area are doing to weather the storm, check out the First Presbyterian Church of Pendleton Oregon website. We have a really great new pastor, someone both Steve and I enjoy working with. My pitch is a little low at the start, but I think I corrected that. Not sure. But I find joy in hearing Steve sing. This piece was part of our wedding, performed by a soprano, flutist and guitarist group. Hope this finds you all doing well. A little nicer weather could help the spirits here. -Cathy

... a little further thinking about some what I'll call "inclement weather" (a little stormy, so be advised before you read any further ... ) ..
The thought just occurred to me that FB (Facebook) could be a great way to locate sexual offenders, perpetrators, and those who perpetrate domestic violence - "When Home Isn’t Safe: Shelter-in-Place Is Putting Domestic Violence Survivors in a “Dire Situation” " - https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/domestic_violence_coronavirus_katie_ray_jones - including sexual predation toward kids, and prostitutes (i.e. people, men and women, who take money for sex, - and in countries or states or nation states where this is illegal) as well. FB has probably generated databases lists, so a collection, in the USA (and other countries???) of a significantly large percentage of such perpetrators (in a legal sense) or offenders, and such lists, in the hands of law enforcement - eg FBI, other federal, or state, county or local police forces (depending on country) - could be engaged to enforce the law or laws of a country (and to further develop law to protect kids and victims, for example).

Re, FB (Facebook) too see at bottom ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html ...

In the name of such victims corona virus, - and at the height of this 'National Emergency' in the USA, when the testing for, and diagnosis of, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2) is still a little ambiguous, 'crown' the perpetrators (e.g. by moving them to other states, away from their victims, and let them live out their old age in retirement homes? and regarding something like ""Officials are emptying nursing homes across Mass. to create coronavirus recovery centers" - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/28/metro/officials-emptying-nursing-homes-across-state-create-covid-19-recovery-centers/?)
Re the "coronavirus" as a radical action inquiry, you find a whole series of inquiries at the top of this blog post, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html - and not perhaps so disheartening as the above.
Sincerely, Scotty

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Hi Cathy, and Ma, and All,

A little further humor:
This just popped up in Twitter from Cleese (of Monty Python renown), and made me laugh (in the middle of this "national emergency' re the coronavirus meme pandemic?) -
There must be one moment when someone important can step forward and announce 'Ladies and Gentleman, I am humbled to be able to announce: THIS...is the time for complacency !! A time when complacent people can finally step forward and do their bit for the country'

I can't wait
>

There must be one moment when someone important can step forward and announce 'Ladies and Gentleman, I am humbled to be able to announce: THIS...is the time for complacency !! A time when complacent people can finally step forward and do their bit for the country'

I can't wait— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1244414744577978369?s=20 ...

Re-Tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch and https://twitter.com/scottmacleod.
How are you all weathering the storm? :) Friendly greetings from here in Canyon 94516, with many further thoughts here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mt-shasta-at-sunrise-inquiring-here-was.html (and about 18 blog posts thus far; my mother also encouraged me to keep a journal about this time, which I was already doing anyway).
Am hoping you're all doing relatively well, - all told? N'est-ce pas? :)
Cheers, Scott- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity -

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Mt. Shasta at sunrise: Inquiring here - was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? - and work start-age too? * * * Further recent blog posts with inquiries about a 'radical action' regarding the coronavirus

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ...

Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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Harvard and MIT Prof of Genetics George Church on adding genes:
How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?

https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for the message you sent this afternoon. Sounds like you were on a beautiful walk and found lots of other like-minded souls doing the same thing.

Another day here: weather got better as the day went on. Drove into Pgh. and had a chilly picnic lunch with Kathie Logan on a table in Frick park. By sitting at either end of the table and on opposite sides, we achieved 6’ of distance. Saw Maryann, my real estate person, who was also walking in the park. She reminded me how lucky I was to sell when I did; she said the market is completely flat for house sales, and even after she sold one recently, the inspectors were not allowed in; therefore the sale of that house is in limbo. She also told me that the Ayoobs -- house just beyond the Epple’s -- had looked at Frances’ house but Gina decided it would require too much work.

Kathie and I walked about a mile in the park and then I headed home with a drive by of 319 Juniata Court. It looks empty and forlorn. I couldn’t tell if the new owners had moved in or not. So glad I don’t have to worry about that wet basement any more.

Did some weeding in my garden here. I think those of us who have garden areas to work are very lucky. Safe place to be and fun to grow things - practical too.

Sent you a video of a man imitating Trump (Trump impersonator - https://twitter.com/kenolin1/status/1242852430582341639). He got him perfectly, don’t you think? Hilarious, I thought.

I’m off to bed. Please stay safe.

Love, Ma

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Thanks for the news, Ma!

Your new home sounds super! (Message I sent this afternoon is below as well). Just got a parsley start recently to begin my garden in a box again, - and may try to fence it in in far corner or porch, with picnic table on its side as 3rd barrier, and then figure out a 4th side. What kind of critters got my veggies last year? And I don't want to invest too much gardening time and energy for when I'm away on Cuttyhunk! More later.

L, Scott

Good day, Ma ... am out on a long-ish walk in Lafayette on a beautiful spring day. Many people are out walking / biking too on this pedestrian walkway ... how was your day? ... Inquiring here: was this coronavirus meme pandemic as a radical act also a major worldwide work stoppage? :) ... And tax deadlines, even in high tax Massachusetts, have been postponed until July 15 .... and will we live to 125 years of age or older (you know the saying about death and taxes, n'est-ce pas?) in a related vein? :)

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Hi Ma,

Thanks much for your email, and am appreciative of a kind of new thinking in your email here. Walk was nice yesterday. Thanks too for the news of your neighbors and 319 Juniata Court, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (the house I lived in in my high school years from 1974-1979). Perhaps it is mentioning your neighbors and 319 that are new (and mentioning something from my email to you!) - and their ongoing connection and neighborliness into the future. Are we making progress? Too bad 319 looked forlorn - your daily thinking about it made it beautiful, - and now your new home is beautiful. Yay!

Re living past 122 years of age, - and questions of 'radical act' about the coronavirus 'meme' pandemic, am wondering too whether a kind of both work stoppage, and work start-age (in the making of ventilators, regarding Ford and other car companies in Michigan - PBS NewsHour F March 27 2020 ... https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/march-27-2020-pbs-newshour-full-episode) - masks, gowns, and digital tools for viral epidemics such as being able to take blood tests from smart phones? ... and developing this also in an actual<>virtual way in a single realistic virtual earth?), could be occurring. Am glad in this time of "national emergency" that the race to build armaments doesn't seem to be occurring in order to keep the economy going, for example. t imitation was funny in many ways, - and was skillful satire too in a sense (imitator reminded me of someone who could be a Larry V relative even). And t is now considering quarantining/locking down all of NY - what is going on, and if this is primarily a question of memes (words such as coronavirus ), and not gene replication? ... And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking?

Am hoping again that the coronavirus meme is a fire drill, and in case of emergency, but wondering too how it could very very significantly lessen sex offs and perps, and lessen making victims of kids (and re my email to you, Caleb and Brig re the SF Quaker Meeting and 'factories' even, very loosely and on a very small scale speculatively??? :(( ), for example ... and in the long run, society-wise especially! There seems to be a window of opportunity for a culture of transformation in some of these regards, but not sure what the thinking would be. California law and culture ??? Too many scofflaws or outlaws, or harmers perhaps?, but CA isn't also following the Nevada route that I know of, but I do wonder what about illegalities that happen under the radar here in CA, and how that is 'policed' as well, for example. Could this national emergency" also be a social justice policing opportunity even. For example, in Massachusetts, legalized recreational cannabis stores have to close, but medicinal marijuana stores can remain open. ... interesting regarding distinctions in policing and law etc. See:
"Mass. marijuana leaders protest Baker’s order to stop recreational sales during ‘stay-at-home’ advisory: Medical marijuana operations and liquor stores to remain open" ...
By Felicia Gans and Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated March 23, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/23/marijuana/mass-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-not-recreational-can-stay-open-during-stay-at-home-advisory/

And all this regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too?

And all regarding Brookline, Cambridge, Boston thinking too (a refrain here:) ...

... Am wondering about the Robb's and regarding a Brookline connection here?

Wondering too how to effectively fence off my garden in a box to grow without getting veggies getting chomped, and re what critters. And if we do live beyond the upper limit of 122 yo, it's great to have great family and friends, and community - and you do, I think, in Pgh per this email - and regarding ways of connecting too in ongoing ways! :)

Sending love, Scott

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Still low risk of catching #coronavirus in Sweden, says Public Health Agency (Tegnell) https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7421538 -https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20 The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben -https://biography.omicsonline.org/sweden/public-health-agency-of-sweden/anders-tegnell-133486 -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Biology -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1243780698328027141?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1243780019987419138?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1243780303929241601?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242826022849921030?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244005308634001409?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244005601748770821?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244005824789266432?s=20

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Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://youtu.be/qA960ZZcxJg) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?

Abt #coronavirus meme pandemic, & in making of ventilators, regarding Ford & car cos in Michigan (PBS NewsHour F3/27/20 https://t.co/bW1LY7diN5) masks, gowns, & digital tools for viral epidemics like taking blood tests on smart phones: #ActualVirtual in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 28, 2020

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March 27, 2020

Bull Run River (Oregon): Learn to program together online (for free) with Scratch on Thursdays from MIT's Scratch Team: Good "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" on Thursday, March 26, 2020 ... with Zoë Bentley Thanks for this "Thank

Learn to program together online (for free) with Scratch on Thursdays from MIT's Scratch Team:

Good, first "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" on Thursday, March 26, 2020 ... with Zoë Bentley

https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ

Thank you for this first
"Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!"

And thanks for this "Thank you," Scratch Team ... !

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March 26, 2020

oleracea (Wild cabbage): Humor - “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.” * * Learning programming socially and together in "Create-Along LIVE!" - in the middle of this national emergency (presumably with

Hi Ma (Janie), and All,

Thanks for the humor, and the realism too!

From a British Tweet:

Plane with 5 passengers on board: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, The Pope, and a 10-year-old schoolboy. The plane is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says, “I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and am needed to sort out the problems of the World!” — takes one and jumps. Boris says, “I’m needed to sort out Britain.” He takes one and jumps The Pope says, “I need one, as the world needs the Catholic Church.” He takes one and jumps. Angela says to the 10-yr-old: “You can have the last parachute. I’ve lived my life, yours is only just starting.” The 10-yr-old replies: “Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA took my school bag.”

In the middle of this national emergency (presumably with different laws - and I'm hoping it's mostly a kind of 'fire drill'), ... and while we're all sheltering at home (in case of emergency??? - in a time of increasingly sophisticated biological weapons???) want to learn the new Scratch drag and drop visual programming language ? Here are two MIT Scratch programmers, Eric Schilling and Zoe Bentley sharing how it works - https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w - in a great tutorial (accessible from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html), and here's Zoe Bentley from a related interactive livestream today - "Create-Along LIVE! Let's make Scratch projects together!" ... https://youtu.be/IGDCZGfj_cQ ... The next live "Create-Along" Scratch get-together online happens next Thursday, and stay tuned to the Scratch Team's Twitter eg

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March 25, 2020

golden barrel cactus: 7.5 billion hospital beds from home? * * * "The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" - found this article about Sweden to be another helpful antidote to 'coronavirus' meme, and am appreciative of a number of lines of reasoning i

7.5 billion hospital beds from home?

Thanks, Craig, for your 'stay well' email ...

Project Baseline (from Google, Stanford, Duke Med) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart a path to health. And WUaS seeks to turn Project Baseline into online hospitals for all 7.5 billion people, - and with online MDs!

Turned this into some Tweets ...

Project Baseline (Google, Stanford & Duke Medicine) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart paths to health, & WUaS seeks to turn #ProjectBaseline into online hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... for all 7.5 bill. people & with online MDs!

Project Baseline (Google, Stanford & Duke Medicine) seeks to take physical samples, turn this into data with machine learning to chart paths to health, & WUaS seeks to turn #ProjectBaseline into online hospitals https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz for all 7.5 bill. people & with online MDs!— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242612202604920832?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1242612881822085120?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1242613215227330560?s=20

Would be great - and how long until - we'll be able to test ourselves for COVID-19 on our smart phones (like at a hospital) and transmit this information to Project Baseline ... and into our Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Record (for all 7.5 billion people) which we have legal control over as well.

Cheers, Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine
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to Dick, Lucy, Janie, Alden, Ann

Alden, Dick, Ma, Lucy, Ann,

How are you all in this barrage of "coronavirus" memes (the word being imitated by nearly infinite numbers of writers in online media, and threatening disease and sickness)? And what does November 2020 hold for less of this barrage?

I found this article about Sweden to be another helpful antidote, and am appreciative of a number of lines of reasoning in these regards:

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com)
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben

It concludes (translated from German):
"Why do kindergartens and primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? Why is there no contact block like in Germany? Tegnell answers these recurring questions almost always the same: the epidemiological benefit of school closures in the case of the coronavirus is doubtful. Neither in Italy nor in China have schools proved to be hotspots for the virus to spread.

According to studies by the World Health Organization WHO in China, there has not been a single documentable case in which an adult has infected a child. Then why should you keep tens of thousands of healthy children at home? Especially since a lot of parents who work in important jobs to fight crises could no longer go to work? Tegnell's credo: "All measures that we take must be feasible over a longer period of time." Otherwise, the population will lose acceptance of the entire corona strategy."

I created some Tweets in these regards -

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://translate.google.com) https://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sweden ~

"The world stands still. Only Sweden doesn't" (https://t.co/x8UJy5QFxM) https://t.co/8hwIzjGiJE Why do kindergartens & primary schools remain open in Sweden despite the increasing number of infections? #Coronavirus Tegnell (epidemiology) answers the same> https://t.co/ThvT4DTGUG~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242825476789243910?s=20

Out of the coronavirus #COVID-19 pandemic, we appear to have gotten 24,000 searchable related AI academic papers per MIT, a significant generation of thinking.

And this PBS NewsHour yesterday - March 24, 2020

https://youtu.be/0INsb8HiN4I

... suggests that Hubei, China, the epicenter of the genetic COVID-19 (SARS CoV2) event, is now a model for hope in returning to a semblance of normalcy. Also, there was some mention too of $1,200 / month re B.S. in this - which sounds like it could be the beginnings of Universal Basic Income experiments.

And both Harvard and MIT are holding their graduation ceremonies on the internet which are amazing openings for MIT OCW-centric World University and School -

"Harvard postpones commencement amid coronavirus pandemic, plans online event May 28" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/nation/harvard-holding-online-commencement-may-28-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

"MIT, Emerson to hold online graduation ceremonies"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/24/metro/mit-emerson-hold-online-graduation-ceremonies/

... and may make possible protecting youth and students in new ways - that is with online education, and somehow culturally. But hopefully too excellent new kinds of university and high school degree education will emerge, in addition to wiki-education for open teaching and learning. How to help facilitate this to flourish in a flowering of new ways, and much regarding conversation?

Am thinking that the culture and identity and language of Sweden in this coronavirus pandemic is a kind of bastion regarding mainstream internet media, and am wondering in what ways World University and School in all ~200 countries' main languages can create similar online 'places' of sanity (ie less fear in the air) or semblances of 'cultural' normalcy, or absence of war mentality, - and uniquely emerging from each of these cultures online. Without knowing German, and reading the German papers, I wouldn't have otherwise found this article about Sweden - which expresses too a kind of alternative, that is, countering the culture of the mainstream internet media as counterculture (regarding novel coronavirus as memes ... in contrast to the novel coronavirusCOVID19 SARS Cov2 epidemic genes) ??? In what ways could CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School generate culture anew, - and in the way Harvard, MIT and Stanford generate knowledge-generation help-the-world culture on-the-ground, I wonder?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? How are all of you doing - am appreciating that you're hunkering down, Ann, in northeastern Oregon on Wisdom Creek Ranch these weeks :)

Scotty
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/09/bottlenose-dolphin-jacques-lacan-md-and.html (with Jaques Lacan MD and George Vaillant MD, which I found again in these 'Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations' I wrote a few years ago - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ) ... and again how best to visit Harbin Hot Springs virtually? :)

... actual-vIrtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field work, and the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth for everything, and soaking, visiting, meditating (relaxation response) in the Harbin warm pool, especially.

Harbin gatehouse in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg
~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~

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March 23, 2020

Mount Oeta: World Univ & Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively

World Univ & Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home

World Univ&Sch is seeking to put a free major university, with academic teaching hospital & medical schools, with major university libraries, all museums (in VR), a major online music school with music-making potential for you - interactively on your computer screen in your home— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241883624661606400

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Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News
https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o

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Thanks to Petros for our 49 minutes' conversation & regarding Greece @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Greece (planned in Greek)
Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News
https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o
All the best,
Scott
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-https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -

Thanks to Petros for our 45 minutes' conversation & regarding Greece @WorldUnivAndSch https://t.co/8iywLOUBUz
Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens Q & A and News https://t.co/tVlieKL9Ti
All the best,
Scott
-https://t.co/Ga7kahzZU5 -
-https://t.co/k7eWS61Keo -— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242147645352599552

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WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 3/23/20 at 10a PT Topic: Greece World Univ and Sch with special guest Petros Kalligas! in Athens > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Greece @WorldUnivAndSch email info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~ #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 3/23/20 at 10a PT Topic: Greece World Univ and Sch with special guest Petros Kalligas! in Athens > https://t.co/8iywLOUBUz @WorldUnivAndSch email info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 ~ #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241958962737475584

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Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20
>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 >https://twitter.com/erbrod/status/1241475234894467073?s=20
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital @WorldUnivAndSch?

Is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yet? How soon? Will we be able to give saliva sample to #SmartPhone, & transmit results to #ProjectBaseline from home? https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw
>https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM >https://t.co/VFQpDDDqIn
>https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz @WorldUnivAndSch? https://t.co/5yqTxbJVfn— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241816822568980480?s=20
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* * "New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits" March 23, 2020https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/new-coronavirus-surveillance-program-launched-in-seattle-based-on-home-test-kits/>#ProjectBaseline >https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 for clinical trials for speakers in 7k languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) > #ReaisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

"New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits" March 23, 2020https://t.co/WSPkYsjaeu
>#ProjectBaseline >https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw for clinical trials for speakers in 7k languages too - https://t.co/48K86jwyEL > #ReaisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242197294478323717?s=20

* New coronavirus monitoring program launched in Seattle based on home-test kits 3/23/20https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/new-coronavirus-surveillance-program-launched-in-seattle-based-on-home-test-kits/>#ProjectBaseline >https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 for clinical trials for speakers in 7k langs too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) >#AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for 7.5B people?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1242197696879808513?s=20

* * Harvard University@Harvard · Mar 22How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast COVID-19 spreads and a number of other variables. A new searchable map is helping leaders make informed decisions by visualizing best- and worst-case capacity scenarios by region over time.

How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast COVID-19 spreads and a number of other variables. A new searchable map is helping leaders make informed decisions by visualizing best- and worst-case capacity scenarios by region over time. https://t.co/FDss7fBJJw— Harvard University (@Harvard) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1241891162182557696?s=20

*Since there's a risk due to #COVID19 of running out of hospital beds nationally per Harvard https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1241891162182557696?s=20 in what ways could the USA turn people's beds at home into hospital beds for overflow, & is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yethttps://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1241818664648601600?s=20 ?

Since there's a risk due to #COVID19 of running out of hospital beds nationally per Harvard https://t.co/XdR8S6Qn0v in what ways could the USA turn people's beds at home into hospital beds for overflow, & is there an App for #COVID19 genetic testing yethttps://t.co/0n90UTER2H ? https://t.co/cbnPeyI6aH— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1241895872511631363?s=20

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Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1241179487972159488?s=20 https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1241176851864637441?s=20 https://projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/in Santa Clara CountySan Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch 's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital!

Great: Project Baseline and #covid19 screening - https://t.co/JUuzJhIetw https://t.co/M0lM6IfkQM https://t.co/FyeP4hrgb2
in Santa Clara County
San Mateo County@WorldUnivAndSch's online Med Schs & online teaching hospitals seek to facilitate such testing https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz!— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 21, 2020