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Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge: Breakthrough for World Univ and Sch! - invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal pot. re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...… See #WUaSQA > https://youtu.be/V6

Breakthrough for WUaS!
invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal pot. re
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School … See #WUaSQA >
https://youtu.be/V60sxfllEts http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-cockaded-woodpecker-picoides.html?m=0… ~

Breakthrough for WUaS!
invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal pot. rehttps://t.co/kIntwUgV5E See #WUaSQA >https://t.co/Fnuo8snkmA http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem - https://t.co/jK6lOp3ar7 ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 17, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206767377074941952 -



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edX -


Dear Lee, 

Looking forward to learning about edX's remit, and much more, potentially tomorrow at 1pm ET (which I've just emailed Nakia about).
In a brainstorming vein, and as I learn about edX's remit and related, I'd just like to inquire about a few things:
In what ways could WUaS best ...
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Add edX courses (like the MIT OCW already posted) to WUaS academic wiki subject pages with WUaS student info - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - from the edX courses they take (for current the current 6 Bachelor degree majors at WUaS - see worlduniversityandschool.org)? And what will WUaS websites look like with edX courses on them (if this is a possibility) & and re student info for ex.?
Our current six undergraduate majors (which could expand to MIT OCW's ~32 departments as majors, and for WUaS Ph.D.s too - and in ~200 countries' official/main languages) areEECS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electrical_Engineeringhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science
General Engineering - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Engineering
General Science - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science
English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature
History - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History
Business - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business
(See, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects )

And in what ways could WUaS best ... 2
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Give WUaS instructors/faculty (eg MIT / Stanford / Harvard / Oxbridge too) an edX course platform to create new courses in multiple languages?  
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Give graduate student instructors an edX course platform - and at academic conferences too? e.g. - https://twitter.com/MIT/status/1206606178043793413?s=19- https://twitter.com/heather_paxson/status/1206731284585893893?s=19
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Give WUaS GSIs specifically the edX HarvardX JuryX platform to build a class - with its threads' technology re WUaS's planning to develop the conference method to inform WUaS's classes and degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning (think seminar, or ten people in group video, where the JuryX course's threads' technology facilitates what I'll call an asynchronous conference method) ? 
Looking forward to talking about the "Mine Pi" aspect in this email thread, and potentially re all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # to facilitate, too, a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of central banks somehow (where I follow MIT DCI director Neha Narula in these regards - https://twitter.com/neha), and distributed via UBI experiments to alleviate poverty in particular, - but also for matriculated students, wiki WUaS teachers and learners as speakers of all 7111 living languages, and for secure academic transcripts, signing up, applying to WUaS, etc. I think edX and the wider MIT / Harvard community (founders of edX) would be in a position to code for some of this! 
Talk with you soon!
Sincerely, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod


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Monday, December 16, 2019 
Hi Lee,

Thanks. Am available in the days some tomorrow and Wednesday. Looking forward to talking with you.

If WUaS could access grades of edX courses for free, taken by our matriculating students, and share how this might work with the state of California's BPPE and potentially WASC senior, that would be great. And especially as we develop our application, registration, matriculation system re each student a Wikidata Q item number here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. In addition, if WUaS could possibly explore somehow developing CC-4 MIT OCW in MITx on edX for Engineering, EECS, Science, English, History and Business courses/degrees, as well as Law courses (re Harvard Law Professor emeritus Charles Nesson's edX, JuryX, HarvardX course), and similar that would be great as well.

Here are related resources in these regards:

MIT OCW - Engineering
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering

MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/

OpenCourseWare bundles for edX
https://ocw.mit.edu/ocw-labs/opencourseware-bundles-for-edx/

MITx Courses on edX
https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mitx-courses-edx

MITx: Free online courses from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

World University and School is also seeking to develop Engineering courses and degrees in a realistic virtual environment and with actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language (and please check out this recent hour-long Scratch introduction - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1201685428501270528?s=20 - and feel free to attend an hour of code next week online as well). See, too, the #hasttag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click ...  So WUaS has a Lego Robotics' courses / Scratch3 focus as part of Engineering degrees, and potentially at the High School, College, and Ph.D. levels, and building - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - on this if possible. WUaS's 3 platforms, for your thinking, are Google Education / with TensorFlow and much else Alphabet and in Translates 100 languages, MIT OCW in 5 languages, and Wikidata in 300 languages, and we're seeking to be in all 7111 known living languages. How many languages does edX have courses in?

Looking forward to chatting with Lee, Nakia. Thank you.

Best, Scott

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


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See, too, re edX yesterday's blog post:
Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis): an invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal for WUaS to collaborate! :) * * * edX and Mine Pi * * * Just sent the 4th book I've written "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " to the publisher. It's in review, and should be public in 72 hours! :) (.... https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ... * * * Scotland could benefit from statesmanship as the next Independence vote comes up * * * All you medical folks, Plan for #CardioVascular clinical trials in 7,111 languages @JAMACardio @FaRodriguezMD @califf001 @HeartBobH in #ProjectBaseline #GooglePoly w #TensorFlow >#WUaSMedicalSchools in 200 countries?- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-cockaded-woodpecker-picoides.html -



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Dear Ma (Janie), Jonathan, Ann, and All,

Am glad to say my 4th book, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality" is published and available - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578625490?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 - but I can still order proofs. Am a little on the fence about how the cover turned out - although the virtual world image of the Gardens of Bliss with UC Berkeley student in waters and from Youtube is good in general -  and am thinking this through, but wonder about returning to my first template choice with a brighter blue on top of front cover above this image in bottom half of cover, and without having a back cover underlying photo at all, but with the image being more concentrated on the front cover.

Appreciative of the KDP printing process, am also appreciative of how the Academic Press at World University and School could improve on this significantly, and in all 7111 languages with machine translation too. Glad the Academic Press at WUaS has just published its 4th book, and is a going concern, made possible by the KDP printing process, but the @WUaSPress is a for-profit general stock company legal entity, and would take online printing and publishing in whole new directions.

In VR itself eventually, however, these poems re images will be very different, making the cover a bit irrelevant. And as you may have read in the PREFACE, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/bog-turtle-preface-to-book-of-poetry-to.html - am seeking to re-conceive the book anew out of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, text in the side bar, and printable to paper :)

Cheers, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
@WUaSPress
@WorldUnivAndSchool
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1206970028257492993?s=20
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Patch together photos with with Machine Learning - https://twitter.com/rajat_shrimal/status/1206760446675447808?s=19 … to create a single #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? Think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER /Maps /Earth /TensorFlow & for #HarbinWarmPool soaking, by adding photos videos drawings since much data will first be missing - and this machine learning will add it

Patch together photos wi https://t.co/cSrfyHwLSq to create a single #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? Think Google StreetView wi TIME SLIDER /Maps /Earth /TensorFlow & for #HarbinWarmPool soaking, by adding photos videos drawings since much data will 1st be missing— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) December 17, 2019

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1206970028257492993?s=20
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1206970541313118210?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206970438611398656?s=20








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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincoteague_National_Wildlife_Refuge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Barrier_Islands
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Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis): an invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal for WUaS to collaborate! :) * * * edX and Mine Pi * * * Just sent the 4th book I've written "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " to the publisher. It's

Scott MacLeod
2:00 PM (2 hours ago)
to Larry, Anant, Lee, Nakia

Dear Lee and Nakia,

Thanks for your email, and greetings. And greetings Anant! It would be great to "discuss World University becoming an edX member or using edX courses with your students as a customer—all that is open territory." When are some good times to meet in a call? And it would be great to explore the following items on this side. How about on your side?

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I just today received an email from a prospective undergraduate World University and School student who is urgent to begin his undergraduate 4 year Bachelor's degree at WUaS as we begin licensing here in California with BPPE. One question I wonder about, Lee, is how would grades work at free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS from edX if we collaborated and for licensing and accreditation processes with potentially BPPE and WASC senior (which also accredits Stanford and Berkeley etc), and beginning in January?

He's written twice:

I am Shahbaz from India. I want to pursue Bachelor of Arts in English. Could you provide me with the programs' details such as duration, study materials, etc.?

Thanks & Regards, Shahbaz

Hi Scott,

I am in urgent need of starting a bachelor's degree. It's almost 1 year to the Fall 2020. Do you have any degree program in coming months and can you suggest me other option to commence my degree program as soon as possible?

Thanks & Regards, Shahbaz

In addition, Lee, WUaS has another prospective student seeking to begin their undergraduate studies online in engineering in the autumn of 2020. And another student, in our first undergraduate matriculating class (albeit with WUaS not yet beginning licensing or accreditation), is seeking 2 courses with which to graduate.


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Another question I / WUaS would be interested in talking about is potential collaboration re WUaS's website development, and on the wiki side as well. This would include registration, application, and matriculation etc., and in WUaS planning concurrently for students in all ~200 countries' official main languages, and then for wiki 'Universitians' as speakers of all 7,111 known living languages, and then, brainstorming-wise, Universitians of all 7.5 billion people on the planet. With regards to the "Mine Pi" in the subject heading, planning for all 7.5 billion on planet would also be for exploring distributing a SINGLE cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks somehow, to all 7.5 billion people via Universal Basic Income experiments. With the "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency developed by some Stanford graduates, it's possible to mine this cryptocurrency with algorithms, and Pi is one of the few digital currencies designed to do this. WUaS would like further to explore alleviating poverty worldwide by making it possible for the poorest in the world to hit the Mine Pi lightning button on their smartphones as a way to get a piece of the Pi, so to speak. So it would be great to talk about WUaS website development, and for these and the 4 initial reasons for planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet earth mentioned here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html. WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata, Wikipedia's back end structured knowledge database in their 300 languages, and seeks to develop with all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number of similar, brainstorming-wise - as a start to these coding questions.

I have some other questions it could be great to talk about, but please let me know about some possible times for a call, and perhaps as we schedule a time to meet, we can explore further items in email.

WUaS seeks to become the online Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxbridge of the internet, and to offer free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medicine, and I.B. high school degrees - in each of all ~200 countries' official main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,111 known living languages, so there is much business potential here as well. See, too - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. And since Harvard, MIT and Anant are the founders of edX, there's much potential in these regards for collaboration too.

Thanks very much, and looking forward to talking.

Best, Scott
PS
In today's "World Univ & Sch 16 Dec 2019 Q & A, News, Conversation, Hangout" -

https://youtu.be/V60sxfllEts - I touch on some of these questions, Anant, and much more - to give you an idea of where WUaS is seeking to head.
- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch -




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Lee Rubenstein
12:12 PM (4 hours ago)
to me, Nakia

Hello Scott

Anant has forwarded your email to me regarding what you are seeking to do in conjunction with edX, so I am happy to have a call to explore with you, I you’d like?  Nakia can set up a time.
In regards to individual students, we don’t get involved at that level with 70M course instances going on at edX.  If you wanted to discuss World University becoming an edX member or using edX courses with your students as a customer—all that is open territory.  Please write back if I can help

Best

Lee



Lee Rubenstein

edX | Vice President | Business Development

141 Portland Street, 9th floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

o-617.324.7241 c-617.584.0662

 lee@edx.org


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Hi Scott
Thanks for the note probably best handled on a brief call so I can explain what edX can and cant do as part of our remit.
Look forward to speaking . Nakia can set for you and I.

Best
Lee



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Scott MacLeod
5:28 PM (13 minutes ago)
to Lee, Nakia

Hi Lee,

Thanks. Am available in the days some tomorrow and Wednesday. Looking forward to talking with you.

If WUaS could access grades of edX courses for free, taken by our matriculating students, and share how this might work with the state of California's BPPE and potentially WASC senior, that would be great. And especially as we develop our application, registration, matriculation system re each student a Wikidata Q item number here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. In addition, if WUaS could possibly explore somehow developing CC-4 MIT OCW in MITx on edX for Engineering, EECS, Science, English, History and Business courses/degrees, as well as Law courses (re Harvard Law Professor emeritus Charles Nesson's edX, JuryX, HarvardX course), and similar that would be great as well.

Here are related resources in these regards:

MIT OCW - Engineering
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering

MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/

OpenCourseWare bundles for edX
https://ocw.mit.edu/ocw-labs/opencourseware-bundles-for-edx/

MITx Courses on edX
https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mitx-courses-edx

MITx: Free online courses from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

World University and School is also seeking to develop Engineering courses and degrees in a realistic virtual environment and with actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language (and please check out this recent hour-long Scratch introduction -

Thanks @SpeakkVisually @zoebentley_ @NatalieRusk @lilygabaree for your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar https://t.co/sQDSXiilre Let's stay in touch abt Scratch3.0 with Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 + in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics re #ActualVirtual ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1201685428501270528?s=20 - and feel free to attend an hour of code next week online as well). See, too, the #hasttag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click ...  So WUaS has a Lego Robotics' courses / Scratch3 focus as part of Engineering degrees, and potentially at the High School, College, and Ph.D. levels, and building - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - on this if possible. WUaS's 3 platforms, for your thinking, are Google Education / with TensorFlow and much else Alphabet and in Translates 100 languages, MIT OCW in 5 languages, and Wikidata in 300 languages, and we're seeking to be in all 7111 known living languages. How many languages does edX have courses in?

Looking forward to chatting with Lee, Nakia. Thank you.

Best, Scott

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







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invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal for WUaS to collaborate! :) "World Univ & Sch 16 Dec 2019 Q & A, News, Conversation, Hangout" - https://youtu.be/V60sxfllEts  http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem #

invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal for WUaS to collaborate! :) "World Univ & Sch 16 Dec 2019 Q & A, News, Conversation, Hangout" - https://t.co/Fnuo8snkmA http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem #— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 17, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206731878457196545




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To Dean, Tym, Pin, David, Larry, Brig, Caleb, Rosemary, Mary, Henry, Karen, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp, David, Jerry, Gabrielle, Jim, Patti, Barbara, Peter, Janie, Alden, Gantt, Ed, Bruce, David, Heather, Ann, Alex, Jonathan, Linda, lovell, Byron, JoAnne, Scott, Jane, Bruce, edX, Nancy, Michael

Hi All,

Yesterday evening before heading to Byron and Cindy's for caroling, I just sent the 4th book I've written "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " to the publisher. It's in review, and should be public in 72 hours! :) (.... https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ...) (Byron and Cindy lived for 3 consecutive years in Scotland, some years ago, :) (while I've lived 2 full years in Scotland in 77-78 (or 76-77) and in 2003-2004, first studying at Fettes College in high school, and then in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the Univ of Edinburgh, where I wrote my MSc thesis about virtual St. Kilda, a kind of precursor to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ongoing project ... as well as precursor to WUaS's realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth project  :) ... Hopefully the book will emerge anew, radically so, here in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ (and per the PREFACE to my upcoming book - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/bog-turtle-preface-to-book-of-poetry-to.html ...)

And in talking with Alex Welsh at the Scottish Country Dance Annual holiday party on Saturday evening, where Alex seemed to suggest that Scotland could benefit from statesmanship as the next Independence vote comes up, and that George Galloway is bit dodgy in these regards, I blogged a bit further about this brainstorming-wise here, in the bottom third - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/bog-turtle-preface-to-book-of-poetry-to.html ...  and here is a photo from Saturday evening from the back of the hall - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1206244875198296064 - as well as the SCD wiki page for open teaching and learning at WUaS (and more!:)

Glad too that Anant Agarwal, MIT Prof of EECS and president of edX got back to me/WUaS today, and offered to explore collaboration between WUaS and edX, as well as with regards to the "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency, and possibly UBI experiments for all 7.5 billion people - re mining cryptocurrency with algorithms - which I'll likely blog about today :)

All three of these items are significant "power outages" for WUaS as well :) ...

See some of you tonight at Berkeley Scottish Country Dancing at St. Clement's ... and come play if interested ...

With very best wishes, and Season's Greetings, Scott


PS, All you medical folks, this Tweet might interest you too :)

Plan for #CardioVascular clinical trials https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) in 7,111 languages @JAMACardio @FaRodriguezMD @califf001 @HeartBobH
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1206252853632724992?s=20 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206241280855949312?s=20 in #ProjectBaseline #GooglePoly w #TensorFlow >#WUaSMedicalSchools in 200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States?

Plan for #CardioVascular clinical trials https://t.co/48K86jwyEL in 7,111 languages @JAMACardio @FaRodriguezMD @califf001 @HeartBobH https://t.co/t84y3jbckk https://t.co/FF5Fjswtul in #ProjectBaseline #GooglePoly w #TensorFlow >#WUaSMedicalSchools in 200 https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4? https://t.co/1LvBXo8XA1— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 15, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206333264593477632?s=20





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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-cockaded_woodpecker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endangered_species_in_Virginia
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Bog turtle: PREFACE to the book of poetry, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality" * * * Greatest Museums in DC? ... Sometimes, it's fun to see art and objects in mu

PREFACE to my book of poetry, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality" (due to be published any day now) ...



PREFACE
This little book of poetry, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality," explores Harbin Hot Springs in a radically new way, - both actually and virtually, and physically and digitally. I wrote many of these poems while I was doing anthropological fieldwork in 2010 & 2011 for my Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnographic project, both while at Harbin, and while on the road there, and this book's poems are, in a sense, an expression of this anthropological thinking as well. My large, first book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" was published in 2016 (in the Academic Press at World University and School), and while it also has some poetry in it, it’s an unique ethnographic exploration of both actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, coming into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human," (Princeton University Press, 2008). The Academic Press at WUaS seeks also to reinvent the book anew, and to publish eventually from within the Google Street View with time slider environment, text in the sidebar, and planned, with machine translation, to translate all 7,111 known living languages and with virtual Reality (e.g. images and videos) too, to which we can all add, and which will become interactive and with avatar bots. WUaS Press seeks to make this printable to paper too.The last poem in this book, also entitled "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! … ," is what I'm calling an "idea poem" or "philosophy poem," and possibly as a new kind of genre in poetry, and explicitly explores western philosophy ideas of consciousness.I hope you, the reader, might be able to 'travel there' or virtually 'visit Harbin' - and via each of the poems in Virtual Reality or VR in something like Google Street View with Time Slider with Maps and Earth and in Google Cardboard, eventually in VR Glasses, thus making it possible to conceive of the book in a new way too, ~ and for any of us to curl up with a good book, and expand our consciousness, in very new ways.
Scott MacLeodThanksgiving 2019- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



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Karen Leighty
Sat, Dec 14, 5:49 PM (18 hours ago)
to Jane, me

So many museum possibilities.  Am going to have to let you and your mom make some choices.  I could send you a list that might be googled—
       There a practically zero music or stage events in town that week—


* Scott MacLeod 10:18 AM (2 hours ago)to Jane, Karen
Hi Karen, and Ma, 
Ma, what would you like to see in DC? And you Karen - this could be a great opportunity to see something you've always wanted to see, but haven't yet :) Sometimes, it's fun to see art and objects in museums as if we could travel into their virtual world :) ... Glad there's a large park near to where we're staying for potentially nice walks! ... 
These 3 museums came to mind, when I just Google-searched, but am flexible - 
- The Phillips Collection
- Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
- Smithsonian American Art Museum/Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
and the Botanical Gardens ... 
(https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/washington-d-c/experiences/news/the-23-best-museums-in-washington-d-c)
I enjoy the extraordinary ... and museums can be a way in ... but let's leave it open as well and see what comes up :)
Looking forward to seeing you, Erica and Blair! 
With very best regards, Scott@scottmacleod @WorldUnivAndSch @TheOpenBand @HarbinBook @skgmacleod @WUaSPress ... PS I also have MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch in mind with regard (since WUaS is seeking to develop all museums - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums - online in a realistic virtual earth :)

* Scott MacLeod
10:55 AM (1 hour ago)
to Karen, Jane

Hi Karen and Ma,

What 3 museums or so, or similar, would each of you choose to see, brainstorming-wise?

Just found the Phillips' Collection in Google's Arts and Culture -
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-phillips-collection -
which could be a precursor to an ever-improving all-museums-ever-online-in-a-realistic-virtual-earth. Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth with Tensorflow for machine learning and avatar bots ... but moving toward an experience of visiting the physical museum.

Am interested, Karen, in the Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital in these regards in general. And here's a some Tweets with this hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click ...

See you soon, Scott
And in this first link, you'll find 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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Berkeley Scottish Country Dance Holiday party ... nice to talk with you

Scott MacLeod
9:50 AM (2 hours ago)
to Alex

Hi Alex,

Nice to talk with you at the Berkeley Scottish Country Dance party. Your mentioning statesmanship lead to my Tweeting about it idea-wise with regards to World Univ & Sch:


Statesmanship
skill in managing public affairs.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Statesmanship …
-https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statesman …
Develop ONLINE schools of statesmanship at Scotland World Univ & Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland  & in ~200 countries from Law Schs eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS … ~
 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … ?

Statesmanship
skill in managing public affairs.https://t.co/NVx06M0snv
-https://t.co/ihKjt7ColR
Develop ONLINE schools of statesmanship at Scotland World Univ & Sch https://t.co/1vIXgVvx0A & in ~200 countries from Law Schs eg https://t.co/tW4zxR4NPg ~
https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 ?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 15, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206252544202166273?s=20


Here's a photo from last night's party, and also the idea behind World Univ & Sch:

Berkeley Scottish Country Dance Holiday party. See too #ScottishCountryDancing WIKI to teach or learn from: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing (@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress) & see too best STEM CC-4
@MITOCW for credit for free-to-students' Bach PhD Law MD degrees at http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

Berkeley Scottish Country Dance Holiday party. See too #ScottishCountryDancing WIKI to teach or learn from: https://t.co/jralgPlavK (@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress) & see too best STEM CC-4 @MITOCW for credit for free-to-students' Bach PhD Law MD degrees at https://t.co/laEDzMD0vm ~ pic.twitter.com/qN5o5zFR0Q— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) December 15, 2019

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1206244875198296064?s=20

With regards to World Univ & Sch - and SCD too - am thinking in terms of ~200 countries' and their official languages, and relationships between them online in new ways. And World Univ & Sch seeks to create a great number of university careers in all ~200 countries with time too. Would you like to grow a Scottish statesmanship school out of the Univ of Glasgow's debating society / law school in collaboration with Scotland World Univ & Sch, Alex? :) Seems important for a potentially independent Scotland to have trained statesmen / diplomats / foreign service / international relations people - and with Scottish university's schools for this even (I noticed that St. Andrew's has an International Relations school in these regards - https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ir/). Thanks for the inspiration.

Think I'm going to stay focused on my actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project and a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth ... but which could become learning opportunities for statesmenship even :)

Happy Scottish Country Dancing, Alex!

Best, Scott

Not clear whether George Galloway -

https://youtu.be/oeb_J0uHnSk - would be a good "professor" in the hypothetical online Scotland World University and School 'statesmanship' school, and out of the Scotland Law School at WUaS, but he seems capable, experienced and smart (and, agreed, this is a bit dodgy -

https://youtu.be/HrdFFCnYtbk :).

Am learning a bit further about the 2014 Scottish independence referendum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum) in all these videos, but in this debate too -

https://youtu.be/5hMFYvPGUjI  ...

Here's what I was referring to with regards to a Catalonia independence vote -

"on 1 October 2017. In a vote where the anti-independence parties called for non-participation, results showed a 90% vote in favour of independence, with a turnout of 43%. Based on this referendum result, on 27 October 2017 the Parliament of Catalonia approved a resolution creating an independent Republic unilaterally, by a vote considered illegal by the lawyers of the Parliament of Catalonia for violating the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Spain.[5][6][7]"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement

Not clear whether this makes Catalonia free or independent re Spain's prior ruling ... but interesting ...








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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_turtle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endangered_species_in_Virginia
...

Chesapeake Bay: In an "Online Psychoanalsysis" email thread, in the DC area during the holiday period?, Here's the 'Jacques Lacan MD' blog label, here too is the beginning 'Psychoanalysis' wiki subject, without courses yet (or avatar bot psychoanalysts for

Sid Mazumdar
5:50 AM (5 hours ago)
to me

Scotty,

Will you be in the DC area  during the holiday period? Please let us know.

Pin

Sent from my iPad



* Scott MacLeod
8:30 AM (2 hours ago)
to Janie, Tym, David, Larry, Brig, Caleb, Rosemary, Mary, Henry, Karen, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp, Pin


Hi Pin, Tym, David and All,

Nice to get your email, Pin!

It looks like my mother and I will get to DC in the late afternoon on Thursday, 12/26/19, and be staying at Days Inn in NW DC, close to where my 2nd cousin, Karen Leighty and family, live, and with whom we'll do much in DC. Pin - a possible visit (lunch, tea, dinner?) in Baltimore on our way back on Sunday the 29th (with Mr. and Mrs. Mazumdar, Marti and Pat and families too if also in the Chesapeake Bay area) - or meet in DC, before?

David, and Tym, get together on Fri, the 27th, or Sat, the 28th, and possibly re multiple museum visits together, and other urban adventuring-forth in DC too, and with families? (David - a visit to Sidwell Friends' Meeting House, for example - might there even be a cafe there which could be open over the Christmas holidays?:)

Looking forward to seeing you! :)

With very best wishes, and Season's Greetings (holiday letter to come)!
Scotty

PS
Here's the 'Jacques Lacan MD' blog label (which is fairly new) per this email thread
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques Lacan MD
And here too is the beginning 'Psychoanalysis' wiki subject, without courses yet (or avatar bot psychoanalysts for that matter), at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis (see, too, the /Psychiatry (MD), /Psychotherapy and /Psychology wiki subjects, not yet with much CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare) - and planned in all ~200 countries' official / main languages eventually.

PPS
Next book, 4th book, coming out any day now: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality" and here's a draft of one the closing poems, with the same name, and with a focus on consciousness too -
Chameleon vision: Poem ~ "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://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html?m=0 ... https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~



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WUaS - World University and School
10:28 AM (52 minutes ago)
to Markus, Denny, Larry, Peter, Aleš, Magnus, Peter, Lydia, MacLeod, Scott, Chris

Chris, Aleš, Markus, Denny, Lydia and All,

Magnus Sälgö just connected with me again in Telegram (see below) re SINGLE family tree questions in WikiTree, presumably for 7.5 billion people on the planet, and I wanted to share this with you, as well as let you know why else World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop, brainstorming-wise, with 7.5 billion people. I'm sorry that I don't know Bayesian statistics in these regards>


WUaS is seeking to plan for, brainstorming-wise, coding for all 7.5 billion people for the following reasons:

All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number (or PIN in the Wikidata ecosystem or similar) for

i) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries,

ii) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, for ex.,

iii) Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (and to alleviate poverty), and to DISTRIBUTE a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (where the Euro is in 19 out of 28 EU countries, and backed by their central banks in one way or another) ... and potentially with UBI experiment recipients able, for example, to mine the "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency (as a mineable single cryptocurrency), developed by Stanford graduates, by clicking on the 'lightning button' brainstorming-wise. (See, too, European Central Bank head, Christine Lagarde here -
Watch again: Lagarde on digital currencies

Watch again: Lagarde on digital currencies pic.twitter.com/L2HSjVZ2BD— European Central Bank (@ecb) December 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/ecb/status/1205225680453210112 )


iv) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com, and see too World Family Tree - https://www.geni.com/worldfamilytree), and for aggregating DNA samples too (see item 2 again).
(See, too, the WUaS Annual Meetings' Minutes https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... )

Magnus is raising quality and "verifiable in reliable sources" questions re approximately 600,000 entries that were recently added to WikiTree, and how bots didn't work out very well.

I'm including Peter Norvig here too since he may have great knowledge about how to explore proceeding with single WikiTree family tree questions with genetic data - and for all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, as well as re the above WUaS questions. Peter, you're a Bayesian statistician, aren't you? Whom else? Markus?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, clarifications ... ? Thank you.

Best,
Scott
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
(Although I've included Magnus Sälgö in this email again per below, I'll leave him out of subsequent emails per his request)


(See, too, re planned reimbursement questions from all ~200 countries re MIT OCW-centric WUaS at what it costs to go to Stanford or MIT per student per year here -

Tunicate (sea squirts): Tele-medicine, Chief Operating Officer (COO) brainstorming. Per your Qs about 501c3 World Univ & Sch's biz plan, looked up A) tuition at Stanford $47,940 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at UC Berkeley In-state $13,509 USD, Out-of-state $40,191 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at MIT $ 48,452 USD 2016–17 . . . Telemedicine and a specific condition: Alcoholism - Approaches for Scotland too . . . and re all 7.5 billion people as well? * * * Aleš and Chris, Magnus in Sweden just shared your emails with me, and we've been talking about planning presumably for all 7.5 billion people per WikiTree planning for 'growing an accurate single family tree' . . . IF NOT Wikidata Q-item for 7.5 billion, then WUaS P-item for all 7.5 billion people? . . . WUaS is seeking to plan, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people for these reasons, to begin: All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number for 1) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries, 2) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, 3) Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS (and to alleviate poverty), and to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks 4) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree, and for aggregating DNA samples toohttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/tunicate-sea-squirts-tele-medicine.html
AND
WikiTree LiveCast - Chat with Aleš Trtnik, Data Base Errors Project
https://youtu.be/-q7jFAWLSkU
AND
The Future of Genealogy, WikiTree and Collaboration (with Chris Whitten)
https://youtu.be/7zchDXdg2R8)


14 Dec 2019 (from SF Bay Area)
Thanks, Magnus - From WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/ - "Welcome to The Free Family Tree, growing stronger since 2008.
Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and traditional genealogical sources" ... Am curious how WikiTree is planning for a SINGLE family tree re dealing with large amounts of data (which machine learning thrives on), based on their history since '08. About 600,000 entries of 7.5 billion people on the planet is .008 %, and this seems like helpful quantification re aiming for 7.5 billion people in a single family tree, but I don't know Bayesian statistics which seems like it could help further significantly - and potentially with issues of verifiability esp. Mathematics can clear up messes, - especially if museum and university peoples could help with this. World Univ & Sch which donated itself to Wikidata in 2015 and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki as a consequence in 2017 aims for 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # (or similarly named, such as PIN - like Personal Identification Number in the Wikidata system) for 4 reasons initially (see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html). Will email that thread from a few weeks ago about all of this. Tack! Magnus


13 Dec 2019 (from Sweden)
Magnus Sälgö, [13.12.19 22:18]
Hi
Here you can read in WIkiTree the frustration people feel when someone in WIkidata start add all people in a familytree that has bad quality
* https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/951698/bot-import-of-the-peerage-data-in-wikidata-good-or-bad-news

Project chat WIkidata:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#unknown_(?)

Comments oin the bot creators page:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Feedback_of_WikiTree_community_on_The_Peerage_import

Magnus Sälgö, [13.12.19 22:19]
The creator of WIkidata spoke yesterday and said
" "explains that Wikidata, like Wikipedia, aims not to decide what is true but to share what is verifiable in reliable sources."
"

your case with "all people" will not satisfy "verifiable in reliable sources" —> you ask for a mess.....


*
Arabian sand gazelle: Minutes for ANNUAL MEETING on Saturday, November 16, 2019 for A) World University & School and B) WUaS Corporation at WUaS Monthly Business Meeting- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html?m=0 -




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do physical Bitcoin coins access web?
Without internet, there is no connection to the blockchain to validate the transaction. However transaction can be done offline, by giving the private keys of a bitcoin address. This is how physical bitcoins work - https://www.quora.com/Does-the-receiver-of-bitcoin-need-an-active-internet-connection-to-eventually-receive-the-money ~

do physical Bitcoin coins access web?
Without internet, there is no connection to the blockchain to validate the transaction. However transaction can be done offline, by giving the private keys of a bitcoin address. This is how physical bitcoins work - https://t.co/vosYl4wK71 ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205936994993369088


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Physical Bitcoins by Casascius"As of 11/27/13, I suspended sales of items ... "Casascius Bitcoins are physical coins & each one is worth real digital bitcoins. Bitcoin are an open-source peer-to-peer "cryptocurrency" you can send over Web without bank or middleman https://www.casascius.com/ ~

Physical Bitcoins by Casascius
"As of 11/27/13, I suspended sales "
Casascius Bitcoins are physical coins & each one is worth real digital bitcoins. Bitcoin are an open-source peer-to-peer "cryptocurrency" you can send over Web without bank or middleman https://t.co/B54m15Wu2B ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205939513144426496

*
how do physical Bitcoins work?
A physical coin is something that exists in real world that has the public key & private key on it. You can then import these keys into bitcoin wallet to spend. Network will confirm that private key matches the public key https://www.quora.com/How-do-physical-Bitcoins-work
~

how do physical Bitcoins work?
A physical coin is something that exists in real world that has the public key & private key on it. You can then import these keys into bitcoin wallet to spend. Network will confirm that private key matches the public key https://t.co/5GMBBUTF8i
~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205938158245822465









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

Chesapeake Bay: In an "Online Psychoanalsysis" thread, in the DC area during the holiday period?, Here's the 'Jacques Lacan MD' blog label, here too is the beginning 'Psychoanalysis' wiki subject, without courses yet (or avatar bot psychoanalysts for that

Sid Mazumdar
5:50 AM (5 hours ago)
to me

Scotty,

Will you be in the DC area  during the holiday period? Please let us know.

Pin

Sent from my iPad



* Scott MacLeod
8:30 AM (2 hours ago)
to Janie, Tym, David, Larry, Brig, Caleb, Rosemary, Mary, Henry, Karen, Marti, Mainak, mazumdarp, Pin


Hi Pin, Tym, David and All,

Nice to get your email, Pin!

It looks like my mother and I will get to DC in the late afternoon on Thursday, 12/26/19, and be staying at Days Inn in NW DC, close to where my 2nd cousin, Karen Leighty and family, live, and with whom we'll do much in DC. Pin - a possible visit (lunch, tea, dinner?) in Baltimore on our way back on Sunday the 29th (with Mr. and Mrs. Mazumdar, Marti and Pat and families too if also in the Chesapeake Bay area) - or meet in DC, before?

David, and Tym, get together on Fri, the 27th, or Sat, the 28th, and possibly re multiple museum visits together, and other urban adventuring-forth in DC too, and with families? (David - a visit to Sidwell Friends' Meeting House, for example - might there even be a cafe there which could be open over the Christmas holidays?:)

Looking forward to seeing you! :)

With very best wishes, and Season's Greetings (holiday letter to come)!
Scotty

PS
Here's the 'Jacques Lacan MD' blog label (which is fairly new) per this email thread
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques Lacan MD
And here too is the beginning 'Psychoanalysis' wiki subject, without courses yet (or avatar bot psychoanalysts for that matter), at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis (see, too, the /Psychiatry (MD), /Psychotherapy and /Psychology wiki subjects, not yet with much CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare) - and planned in all ~200 countries' official / main languages eventually.

PPS
Next book, 4th book, coming out any day now: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality" and here's a draft of one the closing poems, with the same name, and with a focus on consciousness too -
Chameleon vision: Poem ~ "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://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html?m=0 ... https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~



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WUaS - World University and School
10:28 AM (52 minutes ago)
to Markus, Denny, Larry, Peter, Aleš, Magnus, Peter, Lydia, MacLeod, Scott, Chris

Chris, Aleš, Markus, Denny, Lydia and All,

Magnus Sälgö just connected with me again in Telegram (see below) re SINGLE family tree questions in WikiTree, presumably for 7.5 billion people on the planet, and I wanted to share this with you, as well as let you know why else World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop, brainstorming-wise, with 7.5 billion people. I'm sorry that I don't know Bayesian statistics in these regards>


WUaS is seeking to plan for, brainstorming-wise, coding for all 7.5 billion people for the following reasons:

All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number (or PIN in the Wikidata ecosystem or similar) for

i) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries,

ii) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, for ex.,

iii) Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (and to alleviate poverty), and to DISTRIBUTE a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (where the Euro is in 19 out of 28 EU countries, and backed by their central banks in one way or another) ... and potentially with UBI experiment recipients able, for example, to mine the "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency (as a mineable single cryptocurrency), developed by Stanford graduates, by clicking on the 'lightning button' brainstorming-wise. (See, too, European Central Bank head, Christine Lagarde here -
Watch again: Lagarde on digital currencies

Watch again: Lagarde on digital currencies pic.twitter.com/L2HSjVZ2BD— European Central Bank (@ecb) December 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/ecb/status/1205225680453210112 )


iv) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com, and see too World Family Tree - https://www.geni.com/worldfamilytree), and for aggregating DNA samples too (see item 2 again).
(See, too, the WUaS Annual Meetings' Minutes https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... )

Magnus is raising quality and "verifiable in reliable sources" questions re approximately 600,000 entries that were recently added to WikiTree, and how bots didn't work out very well.

I'm including Peter Norvig here too since he may have great knowledge about how to explore proceeding with single WikiTree family tree questions with genetic data - and for all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, as well as re the above WUaS questions. Peter, you're a Bayesian statistician, aren't you? Whom else? Markus?

Thoughts, ideas, questions, clarifications ... ? Thank you.

Best,
Scott
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
(Although I've included Magnus Sälgö in this email again per below, I'll leave him out of subsequent emails per his request)


(See, too, re planned reimbursement questions from all ~200 countries re MIT OCW-centric WUaS at what it costs to go to Stanford or MIT per student per year here -

Tunicate (sea squirts): Tele-medicine, Chief Operating Officer (COO) brainstorming. Per your Qs about 501c3 World Univ & Sch's biz plan, looked up A) tuition at Stanford $47,940 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at UC Berkeley In-state $13,509 USD, Out-of-state $40,191 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at MIT $ 48,452 USD 2016–17 . . . Telemedicine and a specific condition: Alcoholism - Approaches for Scotland too . . . and re all 7.5 billion people as well? * * * Aleš and Chris, Magnus in Sweden just shared your emails with me, and we've been talking about planning presumably for all 7.5 billion people per WikiTree planning for 'growing an accurate single family tree' . . . IF NOT Wikidata Q-item for 7.5 billion, then WUaS P-item for all 7.5 billion people? . . . WUaS is seeking to plan, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people for these reasons, to begin: All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number for 1) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries, 2) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, 3) Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS (and to alleviate poverty), and to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks 4) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree, and for aggregating DNA samples toohttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/tunicate-sea-squirts-tele-medicine.html
AND
WikiTree LiveCast - Chat with Aleš Trtnik, Data Base Errors Project
https://youtu.be/-q7jFAWLSkU
AND
The Future of Genealogy, WikiTree and Collaboration (with Chris Whitten)
https://youtu.be/7zchDXdg2R8)


14 Dec 2019 (from SF Bay Area)
Thanks, Magnus - From WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/ - "Welcome to The Free Family Tree, growing stronger since 2008.
Together we're growing an accurate single family tree using DNA and traditional genealogical sources" ... Am curious how WikiTree is planning for a SINGLE family tree re dealing with large amounts of data (which machine learning thrives on), based on their history since '08. About 600,000 entries of 7.5 billion people on the planet is .008 %, and this seems like helpful quantification re aiming for 7.5 billion people in a single family tree, but I don't know Bayesian statistics which seems like it could help further significantly - and potentially with issues of verifiability esp. Mathematics can clear up messes, - especially if museum and university peoples could help with this. World Univ & Sch which donated itself to Wikidata in 2015 and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki as a consequence in 2017 aims for 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # (or similarly named, such as PIN - like Personal Identification Number in the Wikidata system) for 4 reasons initially (see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html). Will email that thread from a few weeks ago about all of this. Tack! Magnus


13 Dec 2019 (from Sweden)
Magnus Sälgö, [13.12.19 22:18]
Hi
Here you can read in WIkiTree the frustration people feel when someone in WIkidata start add all people in a familytree that has bad quality
* https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/951698/bot-import-of-the-peerage-data-in-wikidata-good-or-bad-news

Project chat WIkidata:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#unknown_(?)

Comments oin the bot creators page:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Feedback_of_WikiTree_community_on_The_Peerage_import

Magnus Sälgö, [13.12.19 22:19]
The creator of WIkidata spoke yesterday and said
" "explains that Wikidata, like Wikipedia, aims not to decide what is true but to share what is verifiable in reliable sources."
"

your case with "all people" will not satisfy "verifiable in reliable sources" —> you ask for a mess.....


*
Arabian sand gazelle: Minutes for ANNUAL MEETING on Saturday, November 16, 2019 for A) World University & School and B) WUaS Corporation at WUaS Monthly Business Meeting- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html?m=0 -




* *

do physical Bitcoin coins access web?
Without internet, there is no connection to the blockchain to validate the transaction. However transaction can be done offline, by giving the private keys of a bitcoin address. This is how physical bitcoins work - https://www.quora.com/Does-the-receiver-of-bitcoin-need-an-active-internet-connection-to-eventually-receive-the-money ~

do physical Bitcoin coins access web?
Without internet, there is no connection to the blockchain to validate the transaction. However transaction can be done offline, by giving the private keys of a bitcoin address. This is how physical bitcoins work - https://t.co/vosYl4wK71 ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205936994993369088


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Physical Bitcoins by Casascius"As of 11/27/13, I suspended sales of items ... "Casascius Bitcoins are physical coins & each one is worth real digital bitcoins. Bitcoin are an open-source peer-to-peer "cryptocurrency" you can send over Web without bank or middleman https://www.casascius.com/ ~

Physical Bitcoins by Casascius
"As of 11/27/13, I suspended sales "
Casascius Bitcoins are physical coins & each one is worth real digital bitcoins. Bitcoin are an open-source peer-to-peer "cryptocurrency" you can send over Web without bank or middleman https://t.co/B54m15Wu2B ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205939513144426496

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how do physical Bitcoins work?
A physical coin is something that exists in real world that has the public key & private key on it. You can then import these keys into bitcoin wallet to spend. Network will confirm that private key matches the public key https://www.quora.com/How-do-physical-Bitcoins-work
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how do physical Bitcoins work?
A physical coin is something that exists in real world that has the public key & private key on it. You can then import these keys into bitcoin wallet to spend. Network will confirm that private key matches the public key https://t.co/5GMBBUTF8i
~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205938158245822465









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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay
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Chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica): Schoolab SF meeting and re QI Ethics (re A.I. Ethics, and machine learning ethics too) * * Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) * * * hacking of http://worlduniversityandschool.org -

Thursday, December 12, 2019
Soren, 
Great to meet you yesterday evening!
Here's the IBM CSIG talk I mentioned re AI ethics:
"Z-inspection: Toward a Process to Assess Ethical AI" -
https://youtu.be/jrwuZvt_H7k31 October 2019 11:30am US EasternRoberto ZicariEthical AI Due DiligenceGoethe University FrankfurtSlidesRecording- http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/ in this blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html ... 
And here are some thoughts about this, and in some ways with regards how the market could play a role (vis-a-vis the neutral Consumers Union "Consumer Reports" magazine, as idea and example) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html (but in many other ways too) - and perhaps from an American perspective (and some further thoughts from a Harvard Law BKC panel with the President of Germany - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/northern-gannett-virtual-college-stem.html). 
And this just came into my email box from Harvard Law BKC too - https://mailchi.mp/cyber/the-buzz-504729?e=d21d1ecc31 - relatedly - 
Public opinion lessons for AI regulation
Baobao ZhangTuesday, December 10, 2019
https://www.brookings.edu/research/public-opinion-lessons-for-ai-regulation/ .
Looking forward to meeting you again at some point. 
All the best, ScottP.S. And here's the "Human Rights' " wiki subject at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Human_Rights -with some MIT OCW courses, which will eventually be for credit, and in many languages, per your Stanford HANDA human rights' focus - (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) - and to give you an idea of how WUaS will work in many countries' official languages, and for credit. 
- https://cphfintechweek.com/speaker/soren-juul-jorgensen/- https://www.usadk.org/news/meet-soren-juul-jorgensen-new-executive-director-innovation-center-denmark/- https://humanrights.stanford.edu/people/s-ren-j-rgensen



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




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Kea: "Z-inspection: Toward a Process to Assess Ethical AI" - Much of following communication relates to ethics' thinking in conversation with Prof. Roberto Zicari's IBM CSIG talk * * * Where are Object Database Systems going? - Google Poly ?, Heart device monitors, Self-driving automobiles, Adult robots? Ethical AI * * * Consumer Reports' approach to AI ethics, if you will, and in lieu of 'inspections.' * * * Quaker SPICES - Simplicity - Understandable and Explainable AI, Peace - non-harming (1:55 minute), Integrity - Trust, Community - Citizens, Equality - minimize the risk of bias, Stewardship - businesses and citizens - as an ethic to mediate ETHICAL AI as process- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/kea-where-are-object-database-systems.html -



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Northern Gannett: VIRTUAL college STEM laboratories in #GooglePoly wi #MachineLearning to prepare WUaS BACHELOR students for PHYSICAL Ph.D. chemistry laboratories * * * Create 'lovely and lyrical' ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as a new form of 'writing' even :) . . . I don't think such a lovely and lyrical book has been written about St. Kilda, Scotland (re my Univ of Edinburgh Master's thesis on virtual senses of place) . . . Ethics' questions seem 'operative' here - I hope in my whistle-blowing that California law will be observed with regard too to the sex trade re these questions (re Stanford too?) * * * NO World Univ & Sch Monday TALK Q & A News TODAY 1/11/19 10am PT due to WIFI issues * * * Annual Meeting for World University and School meets this Saturday at 9am PT, electronically-mediated, at open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting * * * No Open Band at St. Clement's in Berkeley, playing for Scottish Country Dancers, this evening due to Veterans' Day. And is anyone heading to hear Northumbrian piper Dick Hensold and Irish guitar-player Patsy O'Brien this Thursday * * * Hoping wiki WUaS will turn the education electricity on - and in all ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages online with MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees and wiki schools for open rocking teaching and learning - for FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/northern-gannett-virtual-college-stem.html -




*Soren,

Since you're the former general consul of Denmark, these Tweets may also interest you:

Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) -

Lego at molecular level - and into Google Poly too re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital ? https://scientificamerican.com/article/molecular-lego-2007-09/ re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rainbows-in-culture-freud-and-lacan.html #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?

Lego at molecular level? https://t.co/x7bspDkdvR re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems https://t.co/ddKCeC9ota #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) October 27, 2019

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1188558138816942082?s=20



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Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846 & https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1204400600185786368?s=20 How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?

Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/ie4GYdVZJg & https://t.co/9RXQDAzS7D How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) December 12, 2019

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1205237936725213185?s=20
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1205260857183285254?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1205237728251498496?s=20
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1205261622047981570?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1205261932929748992?s=20
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1205262659785912320?s=20

Great to meet you at Schoolab SF, Soren!

Best, Scott






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Dear Larry and Peter, (and Jim, Takeshi, and Tarun), Dave and Bob (Greetings!), 

Am not clear how MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch will develop IT-wise still. 
Brainstorming: Bob Nix who is CTO of Ria Health - https://riahealth.com/team - (where his brother is CEO) - with regards to Dave Deacon who is COO of Ria Health, and a Scottish Country dancing friend, comes to mind re WUaS IT development.  Dave is a Scottish Country dancer on Monday evenings in Berkeley who went to MIT as an undergrad too, Larry and Jim (in physics and EE), AND went to Stanford for a PhD in physics in the 1970s, and Bob, whom I haven't met, went to Yale in CS as undergraduate or for Ph.D. Dave came up to me last Monday after Scottish Country Dancing, near my keyboard, to talk a bit about World Univ & Sch and WUaS's heading to the Grand Opening of Schoolab SF, the French educational Incubator, or innovation studio, after I had gone up to Dave 3 times over 3 weeks after SCD to talk about WUaS and Ria. (I subsewquently invited both Dave Deacon and Bob Nix to the Schoolab SF Grand Opening, but they didn't attend. I think that, having gone to MIT, Stanford and Yale, they would also, hypothetically, eventually attract great computer scientists who know machine learning, for example, to help develop WUaS IT-wise with time. 
So, combine Ria Health's approach to tele-medicine and alcoholism with WUaS's planned online medical schools and online teaching hospitals in ~200 countries' official languages - and possibly even re Stanford / Duke's Alphabet/Google's Project Baseline, and also Project ECHO? You'll find some of my correspondence and brainstorming with Dave re Ria and WUaS here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/tunicate-sea-squirts-tele-medicine.html - including : 
"Brainstorming-wise, and with regards to successful interventions for your addiction and alcoholism patients, I wonder if you/RIA might be able to network with Project Baseline, and use getting your patients into a Project Baseline clinic IDEA, or similar, (your own clinics? ) to give their physical samples of blood, sweat, tears, saliva, stool, etc., and do a cardio exam in a clinic (or eventually even from home), where Project Baseline would then turn these physical samples into data ... to chart a path way to health for them. This is the idea behind Project Baseline as I understand it but best to 'brush up' on your Project Baseline knowledge for yourself, from Youtubes or similar) ...

So if your patients could be 'incentivized' to change their drinking habits and by getting on a cardio machine (and to exercise) initially, in the name of contributing to science and a study, and get into the clinic too, they might be incentivized to change their alcoholic behavior - a kind of educational approach too - and then you might be able to show further results, and thereby help you get RIA into the value chain (ie financial reimbursement loops). Your Stanford and MIT links might help you find your way into openings in Project Baseline study, created by Alphabet / Google / Verily / Stanford / Duke University 10,000 person project / study (and Project Baseline may already be showing results among alcoholics - re data to show Anthem etc.).

More about Project Baseline and Project ECHO here from 2017 -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/chiricahua-national-monument-projects.html (and sprinkled throughout my active blog as well)."So I can seek to talk with Dave again this upcoming Monday, but WUaS is still seeking a startup CTO, and Bob Nix may well be busy with Ria Health, as its CTO. But WUaS is still seeking a lead I.T. developer. (Takeshi, would be interested in talking about this?)
Developing World University and School IT-wise is an amazingly creative CS opportunity, and beginning with our home page, and especially with regard to making it secure re this email thread: "hacking of http://worlduniversityandschool.org - how to make more secure?"
Sincerely, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress


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Hi Scott,
Thanks for update.

Mozilla's Common Voice projectis making good progress - and hopefully will help with speech technology for 1000 top languages of the world in coming years.

WUaS should be able to have a good technology foundation by around 2025 - which is my estimate of when there will be open source AI for 1000 top languages.   So hang in there!!!

Best wishes for the holidays and and a happy new year 2020!

Thanks, -Jim

Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden,  650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120 (o)  408-927-1928 < spohrer@us.ibm.com >
(m)  408-829-3112 < spohrer@gmail.com >
Innovation Champion:  http://service-science.info/archives/2233







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Scott MacLeod
11:34 AM (4 hours ago)
to Jim

Thanks, Jim,

Am hanging in there ... but occasionally am frustrated by lack of developments, growth, IT coding, monies for licensing, students, hiring of faculty, etc ...

Seeking to get World Univ & Sch growing, and just about to publish my 4th book "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually ... " in the Academic Press at World University and School, and with regards too to:

WUaS Universal Translator https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... seeks to be in Glottolog's 8,506 entries in languages https://glottolog.org/glottolog/language & Ethnologue's 7,111 known living languages https://ethnologue.com https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages >Academic
@WUaSPress ~

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

With best regards, and Season's Greetings,
Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Lego at the molecular level and into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects) -

Lego at molecular level - and into Google Poly too re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital ? https://scientificamerican.com/articl... re
best STEM CC OCW degrees in 5 langs, how to code #ar #ai #ARVRinEDU #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #BlockchainForRoboticsSystems
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM
As field sites?
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/statu...

Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/st... & https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/st... How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/statu...
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/stat...
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s...
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status...
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/...
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status...


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Jim Spohrer
Attachments
12:26 PM (3 hours ago)
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Your digital workers are coming to help you in the years ahead!!!

(with two charts)


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Thank you for your encouragement, Jim,

And wow, a digital worker could be a billion times cheaper in 60 years - is I think what chart 1 suggests!

And perhaps World Univ & Sch can seek to add consciousness to the AI leaderboards in some years re 'awareness,' 'sentience,' feeling,' 'perception' (and a main focus of one of the concluding poems in my upcoming book, with regards to western Philosophy of Mind conceptions of consciousness!), and per chart 2.

Thank you! - Scott




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Hi Tanya, (Anant and Larry - greetings, Anant!)

Thanks for your email and with regards to your "If we are in need of me finishing for accreditation I need Finance Theory and Introduction To Lean Six Sigma" at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, for a free-to-students' online Bachelor's degree as an undergraduate Business major per our Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ .

Anant, Tanya, is in World Univ & Sch's very first matriculating undergraduate class (albeit not yet licensing, or accrediting), and she is seeking to finish 2 courses for her degree. The MIT OCW for one of these courses didn't work out for her. So I'm including you in this email, as WUaS seeks to begin first licensing with the state of California's BPPE (and then potentially to accredit with WASC senior). How might WUaS and edX explore collaboration?

Tanya: I just found on this MIT OCW into MITx page - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-rela... - the following

"15.415.1x Foundations of Modern Finance I"
https://www.edx.org/course/foundations-of-modern-finance-i ...

Then, not finding any MIT OCW / MITx Intro to Lean Six Sigma COURSES, I found in edX this:

"Six Sigma and Lean: Quantitative Tools for Quality and Productivity"
https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/tumx-six-sigma-and-lean

Am not sure about what you might need to know beforehand (15.415 says it's advanced, and Six Sigma doesn't list any pre-reqs, but the course lasts for 6 months)

Then I found in MIT OCW:

Finance Theory I
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/

Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-660j-introduction-to-lean-six-sigma-methods-january-iap-2012/

So, let me communicate with Larry, and look into

A) collaborating with edX for MIT OCW > MITx  ... and with regards, too, to

B i) WUaS licensing with CA's BPPE, then
B ii) accreditation (with WASC senior?) ...

C) finding some further possible edX MIT OCW courses relating to the 2 courses for you to graduate with, possibly after WUaS begins accreditation ... (which would increase the value of your Bachelor's degree significantly).

It could be the autumn when you begin classes again, re the above ... or you might be able (and WUaS is still seeking the initial ~5,000 dollars to begin licensing, as well as annual licensing and accreditation fees after this).

Please let me/us know what you think about these possibilities, Tanya, and how you might like to proceed (in conversation, if that's helpful).

(Anant, how might we best communicate about some of this as well? WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class in English in the autumn of 2020, and for students from all ~200 countries, for a 4 year degree - and hopefully with very high retention rates. WUaS is seeking 500-2000 students, as WUaS begins the licensing and accreditation process from California. In what ways could WUaS collaborate with edX in these regards as well. Larry Viehland, above, is the chair of the WUaS Board, and MIT alumnus too!).

Thank you! And looking forward to communicating further about all of this.

Best, Scott
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University






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Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846 & https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1204400600185786368?s=20 How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?

Lego ROBOTICS into #GooglePoly w #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego @SorenJuulJ ? re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital https://t.co/8mcOl2aCaa & https://t.co/mS7dfEPcvC How best to code #AR #AI #ML #ARVRinEDU in #RealisticVirtualEarth #VR #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 12, 2019

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Getting ready for the weekend like… #LEGOeduSPIKE #FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/hnu9wjv4Di— LEGO Education (@LEGO_Education) May 17, 2019

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Today we are breaking it down

Ring-tailed lemur: Good to have headed to the Schoolab SF Grand Opening Party from 3-11 yesterday. Networked with French Consul General, and another Consul General of Denmark for 4 years until recently (and a Vietnamese Consul General)

Dear Alden, Dick, Lucy and Ma,

Speculative, - Warren / Buttigieg or Biden/someone vs not-Mitt-Romney since he's dropped out of running in 2020, and Democrats win Senate? (Partly re impeachment process)?

Good to have headed to the Schoolab SF Grand Opening Party from 3-11 yesterday. Networked with French Consul General, and another Consul General of Denmark for 4 years until recently (and a Vietnamese Consul General). Good to have connected too with what could become a team for the beginning growth of WORLD University and School - CEO and co-founder Jean-Claude Charlet, Cian Mitsunaga (a lawyer and a 'sweetie':), Brittany Bir and Mathieu Aguesse. I met CEO Jean-Claude for the first time, and like him. I had met Brittany, Cian and SF CEO Mathieu a few weeks ago there on the 11th floor of Schoolab SF's new offices.

... I think Schoolab SF and the French Consul General could see WUaS as a great GREAT new business opportunity in many ways ... and esp re the 29 official French language countries out of ~200 in the world. ... and possibly re WUaS facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks, and re all 7.5 billion people on planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number (since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata as 'back end' structured knowledge database in Wikipedia's ~300 languages in 2015, and received the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017), - and distributed via Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS partly to alleviate poverty ... as well as WUaS plans to create 2.2 million careers in all 200 countries and 7011 known living languages.

How are you? And what are you up to this weekend? :)

Fond regards, Scott

- https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887




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Bonjour Jean-Claude, Mathieu, and Brittany (whose email I don't have),

Thank you for the invitation to the get together this Friday at SF Schoolab International. Does Schoolab engage CC-4 MIT OCW's Sloan School of Management / Business - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/ - in any way, en Anglais? FYI World Univ & Sch, of which I'm the founder, seeks to offer free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees FIRST IN ENGLISH as WUaS accredits with the state of California (BPPE), then MIT OCW-centric business degrees in French.

One 'value proposition' I could see in communicating further incubator-wise is Schoolab's Founders' and Management's connections (https://theschoolab.com/en/about/team/) with your universities in France and their relationship to the French government. Since World Univ & Sch seeks to build from the 'gold mine' or 'mother lode' of Creative Commons' 4 licensed MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages), where CC-4 licensing says users can, with MIT OCW, A) share it, B) adapt it, C) but non-commercially, WUaS cannot ask for tuition from students - so online WUaS will be free-to-students - but WUaS will seek reimbursement from governments (eg federal, state, local, etc) per student per year; this could extend to all 29 French speaking countries (planned in French - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...).

So, for example, since you -

Jean-Claude Charlet
SCHOOLAB CEO and co-founder

went to ...


- Stanford University Graduate School of Business - Business Administration

- Université Paris La Sorbonne

- ESSEC Business School - Business Administration

... WUaS would like to explore developing networks with these great universities and related governments (eg state of CA in Sacramento, Federal Government in Washington DC, the French government in Paris, etc), and all via the internet.

Similarly, Matthieu, Audiencia's Business School (your alma mater - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuaguesse/detail/contact-info/) could benefit from Wolrd Univ & Sch's MIT OCW arrangements. If WUaS could get, over time, French students interested in MIT OCW-centric management degrees, in English and French, and if then WUaS could get reimbursement from the French government due to the CC-4 licensing, and Schoolab's ESSEC, Sorbonne and Audencia's connections, I suspect that people affiliated with French World University and School would do very well for themselves, for example, too.

This would extend to Colombia, (and Uruguay, too, and with regards to Brittany's recent trip there), and with respect to

Ana Maria Zuluaga
Co-founder at Schoolab San Francisco
EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

And WUaS seeks to create online Colombia and Uruguay World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in official / major languages there. Here's the Spanish Language with subject at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Spanish_language - planned in Spanish, and informing major online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Universities in all Spanish speaking countries (21?).

World Univ & Sch seeks to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and Medicine (M.D.) degrees as well as I.B. high school degrees, all online and accrediting, and in ~200 countries' official / main languages.

And while WUaS seeks to offer online Business Degrees at the Bachelor and Ph.D. levels, based on MIT OCW Sloan courses - see WUaS'a 6 present undergraduate majors in the course catalog here ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - WUaS hasn't matriculated any undergraduate students for this yet. World Univ & Sch is seeking an online undergraduate class of 500-2000 English speaking students from all 200 countries in the autumn of 2000. WUaS website development in multiple languages will be a major part of this.

I see another 'value proposition' with regard to translating of MIT OCW into French, for example, and job creation as well as knowledge generation for France, and in French-speaking countries. For example, these French universities above, and faculty translators too (learning new courses to teach in French), could benefit from the knowledge in MIT OCW for their own universities. (Againn, this could extend to all countries with French as their official languages too, so in Africa, for example, and for reimbursement too - as well as for knowledge generation).

WUaS is very digitally focused, so not seeking office space, yet I'd like to invite you to Monday Morning 10 am WUaS talk sessions if you might be interested - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1188152443386777601. Could WUaS explore interviewing you here, Jean-Claude, for example?

And for your information too, WUaS is 2 legal entities: A) World University and School, a non-profit 501 c 3 tax exempt charity, and B) the WUaS Corporation / Press a for-profit general stock company. Both are planned in each of all ~200 countries, and in 7111 known living languages, and both are not yet financially operational to speak of. Here are the most recent Minutes to give you more information about WUaS:

Minutes:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-for-world-univ-sch-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html
(and Larry Viehland, above, is chair of the Board, as well as CFO, acting, on both wings).

Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow evening Matthieu - and Jean-Claude if you happen to make a cameo appearance via Skype in the middle of the night :)

à Bientôt, Scott



Please see the MIT OCW here -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business_Management - eventually for credit, and then in many languages

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







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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

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

- 415 480 4577
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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Dec 5, 11:08 AM (7 days ago)
to mathieuaguesse, Jean-Claude, Larry, Scott

Bonjour, Jean-Claude,

Looking forward to meeting you at the Grand Opening! And looking forward, too, to talking with you about MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School planned in each of all ~29 French-speaking countries (out of ~200 in world). (Larry Viehland above is the chair of the Board at WUaS, as well as current CFO, and is also the acting Chair of the Board, and acting CFO of the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press; WUaS is comprised of 2 parallel legal entities; see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html).

And are you at all in communication with the Stanford Basic Income Lab, and (French) Stanford Philosophy Professor Juliana Bidadanure and its Faculty Director - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/?utm_source=BIL+Newsletter+Fall+Quarter+2019 ? CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is exploring facilitating Universal Basic Income experiments, and for all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, each a Wikidata Q-item #, and Wikidata Q-item # for 3 other reasons to begin - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html. I know Juliet a little from Stanford UBI talks as well.

Et connaissez-vous Guillemette Fenain (née Renault) de Croissy-sur-Seine (car il peut s'agir d'un tout petit monde)? (C'est une vieille amie qui vit peut-être maintenant en Bretagne / Brittany).

Best regards, Scott

(https://lnkd.in/gKJQYbe - which, in addition to online Bachelor, Ph.D., M.D. and I.B. diplomas in French, for ex., is planning to create online MIT OCW-centric Law Schools - https://lnkd.in/gVJZUdd - also in ~200 countries' languages - https://lnkd.in/gpKDeBU - https://lnkd.in/ggrBf9W too, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7111 known living languages!)



https://www.linkedin.com/in/cian-mitsunaga-639abb1/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-bir-02657b10a/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuaguesse/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jecharlet/



From 1st Schoolab SF event on 11/15/19:

https://san-francisco.theschoolab.com/corporate/


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/schoolab-sfs-international-night-tickets-78662013199

Bonjour Brittany, Just shared this email about Schoolab incubation and re MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School with Jean-Claude and Matthieu - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/rosa-chinensis-schoolab-san-francisco.html and which is to you too, FYI, but I don't have your Gmail address. Looking forward to talking further on Friday! Cheers, Scott MacLeod


https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/people/brittany-bir/

Schoolab San Francisco

400 Montgomery Street

11th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104


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Scott MacLeod
Sat, Dec 7, 11:18 AM (5 days ago)
to mathieuaguesse, Jean-Claude, Larry, Scott

Jean-Claude, Mathieu, Brittany, Cian and Larry,

One further ginormous brainstorming before meeting you on Wednesday, - and which I just Tweeted to both Brittany, as well a Robert Z, who is the CTO at the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group in the Philadelphia area, I think.

The
@WUaSPress
 seeks to become listed on all ~200 countries' stock markets, and in their languages - esp. as a way to help small countries develop, - and via, brainstorming-wise, collaborating with a Google to write the software whereby companies can get listed on countries' mkts

The @WUaSPress seeks to become listed on all ~200 countries' stockmarkets, and in their languages - esp. as a way to help small countries develop, - and via, brainstorming-wise, collaborating with a Google to write the software whereby companies can get listed on countries' mkts— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1203346343189598208?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1203345906809982978?s=20
Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1203346651890348032?s=20


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The
@WUaSPress
 seeks to become listed on all ~200 countries' stock markets esp. as a way to help small countries develop, - and via collaborating with a 'Google' to write the software whereby companies can get listed on countries' mkts. How
@brittanydbir

@rzembo
 best to talk further?

The @WUaSPress seeks to become listed on all ~200 countries' stockmarkets esp as way to help small countries develop, - and via collaborating with a 'Google' to write the software whereby companies can get listed on countries' mkts. How @brittanydbir @rzembo best to talk more?— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) December 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1203348681220481024?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1203348384813203457?s=20


Much of my thinking is both Google/Alphabet-centric, as well as Stanford-centric re coding questions in this email thread, Jean-Claude, and re your connection as an alumnus of the Stanford GSB as well.

Looking forward to talking with you all of you on Wednesday, and meeting you, Jean-Claude! (I have neither Brittany nor Cian's email addresses, so please forward these to them, if possible!) Thank you.

Best regards, Scott

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



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Mon, Dec 9, 2019

Jean-Claude, Mathieu, Brittany, Cian and Larry,

Thanks, Cian, for connecting on L.I. and with your email.

WUaS is exploring the possibility of facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks, and distributed via UBI experiments via a Wikidata Q-item # to some of all 7.5 billion people on earth, brainstorming-wise. See, for ex. - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - and if WUaS develops with Schoolab SF after the Grand Opening, one question will be how best to plan to build 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as Wikidata Q item #s (lists of citizens, for ex.?) in each of 29 countries out of ~200 countries, where French is an official language. (I touch on some of this in today's World Univ & Sch Open Q & A and News - 9 Dec 2019 -

https://youtu.be/wh7R35jt_dQ - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch).

World Univ & Sch is also seeking to develop our platform / web site - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and in planning for English and French (Chinese and Spanish), potentially as pilot languages, and for 'You at WUaS' matriculating students to begin, and re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/.

As I emailed Larry, the chair of the WUaS Board yesterday: "the bottom half of the World Univ & Sch home page has gone missing - has been hacked - and so the donate button is gone too (and am thinking about making an end of year request in the last WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda and News for 3rd Saturday 12/21/19).

Six of the twelve main WUaS Subjects / Areas have gone missing too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - including "Library Resources" and "Museums," for example.

Any suggestions or thoughts for making the web page more secure, so it can't be hacked in the future, including FTP upload-wise?

Thank you.

Sincerely, Scott"

Looking forward to talking about some of this on Wednesday at Schoolab SF International's Grand Opening (https://www.linkedin.com/events/schoolabgrandopeningevent/) as well.

Best, Scott -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Law (Check out other WUaS academic subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - to see the MIT OCW courses which will eventually be for credit, and in French esp.).

(scottmacleod.com & worlduniversityandschool.org)








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WoW! Is this https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1204400600185786368?s=20 the beginning of #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ROBOTICS #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics AND #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook too? That little VIRTUAL robot would 1-1 relate to a physical Lego WeDo2 robot! #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital !

WoW! Is this https://t.co/mS7dfEPcvC the beginning of #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ROBOTICS #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics AND #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook too? That little VIRTUAL robot would 1-1 relate to a physical Lego WeDo2 robot! #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital !— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 10, 2019

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SCD WoW! Is this https://t.co/g8p2Z3ha42 the beginning of #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ROBOTICS #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics AND for #ScottishCountryDancing https://t.co/jralgPlavK too? That little VIRTUAL robot would 1-1 relate to physical Lego WeDo2 robot! #ActualVirtual~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) December 10, 2019

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Oregon Coast Range: French educational incubator: Schoolab San Francisco * * * World Univ & Sch Open Q & A and News - 9 Dec 2019, World Univ & Sch is also seeking to develop our platform / web site - and in planning for English and French (Chinese and Span

Jean-Claude, Mathieu, Brittany, Cian and Larry, 

Thanks, Cian, for connecting on L.I. and with your email. 

WUaS is exploring the possibility of facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks, and distributed via UBI experiments via a Wikidata Q-item # to some of all 7.5 billion people on earth, brainstorming-wise. See, for ex. - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - and if WUaS develops with Schoolab SF after the Grand Opening, one question will be how best to plan to build 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as Wikidata Q item #s (lists of citizens, for ex.?) in each of 29 countries out of ~200 countries, where French is an official language. (I touch on some of this in today's World Univ & Sch Open Q & A and News - 9 Dec 2019 - https://youtu.be/wh7R35jt_dQ - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch). 
World Univ & Sch is also seeking to develop our platform / web site - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and in planning for English and French (Chinese and Spanish), potentially as pilot languages, and for 'You at WUaS' matriculating students to begin, and re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/. 
As I emailed Larry, the chair of the WUaS Board yesterday: "the bottom half of the World Univ & Sch home page has gone missing - has been hacked - and so the donate button is gone too (and am thinking about making an end of year request in the last WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda and News for 3rd Saturday 12/21/19).
Six of the twelve main WUaS Subjects / Areas have gone missing too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - including "Library Resources" and "Museums," for example. 
Any suggestions or thoughts for making the web page more secure, so it can't be hacked in the future, including FTP upload-wise? 
Thank you.
Sincerely, Scott"
Looking forward to talking about some of this on Wednesday at Schoolab SF International's Grand Opening (https://www.linkedin.com/events/schoolabgrandopeningevent/) as well. 
Best, Scott - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Law (Check out other WUaS academic subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - to see the MIT OCW courses which will eventually be for credit, and in French esp.).
(scottmacleod.com & worlduniversityandschool.org)



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Summary of World Univ & Sch Open Q & A and News - 9 Dec 2019

https://youtu.be/GiYnXWOVmX4


World Univ & Sch Open Q & A and News - 9 Dec 2019
https://youtu.be/wh7R35jt_dQ

WUaS News Q & A #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA newly in #LightStream >http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/8/19 at 10 am P Topic: Your Questions / ideas
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
@ScottMacLeod ?>info @ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~

WUaS News Q & A #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA newly in #LightStream >http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 12/8/19 at 10 am P Topic: Your Questions / ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities in https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 @ScottMacLeod ?>info @ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1203862883018260480?s=20



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WUaS open News Q & A from today in #LightStream, in which you can participate in the conversation https://youtu.be/wh7R35jt_dQ on Monday mornings at 10a PT from your time zone #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA >http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress 200 online Univs

WUaS open News Q & A from today in #LightStream, in which you can participate in the conversation https://t.co/RHA2vpX6UJ on Monday mornings at 10a PT from your time zone #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA >http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress 200 online Univs— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1204104898532372480?s=20







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