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August 17, 2019

Gymnadenia nigra (orchid): WUaS Minutes for 17 Aug 2019, "CoinZoom Launches Visa Card for Cryptocurrency"

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda and News' for August 17, 2019:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/08/agenda-news-for-sat-17-aug-2019-world.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/honeysuckle-lonicera-periclymenum.html.

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WUaS Minutes for 17 Aug 2019

WUaS will attend online Google for Nonprofits' workshop for managing volunteers
Find Reed College student volunteers ... ?

WUaS is seeking attend the Reed College (FAR) weekend of September 14th

Contact Joi Ito ... to talk further about MIT OCW & WUaS collaborations?

Contact John Hawk ... re Reed Professor Nathalia King
re Humanities? re academic collaborations
and re questions of studying consciousness too, with Reed Prof Michael Pitts? - and even in a realistic virtual earth ...

WUaS is seeking a communications' person

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May see if I can stay with a Quaker friend in Portland, Oregon.

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CoinZoom Launches Visa Card for Cryptocurrency

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Dear Todd, and Larry,

Thanks and fascinating. And congratulations. World Univ & Sch is seeking to plan for WUaS learners and teachers and students in all ~200 countries and in all 7,111 known living languages - and therefore plan for all 7.5 billion people - in exploring developing a single cryptocurrency with blockchain backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (think 19/28 Eurozone countries), and with our WUaS law schools in each of ~200 nation states' official languages. And WUaS is also seeking to distribute such a single cryptocurrency to all 7.5 billion people via Universal Basic Income experiments. Perhaps your CoinZoom Visa Card could be a vehicle for this, and thus benefit from related growth. 7.5 billion people is an enormous market. Looking forward to communicating further about this with time.
I'd like to introduce you both to one another here. Larry Viehland is the chair of the Board at 1) 501 c 3 World University and School - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and the acting chair of the Board at the 2) WUaS Corporation (a for profit general stock legal entity) - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (see, too - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html) but where we haven't become financially operational yet. See, too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation. Todd is the Founder & CEO CoinZoom, a global digital currency exchange; buy, sell, and spend Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and more. See Todd's recent Visa CoinZoom Card information below.
Best, Scott

Hi Scott,
I am excited to share that through my latest venture, CoinZoom, we have launched the CoinZoom Visa Card, allowing customers to instantly convert their crypto balances to fiat and spend at over 53 million Visa merchants worldwide. CoinZoom is a U.S. regulated cryptocurrency exchange that offers services in buying, selling, and spending bitcoin, ripple, ethereum, and other top digital currency pairs.
The CoinZoom Visa Card is linked directly to customer accounts, enabling them to pre-select the wallet they wish to debit when they use the debit card. The card utilizes the latest technology in credit cards, including making payments through Chip, Contactless and PIN, as well as cash withdrawals from ATMs.
You can learn more about the launch of the CoinZoom Visa card here.
Don't miss the opportunity to be one of the top 200 people who can register for early access and refer the most friends to CoinZoom, to win either a CoinZoom Black, Platinum, Gold, or Preferred Visa card.

Best,
Todd CroslandCEO and FounderCoinZoom

- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com

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

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Scott MacLeod
12:12 PM (8 hours ago)
to Todd, Larry

Dear Todd and Larry,

Tweeted a bit about this here to -
"in exploring #SingleCryptocurrency backed by central banks distributed via #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments @WorldUnivAndSch's law schools are planning for WUaS learners/teachers/students in ~200 countries & in 7k living languages & including planning for all 7.5 billion people"

in exploring #SingleCryptocurrency backed by central banks distributed via #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments @WorldUnivAndSch's law schools are planning for WUaS learners/teachers/students in ~200 countries & in 7k living languages & including planning for all 7.5 billion people— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) August 17, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1162799515742560256

Please see related hashtags in related Tweets.

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

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August 16, 2019

Protea Pinwheel (Leucospermum catherinae): Yoga as wu wei (non-action in Taoist sense), Am appreciating your "wu wei" (non-action, in Taoism) lie-on-your-back Yoga approach (Angela Farmer's too) to your back challenges, as therapy too * * * "Life of Brian

Hi Barbara,

Am appreciating your "wu wei" (non-action, in Taoism) lie-on-your-back Yoga approach (Angela Farmer's too) to your back challenges (back injury, back pain), as therapy too, and which you touched on in passing in Berkeley the other morning I think. And if I recall correctly, yogini Dona Holleman explores a 'wu wei' philosophy in her (self-published books) "Yoga Syllabus for Teacher and Student" and its companion volume "Asana in Photo." As I think about the "non-action" movement therapy benefits inherent in Asana poses (because for the most part, they are done in stillness), I wonder how to take a "wu wei" approach to doing the poses in Dona's beginning course - ie very brief standing poses on Mondays and Thursdays, sitting poses on Tuesday and Friday, Twists and miscellaneous poses on Wednesdays and Saturdays. (Have you checked out the 3 places re her cross-referencing system?). And I appreciate what these books offer too - a "wu wei" approach to taking a course or finding a teacher even. :) And 'non-action' with the 'mumbo jumbo' (religious, cultural, theistic even, codes) of the Mehta's Yoga book has merit in my way of the thinking too, but I also think there are some pointers in this book to the beneficial asanas in this Mehta book which are worth gleaning re asana as movement therapies. Building a foundation in one's body from the bottom up (feet, legs, pelvis ... ), learning about one's own body by doing asana (always learning), and lengthening the spine like the string of a balloon in most wu wei ('do nothing' or 'non-action') poses / explorations, where one's head is like a helium balloon, has much merit as one learns about one's own body's challenges, and explores creating via a kind of non-action in doing the poses, as well as the space to heal, and also re creating space around an injury.
Just some Yogic musings about healing via "wu wei." Keep swimming, walking, and lying on your back (and pulling your knees gently over your torso, and maybe even dropping your knees to one side and the other) +!
Cheers (and happy birthday again!), Scott

Just added Yogi to my Twitter profile here - Am appreciating your "wu wei" (non-action, in Taoism) lie-on-your-back Yoga approach (Angela Farmer's too) to your back challenges, as therapy too

Interview with Angela & Victor about teaching Yoga ~https://t.co/FKAu3sJc47 #AngelaAndVictorYoga #Yoga A&V are so creative in their Yoga explorations, & love Harbin @HarbinBook too. https://t.co/fU3fhjl5bS > https://t.co/Wg2QQecJB3 (@WorldUnivAndSch) > https://t.co/a3ZLRUEoQN ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) August 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1161278967648624640
- and posted this A&V trailer ... worth seeing the 4-5 minute clip too
Interview with Angela & Victor about teaching Yoga ~
(link: https://youtu.be/4EvflFnKyms) youtu.be/4EvflFnKyms #AngelaAndVictorYoga #Yoga A&V are so creative in their Yoga explorations, & love Harbin
@HarbinBook
too. (link: https://wildyogi.info/en/issue/interview-angela-farmer-and-victor-van-kooten-unique-way) wildyogi.info/en/issue/inter… > (link: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga) wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga (
@scottmacleod
) > (link: https://angela-victor.com/content/schedule) angela-victor.com/content/schedu… ~

Interview with Angela & Victor about teaching Yoga ~https://t.co/FKAu3sJc47 #AngelaAndVictorYoga #Yoga A&V are so creative in their Yoga explorations, & love Harbin @HarbinBook too. https://t.co/fU3fhjl5bS > https://t.co/Wg2QQecJB3 (@WorldUnivAndSch) > https://t.co/a3ZLRUEoQN ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) August 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1161278967648624640?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1161283600014303234?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1161278185998184448?s=20

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Hi Barbara,

Re this "Life of Brian Debate (1979) ... Monty Python" email thread, here's something from Richard Dawkins' examining Life of Brian in a different vein :)
"Life of Brian.

Is anything funnier? Anything funnier? Tell us it, then.

Just re-watched this documentary about it:
(link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6jUQI9s) youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6j…

Cleese & Palin were wrong to say it isn’t blasphemous. Of course it is blasphemous. That is one of its great virtues."

- https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1151157490928590848

Enjoy :)
Cheers, Scott

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Life of Brian.

Is anything funnier? Anything funnier? Tell us it, then.

Just re-watched this documentary about it:https://t.co/Cuxxj6j0mL

Cleese & Palin were wrong to say it isn’t blasphemous. Of course it is blasphemous. That is one of its great virtues.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 16, 2019

- https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1151157490928590848

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Hi Barbara,
Via conversation (a kind of information arbitrage), and your back challenges/pain, am hoping the social psychology of the medical profession or Yoga teaching of movement therapies (where the role of the expert or authority looms large - and re certain specific kinds of knowledge - can be ameliorated, such that you further develop your own agency (free decision-making, or intentional causation:) re your back challenges ... (not to discount what MDs say re your back pain, - but with a great variety of knowledges, that you can make great informed decisions about how to manage your back issue ... sorry you're in pain) ... Thinking (and differently as well).

Cheers, Scott

* * * [NTF-talk] Clapton is god - & NtFs?

Hi Non-theist Friends,
Did you ever hear the phrase "Clapton is God" referring perhaps to the 'place' he took people when he played Blues and Rock&Roll? ... I looked this up:
And athough 'Clapton is god' could have been considered heretical or blasphemous at one point, I find this interesting to inquire about on a non-theist friends' email list ...
So I was interested in and searched on "where did the phrase 'clapton is god' come from?," and Tweeted about this too:
wherefore 'clapton is god'? "Clapton is God" is mid-'60s slogan referencing Eric Clapton, then-guitarist for Yardbirds & John Mayall & the #Bluesbreakers. Phrase originated as graffiti spray-painted by unknown admirer on wall in Islington, London in '65/66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapton_is_God ~

wherefore 'clapton is god'? "Clapton is God" is mid-'60s slogan referencing Eric Clapton, then-guitarist for Yardbirds & John Mayall & Bluesbreakers. Phrase originated as graffiti spray-painted by unknown admirer on wall in Islington, London in '65/66 https://t.co/EhDlLot7vc ~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) August 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1161655271887740928?s=20 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1161662452834041862?s=20
- https://www.whereseric.com/the-vault/biographical-information-eric-clapton/clapton-god-how-did-phrase-originate- https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-phrase-Clapton-is-God-originate

And this logic from the 1960s, I'd imagine, could get extended to the all kinds of religious language ... virgin birth etc. :)

And in a quite related, and very funny, vein, check these "Life of Brian" clips from 1979 out with John Cleese ... (which I Tweeted to Open Band a while back)
They are comic :) ... and kind of amazing :)
A bit amusing & quite brilliant @JohnCleese Monty Python's Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4)https://youtu.be/1ni559bHXDg 2/4 https://youtu.be/Ku3GcPrW9xg 3/4 https://youtu.be/SGI9UevrzGc 4/4 =1 I think-https://youtu.be/NXmJHlqMvvE A bit of an anthropologist here @scottmacleod what is going on?:))

A bit amusing & quite brilliant @JohnCleese
Monty Python's
Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4)https://t.co/LMuYdrowSV
2/4 https://t.co/6QjIY596GN
3/4 https://t.co/8dNx1s6e7o
4/4 =1 I think-https://t.co/IqPkzDfTJ7
A bit of an anthropologist here @scottmacleod what is going on?:))— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) November 18, 2018

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1064240132109172736

More from Richard Dawkins' in this NtF examination of the ideas of heresy and blasphemy:
"Life of Brian.
Is anything funnier? Anything funnier? Tell us it, then.
Just re-watched this documentary about it:(link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6jUQI9s) youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6j…
Cleese & Palin were wrong to say it isn’t blasphemous. Of course it is blasphemous. That is one of its great virtues."

Life of Brian.

Is anything funnier? Anything funnier? Tell us it, then.

Just re-watched this documentary about it:https://t.co/Cuxxj6j0mL

Cleese & Palin were wrong to say it isn’t blasphemous. Of course it is blasphemous. That is one of its great virtues.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1151157490928590848

I appreciate Dawkins' turning this blasphemy logic on its head with the language of 'virtue.'
And re Quaker history - re the NtF emergence - I can think of some examples where Quakers were considered heretics and died because of this ie Mary Dyer, and those other Friends in New England who had Puritan fire and brimstone directed at them - and in America - I can't think of examples historically where Friends / Quaker made others into heretics, with the language of blasphemy, although I'd imagine all the schisms within the Quaker tree could have been a result of this.
I'm appreciative too with the examples above from the '60s and '70s that soaring music and comedy are the positive outcomes of 'hippies' playing in a friendly way (Friendly too in a sense) with the awful legacies of religion and religious language. What do you think?
Greetings from Berkeley, and glad we live in an historical period after the 1960s and 1970s, and with 1st amendment legal rights in this country. Religion as Dawkins' continues to point out is still up to no good, and brainwashing folks into damaging codes.
Am a NtF fan of Clapton's Blues' playing ") ... but as a f/Friendly non-theist I don't think I'd say 'Clapton is god' except perhaps in friendly humorous appreciation ...
NtF cheers, Scott
PSDuane Allman & Eric Clapton 1970 - Studio Jams 1 thru 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_HmIg6V4Mnot officially nosebleed territory ... but I thought Clapton was God ... I don't want to get into it ...

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- 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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Monty Python's Life of Brian film was accused of blasphemy, amazingly!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian

The Secret Life Of Brian: Documentary on the Monty Python film

https://youtu.be/hdU_6jUQI9s

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Ed InChapelHill
8:17 AM (43 minutes ago)

to me

Hi Scott, as a pantheist, I tend to think Clapton is God and everything else is God as well. But bringing up pantheism on this listserv just seems to generate a lot of hate. Cheers...Ed

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Scott MacLeod
Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:49 PM
Subject: [NTF-talk] Clapton is god - & NtFs?
To: nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

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Thanks, Ed,

Haven't observed or sensed what you observe re "hate," except in your email's mentioning of this. And as a Quaker, I find exploration of such non-theistic Friendly ideas germane to this NtF list's conversation and discernment process, thinking-wise.
Am just thinking about how Monty Python handled the 'hate' of the church of England (Mary Whitehouse) when they were accused of blasphemy in the late '70s for making "The Life of Brian" (1979).
I think Non-theist Friends have navigated the issues of integration within (being hated by?) the Religious Society of Friends re Friends General Conference (which Pacific Yearly Meeting is now joining, amazingly, since possibly the 1940s! Why, I wonder, now?) skillfully (Os and Rosemary and James and DavidB among others?). I think at different times, NtFs have faced not being part of Friends General Conference (a kind of exclusion for heresy even, in a sense?) What do you think?
Thanks for your email. NtFs are kind of navigating a radical edge of Quakerism, and these related questions of music and humor, I'd warrant (as a kind of NtFriendly leading even?), are all a non-theistically Friendly discernment process ... in this email conversation and sharing process.
ScottPSAm thinking it's a healthy NtF conversation to have and explore too re heresy and blasphemy questions within the RSOF, given the history of Mary Dyer and the valiant 60 plus related ways of thinking (and there are probably many other examples), and bearing witness and remembering to their suffering (for outrageous acts by the perpetrators of religious punishment). If not the Non-theist Friends' email list re Quakers, where? Thanks.

Conversation is the important thing re these issues.

* Hi Non-theist Friends,

Partly in reply to a off-list NtF message re this thread ... who wrote ...
Hi Scott, as a pantheist, I tend to think Clapton is God and everything else is God as well. But bringing up pantheism on this listserv just seems to generate a lot of hate. Cheers..

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Scott MacLeod
Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:49 PM
Subject: [NTF-talk] Clapton is god - & NtFs?
To: nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com

Thanks, - -

Haven't observed or sensed what you observe re "hate," except in your email's mentioning of this. And as a Quaker, I find exploration of such non-theistic Friendly ideas germane to this NtF list's conversation and discernment process, thinking-wise.

Am just thinking about how Monty Python handled the 'hate' of the church of England (Mary Whitehouse) when they were accused of blasphemy in the late '70s for making the film "The Life of Brian" (1979).

I think Non-theist Friends have navigated the issues of integration within (even being hated by?) the Religious Society of Friends re Friends General Conference (which Pacific Yearly Meeting is now joining, amazingly, since possibly the 1940s! Why, I wonder, now?) skillfully (Os and Rosemary and James and DavidB among others?). I think at different times, NtFs have faced not being part of Friends General Conference (a kind of exclusion for heresy even, in a sense?) What do you think?

Thanks for your email. NtFs are kind of navigating a radical edge of Quakerism, and these related questions of music and humor (very enjoyably so - and as if Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, as well as Monty Python were somehow being 'lead" re the Quaker sense of this - as inspired - in creating these), I'd warrant (- and as a kind of NtFriendly leading too even?), are all part of a non-theistically Friendly discernment process ... in this email conversation and sharing process esp.

Scott
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Am thinking it's a healthy NtF conversation to have and explore too re heresy and blasphemy questions within the Religious Society of Friends (RSOF), given the history of Mary Dyer and the valiant 60 plus related ways of thinking (and there are probably many further Quaker and some NrF examples), and while bearing witness to, and remembering, their suffering (for outrageous acts by the perpetrators of religious punishment). If not the Non-theist Friends' email list re Quakers, where? Thanks.

Conversation is the important thing re these issues - now on the NtF email list.

Have blogged a bit about this here -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/protea-pinwheel-leucospermum-catherinae.html

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Very odd. I have not seen any hate on any subject
on this list and I think there are some pantheists
or have been; certainly discussion of pantheism vs.
other similar ideas. Maybe the correspondent was
not referring to the non -theist list.
Margaret

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Margaret and Non-theist Friends,

:)
In the name of non-theism (NtFs And Quakerly atheism too!), I'd affirm that this email list is quite caring. Still not sure though about the NtF philosophical claim that "Clapton is god - & NtFs?" (re https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/protea-pinwheel-leucospermum-catherinae.html).

Scott

PS This is quite extraordinary music too - "J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBooio3h9U- and while I won't claim in parallel manner that Bach is divine, it could be something for NtFs to explore further, writing-conversation-wise - and maybe online musically as well at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach ...

By the way, re NtF and Quakerly informed World University and School's monthly business meeting (in the manner of Friends) ...

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting this Saturday, Aug 17, 2019, at 9 am Pacific Time, 12 noon ET, electronically, in a Google group video Meet; email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining!
World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 17, 2019:

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1161819259426594817

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting on Sat 8/17/19, at 9am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, in Google group video Meet; email info@worlduniversityandschool.org
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/08/agenda-news-for-sat-17-aug-2019-world.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/honeysuckle-lonicera-periclymenum.html ~

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting on Sat 8/17/19, at 9am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, in Google group video Meet; email info@worlduniversityandschool.orghttps://t.co/nqGb9RNCS5 - and - https://t.co/U7w9Lyqxgk ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 15, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1161857355895603200
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1161857546526662657
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1161857084037582848
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1161857797383790593
- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1161858493860593664
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1161858927568359425

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August 15, 2019

Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia): Genes, DNA for genealogy and learning, Documenting first steps into the world of genealogy software with DNA analysis ... very new territory - the big soup of cellular and molecular biology inside our bodies biologically

Documenting first steps into the world of genealogy software with DNA analysis

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Scott MacLeod
Aug 14, 2019, 9:24 AM (1 day ago)
to Edith, Sandy, Susan, Karen, Alden, Janie, Scott, Ann, catherinemuller57, Pete, MacLeod

Hello Mark, Ma (Janie), Karen and All,

Just received my first Ancestry text message from a distant relative in England today. Am just beginning to parse the DNA information that Ancestry processed recently which I read about yesterday, but which I haven't yet looked into, in terms of a whole new set of narratives. Here's the message, as a first foray into DeoxyriboNucleic Acid stories:

"Derrick Leigh
Fourth Cousin
TODAY
DL
Hi Scott,
I just noticed our DNA match of 31cm which came up today. Our common ancestors appear to be in my grandmother's LAW family. It also appears that we have a facebook friend in common, Lisa Woodhouse, who is a distant relative through the BEVAN family in my tree. Are you related to her? What a small world it is!
Regards,
Derrick Leigh
Leighton Buzzard, UK"

So, cousin ('Cuz') Karen Leighty, would you care to speculate, whether, where and when someone added a 'ty' to your name with regard to Derrick Leigh's last name and message? :) And where Derrick happens to be from Leighton Buzzard, UK ... :) Naming stuff makes for interesting serendipity and synchronicity (somehow Jacques Lacan MD comes to mind here too for me re the significance of language).

And then I looked this morning at the initial narrative that AncestryDNA itself shared:

"DNA Story SM
Ethnicity Estimate
62% Scotland and Ireland

38% England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe

Discover the places, history, and cultures that shaped who you are today—using just your DNA.

Discover Your DNA Story Discover Your DNA Story"

This is very new territory for me - the big soup of cellular and molecular biology inside our bodies biologically translated and interpreted and then turned into evidence for kinds of personal origin / kinship / family stories - and to go from WHERE ancestors passed on their genes, mated that is (for, what, 10-30 generations? since people genes families move through space and time), via very new genealogy softwares in the age of information and the internet, and re companies like Ancestry.com who organize and process this information, to genealogy explorations that interest our curiosity is kinda fascinating as I think about this ... and especially because you and I could be / are interested in these stories. (Why, I wonder?) Cousin Mark MacLeod is an old hand at reading his DNA's stories via Ancestry.com, having gotten his AncestryDNA processed a while ago. (When did you get your AncestryDNA kit done, Mark? What were your experiences? What new narratives emerged for you here?) ... But I'm also seeking to write about this 'arrival in a new land' exploration as I take the first steps.

So, either I'm Scottish, Celtic Knot, Irish, or English - self-identified - IDENTITY questions all. ... :) where the Celtic languages, to change the (genealogy softwares foci on place) narratives of 'mating' and passing on of genes (thanks, Charles Darwin, Francis Crick and James Watson), and presumably the languages that were spoken as said genes were shared, are Scots' Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, as well as Cornish and Manx spoken as second languages today by a few hundreds of people - among the group of people I descend from. And the English language has been a big part of this mix for me especially ... but English is pretty new as a language too (since its spread dates from the late 1700s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Spread_of_Modern_English). So ahead ... more genealogy narrative explorations for me thanks to this new evidence from a 'brave new world.'

How best to respond to - to converse with - Derrick Leigh, thanks to this brand new biological evidence, creating very new ways of connecting among a group of fellow travelers genetically-linked, through time? Ma, I wanna look at all the family documents next time I'm in Pittsburgh, and potentially add some of these to Ancestry, as well as begin to understand their significances, and develop new narratives ! Family, please let Mark and I know if you begin to explore further in Ancestry.com (or WikiTree) or in other genealogy software - so we can extend this conversation! DNA stories welcome! :)

More later, Scotty

- http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm

- http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm

'Gordon K MacLeod MD' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD

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

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Susan Harvey
Wed, Aug 14, 9:38 AM (1 day ago)
to me, Edith, Sandy, Susan, Karen, Alden, Janie, Scott, Ann, catherinemuller57, MacLeod, Pete

Fascinating. I do hope to jump in at some point. Covered up with OTHER minutiae at moment. Only 116 degrees in GA so housebound.

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Susan, Karen, Edith and All,

Great to hear from you. My question still stands: William Gilbert and Docia Holland - what narratives and documents and family history is there?

Cheers, Scott

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Wed, Aug 14, 12:41 PM (1 day ago)
to Jennifer, Jen, Susan, Edith, Sandy, Susan, Karen, Alden, Janie, Scott, Ann, catherinemuller57, MacLeod, Pete

Mark, Jen (in ND), Family, MacLeods, Gilberts, Browns, Briscoes, Chadbournes, Leightys, Harveys, Ethridges, and all,

So, this exploratory DNA story as further foray continues (thanks to just having received by AncestryDNA analysis!):

In a new "DNA Matches" this is what it says about Mark MacLeod ...

Mark MacLeod
1st–2nd Cousin
Shared DNA: 783 cM across 35 segments
3,849 People
Common ancestor

And yes, veracity - truth, since he's my first cousin (with our fathers - Gordon and Bruce - being brothers!)

So I created easily a little group in Ancestry I called:
"MacLeod / McLeod father's side of family re Scott GK MacLeod's DNA Matches"
(which was called "Scott GK MacLeod's DNA Matches re James Edward McLeod (1850s to PEI Canada)")

and a second little group in Ancestry called:
"Brown / Chadbourne / Gilbert mother's side of family re Scott GK MacLeod's DNA Matches"

... and added both Mark MacLeod, as well as Jen Macleod (in North Dakota), who's our first cousin once removed, her father, Paul MacLeod, being the son of Paul Roger MacLeod (brother too of Bruce and Gordon).

Here's what it says about Jen MacLeod ...

Jen MacLeod
1st–2nd Cousin
Shared DNA: 511 cM across 19 segments
1,243 People
Common ancestor

I know both Mark and Jen, - a good starting point as I figure out what to do next in Ancestry, newly with DNA information.

Especially Mark, and Jen too, share a lot of common ancestors in Ancestry.com, by far more than anyone else who came up as possible relatives on this new DNAAncestry list.

And what does "Shared DNA: 783 cM across 35 segments" (for Mark) OR "Shared DNA: 511 cM across 19 segments" (for Jen) mean? Will explore!

Glad we're not totally on the bleeding edge of interpreting DNAAncestry genealogy data - since we're at least a few years into both analyses and narratives!

And there's one JimAlan MacLeod who seems related ...

JimAlan MacLeod
1st–2nd Cousin
Shared DNA: 542 cM across 20 segments
30 People
Common ancestor

Mark, is this your younger brother, Jim (saying he's of Brunswick, Maine, in Ancestry)?

Tales from the DNA ancestor genealogy new world narrative front lines (for me) :)

Cheers, Scott

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Wed, Aug 14, 1:17 PM (1 day ago)
to me, Jen, Sandy

Scott,

Glad to hear you're getting into your DNA matches.

Jim Alan MacLeod can be found on my family tree. He is the first born of Ernest James MacLeod's second marriage. This makes him the grandson of James Edward MacLeod! Your brother Sandy and cousin Gerry know him well. He's a real character and will be at the family reunion.

I arranged to have Jim's DNA analyzed and have been studying his matches. As he is two levels higher on the tree than us, his matches on Ancestry are starting to tell an interesting story as to the origins of James Edward. In fact, he has 8 unique 'extremely high confidence' matches (outside of our known family) who have MacLeod/McLeod ancestors in Scotland. Give me a little more time and I'll have more on this!

You may also see a Mary Bonczek and Mary Lindmark as matches. These are descendants of Mary Elizabeth 'Betty' MacLeod who married Urho Makela. Betty was Gordon Kenneth MacLeod's sister and last of Ernest's children from his first marriage. Many Makelas live today in Peabody, MA. Mary Bonczek is Betty's daughter and therefore one step higher on the tree than us (less diluted DNA!). I'd love to see her results.

Would you be willing to share your DNA results? I'm more than happy to share mine. Select Settings from the first DNA page on Ancestry.

Mark

NB - Note that I try to avoid copying many people!

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Lily of the Valley: seeking a friend / girl friend / partner / wife / mom-to-be: someone I connect with, attractive, MD?, from a different country OK

As a heads' up, and re Reed circles, (re Stanford & Berkeley too) ... Am seeking a friend / girl friend / partner / wife / mom-to-be: someone I connect with, attractive, who's 28 years old+, or a 30-something, MD?, from a different country OK, ... would be great. Do any of you know any single 30-something Reedie MDs or similar in the SF Bay Area, eg who might have studied with you at Reed, or know through Reed circles, and who are also looking for a partner?

(Some woman who's looking for a partner ... could be happy to have met me ... but I don't think I have many 'common interests' with any woman in a pub, for example - re joining a group. And finding a place & group to meet a woman - a MD? - with shared common interests re World Univ & Sch's medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School (planned online in ~200 countries' official languages) - isn't obvious to me at this point. So how to get the information out there further, I wonder? And which groups to join? Teaching or taking a Yoga class ... c'est possible).

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Hi Scott,

Yes, I do think going to meetings, joining a group with a common interest, teaching or taking a yoga class for example, etc. posting a profile on a website (I know a fair number of people who met partners on the internet) - are all opportunities to meet a partner. Get the info out there.

Love, M

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August 14, 2019

Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum): Agenda & News for Sat. 17 Aug 2019 World Univ & Sch's OPEN Monthly Business Meeting at 9am PT, electronically mediated ... "How to get a world-class education for free on the internet"

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting on Sat 8/17/19, at 9am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, in Google group video Meet; email info@worlduniversityandschool.orghttps://t.co/nqGb9RNCS5 - and - https://t.co/U7w9Lyqxgk ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 15, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1161857355895603200

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 17, 2019:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/08/agenda-news-for-sat-17-aug-2019-world.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/honeysuckle-lonicera-periclymenum.html.

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on September 21, 2019.

Sincerely, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

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The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://t.co/bGvM3Ft4dt Thanks to @Modeun @Aeternus_priaro @ThePlusGroup1— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 15, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1161813946254397440
1 Two World Univ & Sch wings are amazing, great, online universities' opportunities. WUaS seeks to develop first the non-profit World University and School, and potentially in Google for Non-profits as platform, - and as we seek funding to license with state of CA's BPPE for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, and then concurrently accredit with WASC senior. This will involve building out of best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare's ~2500 courses in English, with these initial six majors in the course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). WUaS is seeking our 2nd undergraduate matriculating class at licensing and accrediting WUaS as we begin to develop the World Univ & Sch platform further. Some of these will potentially be German Abitur Gymnasium (university bound high school) student graduates interested in studying online in English for this WUaS free-to-students' university degrees.
1a - 14 WUaS planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html .

2 The "Monday World Univ & Sch News and Q & A sessions at 10 am PT" are now happening newly in StreamYard video conferencing which records to YouTube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch (since Google's Live Hangouts on Air closed on August 2, 2019). Here's one of the first of these - "World Univ & Sch News and Q & A in StreamYard - 8/12/19" ...

https://youtu.be/vKaS9255URk.

Re Google Meet video conferencing software: Since World Univ & Sch is in Google Education, and while Google Meet video conferencing software also looks great, it doesn't record to Youtube for free Google Education users like WUaS.

WUaS also still hasn't seen whether something like the new Google Meet - and with 5G - will become the basis for real, real time music-making - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Musical_Jamming (e.g. in the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School) - and for real, real time tele-robotic surgery in World Univ & Sch's online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in WUaS's planned medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School.

WUaS continues to be both Google architecture-centric in general, as well as Wikidata-centric in its ~300 languages, as we develop further.

3 World University and School seeks to begin building a team of high achievers, students, researchers, faculty - like at Harvard Law's https://cyber.harvard.edu/ BKC - https://mailchi.mp/cyber/the-buzz-504601?e=d21d1ecc31 - for example, and for this need monies. Please contact WUaS Chair of Board Larry Viehland at viehland@chatham.edu, or the president of WUaS Scott MacLeod at sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org to collaborate, talk further or donate monies to 501 (c) 3 World University and School - https://guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368. WUaS is seeking funds in particular to license with CA's BPPE and then for accreditation.

4 Thank you to Peter Bothe for very great updates to both of WUaS's Logos as independent entities: to A) 501 c 3 World Univ & Sch, and B) the for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation (both planned in ~200 countries and in 7,111 known living languages). And for creating some new designs as well. These new designs look fantastic!

5 World Univ & Sch is seeking an information technology team to help code WUaS newly in Google Sites+ and in Wikibase / Wikidata. Part of this process will likely involve beginning to code for the WUaS Corp / Press's online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store + (see 14 planned revenue streams above).

6 The WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (as distinct from https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch) - will publish its 4th book this autumn, and is planned with machine translation of all 7,111 known living languages for STEM, humanities and poetry.

Here are the first 3 WUaS Press books (available from - https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity)

"Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss" ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3

"Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry" ('17)

"Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" ('16)

@HarbinBook @WorldUnivAndSch ~

Published by the Academic Press at World University and School

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3
Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry ('17)
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin ('16) @HarbinBook @WorldUnivAndSch~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) August 14, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1161634979433943040

All the best, Scott

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Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum): Agenda & News for Sat. 17 Aug 2019 World Univ & Sch's OPEN Monthly Business Meeting at 9am PT, electronically mediated

Dear Universitians and friends,

Thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. The financial reports for A) World University and School, and for the B) WUaS Corporation for July are unchanged from last month's; please see those.

Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting this Saturday, Aug 17, 2019, at 9 am Pacific Time, 12 noon ET, electronically, in a Google group video Hangout; email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining!- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/s...

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 17, 2019:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/08/agenda-news-for-sat-17-aug-2019-world.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/honeysuckle-lonicera-periclymenum.html.

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on September 21, 2019.

Sincerely, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

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1 Two World Univ & Sch wings are amazing, great, online universities' opportunities. WUaS seeks to develop first the non-profit World University and School, and potentially in Google for Non-profits as platform, - and as we seek funding to license with state of CA's BPPE for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, and then concurrently accredit with WASC senior. This will involve building out of best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare's ~2500 courses in English, with these initial six majors in the course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). WUaS is seeking our 2nd undergraduate matriculating class at licensing and accrediting WUaS as we begin to develop the World Univ & Sch platform further. Some of these will potentially be German Abitur Gymnasium (university bound high school) student graduates interested in studying online in English for this WUaS free-to-students' university degrees.
1a - 14 WUaS planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html .

2 The "Monday World Univ & Sch News and Q & A sessions at 10 am PT" are now happening newly in StreamYard video conferencing which records to YouTube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch (since Google's Live Hangouts on Air closed on August 2, 2019). Here's one of the first of these - "World Univ & Sch News and Q & A in StreamYard - 8/12/19" ... https://youtu.be/vKaS9255URk .

Re Google Meet video conferencing software: Since World Univ & Sch is in Google Education, and while Google Meet video conferencing software also looks great, it doesn't record to Youtube for free Google Education users like WUaS.

WUaS also still hasn't seen whether something like the new Google Meet - and with 5G - will become the basis for real, real time music-making - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Musical_Jamming (e.g. in the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School) - and for real, real time tele-robotic surgery in World Univ & Sch's online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in WUaS's planned medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School .

WUaS continues to be both Google architecture-centric in general, as well as Wikidata-centric in its ~300 languages, as we develop further.

3 World University and School seeks to begin building a team of high achievers, students, researchers, faculty - like at Harvard Law's https://cyber.harvard.edu/ BKC - https://mailchi.mp/cyber/the-buzz-504601?e=d21d1ecc31 - for example, and for this need monies. Please contact WUaS Chair of Board Larry Viehland at viehland@chatham.edu, or the president of WUaS Scott MacLeod at sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org to collaborate, talk further or donate monies to 501 (c) 3 World University and School - https://guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368. WUaS is seeking funds in particular to license with CA's BPPE and then for accreditation.

4 Thank you to Peter Bothe for very great updates to both of WUaS's Logos as independent entities: to A) 501 c 3 World Univ & Sch, and B) the for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation (both planned in ~200 countries and in 7,111 known living languages). And for creating some new designs as well. These new designs look fantastic!

5 World Univ & Sch is seeking an information technology team to help code WUaS newly in Google Sites+ and in Wikibase / Wikidata. Part of this process will likely involve beginning to code for the WUaS Corp / Press's online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store + (see 14 planned revenue streams above).

6 The WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (as distinct from https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch) - will publish its 4th book this autumn, and is planned with machine translation of all 7,111 known living languages for STEM, humanities and poetry.

Here are the first 3 WUaS Press books (available from - https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity)

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3

Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry ('17)

Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin ('16)

@HarbinBook @WorldUnivAndSch ~

Published by the Academic Press at World University and School
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1161634979433943040

All the best, Scott

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- 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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August 13, 2019

Verbascum: Just began my 3rd book of poetry's text: added titles, and added probably the first 4 poems. I'm building out of my last book's template - "Winding Road Rainbow" - which is a helpful structure for "To the Dance or the Pools - Virtually? How diff

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Hi M,

Thanks again for your email. Will you see, or have you seen, the Craigs this summer? There were some pictures of Craigs in the photos I emailed you this morning in Google Photo. Chris Craig on the phone when I was on Cuttyhunk had mentioned looking forward to seeing you.

I noticed too that Delia Owen, author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," received her Ph.D. from UC Davis. Am curious whether she might have made it to Harbin Hot Springs while a student, and also whether Harbin could even have made it into her book in any way? (https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity) On with my next and 3rd book of poetry, also Harbin-informed, and mostly of poetry from 2010-2011 ... tentatively titled "To the Dance or the Pools - Virtually? How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality" ... so very timely with regard to the information technology revolution.

Time to bagpipe a little, possibly record a little in "Tune Tutorials," and before getting off this ridge in what looks like it's going to be a hot day.

L, Scott

Just found another MIT article on longevity, from a different angle ... many centering around DNA methylation leading to age reversal at the DNA level in mice ...

"This scientist believes he has found the elixir of life and thinks we can extend human life span by another 30 to 50 years, at least. (link: http://bit.ly/2MaSbYR) bit.ly/2MaSbYR"

This scientist believes he has found the elixir of life and thinks we can extend human life span by another 30 to 50 years, at least. https://t.co/yulvFyODDV pic.twitter.com/MpAxnqKodY— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) August 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1160964400913801216?s=20

And here's the longevity blog post from June with many other resources -
Montane ecosystems: Longevity (immortality even) & where are we now with reversing aging?, MIT Media Lab Direcctor Joi Ito's "THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY: WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM," and "The Future of Xapiens - Xapiens at MIT was live" with Pattie Maes, Max Tegmark, David Sinclair, George Church, Ed Boyden, and Joe Paradiso * * * Dartington Hall is so very beautiful! Wonderful that you'll be teaching there together, Victor and Angela (and Satya)! * * * Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ! you don't say! :) How best to explore both your Yoga and creativity in online group video Hangouts newly, I wonder?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/montane-ecosystems-longevity.html

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Just began my 3rd book of poetry's text: added titles, and added probably the first 4 poems. I'm building out of my last book's template - "Winding Road Rainbow" - which is a helpful structure for "To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually." I like some fo the poems I've added a lot. Seeking a cover photo ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/common-yellowthroat-upcoming-book-to.html ... (https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity)

91 F in Canyon, 79 F in Berkeley, and quite cool in the Free Speech Movement Cafe at UC Berkeley, with a cross breeze, and being in the basement of a library. Blog entry ahead, and drafting the News and Agenda for World University and School's Monthly Business Meeting.

A bit sleepy due to poor night's sleep ... seeking to get to bed earlier this evening. and back by 7:30 or so ...

How was your day, M? And when might you see the Craigs? And did you find your way to swimming on a hot day? What are you reading now?

L, Scott

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A Reed gathering meets on Thursday in downtown SF ... hosted by physics' major named Dieter Dietlinger '01 (whom I've met) at Yerba Buena Center near SF Moma, which downtown and very central ... could meet someone here conceivably (but haven't yet over years). Nevertheless it's potentially a good network in these regards.

Have also emailed a friend named Bridget from Reed from the early 1980s who lives in Portland asking if I can stay with them over the Sat. Sept 14th Reed FAR weekend - and re WUaS ... since I would need a place to stay if I headed up there ... but haven't heard back yet. Am considering driving north, but it may not work out.

Just sent the draft WUaS News and Agenda out for Saturday - see below.

How was your day?

L, Scott

1 Two WUaS wings are amazing great online university opportunities. WUaS seeks to develop first the non-profit World University and School, and potentially in Google for Non-profits as platform, - and as we seek funding to license with state of CA's BPPE for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, and then concurrently accredit with WASC senior. This will involve building out of best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare's ~2500 courses in English, with these initial six majors in the course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). WUaS is seeking our 2nd undergraduate matriculating class at licensing and accrediting WUaS as we begin to develop the World Univ & Sch platform further. Some of these will potentially be German Abitur Gymnasium (university bound high school) student graduates interested in studying online in English for this WUaS free-to-students' university degrees.

1a - 14 WUaS planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html.

2 The "Monday World Univ & Sch News and Q & A sessions at 10 am PT" are now happening newly in StreamYard video conferencing which records to YouTube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch (since Google's Live Hangouts on Air closed on August 2, 2019). Here's one of the first of these - "World Univ & Sch News and Q & A in StreamYard - 8/12/19" ... https://youtu.be/vKaS9255URk.

Re Google Meet video conferencing software: Since World Univ & Sch is in Google Education, and while Google Meet video conferencing software also looks great, it doesn't record to Youtube for free Google Education users like WUaS.

WUaS also still hasn't seen whether something like the new Google Meet - and with 5G - will become the basis for real, real time music-making - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Musical_Jamming (e.g. in the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School) - and for real, real time tele-robotic surgery in World Univ & Sch's online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in WUaS's planned medical schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School .

WUaS continues to be both Google architecture-centric in general, as well as Wikidata-centric in its ~300 languages, as we develop further.

3 Thank you to Peter Bothe for very great updates to both of WUaS's Logos as independent entities: to A) 501 c 3 World Univ & Sch, and B) the for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation (both planned in ~200 countries and in 7,111 known living languages). And for creating some new designs as well. These new designs look fantastic!

4 World Univ & Sch is seeking an information technology team to help code WUaS newly in Google Sites+ and in Wikibase / Wikidata. Part of this process will likely involve beginning to code for the WUaS Corp / Press's online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store + (see 14 planned revenue streams above).

5 The WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (as distinct from https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch) - will publish its 4th book this autumn, and is planned with machine translation of all 7,111 known living languages for STEM, humanities and poetry.

All the best, Scott

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August 12, 2019

Eriophorum angustifolium (common cottongrass): World Univ & Sch News and Q & A in StreamYard - August 12, 2019 https://youtu.be/vKaS9255URk (which is here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUni...) * * * Harvard Yard in 2011 wi statue of John Harvard

World University & School News and Q & A newly in StreamYard >
http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 12 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress
Univs in (link: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) Hosted by
@ScottMacLeod
info @ (link: http://worlduniversityandschool.org) worlduniversityandschool.org~

World University & School News and Q & A newly in StreamYard >http: //www.youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 19 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress Univs in https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 Hosted by @ScottMacLeod
info @ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1159670849000988672

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Hi Universitians,

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A in StreamYard - August 12, 2019
https://youtu.be/vKaS9255URk (which is here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)
In this I talk about - many World Univ & Sch things 'anthropological,' including about a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth / universe for actual-virtual, digital-physical ethnographic and STEM comparison, about ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=0), and about inspiring online anthropology education, MIT OCW-CENTRIC wise - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/ - (but re all ~32 departments too), and in many languages and countries (Google-centric, WIKI and theoretically). Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER + with Second Life, but realistic, and at the cellular and atomic levels. This is an innovative WUaS News and Q & A and newly in in StreamYard (which records to Youtube).
Next World Univ & Sch News' and Q & A is Monday, August 19, 2019 at 10 am Pacific Time - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1160976512620720128
Cheers, Scott
World University & School News and Q & A newly in StreamYard >http: //www.youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 19 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress Univs in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... Hosted by @ScottMacLeod
info @ worlduniversityandschool.org~

World University & School News and Q & A newly in StreamYard >http: //www.youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 19 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Qs/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress Univs in https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 Hosted by @ScottMacLeod
info @ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1160976512620720128

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Harvard Yard in 2011 wi statue of John Harvard (neither in @HarbinBook warm pool nor in Yoga pose nor rocking & rolling) https://photos.app.goo.gl/c9ZM3Vp9Hop83AEe6 … @scottmacleod #GooglePhotos @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to become Harvard of Web in ~200 countries & 7k languages creative 2.2 million jobs

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1160968901028540416

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Published on August 12, 2019 12:04

August 11, 2019

Lotus rhizome: Garden Party in Canyon, virtually too! Bede McCormack (professor of linguistics who focuses on ESL in NYC) almost joined party via video conferencing from NYC I'm glad to say * * * Role that 100-150 out of ~200 central banks could play re a

Very nice to have seen and 'partied' with some of you yesterday evening at the Garden Party in Canyon. Bede McCormack (professor of linguistics with a focus on ESL in NYC) almost joined the party via video conferencing from NYC I'm glad to say (but was taking care of his father who has early Alzheimer's). The Garden Party video conference window was open from about 5-5:30 pm and anyone could have joined this gathering!

Some Scottish small piping, and music-making, happened. Thanks for bringing musical instruments. Was glad to welcome little 4 week old Naoki - welcome Naoki again! (For those interested in some of the information technology related questions we talked about, please see my email to new friends and technologists' Takeshi, Tarun, and Jim Spohrer below!)

Warm regards, Scott

Very nice to have met and talked with you, Takeshi and Tarun, yesterday evening. Thanks for coming to the Garden Party in Canyon. And thanks for the juice and chips as well.

Takeshi, Anne Kathrin Kroemer is the senior legal director at Rubrik whom I met at Stanford Law fairly recently - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-kathrin-kroemer/. Please say hi from me if you see her.

Would be interested to follow up about what role that something like 100-150 out of ~200 central banks could play re a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger in same countries, - and possibly distributed partly via Universal Basic Income experiments.

Here's MIT DCI director, Neha Narula's Twitter - https://twitter.com/neha - and her recent interesting interview with Peter McCormack - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1152270084477468672. And it's in this fascinating day long MIT "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" (2018) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rose-ringed-parakeet-stanford-annual.html - that Neha talks about the role, if I remember correctly, of some kind of regulation re blockchain/cryptocurrency - in the last hour or so. I blog daily and some about a single cryptocurrency back by some number of central banks.

World University and School's law schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School (see below too) - would be interested in exploring how to possibly code for single cryptocurrency legally in all ~200 countries, and perhaps as a way to begin to grow significantly.

Rubrik as "back end" with Google - and planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet?

Very nice to meet you and more late.

Warm regards, Scott

Am active too in the Twitter-sphere ...
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Rose ringed parakeet: Stanford Annual Christmas Lecture - "Dancing Links -- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture (Free Live Lecture)," Dear Prof. & CS Chair Aiken (Alex) and Prof. Emeritus Knuth (Don), Stanford President Emeritus Hennessy (John) and Prof. and Med Chair Harrington MD (Bob), and friends, * * * MIT "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems," Thank you PROFS. ALEXANDER KAPITONOV, Renita Murimi, and Aswin Karthik Ramachandran Venkatapathy, for your great MIT talks just today, ITMO Research University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in Google Street View ... With MIT's Sara Falcone's physical robots & lattice at ~3:59:00 https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU how could we begin to develop Lego #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Home Robotics with Lego Mindstorms EV3 & WeDo 2.0 like https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1070424412246032384 in #RealisticVirtualEarth esp for BLOCKCHAIN?- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rose-ringed-parakeet-stanford-annual.html -

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re #Wikidata Q-item numbers & how #SingleCryptocurrency with blockchain ledger on bank cards, smartphones, paper & coin money might be coded re #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #UBI for both #AlleviatingPoverty worldwide for all 7.5 billion people+ see: (link: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identifiers) wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:… ~

re #Wikidata Q item numbers & how #SingleCryptocurrency with blockchain ledger on bank cards, smartphones, paper & coin money might be coded re #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #UBI for both #AlleviatingPoverty worldwide for all 7.5 billion people+ see: https://t.co/SNIY54FuO3 ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1159893181963460608

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Hi Tarun, (Takeshi and Jim),

Re distinguishing between 1) AR, 2) VR and 3) newly a realistic virtual earth ("theoretically") - ie re a SINGLE integrated realistic virtual universe (for STEM and everything) including WAM functionality - and by extension a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, for ethnographic and STEM research too (conceptually in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER and at the cellular and atomic levels - and potentially with WAM! too!), do you know former IBM-er Aldis Sipolins' work:

Aldis Sipolins
@AldisSipolins
May 9, 2018
Here's my attempt to solve the #XR taxonomy problem.
I'm a #GraphicDesign n00b, so any tips (composition, color, anything) are much appreciated!
#VR #AR

Here's my attempt to solve the #XR taxonomy problem.

I'm a #GraphicDesign n00b, so any tips (composition, color, anything) are much appreciated! #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/wbMgvvQ0AQ— Aldis Sipolins (@AldisSipolins) May 9, 2018

- https://twitter.com/AldisSipolins/status/994263678940835840

(retweeted this here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - again)

Just downloaded and installed "World Around Me" (WAM) App toy smartphone (which is an old Android Samsung Galaxy S3 phone) from the Google Play Store, and can't quite get it working yet. Did it download as "City Guide" icon on my smart phone?

Tarun, in what ways might World Univ & Sch explore collaborating with WAM, and even setting up WUaS offices in Lancaster, England, and Berlin, Germany, with you - and re developing this realistic virtual earth idea on WAM's Google-centric platform?

Cheers, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org

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