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Geyser: ... time to license WUaS with CA's BPPE, find out about WASC senior accreditation next steps (now in 2020), begin offering WUaS Bachelor & PhD degrees online with MIT OCW > MITx courses on edX, get reimbursement from ~ 200 countries' departments of

... time to license WUaS with CA's BPPE, find out about WASC senior accreditation next steps (now in 2020), begin offering WUaS Bachelor & PhD degrees online with MIT OCW > MITx courses on edX, get reimbursement from ~ 200 countries' departments of education, first in English... and maybe then head back to Pgh where expenses are lower ... re growing WUaS ... from either place ...

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Mark,

Thanks for your email, and congratulations on your new house and your move to Portland, Maine! I admire your country-hopping re your business perspicacity especially! And Happy New Year - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html ! Did you have a good holiday?
Am impressed with your DNA focus and learning. This Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics, George Church, may lead the way to reversing aging -

https://t.co/h7eyYYITr9

Congratulations Hesaam and team!— george church (@geochurch) November 27, 2019

- https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20 (which may be a little like the MacBook laptop and the smartphone) - and potentially especially if we can all sequence our own DNA and contribute it to databases for machine learning - eg see https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/water-on-mars-to-mars-together-rzembo.html. (See too in a similar vein -

How best to add this CRISPR kit/lab tools https://t.co/KBOTbIXa78 >#RealisticVirtualEarth via #GooglePoly & #FilmTo3D App in #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR for learning CRISPR lab techniques for working in real University labs #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #biodesign #DIYbio?— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 9, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1182013264214937600?s=20 . . . as well as "George Church Talks Age Reversal and Woolly Mammoth DNA" - https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/george-church-talks-age-reversal-and-woolly-mammoth-dna/). And planning for all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item #, in WikiTree for a single family tree, would benefit this remarkable time of genetic research on so many fronts, but is on the back burner at WUaS presently; but WUaS is planning 4 initial reasons for 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item # as you may have seen - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/11/minutes-for-annual-meeting-on-saturday.html - and one other for genetics. I think all 7.5 billion people might want to find out their history from their genetics, given the opportunity, and computing would facilitate aggregating this for further learning so well - and is also a remarkably big market for genetics and genealogy as well. Perhaps all the genetic data of 7.5 billion people will help us prolong life beyond the 122 years of Jeanne Calment, so that we can be communicating about family history long into the future, Mark!
"The MacLeods -- the genealogy of a clan" (1969) - what a great idea for a book! Looks like the nearest copy of "Clan MacLeod History' (1969) to where I live is too far in Sacramento. You could inquire with - Tammie Vawter <mrs_califmacleod@yahoo.com> - who is Mrs California MacLeod at many, many west coast Highland Games, hostessing the tent. Have typed in but not begun "MacLeod Society Worldwide" - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and perhaps World Univ & Sch will come into it - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources .Looking forward to seeing your new house, Mark! And congratulations!
Regards, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Genetics -

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:19 PM Mark MacLeod <mark_k_macleod@yahoo.com> wrote:

Scott,
Thanks for the note and congrats on the new book!
Glad to hear your mother will have her DNA analysed. I'm gaining new insights every day by reviewing the DNA results from 6 known family members, including you, and 2 'newfound' family members. I'm writing up the results and will share a draft soon to get your feedback. I've recently submitted a new DNA sample to FTDNA for analysing my 'Y-DNA'. It apparently can look back more generations than the Ancestry autosomal DNA analysis, which is supposedly limited to about 6 generations.
BTW, as I've said before, I think the family tree idea for 7.5B people is ludicrous. Family trees, after all, are for ancestors, not living people. And they are hard to build and take serious research. I'd drop it.
And speaking of genealogy, can you find an online 'ebook' of this: The MacLeods -- genealogy of a clan (https://www.worldcat.org/title/macleods-the-genealogy-of-a-clan/oclc/116772)?
The hardcopy of this book is available in better libraries and on Amazon for $130!
I moved to Portland, Maine this week to an area of town called Munjoy Hill. I look forward to showing you our new house someday.
Mark

On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 5:52:01 PM GMT-3:30, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Susan and Mark, Janie and Sandy, and All,

Happy New Year and Season's Greetings! My holiday letter is below.
Mark, I got my mother an Ancestry.com DNA kit, for Christmas, and it came in the mail today! (She hasn't signed onto anything else with Ancestry.com but may possibly do so after getting DNA analysis back!)
Just published my 4th book as you'll see in the holiday email: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How Different It Is to Soak at Harbin Hot Springs than to Realize it in virtual Reality" :)
Warmest regards, Scott

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

- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 -

Our Ancestry.com profiles -
Derrick Leigh - https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/005a9f9d-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
Mark K MacLeodhttps://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/06543b97-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
Scott GK MacLeodhttps://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/07376f97-0006-0000-0000-000000000000

https://www.geni.com/people/Humphrey-Chadbourne/6000000008799846811

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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Jan 3, 7:07 PM (13 hours ago)
to Mark

Mark,

Haven't yet compared Ancestry.com with WikiTree for exploring comparatively the Chadbourne line to Edward I yet! Thoughts here? Methinks both will have something to offer differentially, and will be helpful and edifying to compare!

Scott

* Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Fri, Jan 3, 7:10 PM (13 hours ago)

to Karen

Thank you too, Karen, and for your hospitality in Washington DC. Very nice to see you, Erica and Blair, and family especially.

And Happy New Year - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html ! Did you have a good holiday?

Hugs, cousin Scott

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Mark MacLeod:

Perhaps not a bad idea to try both. I'd wager that Ancestry's database is larger but I've found it less helpful as you get further back in time. Records get pretty sparse before about 1850 in the UK and Canada. They just didn't keep records then, especially for poor people! For example, Scotland's first census was 1841.
On Friday, January 3, 2020, 11:37:20 PM GMT-3:30, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Mark,
Haven't yet compared Ancestry.com with WikiTree for exploring comparatively the Chadbourne line to Edward I yet! Thoughts here? Methinks both will have something to offer differentially, and will be helpful and edifying to compare!
Scott

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Interesting - and blogged about some of this and more today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/geyser-time-to-license-wuas-with-cas.html. Am wondering how DNA will make it possible to head back 700,000 years genetically - and for family genealogy research too? - per George Church's interview here re age reversal and the Wooly Mammoth ... No records in Scotland before the 1840s even in the Kirks and fronts of bibles? Must be bones/human remains, and bas reliefs in limited supply too ...

Seeking to get a start on my taxes, Mark - with TurboTax! (I'm in awe of how you've navigated between Canada, USA, Scotland and Norway +, in these regards) .

Cheers, Scott

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Glad to write @WUaSPress just published 4th Harbin-inspired 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" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity Had hoped it would be in StreetView

Glad to write @WUaSPress just published 4th Harbin-inspired 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" https://t.co/GUFulKUFxX ~ https://t.co/IyYDniSCwU Had hoped it would be in StreetView— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) January 4, 2020