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What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/30/20

and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):

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

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Coronavirus Su 8/30/20 Black Lives Matter

Harvard University
@Harvard
COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say

COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say https://t.co/QwyzKdLKWb— Harvard University (@Harvard) August 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1300197860978364416?s=20

For some college students, this school year begins in an unusual way: in quarantine in their dorm rooms
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/metro/welcome-college-please-stay-your-room-alone/

Virus thrusts college presidents into hot seat
Traditionally, university presidents are behind-the-scene managers and fund-raising gurus, most often seen welcoming students in the fall and sending them off with their degrees during graduation ceremonies in the spring. But the pandemic has thrust them to the forefront and made them the public face of their institution’s decision on how to reopen for the fall.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/30/metro/virus-thrusts-college-presidents-into-hot-seat/

-- - 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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GERMANY CORONA DEMO IN BERLIN https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article214632160/Corona-Demo-in-Berlin-Schock-nach-dem-Sturm-auf-den-Reichstag.html

Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. AloneMost colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/metro/welcome-college-please-stay-your-room-alone/

How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak, a disaster that spread hundreds of milesThe town of Millinocket had not recorded a single case of coronavirus. One celebration would change all of that.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/29/nation/how-an-intimate-wedding-rural-maine-led-states-largest-covid-outbreak-disaster-that-spread-hundreds-miles/

Pre-Historic |Research: The original Stonehenge served as a huge sound amplifierSciencehttps://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000006618011.html

-- - 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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‘Another world is possible.’ Ayanna Pressley calls for political change at March on Washington
Representative Ayanna Pressley expressed confidence in the ability of the recent racial justice movements to translate into lasting political change as she addressed the 2020 March on Washington on Friday.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/nation/another-world-is-possible-ayanna-pressley-calls-political-change-march-washington/

Gamification keeps the consumer engagedhttps://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/18018-gamification-keeps-the-consumer-engaged.html

Some weird games Finns like to playLIFESTYLE 28 AUGUST 2020