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About Scott MacLeod
Scott MacLeod was educated at Reed College and the University of California. He's President of the World University and School, planning to offer free-to-students' online accrediting university & high school degrees in all ~200 countries' official / main languages. WUaS is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM-centric CC-4 OpenCourseWare in 5 languages - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" at WUaS and elsewhere on Harvard's virtual Island for many years where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He's also the founder of the Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned in all 7,111 living languages with machine translation.
He's been a bookseller, publisher, professor and university founder, having recently published an actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book: "Naked Harbin Ethnography" -
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and 3 books of poetry: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " "Haiku~ish" & "Winding Road Rainbow," all Harbin-informed poetry.
Born in Cambridge, MA, he was brought up on the east and west coasts of the USA, in Switzerland and Scotland, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a particular interest in the anthropology of information technology and counterculture - http://www.scottmacleod.com - and in developing an interactive 3D VR Realistic Virtual Earth for STEM and everything - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click.
He's been a bookseller, publisher, professor and university founder, having recently published an actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book: "Naked Harbin Ethnography" -
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and 3 books of poetry: "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " "Haiku~ish" & "Winding Road Rainbow," all Harbin-informed poetry.
Born in Cambridge, MA, he was brought up on the east and west coasts of the USA, in Switzerland and Scotland, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a particular interest in the anthropology of information technology and counterculture - http://www.scottmacleod.com - and in developing an interactive 3D VR Realistic Virtual Earth for STEM and everything - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click.
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Blog postDear World Universitians, and friends,
Here are the 1/16/21 WUaS open Monthly Business Meeting Minutes. Thank you too for your generous contributions to World Univ & Sch.
So here below and attached are the Minutes for January 16, 2021 Minutes for 1) World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting, & 2) the WUaS Corp.
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/01/wuas-mbm-sat-jan-16-2021-agenda-and.html
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Blog postWUaS News, Q&A Livestream, Monday, January 25, 2021
VIDEO
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ph2Sc-yUJRBubdScBzmyX6DHfy42027n/view
with Anthony Willoughby joining at about the 12 minute mark!
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Here's the video recording of today's
WUaS News and Q&A Mon Jan 25 2021 (2021-01-25 at 10:00 GMT-8)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ph2Sc-yUJRBubdScBzmyX6DHfy42027n/view?usp=sharing
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Blog postMerry, merry & Happy, happy ~
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
12:42 PM (10 hours ago)
to Byron, Byron, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce, Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott, Sandy, Mark
Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh,2 days ago Read more -
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Blog postHappy Birthday, Patti!Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>12:25 PM (9 hours ago)to Patti, Bruce, Barbara, Heather, David, Taylor, Janie, Scott, Alex, Sioux
Happy, happy Birthday, Patti! ... from all of us! :)
Here's an amazing Allman Brothers' concert from 1973 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - birthday present, which I think you may not have heard live, since it was in SF and you may have been in LA3 days ago Read more -
Blog postRe: Angela's coming to bErkeley (notyet:)
Angelina, Andrew (in YSprings, Ohio), All!
Angela & Victor Yoga Lego Robotics with Playing with lovely props and supports and aids in heading inwardly, deeply, weep-ly (e-motion-ally), innerbody-wise, Yoga freedom-wise :) ... ?
Is this a Tibetan bell in her hand, she who is doing Yoga with a Lego Robot which she may have made herself, by assembling blocks together in a new way, even ~ Want to get stude5 days ago Read more -
Blog postBrava Harvard's Amanda Gorman!"The Poet Amanda Gorman Asked: ‘Where Can We Find Light?’ Ms. Gorman set out to craft a poem that was both hopeful and realistic, one that reflected the political divisions that have fractured the country."https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/who-is-amanda-gorman-poet-inauguration.html ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poetry ~ Brava Amanda Gorman!
"The Poet Amanda Gorman Asked: ‘Where Can We Find Light?’ Ms.5 days ago Read more -
Blog postDeveloping further India languages & machine translation in communication with the Global Educators'Group Pune, India ... and regarding CC-4 MIT OCW courses in 22 Indian languages for free degrees and on edX platform too ... and re potentially the WUAS Press too - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.
VIDEO
India languages & machine translation in a press (at @WUaSPress) - Video
(2021-01-20 at 20:34 GMT-8)
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Blog postHi Susan, Ma, Pin, Ed, Tym, (Pat),
Very glad you came to visit in Canyon 94516, when I wasn't staying in a 'safe house' for whistle-blowing - thank you!
Whistle-blowing to continue after the inauguration tomorrow at 9 am PT which ritual hopefully will go smoothly!
Am appreciative of Stanford Fellow, China scholar, Quaker on Swarthmore's Board, and New Yorker Liz Economy's thinking here in general - My money is on the enforcers https://t.co/O5GYL3Jk1 week ago Read more -
Blog postHi Prasanth and Larry,
Out of interest, why are you interested in a PhD in cognitive science, (if WUaS could develop this further from CC-4 MIT OCW) and regarding your interest in Tamil language World Univ & Sch even - in addition to your interest in EECS?
For reading excellent books about the brain, I think, check out Sharon Begley's books (who is an alumna of excellent Yale University and remembered here by HARVARD & MIT Prof of Genetics' George Ch1 week ago Read more -
Blog postHi Ma, Susan, Pin, Ed, Tym, (Pat),
A further response to you, Susan and All, in the 'visiting in Canyon 94516' thread below.
Ma, All, I think Narendra Modi, the head of India, and now the startup capital of the world looks better with a shorter beard and shorter hair ... but here he's beginning to look like a hippy, as the head of India with its 1.3 billion people, and somewhat religious culture in modernity - https://twitter.com/1kunalbahl/status/1350668898091 week ago Read more -
Blog postWUaS Monthly Business Meeting ~ Jan 16, 2021 ~ video recording ~
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xpYQgX8jUPzkdmuKjUjTUyWd9h7OG2XR/view ~ (This is a fairly new video recording file format for WUaS - please email sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org if you would like to see this and can't access it; thank you).
Dear Larry, Prasanth, (Vignesh), Lydia, Peter, Bill,
Thanks much for joining MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch1 week ago Read more -
Blog postMIT CSAIL https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1338916735294959616?s=20 Tweet to illustrate this research lab's creativity & re #WUaScollaborations & an #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarth, & for #PhysicalDigital #WUaSrobotics, in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch PhDs? worldunversityandschool.org ~
WorldUnivAndSch
MIT CSAIL https://t.co/vqNbOV6NjM Tweet to illustrate this research lab's creativity & re #WUaScoll1 week ago Read more -
Blog postDear Universitians and friends,
Hi Friends, Happy New Year in 2021 ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html! !
Our open Friendly-inspired World Univ & Sch monthly business meets on Sa 1/16/21 at 9am Pacific Time if you might be interested in joining the hour-long conversation meet.google.com/uzu-fhsm-vvc .
And thank you all for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the finan1 week ago Read more -
Blog postFwd: MIT OCW in all languages
to inbox, chock.karuppaiah, tamilunivc, tva, NTM, Prasanth, Sri, nidahasvidyalaya, Prem, Larry, officePrasanth, Tariq - and Tamil Virtual Academy, Tamil University, Vetrivel Foundation - Karky's Research Foundation (in Chennai, largest city in Tamil Nadu, India) Prem, Larry,
So, brainstorming-wise, and in creating a new machine translation academic pres1 week ago Read more -
Blog postWorld Univ & Sch is matriculating our 3rd undergraduate class in 2021, rolling admissions ... >Online, with students studying on edX's platform for FREE-to-students' 4-year best STEAM CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees in English. For info email info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~
World Univ & Sch is matriculating our 3rd undergraduate class in 2021, >Online, with students studying on edX's platform for FREE-to-stude2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog post~ @WorldUnivAndSch to be #WorthySailboats on journey thru weather of #Modernity into #Internetity, in #MediaCreated #covid19 re #GeneticEngineering Rev too: New #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCulturalArtForms re MEDITATION 'into' #VirtualSoaking @ #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook?
~ @WorldUnivAndSch to be #WorthySailboats on journey thru weather of #Modernity into #Internetity, in #MediaCreated #covid19 re #GeneticEngineering Rev too: New #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCultura2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postWelcome back to this sacred land and water
https://harbin.org/Beautiful ️ pics~Also in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking in #WUaSdigitalGlasses http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html?m=0 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism ~https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view ~ Welcome back to this sacred land and waterhttps://t.co/is0KV0SU2R
Beautiful ❤️ pics~Also in a #Real2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog post"Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually: ... " book of poetry is available ~ https://amazon.com/dp/0578834685 ~
Project ECHO-WUaS Academic Medical Center partnership legal papers, for 200 countries and in their official / main languages online, are emerging ~
World Univ & Sch successfully filed the tax-exempt 501 c 3 renewal 990-N card recently ~
Ian Whitelaw was very positive about teaching Scottish small piping lessons ~
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Blog postHi Ian,
Greetings in the New Year!
How are you? And happy New Year ~ with my Season's Greeting's 2021 letter here ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html !
I last took lessons from you in / around San Francisco in 2010 - for which I thank you! And I've just completed my first Scottish Small Pipes' album entitled "Honey in the Bag" - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog post[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (1/7 @1.30p PT): Legal by design; ML SCOTUS prediction (via Zoom)
Hi Everyone - Happy New Year!
Our first CodeX group meeting of the quarter is today (Jan 7), from 1:30p to 2:30p PT, via Zoom - please use link and password below. All speakers will present remotely.
Our guests:
Giorgia Vulcano, EU Privacy Counsel, EU Data Protection Office of Coca-Cola Services. Ms. V2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postStarting a new Tamil language World University and School for Tamil Nadu-ans, in Tamil, and thanks to Prasanth in Madurai, south India
Perhaps you've noted here for example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html - that WUaS educational approach has 2 sides to it:
1) free to students' DEGREES - with students taking MIT OCW and NEWLY edX courses, as WUaS licensing with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postsoft copy ~ my new book "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually ..."
Hi Prasanth,
Thank you for your Twitter inquiry about a soft copy. And now I see on a larger-than-my-smartphone's screen that you're asking about my new book "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually ..." Soft copy of?
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) January 6, 2021 - pic.twitter.com/YeTnwaWnXt
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Blog postA great university, and high school (IB with Lego Robotics, from MIT OpenCourseWare on edX platform?), in your home ... and in your country, and your language - for free :), and wiki too :))?
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>1:12 PM (3 hours ago)to Anthony, Fritz, Koh, Prasanth, George, Larry, Meeting, Info, Scott, AndrewDear Anthony, Prasanth, Fritz, Universitians, (and greetings Georg3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog post[UUCPA Choir] singing together via. FM Radio
Unitarian Universalist
From Steve Johnson, who went to Haverford in the 1960s (Quaker college, and which was pretty radical then, I've heard, - and regarding envisioning & creating a better world), and grew up around Haverford before that, and sings in the UU Church of Palo Alto choir, now in a time of social isolation, due to Covid-19 quarantine, and where internet real-real time singing and music-making for c3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postLight, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems' (book)
is AVAILABLE ! :)
Paperback – January 1, 2021
by Prof Scott GK MacLeod III (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578834685
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~Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually '21
~Honey in the Bag '20 (Scottish Small Pipes' album)
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #VR '19
~Winding Road R3 weeks ago Read more
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Books By Scott MacLeod
Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin
Sep 20, 2016
$24.99
An anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, virtual Harbin, the 1960s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology
The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.
Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.
After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.
- Scott MacLeod
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.
Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.
After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.
- Scott MacLeod
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
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Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation (Tourism and Cultural Change Book 9)
Feb 12, 2011
$20.00
This edited volume on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities. The book investigates issues of national identity, authenticity, definition of heritage, representation of cultures and regions, community and tourism development, urban tourism, and heritage conservation and tourism through a new vision for the region that transcends current geopolitics or national and formal historiographies.
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