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Ways the world can be appreciated. Everything is interesting if you look at it in the right way.

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• A comment on Conversation: Should TED invite a Stay-at-Home mother to speak?

  Dec 1 2011: If there is someone who can give an interesting, insightful and original presentation about being a stay-at-home parent then I don't see why not. I once heard a great lecture on simply being married (Reflections from a Long Marriage, Swarthmore Lecture, 2006) - so it'd make sense that a great talk on parenthood should be possible. The question I think, is how to find a stay-at-home parent with something that they really want to say to TED.

• A comment on Conversation: It's now about how much money you own, it's about what you do with it that matters! (alternative view on 99% vs 1% debate)

  Nov 30 2011: The thing is that the more money you have, the more choice you get about how to spend it. Once you've paid your rent and paid for your food, it's a lot easier to demonstrate what wonderful investment savvy you have, or what wonderful humanitarian values you have only if there's a decent amount left.

• A comment on Conversation: How can a common man participate in "revolutionizing" education?

  Nov 30 2011: You are participating in education every time that you learn or teach something, so if you spend part your free time doing one or both of those then you are making a small difference.

• A comment on Conversation: What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?

  Nov 30 2011: I would have liked to have been taught the skills needed, and be given the motivation to find things out for myself - if you've got that then what else needs to be taught?
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  A comment on Conversation: Fill in the blank: I would like ________ (a living expert) to give me a 5 minute lesson on ________ (a creative topic).

  Nov 30 2011: I would like Tom Milsom to give me a five minute lesson on music theory.