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• A comment on Conversation: Should we expect anyone in the entertainment industry to be role models?

  23 hours ago: Excellence in one area often does not carry over to others.

• A comment on Conversation: Who was your favorite teacher?

  23 hours ago: Favorite Teacher - Where? If one has studied a number of things acedemic and not This gets hard. Which school and college and which other training including military. serious or funny?

• A comment on Conversation: Self-Preservation Or Self-Sacrifice: Which Would You Choose ?

  23 hours ago: Like a mountain climber - at least in the movies If a man can't be saved, you have to cut him loose.

• A reply on Conversation: What is your poetry?

  23 hours ago: Pabitra I am probably being pedantic because I am made that way, but the Romantics include Shelley, Lord Byron, and a few of their contemporaries I believe. That's what I meant.

• A reply on Talk: Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism

  23 hours ago: True and some donors have unerxpected problems We are saying roughly the same thing - I just pointed it out.

• A comment on Conversation: Can urban beehives increase food production?

  1 day ago: More food Always a good idea.

• A comment on Conversation: How has the new footage of the giant squid as seen on the Discovery channel a few months ago impacted the world of marine biology?

  1 day ago: Hopefully someone will post the link to really good footage.
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  A comment on Conversation: Self-Preservation Or Self-Sacrifice: Which Would You Choose ?

  1 day ago: Okay this is obvious But let's hope I am below and the person above is strong enough to pull us all up. Then again maybe there is another alternative that ends better. You can't do if you don't try.
  I have friends that would find a way, and hopefully I can too.

• A comment on Conversation: What was the book that influenced you the most?

  1 day ago: History The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  Fiction First - The Grapes of Wrath Now during the Great Disruption- The grapes of Wrath
  Poetry Poe or Kipling collections Okay we can't give up Blake.
  Communication Two books by Larry McLaughlan
  Sales Moine and Lloyd
  Physics Feynman's Lectures Vol.1
  Sci Fi Asimov Robot books and all the following.
  Randomness etc. Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan by Taleb.
  Martial Arts Anything by Bruce Tagner and Kim
  political science Fukuyama's Origin of the Political Order.
  The Bible Dry Depressing book Get it on CD's and make James Earl jones your co-pilot as you drive to work.
  Want to Hear The Raven by Poe James Earl Jones. No body does it better than Darth Vader.
  Now I've bored you enough

• A comment on Conversation: What is your poetry?

  1 day ago: I have been kind of drifting to Ogden Nash, Kipling, Poe, and William Blake (whose art is so wonderful). Of course the Romantics are outstanding and how can we get by without Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sir Walter Scott. Okay, as I get older poetry rocks.