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• A comment on Conversation: Is success related to your talent? Is talent related to your interests?

  13 hours ago: All these issues may be viewed as products of several factors which vary according to each item. Success in some areas may require more than one person e.g. ernesto sirulli's talk.

• A comment on Conversation: There seems to be a conflict between being online and in the body - suggestions to solve that.

  13 hours ago: These seems complicated to me, but what I most recognize is that people vary in skills. Some will never be good dianosticians. It seems the more options the better.

• A comment on Talk: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify

  13 hours ago: Outstanding - While we are looking at two ways; however, I remember reading an old essay- maybe a translation of an essay by a Chinese Philosopher comparing Western, Indian, and Chinese thought. We can look at things so many different ways - common facets and differences. I have been facinated by the Magi. In Zorastrian thought there is Mithrah or Mitra in Sanskrit. Constantine the Great was a member of a Mithran cult What does that mean I don't know exactly Then I also became interested in the Stoics who earned special mention by Paul. I don't know but there is lumping and convergence as well as splitting. I am a freemason and virtually all lmy brothers in my lodge are Christians and Jews. A friend introduced me to another brother who is a Hindu. This is interesting and a somewhat similiar explanation of monotheism. Perception can be challenging.

• A comment on Talk: Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people

  14 hours ago: Borrowing from Prof. Ravi Batra with the pooring of America and the Pooring of the World This makes sense.

• A reply on Conversation: Given the rates of poverty and despair in even our most "advanced" nations and the onset of global warming, is space exploration prudent?

  15 hours ago: Johnathon Good point and we mjust remember that we are not in charge.

• A reply on Conversation: Does entertainment foster or impede empathy?

  15 hours ago: Gord Yes, in communication intention is often discedrnable Good point

• A comment on Conversation: Can using an introduced animal to control another animal actually work on a large scale?

  1 day ago: Oh my gosh, I hope it works unlike how it often doesn't.

• A comment on Conversation: Does entertainment foster or impede empathy?

  1 day ago: Okay, It depends sounds trivial, but it's true.

• A comment on Conversation: How can we bring about such a change which inculcates creativity and innovation when we are tasked with changing mindsets of Millions?

  1 day ago: Wouldn't people have to want to change? Also, positive change may be in a direction different than desired by the great propganda machines.

• A comment on Conversation: Given the rates of poverty and despair in even our most "advanced" nations and the onset of global warming, is space exploration prudent?

  1 day ago: Maybe these problems make space exploration more important as Stephen Hawkins contends. There is always someone determined to make things worse for the rest of us. Maybe survival of the species depends on space.