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I'm passionate about

love of learning, appreciation of beauty and excellence, creativity, ingenuity, and originality, curiosity and interest in the world.

An idea worth spreading

"Self Comes to Mind" by Antonio Damasio, "Incomplete Nature" by Terrence Deacon, "The End of Science" John Horgan, "The General Theory of Love" Lewis, Amini, Lannon. "Connected" by Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler, "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schulz, "The Philosophical Child" by Alison Gopnok, "Evolution's End" by Joseph Chilton Pierce, "Into the Silent Land" by Paul Broks, "Loneliness" by John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick, "Moral Minds" by Marc Hauser, "The Neuroscience of Human Relationships" by Louis Cozolino, Multiple Intelligence" by Howard Gardner, "The Science of Success by David Dobbs, The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely, "The Tending Instinct" by Shelley Taylor, "Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality, Identity and Self" by Rita Carter, the Philoctetes Center in New York City,

Talk to me about

You....-your ideas, your passion, and how I can help you. eGovernance, immersive virtual worlds, lateral thinking,

People don't know that I'm good at

Editing my typos, biking, fantasy sports.

My TED Story

My identical twin suggested I join TED after discussing the lectures by Susan Blackmore found on this site. It's been about a year since I joined TED and started commenting on the talks and sharing my ideas with the TED community. I feel honored that fellow members have responded in the positive way they have with their feedback, and that I have reach a milestone I consider an accomplishment. As Gary Vaynerchuk said, " The fact that anyone cares what you say is a huge deal." My TED story is that I continue to spread the ideas TED embodies by creating library events and programs, and encouraging the use of TED talks in the local schools.

Comments

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  A reply on Conversation: What do you think about Islam?

  3 days ago: Neurotheology is a pseudoscience.

• A comment on Conversation: Do teachers have adequate mental health support to cope with classroom stress?

  3 days ago: Where does the stress level of teachers rank with the stress level of cops, firemen, first responders, soldiers etc?

• A comment on Conversation: Are multiple personalities common amongst everyone, or only with the gifted??

  6 days ago: Not "Interacting with our Conscious on various levels of awareness," but forming the consciousness of the personality.
  See Antonio Demasio's book "Self Comes To Mind." It is difficult reading but arguably the best framework for understanding this topic.
  
  See Rita Carter's book "Multiplicity."
  http://www.ritacarter.co.uk/page6.htm
  
  Also, Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom wrote an article in 2008 that is still relavent, "First Person Plural"
  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/first-person-plural/307055/

• A comment on Talk: Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

  May 14 2013: Watch the television program "The Celebrity Apprentice." It will show you what a business "charity" has actually become. Sure, the show raises a great deal of money for charity but it also turn "giving" into a self serving effort for everyone involved.
  
  This talk is just as self serving.

• A comment on Conversation: TED Talks Education: The PBS special

  May 8 2013: It was it excellent presentation. My one comment is the we need to look more carefully at how children develop and the various developmental stages a child passes through. These are mile markers that can indicate when a child is off course.

• A comment on Conversation: What can we do to change education?

  May 8 2013: TED took a great step forward last night with their PBS special. See the new talks.

• A reply on Talk: Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

  May 7 2013: Watch the Sir Ken Robinson talk about how public schooling was purposed to educates "workers."
  http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html
  You bought into the story.
  We are expecting our children to buy into the same paradigm. They are in debt thousands and there are no jobs for them. This is why there is a revolt among the youth in the world.
  Occupy Wall St. had it wrong, it not about the rich and poor. Its about the young and old.
  http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/wn_20080705_2160.php
  
  BTW, did you listen to the Rifkin link?
• +2

  A comment on Conversation: Cats pose a serious threat to biodiversity: Why do we accept it? What should be done?

  May 7 2013: "Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia."
  
  The parasite, which is excreted by cats in their feces, is called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii or Toxo for short) and is the microbe that causes toxoplasmosis—the reason pregnant women are told to avoid cats’ litter boxes. Since the 1920s, doctors have recognized that a woman who becomes infected during pregnancy can transmit the disease to the fetus, in some cases resulting in severe brain damage or death. T. gondii is also a major threat to people with weakened immunity: in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, before good antiretroviral drugs were developed, it was to blame for the dementia that afflicted many patients at the disease’s end stage. Healthy children and adults, however, usually experience nothing worse than brief flu-like symptoms before quickly fighting off the protozoan, which thereafter lies dormant inside brain cells—or at least that’s the standard medical wisdom.
  
  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

• A reply on Talk: Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

  May 7 2013: "Labor saving devices." We all will to be working less.
  What's not to like about that?
  
  See Hans Rosling's TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
  See Jeremy Rifkin's "The Third Industrial Revolution."
  
  http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/
  
  http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/jeremy-rifkin

• A comment on Conversation: What can we do to change education?

  May 6 2013: There is a point in this talk, minute 15, where the speaker mentions the importance relationship, the social emotional model a child creates early on, has on learning mathematics. I see this observation as spot on and might need to be considered in any peer to peer learning model. Peer to peer learning assumes the skill of a social competence is acquired and functional to a certain level. How is this measured?
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSBWEjRggs&feature=em-subs_digest-newavtr-vrecs