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I'm passionate about

Sailing, Bach, blues & Borges, ...creatures, teachers, art and double features

An idea worth spreading

If every kid in the world just had peace, clean water, enough to eat, ...and a laptop.

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the last person that made you smile, that you made smile

People don't know that I'm good at

sharing their pain

My TED Story

my brother turned me on to TED, good brother indeed

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  A reply on Conversation: The west can no longer claim to be an honest broker in the search for peace in the Middle East.

  Feb 16 2011: Well said, Nassim.
  
  Truman era US diplomat to the Soviet Union George Kennan wrote in 1948; " We have 50% of the world's wealth and 6% of the population. Our policy should be to develop relationships that maintains that disparity."
  
  Given what's evolved in US foreign policy since, Kennan's brutally frank advisement was well heeded and embraced.
  
  Pretense to spreading democracy, saccharine enabler to the body of lies, (thank you David Ignatius), is the choke point for anyone inclined to more than window-shop the history of US foreign policy.
  
  Honest broker? Please.
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  A comment on Talk: Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture

  Dec 30 2009: A life scale, true environment model of say 100-500 meters length would be a very interesting next step. Beautifully illustrated presentation of a brilliant and potentially life sustaining habitat.

• A reply on Talk: Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture

  Dec 30 2009: Their calcimums? (just a guess)

• A reply on Talk: Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration

  Sep 5 2009: Krakatoa, as a natural expression, was none too discreet or harmonious to surroundings, noisy from all reports, and epitomized the concept of impressive "space raping" replete with strong diagonals, effusive arcs and billowing forms.
  
  I, too, admire the snail shell as well as the ambitious, resilient and talented Mr. Libeskind, who like us all has his failings.