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I'm passionate about

Learning, books, documentaries, movies, cooking, and soccer.

Talk to me about

what you learned today and I will tell you what I learned.

People don't know that I'm good at

playing volleyball.

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  A comment on Talk: Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

  Mar 25 2012: I don't think that this talk is about him bragging and telling everybody how amazing he is. The purpose of this talk is giving a 17 year old kid the stage and celebrating his success. But more importantly, it is about encouraging other kids to be innovative and telling them that it is actually "cool" to be interested in science, and if you are good at it you can even go to CERN and meet the president.

• A comment on Talk: Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership

  Feb 24 2012: Such an inspring talk that I will try to keep in mind all the time. I think it's about getting out of your comfort zone and reaching out. For both persons... Thanks to Drew Dudley that girl went to college and found the love of her life and thanks to that girl Drew Dudley has this awesome story to inspire us. We keep some things to ourselves just because we are not comfortable talking to strangers or sometimes we avoid telling even our friends what we really think. But hopefully, knowing that I might change those people's lives will make me more extrovert.
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  A comment on Talk: Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine

  Mar 27 2011: An amazing talk by Hans Rosling... How such an insignificant machine for the most of us here, above the wash line, can mean so much for such a big part of the world. My mother tells me when she was young, every Saturday, she and her two sisters and their father used to go to the movie theater while her mother stayed home to do the laundry of five. And, when they bought a washing machine, you know those ones with the two rolls to squeeze the laundry, she was so afraid that anything would happen to it, she wouldn't let anybody touch it, she dusted the machine regularly, and she even made a nice crochet to put on top of it. In the following years, even though we could afford to buy another one to replace it, she still used to take such good care of it that when she passed away at the age of 78, that machine was still working. And now, the machines became so disposable for us that we don't even consider having a broken one repaired when we can buy a new and fancy one...