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I'm passionate about

Mathematics. I like math but the thing I'm most passionate about is probably physics and particle physics. Music too, classical but the good ones not the ones where you get a headache after 10 minutes

An idea worth spreading

That in order to reach a goal, and by reach I mean really get there, not close to it but actually achieving it, you have to have fun as well as work really hard. I think, as far as experience, if you work hard then you'll probably get to where you want but if haven't had fun then you've probably wasted your time.

Talk to me about

Physics, Philosophy and not the complicated stuff, and well anything else really

People don't know that I'm good at

Now it wouldn't be something people don't know if it were here now would it?

My TED Story

Ain't got one. I got introduced to TED through Brookes University, they showed us a talk about happiness and a few weeks ago and this means summer of 2011, I started too look up talks about AI which I was researching at the time and just starting listening to everything else that seemed interesting..So here I am.

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  A reply on Talk: Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object

  Feb 21 2012: It's not the authenticity of all the events described in the scripture that are questioned, but the interpretations that readers have of them. For example, the fact that Cyrus conquered babylon isn't questioned, but whether Marduk or Jehovah made him do so is.
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  A comment on Conversation: In your opinion, what should the purpose of education be?

  Dec 16 2011: In short I think the purpose of education should be teaching people to learn and enjoy learning.

• A comment on Conversation: We can learn by exchanging and discussing our own lists of "10 Things I Know to be True."

  Nov 1 2011: 1. nothing
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  10. Truth is subjective?

• A comment on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Oct 27 2011: wait....did he just say they've cured cancer in mice? not removed, cured?(i.e. the cancer cells don't die but are fixed?) really?...

• A comment on Conversation: Immortality?

  Oct 11 2011: Well, let me put it this way. Almost everyone on the planet knows they will die some day, but they rarely think that day is today. Ok so if people think they're not going to die today, everyday, then doesn't that mean that most of us are already living our lives as if we won't die?

• A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

  Sep 8 2011: General evolution, the idea pursued here might be able to fill the gaps in how we emerged. There are too many unknowns, to me at least, but if his idea works then we will have a much better understanding of how life started to emerge from 'dead' , if it doesn't work...well I think people won't stop doing stuff like this.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the best plan to solve the current energy crisis in the United States?

  Aug 17 2011: Fusion energy. True that it isn't efficient enough to come to commercial use yet, but the US could help push the research forward as to get results sooner. If it works (Fusion) like it's thought to, then the energy crisis all around the world, including the US, will start to fade away.
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could teach the world 1 valuable thing you learned, what would it be and why?

  Aug 5 2011: Not being scared to act, mostly
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  A reply on Talk: Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

  Aug 1 2011: I think it's a chinese saying : If what is being said makes sense, then it doesn't matter who says it.

• A comment on Conversation: "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein Discuss your opinions!

  Jul 15 2011: I think he meant that its much more fun to turn magic into science than just going on like a computer being fed new data as science improves. By religion I think he meant believing there is a mysterious force guiding the world makes discovering the world much more fun.