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I'm passionate about

the promotion of knowledge, human compassion, education, minimizing the gap between what science knows and what business and society does and making the world a better place for my children.

An idea worth spreading

Sustainability.
Biomimicry.
Tolerance.
Preservation.
Communication.
Innovation.
Compassion.

Talk to me about

ideas worth spreading :)

People don't know that I'm good at

boardgames and baking

My TED Story

I happened to stumble across a link to a TED talk, and was smitten instantly. I have a tendency to immerse myself deeply into whatever project I set my eyes on, and TED has become one of my long-running passions. The talks are wonderfully inspiring and educational, and I am doing my best to spread the word.

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• TEDCred score: +15825.60 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A comment on Talk: Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar …

  Dec 22 2012: STRAWBERRY!

• A comment on Talk: Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...

  Sep 4 2012: Before I die I want to have kids and see them grow up.

• A comment on Conversation: I cannot decide what to do in my life... Help please...

  Jul 29 2012: Do what you love, love what you do, and everything will work out.
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  A comment on Conversation: The women's revolution is the last revolution that the world will ever need. Male/Female equality is essential to human happiness.

  Dec 27 2011: The talk by Richard Wilkinson that is referred to puts Norway among the "top 3" for most measures of equality. Women (and men) in Norway are free to choose any education they desire, and subsequently any job they want. The government has tried to increase the ratio of women in many typically male dominated domains, such as mechanical engineering, computer sciences, armed forces and more, often through some form of light "affirmative action" measures. This has increased the female ratio significantly, but what we have seen in Norway during the last decade, is that given the freedom to choose, the majority of women have gravitated back to "typical" female jobs such as nursing, day-care, and other occupations involving interaction with people, empathy and caring. While most men typically choose more "engineering"-like professions involving machinery and manual labour.
  The reason stereotypes have become stereotypes, are because they have a center of truth to them.
  Equality is essential to a healthy society. Equality of choice, of freedom, of remuneration for equal work, of social status etc. But we should not strive towards a society of equality with regards to male/female ratios in specific occupations. We should not define how the end result should look. We should simply make sure the conditions are right, fair and equal, and let the result become as it will.
  Yin and Yang would look rubbish if they were both grey.
  It's possible to celebrate our differences and have equality at the same time.
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  A comment on Conversation: How do I offer my location for a TEDx talk?

  Dec 27 2011: Hi John,
  You can find information about past and upcoming TEDx events on the TEDx part of the TED.com website.
  http://www.ted.com/tedx/events?filter=0&autocomplete_filter=New+York&when=&eventperiod=tags&tags=all&available=on&unavailable=on&go=Go
  You should be able to find contact information to organizers there, or via their own websites.
  Good luck!
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  A comment on Conversation: What's your TED habit?

  Sep 30 2011: I will watch a TED talk that is posted on a friend's Facebook wall if it seems interesting. And I seek out my own TED talks usually in the weekend or when I have some spare time. And I try to see all the new ones that are posted, to "keep up".

• A comment on Talk: Taylor Mali: What teachers make

  Sep 29 2011: http://www.slideshare.net/ethos3/what-teachers-make-515731
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  A comment on Conversation: Is there a way that this material could be transformed to teach it to students in a classroom.

  Aug 7 2011: See also:
  http://education.ted.com/
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  A comment on Conversation: TED for kids (or high school students)- a TED conference, where students do the speaking, and let their ideas be known.

  Aug 7 2011: Hi, you may want to check out the following links:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html
  http://www.ted.com/pages/tedx_youth_event_type

• A comment on Conversation: Should extraordinary crimes be given extraordinary punishment?

  Jul 27 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/opinion/27nesbo.html?_r=1&src=tp