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I study the mind, the brain and how individuals come together into groups, so we can talk about that too. I like to teach people to ride a bike and to drive stick shift. Here is an incomplete list of things I'd love to learn more about: native creations and cosmogenies "How to make a $XXXX Y for under $XX" "How to make a $XXX Y for under $X" How to make a Y out of Nature How to build a house How to plant a tree How to prune and maintain a fruit tree What is the smallest amount of land you need to sustain yourself (foodwise). What is happening on it? DIY/grassroots Science. Is it going to happen? Where is it starting? "In this niche craft/gadget market, these guys are the most amazing, and this is why" Simple life changes with big impact plant motion. Plants are verbs. literary scientists literature of California The Hills the statistical physics of society technocracy technocracy and the farmers the farmers utopia today the arcology, or "Soleri today" Oxford comma, convince me. a lost treasure most recent awesome archeological find from the Old World good trees out there the legacy of the situationalists also the futurists, Italian or Russian Muir Thoreau Whitman what was Herman Hesse smoking? U K LeGuin or A L Kroeber U K LeGuin and A L Kroeber Agee Steinbeck Borges Calvino Gunter Grass William James Stanislaw Lem Russell (non snarky) Popper Wittgenstein Russell on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations everything that rises converging peeks into the flimsiness of our apparently stable perception of an apparently stable reality self-contained, self-consistent, completely incomprehensible worldviews like a strange, irresistible, forgotten folktale or something when such worlds collide little worlds and small precious things one perfect little poem stories old China's demons and mischeif-makers nonsense literature in the East, Mideast, South, etc. the history of authenticity (did it exist before commerce?) diplomatics and palaeography The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases social behavior, language, consciousness. Are we pretty sure that we know what came first, second and third? Or is that a dumb question? One of the many things that the Japanese have taken and made way better (and how) life's works real or fictional maps real and fictional maps fictional libraries fictional books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books) things about water: culture, politics, physics, all in between rapid prototyping Modern dilettantes topics in type and typography "Thinking in (math, code, other abstract symbol system) made me see/realize something about my life" modern alchemy what's so great about polyhedra? 2+2=5? behaviorism today Your book What is Craig Ventner up to? What is John Koza up to? What is Emperor Akihito up to? The most underappreciated thing on the whole damn internet R^2 Mediterranean climates of the world. the vocabulary of woodwork The insults and curses of one of the world's 7000 languages, living or extinct you favorite monastic/ascetic DIY Science other involved trade vocabularies involved obsessed conspiracy accounts of something that most people don't really think is important Account of some forgotten dogfight between communists and anarchists, pref. in Europe. The fertile crescent Why is the fertile crescent a desert now? It was totally humans pushing the land too hard, right? Climate change, right? But, wait, why are there deserts in the Bible? Enlighten me of this burden. a microbe architecture and design anything on the history of arts and crafts William Morris, everything he thought, did, wanted, accomplished and left behind Identification of local plants Identification of local trees Identification of local insects The most beautiful thing that has ever burned down (Dresden? Library of Alexandria? Pre-Columbian American civilization?) pre-Raphaelites The history of heaven as a history of how our mirror has changed The history of hell " " " " " " " you and, uhh, I don't know. Lightning bolts are pretty awesome. Recently learned because of couchsurfing: How to whistle (took three years) The palatal click How to drum three against four ("pass the goddamn butter") and the difference between polyrhythm and polymeter.

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I'm passionate about eating fruit and building community and collecting people who love living. I study how groups of people solve problems together. I also live with a lot of people and we create and solve problems together. I break/repair my bicycle, admire print design, seek good conversation, and think about clear communication. I get inspiration from organizational, industrial, and institutional economics; political philosophy; old-school anthropology; animal behavior; statistical physics; and nature writing. I love people’s fascinations (peculiar or not), and fixing things (broken or not).