I'm a rebel turned nerd by aging, these days I'm trying to discover new things that makes my consciousness evolve new insights, and I'm finding they're more the simple things: Good sleep, empathy, thankfulness for a springtime Massachusetts breeze...
For my day job, I'm a post-doctoral researcher, and read and write about health economics.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I'm giving this a try for eclipse 2017, since all hotels are kind of full in the eclipse path. I like the concept, so why not give it a try...

兴趣

• literature
• skiing
• soccer
• tennis
• neuroscience
• science
• health economics
• bioeconomics

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: Cinema Paradiso
Books: Hafez and Rumi poetry; Moby Dick; Polio an American Story; Anything by Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennet, Daniel Kahneman
Music: Era (New Age Baroque); Schiller (German trance); Cusco (New Age); Most classical

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

breathe; actually that's two amazing things: inhaling and exhaling.
The point is: life itself is the amazing gift...

教，学，和分享

I can talk somehow intelligently about the creative solutions life comes up with to deal with scarce resources.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

An ear to listen, a wit to feel, and a conversation to share that can run the spectrum of the response of Tardigrades to the melting of the polar ice, the latest version of the i-phone, an old movie by Charlie Chaplin, quality vintage and the hoppiness of gourmet beers, the philosophy of Averroes and Aristotle, Persian pistachios, the psychological characters of Dostoevsky novels, the balance of spices in a tikka masala, the characteristics of the Shanghai stock exchange, the impact of overfishing on the quality of Sushi, Kiwi Soccer, and everything in between.

我游览过的国家

Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Egypt, Iran, United States