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Overview

  • 5 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning French
  • 44, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Science communication
  • PhD in Cognitive neuroscience
  • From Milan, Italy
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To be found

Interests

A random collection of things I love:

- having breakfast in a nice bar with cappuccio&brioche
- contemporary and non-contemporary art
- contemporary and non-contemporary dance (watching, not practicing)
- walking through ruins under a very hard sun
- scientific reasoning
- all-night movie marathons
- long trips by train
- learning about history and politics of countries I travel to
- empty beaches and a book
- this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Minsh1GJtlM&feature=related
- and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoekyMCWzg
- and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8&feature=related
- and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1VMBRbrGls
- writing lists.

A non-random collection of things I hate:

nationalism, sexism, creationism, whatsoever obscurantism, anti-scientism.
And homeopathy.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • contemporary art
  • dancing
  • breakfast
  • walking
  • politics
  • traveling
  • camping
  • history
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I love reading, both classic and contemporary authors, novels, short novels and poems.
Including Lev Tolstoj, Euripides, John Steinbeck, Eugenio Montale, Arthur Schnitzler, Italo Svevo, Wisława Szymborska, Javier Marías, Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Franzen, Alda Merini, Franz Kafka, Cesare Pavese. And many others.

Same for cinema, I love movies from the silent screen to nowadays cinema.
Just some of the directors I love: Chaplin, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder, Nanni Moretti, Lars von Trier, Akira Kurosawa, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Orson Welles, Aki Kaurismäki, Paolo Sorrentino.

Music I like: rock from 60s and 70s, some early punk, some ska, some reggae, balkan, some trip-hop, Italian "cantautori" (singer-songwriters).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most surreal experience I had: I was left with my friends in a camp in the desert, and the camp was flooded with water...

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Turkey

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