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Interests
General
Music, Friends, Fencing, Opera, Moore's Law, Politics, Strategic Studies, International Relations, Rationalism, Humanism, Atheism, Memetics, Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Science, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics, Mass Action, Future Shock, , Geopolitics, Philosophy, Ethics, Emotional Abstracts, Wisdom From Mistakes, Visual Arts, Audio Engineering, Cooking, Adventure, Resourcefulness, Crisis, Risk, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Buddhism, Existentialism, Zen, Theory, Fact, Passion, Art, Mass Humanity, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Cuzco, Vancouver
Weaponize Yourself:
Yale
MIT
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Tufts
Stanford
Utah State
Kutztown
Southern Queensland
UC Irvine
Notre Dame
UOW
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Berklee
Gresham
Utah Valley
Open Learning Hubs:
Education Portal
Academic Earth
Open Culture
Trillia
Information Resources:
Wikipedia
Scribd
Knol
Readprint
Cooperation Commons
Ideas Worth Spreading:
Books
Walden, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Audacity of Hope, Freakonomics, Letter To A Christian Nation, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The God Delusion, The Post-American World, I Am America (And So Can You!), The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Outliers: The Story of Success, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Details
- Status: Single
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 6' 4" / Slim / Slender
- Religion: Atheist
- Zodiac Sign: Libra
- Occupation: Professor
Latest Blog Entries
- Nov 22, 2009 Yppah - City Glow
- Oct 29, 2009 Enemies of Reason #001 - Paul Weyrich
- Oct 4, 2009 Creation
Blurbs
About me:
Please do not try to promote your event or band to me. I am not here for that, thanks!
"Genius is condemned by a malicious social organization to an eternal denial of justice in favor of fawning mediocrity"
Evariste Galois
"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is."
- Bertrand Russell
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!"
- The Count of Monte Cristo
My name is Ryan. I'm all over the map. That's pretty much a good starting point. Milk makes my lips itch, and macaroni and cheese is just plain nasty. I'm a news junkie. I'd love to work for the U.N. or a think tank like the Brookings Institution, Center for Global Development, or The Danish Institute of International Studies. Lately I've been reading a lot of books on cultural anthropology, global studies, and sociological studies. I'm trying to learn how to cook, because food tastes so good. I like to produce Hip Hop in my spare time. Also, I dabble in all kinds of (what you could call) art but I don't consider myself an artist; I'm not really expressing anything, it's just a fun habit and routine. Ultimately, I'm planning on moving to Denmark for studies, experience, and just plain curiosity; admittedly, the ladies are an unintended plus too.