ArmillaCity
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Research |
| Location | Cambridge, MA, United States |
| Introduction | Trained and worked as a Scientist (Genetics, Evolution, Infectious Diseases-Doctorate), no longer practicing. But once a scientist, always a scientist. Working on some Economics projects for a young Harvard Economics Professor whose work on the long term social impact of historical events greatly interest me. I am unimportant, but the topics are! It is a joy to see the world in a big way. It reminds me of a picture I saw in Life Magazine in the 80's of a mouse crawling against a background depicting the detail maps of its genome. Instead of tending to its business, totally unaware of the significance and grandeur of its surroundings, I want to be an animal with a little capability for awareness. I am a curious and creative animal. I wish to understand. |
| Interests | When not reading or dealing with data, I draw, do a bit of drama, design jewelry for people, cook to feed hoards of meditators on occasion. I have been known to teach writing, biology, literacy, even ball-room dancing. |
| Favorite Movies | The Life of Others, Brazil, Spirited Away, Chunking Express, The Station Agent, Star Trek (2008), Night of the Iguana, Chinatown, The Red Shoes, The Point. |
| Favorite Music | Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Damian Rice, Portishead, The Talking Heads, Tom Lehrer, Ella Fitzgerald, Classical Guitar |
| Favorite Books | Invisible Cities, Winnie the Pooh, War with the Newts, The Sibyl (Par Lagerkvist), The Great Gatsby, The English Patient, Offshore, Gould's Book of Fish, Life of Pi, Thoughts without a Thinker, The Wisdom of Crowds, Guns Germs and Steel, Software of the Mind. Other authors: David Foster Wallace, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Lao Tze. |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
Plausible, but the reverse is also plausible. Why believe? It did or didn't, so accept that our understanding is provisional