Current Gifts
People(bios,autobios,)
Life(history,biology,etc.)
Rocks(physics,chem,etc.)
Web(society,econ,WWW)
Symbols&Nums(math,language,.) |
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a
kind of library. Jorge
Luis Borges
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In Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, each individual kept in their head a book to keep for a better time and to share with individuals they meet. As it were: a gift of knowledge. Now, although 451 is an allegory, I have found it useful as a broad metaphor in applying it to today's world. I realized because I have tended to listen and watch more than say and do in my long life -- my measured silence could be harmful even though my motto is "at least do no harm." My rare tactic of giving books to people as a "gift of knowledge" who probably will not read them for whatever reason, good or bad, has some use, because occasionally some do read. Of course, I, also, had many times not read or understood the book or person I encountered, for the book of life is often hidden in each individual or book -- and requires my time and my dialog to read the story. |
I don't know you. You probably don't know me. But at this moment we meet. So
let me give you a vicious gift, for I hope you will do well with it, if you
choose to accept it. For Please Understand Me, I am an immoral moral Viking
traveler of books and life, if anything. I hope this helps, for I found it useful. Although I don't know you, the best
I can do for now is to point to the territory I visited recently. If this is the
last time we meet, good luck.
Sorry, not so CURRENT GIFTS
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Main subjects: Evolution, Genes, Functional Shift,
12/01/2008 Your Inner Fish
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PAST GIFTS
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Main subjects: Energy, Life, Death, Origin of Life, Eucaryotes, Biology, Complexity,
09/12/2007 Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, Nick Lane
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Main subjects: Quantum Computers, Information, Complexity, Physical Systems
01/27/2007 Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
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Main subjects: History, Biography, Government, Personality 4/4/2006 His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph Ellis Main subjects: Evolution, Memes, Culture, Biology 3/26/2006 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett Main subjects: Leadership, Autobiography, History, Politics, Government, Law 3/10/2006 Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani Main Subjects: History, Biography, Politics, Economics 2/15/2006 The Struggle for Russia, Boris Yeltzin Main Subjects: The Web, Technology, Business, Culture 1/1/2005 The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Main Subjects: Personality, The Web, Technology, Business 12/17/2005 The Google Story, Dave Vise, Mark Malseed Main Subjects: Mathematics, Reasoning, Information, Computing 11/6/2005 Meta Math: The Quest for Omega, Gregory Chaitin. Main Subjects: Movies, Scorsese, Culture, Directors, Producers, Hollywood 11/1/2005
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies Main Subjects: Human evolution 7/28/2005 The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Elaine Morgan Main Subjects: Geography, Evolution, Anthropology, History 5/15/2005 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond Main Subjects: Finance, Technology, History, Culture, The Future 5/2/2005 How we got here, Andy Kessler Main Subjects: Biography, Finance, Economics 3/25/2005 Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein
Main Subjects: American History.
3/17/2005 The
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Main subjects: Economics, History, Finance, Culture 2/3/2005 Running
Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets, and My Hunt for the Big Score, Andy
Kessler Main Subjects: Physics, Cosmology, The Future 1/14/2005 Parallel
Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the
Cosmos, Michio Kaku Main Subjects: Biography, History of English Upper Class of 19th Century 12/19/2004 Nightingales:The
extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Florence Nightingale, Gillian Gill
Main Subjects: History, Sociology, Economics 9/4/2004 Private
Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification, Timur
Kuran Main Subjects: History, Economics, Future of Metaman 7/10/2004 Colossus:
The Price of America's Empire, Niall Ferguson If you don't understand something said,
don't assume that you are at fault. David West Keirsey If you are not going fishing,
don't open a can of worms. David West Keirsey Those who fail to learn from history,
will not add to it. David Mark Keirsey Permanent Gifts Please
Understand Me II Life
Itself
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