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.

Why I’m on 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...

Interests

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

Music, Movies, and Books

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

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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

Teach, Learn, Share

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

What I Can Share with Hosts

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.

Countries I’ve Visited

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

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Iran, United States