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Overview

  • 22 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Afrikaans, Zulu
  • 54, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Developmental Biologist... Science is a way to experience...
  • Far too much and still on-going! I want to try understan...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn, learn, learn - about things, people, the world, nature, etc...

PHILOSOPHY

Money, things can all be lost - Experiences and learning never can.

Celebrate diversity.

Interests

There are far too many things I would like to do and just not enough life to do them in... I'm willing to give it a try though. What I'm into at the moment includes kayaking, skiing (touring), hiking, traveling, cooking, science, diving.

  • cooking
  • running
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

French rock, African Jive, Torch songs.

Just a few of my current obssesions are Niyaz, Amanda Palmer, There Must Be Giants (Here Comes Science!), Gogol Bordello, Tetes Raides, Mickey 3D, Les Ogres du Barback, etc, etc, etc...

Books: anything interesting and Sciency, Neil Shubin's, "Our Inner Fish" is a nice intro as is Richard Dawkins "The Greastest Show on Earth".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I still get a huge kick out of running waterfalls in a kayak!

The most amazing thing is still just to experience the sheer wonder and diversity of it all, particularly the natural world. As we are in the middle of one of the great extinctions I'm trying to see and save as much as I can before we destroy it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Botswana, Canada, Cook Islands, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Solomon Islands, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Indonesia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States

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