CURRENT MISSION

Saving the world

ABOUT ME

I like to try new things, meet new people, and one of my lifelong goals is to be a lifelong learner. I like to travel (obviously) but don't often have the time or the money. I like spend my limited free time and pocket change trying to save the world. :) I try to be especially conscious about how my purchases affect global practices, but that is a really difficult job and I'm still figuring it out. I don't really like writing about myself, so I'll give other descriptors in list form: scientist, environmentalist, atheist, skeptic, liberal, curious, bicyle commuter.

PHILOSOPHY

If not you, who? If not now, when?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, I just joined, so I haven't participated at all yet. That will change soon, I hope.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've randomly met a lot of really cool people on couchsurfing, especially since my friends started an underground supperclub (smunderground.org) that attracts a lot of surfers. Figured it was past time I give it a try.

Interests

neuroscience, biking, books, sustainable living, traveling, eating good food, solving the world's problems, learning new things, talking to people who think differently than me, talking to people who think similarly to me, writing angry but well-reasoned letters to my elected officials.

• writing
• books
• dancing
• swing dancing
• education
• dining
• running
• traveling
• cycling
• wakeboarding
• atheism
• soccer
• swimming
• teaching
• mathematics
• neuroscience
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mean Girls, Saved!, Shawshank Redemption, Bob Marley, Dar Williams, John Lennon, Ratatat, Regina Spektor, Simon and Garfunkle, Queen, The Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple, The Poisonwood Bible, Sex at Dawn

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen the power of knowledge

Teach, Learn, Share

I know science best, but I still think of myself as very new to neuroscience. I'm a year-round bicycle commuter, so I can speak from experience about that. Also have amateur interests in education and environmentalism, so I've read a fair amount there. Recently read a really interesting book on the origins of human sexuality, from an evolutionary perspective, which I can't seem to help talking about.

I also have experience teaching swim lessons, I've tutored math and biomechanics, and I could probably offer beginner tips in playing the flute, running, waterskiing, wakeboarding, figure skating, swing dancing, and soccer.

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