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17 Jul 2010, 3:18 pm

violetchild wrote:

Yeah.. quantum physics i find interesting too. One book i really loved which you may like is "The Yoga of Time Travel: How the mind can defeat time." (its all about quantum physics and consciouness) ... by Fred Alan Wolf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Alan_Wolf
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Hyperspace by Michio Kaku

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Warped Passages by Lisa Randall

Time Travel: A New Perspective by J H Brennan

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17 Jul 2010, 5:42 pm

The ultimate challenge: curing autism.

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17 Jul 2010, 5:55 pm

Languages. Because unless you're a special kind of savant, they're a lot of work, and especially the procedural knowledge that needs to be acquired to actually use them at natural speed.
I yet need to pick up Inuktitut, Quechua, Icelandic and Cantonese.

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17 Jul 2010, 7:28 pm

When I was young I liked military airplanes and models. I never learned too much about them but I thought they were kind of cool. Then when I was older I decided that I would study aeronautical engineering but I set my goals too high and didn´t pass the adimission exam (which was too difficult). If I just did the other exam for a different university which was easier I could have passed.

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17 Jul 2010, 8:33 pm

Languages. If I feel like it I can learn one to fluency in about a month. It's sort of like a party trick for a party of one... :*(

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17 Jul 2010, 8:44 pm

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Languages. If I feel like it I can learn one to fluency in about a month. It's sort of like a party trick for a party of one... :*(

that's really cool

i wish i could do that. I'm also interested in languages sorta

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17 Jul 2010, 9:22 pm

I'd have to say special make-up effects. The hardest part was not the mold making or the sculpting of prosthetics application but getting people to let me do life casts of their faces so I could make a plaster cast to sculpt the prosthetic make-up to them. I used surgical glue to stick the foam latex prosthetics to their faces.

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17 Jul 2010, 9:34 pm

Playing piano. Seeing how I don't own or have access to one, I indulge myself by thinking about it.

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17 Jul 2010, 10:02 pm

happymusic wrote:

Languages. If I feel like it I can learn one to fluency in about a month. It's sort of like a party trick for a party of one... :*(

I wish I could do that.

For me it's years of hard work.

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17 Jul 2010, 10:07 pm

PETA, ALF and animal rights.

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17 Jul 2010, 10:08 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

Drumming is a challenging interest, because the guys that I jam with, on Friday afternoons, throw a whole bunch of different songs at me, and each song has its own beat. It's quite fun.

I was once obsessed with learning how to drum as well. I learned many rhythms quite quickly, I still know how to play them but I don't on a drum kit as I don't have access to one anymore.

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17 Jul 2010, 10:42 pm

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