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Date registered: May 5, 2010

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  1. Economic inequality harms societies especially USA in many ways — April 21, 2012
  2. Woody Allen on Life, Happiness & Love — March 1, 2012
  3. Walking in the rain — October 7, 2011
  4. On the killing of bin Laden — May 8, 2011
  5. Secret to longevity: Adaptive Competence — April 20, 2011

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  1. Lighten your life’s baggage — 3 comments
  2. US strikes gold in Afghanistan — literally! — 3 comments
  3. Am I already dead, or a broken heart just doesn’t beat? — 2 comments
  4. Unmind, a way to consciousness — 2 comments
  5. The Road Ahead — 1 comment

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Apr 21

Economic inequality harms societies especially USA in many ways

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Economy & Politics

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wilkinson

This TED talk recorded in July 2011, by Richard Wilkinson, provides compelling research data (from UN and World Bank) on how income inequality within rich and developed countries (particularly USA) damage societies along many dimensions. According to his data, Singapore, USA and Portugal are the top three countries with biggest gap between rich and the poor (richest 20% than …

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Mar 01

Woody Allen on Life, Happiness & Love

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Film, Life

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midnight-in-paris-poster

I came across excerpts of an interview with Woody Allen (and Owen Wilson) about Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s wonderful 2011 romantic comedy, for which he won an Oscar for the best original screenplay. Midnight in Paris is the story of a Hollywood writer, Gil (played by Owen Wilson, essentially playing a younger Woody Allen) …

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Oct 07

Walking in the rain

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Life

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Painting by MarekLangowski

It was raining hard when I left the bar late night. After a fairly long and warm summer, the Fall had finally arrived with the first rain of the season. I paused and contemplated for a moment by the door…it’s uncomfortable to get wet. I had intentionally parked my car fairly far earlier that eve to …

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May 08

On the killing of bin Laden

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Economy & Politics

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What happened So US finally got Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the dreaded Al Qaeda, a militant Islamic organization potentially responsible for a number of deadly terror attacks on US and Western interests over the past 15 years including 9/11, that caused the death of over 3,000 Americans and destroyed the Twin Towers in …

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Apr 20

Secret to longevity: Adaptive Competence

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Life

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So do you want to live to be a centenarian? What does it take to live a long, healthy life and potentially reach 100? No smoking? Healthy diet? Lots of hard work at the gym? Or perhaps being from one of the “Blue Zones” (longevity hot spots around the world) such as Okinawa Island in …

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Feb 22

A strange encounter with a hawk

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Nature

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An injured hawk that took a dive into my car

It was late afternoon on Sunday Feb. 13, 2011. I was driving to Palo Alto to meet a friend to go to a concert in Stanford University. I was on the beautiful hilly segment of Highway 84 off of 680 heading west. Suddenly I heard a very loud BANG on my side window right near …

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Nov 27

Chilean miners — leadership, inspiration

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Life

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Chilean miners rescue

On August 5th 2010 a “cave-in” accident in the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapo, Chile trapped and buried 33 Chilean miners 700 meters or 2,300 ft (almost half a mile) underground below the Atacama desert. On October 13, after 69 days, all 33 miners were safely rescued and brought to surface while reportedly almost …

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Aug 04

Lighten your life’s baggage

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Life, Travel

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As I looked at the piles of my books, titles such as Complexity and Chaos stood out!

I moved from Orange County (OC) back to the San Francisco Bay Area last month. It was a painful experience with all the back and forth, packing, dealing with the movers and their hidden and unexpected costs, and the unpacking that in my case may never be complete. For a single guy, I just have …

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Jun 23

US strikes gold in Afghanistan — literally!

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Economy & Politics

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Afganistan's vast minerals

It is June 2010. The gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been pouring over 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over two months — a colossal environmental disaster that will impact the ecosystem and the wildlife in the region for many years to come. It is noteworthy that …

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May 05

Unmind, a way to consciousness

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Life

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MC Escher, 1955

I finally got a good name for this blog — Unmind, and a good domain name to go along with it, unmind.net. In the About page I talk about the history of this blog and its name briefly. I can think of a few good interpretations for unmind such as unconventional, critical and outside of …

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