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Hello, I was told about this place by a vampire pig - perhaps not the only person who can say that - who knows me as "science" (yup, I got there first). Though science was my first love and I intended to be a priest when I grew up, I wound up a history and literature teacher in Korea, a job that I love because I can be a bad (that is, within my value system, good) influence on young'uns while constantly learning more about the world. One thing that I'm proud of is the diversity of material that I cover in my history classes - not just standard political and social history, but lots of culture (especially music), math, science, and technology as well. Hopefully the knowledgeable people here will be able to help me do a better job with the history of chemistry, on which I'm very weak, and maybe also the history of geology, of which I know so little that I've never even tried to work it into my classes. At this point in my life, my main interest is probably music, particularly jazz and classical, though I'm looking to learn more about South Asian music in the future. My main goal is to retire and travel, and to achieve that I need to spend less of my money on CDs and books. If you recommend something really good to me, I will love you, because I have an addiction, but you should regard yourself as an enabler.

One that I really love and encourage people with scientific interests to check out is Owen Flanagan's The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them.