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University of Helsinki
Master of Science (1995) - Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Mycology
Voima (= the most awesome & progressive magazine in Finland)
Contributing Editor (January 2009 - present)
Presently mainly blogging about climate change news at Sääasema ("Weather Station"). See specific links to my published stuff.
Sääaseman Facebook-sivu
Web projects. Glancing at the sky. Saving earthworms after the rain. Counting snails at the cemetery. Protecting the climate. Workout at the gym. Yoga.
All things science! Consciousness, intelligence and altruism in humans and other species. Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Interspecific communication. Biodiversity conservation. Mental health and cognitive enhancement. Pre-digital technology. Robot companions. Spacecraft and space travel. Life in the universe. And other big questions.
Progressive rock, 20th-century art music, and Celtic fusion. The exact choice depends on the mood of the moment. (I think it's possible to detect more than twenty mood categories.) See my music lists...
David Attenborough's nature documentaries, The X-Files (for the sci-fi myth arc and Mulder-Scully dynamics, not for the paranormal rubbish...), Battlestar Galactica, Invasion, Twin Peaks. (To me TV is an obsolete medium, and I watch that stuff on DVD only.)
Having said that, it may be appropriate to recognize how the Web has susbstituted for TV - and excelled at that! Just think about resources like NASA TV, TED Talks, UCtelevision and periodicvideos, for example.
If I had to name just one, it would be Blade Runner (f.c.) by Ridley Scott. "But then again, who does?" Ha! See my movie lists...
Mostly non-fiction and some science fiction. Few other books. See my book lists...
"Live free or die."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." - Nelson Mandela
"Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham
"Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you, don't do it to yourself, don't bet against yourself. [...] in whatever you're doing, failure is an option, but fear is not." - James Cameron at TED
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison
"To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." - Benjamin Franklin
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
"Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." - Confucius
"A principle isn't a principle until it costs you money." - Bill Bernbach
"A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately." And the whole set of Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design.
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca
"Gnothi Seauton." - the ancient Greeks
"Only the shallow know themselves." - Oscar Wilde
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse." - Henry Ford
"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one." - Marcus Porcius Cato
"If you do not change your direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Laozi
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential." - Winston Churchill
"To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done." - anonymous
"Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch." - Molly Ivins
"Hope is like a path in the countryside.
At first there is no path.
And then, as people are all the time coming and walking in the same way,
a path appears."
- Lu Xun
via this interview with Peter Goldmark
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative." - via Tim Ferriss: 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Richard Buckminster Fuller
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Confucius
"There's an old African proverb that says 'If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far - quickly." - Al Gore
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen." - Elon Musk in the Wired interview
"The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself." - Peter Diamandis
This video by Phil Plait, titled 'Phoenix Descends'
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Kaarina Staudinger-Loppukaarre
Salvador Dali (paintings and sculpture)
Kimmo Pyykkö (sculpture)
Jason de Caires Taylor (underwater sculpture)
Björn Weckström (sculpture)
Heikki Häiväoja (medal art)
Frank Gehry (architecture)
Markus Majaluoma (illustration)
Enki Bilal (art comics)
Lauri Astala (contemporary art)
Kaisaleena Halinen (contemporary art)
Kaarina Kaikkonen (contemporary art)
Leza Lidow (contemporary art)
Charles Sandison (contemporary art)
...and...
ikebana
bonsai
Chinese and Japanese gardens
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (photography)
Sebastiao Salgado (photography)
...aaand...
Jiri Kylian (choreography)
Marilena Fontoura: Carmen (choreography)
Mats Ek: Fluke (choreography)
Ohad Naharin: Minus 7 (choreography)
Roi Vaara (performance art)