Across the multiverse: FSU physicist considers the big picture

My brother investigates the question of life in other universes with different physical models.

Bells, wisdom & light

All truth is one. In this light may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind. From darkness to light, from narrowness to broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance, it is the voice of life, which calls us to come and learn. - (Inscription discovered by Stoll, inscribed on the bell atop Hays Hall at his undergraduate university. He recounted this experience in his talk at the TED Conference in February, 2006.) 

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Ring the bells, that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Cohen: "If I did have a coherent philosophy, that song articulated it. It took me an awful long time to write. I never could get that last line." 

The Aegean light had a quality that Cohen felt contributed to his work. “There’s something in the light that’s honest and philosophical,” he told a journalist in 1963. “You can’t betray yourself intellectually, it invites your soul to loaf.”  

Only the bell tower of the cathedral attached to the Monastery of the Virgin’s Assumption disrupts the horizontal tableau. The structure of the town emulates the classical theatre of Epitaurus, with the port the equivalent of the orchestra.

Leadership Video

Leadership Video to inspire people to think about leadership on a broad level, and what individual impact they can have http://bit.ly/diJvvY

Harvard Leadership Fellows

http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/leadershipfellows/

Launched in 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 78 Fellows with 39 organizations, and has delivered on two important levels:

• Providing social-sector organizations with access to analytic and strategic talent to deliver high-impact results
• Encouraging emerging leaders to develop an appreciation for and understanding of the complexities of leading in the social sector

Traditional buddhist prayer

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness;
May all be free from sorrow and the causes of sorrow;
May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless;
And may all live in equanimity, without too much attachment and too much aversion
And live believing in the equality of all that lives.

South Leadership Interview with Ricardo Teran of Agora Partnerships

Agora Partnerships' mission is to give developing world entrepreneurs the management tools, networks and financing needed to launch successful, socially-responsible companies.
Interview with Ricardo Teran on mobilizing networks to support entrepreneurs on the front lines of development.
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Meditation

“A mind that is in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator. The meditator is the observer, the senser, the thinker, the experiencer, and when there is the experiencer, the thinker, then he is concerned with reaching out, gaining, achieving, experiencing. And that thing which is timeless cannot be experienced. There is no experience at all. There is only that which is not nameable.” J. Krishnamurti

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Viewing Alexey's Japanese Art Collection with Masa

Here with Masa, enjoying the great Japanese art collection that Alexey has been building.

10th Reunion

President Tilghman at the annual alumni council meeting.

The Princeton in Latin America reception and Princeton Club of Brazil.

Professor John Fleming, at the Humanities reunion.

An unexpected but delightful visit to the library.

At Costa Rica Congress for 20 year of Colegios Cientificos

With Francisco Antonio Pachecho, President of Congress in Costa Rica. 20 years ago as Minister of Education, he was in charge of launching the Colegios Cientificos. A parntership with the National Universities for 2-year magnet science high schools. Highly selective and rigorous and an innovative model for developing countries.

Daniel Senise opening at Pinacoteca, with artist and Princeton club

With Samuel, Wolff from ILRio and CDI founder Rodrigo Baggio, and NY board member Noah Goodnight, visiting a leading CDI school and listening first hand to Wanderson da Silva Scrock. He was a veteran of juvenile detention centers at the age of 17. He headed the financial operation of Comando Vermelho, one of Rio’s biggest drug gangs that controlled 13 different favelas in the city. In prison, he took a course at a CDI school and started training to be an instructor. Today, he teaches at this center, a 3 hours commute each way. In the process, he has discovered two new passions: information technology and the ability to inspire others to follow his example of successful reform.

OURO PRETO and surroudings

Visiting one of the most innovative and effective CDI schools

At Vik's opening for the restrospective at MAM Rio.

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum with my family.
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini

John Nash, a friendly and gracious supporter of our Princeton week in Brazil.
As his biographer says: A one line letter of recommendation: "This man is a genius" introduced the twenty-year-old John Nash to Princeton's elite math department. A little more than a year later, Nash had written the twenty-seven-page thesis that would one day win him a Nobel prize.

Sao Paulo Prep Program dinner