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What are you learning about these days?

you'll get a chance yet. i find history to be more interesting the older i get. i still tune out a lot 8) i guess it's good to know that some of the enjoyable literature is still considered academic, all kinds of written word shit is ripe with historical references
 
recreational learning for the past 12 months for me has been a die hard adventure involving:

- 2012 and everything stemming from it. mind control (individually and globally), secret societies, history and cultural events/beliefs that are relevant, subspecies and their history. etc.

- renovating and decorating homes.

- psychoactive drugs and their effect on individuals/society.

...kytnism...:|
 
Diesel mechanic in training - diesel/gas engine overhaul and tuning, hydraulics, fuel systems, powertrains, welding, electrical, engine management and everything in between.

Basically I'm learning to fix anything that has wheels (or tracks). Works for me, I'm not very academically minded.
 
I got the digidesign mbox 2 mini and a $1000 home recording studio setup. I think the learning curve is much more gradual than I'm making it cause' i dont spend too much time in front of it. I 'm into hip hop song writing, I dont glamorize the gangster bling bling lifestyle though. Also Im interested in integrating myself into a Scientology cult community as soon as I get off probation, I have the ability to really help my fellow man. I am also trying to get myself immersed in sexual activity as sexual activity and rearing of children is the second dynamic. l know how to fuck and I take care of myself. Also sports performance training by Bill Foran, I'm going to the YMCA a few times in the next two weeks to "wake up " my back muscles cause' I've got a snow removal hustle in my neighborhood. Entrapanurial spirit.
 
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Quantum Computing.

Picked it for a final year module in my Computer Science degree. Didn't really know what I was letting myself in for, it is interesting stuff but some of the mathematics involved is mind boggling! Check it out on wikipedia or something, it will not disappoint. :D
 
MynameisnotDeja said:
Awesome! I grew up playing the flute and took lessons all throughout my teen years! It's such a beautiful instrument. :) I miss it, I should try and get back into it one day but I'm just too busy with other stuff I want to learn. Oh to have infinite time...
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Ha! You're something like the 12th person to say something like this to me since I've started playing. It's a great conversation piece, especially since people don't expect a fairly large male to be playing such a delicate, sweet instrument.

A few weeks ago, my instructor got me to play a bit with a bass flute. What a sound! Too bad they're so bloody expensive.
 
thujone said:
you'll get a chance yet. i find history to be more interesting the older i get. i still tune out a lot 8) i guess it's good to know that some of the enjoyable literature is still considered academic, all kinds of written word shit is ripe with historical references
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Not any time soon. I'm still super interested in history (it was my BA) but all my reading time is devoted to law school. :(
 
I wish I had more time to read for pleasure. Most of my reading is spent reading on HR issues which I am getting my degree in.

I would love to read more on the theory of disability. But I would probably turn it around into practical ideas to advance people with disabilities.
 
^ Frankly, I find that FAAAAAR more challenging than memorizing voluminous amounts of anatomy.

Great thread idea, Jam. Isn't Hebrew a pretty easy language for native Arabic speakers to learn, in terms of cognate words and similar grammar?

Most of mine are medical topics:
* The anatomy of the viscera. Fascinating and multi-colored.
* Kidney physiology
* Fat metabolism
* Stress and its effects on personal health management
 
^ Indeed, it is much easier... but it's still a semitic language, they're all rather tricky :). Although there are surprisingly few cognates, the grammars' "mechanics" are very similar so one can actually do "improv" language learning if that makes any sense.

thujone said:
for school i study mostly european topics (i have a special interest in tribal migration during the formation of early europe,)
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Are we talking about the Völkerwanderung or earlier migration? If it is the former, then the interest is definitely mutual :).
 
Over the Xmas break I'll be studying for my Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam in Maintaining and Implementing SQL Server 2005. Sexy hey?
 
Dave said:
Ha! You're something like the 12th person to say something like this to me since I've started playing. It's a great conversation piece, especially since people don't expect a fairly large male to be playing such a delicate, sweet instrument.
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that's funny, i also knew a big guy who played the flute. we made fun of him in high-school till we learned the whole thing was a ploy to get with the sexy flutist girls.

Jamshyd said:
Are we talking about the Völkerwanderung or earlier migration? If it is the former, then the interest is definitely mutual :).
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my interest is the migration described by the volkerwanderung theory, although i feel it's not comprehensive enough. population genetics research (i.e. mapping DNA geographically) is going on now to more accurately find trends, but i'm following up on some more physical leads that i feel could eventually pin-point the origins and exact paths of the tribes believed to have come from beyond the Urals. nobody really knows just how far back east their traces could lead, but i'm considering applying for an academic grant someday soon so i can go find out
 
I agree, good topic.

Um, I can never concentrate too long on a subject, it's always changing, so I have many and none of them have captivated me for more than a couple hours at a time.
  • quantum mechanics
  • finding the Theory of Everything
  • kytnism mentioned 2012, I enjoy finding the coincidences that pop up while reading things that are non-related to all the hype surrounding that year. Maybe they keep popping up because in the back of my mind I'm looking for them? It's not really a coincidence at all then. I forget what that's called again.
  • neuroscience, more specifically oneirology.
  • AI and technological singularity
  • the history of astronomy, from ancient Egypt to Aristotle to Hubble.

There's more, that's just off the top of my head.
 
thujone said:
my interest is the migration described by the volkerwanderung theory, although i feel it's not comprehensive enough. population genetics research (i.e. mapping DNA geographically) is going on now to more accurately find trends, but i'm following up on some more physical leads that i feel could eventually pin-point the origins and exact paths of the tribes believed to have come from beyond the Urals. nobody really knows just how far back east their traces could lead, but i'm considering applying for an academic grant someday soon so i can go find out
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Right on!

When I was in uni I took a class on the "Ring" cycle (Volsanga Saga, Das Nibelungenlied, Wagner's Ring...etc) and throughout the course I became a gadfly and kept derailing by asking, the whole time, "but what about the Huns?" or "Where did the Vanir come from? Russia? LOL. I can tell I wasn't particularly loved by a class who preferred to concern themselves with just europe and pretend nothing exists outside of it...

Anyway, good luck on your search! I'd be interested in reading anything you write about it, if you don't mind.
 
thujone-- I get that a lot. I actually just really enjoy flute music, as well as the incongruity of a big guy playing (what most people consider) a delicate, feminine instrument. Besides, it seems like most of the sexy flutist girls that I meet these days don't actually play anymore.
 
Rated E said:
And Alan Watts on the Nature of Consciousness before that.
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ill have to check that out.

i would like to say that it would be cool if we could reccommend a book, article, whatever to someone about the topic they are looking into that we think would be of interest, but i think that would probably take away from the thread itself.
 
school
how to join pieces of pipe so they can withstand >10,000PSI internal pressure....just blue collar trades shit.

from the armed forces.
-some shit relating to how to not abuse your sub-ordinates. (because, I beat my corporals and private black and blue and deny them food...wait, no...I treat them like human beings and dont need to be told I cant deny them water...waste of gov't $$)
- More stuff about how to maintain an airway and circulation in the face of various and assorted traumas caused by projectiles and explosions....currently covering how to admin paralytics with barbiturates or ketamine and intubate someone while laying behind a mudbrick wall being shot at....of course, they give you the indepth training after you go to do it IRL...again, tax $$, toliet, flush.

personal intrest
-trying to keep my hand into general organic synthesis and organic/pharma chem...not finding alot of time for serious reading on them tho. :(
-ducati and yamaha tuning/performance modifications.
 
  • Ancient politics of the Greeks
  • Ancient Greek
  • Latin
  • Anything to do with the hadron collider

Been seriously slacking recently though.. Since I've had a job I no longer find myself spending countless hours reading wikipedia and other such sites
 
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