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Personal interests
Although I'm a pretty heavy geek in a lot of ways, a lot of my
interests fall in the social sciences. I'm interested in history,
sociology, and psychology (which I see as interrelated - the thing
that interests me most about history is the variability of human
society and what is taken for human nature over time). Most of
the nonfiction I read is in those areas. My undergraduate degree
was in linguistics, and I'm still interested in linguistics, as
well as in
foreign languages.
I follow
politics and current events (especially international news) pretty closely. (I listen to
the BBC a lot.) My politics are fairly leftist by US standards.
Recently (in the past year or so) I've gotten really interested
in
astronomy again. I've always had sort of a background interest in
it, and when I was little I wanted to be an astronomer for a while,
but the collision of a comet with Jupiter, recent discoveries
of planets circling other stars, and the possible discovery (though
now looking very unlikely) that Mars may once have had microscopic
life have rekindled my interest.
I used to do a lot of calligraphy, but I haven't had time for
it in a while. I'm also something of a
type and typography afficionado.
Pages about specific interests
See also
Jay Sekora
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