More interests

7. World Geography and Culture

• Geography instruction for K12 (Geoculture Club | Geoclub )
• Demographic trends
• Anthropology and ethnography
• Statehood and minority populations
• Immigration policy and impact

8. Vestiges of Proto-Indo-European religion and mythology

• The Kalash of Chitral, Pakistan (KalashaPeople |  Literature | Pakpics | Global Post | Wikipedia | SiteShara | Kalasha.org |
• Nuristan, Afghanistan (pre late 19th. c.) (Languages |
• Bulgaria
• Celtic areas (Ireland, Brittany, West Scottish isles and Hebrides
• Remote Slavs: Slovakia,  Ruthenia..

9. Women's Rights Abuses

• Female genital mutilation (circumcision and infibulation) 
• Honor killings
• Lack of birth control
• Female infanticide (India, Tibet, China)
• Female as property

10.  Russian Literature

• Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wikipedia | Wiki-На русском | Works in Russian | Project Gutenberg | Online Books )
• Children's literature (K. Chukovsky, S. Marshak, etc.)
• Lyric Poetry (Pushkin, Tyutchev, Bryusov, etc.)
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Vladimir Nabokov

11.  Useful Languages to Improve my Proficiency

• Spanish
• French
• Russian
• Arabic
• Hindi
• Mandarin

12. Ancient languages

• Biblical Hebrew
• Sanskrit
• Biblical Greek
• Avestan
• Latin
• Old English

13.  Organized Extremism which threatens American Democracy

• Muslim extremism (funded by Gulf-state and Iranian extremists)
• Libertarian extremism (tea-baggers, Rupert Murdoch, etc.)
• Other religious fundamentalists (Christian, Mormon, Jewish, etc.)
• ? (What will happen when there is a critical mass of people out of work?)

14.  Adoption Issues

• Identity formation in adoptees in closed adoptions who know they were adopted
• The Adoptee and orphan in world mythology and art
• Adoption and Abortion - unfortunately, they really are linked for mothers who want to deny having ever given birth
• Reconnecting - One candy-coated can of worms many adoptees desperately desire
• Being adopted as an existential state
• The concept of adoptee rights vs. a mother's desire to get rid of her baby

 15. Theater

• Theater for educational purposes (see NYT blurb about Danny Burstein's science education musical gala)
• Siberian Tiger Theater
• Opera and Musical Theater (Composing projects: Crime & Punishment, Robert Saul)
• Poetry in theater
• Theater of agitation
• Theater of the absurd
• Mystical theater

16.  Cinema

• Alfred Hitchcock (http://hitchcock.tv/ | http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page )
• Andrei Tarkovsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky |
• Soviet comedies
• Peter Sellers
• Italian classic cinema (Fellini, Bertolucci, Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, Pasolini, comedies)
• Indian Cinema including Bollywood, Satyajit Ray, Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair
• Contemporary Argentine cinema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_cinema#Contemporary_cinema)
• Peter Weir (http://www.peterweircave.com/films.html)
• Leslie Howard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard_(actor))

17.  Mongols

18. Religion

19. Speciation

20. Rationality and Mysticism - How they co-exist