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Name: |
Jay Novella |
| Date of Birth: |
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| Place of Birth: |
CT |
| Father: |
Joseph |
| Mother: |
Pat |
| Siblings: |
Bob, Steve, Joe and Sandra |
| Spouse: |
Sheryle, the coolest and smartest girl I ever met |
| Children: |
2 cats, a bird and a dog |
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| Education: |
BA English |
| Occupation: |
Software Engineer |
| Currently Residing in: |
CT |
| Past Residences: |
NYC |
| Likes: |
Bass guitar, poetry, Halloween, science, nanotechnology, robots |
| Dislikes: |
Mostly its self absorbed close minded people. Most bad things in life come from them.
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| Favorite Food(s): |
Meatballs, BBQ anything, Pizza, Oranges, Chicken..you can make anything with it.
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| Favorite Book(s): |
The Internet |
| Favorite Movie(s): |
Casablanca, cheesy kung fu, Zombie movies (Day/Dawn of the Dead), The Thing, |
| Favorite TV Show(s): |
Rome, Early Lost (get to it already!!!), How Its Made |
| Favorite Music: |
Jeff Buckley, The Toadies, Sinatra, 70s Funk |
| Drink/Smoke: |
Yes/No |
| Most respected scientists/skeptics: |
Carl Sagan, Randi, Eric Drexler |
| Best Scientific Discovery: |
Evolution / natural selection / DNA |
| Most interesting area of science: |
Nanotechnology |
| Most disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal claim: |
Psychics (most are cheaters), Intelligent Design, Chiropractic |
| Most disliked pseudoscientific/paranormal proponent: |
Tommy Boy (Tattoo) Cruise, Sylvia Browne |
| Space Travel, Humans or Robots? |
Robots first to get it ready for humans. Humans must explore space.. just don't send human embryos! |
| Favorite website (besides yours, and mine): |
How the hell can I answer this |
| Other podcasts you listen to: |
Science Talk, Quackcast, BBC Radio Newspod (I love the accents) |
| Dumbest thing you've ever heard: |
I met a girl who told me her grandmother can give the evil eye. I told her maybe it was because her grandmother was so ****ing ugly. |
| When and how did you become a skeptic: |
My brother Steve insisted I stop
living in ignorant bliss and ride the cutting edge of logic and science. I
had no choice but to comply. Are we not men? We are DEVO..and I realized
that if God exists he doesn't care..and if he doesn't care then why the
hell
not??? And then I got mad and realized.hey, none of this makes sense.
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| What you would like to see science achieve before you die: |
Biological nanotechnology |
| What would you like to accomplish before you die: |
Get my poetry published, make my favorite screenplay into a movie. |
| Anything else: |
Children have open minds, spend the time to
teach them science and logic and show them how incredibly wonderful the
real
world is. |
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