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This guy sounds like an interesting cat: Howard Bloom


Meanwhile, Bloom borrowed books on industrial formulae from his local library, made cold cream from scratch, learned about surfactants, became fascinated by the puzzles of surface tension, and learned about piezoelectricity by building a germanium diode radio.
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From a book on herpetology, Bloom learned how to raise a lizard from an egg
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His study of Aristotle and Nietzsche would prove a potent influence in his books. Then, at Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Research Institute, while working as a summer lab assistant in the biochemistry department, he aided in early research on the immune system. Though he was technically too young to enter Roswell Park's summer program, Bloom had been recruited by the biochemistry department's head, Dr. David Pressman.
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In 1971, he became the editor of Circus Magazine.
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Working closely with Prince's manager, and current Chairman of the Buena Vista Music Group, Bob Cavallo,[11] Bloom played a role in saving a Prince film Warner Brothers was about to trash, Purple Rain.
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Bloom was the organization's day-to-day work horse, battling a campaign by Tipper Gore, Susan Baker, and other wives of high-placed government officials, who had founded the Parents Music Resource Center.
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In theoretical physics, Bloom is the co-author and supporter of the hidden-time approach to quantum theory. This approach was developed by Pavel Kurakin and George Malinetsky, of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Bloom is a founding board member of both the Epic of Evolution Society and The Darwin Project, and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science[14], the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, The International Society of Human Ethology, the Academy of Political Science, and the NASA-founded Aerospace Technologies Working Group.
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