Richard Irwin

I'm not a scientist or a member of academia, just an old guy who's been to a few places in the world. I now have a college degree though. It's in Business Management with a concentration in organizational behavior. The best educational opportunities came to me, though, as I moved from a small town in Montana to my current place in Connecticut. I've learned which end of the shovel o use and what it takes to build a small town on a desert alongside Red Sea. I know how to de-mine a mine field. I know what its like to live in a palace in Iraq. I used a slide rule to calculate molecular volume of any element on the chart of Nuclides as I prepared to be a reactor operator in the US Navy in my younger days. My iPhone now gives me what I want to know from the Internet. The local people in the countries I visited or worked in taught me what I did not receive from the books of my formal schooling. The Catholic Church gave me the perspective I needed to put all my experiences into proper context. All this was not to blow my own horn but to lay the foundation of how I see what is in front of me now.