Editor in Chief, Biology Direct, http://www.biology-direct.com/ (this is a pretty unusual journal, take a look!), lots of other editorial boards..., no societies, no organizations

Science, in particular, bioinformatics, evolutionary biology and origin of life (professionally), and cosmology (amateurishly); philosophy (mostly, of science, but not only); long distance running, mountain trekking; Russian poetry (reading not writing); red wine (all varieties but, primarily, Italian)

Never understood any

Don't really like any anymore

Alex Vilenkin "Many Worlds in One", (the best ever popular text in cosmology); Bertrand Russell "History of Western Philosophy"; Paul Auster "the Music of Chance"; John Fowles "The Magus"; Borges "Ficciones"

come on

"How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!"
Charles Darwin (from a letter)