accelerators, particle

Sometimes I just read and hope that something sticks. Particle accelerators was a fairly difficult read. I understood maybe 10% of what I read.

I floated through the 1963 Encyclopedia Britannica to find ACIS, and then ACNE.

Followed by a short detour talking about acne and hypochlorous acid spray.

It's getting colder here in Northern California. I think the warm heat waves are finally taking a break. Going to spend the rest of the day preparing for rain. Thanks for joining this podcast.

Yap episode talking about:

Why read the encylopedia?

Interesting things I've read, seen this year:

3 body problem

Odyssey

East of Eden

Looking forward to:

Zelda, Stardew Valley, Revenge the Chinese Drama

Abutilon - mallow family genus of shrubs or herbs

Abydos - ancient town of Mysia

From Abydos we wander Wikipedia to read about the myth of Hero & Leander

Abutilon & Abydos from the 1963 Encylopedia Britannica

Hero & Leander from Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abydos_(Hellespont)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_and_Leander

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Hero_(priestess)

A comparison episode

1963 Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on Colette

& then the Wikipedia page's entry

Wikipedia is much more expansive and thorough. It takes less narrative leeway with describing which I found interesting. I would think the encyclopedia britannica would by dryer, but its prose itself had more character.

Over the rest of the year I'll work on audio quality. I use a program which has AI capabilities to clean up audio, but I intentionally don't utilize it. I don't think every work needs to be optimized. But I will in other ways attempt to improve quality.

1963 Encyclopedia Britannica

A very close to home topic today, the common cold.

This episode touched on a lot of interesting studies, looked at the effectiveness of certain treatments, the value of the placebo effect, and some myths that continue to be held about the common cold.

I had a 3 week long respiratory illness which made me unable to do any recording without profuse coughing, which would not be fun to listen to.

In this time I misplaced my "A" Encyclopedia.

So here we are with a couple of "C."

I'm glad to be back, and episodes will probably be short for a while since my throat has not returned to prior condition.

Thanks as always for listening.

1963 Encyclopedia Britannica

A quick venture through many A's this day

I enjoyed learning that people had researched and looked into the Abominal Snowman and to learn abracadabra had a history and was not just always a magical chanting phrase.

I chose Absalom because there is a famous book called Absalom, Absalom but the entry gave me no real idea what the book could be about.

1963 Encyclopedia Britannica

Abolitionist Movement 1963 Encyclopedia Britannica

Today I also read some of the Wikipedia of the same entry

It is inevitably a longer episode & a political episode

thanks as always for being here