Small Findings

Episode 37: Small Finding is back with matter being energy, consciousness, and Canada!

The findings this week:

Small Finding is back with matter being energy, consciousness, and Canada!

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Thu Oct 12 2023 23:01:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 36: Observations from elevators are valid; light is bent by acceleration.

The findings this week:

Observations from elevators are valid; light is bent by acceleration.

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Fri Jun 09 2023 13:51:12 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 35: Man on the street explains how Silicon Valley Bank collapsed

The findings this week:

Man on the street explains how Silicon Valley Bank collapsed

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Sat Mar 11 2023 17:56:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 34: Computer stores — still here

The findings this week:

Computer stores — still here

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Thu Feb 09 2023 19:23:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 33: Non-atomic transactions in the course of booking travel from BOS to NYP

The findings this week:

Non-atomic transactions in the course of booking travel from BOS to NYP

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Sun Jan 15 2023 03:45:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 32: On going too far for flavor.

The findings this week:

On going too far for flavor.

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Tue Nov 08 2022 14:12:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 31: Four-holers and six-holers

The findings this week:

Four-holers and six-holers

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Wed Sep 07 2022 00:44:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 30: Where on the beat the notes in the Hell Awaits riff fall, but with distortion this time.

The findings this week:

Where on the beat the notes in the Hell Awaits riff fall, but with distortion this time.

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Sat Jun 25 2022 18:20:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 29: Where the notes fall in the chorus riff in Hell Awaits, illustrated with the worst instrument — the unplugged electric guitar.

The findings this week:

Where the notes fall in the chorus riff in Hell Awaits, illustrated with the worst instrument — the unplugged electric guitar.

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Fri Jun 24 2022 02:36:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 28: What happened to Small Findings, and how does it work now?

The findings this week:

What happened to Small Findings, and how does it work now?

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Sat Jun 18 2022 23:57:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 28: Testing again!

The findings this week:

Testing again!

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Sat Apr 02 2022 20:12:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 27: It’s a test!

The findings this week:

It’s a test!

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Sat Apr 02 2022 19:56:41 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 24: Hell Bent for Findings

The findings this week:

Guerilla art getting established
Hell Bent for Leather
Between repetition and timbre
- Bassoon sample from Carlos Vaquero
- Chapter 2 of The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

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Mon Nov 08 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 23: Apple

The findings this week:

Steve Jobs getting away with stuff, but in the '70s
- A History of Video Games in 64 Objects
The indie dev tale of NanoStudio
- NanoStudio 2
- Blip Interactive forum thread about Studio Drums

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Mon Oct 04 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 22: Emu War

The findings this week:

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Mon Aug 16 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 21: Glaciers Are Long

The findings this week:

Glaciers and the Milankovic Cycles
Teaching is hard
Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is actually incoherent
- Episode 20, about how I thought his works were likely a good read

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Wed Aug 04 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 20: Watercity

The findings this week:

Watertown's true name and the forms of municipal government in Massachusetts
- Article LXXXIX of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about town and city forms of government
- City or Town of Watertown – Charter Review Committee Weighs in on That & Other Proposed Changes
How speakers make vibrations
Poirot and his similarities to Sherlock Holmes
Correction: Even more people can hear delay on the vibraphone!
- Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is not a student
- Wikipedia
- Episode 19, with the finding about Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency
RealPlayer still exists
- real dot com
Atari
- Wikipedia on Atari SA
WordPerfect
- wordperfect.com

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Mon Jul 19 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 19: Weird Animal Sounds

The findings this week:

Catbirds
- Wikipedia
- Episode image from PxHere
Posting to Bandcamp
- Bandcamp artist guide
- The Sound of the Far Future on Bandcamp
Correction: Some people can hear delay on the vibraphone!
- Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
Grasshopper group sounds
Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency

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Mon Jul 05 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 18: Bells and Delay

The findings this week:

The Westminster Quarters
The perception of stereo delay effects on voice and instruments

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Mon Jun 28 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 16: Incorrect Attributions

The findings this week:

What decibels actually are
- Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
- Open Broadcaster System on the 0 dB digital audio convention
Arneson and Gygax from Playing at the World
Trusting cats' confidence
- Image of a leopard sleeping in a tree by Michael Schamis via Wikimedia Commons
Production notes
- Automatically removing terrible mouth sounds

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Thu Jun 17 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 17: Sandwich Spread

The findings this week:

Similarities between recording a computer playing music and recording a human playing music
More from Beverly Cleary's autobiography My Own Two Feet
- My Own Two Feet (autobiography)
- Smudge pots
- Telegram service level in the 1930s
- Engineer stereotypes in the '30s
- A sandwich spread recipe (the deluxe kind, with bologna)
- Boarding houses
- Library schools and attitude grading in the '30s
- Beverly Cleary's first book deal
Bands' messages and politicians

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Thu Jun 17 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 15: Light criminology

The findings this week:

Defeating bike locks
Defeating laser printer DRM
- Consumer Reports on inkjet ink's per gallon cost
- How to move an HP laser printer cartridge chip
Sherlock Holmes and six-year-olds
- Wikipedia
- All Men Are Brothers

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Mon May 31 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 14: Recumbent Findings

The findings this week:

Beverly Cleary in the 1930s
- My Own Two Feet (autobiography)
Sun Ra in Alabama and Chicago
- Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed
How to evaluate air purifiers with Fred
- Clean air delivery rate
Footnote 1 from Fred: "Regarding air filtration in commercial spaces, what I said was generally true for offices, commercial spaces, chemical labs, and medical spaces. Generally there's focus on air quality through outside air intake. However, there is a particular sector that focuses heavily on recirculated air filtration, and that's cleanrooms."
Footnote 2 from Fred: "The CADR to square foot ratio of 2/3 corresponds to 5 air changes per hour. That is to say, an air purifier in the recommended space for its CADR will filter all the air in the space five times per hour, or once every 12 minutes. The "bad" air purifier I mentioned has enough CADR to do 2 air changes per hour in its marketed space of 1100 square feet. It does say "cleans the room in 30 minutes" on its product web page but I wouldn't expect a lay person to know that that is below the AHAM's recommended air cleaning rate. If someone smoked a cigarette in a room and it took an air purifier 30 minutes to make the smell go away I would call that poor performance."
Fredrick Douglass on discussing slavery
- History of Ideas episode
- My Bondage and My Freedom on gutenberg
Adam Buxton discusses making jingles with found music
- Adam Buxton Tape Notes episode

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Mon May 24 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 13: Who Is the Robot Now?

The findings this week:

Getting paid for art, submitting the work of bots to calls for art
How to repeat random decisions
SVG
How NOT to replace Roomba tires
The name Seph
- The post on josephg.com
Filamentation
- Wikipedia on Filamentation
CRLF and minified JavaScript

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Mon Jan 25 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 12: Pasta, Snuff, and Cats

The findings this week:

Text findings
- Miscellaneous Findings IV (web odd and ends)
- Miscellaneous Findings V (the doings of servers)
How to make your own pasta and what it's like
- The Play-Doh Fun Factory (which I misrembered; it looks nothing like a pasta machine!)
- A picture of a real pasta machine
Snuff
Bonus Cat and Dr. Wily are actually right
- Dr. Borns-Weil on All Things Considered

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Thu Dec 31 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 11: 100,000 Hot Dogs

The findings this week:

A book podcast I'm doing with some friends
- Rehydrate
Autocorrelation
- Companion blog post that uses numbers in the explanation
- Why You Hear What You Hear
LLCs and legal insurance
- Does Forming an LLC or Corporation Fully Protect You From Liability?
- Massachusetts law about homestead
Expedition with Alex 2: Crossing the bridge over Route 2

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Thu Nov 19 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 10: The Gömböc

The findings this week:

Surnameless cultures
The gömböc
- Wikipedia on the gömböc
Lenin's style and stance on state capitalism

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Fri Aug 21 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 9: Land of Wonder

The findings this week:

Expedition with Alex: The bridge over Route 2 and the top of Alewife Station
The "Marketplace of Ideas" veneer in effect in 1933
- Out from under their rock: Nazis fly their flag outside the State House
- Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread
The Work Force
- Work Force home page
- Housing Authority made own system for teens, and four years after high school show it works
The mystery of the library book drop
- Contactless Pickup at the Cambridge Public Library

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Mon Jul 13 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 8: Then and Now

The findings this week:

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Thu Jun 25 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 7: Master Hamfast

The findings this week:

Text findings
- Miscellaneous Findings I (mostly about businesses)
- Miscellaneous Findings II (video editing commands)
Regular and gravitational lensing
The anachronism and lightness in the beginning of the Lord of the Rings
The appeal of Lord of the Rings to five-year-olds
- InvestiGators
- Dog Man
Burger seasoning

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Tue May 26 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 6: Reevaluating Dirrty Puff

The findings this week:

Parchment paper and pizza
- Wikipedia on parchment paper
- Can You Heat Parchment Paper Higher Than Manufacturers Recommend?
How restaurants are affected by the practices of delivery companies
The secret of Pasqually's
- Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn't Actually Chuck E. Cheese
- Hot Garbage
The surprising power of puffy cats
- Bonus Cat, undeterred in 2020
- Dirrty Puff in 2009

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Mon May 18 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 5: The Devil's Ghost

The findings this week:

How to paint black without actually using black, from Sam
- Sam's site
The Witch of Endor
Surprising businesses I stumbled upon in Cambridge
Magnetars
- Milky Way Magnetar Makes Fast Radio Burst
- Independent detection of the radio burst reported in ATel
CDNs
The thing at the end of the faucet
- Faucet aerator
- Redux

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Mon May 11 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 4: There's gotta be a better way

The findings this week:

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Mon May 04 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 3: When there's lightning

The findings this week:

The basics of China's economic model
- A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of authoritarian capitalism
Harvard's endowment
- Harvard announces salary and hiring freezes
What's involved in an ICU
- How to set up an ICU
Conspiracy theories
Volcanic lightning
Space elevators
- Sky Line, a documentary from 2015
- Wikipedia

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Mon Apr 27 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 2: Still eruption columns

The findings this week:

The CARES act signing statement
- Trump's signing statement
Undoing paint
Zoom
Audm
Wistia
The coronavirus impact on the ad industry
- NYT: The impact of the coronavirus on advertising
Black beans and black coffee
Bread and grape resurrections
- Bon Appetit: How to revive stale bread
MRRP!

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Thu Apr 09 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Episode 1: What is Small Findings? Also painting darkness, mice handedness, and stimulus.

The findings this week:

Woodrow Wilson was weak on sharks
How to paint lots of darkness
tags as elements
Hot water gaskets
Mouse handedness
Lap desks
Making good pizza dough and cooking pizza sausage
The coronavirus stimulus package.

Here's the executive raise limit formula for companies that take stimulus assistance: (current pay - $3 million)/2 + $3 million. (The / means "divided by" there.)

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Sat Mar 28 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)