Summary of Connections and Research of Readings
Related Blog Posts:
Investigation: http://blog.epsilum.co.nz/post/165778762014/so-i-went-to-the-library-for-a-couple-of-hours
Research: http://blog.epsilum.co.nz/post/165929646609/looking-deeper
Documentation: http://blog.epsilum.co.nz/post/165950877374/connections
Review:
My Chosen Books are: School Journal Number Two 1971 Part 3, Everyday Electronics Jan-Feb Apr-June 1991, The Listener 1988-89, SAS Survival Guide, and Veterinary Physiology. At first, these books look totally unrelated and are in completely different categories. However, after much research and digging; they have quite a few connections. The School Journal, Veterinary Physiology and The SAS Survival Guide are all related to teaching the reader something important. The School Jurnal is aimed at primary school children and teaches a wide range of subjects from English to geography, the SAS Survival guide is all about staying alive in any situation you might find yourself in, whereas, Veterinary Physiology is the only one that is aimed at academics and teaches a high level of the subject.
My favorite quote from the school journal is “Tigers bathe but cats hate water”
The Listener and Everyday Electronics are more about reporting. The Listener is a Newspaper that was a collection of newspapers from the listener between 1988 and 1989. Seeing the styles used back then and the stories were very interesting and Everyday Electronics is like a subscription magazine and gives a good idea about the electronic devices of the time and also the electronic knowledge of the time. Most of the devices I saw are similar to what you would find in kits in electronic stores now, both look very similar though. They also both display products and latest breakthroughs.
Both SAS Survival Guide and Veterinary Physiology can be used in emergencies. SAS Survival Guide has a lot of information about certain situations and getting out alive and Veterinary Physiology has literally everything you could need to know to diagnose a problem with an animal such as a cat or dog.
The Listener, School Jurnal, and Everyday Electronics are quite old. all published between 1988 and 1991. All of these were found on the bottom floor of the library.
I really struggled to connect all of these together, the best I could get is they all contain a lot of information and they all are interesting to me.
Something I did not expect when researching these books is how far down the rabbit hole you can go, this I realized when writing my research blog post. Everyday Electronics mentions a machine that emits pink noise which is advertised to put you into a deep sleep, I then found myself finding the formula for pink noise, a 10-hour video of pink noise, and a lot of science behind it; including a paper from the 1880s. The dream machine I found very interesting. according to Everyday Electronics, this emits pink noise, pink noise is advertised here to hypnotically induce deep sleep and claims dentist have used it to pull out teeth without anesthetic, sounds unethical but interesting so I did a bit of digging. Pink Noise is “Pink noise is acoustical energy distributed uniformly by octave throughout the audio spectrum (the range of human hearing, approximately 20 Hz to 20 kHz). Most people perceive pink noise as having uniform spectral power density – the same apparent loudness at all frequencies. In pink noise, the total sound power in each octave is the same as the total sound power in the octave immediately above or below it. An octave is a band whose highest frequency is exactly twice its lowest frequency.” - http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/pink-noise
I can relate all of these books through research and going way outside the box, so far from the box that you cant even see it anymore.
The school Journal could have been used to teach the people that then went on to write Everyday Electronics. During their teen years, they could have started reading the listener. After doing a bit of electronic work they could have decided to get into veterinary studies and used Veterinary Physiology as their first textbook. While at uni they decide they want to know some more about how to survive certain situations with all the commotion going on in the world so they pick up the SAS survival guide.
Another way these books relate without making it into a story is through content. The SAS Survival Guide shows first aid skills for humans whereas the Veterinary Physiology book covers it for animals. The listener covers events where first aid was needed and Everyday electronics has some examples of the latest medical tech of the time. The School Jurnal, however, contains little medical knowledge as it is aimed at children, but, it does have basic biology knowledge.
In conclusion, These books have no connection to each other at first glance, however, after thinking deeply and research they can be related. The further down the rabbit hole you go the more connections you find.