Weeknote 36, 2023

§1 So much for that...

A headline in the February 9, 2020 New York Times: “Oregon Learns to Love a Rivalry,” about the Ducks’ new rivalry in women’s basketball with Oregon State.

A headline in the August 5, 2023 New York Times: “Ever-Shrinking Pac-12 Loses Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten.”

How fickle love can be!

§2 I don’t mind this video / wasting all my time...

A perfect transformation from PostmodernJukebox.

§3 Post-punk will never die?

I welcome any evidence of the survival of post-punk music.

§4 The Standard Model of Particle Physics

After watching this video (produced by that gem of philanthropic endeavor, Quanta), I believe I have a foothold at the bottom of the learning curve one must climb to understand the Standard Model. Which is further than I had gotten in my prior half-century.