Reish Rambling

A general promo for the show, if you'd like to pimp it on your podcast :)Credit, as always, to Kevin MacLeod for the music, Cold Funk, from his site incompetech.com, available under CC-BY 3.0.

Hello, all! This is a light, albeit looooooooong episode, in which I talk about the super awesome roadtrip I went on at the beginning of the month! Vicariously experience Thrills (getting fucking lost!), Chills (heatstroke!), and Really Unhealthy Food (it's the South, what do you expect)! And also a little history. And I do mean a little.I'll be posting photos in the post immediately following this one because it's quite a few photos. Video will also be coming eventually, after I (a)figure out how to edit it and (b)figure out how to use teh UTubz.Also, I have my first blog follower. I nearly wet myself with excitement.Thank you, Kathleen Borealis! You rock! (Pun maybe intended

In this episode, I look at colour: what it is, where it comes from, and how we use it in magick. WTF is up with colour correspondences anyway? In the science segment (who am I kidding, this is mostly science!), I talk about tomatoes! Specifically, canned tomatoes (how do they work? Protip: not miracles!), and how you can preserve more delicate fruits and vegetables without turning them into mush.I promise next episode will not involve science.  Promise promise.Also, I am now on Twitter: @RShShN (www.twitter.com/RShShN)I totally forgot to put contact info in the last show! You can comment on the blog, email me at rsh.shn@gmail.com, or tweet me!Visible spectrum by ascending wavelength/descending energy.  By Spigget on Wikimedia Commons; licensed CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 UnportedElectromagnetic wave; ±q is the electrical component (E⃗, blue); red (B⃗) is the magnetic component.  Figure at right is a head-on view of the wave, as if it were coming out of the page.  k⃗ is the velocity of the wave.  By SuperManu on Wikimedia Commons; licensed CC-BY-uSA.Helpful links for the perplexed:Planck's Constant: 6.626 × 10-34JsHuygens-Fresnel PrincipleSchrödinger Equation (not for the faint of heart)FRETcis-trans IsomerismOpsins (visual pigments)Perception of ColourPlasmodesmataPectins!D-Galacturonic acid and its parent sugar, D-Galactose (aka D-Gal)Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis acidsCredits:Recorded/Mixed with Audacity under Ubuntu.Intro: Cold Funk.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Science Intro: MTA.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/; voicover:Bino the Elephant. Jason Steele (filmcow.com)Outro: Raw.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Please, God, tell me I have not inspired something burgundy..." Lola (Chiwete Ejiofor) in Kinky Boots (2005), Julian Jarrold, dir., Geoff Dean & Tim Firth, writers.  Constitutes fair use.

Shownotes:Hooray debut!  In this episode, I talk about magick as the magnification of probability, and touch on the economic argument.  In the science segment, we'll take a look at the preliminary report on the E. coli outbreak northern Germany, as published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A Folding Funnel.  "N" marks the position of the native conformation, and height represents free energy.Credits:Recorded/Mixed with Audacity under Ubuntu.Intro: Cold Funk.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Science Intro: MTA.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/; voicover: Bino the Elephant. Jason Steele (filmcow.com)Outro: Raw.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/O'Reilly meltdown sample from ye auld YouTube.   Constitutes fair use.Folding funnel from http://teenbiotechchallenge.ucdavis.edu/tbc10/Peter%20Wang,%20Clara%20Fannjiang,%20William%20Liu/Chemistry.html.  Constitutes fair use.Article Discussed:Christina Frank, Ph.D., Dirk Werber, D.V.M., Jakob P. Cramer, M.D., Mona Askar, M.D., Mirko Faber, M.D., Matthias an der Heiden, Ph.D., Helen Bernard, M.D., Angelika Fruth, Ph.D., Rita Prager, Ph.D., Anke Spode, M.D., Maria Wadl, D.V.M., Alexander Zoufaly, M.D., Sabine Jordan, M.D., Klaus Stark, M.D., Ph.D., and Gérard Krause, M.D., Ph.D. for the HUS Investigation Team.  Epidemic Profile of Shiga-Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak in Germany — Preliminary Report.  NEJM June 22, 2011 (10.1056/NEJMoa1106483)