Books

Not sure how I ended up at Yuval Ne'eman, but it was something to do, if I remember right, with searching for Feynman's thesis. Then came a quest to get my hands on "The Particle Hunters." I had spent about an hour with the University of Geneva's Particle Physics course on Coursera a few years ago. I loved watching Martin Pohl. Long story short, an intern in the office finally got me the book from the university library. It's riveting in parts. Some parts could be done better - like just about anything. I'd watched him in a YouTube video and been both impressed and intimidated😊 "It's difficult to imagine how much one can get out of 3x3 matrices." Then, since I had some kind of a "background" in nuclear physics (😊) after getting through half the book, I decided to go back to the Coursera course and decided to publish this to clean up some bit rot. Bad link : http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~brown/Jina-workshop/BAB-lecture-notes.pdf Use in...

Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright. Five stars - worth the journey just for knowing what's there.. It's available for free . My best bits below.. Protect Your Energy! Take real vacations A weekend is not a vacation. It takes at least three days to "forget" about your work; it takes at least a week to actually feel refreshed. Make it trivial to disconnect When you disconnect, leave your work laptop at the office. If you have work communications on your phone, remove them. Take real weekends, too Again, this recharge works only if you disconnect from work communications. Try truly signing out on Friday night, spend the weekend doing things you love, and then sign in again on Monday morning when you’re back in the office. Take breaks during the day Your brain operates in natural 90-minute cycles.5 Use the opportunity to get up and walk around the office, or spend 10 minutes walking outside. Tiny breaks like this are only tiny recharges, ...

There were two dozen tightly-rolled, never used silk umbrellas in that closet - prizes she had won. Flossie collected them for display the way an athlete collects cups. Flossie felt happy looking at all the umbrellas. Poor people have a great passion for huge quantities of things.