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Description of the links below (light blue text at
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The Chemistry Redemption is a philosophical treatise accompanied by hands-on chemistry experiments. (See Chapter
II, roughly one third of which is kitchen chemistry.) While its focus is on chemistry, this work also includes a survey/critique
of various related fields, several of which have their own chapter and/or appendix, viz., particle physics, mathematics, probability,
and information theory. Hence the overall length which runs to 400+ pages. The critiques provide indirect support for my choice
of chemistry as star of the show. I was able to arrive at that choice without "political" bias since my own doctorate
is not in one of the sciences but in Chinese language and literature (Harvard, 1975). Saying it another way, I have the advantages
(and disadvantages) of being a science establishment outsider.
The mock-thriller title is meant to be read two ways:
(1) let's redeem the good name of chemistry;
(2) more importantly, let's use chemistry as a vehicle for our
own redemption, a new Copernicanesque Revolution. The latter is an admittedly odd idea, hence the need for many pages to develop
it.
In the Chinese Soundscape Lexicon, vocabulary
is presented in terms of the tonal landscape of putonghua, which I've dubbed its "soundscape."
Specifically, I use a 4-column, 396-row matrix to present "a student's first 1169 characters."
The 40-page matrix itself is preceded by a 7-page preface where I explain my classification scheme, which includes regular
syllables, prime syllables, overloaded syllables, and overloaded characters (while 415 of the 1584 cells remain empty -- representing
nonexistent syllables). By dint of the "overloaded syllable" category, the character count comes eventually to 2443
total, if we include those that play both major and minor roles in the matrix. Japanese Grammar From Scratch (2003) is a novel analysis of Japanese syntax
(again, by an "outsider").
There is
also one musical item below: my annotated transcription (1999) of Nusrat's
"Tumeh [Tumhen] Dil Lagi Bhool Jani Paregee"
(a qawwali song, with Urdu & English text)
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