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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 628: “Isn’t it interesting . . .”
Description: 30 “ISN’T IT INTERESTING the way all knowledge is interrelated?” I said. “Not now, Peter,” said Ariane. “Wait for the commercial.” I knew I was breaking Ariane’s rule by speaking to her during a movie, but I was out to impress her, and I was impatient. I had brought a volume of my encyclopedia with me that afternoon, Volume C (Cat paradox; Causality; Cavendish laboratory; Combination lock; Como conference; Complementarity; Compound nucleus, theory of; Copenhagen school of physics; Correspondence principle), hoping that she would appreciate the intellectual patina I was acquiring, but I’d arrived a little late, the movie had alread...