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John Stark runs Abenaki Gauntlet

Several years before he fought in the American Revolutionary War, John Stark was captured by natives and forced to run a gauntlet.

Knowing what was about to happen, Stark stunned them by grabbing the weapon away from the first person about to strike him and proceeded to attack the warrior with it.

The warriors and their chief were so surprised by this that they stopped the gauntlet and adopted him into their tribe. He was later ransomed along with Amos Eastman for $163 and returned home.

Freud’s 3 part psychoanalytic theory (ChatGPT explained)

• In Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality, the id, ego, and superego are three parts of the mind that influence behavior.

  • Id = “I want it now.” The impulsive, instinct-driven part. 

    • Example: “Eat the whole cake.” 

  • Superego = “That’s wrong.” The moral and rule-following part. 

    • Example: “You shouldn’t eat the cake because it’s unhealthy and selfish.” 

  • Ego = “Let’s be realistic.” The balancing part between the id and superego. 

    • Example: “Have one slice instead of the whole cake.” 

• You see a wallet full of cash on the ground. 

  • Id: “Take the money.” 

  • Superego: “Stealing is wrong.” 

  • Ego: “Turn it in or try to find the owner.”

Calcium Channel blockers (ChatGPT explained)

• Muscle cells in the heart and blood vessels use calcium to contract. CCBs partially block calcium from entering those cells.

• An example would be amlodipine

RCA Connector

• The RCA connector is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry analog audio and video signals.

• Yellow = video, red = right audio, white = left audio

Raven Talk

ravens can mimic human speech and learn words just like parrots

Word Painting in Music

• Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music. 

• One example of word painting occurs in the song "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks. 

  • During the chorus, Brooks sings the word "low" on a low note.

• Similarly, on The Who's album Tommy, the song "Smash the Mirror" contains the line "Rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise...." 

  • Each repetition of "rise" is a semitone higher than the last, making this an especially overt example of word-painting

Hostile takeover

• A hostile takeover is a type of acquisition where a company (the acquirer) takes control of another company (the target company) without the approval or consent of the target company's board of directors. In other words, the target company's management is not in favor of the takeover, hence the term "hostile". 

• There are two common ways for a hostile takeover to occur: a tender offer or a proxy vote. The shareholders are approached directly.