COMPLETE: Coffee Break Collection 11 - Science - jo

Post by **knotyouraveragejo** » March 9th, 2015, 9:38 pm

If there is not a specific byline, then you can list the author as Scientific American. That's what we usually do with magazine and newspaper articles that are not attributed with an author. For example,

https://librivox.org/author/365?primary_key=365&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » March 9th, 2015, 11:10 pm

SECTION 5 The Northern Lights is PL OK

NoelBadrian · Post by **NoelBadrian** » March 12th, 2015, 12:13 pm

Hi,
We missed out on a poem from Larry so I thought this one might suit!

https://archive.org/details/evolutionistatla00alleuoft
"A Ballade Of Evolution" from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_balladeofevolution_allen_128kb.mp3
Length - 01:57

and from the same author:

https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102036
"Prickly-Pears" by Grant Allen is an article from The North American Review, Volume 151. (August 1, 1890)
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_pricklypears_allen_128kb.mp3
length - 13.51

Noel

LibriFoxy · Post by **LibriFoxy** » March 12th, 2015, 7:02 pm

Thank you for your sections, Noel! MW updated and ready for PL!

Larry, I have PLed Section 1 and it's PL OK! Thanks again!

I also have corrected the repeat you found in section 4 and uploaded again with a new time, also correcting the intro and outro to reflect the new shortened format, so it's ready for spot PL!

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » March 15th, 2015, 12:00 am

pyledriver wrote:Three items for the collection:

"Chinese Methods of Preserving Eggs" from the Scientific American (2:45)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8952/8952-h/8952-h.htm#34
File: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_chinesemethods_scientificamerican_128kb.mp3

"An Eclipse in Arabia" from the Scientific American (1:55)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27867/27867-h/27867-h.htm#eclipse
File: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_eclipseinarabia_scientificamerican_128kb.mp3

"The Speaking Telegraph" from the Scientific American (4:47)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19406/19406-h/19406-h.htm#art63
File: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_speakingtelegraph_scientificamerican_128kb.mp3

Hope the first two aren't too short. This is my first coffeebreak contribution

All three are PL OK! Thanks for contributing to this collection

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » March 15th, 2015, 12:17 am

NoelBadrian wrote:Hi,
We missed out on a poem from Larry so I thought this one might suit!

https://archive.org/details/evolutionistatla00alleuoft
"A Ballade Of Evolution" from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_balladeofevolution_allen_128kb.mp3
Length - 01:57

Somehow this has been submitted in stereo instead of mono format.

NoelBadrian wrote:
https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102036
"Prickly-Pears" by Grant Allen is an article from The North American Review, Volume 151. (August 1, 1890)
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_pricklypears_allen_128kb.mp3
length - 13.51

Noel

12:47 Repeat: and the grains disperse through its fleshy part

NoelBadrian · Post by **NoelBadrian** » March 15th, 2015, 7:31 am

Hi,
Here is the corrected "Prickly-Pears" by Grant Allen
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_pricklypears_allen_128kb.mp3
Length = 13:48

and here is hopefully a mono version of "A Ballade Of Evolution"
I have no idea of what went wrong! The recordings were done at the same time and ??? It took my son's intervention to sort it out by coppying it into a new Audacity window.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_balladeofevolution_allen_128kb.mp3
Length = 01.56

Noel

LibriFoxy · Post by **LibriFoxy** » March 15th, 2015, 9:12 am

Noel, thanks for making those changes! Both sections updated in MW with new time and ready for spot PL.

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » March 15th, 2015, 10:13 am

Both are PL OK now!

Thanks again for these interesting pieces.

Mimir · Post by **Mimir** » March 15th, 2015, 7:57 pm

Alright, this is my very first actual contribution, so hopefully I got everything put together correctly! For my subject I chose the first widely known report in Europe of the practice of smallpox inoculation, as reported to the Royal Society in 1714. This knowledge served as the foundation for humanity's first ever complete eradication of a disease, so I thought it was a suitably notable item for this collection

"An Account of the Procuring of the Small Pox by Incision, or Inoculation", communicated by John Woodward, M. D. and
S.R.S. (9:07)
Text: https://archive.org/stream/philosophicaltra06royarich#page/88/mode/2up/
File: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_smallpox_woodward_128kb.mp3

LibriFoxy · Post by **LibriFoxy** » March 16th, 2015, 8:14 pm

Thanks for the next section and your first LV submission, Mimir!! How would you like to be listed in the LV catalog?

Jo, could you please add John Woodward to the author database? It looks like this was edited by him. Thanks!

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » March 17th, 2015, 9:31 am

Mimir wrote:Alright, this is my very first actual contribution, so hopefully I got everything put together correctly! For my subject I chose the first widely known report in Europe of the practice of smallpox inoculation, as reported to the Royal Society in 1714. This knowledge served as the foundation for humanity's first ever complete eradication of a disease, so I thought it was a suitably notable item for this collection

"An Account of the Procuring of the Small Pox by Incision, or Inoculation", communicated by John Woodward, M. D. and
S.R.S. (9:07)
Text: https://archive.org/stream/philosophicaltra06royarich#page/88/mode/2up/
File: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/coffeebreak011_smallpox_woodward_128kb.mp3

Very interesting piece, nicely read!

Welcome to LibriVox

I think you are off to a great start, and I look forward to seeing/hearing more readings from you.

Oh -- PL OK

Mimir · Post by **Mimir** » March 17th, 2015, 10:01 am

Thank you both for the appreciation! I don't think I'll be reading anything too scandalous, so I'll go with my real name, Evan Armour, for the catalog. I also look forward to contributing some more

Newgatenovelist · Post by **Newgatenovelist** » April 17th, 2015, 6:25 am

I know you said you would prefer nonfiction, but would you be willing to accept poetry? I would like to record Constance Naden's 'The Astronomer', which should be between 3 and 15 minutes, and possibly 'Scientific Wooing', which I'm hoping will be more than three minutes.

The scan is from a complete poems volume, published in 1894:

https://archive.org/details/completepoetical00nade

-Erin

LibriFoxy · Post by **LibriFoxy** » April 17th, 2015, 10:43 am

Great question! Yes, poetry and fiction are both very welcome for coffee break collections.