Hi Davo, Thank you very much for Part 1 of the Evolution of the Stars. These two selections together are an outstanding contribution to the Short Nonfiction Collection and, I think, will be appreciated by many students.gurleyda wrote: ↑March 27th, 2022, 2:42 pm Sue,
Evolution of the Stars and Creation of the Earth Part 1 is submitted.
Link to the text used:https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo87newy/page/221/mode/1up?view=theater
Link to the file upload:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_evolutionstars_p1_campbell_dg_128kb.mp3
length: 54min 50sec.
That was a beast!
I proof-listened twice but I won't be shocked if I still missed something.
Cheers!
Davo
Needless to say, proof listening this kind of material makes me realize how ignorant I am on science topics. I learn a lot. In this lecture, I found myself particularly interested the discussion of comets. Everybody, I suppose, has had moments when "the sky speaks to them" and for me, one of these moments happened in April, 1997. I was on a tour of Turkey (one of my few great adventures); I was in Cappadocia, an area of fantastical volcanic rock formations. A dark night revealed the stars, and I saw the brilliant Hale-Bopp comet streak across the sky. Memorable!
That reading was a lot of hard work on your part, and you read it very well. There's only 3 things I'll mention.
1) The only textual mistake I saw was in how you read the title of the right hand table on page 216. (16:15). You said "Average Number of Stars Per Field 5 inches in diameter." The print on the page is sort of "blotted" and hard to read at that point but there's a faint "1" in front of the 5. I backtracked to the text (beginning bottom of page 215), and it reads this way: "and Sir John Herschel, using the same telescope in the southern hemisphere, counted the stars visible in the eyepiece, 15 minutes of arc in diameter..." So, I'm guessing the title should also read "per field 15 minutes of arc in diameter."
2) At the end of the recording, you need to say "End of ......[name of selection] by [author].
3) Volume was lower than Checker app allows. Target is 86-92 dB and your recording overall was 84 dB. The problem is that you have one very high spike, from a click, in your recording at 21:21, which throws everything off. If you cut or damp down this click and and check your volume with the "Effect-Amplify" function (top of screen) you will see you that you're 4.043 dB from Amplitude 0.0; and with the spike left in, you're only 0.313dB from 0. So-- I would recommend cutting or damping that that spike and then upping your overall volume a little so your recording passes Checker.
Thanks again for your good work on this contribution to vol. 091!
All PL OK now!
