Hello world, let's research
The modest goal of this website is to help people connect with research as leisure activity . [This first entry will be evolving for a while, but is published now to help build out this place.] The inspiration for this site comes from Celine Nguyen , a San Francisco designer and writer. In an essay published in May, 2024, she extolled the joys of " research as leisure activity ," describing it as: "a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play. It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on ideas." On this site I will, among other things, describe research that I have performed as leisure activity, as in: I was not paid to do it, and I did it on my own time, and I enjoyed it. Here are five topics I have researched to the point where I put some of my findings on the Internet: Congenital Amusia: tone deaf, t