u/RotaryDane

Since receiving the latest software update, I've noticed an electrical buzzing eminating from the front speaker area on my MY23 C40. I don't know if the SW update is the cause or it is just coincidental.

I have tried restarting the infotainment, restarting the TCAM, turning volume off, changing the audio source and audio balance, and changing driving modes. The only thing that has had an influence, strangely enough, was turning the overhead light on or off - turning on the lights turned off the buzz.

The noise goes away completely on the car going into deep sleep but appears after driving for a bit, so this leads me to think it could also be the 12V battery going on the fritz, but I haven't noticed anything else on the car behaving erratically yet.

Does anyone have any similar experiences and/or could point towards a likely cause?

EDIT: The ambient "Typography" lights appear to be the culprits, they buzz if the light is set to anywhere between 1-99%, full on or full off doesn't buzz, which is caused by the PCB's buzzing from the PWM. For anyone finding this post in the future, check out TSB TJ36534 (TJI-526040) which details that all Typography lights be replaced with updated units if your car is afflicted.

In the most recent episode, Michael off-handedly mentioned that the Chicxulub meteorite only spent about 5 seconds in Earth’s atmosphere before impacting, yet managed to shed about 1% of its mass to friction with the air.

That got me thinking, there are supposedly objects bouncing off Earth’s atmosphere all the time;
- Is there a maximum size an asteroid or meteorite can be and still bounce off?
- If the Chicxulub meteorite had come at a shallow enough angle would it have bounced off?
- 10 miles across could still pass under the Kármán line, what would happen on the surface if it did?
- If it did pass through our atmosphere and didn’t hit the surface, what would that 1% of its mass (10-20 billion tons if my math is correct) left behind in the atmosphere do to Earth’s climate?

When it comes to the topic of curiosity I’ll argue there is a distinct difference; The first comes spontaneously seemingly out of nowhere, while the second is piqued by an external source (such as TRIS) - The first is seeded by your own imagination while the other is lead by your own desire to know more. Both can lead to novel discoveries, but you most often hear about the novel “eureka moment” versus the most subtle wondering you do as you’re taking the journey down the hole.

What are your thoughts, and what do you experience most often?

PS. I believe Michael is more “What would a full moon look like if the moon was replaced with a perfect sphere of Osmium?” While Hannah is a bit more Lewis Carroll.

Stumbled upon this recipe a while ago, but it only was from a fragment of an article that was never fully published.

The source was a book about winemaking, no public scans were available.

After contacting the Karlsuhe State Library about the specific pages stated to have mead recipes. They told me they are actively working on digitizing the book and will prioritize those. ETA 1-2 weeks.

They kept word and yesterday (after 13 days) i received the high quality scans.

So i transcribed the scans into text, worked through some illegible words. Translated with my local and some online dictionaries. Some hours of research about unclear words and i was done.

A recipe that is massive in scale. Depending on local differences this was up to a one thousand liters (~260 gallons) batch of cherry mead.

1 part honey to 2 parts tart cherry juice. After fermentation in barrel a sachet with a spice mix was added through the bung hole and weighted down for weeks to infuse.

A batch of mead like this was ingredients wise an enterprise of it's own for the time. The honey used was worth a small fortune. The expensive imported ingredients not to mention.

Later i found out (after i had the transcript and already translated the hard way) the recipe was published in a copyrighted print somewhere. But this is the first published version having the original source scan.

Recipe is in German, just use the included google translate button, it should handle everything (i've optimized for it).

Basically this; if two people with audiovisual synesthesia are both listening to a Bruce Springsteen album, would their visual experiences be similar? Meaning one synesthete could potentially take another on a audiovisual journey and be more or less sure they are both experiencing similar things.

Or is each case of synesthesia simply the result of differences in how our brains are wired and therefore their experiences unique to each individual synesthete?

Reposted with different wording.

Basically this; if two people with audiovisual synesthesia are both listening to a Bruce Springsteen album, would their ‘hallucinations’ be similar? Meaning one synesthete could potentially take another on a audiovisual journey and be more or less sure they are both experiencing similar things.

Or is each case of synesthesia simply a victim of “crossed wires” and therefore their experiences unique to each individual synesthete?

Read today that Austria is turning Hitlers birth home into a police station to curb extremists pilgrimages to the site. In the same vein - What should Trump’s Mar-a-Lago be turned into, when he kicks the bucket?

I går havde min kone desværre en lidt grænseoverskridende oplevelse i Aarhus, så betragt det her som en påmindelse til dem som vil lytte.

Hun er højgravid og valgte i går at tage en tur til Aarhus. Mens hun står og afslutter hendes parkering i Dokk1 hører hun en ældre kvinde råbe op “Ej hvor en stor mave!” Min kone kigger op og ser en ældre kvinde komme farende fra glasdørene op til Dokk1 med hænderne udstrakt mod hende mens hun nærmest råber “Ej hvor er den flot! Hvornår er du sat til!?” Min kone når kun lige at få hånden op foran sig og udbryde “Det må du ikke!” Før kvinden når hende. Kvinden stopper op et par meter fra hende helt chokeret og blinker som et dådyr mens hun mumler noget i retning af “Har jeg gjort noget forkert…?” På det her tidspunkt er min kone allerede ved at skynde sig over til båsen hvor hendes bil er på vej op og kører derfra uden at se sig tilbage.

Det er meget tydeligt at kvinden ikke vidste bedre, så vi bebrejder hende ikke hendes handling, men det var alligevel grænseoverskridende. Vi er så vandt til at man ikke må kommentere på en gravid kvindes mave. Kan vi så ikke lige gå sammen om at påminde, de som har behov for at høre det, om at man ikke skal røre ved en gravid kvindes mave heller? Det er hårdt nok allerede at være gravid i den her varme.

Tak, for din opmærksomhed.