HeyJaredJonathan Byrd
I'm a career songwriter, storyteller, and teacher from North Carolina. Now I'm a physics student. Even I don't know what I'm going to write about, but I know I'm going to write.
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Spherical Harmonics, Dude (opens the original)
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The past few days, I made a couple of Instagram videos about the mind-blowing connection between a guitar string and the whole danged universe. You might want to watch them, but I need your help regardless. Let me give you the elevator pitch:I made an educational website, and I’m using it to ask a question about education. Physicist Eugene Wigner wrote an essay called The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, in which he asked, Why is mathematics so successful at des
The Musical Universe (opens the original)
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Today is the first day of school. I’m 55, and I’m working on a Bachelor of Science in Physics. Before the break, I asked my advisor whether I should take any summer classes. He said, “You’d better take the summer off!” I kind of did. Like, I didn’t take any classes. I did build two websites. Just two, though.There’s one I want to show you, because most of you know me as a musician. It’s music-related, and you might enjoy playing with it. If you do, I’d love to know what you think. But first, I w
I'm In South Dakota (opens the original)
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This weekend, I’m going to one of the coolest festivals ever, the Montrose Music Festival. There will be music on stage, but that’s not the main event. Montrose is built around sharing music. There are song circles spread around the grounds. If there’s an empty seat, sit down and play. One song at a time, clockwise rotation, no microphones, no stars. Just people sharing music. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o-6b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p
I Finally Did It. (opens the original)
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Jonathan Christian Byrd and Crystal Ellen Honeycutt were married on July 4th, 2026, at the ruins of Dunscaith Castle, the “Fortress of Shadows,” where the legendary warrior maiden Scáthach trained the hero Cú Chulainn, on the Isle of Skye, Sleat Peninsula, Scotland.<div class="image2-i
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