There’s never enough time. There was a write up of what sounded like an incredibly useful drug in New Scientist recently of a pill that allows you to pull 48 hour shifts with no side-effects which would be a help. I could spend so much more time reading and thinking as well as writing. A week later in the letters section it was pointed out there is a slight side effect. It causes premature death in lab mice, which could be a drawback should I ever want keep mice. Perhaps it’s just as well I’ve forgotten the name of the drug.

The reason I might want to do this is that there are interesting things to read like Cornelius Holtorf’s paper in World Archaeology “Beyond crusades: how (not) to engage with alternative archaeologies”. It’s very good, though the price of $28:32 would seem like a bit of a barrier to any alternative archaeologists. I found it mentioned on the Hall of Ma’at while looking for something else. There is some useful debate there but you’ll have to sift through it because there’s also some posturing of the like I last saw on a Saturday afternoon with my Grancha. The paper argues that an More >