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- There’s always someone faster
I had a spare five minutes and an inquistive mind. It turns out I’m not the only person who thought of adding this professor.
- Academic Idol – or do we need Historical Rock Stars?
The BC-52’s – Historical Rock Stars.
Picking up from Coturnix and Afarensis there’s a discussion about Scientist Rock Stars. It comes from a comment by Morgan Spurlock:
We’ve started to make science and empirical evidence not nearly as important as punditry–people using p.r.-speak to push a corporate or political agenda. I think we need to turn scientists [...] - Archimedes
From HASTRO-L comes news of the live unveiling of the Archimedes Palimpsest at 4pm PST on August 4, which is midnight onwards GMT, or 1am BST. The press-kit states “Join us at the Exploratorium or online as we watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!“, which makes them [...]
- Eles, April 14th 2000
The first page from my MPhil thesis, and probably the only page which wouldn’t be re-written from scratch if I were to go back to it.
Contrary to the proverb, it’s never darkest before the dawn. As I stood looking out to the eastern horizon, the few clouds in the sky shone in brilliant silver against [...] - The Frog and the Ant
Socrates is reported to have said that the Greeks were scattered around the Mediterranean like frogs or ants around a pond. I have a pond, but no apoikiai or emporia. I do however have frogs and ants.
This is a test of YouTube and the movie function on my cheap but usable camera. It’s a brief [...] - Is being a good Historian in the genes?
[Cross-posted to Revise & Dissent]
Historian (in jeans no less). Photo by Gerard Van der Leun.
One of the problems in being a slow thinker and slow in commenting is that often you find someone has already said what I’m thinking, and said it better than I would.
An example is a debate following the recent History Carnival [...] - Archaeology Image Bank
I’ve been sat on this for a while and when the launch is finally announced I forget to mention it.
The HEA’s Archaeology Image Bank is now open. It will eventually be an extensive collection of annotated images for use in teaching and research. My photos should also be available from Flickr under a CC BY-SA [...] - Galileo: A Very Short Introduction by Stillman Drake
[Cross-posted to Revise & Dissent]
Blackwells in Oxford has done something which is either very good or very evil. They’ve put up a wall of Very Short Introductions, along with a 3 for 2 offer. They’re handy for something to read on the train and considerably more substantial and durable than a magazine which I can [...] - New UNESCO World Heritage Sites
UNESCO has added some more names to their list of world heritage sites. I seem to have a different list to the one their website has, so I’ll go with theirs. Interesting sites on the list include.
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Chongoni Rock Art Area
Kondoa Rock Art SitesFinally and most importantly Tequila is now listed as a [...]
- Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in “Michelangelo’s Last Judgment” by Valerie Shrimplin
[Cross-posted to Revise & Dissent]
Valerie Shrimplin’s Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in “Michelangelo’s Last Judgment” is a difficult book to write about. I like it, but it tackles such a varied range of sources that it raises a lot of intriguing questions. Certainly more than can be covered in one blog post so, for now, I’ll [...]
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