Carl Feagans mentions the Tomb of Jesus brouhaha. I plan to put up something on this, but I’m holding back for now as I’m waiting for a couple of email replies. I’ve sent one to Professor who produced the 600:1 claim. I’ve tried seeing the press conference to see how he gets that figure, but [...]
Archive for February, 2007
The Tomb of Jesus
Feb 26
I’ve been thinking more about what I can do with Skype and podcasting. I’m wondering if a talkback section would be a good idea. For instance I’d like to do something on the Tomb of Jesus by the Discovery Channel. What I could do is open my Skype Voicemail so that people could record their [...]
Introducing Clioaudio
Feb 25
Clioaudio episode 1
Following Aydin’s advice I’ve tried to go with something simple, but the simpler you go the more likely it is that the name.com has been taken. I’ve settled on Clioaudio.I was wary of using Clio in the title, as I don’t want to cause confusion with Clioweb, Cliopatria, Spinning Clio and so on, [...]
There might be a session Classics, Astronomy and Interdisciplinarity at the Classical Association conference next year. It’s being organised by Alexandra Smith at Cardiff University and I’m her glamorous assistant.
She’s obviously not one of life’s lucky people.
The aim of the session is to look at how you can integrate research from Classics, which is often [...]
Christopher O’Brien is celebrating one year of blogging at Northstate Science. I have to admit I’ve only been reading it regularly for the past few months, but its a fascinating site. I like his recent posts on Apologetics Archaeology (Part One) (Part Two), but theres more there, like this part of a discussion on how [...]
Black teenager Cameron Day was today found “youthful and foolish” in a trial following allegations of possessing Class-A drugs. Mr Day, an unemployed man from Brixton sought to clear the air on the steps of the Old Bailey:
“I’m gratified to find that the court accepted my plea that this was a private matter and that [...]
Roman Camps and Orientations
Feb 17
A follow-up to The Orientation of Roman Camps and Forts. This is an application of the Binomial Distribution test that I’m using in my own work applied to the data from the original paper, which is why you may have the impression you’ve already read this recently. My analysis may not be correct, so I’m [...]
Reburial in the UK
Feb 14
There was a story recently in the Guardian about Pagans demanding bones for reburial. It’s been covered by Afarensis, Dienekes, and PhDiva. There’s greater discussion of the issues at Aardvarchaeology and Cronaca. I’ve been waiting for the response from Pagan blogs before posting. Fortunately, Letter from Hardscrabble Creek, the Wild Hunt and Obbyoss. This [...]
Original image by vj_pdx.
I’m busy today, so I don’t have time to put together the Darwin Day post that I’d like to. In the meantime here’s another Creationism card. I’m starting to get an idea of how a game would work, so tentatively there might be more cards up and a working game for the [...]
Roman Security
Feb 11
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A clip from the sitcom Chelmsford 123.
