Bookmarks for 31st of August through to 11th of November

Nov 11, 2009 Alun Life 1 Comment Vidi

These are my links for 31st of August through 11th of November:

• kperch: An absence of malice
  The editor of the Leicester Mer­cury explains some of the dif­fi­culties in hav­ing a sin­cere but scep­tical invest­ig­a­tion of some local businesses.
• Uni­ver­sit­ies are not there to spoon-feed | AC Grayling | Com­ment is free | guardian.co.uk
  Man­del­son seems to have con­fused quant­ity with qual­ity in higher education.
• Drinks Com­pany + PR Firm + Enthu­si­astic Under­gradu­ate = Massive Hangover for Uni­ver­sit­ies
  Dr Petra Boyn­ton is always fant­astic, but with this post she’s par­tic­u­larly fant­astic. There’s a lot more to worry about with a bad for­mula press release than the non­sensical maths.
• One of the best things to hap­pen in human his­tory
  Steve Muhl­ber­ger records the anniversary of one of the most optim­istic peri­ods of history.
• Tutori­als this term
  Erin con­siders the import­ance of form­at­ive assess­ment, and struggles with being too darn popular.
• Witch­craft in Ancient Greece
  Gary Corby’s intr­duc­tion to the pres­ence of with­craft in the ancient world
• Ancient Torc Neck­lace Has Been Unearthed
  Pic App has a series of pho­tos of the ancient neck­lace. Is it really a stun­ning find or just all torc? Sadly I won’t have time to blog on this.
• Build­ing a Reli­gion: The Rock Art Evid­ence
  More on rock art in the SW. I really need to read some bet­ter stuff on Greek art and see if there’s some use­ful cross-over in approaches.
• Open­sourcing Pho­to­graphy: The Franken­cam­era DSLR | Her­it­age Key
  An open source cam­era might open a space for mean­ing­fully com­par­ing dif­fer­ent pho­tos for archae­ology — and any other image-based disciplines.
• Speak­ing of Ari­zona
  Gambler’s House has more news on the crim­inal invest­ig­a­tions in the Amer­ican South­w­est, this time in Arizona.