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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Seen Elsewhere

John Hawks has a post on the Neanderthal Genome Project. I thought this was in the “because it’s there” category of research, but there could answer some questions, rather than be an answer in search of questions.
The guys at Stanford posting thoughts. Archaeolog has Deprivation through ‘dialectics’: Why some archaeologist’s are hamstrung by things and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Carnivals Ahoy!

Two more carnivals have published in the past couple of days. The Tangled Bank is at Salto Sobrius and the Skeptics’ Circle is at Mike’s Weekly Skeptic Rant.
Both did a good job. I haven’t even thought of volunteering for hosting the Tangled Bank. It strikes me as a difficult carnival to host because of the [...]

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Wine

Another busy day. I’ve found the Wine Sketch from the Micallef P(r)ogram(me) on YouTube. Sadly it only had a short run on UK Satellite TV.

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