Posted in Vidi on January 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Romans on the Right: The Art and Archaeology of Roman Traffic by Eric Poehler [PDF]
A discussion of Roman traffic based on a survey of kerbs at Pompeii.
(tags: roman+archaeology archaeology pompeii)
Astronomy - Roman portents probe the Sun
A write up of research on the visibility of aurorae in Roman times.
(tags: archaeoastronomy astronomy roman+history)
Gentium — a typeface for [...]
Posted in Archaeoastronomy, Archaeology on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
View of Stonehenge facing the Midwinter Sunset
Stonehenge has no shortage of mystery. One of the big ones is the lack of people in the landscape. Stonehenge is clearly the product of a large community, but until now there has been no evidence of these people. The Stonehenge Riverside Project has announced that they have now [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeoastronomy on January 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Why read? These days it’s mainly work. This in contrast was for pleasure, and it is a pleasure. I’ve has this for a while but I haven’t written a review because I wanted to be able to refer back to the book as I wrote - and I mislaid it.
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the [...]
Posted in Vidi on January 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Catholic Church vs Gay Adoptees row continues
The Catholic church is planning to refuse to allow gay couples to adopt children. They argue that people should have the right to discriminate against whoever they choose for whatever reason, so long at that reason is a matter of conscious. There is an ob
(tags: philosophy morality religion [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Life on January 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Via afarensis and John Hawks is this advertising campaign for an insurance company in the USA. It’s a clever way of playing on how we look at our forebears. There are also adverts at the therapist, on Fox News and at the airport.
One for Cornelius I think.
Posted in Vidi on January 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Steve Muhlberger on Chivalry — a podcast on the Chivalry Today website
Steve Muhlberger on a podcast I hadn’t heard of.
(tags: medieval history)
Posted in Science on January 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There’s a popular meme going round right now, Which Science-Fiction writer are you? The one I would like to be like is Edwin A. Abbot. Hopefully he’ll get a new spur of popularity with the release of Flatland as a movie.
The novel is initially about a two dimensional world, utterly flat. In it live men [...]
Posted in Ancient History, History, Science on January 27, 2007 | No Comments »
In Our Time this week is about Archimedes. It’s a good panel with Serafina Cuomo, George Phillips and Jackie Stedall. What I particularly liked was they they were happy to say how little is known about Archimedes. One of the problems with history of science in ancient Greece is the ancients tendencies to attribute all [...]
Posted in Life on January 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you’ve tried to email me recently then there’s a possibility I haven’t received it at my home account. It could be that simply no-one has emailled me, but I tend to get about 40 spam for each genuine email and I’ve had no spam either.
Another spam related problem is that someone is using random-string@archaeoastronomy.co… [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Blogging, History, Science on January 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m caught up with work at the moment, so I’m slow in linking to two recent carnivals, the Skeptics’ Circle - which is up at Frank the Financially Savvy Atheist and the recent Tangled Bank at The Voltage Gate.
Next week I’ll be belatedly linking to Carnivalesque at Memorabilia Antonina.
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