Posted in Life, Science, tagged Blogging, poetry, scienceblogging.com on December 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Not a classical Sapphic ode, but I’ve plagiarised the metre and the first five words from Stephen Fry’s Example (a), so it’s close enough. Besides it’s not a proper personal blog without some bad poetry.
Let’s hear it for the scientists,
Who seek the universe’s cogs,
In rocks or stars or blastocysts,
[...]
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, featured, tagged copyright, egypt, egyptology, ethics, open access on December 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Mickey Mouse Copyright Laws. Based on a photo (cc) Liber.
One of the advantages of being slow in writing is that you can look at what everyone else is saying about something. Often people will have thought about the same problem and already anticipated problems in your own line of thought, so you can avoid making [...]
Posted in Life, tagged Music on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeology, Life on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Another thing that I’m making a note of. I’ll write more on this when I have time because it’s not 100% daft.
Egypt’s MPs are expected to pass a law requiring royalties be paid whenever copies are made of museum pieces or ancient monuments such as the pyramids.
Zahi Hawass, who chairs Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, [...]
Posted in Archaeology, featured, tagged heritage, Politics on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
From Al Jazeera, the aftermath of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Posted in Life on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m off to bed now with the intention of keeping an eye out for Santa. I’ve just caught the end of Hardtalk. If often do that and then discover I’ve missed and interesting interview, like this one with James Dyson. For Christmas Eve they were re-running Richard Dawkins.
Posted in Life on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Part two is here, but there’s 22 parts in total. Fortunately it is available on DVD.
Posted in Ancient History, Archaeoastronomy, Astronomy, Religion, Science, featured, tagged christmas, star of bethlehem on December 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Wonder or portent of doom? Photo (cc) Wonderferret.
Judith Weingarten at Zenobia: Empress of the East, has some thoughtful comments as a follow-up to The Star of Bethlehem Solved? in The Magi and Christmas. She starts by talking about Marco Polo’s trip to the east, and it’s a great example of how history can be a [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, featured, tagged atheism on December 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Christian Atheism. Photo (cc) zorilla.
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has spoken out this Christmas against fundamentalism, including fundamentalist atheists. It’s the kind of message I agree with, or at least I would if I knew any fundamentalist atheists. I don’t know any. Fair play to Dr Morgan, he doesn’t name any so I [...]
Posted in Life on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
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