Did US Psychiatrists Really Agree That Gays Were Nuts?
Category: Psychology
The issue here is really how "psychiatric condition" was defined in the mid-20th century.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 15 Comments •
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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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December 31, 2007
December 29, 2007
Aard's First Birthday
Category: Blogging
It's been a year now since I started blogging at Sb.
Posted by Martin R at 9:21 AM • 14 Comments •
December 28, 2007
Toxic Dump Too Close For Comfort
Category: Environment
This was one of those paper mills that used mercury in a big way.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
December 27, 2007
Charles Redwine on Muscogee Pottery
Category: Archaeology
16th and 17th century native American pottery from Kasita/Cusseta near Columbus, Georgia in the US.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 5 Comments •
December 26, 2007
Consolidating Aard's Subscriber Base on Google Reader
Category: Blogging
Google Reader is an excellent blog reader, among whose strengths is that it resides somewhere off your computer. This means that you can read blogs from several machines without having to mark a lot of old entries as read. Nor...
Posted by Martin R at 8:25 AM • 7 Comments •
December 25, 2007
Church of Santa
Category: History
One of the oldest extant buildings is the great church beside the royal castle. Here, Santa was worshipped for nearly three centuries.
Posted by Martin R at 4:20 PM • 7 Comments •
December 24, 2007
Skepticism and Informed Consensus
Category: Skepticism
A real skeptic always sides with scientific consensus.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 85 Comments •
December 23, 2007
Bandwidth Blues
Category: Tech
I guess nobody actually gets 24 Mb/s from an ADSL connection.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 9 Comments •
English-Speaking World Catches On To Ansiktsburk Lyrical Method
Category: Humour
Scandy readers will be very familiar with this. As we learned from "Hatten Är Din", "Ansiktsburk", "Fiskpinnar" and other Turk Hits back in 2000, you can get wonderfully absurd results if you listen to a song in a foreign language...
Posted by Martin R at 3:44 AM • 5 Comments •
December 22, 2007
Academic Labour Market in Swedish Archaeology Stinks
Category: Archaeology
Two pieces of news to illustrate the state of the academic labour market in Swedish archaeology.
Posted by Martin R at 6:16 AM • 25 Comments •
December 21, 2007
Cool Sb Widget for Bloggers
Category: Blogging
Dear Reader, have you got a blog or other web site? Seed now offers widget that will put a handy ScienceBlogs Latest Posts feed on your site. This is what it looks like: Visit Widgetbox to get it for yourself....
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Damage Assessed at Ravlunda Iron Age Cemetery
Category: Archaeology
It's an unusual case as Lind made his unauthorised interference with the site known through a press release!
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 8 Comments •
December 20, 2007
Skeptics' Circle 76 - Oh Look, a Dish Brush!
Category: Carnival
Your bi-weekly portal to the best skeptical blog writing on this or any other world-wide web.
Posted by Martin R at 7:11 AM • 41 Comments •
December 19, 2007
Impressions of Birka
Category: Archaeology
Explains Kristi, "Art journaling is very popular as a means of documenting amateur archaeological, historical, and biological interests"
Posted by Martin R at 3:44 PM • 7 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The thirtieth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Greenbelt. Archaeology and anthropology to satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs! While I'm at it, Dear Reader, let me ask you to please send me some good archaeological...
Posted by Martin R at 1:50 AM • 3 Comments •
December 18, 2007
My Year in Blogging
Category: Blogging
Here's one to send you into the vaults, Dear Reader.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
December 17, 2007
A Blast From the Future
Category: Humour
A lookalike of my future self: German musical singer Jerzy Jeske!
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
December 16, 2007
Two Years of Blogging
Category: Blogging
I didn't catch on immediately.
Posted by Martin R at 10:53 AM • 9 Comments •
Saturday Amusements
Category: Having Fun
... stared in fascination at beautifully (and rather scantily) clad people, received not inconsiderable admiration ourselves ...
Posted by Martin R at 10:10 AM • 5 Comments •
December 14, 2007
More Mind-Bending Ideas From Bob Lind
Category: Archaeology
The ground level in the meadow has somehow risen 80 cm since the stones were put in place.
Posted by Martin R at 12:19 PM • 14 Comments •
December 12, 2007
New Archaeological Exhibit Offers Questions, No Answers
Category: Archaeology
The Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm has recently completed a new permanent exhibition about Swedish prehistory. It was planned under the stewardship of the controversial Kristian Berg, a non-archaeologist whose attitude to the museum placed in his care...
Posted by Martin R at 8:51 AM • 20 Comments •
ScienceBlogs Infiltrates Germany
Category: Blogging
Thirteen new SciBlings!
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments •
December 11, 2007
Hillforts of Kings and Peasants
Category: Archaeology
A somewhat relevant site type in the search for Migration Period elite settlements is the hillfort.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 11 Comments •
December 10, 2007
Science Debate 2008
Category: Politics
Wherever we all are in the world, we need the next US president to be science-friendly, science-savvy and reality-based.
Posted by Martin R at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Whose House Are You Haunting Tonight?
Category: Music
An album I can really recommend is LA quartet OK Go's 2005 disc Oh No. It's catchy, glammy rock with swagger and brains and decadence, recorded in Sweden and beautifully produced by Tore Johansson and the mighty Lindgård/Mopeds brothers....
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 3 Comments •
December 8, 2007
Bob Lind Finds Magnificent Phallus
Category: Archaeology
"Suddenly I saw the entire big picture. My measurements confirmed all theories. It was a highly exact solar clock and also a sacrificial site."
Posted by Martin R at 1:38 PM • 18 Comments •
December 7, 2007
Book Review: Kroik, Hellre Mista sitt Huvud
Category: History
This book is at heart an ethno-political tract.
Posted by Martin R at 1:21 PM • 36 Comments •
December 6, 2007
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The twenty-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Remote Central. Archaeology and anthropology gonna be fun, gonna be fun, gonna be fun in de sun! The next open hosting slot is on 27 February. All bloggers with an...
Posted by Martin R at 1:32 PM • 0 Comments •
December 5, 2007
Remote Control Metal Detector
Category: Children
Drive it over a piece of metal and it'll go BEEP and light up.
Posted by Martin R at 2:30 PM • 7 Comments •
December 4, 2007
11th Century Reliquary Crucifix
Category: Archaeology
The crucifix has no provenance, and its owner can only guess how it ended up in her mother's jewellery box.
Posted by Martin R at 4:44 PM • 8 Comments •
December 3, 2007
Sacred Parthenogenesis
Category: History
Virgin Birth is an old dogma, implicit already in the Nicene creed of AD 381. That means that overturning this article of faith would undermine a lot of other important material.
Posted by Martin R at 9:00 AM • 30 Comments •
Bike Crash Glamour Shot
Category: Art
Shot at home with the aid of a bedroom lamp and a blanket from Ikea!
Posted by Martin R at 5:47 AM • 3 Comments •
December 2, 2007
Blog Carnival Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
Wednesday 5 December will see the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory at Remote Centrral. If you have read or blogged anything good on those themes lately, then make sure to submit it to Tim...
Posted by Martin R at 3:14 PM • 0 Comments •
December 1, 2007
Swedish Skeptics 25 years
Category: Skepticism
The society isn't primarily against anything: it's pro-science and pro-communication.
Posted by Martin R at 4:31 PM • 11 Comments •
