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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

June 30, 2008

LeGuin Physics Bug

Category: Books

Since some time in the early 80s I've laboured delightedly and intermittently to catch up with Ursula K. LeGuins oeuvre. I've covered her collections of short fiction and essays, and I will soon have her novels done, leaving the poetry...

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June 28, 2008

Classics at Sunset

Category: Archaeology

An evening of live classical music, wine and food under the Tuscan sky.

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June 26, 2008

Snakes and Saints and Ants

Category: Art

Got up early this morning, six thirty, and slipped out for an hour's walk. The sun was already pretty high but still veiled in mist. I walked past vineyards and olive groves toward a farmhouse until yapping guard dogs made...

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June 25, 2008

Tuscany with Children

Category: Children

"Daddy, I want ice cream!"

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June 24, 2008

The Work of Beavers

Category: Biology

The beavers are rallying in Sweden, multiplying and repossessing old habitat.

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June 23, 2008

Surrealist Love Story

Category: Humour

Over at Podcastle, I just heard an amazing reading/performance of an amazing surrealist love story, "Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery". It was written by John Schoffstall, first published as text two years ago, and read by Heather Lindsley at Random...

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June 22, 2008

Euro Skeptics Forums

Category: Skepticism

The European Council of Skeptical Organizations (ECSO) has set up an on-line forum. Explains ECSO chairman Amardeo Sarma,"The purpose of this forum is to promote discussion with ECSO and other Skeptics Organisations. So if you have some question or a...

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June 21, 2008

Anthro Blog Carnival

Category: Archaeology

The forty-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Paddy K's Swedish Extravaganza. Archaeology and anthropology, and all regulated by the rota system! The Rota System, from the Old Church Slavic word for "ladder" or "staircase", was a system...

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Snow White Engrish

Category: Humour

Looking closer at this cover of a Chinese pirate edition of Disney's 1937 animated feature Snow White, we find a couple of fine Engrish phrases. "Latinum Edition" is pretty good. But wouldn't you agree that "Still the Fairest of...

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June 19, 2008

De-lurk: Regular, Reveal Thyself

Category: Blogging

It's been almost a year since the last de-lurk. Aard currently has over 150 returning visitors daily (out of about 800 uniques). Since not everyone checks in every day, this translates to several hundred -- possibly a thousand -- regulars...

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