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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.
Four Stone Hearth
June 30, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 4:58 AM • 6 Comments •
June 28, 2008
Category: Archaeology
An evening of live classical music, wine and food under the Tuscan sky.
Posted by Martin R at 6:07 AM • 1 Comments •
June 26, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 4:58 PM • 8 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: Children
"Daddy, I want ice cream!"
Posted by Martin R at 12:21 PM • 14 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: Biology
The beavers are rallying in Sweden, multiplying and repossessing old habitat.
Posted by Martin R at 7:54 AM • 4 Comments •
June 23, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 1:32 PM • 1 Comments •
June 22, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
June 21, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 1:50 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Martin R at 12:45 PM • 8 Comments •
June 19, 2008
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...
Posted by Martin R at 4:30 PM • 69 Comments •
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