Mushroom Harvest
Category: Biology
Today we had eleven kinds, most of them hedgehogs and boletes.
Posted by Martin R at 9:15 AM • 16 Comments •
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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August 30, 2008
I Lost World War II Today
Category: Gaming
Continuing our military theme from the other day, I regret to inform you, Dear Reader, that the Axis won World War II. After Pearl Harbour, the US couldn't decide whether to concentrate its efforts in the Pacific or the...
Posted by Martin R at 2:50 PM • 9 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Book Review: Alsdorf, Auf den Spuren
Category: History
Things were grim in the Third Reich in the spring of 1945.
Posted by Martin R at 2:52 PM • 11 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The forty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Tangled Up In Blue Guy. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about various aspects of Hrodgaud of Friuli! Hrodgaud or Rodgand was Duke of Friuli from 774 to 776. Probably he...
Posted by Martin R at 4:53 PM • 0 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Chinese Model Dragon Kit
Category: China
Back in October I picked up a couple of wooden model kits in a mall near the Drum Tower in Beijing. Yesterday my daughter and I finished the first one, an Imperial Chinese dragon (count the toes), brought to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
August 24, 2008
Roman Coin Prank
Category: Archaeology
A recent unusual find is very likely a wry gift from an archaeologist.
Posted by Martin R at 3:15 AM • 12 Comments •
August 21, 2008
Favourite Things
Category: Introspection
My current ten favourite things:Books Boardgames Podcasts Tea Sunshine Archaeology Sleep Nookie Music E-mailAnd yours, Dear Reader?...
Posted by Martin R at 3:25 PM • 10 Comments •
August 20, 2008
Ocular Character Recognition
Category: Books
The CAPTCHA project uses brain time that would otherwise just go to waste.
Posted by Martin R at 1:56 PM • 11 Comments •
August 19, 2008
Cosmic Miroslav Provod
Category: Archaeology
"Nobody will doubt the existence of static electricity in the ancient times..."
Posted by Martin R at 11:59 AM • 14 Comments •
August 18, 2008
Watch That Windshield
Category: Gaming
I got my driver's licence late, at age 22, because I wasn't interested in cars and didn't want to support automotive culture. When I finally did get myself a licence, it was because I was starting to feel embarrassed...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
August 15, 2008
Apocryphal Moomin Land
Category: Books
Naantali is a small coastal town near Turku in Finland. The name is a fennicisation of Sw. Nådendal, which in turn stems from the name of a Bridgetine abbey founded there in the 15th century. Vallis Gratia, "Valley of Grace"....
Posted by Martin R at 4:12 PM • 5 Comments •
Georgia and Georgia and the Georgics
Category: Language
Noreen Malone at Slate explains why Georgia and Georgia are both named Georgia. Basically it's:George means "ploughman" in ancient Greek Saint George dies in AD 303 Part of Central Asia (Georgia) becomes associated with the saint for unknown reasons Crusaders...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
August 14, 2008
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The forty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Almost Diamonds. Archaeology and anthropology, and all dedicated to a future merger of the Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment with the Backyard Bard! The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment (founded 1994) is...
Posted by Martin R at 4:00 AM • 1 Comments •
August 12, 2008
Sb Reader Survey
Category: Blogging
ScienceBlogs has a huge audience (largely thanks to Pharyngula), which attracts advertisers. However, though the site's hit rate is a good quantitative selling point when you're pushing ad space, it lacks a qualitative dimension. If you advertise here, you...
Posted by Martin R at 1:55 PM • 4 Comments •
August 11, 2008
Jeff Had Some Good Last Days
Category: Space
Jeff Medkeff's friend, co-blogging under the pen-name Iatros Polygenos ("mongrel doctor" if my Greek serves me), offers a detailed account of our friend's last days. Turns out that Jeff died during a trip to England where he was having...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
August 10, 2008
Criss Cross: Swedish Scrabble Ripoff
Category: Gaming
Scrabble was first published in 1948. Shortly thereafter, it was ripped off for the Swedish market by a firm named Lemeco, under the tell-tale Anglophone title Criss Cross. The main difference between the ripoff and the original is that...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
August 8, 2008
Guantanamo Prisoner Sentenced to -1½ Years
Category: Politics
The US owe Hamdan one year and four months' imprisonment.
Posted by Martin R at 4:15 AM • 9 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The forty-fifth and forty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnivals are on-line at Remote Central and Testimony of the Spade. Archaeology and anthropology, two entire carnivals about the ancient uses of buergerite! Buergerite, you will remember, is a mineral species belonging...
Posted by Martin R at 2:55 AM • 0 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Hard-Up Debater Appeals to Kuhn
Category: Skepticism
"Professor Y subscribes to an earlier Kuhnian paradigm than myself."
Posted by Martin R at 10:16 AM • 12 Comments •
I Miss The R.U. Sirius Show
Category: Psychedelic
The R.U. Sirius Show is/was a great weekly counterculture podcast that aired 88 episodes until about a year ago. Then it went on unannounced hiatus. I miss the show! Can anybody offer information on what R.U. is up to, and...
Posted by Martin R at 7:37 AM • 1 Comments •
August 5, 2008
Shermer and the Drake Equation
Category: History
Extraterrestrials won't be interested in the political details of small parts of Earth's surface over time.
Posted by Martin R at 4:56 PM • 16 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Jeff Medkeff 1968-2008
Category: Skepticism
One of Aard's regulars, Jeff the Blue Collar Astronomer, died yesterday. He was diagnosed out of the blue with spontaneous ("cryptogenic") liver cancer in early June. Jeff was 39. I learned the sad news from Wikipedia contributor Kwix this...
Posted by Martin R at 5:54 PM • 2 Comments •
August 1, 2008
Book Review: Davidson, Doctor Eszterhazy
Category: Books
Having read what I had to say about Orsinian Tales, Ursula K. LeGuin's 1976 collection of short stories set in an alternative Balkans, Dear Reader Tty suggested that I read Avram Davidson's Doctor Eszterhazy stories. For this I thank him...
Posted by Martin R at 9:11 AM • 4 Comments •
