Age of Spawning
Category: NOIBN
Is the length of your education significantly different from that of your parents?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 39 Comments •
Aardvarchaeology
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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April 30, 2009
PostRank
Category: Blogging
I'm trying out a new side-bar widget from PostRank. It's intended to grab browsing readers and send them on from wherever they enter the blog to other posts that have recently proved popular. Whaddayathink?...
Posted by Martin R at 6:06 AM • 1 Comments •
April 29, 2009
Biodiversity in Artificial Wetlands
Category: Biology
The press release claims that on one hand natural wetlands are not more biodiverse than recently dug ponds, on the other hand that biodiversity in wetlands increases with age.
Posted by Martin R at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments •
April 28, 2009
Sorted Newsfeed in Swedish
Category: Sweden
Printed newspaper are crap. The news in them is old, you still get entire multipage sections that you don't want, they use up trees and gasoline, they crowd your mailbox and you have to dispose of them after reading them....
Posted by Martin R at 9:34 AM • 4 Comments •
Rune Stones With Friends
Category: Archaeology
Maja Bäckvall and Jannie Teinler are visiting rune stones and posing for photographs along with them. So far they've done 121 rune stones!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
April 27, 2009
Current Archaeology's May Issue
Category: Archaeology
Much of the issue is about the differentiation of Roman "villa" sites into functional categories such as shrines, tax-collecting depots and rural manors.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
April 26, 2009
Don't Mention Ovaries
Category: NOIBN
Yesterday I inadvertently offended the Sb Overlords in an interesting way. Since I came on board 2½ years ago we've had a series of handlers or "community managers" who have all been competent, charming women. Punning a little, I have...
Posted by Martin R at 4:35 AM • 17 Comments •
April 23, 2009
What's The Financial Crisis Got To Do With Me?
Category: Homeownership
The only effect of the financial crisis on my life that I am aware of is that our mortgage is absurdly cheap.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
Skepticality's 100th Show
Category: Skepticism
Skepticality, one of my favourite podcasts, just put its 100th show on-line! Swoopy and Derek have been going strong now for four whole years! Always good for in-depth science-friendly interviews....
Posted by Martin R at 3:40 AM • 3 Comments •
April 22, 2009
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The sixty-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at A Primate of Modern Aspect. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
April 21, 2009
Ursula LeGuin and the Post-Modernist Warp Drive
Category: Books
You won't arrive until everybody aboard the ship has negotiated an agreement about what the destination is like.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
April 20, 2009
Neal Stephenson's Anathem
Category: Books
Neal Stephenson's 90s science fiction novels Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are unforgettable, but his 2003-2004 suite of historical novels failed to pull me in. So when I learned that his 2008 effort Anathem is a science fiction story,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 20 Comments •
April 18, 2009
Alvastra in the 1st Millennium
Category: Archaeology
The forenoon saw me in the stores of the Museum of National Antiquities looking through Otto Frödin's uncatalogued finds from the "Sverkersgården" site.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
April 16, 2009
Swedish Archaeology Programs Evaluated
Category: Archaeology
"The programs appear to be put together according to whatever specialists each department has on its staff."
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Medieval Church Demolished, Rune Stones Found
Category: Archaeology
On the big rune stone, dating from about AD 1000, Torgärd's poetic commemoration of her maternal uncles can be read.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
April 15, 2009
Ten Years as an Editor
Category: Archaeology
Contacts don't just pop into being, they're made, unless you're lucky enough to be in a position to inherit them.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
April 13, 2009
Hellish Yoghurt Diversification
Category: Food
There is a genre of complaints that I usually find a little silly: the Starbucks breakdown, which occurs when somebody's offered too many options. But now I've run into the problem myself. Yoghurt diversification. I buy most of our milk...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
April 12, 2009
Phone Pix October-April
Category: Art
29 October: Sunny autumn morning among the sailing boats hibernating along Pålnäsvägen. 21 December: The dark spot marks where our feet and the wheels of our office chair have damaged the flooring over 7½ years at the home desk...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
April 11, 2009
Phone Pix September-October
Category: Art
13 September: Samuel and Ludvig play the piano at Ludvig's aunt's house in Viggbyholm. 12 October: Playing Pandemic at a gaming convention in Gröndal. 21 October: A mechanical excavator is delivered to my dad's property to start work on...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
April 10, 2009
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The sixty-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Quiche Moraine. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 6 May....
Posted by Martin R at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments •
April 8, 2009
Archaeology is Not a Good Career
Category: Archaeology
If you do get a job against all odds, then that will be through contacts, and the job will be poorly paid and last only a few months in the summer.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 27 Comments •
April 7, 2009
Funding Application Success Percentages
Category: NOIBN
6% of applicants get grants from the Swedish National Bank's Centenary Fund.
Posted by Martin R at 2:54 PM • 5 Comments •
April 6, 2009
New Office
Category: NOIBN
I've been working as a consulting editor for the Royal Academy of Letters for almost a decade, most of that time from home. But since 2006 I've had an office at Academy headquarters in a quiet part of Stockholm....
Posted by Martin R at 9:56 AM • 9 Comments •
April 3, 2009
Sättuna Fieldwork Report Nearing Completion
Category: Archaeology
Finds and radiocarbon dates allow us to identify five phases on-site, two of them corresponding to the dates of the metal detector finds that occasioned the excavations.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
April 2, 2009
Daycare Looters
Category: Archaeology
These excavations are illegal. I don't think they should be, but they are.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
April 1, 2009
A Volunteer Messenger's Responsibility
Category: NOIBN
Who is responsible for a package? The sender or the volunteer messenger who carries it? Do they perhaps have a joint responsibility? This issue has led to quite a number of arguments between me and my wife over the years,...
Posted by Martin R at 1:37 PM • 45 Comments •
