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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.
February 27, 2010
Category: Space
Our planet just another crater-pocked space rock, though here surface erosion acts much faster than on nearby worlds, and we have plate tectonics, all obscuring the impact scars.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
February 26, 2010
Category: Archaeology
I have mixed feelings about this paper now. From a scientific point of view, I'm very proud of it. But from a career-strategical point of view, however, I have to say that it was a failure.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
February 25, 2010
Category: China
In China, religious worship is basically about praying to statues for stuff.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 20 Comments •
February 24, 2010
Category: Blogging
The eighty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Anthropology in Practice. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Ciarán at Ad hominin. All bloggers with an interest...
Posted by Martin R at 11:10 AM • 0 Comments •
February 23, 2010
Category: Blogging
The Open Lab 2009 science blogging anthology has been published and is available as a paperback book and a PDF file. There's a piece of Aard in there among many fine contributions. Tell me what you think and what...
Posted by Martin R at 2:59 PM • 0 Comments •
February 22, 2010
Category: Having Fun
Friday night I unexpectedly found myself looking at dinner all alone. So I quickly arranged for a visit with friends to a Jamaican restaurant (I had jerk chicken), and after our meal Swedepat beat me and Dr Sandy at Race...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 87th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at the Anthropology in Practice on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Krystal, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is already on...
Posted by Martin R at 8:14 AM • 0 Comments •
February 21, 2010
Category: Photography
Sunday, 07:53 Sunday, 11:13...
Posted by Martin R at 4:29 PM • 6 Comments •
February 20, 2010
Category: Health
The parents blamed the boy's condition on common vaccines, which would have entitled them to insurance money, while the company held that autism is almost always congenital and never caused by vaccines. The court found the science presented by the defendant convincing.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 18 Comments •
February 19, 2010
Category: Homeownership
I took the hood off the thing, removed the rotor and hacked away the ice, taking care not to bash the fine heat-exchange lamelles.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
February 18, 2010
Category: Archaeology
"Isn't it just too awesome to catch a glimpse of an Early Mesolithic summer -- the glinting of the blue-green forewing that's been resting in the sediment for 10 000 years. Those bugs buzzed for a summer and the sun glinted then too in their chitinous armour."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
February 17, 2010
Category: Archaeology
On Monday, Archaeology Southwest's new issue reached my mail box on snowy Boat Hill, and I was soon enticed to read it from one end to the other thanks to its fine graphic design, its lovely photographs and its exotic theme.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
February 16, 2010
Category: Archaeology
The respected Finnish archaeology annual Fennoscandia Archaeologica has gone on-line! Every single paper from 1984 to 2007 is now available for free on the web site of the Archaeological Society of Finland.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
February 15, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Vampire Forensics is mainly a collection of weakly interconnected but titillating tales of death and burial. Under this rubric the author zig-zags all over the place.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
February 14, 2010
Category: Having Fun
Had friends over to play some Abalone, Hell Rail and Balderdash. 11-y-o Junior often joins our board-game sessions these days. Bought ski boots for Junior and went skiing with him and the Rundkvist ladies. Watched Where the Wild Things...
Posted by Martin R at 9:40 AM • 4 Comments •
February 13, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Maori archaeologists are in a situation relative to the prehistoric period they study that is comparable to if I had begun my research into the Bronze Age some time in the 5th century BC.
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 7 Comments •
February 11, 2010
Category: Archaeology
I've been asked to write an opinion piece about the future of Swedish archaeology for a high-visibility venue. This, as you can imagine, I enjoy doing a lot.
Posted by Martin R at 3:32 PM • 26 Comments •
February 10, 2010
Category: Blogging
The eighty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Krys at Anthropology in Practice. All bloggers with...
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Blogging
It's de-lurking time again! If you're a regular Aard reader who never comments, or if you do comment but have an inkling that I may not know who you are, then please comment on this entry and tell us a...
Posted by Martin R at 2:05 PM • 48 Comments •
Category: Homeownership
A heat pump dribbles water through a spigot on the under side. It's been an unusually cold winter, and so the water has collected as ice on the ground beneath the box, building up layer by layer until it made contact with the casing and blocked the spigot.
Posted by Martin R at 12:41 PM • 13 Comments •
February 8, 2010
Category: Music
Lately I've been listening to Canadian 90s/00s orchestral popsters the Heavy Blinkers. Here's a fine song off of their '02 album Better Weather, "I Used to Be a Design". I actually prefer this live version since its production is...
Posted by Martin R at 4:40 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 86th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at the Testimony of the Spade on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Magnus, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on...
Posted by Martin R at 2:03 PM • 0 Comments •
February 7, 2010
Category: Having Fun
Took a walk and photographed two buildings for Wikipedia. Went skiing on the golf course. Had friends over, played a game of Scotland Yard and a game of Power Grid. Painted three walls in the bedroom. This was sort of...
Posted by Martin R at 2:33 PM • 8 Comments •
February 5, 2010
Category: Denmark
Danes often have tripartite names. I've been wondering how these names are inherited. Specifically, which names get dropped and which ones get passed on to the kids?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 15 Comments •
February 3, 2010
Category: Biology
My opinion is that that there is no such thing as abstract good. My reason for thinking we should preserve biodiversity is that it would be dangerous and aesthetically dissatisfying for humans if we lost it.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
February 2, 2010
Category: Tech
What model smartphone are you using, Dear Reader? Are you happy with it? What should I get?
Posted by Martin R at 1:55 PM • 14 Comments •
February 1, 2010
Category: Biology
It's up to us to decide if it should happen through contraception and a global single-child policy or through a catastrophic die-off.
Posted by Martin R at 2:45 PM • 88 Comments •
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