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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.
April 30, 2010
Category: Humour
Discreetly hidden under the northern side of the eastern bridgehead of rural Täckhammar bridge is a spray-painted mural. I found it while checking for geocaches. It depicts an evil-looking male face accompanied by a really funny piece of Satanist...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Humour
Who knew that it would be so much pure childish fun if someone with decent Photoshop skills put a collection of silly hats on Carolus XVI Gustavus? There's even rumoured to be an unedited picture there, but I certainly...
Posted by Martin R at 5:44 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The ninety-first Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Sexy Archaeology. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! And keep those hands where I can see them, OK? Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to...
Posted by Martin R at 5:26 AM • 0 Comments •
April 29, 2010
Category: Archaeology
I've walked around, looked at sites, gotten to know the lay of the land, searched in the plough soil ("fieldwalking") and taken a lot of photographs.
Posted by Martin R at 2:57 PM • 7 Comments •
April 27, 2010
Category: Archaeology
I hate aluminium. I took up 111 objects and almost all of them were made of that accursed metal: mainly pull tabs, bottle tops and crumbly nasty wads of foil.
Posted by Martin R at 3:22 PM • 12 Comments •
April 26, 2010
Category: Having Fun
This past weekend was full of fun duties. The only thing I did exclusively for fun was read a pretty depressing novel about slavery, U.K. LeGuin's Powers (2007).Represented the Swedish Skeptics off-stage at the Nordic Conjuring Championship in Uppsala, as...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
April 25, 2010
Category: Blogging
The 91th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Sexy Archaeology on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Kurt, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on 9 June. If...
Posted by Martin R at 4:56 PM • 0 Comments •
April 22, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Academic dendrochronology needs a new open-source business model if it is to act as a fully scientific discipline. The Belfast ruling is a step in the right direction.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
April 20, 2010
Category: Children
Juniorette has drawn a pretty fierce lion. I imagine sitting in a tree, being growled at from below....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
April 19, 2010
Category: Skepticism
Because of blogging and my involvement in the skeptical pro-science movement, in recent years I have come into close contact with Americans as never before in my adult life. More than half of Aard's readers are in the US. It's...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 69 Comments •
April 16, 2010
Category: Music
To my surprise, I found that the Cocteau Twins' 1988 song "Athol-Brose" is not named after a comet but after a Scottish drink consisting of oatmeal, honey, whiskey and cream. I'd like a Bose-Einstein condensate with mine, please....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
April 15, 2010
Category: Tech
It's been more than four years since the first time I blogged about how cool it is to have broadband on a train. But I still haven't gotten over it. Trainblogging again! The sun is shining and Södermanland zips past...
Posted by Martin R at 6:51 AM • 12 Comments •
April 13, 2010
Category: NOIBN
Dear Reader, you need to listen to the Drabblecast. I just listened to the latest episode and was completely blown away by the vast amount of work, wit and musical talent that goes into each episode. Norm Sherman is like...
Posted by Martin R at 3:42 PM • 1 Comments •
April 12, 2010
Category: Film
Screen writer Peter Moffat clearly expected a strong sodomy taboo among the viewers. In 2009.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 90th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at A Hot Cup of Joe on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Carl, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on...
Posted by Martin R at 5:02 AM • 0 Comments •
April 10, 2010
Category: Politics
Morals are collectively negotiated and enforced constructs. It works fine since mentally healthy people are basically decent by nature and have a strong innate capacity for empathy and solidarity.
Posted by Martin R at 10:49 AM • 71 Comments •
Category: Humour
In many of the world's most affluent countries, the population is shrinking because people aren't having enough children to replace the folks who die. This offers some hope to solve global overpopulation, though unfortunately the solution involves eradicating poverty and...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
April 9, 2010
Category: Skepticism
When attempting to explain observations, a person should be parsimonious, frugal, economic in their hypotheses.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 147 Comments •
April 8, 2010
Category: Biology
Anoxic metazoans: that means multicellular beings like you, Dear Reader, who live without oxygen.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
April 7, 2010
Category: NOIBN
After about twelve years of regular use my Braun 5515 sounded like a chainsaw, so I decided to buy a new electric shaver. Mind you, I had repeatedly replaced all the bits I could: the mesh, often; the knife, several...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 24 Comments •
April 6, 2010
Category: Tech
I recently switched from a smartphone running Windows Mobile to one running the open-source operating system Android put out by Google. Here are some impressions after two weeks of use.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
April 5, 2010
Category: Film
Here's more info. Thanks to Asko for the heads-up!...
Posted by Martin R at 1:43 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Tree House Ruins
On Easter Saturday, many Swedish kids receive candy-filled cardboard eggs. Mine have to jump through a lot of hoops to get theirs. Often I have made paper trails around the house, "Under yellow table", "Inside broom closet", "In Dad's...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
April 3, 2010
Category: History
The shroud of Turin has been radiocarbon-dated to AD 1260-1390. This date coincides with the first written mention of the cloth from AD 1357.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 387 Comments •
April 2, 2010
Category: Music
As mentioned before I was a big Depeche Mode fan during my teens. Here's a cool cover from the 1998 tribute CD For the Masses. In other news, a group of Swedish skeptics have started what may be the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
April 1, 2010
Category: Tech
Finnish Mail are opening all the mail, scanning it, sending it to the villagers of Andersböle by e-mail and then delivering the paper originals only twice a week.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
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