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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.
June 29, 2010
Category: Bronze Age
Reiner Knizia is one of the board-gaming world's greatest celebrities, famous for a long string of hit games. According to the members of Boardgamegeek.com, the best of Knizia's games is Tigris & Euphrates (1997), which is #11 on the...
Posted by Martin R at 12:06 PM • 4 Comments •
June 28, 2010
Category: Music
Californian Roy Zimmerman is a satirical singer in the vein of Tom Lehrer (who endorses him). He recently released his seventh solo album, Real American, and I'm happy to say that Zimmerman has lost none of the brilliance us fans...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
June 26, 2010
Category: Environment
To future geology, the heyday of Homo sapiens will just be one of several instantaneous mass extinction events in the planet's history.
Posted by Martin R at 4:14 AM • 15 Comments •
June 24, 2010
Category: Blogging
The ninety-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Afarensis. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! The next vacant hosting slot is already on 21 July. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome...
Posted by Martin R at 3:59 PM • 0 Comments •
June 23, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Neither of the finds has any solid provenance, and though I believe them to be from north-west Europe and date from the 11th/12th centuries, I've never seen anything quite like them in my work with Scandinavian small finds. Where in the world and where in history do these things belong?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
June 22, 2010
Category: Tech
If I subscribe to a Twitter feed and discover that it's full of banal lines from one-on-one conversations, I just unsubscribe.
Posted by Martin R at 9:19 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Tech
It seems I've found the solution, that allows me to type fast. Swype is an input method where you write each word by drawing a continuous line on the soft keyboard from key to key.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
June 21, 2010
Category: Biology
Invasive species of course increase an area's biodiversity, at least in the short-term perspective. People are looking at ecology on the wrong scale level. Wait a thousand years before you decide whether a new arrival is good or bad.
Posted by Martin R at 11:23 AM • 30 Comments •
June 19, 2010
Category: Norway
There's not much detail available yet about the event, but I for one have written an Oslo trip onto my schedule for the last weekend in October. See you there!WWW: www.kritiskmasse.no Facebook: www.facebook.com/kritiskmasse Twitter: twitter.com/kritiskmasse[More blog entries about skepticism, Norway;...
Posted by Martin R at 4:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 95th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Afarensis on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to the hominid, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is already on 7 July....
Posted by Martin R at 5:26 AM • 0 Comments •
June 18, 2010
Category: NOIBN
Across all of child-bearing age humanity, what is the normal attitude to getting sexually penetrated? Is it yes please or no thanks?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
June 17, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Something really cool has once more been unearthed at Jelling: the foundations of three large buildings of the Trelleborg type, dating from the reign of Harold Bluetooth or his son, Sven Forkbeard.
Posted by Martin R at 4:08 PM • 7 Comments •
June 16, 2010
Category: Skepticism
Posted by Martin R at 6:06 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
Myself and P.J. Råsmark had taken it upon ourselves to act as native guides and gophers for Randi during his days in Stockholm at the invitation of the Swedish Skeptics.
Posted by Martin R at 12:15 AM • 8 Comments •
June 14, 2010
Category: Blogging
Don't start a new blog for each excavation. Nobody will find it before the project is over. Instead, ask for permission to publish your entries on the central blog of your department, museum or excavation unit.
Posted by Martin R at 12:03 PM • 2 Comments •
June 11, 2010
Category: Archaeology
I am a friend of all peaceful and non-nationalistic Israelis. But I must admit that I look forward to the day when I no longer have to pass their embassy on my way to my country's main archaeological museum and research library.
Posted by Martin R at 8:15 AM • 5 Comments •
June 10, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Before the manuscript goes into production I must re-work it a bit as per suggestions by an academic referee. And while I do this, I would also be very grateful for comments, corrections and questions from Aard's readers.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 24 Comments •
June 9, 2010
Category: Blogging
The ninety-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Anthropology in Practice. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! The next vacant hosting slot is already on 23 June. All bloggers with an interest in the subject...
Posted by Martin R at 2:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Humour
So Ikea sells this bathrobe called "Njuta". It's a verb, meaning "experience (intense) pleasure", and it's usually reserved for pretty powerful kinds of pleasure such as good food, good music, good sex. And Junior's robe size here is Small...
Posted by Martin R at 2:01 PM • 7 Comments •
June 8, 2010
Category: Skepticism
James Randi -- magician, escapist, author and skeptic extraordinaire -- will give three lectures in Sweden next week under the auspices of the Swedish Skeptics Society. Everyone is welcome: entry fee 50 kronor. Be there before the doors open! Among...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
June 7, 2010
Category: NOIBN
Universities in many European and Asian countries offer an upgrade to your PhD that turns the owner into a habilitated doctor, that is, someone who is allowed to teach PhD students. In Sweden, the recipient of the upgrade is called a docent.
Posted by Martin R at 8:38 AM • 24 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 94th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at 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 23...
Posted by Martin R at 4:14 AM • 0 Comments •
June 5, 2010
Category: Books
I'm reading a collection of my favourite music critic's journalism, Strage Text. Fredrik Strage and I were born the same year and both grew up loving Depeche Mode and Swedish role-playing games. He has a hilarious way of taking things...
Posted by Martin R at 4:15 PM • 4 Comments •
June 4, 2010
Category: Archaeology
The project's goals are twofold: a) to understand the landscape rules behind the siting of deposits, and thereby b) to develop a tool-kit that allows scholars to find undisturbed Bronze Age deposits without the aid of farmers, dredgers or ditch diggers.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
June 3, 2010
Category: Archaeology
What's the most dangerous find an archaeologist can make? Some fear anthrax spores in sealed burial caskets. Others the asbestos used to temper certain types of North Scandinavian pottery. But German construction workers are on a whole other level than...
Posted by Martin R at 8:58 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Universitetsläraren, the journal of the Swedish Association of University Teachers, has an article about blogging scientists in issue 2010:9 on the occasion of an upcoming PhD thesis in Lund about the subject. Scienceblogs.com is mentioned and Åsa of Ting...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
June 2, 2010
Category: NOIBN
These sinkholes are the same kind of geological feature as the cenotes into which the Maya sacrificed people, gold, jade and copal resin.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
June 1, 2010
Category: Photography
I rode the Kvarsebo Car Ferry twice yesterday....
Posted by Martin R at 4:21 PM • 0 Comments •
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