Five Mountain Names
Category: History
Where do all these weird mountain names come from and what do they mean?
Posted by Martin R at 8:27 AM • 21 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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January 29, 2011
Bo Ohlson's Lemon Chicken, as Remembered and Recreated 30 Years Later
Category: Food
Dismember a chicken and boil it in pan #1 until tender. Boil it with onion + carrot + garlic clove, all split, and bay leaf + salt. In pan #2, melt a few tablespoons of butter and whisk 0.4 dl...
Posted by Martin R at 8:29 AM • 4 Comments •
January 27, 2011
Recent Archaeomags
Category: Archaeology
Current Archaeology covers an area whose archaeology is actually relevant to what I do. Not too many millennia ago you could walk a straight dry-shod line from Gothenburg to Edinburgh.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
January 26, 2011
Union Depot, Duluth
Category: History
I particularly like this image of the 1892 Union Depot, as the architecture is similar to that of the station houses along the Saltsjöbanan commuter railway that I've been riding for most of my life.
Posted by Martin R at 4:36 AM • 6 Comments •
January 22, 2011
Lilac-Coloured Concrete Hogbacks
Category: NOIBN
I don't know about you, Dear Reader, but I think these lilac-coloured concrete hogbacks outside of the Nacka Forum mall's rear entrance look extremely gay. As Azar Habib put it in his hit "Hatten Är Din", Det tycker vi...
Posted by Martin R at 10:16 AM • 12 Comments •
January 20, 2011
Game Review: Cave Troll
Category: Gaming
Dungeon Crawl as Subway Punk-Gang Standoff Everybody knows what a dungeon game is. There's this underground complex of rooms and corridors, stocked with traps and secret doors, treasures and meanies to guard them. And you are a member (or...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
January 19, 2011
De-Lurk
Category: Blogging
It's been almost a year since the last de-lurk. Aard has hundreds of regulars, thousands if we adopt a generous definition of "regular", and most of you are lurkers -- quiet readers who don't say much. So, everybody, please comment...
Posted by Martin R at 8:19 AM • 52 Comments •
Wikileaks' Non-Mountainous Non-Bunker
Category: Tech
We're told that Wikileaks is "partly hosted on a server in Sweden that is lodged in a former nuclear bunker drilled deep inside the White Mountains". This confused be for a moment, since there is no mountain range of that name in Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 3:34 AM • 7 Comments •
January 18, 2011
Fornvännen's Summer Issue On-Line
Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen's summer issue (2010:2) is now on-line and available to anyone who wants to read it. Check it out!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
January 17, 2011
Sweden Has Antivaxers Too
Category: Health
Noted skeptical author and podcaster CJ Åkerberg takes a look at one of the most active and visible anti-vaccine cranks in Sweden, Sanna Ehdin, and at the history of vaccination.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
January 16, 2011
Snow Boa
Category: Photography
Stockholm, Karlavägen, 20 December 2010....
Posted by Martin R at 9:47 AM • 4 Comments •
January 10, 2011
The Mindless Conventionality of an East Asian Upbringing
Category: Children
At the root of my disagreement with Amy Chua lies my cynicism about the value of conventional achievement.
Posted by Martin R at 4:19 PM • 51 Comments •
January 7, 2011
Weight vs Density of Snow On Your Roof
Category: Homeownership
I've come across a curious notion here. Several neighbours have told me to beware *wet* snow "because it's so heavy".
Posted by Martin R at 10:30 AM • 28 Comments •
January 4, 2011
Mars Rover(s) Still Working After Seven Years
Category: Space
Spirit landed on Mars seven Earth calendar years ago today, Opportunity on 25 January -- and at least Oppy still works fine!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Octagonal Sauna
Category: NOIBN
Plans and elevations by architect Ulf Gillberg of my dad's octagonal sauna.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
January 3, 2011
Post-Modernist Historiography
Category: China
A relativist present-day writer will not allow for a Victorian writer to have found out any objective knowledge about the High Middle Ages. But he will himself unproblematically claim objective knowledge about the Victorian writer's views and surrounding world.
Posted by Martin R at 3:32 PM • 13 Comments •
January 2, 2011
Shrinking City
Category: Photography
Check out Yves Marchand's and Romain Meffre's poignantly beautiful photographs of abandoned buildings in Detroit! Explains Wikipedia,Detroit has numerous neighborhoods suffering from urban decay, consisting of vacant properties resulting in low inhabited density, stretching city services and infrastructure. These...
Posted by Martin R at 8:55 AM • 15 Comments •
January 1, 2011
Sanity Claws
Category: Humour
I seem to be on a poetry roll here, kids. When I was 14, Citadel Miniatures put out a small run of a novelty pewter miniature named Sanity Claws: a tentacled menacing monstrosity for the festive season. And now...
Posted by Martin R at 9:54 AM • 4 Comments •
