Here's my talk about the Mead-halls book, from the Gothenburg Book Fair, 23 September. It's in Swedish, the background noise is awful and I had a pretty poor voice that day. But anyway.
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Here's my talk about the Mead-halls book, from the Gothenburg Book Fair, 23 September. It's in Swedish, the background noise is awful and I had a pretty poor voice that day. But anyway.
Well, at least the noise level is appropriate for a mead hall full of drunk proto-vikings!
I hope the enthusiasts were close to the stage.
Goddammit, I must read the text version of the lecture, I gave up three minutes in as the background noise is too frustrating. A bit like the Soviet jamming effort of foreign Russian-language radio broadcasts.
[Hi-tech fix 1: Set up mikes connected to processors picking up the background noise of the hall and generate "anti-noise", half a wawelength out of frequency, shifting the resulting composite noise into infrasound inaudible to the ear. Feasible (but expensive).
Tech fix 2: Bring in one of these and eliminate those who talk during lectures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplW8vmrRMU&feature=related ]
Fix 3: Give up science altogether and get rich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_D%C3%A4niken
I thought it was an excellent talk.
I would probably have liked it even more if I could understand Swedish.
(Blatantly OT, but cool)
Archaeologists find blade production earlier than originally thought http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-archaeologists-blade-production-ear…
Rebuilding the genome of a hidden ethnicity http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.592.html